Wpf 12/2-12/8


kjd

kjd

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Like the song says, It's 5 o'clock somewhere! Of course when you don't have a job, it doesn't really matter.

Since I am sorta between gigs now, I went up to Lacey, WA, to see the Olympic Model Railroad Society's layout at the Thurston County Fairgrounds. Funnelfan invited me up from PDX and said to bring a train so I did. It is lead by a few locos unique to the Burlington Northern.

First and third out are a couple variants of GP39Es (E because it was rebuilt by EMD. BN also had GP39Ms but they were rebuilt by MK). The lead motor was rebuilt from a highnose GP30. It got a new cab and electricals and stuff. The third was also rebuilt by EMD but didn't get a new cab. The middle unit was one of the 120 B30-7As BN got in the early 1980s.

Here they are topping the grade at the top of the helix and later rolling along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom.

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Looks like a SLOW Weekend, so I'll Post a few of what I have been doing on the Seneca Lake, Ontario & Western...

About all I managed to have time to do this week is assemble a Steam Boiler for the Powerhouse on Bare Mountain. There will be 2 of these in the building to provide steam for the turbines and generators...

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A bit closer up (so I can see where I screwed it up.... Next one I will do better).

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The backside of it:

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It is not finished yet as there will be some weathering and rust added, lots of piping, and a ladder be able to get up to the valves up on top and for service.

Thanks for getting the thread started Paul!
 
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Continuing on from last week's attempts, my F7s still don't have Mars lights. :( The local-er LHS I found is quite small and didn't have any soldering irons whatsoever. Not wanting to leave empty handed I decided to add another engine to my flock, an Atlas N SD24 in high short hood guise-

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I've always liked the smoother lines of the early short high hood Geeps, but until now I had no idea that the option existed for the bigger SD engines as well. A very welcome surprise. :)
 
I recently completed two more locomotives for the club I belong to, OMRS in Lacey, WA. I built the locomotives to be durable enough to be handled by our junior members, but detailed enough to look good in photographs. Internally the locomotives have a upgraded Athearn motor with hex drives, NCE decoder and LED lighting. Externally I've body mounted the couplers and filled in the holes on the pilots. I've added a plow, brass wire MU hoses, wire cut levers, metal sunshades, metal firecracker antenna. For durability reasons I've used the old Athearn metal handrail sets. I finished by adding various decals to the Athearn paint job, did a little detail painting, and some light weathering. These two units are built to provide many years of rugged service, much like their prototype.

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