Beautiful Shay! I just picked up an older non-dcc version that I’m adding a Tsunami sound decoder to. Nice weathering.
My Latest project -- took a small break from my Lark project. A crew has been sent out to check on a transformer: Thanks, Wolf
Wolfgang, could the problem with the transformer be due to no wires to it? I'm no electrician but just sayin'..... Copper thieves perhaps? Love your fleet of SP trailers! John
Still in the packing and moving mode, so nothing new this week again. A pair of my Athearn GP9's with a coal drag pass Leon Lavdas' NYC GP40's in a siding on the Strongsville Model Railroad Club Layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Perhaps he could borrow my "lineman" spiders to install wires for him. I have been working for years to genetically engineer these guys to string wires on model railroad layouts. Got most of the bugs worked out.....um I mean issues. They still seem to install too many guy wires to support each pole but you can remove most of them.
Russell, can you tell us a little more about this, especially the K-27? I'm assuming it's a kitbash in Nn3?
I'd like this, but e-yuck. One of the reasons I live in Michigan is because this kind of workforce is not quite so plentiful and workers don't grow quite so large here.
Yeah, it is an Nn3 Republic Locomotive Works pewter kit on Marklin Z Scale Mikado chassis. The tender for the kit is etched brass that folded up into shape.
James Belmont, a railroad photographer, posted a shot of these two hauling steel coils from Geneva Steel to the Provo yard. Quote from his photo "A Union Pacific GP20 and a Rio Grande SD45 pull a Geneva Turn through Provo the morning of April 24, 1977." My reinactment even contains a Volkswagen beetle, similar to what James was driving at the time.
Thanks. The front and rear markers are connected to a magnetic latching reed switch in the roof of the caboose for changing directions, which is then connected to a homebrew "flicker-free" circuit on my DC layout. John
The signals maintainers finally made it out the area where preventive maintenance was due on several searchlights. In this scene they have the control cabinet open and the young apprentice is doing the work under the watchful eye of the journeyman signal maintainer. The shop assistant foreman is leaning on the back of the truck and keeping an eye on the line. Enjoy the weekend everyone.
My favorite locomotive. Picked this up from a guy who was really short on $$. Was a Santa Fe consolidation but I repainted it for my own railroad. Have had it for over 25 years and it still runs like a Swiss watch. It had been sitting in the roundhouse for months so I figured it was time to let it stretch its legs.
Some of my F units. From left to right : Athearn F7 passenger scheme, Stewart F9 5771, and Stewart F3 552. I added the nose door headlight by cutting in a Highliner door.
