Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio! Russel, thanks for starting us out this week, great looking loco, need to lose the shine on the pilot wheels! I managed to finish a couple of cars this week. Proto 2000 Greenville Gon Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Aberdeen Shops decals. Car was an NSC built in 1953 but I used the Proto kit as it was close with only an extra rib to account for. Used in general service by the TH&B which was majority owned by the NYC and minority owned by the CP. Also the TH&B did not ever get to Toronto or Bufallo on its own tracks. The Red Maple leaf was added in 1966-67 to commerate the Conferation of Canada in 1867. Atlas Double Plug Door RBL Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Big Sky Blue and Silver, and Black Paints then lettered with Herald King Decals. In the 60's & 70's Evans built about 4,400 of these cars at Blue Island, IL so they are known as the Blue Island Reefers. These cars were leased to both companies and railroads and were mostly used in moving finished lumber products and canned goods. PET used these for their evaporated milk, Prego Sauces and old El Paso products. Last week I took my Rapido RS-11's to the club for a workout hauling a coal drag. I still need more Pennsy hoppers for these trains! Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
From about 1973 when I was young, a scene from my N Scale New Mexico Central System. The track is Arnold Rapido, as are the Fs, while the boxcars are from Con-Cor. The layout is long gone, but I still have the locomotives and rolling stock.
The original plan for my current layout included a coal fired electrical power plant and I had purchased a Bachmann 44 ton switcher to use as the plant's own motive power. Instead of the power plant I included Battle Mountain with 4 other smaller industries and the 44 ton switcher had never been used. Recently I got it out and ran it on the layout just for fun. Surprised to see it could pull 4 cars up the helix and much more on the more level parts of the layout. Seen here in Battle Mountain where the power plant would have been.
Many times I have thought of what i would like to have kept, from my early N days. The one significant items would be that very first set. Which was Bachmann acquired in 1972. It had a neat plastic case with a cardboard cover that slipped over that box. Maybe some day I might stumble upon one....
I hope you do someday. Converted to M-T couplers, I still run my old Con-Cor cars and feel no shame. Many of them evoke happy memories and they bring as much joy to me today as they did back then.
I was able to grab a Proto 2000 B&O SD7 really, really cheap recently. The only draw back was it did not have a box. It is a nice looking and running unit. For this weekend I paired it with my Proto 2000 Chessie SD9 and made a Special Duty Run by. The box cars are the last of the RTR cars I recently weathered. 1 of 2 B&O Proto 2000 SD7 Chessie Proto 2000 (B&O) SD9 B&O Intermountain 60 FT PS-1 Boxcar Chessie (C&O) Atlas 60 FT Auto Parts Double Door Boxcar Erie Lackawanna Intermountain 60 FT PS-1 Boxcar Southern Intermountain 60 FT PS-1 Boxcar
2 of 2 Rock Island Atlas 60 FT Auto Parts Single Door Boxcar DRG&W Atlas 60 FT Auto Parts Double Door Boxcar Santa Fe Intermountain 60 FT PS-1 Boxcar Union Pacific Intermountain 60 FT PS-1 Boxcar B&O Athearn Blue Box Kit Bay Window Caboose Video
Can you sense how small these Z-scale cars are? What do you think, bigger than a finger nail? Have a nice WE, Sven