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[Rico]

Nice car Willie!
I have about a dozen or so of the various Nebraska cars, make a real colourful train to be sure!

 

[TLOC]

Not much more Midwest then the Rock in its bankrupt blue colors

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Midwest I guess would start West of Chicago, so here is a Burlington Route beautiful 4-6-4:

The steamer is on display on the former Burlington mainline in Galesburg, Illinois.

 

[trailrider]

Those Q S-4's were so beautiful! Surpassed only by the 0-5a Northerns.

 

[Bruette]

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Those Q S-4's were so beautiful! Surpassed only by the 0-5a Northerns.

Actually my favorite "Q" steam locomotive is not very well known B-1a, there's just something about that extended smoke box in the early years. But the O-5a was definitely one of the most beautifull of "Northerns".

 

[trailrider]

Actually my favorite "Q" steam locomotive is not very well known B-1a, there's just something about that extended smoke box in the early years. But the O-5a was definitely one of the most beautifull of "Northerns".

Have to look it up in "Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route", but I believe the extended smokebox was for burning lignite coal, which was so light and fluffy that is needed extra screening material to keep the fine ash from spewing out the stack and starting fires trackside. Other models also had some, but not all, with lengthened smokeboxes. I kit bashed a B-1a (4-8-2 Mountain) from a Mantua Mikado and the front end of a Mantua Pacific. Added a can motor and DCC sound decoder, to pull a short heavyweight mail train on my layout.

 

[Old 97]

 

[CambriaArea51]

Old Tyco pipe. Airbrushed cement gray.

 

[santafewillie]

Old Tyco pipe. Airbrushed cement gray.View attachment 198202

That looks familiar except mine is BN.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

O-5a in all her glory on display in Sheridan, Wyoming:

Looks like she's getting some renovations done on her. First time I saw her was two years ago while traveling northwest toward Billings, MT. Arguably one of the most beautiful Northerns ever built. I took the pictures in August 8, this year.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Worlds largest diesel, the "Centennial" on display in Omaha, Nebraska:

Pictures from this past summers western trip. For the detail conscious, the rerailers are hung in unusual locations, one up front is on the firemans side front truck, while the one on engineers side is hanging on rear right truck:

 

[ctclibby]

Mac: There is also one of these in Pomona Ca, #6915 at RailGiants. Got there once but I think I like the Omaha display better. Big Boy can be seen for miles to the East and South!

Oh, and RailGiants now has an operational Big Boy #4014

Later

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Somewhere in Nebraska on the Union Pacific mainline:

Town of Cozad to be exact. Pictures taken on July 28, 2024.

 

[TLOC]

Somewhere in Nebraska on the Union Pacific mainline:View attachment 203525View attachment 203526View attachment 203527
Town of Cozad to be exact. Pictures taken on July 28, 2024.

Oh wow, look at that plow! That will appear on a few upcoming diesel weathering projects Inwill be working on!

Thanks for sharing

 

[TLOC]

Drone picture taken for a Front end Friday picture on a Wisconsin based layout, mine!

#9010 is a Bowser Sd40-2f painted in my free lance Wisconsin River Valley scheme
#4021 and 4022 are Genesis Gp40-2L’s models painted into my new free lance Wisconsin Interstate scheme
#9433 is another Genesis Gp40-2L in the Canadian National scheme

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Oh wow, look at that plow! That will appear on a few upcoming diesel weathering projects Inwill be working on!

Thanks for sharing

Here's few more, should help with the overall shape of that plow:

 

[logandsawman]

CNW, my ultimate choice for midwest

Dave LASM

 

[TLOC]

Here's few more, should help with the overall shape of that plow:View attachment 203536View attachment 203537

Thank you, its in the prototype photo saved for weathering inspiration file