Seems like they also had a GP9 like that. Then sanity came back to management.*L* http://www.chessieshop.com/gallery/showphoto.pl?id=40832 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3943/is_200107/ai_n8959124
Catching up... Well as a member for a little while (Sept 2005) but never actually participating until recently I am going through some old posts and catching up, so if you see a reply from a message way back then you will know why I am just now replying. The main thing about this subject IS you guy's make me SICK! Sick that I do not have all these nice pieces of power and rolling stock you guy's have...lol! Man there IS some GREAT looking stuff here! I might try to post some pics of stuff I have but I have a LONG way to go to catch up to you guys, but give me time...give me time. I am modeling the year 1964, so most of the stuff I am obtaining relates to that time period, so I can use a myriad of rolling stock from the 40's, 50's and into the early 60's until 1964. Same goes for motive power as well, diesels from the 50's right down to 1964 which gives me a lot of choices. I am a Geep 7 & 9 guy since I was around them so much growing up as a kid as my entire family worked for the C&O in West Virginia. Nothing like seeing 4 or 6 Geeps together on a coal train or a time freight! I have so far, 6 Atlas Geep 9's and an MP Fp7 in as far as motive power goes. Rolling stock I have around 53 hoppers, 40' 3 bay rib side, 2 bay fishbellys, and 33' 2 bay arch end offset sides, so I am building a sizeable fleet of hoppers and more to come. I have around 5 wide vision cabs but am going to sell them off on eBay as they will not fit into the era I am going for, most being MT couplers...need some 40's & 50's era steel yellow cabs...do you hear us Atlas! I have a few other C&O cars. Of course I have a bunch of other roads rolling stock as well...so I AM getting there. But the bottomline IS you guys give me a LOT of inspiration and I just wanted you to know that. Dave Gilliland
Well, I guess I was where you are at not so long ago. Just think of the fun you will have getting there! I have a new project in the works. Maybe I will post some pix soon, maybe later tonight...
I am new on this forum. It looks interesting so I am going to look around for a while. here is a rather busy area on my layout. Iknow the pigs are out of place but they are no longer there. Les
Now that is a sweet scene! Where did you get the trailors? Did you do the artwork and decals? I would love to have some really good artwork so I can do some in N scale. Welcome aboard and long live the C&O!!
The Chessie Steam Special in N scale. I got the Con Cor set a while back and was disapointed with the engine. They painted a Berkshire and it really didnt look close. The tenders looked really good so I figured if I could come up with a decent looking steamer I could have a decent set. So I had a Bachman 4-8-4 that I used for the mechanism and shell. I moved the sand domes and fabricated some parts. I borrowed some pictures from the internet and made the front emblem with them and also for the emblem on the cylinders. More to come later...
Added MT trucks to the passenger cars. weathered them a bit. Hardwired the tender to the engine. Redid the front emblem on the engine and the back emblem on the observation car. A few other odds and ends.
Les a GREAT scene shot! Love the trailers and I remember seeing them as a young lad! You gotta tell us where you got those or if you did them yourself. Some of these on the old brown TTX 86' would look great! Show us some more scenes! Dave
C&O trailers DITTO!!! GIVE US SOME GOOD STRAIGHT ON PICTURES SO I CAN STEAL THEM AND MAKE DECALS!! :tb-biggrin:
