Good morning from cloudy, cold, windy and snowy Northeast Ohio! There are a plethora of accidents out there this morning, we are staying in until bowling tonight. Here is this weeks projects that were completed. Proto 2000 Northeast Caboose, blanked out some windows and painted it with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Reefer Yellow paints then applied Highball Graphics decals to the caboose. In the early 60's the DT&I acquired 5 ex-Reading cabooses as they were retiring the wood hacks from long ago. IMWX 1937 AAR Boxcar kit, added Yarmouth Models sill steps in place of the plastic ones of the kit, then painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with Speedwitch Media Decals. NP used these for grain service and lumber service as demand needed them. A pair of Athearn GP40-2's with a general freight rolling thru an industrial area on the Strongsville Club layout. Rick Jesionowski
Fresh batteries in the Power & Light Miller Engineering sign. They are very cool! And the temporary or permanent sign printed out. I see a lot of these on layouts here This thing has like 40 different options on it for flashing lights, and static too, me thinks. A little work on the roof in order also. Zip tied the pc board on the back and cut out holes for the switches in the styrene top. Works good! At some point, need AC adapter to run it! Eats batteries!
Western Maryland coal drag passing the Water Tower 1 of 4 Western Maryland. F3A. Athearn Genesis Central Railroad of New Jersey. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Erie. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Reading. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Erie. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman
2 of 4 Montour. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Baltimore & Ohio. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Baltimore & Ohio. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Montour. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Reading. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper. Atlas Trainman
3 of 4 New York Ontario & Western. 34 FT R/S Hopper. Bev-Bel/Train Miniature Reading. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Baltimore & Ohio. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Chessie System Baltimore & Ohio. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Baltimore & Ohio. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman
4 of 4 Chessie System Chesapeake & Ohio. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman New Haven. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Reading. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Chessie System Baltimore & Ohio. AAR 70-Ton 9-Panel Hopper. Atlas Trainman Western Maryland. Cupola Caboose. Atlas Trainman The video
Straight out of the artsy-fartsy department, I call this one "Turnout": Okay, it wasn't intentional art, I was just trying to figure out the optimal geometry of this yard lead turnout. But all my photos featuring actual trains this week came out blurry...
