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Also, I found another pic of a different A class I had taken earlier this year. You can just make out the second cab here, and also note the necessity of the power car when they use it for passenger trains. This lack of head end power was another reason they made new trains instead of completing the rebuilds.
Here's that same train as B60 in the original Victorian Railways livery, way back in 1952 on the day of its delivery. This livery is far nicer than the current VLine one as I'm sure most will agree! It's a shame that in the next few years these streamliners will likely disappear from our railways for good.
KCS had several F units rebuilt for their executive train. I have photos of their A-B-B-A set in Shreveport & Kansas City. Perhaps you saw some of them.??.
Chad, I have no idea if CP has a standard type building or if they erect whatever will suit the purpose at a location. My preference would be the block building over the steel building. It has more character and interest with the separate office addition.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
My project this week has been working on an ancient Hobbytown GP7 chassis. I cleaned a bunch of dust and old lube out of it, cleaned the trucks and re-lubed the bearings and gears paying close attention to the bearing surfaces for the drive shafts above and below. The body that came with it is the same that was used for the Athearn Hi-F B&O GP7 #740. It sports a brand new body now. A Walthers Trainline GP9m shell that fit it perfectly with only one minor modification. I have plans to add a DCC decoder but only after I change the motor out with a modern Athearn motor minus flywheels and insure that it's isolated.
Here's a photo of the chassis. The tape in the middle has a couple of cardboard supports underneath. It serves as a shaft alley and keeps the wires for the headlight from coming into contact with the shaft.
A close-up of some of the gearing. All of the gearing is brass.
A few shots of the new Trainline Soo shell on the chassis. Find the small modification I had to make, if you can. It's not covered up.
Here's a photo of the chassis. The tape in the middle has a couple of cardboard supports underneath. It serves as a shaft alley and keeps the wires for the headlight from coming into contact with the shaft.
A close-up of some of the gearing. All of the gearing is brass.
A few shots of the new Trainline Soo shell on the chassis. Find the small modification I had to make, if you can. It's not covered up.
nwdrummer379
Class of '11
The engineer will have fun sitting on top of the flywheel 
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I noticed that too. It barely clears the sides of the cab. It's good that the new Walthers body has the same internal clearances for the cab and long hood as the old Athearn Hi-F body. The Model Power/IHC GP9 uses virtually the same body as the Walthers model. The MP/IHC shell has the pilots cut out for coupler swing as the couplers are truck mounted.
TrinityJayOne
N gauge fan
Might as well share a few pics I took a short while back.
I work on the 15th level of an office complex and have a nice view of the lines + yards just north of Spencer St Station in the Melbourne CBD. I originally took this picture because of that little white & red loco. I've only ever seen it once or twice and I have no idea what it is!
A short freight train going along the bypass tracks next to the station. Several consists like this roll past every day, and I also see the occasional MU pulling a longer train of containers. I have a video of one of these on the move here.
My favorite Australian train, the A class, of which only a small number exist. They started life in 1951 as B class locos, an Australian-made body using EMD internals (like just about every freight-pulling diesel in Victoria). Can anyone guess where the body design might have come from?
After several decades they went to rebuild them with modern mechanicals, but time had not been kind on the frames and half way through the process they decided it would be cheaper to just make new trains. Only 11 had the rebuild completed, and they became the A class. You can't see it in that shot, but one major difference from their American cousins is that ours are dual cabs.
I work on the 15th level of an office complex and have a nice view of the lines + yards just north of Spencer St Station in the Melbourne CBD. I originally took this picture because of that little white & red loco. I've only ever seen it once or twice and I have no idea what it is!
A short freight train going along the bypass tracks next to the station. Several consists like this roll past every day, and I also see the occasional MU pulling a longer train of containers. I have a video of one of these on the move here.
My favorite Australian train, the A class, of which only a small number exist. They started life in 1951 as B class locos, an Australian-made body using EMD internals (like just about every freight-pulling diesel in Victoria). Can anyone guess where the body design might have come from?
After several decades they went to rebuild them with modern mechanicals, but time had not been kind on the frames and half way through the process they decided it would be cheaper to just make new trains. Only 11 had the rebuild completed, and they became the A class. You can't see it in that shot, but one major difference from their American cousins is that ours are dual cabs.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I like your view there. Only way to get 15 stories up around here is to use a hot-air balloon or a helicopter. Both of those are WAY out of my price range.
nwdrummer379
Class of '11
I like those (Australian E's). Similiar body style to the U.S. E and F units.
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chadmichaels
Member
This is what I've been working on this weekend. but I have a problem. I'm trying to decide which building to use as my Canadian Pacific MOW shop/warehouse. Which building do you think fits the bill, building one or building two?
Chad
Building one...
Building two...
Chad
Building one...
Building two...
TrinityJayOne
N gauge fan
Yep, an Australian company licensed the design off them I believe. We have others that are almost identical to the F-units too, which are the S class (no dual cab).
Also, I found another pic of a different A class I had taken earlier this year. You can just make out the second cab here, and also note the necessity of the power car when they use it for passenger trains. This lack of head end power was another reason they made new trains instead of completing the rebuilds.
Here's that same train as B60 in the original Victorian Railways livery, way back in 1952 on the day of its delivery. This livery is far nicer than the current VLine one as I'm sure most will agree! It's a shame that in the next few years these streamliners will likely disappear from our railways for good.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I saw one of those in a line of locos being taken toward Mexico some years ago on the KCS main. I don't know what ever became of it. It looked like it had been sitting for some time so it may have been on the way to the scrapper.
jayl1
Member
KCS had several F units rebuilt for their executive train. I have photos of their A-B-B-A set in Shreveport & Kansas City. Perhaps you saw some of them.??.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
No, it wasn't F units I was looking at. I know an F unit when I see it. This definitely had a cab on both ends.
This is what I've been working on this weekend. but I have a problem. I'm trying to decide which building to use as my Canadian Pacific MOW shop/warehouse. Which building do you think fits the bill, building one or building two?
Chad
Building two...
Chad, I have no idea if CP has a standard type building or if they erect whatever will suit the purpose at a location. My preference would be the block building over the steel building. It has more character and interest with the separate office addition.
nwdrummer379
Class of '11
Is that second building one of the City Classics models? I like that one better as well. More character to it. Nice shot of that engine back in '52 Trinity. Looks like they copied the Virginian just a little.
Chad: I'd go with bld 2, and weather it quite heavily. It just has to look of a building that's been in the railyard since the tracks were laid down...
And the Bay Bayou & Gulf is up and running!!
Rowe Yard is on the left and the town of Teller, TX is on the right. FM 1983 (Farm to Market Road- it's a Texas thing..) connects the two.
(on a side note, I HATE MRC's prodigy express... everytime there's a short, even a small one that wont even stop a train, the controller displays "SDVA", and won't respond until you unplug it, and plug it back in. Meanwhile your train keeps rolling... and thanks to the older atlas switches most turnouts cause a small short... I see my digitrax going in on this layout, and handlaid switches coming in. BUT for free, I can't whine too much...)
and now, since this is the WPF, and not the WGS (Weekly Gripe Session), here's pics!
The "first train" around the layout:
old number 8 and the doodlebug both departed Rowe Yard, and are seen here meeting at the Depot in downtown Teller, TX.
BB&G shop crews are working hard getting some old ex-BN units up and running again. That GP-20 is in such bad shape, the cab door rusted off the top hinge!
BB&G #8 hauls a short train while the local FD races down FM 1983 to a water rescue out at the lake
And the Bay Bayou & Gulf is up and running!!
Rowe Yard is on the left and the town of Teller, TX is on the right. FM 1983 (Farm to Market Road- it's a Texas thing..) connects the two.
(on a side note, I HATE MRC's prodigy express... everytime there's a short, even a small one that wont even stop a train, the controller displays "SDVA", and won't respond until you unplug it, and plug it back in. Meanwhile your train keeps rolling... and thanks to the older atlas switches most turnouts cause a small short... I see my digitrax going in on this layout, and handlaid switches coming in. BUT for free, I can't whine too much...)
and now, since this is the WPF, and not the WGS (Weekly Gripe Session), here's pics!
The "first train" around the layout:
old number 8 and the doodlebug both departed Rowe Yard, and are seen here meeting at the Depot in downtown Teller, TX.
BB&G shop crews are working hard getting some old ex-BN units up and running again. That GP-20 is in such bad shape, the cab door rusted off the top hinge!
BB&G #8 hauls a short train while the local FD races down FM 1983 to a water rescue out at the lake
Roy Buchanan
Member
Chad, building two has more character. I'd go with that one.
Roy
Roy
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Building #2
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