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[santafewillie]

Once again, a day late. A pair of GP60's with a mixed freight anchored by a string of covered hoppers filled with sugar from South Texas.

See ya later.

 

[santafewillie]

This first one could also fit into "Front End Friday"

Maybe I have posted these before, I don't remember.

 

[santafewillie]

Some lightly weathered Santa Fe cars.

 

[santafewillie]

A couple of covered hoppers filled with fertilizer waiting in the hole in Vernon. First one is an Athearn Blue Box, while the lighter one is an Athearn RTR.

And a couple of lightly weathered grain hoppers in the south staging yard. Both Accurail kits.

 

[ctclibby]

So, was putting this into Inventory and it dawned on me that it was Sunday AND it is Santa Fe!
Backmann 4-8-4 Mountain #3784 Dcc/Sound

I see that I need to do the pix again .... when I get the camera and me in the same place again.

 

[beiland]

I've got several of those Bachmann 4-8-4, and I'm looking forward to the day I can get them weathered,.....either by myself or a volunteer. They should look really good with some weathering,..it will hi-lite a lot of the detail that is already there.

The later versions of these engines ran rather well, and had a decent pulling power if I remember correctly.

I was also doing a little searching for some of my articulates, and I seem to remember having picked up a P2K 2-8-8-2 at the Timonium show that had a SantaFe marking,....and surprisingly had dcc & sound installed. It had no box and the seller did not even realize it had those added features. My problem, .....I could not find it, to verify I really did have it. Without a box i'm sure it is somewhere down in a stack of plastic trays that are all stacked up, and I did not wish to go thru those stacks tight now. I hope it is still there somewhere.

 

[santafewillie]

It seems like I have been showing a few Dash9-44CW's, so here's four more from the fleet.

 

[Iron Horseman]

Thanks Curt for taking the time to post them. I like the GP20 the best. I guess it’s a 20 maybe a 18

Way late to the party here, but FYI. It is a GP20. Distinguishing characteristics is the square single exhaust first red arrow, and then the second small fan in front of the large rear fan. 2nd red arrow. Usually the more upright fan housing rather than sloped is a characteristic but a few 20s had the sloped fans just like the GP9 and GP18. There is also something different about the fuel tank, but I don't remember what and as this model doesn't have the fuel tank cover, so it is not helping me remember.

Santa Fe specifically invested a lot into the GP20s, to replace the aging FT fleet. For some reason they avoided the SD7 and SD9? So in the early 1960s the GPs were the Santa Fe's mainline heavy power, and stayed that way until the GP30 then GP35 then they skipped the GP40 and jumped to the SDs in 1966.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

My contribution this week. A Pullman Standard 2983 cu ft covered hopper used to haul sugar. It's an Athearn RTR. A few background covered hoppers are also in the picture. The one on the left is an Accurail model of an AFC 4600 cu ft hopper. The one on the right is a P2K model of a Pullman Standard 4427 cu ft hopper.View attachment 146895
Old boxcar used for maintenance storage. This is probably an Athearn Blue Box.
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Another Pullman Standard covered hopper. This one is a 4427 cu ft from P2K.
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Nice layout

 

[KriegslokBR52]

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Back to front: 2-8-0, 2-10-4, 4-8-4, and 2-10-2

 

[KriegslokBR52]

How about a CF7

Rare one with part of the roof line from the F series still retained. I also liked that "Alligator" from earlier post.

 

[Iron Horseman]

My Santa Fe addiction,..

I don't know if it is an addiction but definitely ingrained from childhood. Both my Uncle and Grand Parents farms were on the north mainline.

This used to be my Uncles. Where I've marked in red is the irrigation well, which feeds a cemented ditch all the way around the field. As a child I spent hours putting in, moving, and taking out irrigation tubes that siphoned the water over the edge of the ditch into the rows plowed in the field. You can see the track running all along behind. Got to watch the parade of Santa Fe trains passing buy, mostly in the misty morning. Chief, Super Chief, El Capitan, Grand Canyon, Fast Mail & Express. Did a lot for me liking the road.

At the time the whole thing was fenced. This is also where they kept the horses (Iron Horsman you know),.

But this is much of what the mainline through western Kansas and eastern Colorado looks like. Field after field after meadow. Irrigated and green, not irrigated and dry with sagebrush or cactus.

 

[RCH]

Got to watch the parade of Santa Fe trains passing buy, mostly in the misty morning. Chief, Super Chief, El Capitan, Grand Canyon, Fast Mail & Express.

Wow. I can see how that would leave an impression!

 

[skyliner]

I guess I haven't posted an actual model railroading pic in a while (I've got more prototype photos readily available, it's usually faster to grab one of those off my computer). So here's an ATSF F45 sitting at the end of the power track in the yard. Coupled behind is another Santa Fe unit, a GP38.

 

[HO Scale MILW]

I guess I haven't posted an actual model railroading pic in a while (I've got more prototype photos readily available, it's usually faster to grab one of those off my computer). So here's an ATSF F45 sitting at the end of the power track in the yard. Coupled behind is another Santa Fe unit, a GP38.

Wow! Is that G Scale? Nice f45.

 

[skyliner]

Wow! Is that G Scale? Nice f45.

Haha, no, that is just HO scale.

 

[HO Scale MILW]

Haha, no, that is just HO scale.

Oh, well the close-up makes it look much larger than Ho! It has lots of nice detail!

 

[santafewillie]

It's about time for me to get back onboard with this thread. Here are some random Santa Fe freight cars from around the layout.
That's a pair of Accurail ACF covered hoppers behind an Athearn 60' gondola. Gondola hasn't been in service enough to be weathered.

Here's a pair of PS-2 36' 2-bay covered hoppers, the one on the left is from Atlas, and the one on the right is from Athearn, courtesy of the Roundhouse acquisition.

Here I have a Walther's Airslide Covered Hopper on the left with an Accurail 50' boxcar on the right.

See ya next week.

 

[santafewillie]

I guess that these could also go into the Front End Friday thread
An Athearn Genesis F45.

A ScaleTrains SD40-2 "snoot nose".

 

[santafewillie]

A day late, but here's a pair of lightly weathered covered hoppers.

On the left is a Walther's PS2 4427 cu ft ribside covered hopper.On the right is an Athearn "Blue Box" ACF 4600 cu ft center-flow covered hopper. Both lightly weathered with weathering powders from AIM.