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Front End Friday
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A Proto shell on Athearn drive kitbash. I tried to copy a real photo and like how it came out. The red hose under the yellow MU wire is the fuel tender connection.
Since we have a front end Friday and a switch yard Saturday how about a tail end Tuesday or weekend workbench?
Might get more people involved, someone’s always screwing up, er I mean working on something.
Sounds good to me Rico. Do you want to kick us off for Tail end Tuesday on Tuesday? I’m enjoying everyone’s inputs so far there’s a lot of Great Railroad Modelers here. Weekend Work Bench is a great idea too you can kick us off this Friday too I’ve always have some I’m working on.
I'll break the trend, but with similar colors. SP GP9 #2873, at Portola CA. Entered service in 1956 with the T&NO, preserved today in operating condition at the Western Pacific RR Museum.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.