Great stuff everyone! Here are my latest acquisitions: Atlas GP-40s My new P2K B&O E7A just arrived and I can't wait to run it! I also have a P1K F3A and F3B set that I have not had a chance to get out of the box.
I thought I would try to bring this back to life a bit. Here is the 2-10-2 shown earlier in the topic after a little fine tuning. I lowered the headlight and added the number boards to the side of it (no numbers yet). I also repainted the smoke box and side rods with neolube. It gives a better graphite color than I could replicate with paint.
OK guys - I have to go see the Doc - my skin has a green tint to it - maybe it's just envy! Nice stuff!
My Prized Loco. A Challenger Imports brass EM-1. Only the third time I have taken it out of the display case. I pull out the Royal Blue out of the case tonight.
I'll bring this back to the top with some more shots: B&O Napanee, built from a MRC/Rowa observation. It is actually the correct car body for this car. I removed the numberboards on the fluting to the back of the car, drilled out the roof to make the tail light operational, added Kato trucks with pickup for lighting and painted the interior. If I remember from talking to Bob before, the EM-1 is an S scale model. I have shots from another modeler with one also. Bob, You really need to do a nice photo essay of that EM-1 so I can start making parts for mine...
I don't have a picture, but I have ONE (count them, 1!) B&O boxcar. But it is a brass model I built up in N scale from a Quality Craft kit. Built it over 10 years ago (and put the door guide on upside down But I am happy with it, consider it one of my railroad-specific SIGNATURE freight cars. I have a Fine N Scale resin PRR round top double-door boxcar, a Red Caboose PRR X-29 single-door boxcar, a Puget Sound Milwaukee horizontal-ribbed double-door boxcar, my kitbashed MicroTrains US Navy 1 1/2 door 50' PS-1 (said to be the only 1 1/2 door 50' PS-1s) several Fine N Scale Santa Fe Caswell drop-bottom gondolas. I keep saying I am someday going to build a Santa Fe BX-3 panel-side boxcar. Someday...
B&O had four of these cars.... Napanee Wawasee Dana Metcalf Napanee & Wawasee were the normal observation car used on the Capitol Limited. The Dana and Metcalf, had diaphragms mounted on their observation ends and were used as mid-train lounges between DC & Willard, where the Ambassador's train was split from the Capitol Limited for the final run to Detroit, where these cars were then the observation cars for the Ambassador. The cars were a part of the C&O's late 40's passenger car order that were sold off to other roads when the C&O's passenger vision turned out to be wrong.
My Prized Loco. A Challenger Imports brass EM-1. It's sad to think that even as late as 1961 there was an EM-1 and a T-3 4-8-2 rusting away at Butler, PA. It's a shame that both of these could not have wound up in the B&O Train Museum. An EM-1 was supposed to be donated to the museum, but for some reason never made it.
Try to find the old Rowa observation car. It is this prototype. I see them on ebay quite often. Just strip and paint. RICK
WHOOPS! Sorry about the redundant info. Somehow I missed your Rowa post Tony. How is the Pacific coming? Seeya! RICK
