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Maybe we'll start one next weekend then.
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Rico
BN Modeller
Oops, I just realized we have a Tuesday thing going already (d'oh!) but still like the weekend thing tho.
Maybe we'll start one next weekend then.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Maybe I'll start off Front End Friday this week. Last August we had a visitor to the nearby city of Denton TX, #4014.
She brought along her younger brother as well, #4015.
She brought along her younger brother as well, #4015.
hunslet040
Well-Known Member
U.P. U50 and GPs meeting at dale Junction
2Tracks
Ol' School
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
OK, here's the real thing this week. Back in 2011, the Age of Steam Museum was moving their railcars from their old location at Fair Park in Dallas to their new location in Frisco TX, (a northern suburb of Dallas), renamed Museum of the American Railroad. They regularly parked stuff on a team track about a mile from where I worked. Here's motorcar M-160 which was there for three days.
Full view below. It made the trip under it's own power towing that Pullman car, Glen Nevis.
hunslet040
Well-Known Member
Still on the theme of the real thing.
Welsh Highland Railway Beyer Garratt at Porthmadog station in North Wales U.K.
Nominal 2 foot gauge NGG16 2-6-2+2-6-2 articulated loco originally from South Africa.
Welsh Highland Railway Beyer Garratt at Porthmadog station in North Wales U.K.
Nominal 2 foot gauge NGG16 2-6-2+2-6-2 articulated loco originally from South Africa.
logandsawman
Northern Pacific history enthusiast
Here is my contribution 1:1, a little of the evolution of NP 328. This is a favorite loco of mine, still working on my layout model. The tender got dropped after we moved and still havent figured out the pilot config, looks like I have choices on that;
Images from the Northern Pacific Historical Association
Looks like may be the same tender in each shot, below find the diagram for the original version:
Fun stuff
Dave LASM
Images from the Northern Pacific Historical Association
Looks like may be the same tender in each shot, below find the diagram for the original version:
Fun stuff
Dave LASM
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Happy front end Friday of 5/13/2022.
An old friend of the layout has returned. On the programing track having just received a ESU-V4 sound decoder, WC GP35 #723. It is Athearn BB body from way back, mid 90’s, but with a Hobbytown flywheel drive and a NWSL replacement motor. This locomotive alone can pull 61 cars on the flat. I sold this guy last summer but now he has DCC and sound. The owner is testing it out and adjusting some CV’s. I also added a Decoder buddy plus 2 Sugar cube speakers all from SBS4DCC.com. Over the weekend I will install new front and rear head lights, add a cab interior light on the control panel and front and rear ditchlights. The cab interior and glass the owner will handle. The new LEDs and the ditchlight housings are from Scale Sound Systems.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Teamed up for tomorrow's op session. A few more teams are back around the bend.
TLOC
Well-Known Member
2Tracks
Ol' School
Front End Friday, I made on time for this Friday....
I have another piece of vintage power that I had bought after gaining some experience on the 4x8 with the ATSF 5628
An AHM, (Rivarossi) made in Italy product. The end piece ID on the box is long gone. I was hoping somebody could tell me what this thing is. I believe it to be an Alco model of something, but I couldn't find the exact model.
We'll start at the front, move our way around it. This is the first time this thing has been out of the box in decades! (5 of them)
Look at the foam disease on this thing!
It was almost all dissolved in the box.
No escaping the horn hooks......
I have another piece of vintage power that I had bought after gaining some experience on the 4x8 with the ATSF 5628
An AHM, (Rivarossi) made in Italy product. The end piece ID on the box is long gone. I was hoping somebody could tell me what this thing is. I believe it to be an Alco model of something, but I couldn't find the exact model.
We'll start at the front, move our way around it. This is the first time this thing has been out of the box in decades! (5 of them)
Look at the foam disease on this thing!
It was almost all dissolved in the box.No escaping the horn hooks......
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