Thanks for the comment, Stephen! The story was very sad. Very sad indeed. The complete tour is here: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=91203 Russ, if you don't like heights, then don't click this link: :tb-tongue: http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1036/Amtrak_5_T40.jpg
GN 143 pulls a cut into Halland Yard from the Union Station siding. No where close to being finished, but Lorenzo and I wanted to run some trains this week. All tracks and switch machines are now operational in Halland Yard (TO #48 still needs to trim the actuating wire, as seen in the photo above.)
Here's a couple more photos in celebration of this weekend's 2nd US-theme Model Railroad Convention in Germany, taking place near Frankfurt, Germany (Rodgau): US-Modellbahn-Convention The beautiful Sherman Hill layout by Horst Meier: And these photo of a beautifully detailed dockside scene in HO: As before, the pictures from 2007 convention are at: 1st US-theme Model RR Convention in Germany Oct 6-7, 2007 Photo Gallery by ATSF_Arizona John Sing at pbase.com My best wishes to Horst Meier, the main organizer, his team, and all the attendees, for a successful and enjoyable convention. Any of you who are able to attend, please share a few photos with us all .
This is the point I'm at on the Plastruct water tank at this time. I still have to make and install the top hatch and the ladder. Afterward it'll be going to the paint shop for a weathered paint job and a black wash.
Rodgau Convention 2009 Just a few photos taken yesterday in Rogau. One is a great GermaN-trak module built by Manfred Neurauther, the other one is a H0 layout based on the Mexican Railway NdM (Nacionales de Mexico). I will put some more photos in a Railimages album. Some more words about the show in the respective thread : US-Modellbahn-Convention Germany 2009 - TrainBoard.com
I got my sheet of decals from Roland this week, so the Ridgely paint shop has been working overtime. The lion's share of the work went to re-numbering the ever growing hopper car fleet. The font is a wee bit off, and I made the numbers a half-point too big, but hell, my eyes aren't getting any younger... In addition to changing the numbers on the 70 tonners, I also added some "wood chip loading only" markings to those six cars, and started to renumber some Atlas 55 ton cars to carry the number series of the H-29 and H-32 rebuilds that were done in the late 60's. (All the factory numbers from Atlas so far are 1940's numbers the cars originally carried.) Then, I went back to work on the WMRHS Challenger. Victor repaired the motor for me, and I took it down to the club to give it a good work out on the N track rig there. It ran for over an hour without a hiccup. So this weekend, I added tender pickups (Thanks, Chris!) to hopefully make it run even better, and started working on the cosmetics... I replaced the snow plow which had gone missing, and added some paint and weathering. It's still needs a few odds and ends, and I'd really like to put an all-weather cab on it. But first, I have to figure out why I'm getting a dead short... I've checked all the obvious things, but somewhere there's a ghost in the machine... But at least it looks good! Finally, I went to work on a project that's been on the books for a couple of months now... At long last, it's in the paint shop! Have a great week, everyone! Lee
