I will kick things off early this week as I am using the computer at a hotel in Oklahoma City where I am at a train show this weekend. Have to go set up some NTRAK modules in a bit. Here is a Kato smooth side chair car that I modified a little to better resemble a one of a kind chair car on the Santa Fe. I changed the roof, added skirts and step boxes and painted it. The prototype was built by St. Louis Car Co. in 1936 as one of the first light weight cars for evaluation on the ATSF. The Santa Fe decided to order cars from Budd instead. In 1947 it was painted from the Scout Two Tone Gray paint scheme to silver with shadow lines until 1950 when it was returned to TTG again.
This week I've been planting trees of these 3 types: Cedar: Elm: Conifer: All three are from the Bachmann Scene Scapes series.
Chicago, 1992 Here is one of my picture scans. I am trying to go through all my old photos. Nice shiny paint today! I would say GP38s as there is no anti-climber. Numbers 5705, 6822, and 6813.
Flash,, I know right where that pic is taken. That would be the northside of the house,, the blue building in the backround is the wheel grinding area,, just one track goes through the building. Also to your right in the picture would have been the turntable. When I was working there,, you would see the GT units alot,, also during the Belt's turn to bring the transfer,, they would use the Alco's that was a sight to see. Adios
Divided radiator on the first unit says it's either a 38, or no later than the first year of Dash 2 production. Note the raised corrugated radiators on the trailing units (the shadows make them obvious), establishing them as post-1976 Dash 2s.
SNFF 2008 12 6 Since I'm completely booked up doing other things, my contribution is some recycles - this from Sept of 2005, the Santa Fe Peavine Line 'Prieta Canyon' module on display at the Show and Tell in a NMRA Pacific Coast Region, Coast Division quarterly meet: The above is the back half of my 4' x 4' layout: -------------- *Open Invite* -------------- By the way, if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, tomorrow Dec 7th at 930am is the quarterly Coast Division NMRA meet is in Mountain View, Calif. Come by and check us out, here's more info, , it's *free* , and you can see what goes on at our meets at: Model Contest Information Welcome to Coast Division of Pacific Coast Region of NMRA By the way, here is a couple of examples of N scale models that were in the Sept 2008 Coast Division Model Contest - great stuff! Have a good week, all.
I did a little decal work on the SDP40F's today. Bit of a challenge without the glasses but I managed. The decals were made by a friend in Ohio. The A unit: And the B unit:
Isaac (7 weeks old) admires one of my photos, Golden Week at Moffat Tunnel: Might as well get him started right! And a Swoosh on an early Dash 8:
I guess we are going back to the old way of weekend photo fun where one person will post everything they have ever shot? Too bad because last weeks WFF was the best ever. We had 5 or 6 pages of many peoples best work, this week we have 2 pages of a few. What a shame. Scott
Lets see if we can get this back on track. The ONE photo I have found that I am really proud of is related to the ONE I posted last week. This shot is of the same train on the hainesburg viaduct. It is a telephoto shot (taken many years ago with an early digital camera which is why it is pixely) of the milk train heading across the viaduct. I always liked the way the train and the arches looked with the compression of the zoom lens. 40 foot milk cars always look cool anyway. scott lupia
Heck, I didn't think anyone would be interested in that old Chicago stuff! Here are four more that I have already scanned. Notice that this SOU SD45 is still set up for long-hood-forward running I think I took a picture of the turntable, too. I'll look for some more and post them in the Railfan Forum next week.
