Good morning from partly sunny and mild Northeast Ohio! This weeks projects completed! First up is a Proto 2000 Northeast Caboose, in the early 60's the Detroit and Toledo Shoreline acquired 3 ex-Lehigh Valley cabooses. I had to do #127 as the other two had porthole end windows. Painted the car with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Black paints and Floquil BNSF yellow paint then lettered with Herald King Decals. Next another Front Range 40' Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with various Champ Decal sets. When the NYC started the Pacemaker Service, they could not repaint the cars from one lot fast enough and pressed a bunch of cars from Lot 773 into service by adding the Pacemaker slogan to the car. This is the second car to go with my fleet of Pacemaker Boxcars. Last week I wanted to try out my Tangent G41a Coil Cars, so I took a pair of Athearn GP9's and some other freight cars to the Strongsville Club to try them out. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
New acquisition this morning at a hobby show! CNR 8718, F-M CFA16-4, Proto 1000, posing in front of the tower in sunlight (opened the blinds): She was simply irresistible! Runs like a champ. Joins my three other freight C-Liner cabs, 8710, 8720 and 8732. Other than that, I got a couple of Athearn motors, some 3-D printed fences and pallets. It was good to be out again among other people who don't stare at me, glassy-eyed, when I talk about trains. On a November 5th with 70F+ temps and nice sunshine!
BN 3162 & Co pulling past the tower out of the pig ramp headed for the main line and a few pictures of the train. Love those Campbell Express "Humpin to Please" slogan trailers. Have a good weekend.
