As it is election time, I redecorated my Santa Fe office car for a whistle stop campaign tour. The good old days of politics. This started out as an old Athern Blue Box observation car.
Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeast Ohio! I finished two cars this week: First up is a Front Range Kit for the converted boxcar into a single unit TOFC flatcar. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals, the trailer is an Athearn 45' Trailer painted with Floquil Silver and White Paints and lettered with Microscale Decals. In the early 80's when trailer lengths increased, it was uneconomical to only run with one trailer on an 89' Flat car. The Southern Railroad repurposed a number of old 50' Boxcars into TOFCE Flats, these went out of service when the 53' Trailers came into being. [U Robbins Rails 50' PS1 Boxcar kit, modified to have two 8' Doors along with new door guides made out of Evergreen Plastic strips. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Frisco originally purchased these cars in 1959 and had racks installed to haul automobiles, when the Auto Racks came about they removed the racks and repurposed these cars, 30 went into service hauling finished products from Mueller Brass, the rest had linings installed and were used for hauling bags of plaster and gypsum out of US Gypsums plant in Southard, OK. Scaletrains SD40-2's in Chessie hauling a train on the Strongsville Club Layout, it was mostly made up of 50' IPD Boxcars resulting in a riot of color as the IPD cars furnished the real railroads in the late 70's. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Amazing shots, Candy. 3:15 AM: a quiet early morning at Hannah Vista at the coach yard as a line starts forming to board as soon as their train arrives:
Looks like a cold morning in Coal country, and that old Octopus-style natural draft furnace is just cooking away.
Today I offer two views of the same scene at the west end of the paired track arrangement in Weso, Nevada. A westbound coming off the paired track has to hold for an eastbound to cross over and enter the paired track.
I was able to get a run by this weekend. The train I planned did not happen as several of the cars decided to have various problems such as uncoupling and derailing on a curve that poses no problem to any others. Here is my Proto 2000 Chessie SW9/1200 switcher handling a cut of Atlas Trainman boxcars and an Athearn Blue Box kit Cheesie caboose. The boxcars were recently weathered with Pan Pastels Weathering Chalks’ 1 of 2
