SpaceMouse
Fun Lover
I posted this on the "other" board, so pardon me if you saw it there.
When I first started, out my plan was to model Hogwart's. I created a bunch of engines and rolling stock. When my kids decided they no longer wanted to run trains, I gave up Hogwarts and moved West.
Now I've changed my time zone and two of the engines now fit in.
The engine on the right, my daughter's Hogwart's engine, is a IHC Premier 4-4-0, and is flat out the best running steam engine I've ever owned. I once timed it taking a 9" straight in 22 seconds with no jerking. Right now it has an el chepo MDC decoder and so I have very little control over the CVs, but I would add sound anyway.
The engine on the left, my son's Hogwart's engine, is an MDC 4-6-0 that I built from a kit. It is an okay runner with a lot of weight. I spent some time with it painting the gauges and adding an engineer and fireman.
Both have sentimental value and I would like them to have a place on the Rock Ridge and Train City II, as part of the Rock Ridge fleet in 1909.
But the problem (besides backdating issues) is obvious--they are red.
So what do I do? The red paint jobs are pretty good. I could leave it and slap Rock Ridge marks on them. Or I could re-paint them black, but each of them have 4-5 coats. More than likely, as far as quality paint jobs go, it will be downhill from here.
Suggestions? "It's your railroad." comments are not helpful. Is it even conceivable possible that a middle-sized road would have red engines in 1909? These would be the only two. The rest would be the more typical black.
Southern had green locos, right?
When I first started, out my plan was to model Hogwart's. I created a bunch of engines and rolling stock. When my kids decided they no longer wanted to run trains, I gave up Hogwarts and moved West.
Now I've changed my time zone and two of the engines now fit in.
The engine on the right, my daughter's Hogwart's engine, is a IHC Premier 4-4-0, and is flat out the best running steam engine I've ever owned. I once timed it taking a 9" straight in 22 seconds with no jerking. Right now it has an el chepo MDC decoder and so I have very little control over the CVs, but I would add sound anyway.
The engine on the left, my son's Hogwart's engine, is an MDC 4-6-0 that I built from a kit. It is an okay runner with a lot of weight. I spent some time with it painting the gauges and adding an engineer and fireman.
Both have sentimental value and I would like them to have a place on the Rock Ridge and Train City II, as part of the Rock Ridge fleet in 1909.
But the problem (besides backdating issues) is obvious--they are red.
So what do I do? The red paint jobs are pretty good. I could leave it and slap Rock Ridge marks on them. Or I could re-paint them black, but each of them have 4-5 coats. More than likely, as far as quality paint jobs go, it will be downhill from here.
Suggestions? "It's your railroad." comments are not helpful. Is it even conceivable possible that a middle-sized road would have red engines in 1909? These would be the only two. The rest would be the more typical black.
Southern had green locos, right?
