Thanks, I am looking at an Alco RS-2 in HO also.I use to see NYC then later Penn Central at the junction my grandfather retired from in 1959 in...
Sanded, bell and horn added then primered. [ATTACH]
Here is the unit I am replicating. [ATTACH]
This will be my last build for a while, "the well's gone dry". I just started modifying the shell and ordered Microscale decals. Here are some in...
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The long side rails are on, end rails next. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks, it's done and dull coted. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have the decals on and am now finishing up with the snow plows and ditch lights. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The next one in the planning stage is this gem, Blue Box U33-B. It will be a Guilford B&M unit, BM190. I need rails but lucked out and found a...
Thanks, the rails are on. Tomorrow I will take them off and paint. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The rails are on. Now to start the decals. [ATTACH]
I have another build going along with the GP35M. I bought the dynamic brake insert and Kadees to make it look better. This is an unpowered unit...
The rails are assembled and ready to paint.[ATTACH]
I have the green painted and am starting the rails. I assemble the rails and stanchions, super glue the stanchions to the rails , let that set up...
I'm sure as it is a small outfit it is a "Rube Goldberg" design.First color sprayed on. John [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's rather dull compared to the Appalachian Mts by my old homestead in western Massachusetts. Mountains looked like a box of TRIX cereal from...
Those 2 transformers on the "lowboy" flatcars look familiar. I grew up in western MA near a GE large transformer plant, looks like a siding thats...
[ATTACH] I like the colors, school colors, they go good in autumn, past my home in New England, river I fly fished and I just plain like yellow...
All primed and ready for livery scheme colors.
Thanks again for the info, a couple different NYC units, first is a couple of DFA-4 Baldwin engines at the junction in 1955 and the second is a...
