Here are some old photos I moved from my old web page on AOL Hometown before they pull the plug on it. This is my fanciful tourist excursion train that I put together from odds and ends. Mostly odd. N scale people need excursion trains too. Here is a restored 4-6-2, built by Arnold Rapido pulling a train load of happy Preiser people on the Oyster Creek & Western. A Rivarossi baggage car named Beasley has been converted into a gift shop concessions car. Following it is the Pittsville, a Model Power/Lima coach that had its roof removed and long benches installed down the middle creating an open air observation car. No cinders in the folks hair as the Pacific was converted to an oil burner. Now this is a really odd car. An articulated baggage/diner created by joining two Rivarossi cars. The diner sections is named after the town of Crabb and the baggage end after the town of Booth. Next is the Fullshear, a standard Model Power/Lima coach and bringing up the end of the train is the Simonton, a Rivarossi observation car with a Rowa dome added to it.
Nice passenger cars and engine...looks like a very nice set, Russell. For my image this week, a CPR SW8 emerges from a tunnel into a fresh dusting of early winter snow. There's a bit of a breeze wafting the vapor from the prime mover away from the engine. I think it's cold out there!
nice work, gang!!!!! That winter shot is nice to look at on these warm October days in Texas........makes me want to dig out that chili recipe. Nicely done! I've seen that passenger consist before, and I'm STILL impressed by the work you put into it. Heavyweight articulated, and that dome car- gotta love it! As for the Leesville po-lice, it's all good- I know a back road to git around 'im!
That's a marvellous snowscene! Not much from me - been making some dead winter grasses from jute twine, and that's about it. Mike
It sure looks cold out there! Nice composition and a nice tree on the right side. Here is the back door of the local hardware store. H0 scale by Sandy Barnes, one of the San Antonio Model Railroad Association members.
Very nice so far guys. I was able to work on my layout on Tuesday. I painted all the bare spots( a cold one slowed my tremors enough to do a OK job),& changed the city & town. I moved around building & I think it flows better.
My FREE display cases Great work from everyone already this weekend!! My son works for Video Warehouse and recently they replaced all the wooden shelves with wire racks. They gave away the wood shelves and I grabbed 4 of em. They originally measured 8' long x 4' 8" tall and 3 1/2" deep. I cut off the top 2 shelves of 3 of them and used the 6 pieces of shelving left over, along with 2 I had to come up with, to fill in the gaps in the original shelves. From 3, I ended up with 2 for the train room and 1 for the wife to use to fill with nic-nacs (I didn't fill in the gaps on that one). So now the new dimensions are 8' long x 38.5" tall and 3.5" deep, with the gaps at 3 7/8" between shelves. The new gaps are just fine for any excess height cars such as auto racks or excess height boxcars, without track. Heres pics: these 2 pics are of the 2nd shelf as I just finished it tonight on the front porch: and this pic is of the one already hung on the wall in the train room. It makes a big difference for getting the layout cleared off of some unused stock and locos.
thoroughbreed: Top notch kitbash there and it didn't even involve trains! Very nice job. BTW, your NS collection is coming along well...heh, heh. Belmont Shore Club cattle pens: One block of the City of Belmont. This model by Loren Perry was featured in N Scale Magazine. Black Widow meet: Belmont Shore pictures are from a few years ago.
Here's a blast from the past. From my (now demolished) Albemarle Division. I have been sitting in our apartment in Raleigh GREATLY missing my layout. GOOD NEWS. We sold our home in Northern Virginia and we have a contract on a new home. It has an unfinished, HUGE walk-up attic with 1100 SF all dedicated for trains. We are also looking at other homes w/ large attics and basements in case negotiations don't go well. All the plan B homes have ample train space. The planning juices are beginning to flow!!
A closeup view of the drivers and side rods of a Denver & Rio Grande "Challenger" on the upper level of the JJJ&E. ATSF # 1175 in the Monterrey Mountains on the upper level of the JJJ&E. This 2-6-6-2 has A-Line lead weights added to the frame and inside the cab.
That's a 'Grande shot, Bob! I used the A-line product inside my F45's as well. This weekend, I partially assembled a customer's project, CV noodle schemed Dash-9 in CV blue/orange. It looks really sharp on that engine, even though the prototype engine never wore it! Pics later!
CV 6408 is about finished: Not everyday you can find matched paint on engines of this vintage: And some funny grafitti:
Yesterday I slipped a Bachmann DCC OnBoard decoder into an Athearn F7. I wired another one into an Atlas GP40.
These modules build my nephew Markus (12 years old), members of Modellkid(t)s of evanglische youth Solingen-Ohligs,Germany
