Coming to you from Grapevine, Texas this morning at the NMRA National Train Show. I set up my Richmond, Texas modules in the show NTRAK layout.
Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio. Here is what I finished this week! First up another Tichy Panel Side Hopper car kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn's Wabash decals. This was another USRA clone car originally built in 1923 and rebuilt in the late 30's with panel sides to increase capacity. Next, an IMRC 50' DDR Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. The DT&I had several hundred of these cars in auto parts service for Ford. Essentially they were a warehouse on wheels and would be fished out of sidings when Ford needed the parts. Finally, a pair of Athearn GP40-2's with an auto parts train running on the Strongsville Club layout. Have a good weekend. Rick Jesionowski
From 08/1978 on my N Scale layout. At the time, nobody made a decent C&NW F-unit, so I painted a Minitrix F to run with my Arnold Rapido bi-levels. With so few N Scale decals being produced back then, I ran it without any markings for years. Around the time of this picture, I think I found some freight car decals for a nose herald.
The first foto is the new Kenworth and trailer The second one is an SD40T-2 that started life as an undecorated unit back in the 90s. I painted, detailed and decaled this, it only has one powered truck, but I like it.
My own 1970s flashback, from February 1977: This is one of my Dad's repaints, he really liked the Santa Fe pinstripe scheme for freight units. He was a die-hard AT&SF fan. Of course, after he did his paint job, he had to "test" the engine on my layout - while I was at school - just to see if it looked good...
