We will be setting up the club NTRAK layout at the Rosenberg Railroad Museum today to be part of the San Jacinto MRC Fall tour. We will be open this weekend and next. So, if you are in the Houston area, come on by.
Here are some cars I managed to finish this week. Eastern Car Works 1958CF Covered Hopper Kit, added airlines for brakes, removed cast on sill steps and install A-line steps. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Robbins Rails 50' PS1 Boxcar Kit, replaced sill steps with A-Line steps, painted Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Champ Decals. Although Atlas has just released this car, one of my club members asked if I had ever done it, I said no but I had an undecorated Branchline Kit and some decals so I said I would replicate the Atlas Car. Car assembled with substitute A-line Sill steps and then Painted with Floquil Signal Red and Platinum Mist, then lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals. Thanks for looking! Rick J
Southern New Mexico N-Scalers layout. Picture was shot during recent Fair show. Hope you enjoy ! Carl
Breaking in a new set of F units at the club. Photo courtesy of Adam Lutt. Ya know, when I put the grain train together at the beginning of the night switching the grain elevator, I saw one car in the train with plastic couplers. I didn't give it a second thought until the knuckle failed at the top of the hill and the back end headed down at warp speed. good thing the crossover was not thrown all the way, or the train would have piled up in the back corner 4 feet from the nearest aisle, rather than right here. Tried my hand at painting my first backdrop. Meh, could be better, but not half bad for my first try! I don't normally take long shots at the club, but here is the grain train arriving into Sousa City.
You hadda throw an Eagle off the tracks...Some beautiful rockwork on there. Looks like a great layout to run on.
It can be pretty fun to operate on. the original members threw up the benchwork in a hurry and it has come back to be a real pain as of recent, 3/4" ply mixed with 1/2" and very poorly assembled, so smooth operation is pretty difficult because of the ups and downs in the benchwork.
