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Ahh, the weekend is here at last! I started it out right again by running trains at the club. I am finally a member in good standing now...
This time I ran a 12-car boxcar train with 4 transit vehicles and a caboose, with 2 SD45T-2s at the point! I think the conductor told me these transit cars were headed for Omaha.
The consist
My friend Matt ran his Acela train
The transit vehicles: 2 LRVs and 2 streetcars
And a caboose for the guy watching over the transit cars
Miscelanee
If only John J. Schmidt could see this train!
Hope you enjoyed the photos and I look forward to seeing everyone else's photos!
Those SPSF boxcars look very familiar... I own one of them as well.
I'm still trying to figure out what railroads my layout interchanges with. The prototype interchanges with the BNSF (fmly BN) on one side and UP (fmly SP) on the other. Personally... I'm thinking that while the BNSF merger went through, the UP buyout of SP never did.
But would SP still be using those ancient SP9s as local power in Oregon or would they have looked at the success of the SD40M rebuild program and done thing for GP38s and 40s?
It is indeed a puzzlement.
Additionally, thanks for the idea as to what to finally do with my LRV - I just need to get a big flatbed now.
Good luck with the decision making, Jeff! If I were you, I would have it so beansniff never went through as well!
Is your LRV a Boeing by IHC, too? I just bought a couple 85' flatcar kits (the TOFC kind) from Athearn and then glued a few of the misc. plastic parts onto the top of the flatcar so the trucks of the LRV fit snug into the flatcar.
Zepher, that must be quite a ride for the folks in that Trolley.... Some very nice photos!
I have been working a bit on some scenery near the Arthur Farm.
Can you find the critter hiding in this one......?
Also, I have finally got the styrene forms I needed to complete the bridges over the gorge. I have to finish the roadwork, do some weathering of it, add scenery and this little area will be finished.
GREAT pictures guys! I have a few small ones to submit, trying to learn my new camera/phone/mp3 player that I got in the mail yesterday.
This is the beginings of BNSF #3967, a 6 axle slug built from a Fmr UP SD24B (and the model i'm cutting up is an Atlas SD24 converted into a B unit!). #3970 will be cut from a Santa Fe SD24, also an Atlas model. I've discovered that hand sawing a shell like this takes FOREVER, I need to pick up a dremel for the 2nd one.
Simple green works for a paint stripper right?
OH and of note, I'm going to resin cast the remaining nose caps from the one in pic #2. Its easier this way. The hardest part will be the hood sides & top which will end up being scratch built.
A few minutes later, this northbound coal drag comes into view. It must have been taking a siding and slowed the southbound mixed freight down while he cleared the main.
And the northbound proceeds into a thunderstorm running on a clear signal. Note the green signal in the distance.
Back from vacation and have a few pics of my progress. I took a whole bunch of stuff to work on--mostly Lilliputians and freight wagons. I started on some Bachman Spectrum lighted passenger cars. I only got the business class done.
Here is what I have gotten done over the last few days.The boxcars have painted trucks,axles,weights and frame while the covered hopper received painted trucks and axles.
I been buying RTR cars the last 2-3 years and I had forgotten how much fun and relaxation there is in building these simple kits.
Steve,Thanks! I have tons of Blue Box cars.. You see 75% of my freight cars are Athearn Kits or RTR plus I have another 10% is Bev-Bel/Athearn...
One could say I like Athearn cars..
Very nice posts from everyone this weekend. I decided to post the work I did the last couple of days.
My very first loco was this GP7 with NYC colors, but I stripped it and repainted it for the local road (the BC&W RW) about a year ago. It didn't come with sound and I kept putting the installation off. Finally, I decided to go with the Soundtraxx LC decoder that was made for it and a 14x25mm oval speaker w/baffel. The sounds are remarkably of good quality and the volume isn't too bad considering the speaker/baffel size. Heck, I don't care...I just wanted it to have a toot. I may build a larger baffel for the speaker, but the room in the cab is pretty limited. I will put the armor back on her in the next few days and post the finished product later.
Close view of the 14x25mm (.5x1.0") speaker. Sorry for the fuzzys.
This P2K, both powered, FA/B unit, is the second loco purchased and the first that had sound (installed by Tony's) that was in the "B" loco. I never was happy with the volume of the Soundtraxx DSD150 with the 1" speaker/baffel, so I installed speakers in a box car. This worked good, but I always had to drag the car around, which with an A/B combo was too long on TT's. This weekend I decided to cut a pill bottle to a length that would squeeze over the front truck and to the top of shell. I installed a 1" speaker in the bottle. The sound is near as good as the boxcar was with two speakers.
Ahh, the weekend is here at last! I started it out right again by running trains at the club. I am finally a member in good standing now...
Some very nice photos!
