Tom- That Hudson Electric box car has me curious. Not certain if I'd ever heard of that company. Any info on their operation? Boxcab E50
This is the new scenery area I set in place last weekend. Here are two trains awaiting a signal to leave at East Empire. A different angle of the same trains at East Empire. An inspection train passes westbound by the still awaiting coal train. The stack train got to leave first, then the coal train had to wait for an opposing inspection train to pass. Was it a bad day, or a good day? I guess it depends on your point of view
Do I spy D&RGW tunnel motors in that coalie, Doofus?? A joint operation train, maybe? From the Colorado coal mines of the Craig Branch?
Foreign power used to be quite common on the BN in the Powder River Basin. You could often find power from at least six different railroads on any given day on any of the coal lines!!!
Tompm, can you give some background on that loco? It's cool, but not being a steam guy, I don't think I've seen one just like that before.
Thanks everyone for the compliments. Mike Your carpenters do nice work! doofus Great looking trains! Boxcab Hudson Electric is a freelanced line of a friend of mine. Jenks The camelback locomotives were created by the Reading RR to use antrachite coal waste. This website had great information on them : http://www.steamlocomotive.com/camelback/
Painters moved in first thing this morning... roofers are still AWOL . Detailers, the weathering crew, and glass installation are next up - and will preceed with or without a roof. Electricians will be on call for lighting. -- -- Local building code restricts the brick to no more than 3 colors in a single block... so natural, beige, and taupe were used. The arborists are getting antsy!
SNFF 5 29 05 1. Last week, started weathering..... Now the whole fleet, of course, needs to be done. With weathering, now the Unitrack will need to be ballasted; I've started experimenting with colors for the weathering, and started experimenting with what color ballast to use. More to come in future weeks. Therefore, the sun sets in the west on a set of Santa Fe F7 Warbonnets that eventually will need to be weathered, riding on Unitrack that will need to be ballasted: Hey, it's only a hobby, what's more fun than 1 hour of weathering invalidating the whole fleet and the Unitrack appearance? (oh well!) 2. Thx to the Dallas area Atlas N scale Forum guys who kindly came and picked me up to have a lunch together this past Friday while I was in Dallas. Cell phone camera photo, not the greatest picture, but you can see the guys: From left (the IDs are Atlas Forum id's): - Wyatt (Soo), - Mike Drzycimski, ( http://www25.brinkster.com/southviewlines ) - Jeff Brauer (Rossford Yard), ( http://www.geocities.com/missouriterminalrailroad/index.html ) - John Sing (ATSF_Arizona), - Doug Andreasen (Denver Road Doug) Jeff Brauer also was nice enough to pick me up on Thursday night, took me over to the big HO Texas Western club layout in Fort Worth ( http://www.railsusa.com/sites/twmrrc ) And then Jeff took me over to see his Missouri Terminal Railroad (see URL above). Thanks again one and all. You guys are great and really good meeting you, thx for making my visit to Dallas very memorable. [ May 29, 2005, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: atsf_arizona ]
Wow Nice shot!!!!! btw it's the same color as my XB...... Some great looking models Guys Keep UP the Super Work!!!!!!!
Great job everyone, and thanks for sharing your photo's. I made some Z Scale decals, scratchbuilt a couple Z covered hoppers, and lettered them this weekend, to add to my covered hopper roster: -Robert
Nice work, guys! Hopefully, I can add some photos next weekend from our show. I spent the last couple of days tuning and decodering locos Harold
Well here is another entry for me. My freind Steve Garbarino came over Saturday to run some trains. He brought along his CNW inspection car the Fox River, which is a Overland brass car. Real nice car in person. I like it when he brings brass, it picks the bad spots in my track work, so I know what to fix. Here are some pics of it. There you have all three sides. Adios Wyatt
Final installment: Birds eye view of town: And spent a whole $4 at Walmart to make a skirt for the table... so i quit getting distracted with all the "projects" that hide underneath
Another view from last weekend's scenery project. The crew on this coal train must be wondering if they are ever going to get to their final terminal! Another westbound train shows up!
With all my modeling tools, paints, detail parts, etc. still in Ohio, and the modeling bug biting very hard, I dug out my MT autoracks, and armed only with a bowl of water, scissiors, and a toothpick, I renumbered some of my ATSF autoracks with NSN new overlays. I highly recommend these! (And boy did it feel good to do some modeling!)
What is/are "NSN Overlays"??? Obviously some form of decal, but I've never of it/them... Edit...Never mind. I just read the entry on the N-Scale Forum. Thanks
Not yet. They have these and they also have a couple for the stone cars MT does. Hopefully NSN will continue to release new overlays in the future.
I had a nice weekend from Thursday to Sunday: FREMO - meeting. You can see lots of pictures at my site Unna - summer 2005 Even the weather was 1:1, hot. Wolfgang
