BNSF clutter on my work bench. All locomotives are awaiting an upgrade of some sort. The GP60Ms are next in line after I'm done with all (6) C44-9Ws.
I've completed changing the doors on the second of three locomotives. At left, the third unit faces camera. The conversion on this unit will be...
After carefully cutting the door away from the donor unit, I then filed and sanded it with utmost care so that it fits snugly in place.
With the space for the replacement hatch cleanly cut out I now turn my attention yet again to the donor unit. (The target hatch is indicated in...
The doors look great in place, now come the stripping of the C&NW paint from them. Also pictured is the section of the donor AC4400CW unit...
With the correct (well close enough) grilled hatch acquired from an Athearn BB C&NW AC4400CW donor unit, let the gauging away of the old doors...
A quick stand in conversion of a Bachmann Northern to fill in for a C&O Greenbrier for a customer.
Kato Great Northern - Empire Builder F7A/F7B/F7A plus 14 passenger cars
Kato Great Northern - Empire Builder F7A/F7B/F7A
F9 Tacoma WA 5/14/2011
at PSAP's Blakeslee Junction Centralia, WA. 4/17/2011
Former CNW. Photographed August, 2010 near Davis, CA
I substituted arch bar trucks, these cars which were built for the WP and "sold" to the SN didn't receive the Andrews trucks until after...
A San Juan Car Co. Kit built by me. A start on my eventual layout depicting the Tidewater Southern in the Fall of 1947.
Another look at my Athearn/Kato Dash 9 project. The snow plow has been weathered and the AC equipment box painted BNSF heritage orange. Hope I'm...
My first attempt at weathering a snow plow.
Here's a bonus photo showing a bit more of the diorama. In the foreground is the Rio Cobre Dam and to contrasting bridges that spans it. Both...
Here is one for the BN fans. A pair of BN SD70MACs crossing my steel arch bridge with a coal train trundling along in tow.
