Good morning from cloudy and cool Northeast Ohio! After a busy previous week, I am back with another couple of models finished up this week. First up, an Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red, Black and Silver paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Sabine River and Northern was a shortline railroad in Eastern Texas, the railroad and cars were owned by the Forest Products Division of the Owens-Illinois Co. of Toledo, Oh so I had to do a car from that railroad. Next, an Intermountain Railway ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray paint and lettered with Islington Station Products decals. Car was leased to the Freeport Kaolin Company to haul Kaolin Clay to various manufactures of paint, paper, rubber and china products. Last weekend I took my SP SD45's to the club with a bunch of various SP freight cars. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Very nice work! If you've not yet painted cars for them, the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western and the Valdosta Southern were also owned by O-I.
Well, Happy Christmas. Here's a Walthers GP15-1 and an Athearn caboose. UTAH RAILWAY locomotives and caboose! Have a Grande Holiday!!!
I have painted all these car but I used the Athearn Railbox car which was ACF prototype car and the only one available at the time. I need to do the MT&W and VS cars using the proper prototype cars and get rid of the incorrect cars! Rick Jesionowski
I just finished this awesome Showcase Miniatures Nn3 caboose kit. It was a breeze to assemble this well thought out model. Still have a few things to tweak. Photos definitely reveal flaws!!
Looks like you're having a very Merry Christmas with a pair of very lovely... ahem... stocking stuffers... And a very Merry Christmas to you too, and all here on Trainboard.
Ran my 50th Anniversary Christmas Train! Original B&O shark, still running great, and I managed to reconstitute the train with original cars hunted down at train shows. Meanwhile a CN S2 salutes the Christmas train as it passes by the slower switcher job. That Model Power train set got something lasting going. Though I had a long pause in the interim, the embers still glowed in my firebox. Best Hobby Ever.
