Good morning from partly sunny and warm Northeast Ohio! I got a couple of cars and an engine completed this week! First up, an IMWX 1937 AAR Boxcar kit, substituted Yarmouth Models Sill Steps for the plastic ones in the kit. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with K4 decals. The NKP and WLE purchased almost 5,000 of this style boxcar and this is a WLE subleased to the NKP used in general freight service. Next is an old AHM Helium Tank car that I modified and upgraded with Wire Graps and new ladders and running board. These cars were upgraded after the US Navy stopped using blimps and the cars were sent to the US Bureau of Mines and were used shipping Helium to various government facilities including NASA Glenn here in Cleveland. I finished up a Proto 2000 Phase I GP7 with wire grabs and lift rings and various other parts to match a DT&I unit. Painted with a 50/50 mixture of Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and ATSF Red and lettered with a mixture of Herald King and Microscale Decals. #952 was one of the last GP7's still on the railroad at the time of the GTW purchase and was also leased to the PC at various times in the 1970's. In keeping with the DT&I and July 4th, I will throw in a Bi-Centennial DT&I #1776 along with a pair of GP40-2's and an Auto Parts train running on the Strongsville Club Layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
I'll work on some fresh content but for now some SP auto racks crossing Piru Creek. Yep, it's a dry creek for now.
A fresh photo from my current project. The local has left most of their train on the siding while they work Fontana with A1-Grit in the background. They are about to shove some hoppers into Martin Marietta at the far end and pull some lumber loads from Peterman Lumber . The California Steel interchange track next to the locos has some coil cars to exchange along with gathering some stray cars. The far right track is the mainline but does not continue on. It will be used as a run around. To keep the local guys honest I may just run a MetroLink in and out of the area.
A new road visits Leiperville Union Station. Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac E8A (Proto 2000) leads a local.
Oooohhh.... pretty! I have one of those in HO and it's the heaviest engine in the lot (710 grams). As in "don't drop it on your head" heavy. Heavier than my vintage stapler. Just like my stapler, it works like a charm...
That would be neat, but that section of my old layout no longer exists. And the loco sits in a project box...
