Well, how about some F-Units for this Friday? Here we have a Stewart F3, Athearn F7, Stewart F9, and a special edition Athearn F7. D&RGW Funits came in the Delux Gold, and black, the Four stripe Grande Gold over Silver and the single stripe Grande Gold over Silver. The John Deere loco just happened to be visiting Roper when I go this shot...
Here is a NYC Caboose I made from a Walther's Kit, not quite correct but close enough until I paint my two Lambert Brass ones. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with some off brand decals I picked up off of E-bay. Now for a caboose from a competitor! Bowser N5C Caboose kit, to which I added a Cal-Scale Antenna kit. Painted with Scalecoat II PRR Red and Black paints, then lettered with Champ Decals. And for an old picture of the Strongsville Club layout, which I will not be taking any more pictures of for a while, as the wall behind the layout in this location has to be repaired and we took out an 18' section of the layout including the backdrop and the signal module and wiring along with the track where the cuts were made. Athearn GP9's with an coal load passing Leon Lavdas' NYC GP40's in the siding. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A blast from the past: S3290_Enjoying_My_Trains_December_1975 by Mike VE2TRV posted Sep 9, 2016 at 3:06 PM That handsome young chap is a much younger me, 12 years old, enjoying my trains on the layout my late Dad built for me. I can appreciate the effort and time he put into that, with my experience now, but my enjoyment of model railroading hasn't waned, even after 41 years. I couldn't say as much about my hair...
Heidi's Market & Gasoline? Would that shapely creature standing outside be Heidi? Great sunset lighting!
I know, I have posted this before. However, I just did an upgrade, I suppose that could be questionable, and wanted to see it again. I think I need to do a little more work on it to completely fix "the issue", but it is much better. If you are not familiar with this it is a Bachmann EM-1 mechanism, a Superturbine boiler and tender casting all morphed into an SP AC-9 by me. I kept wishing that Intermountain would produce this after they did the CF's. I doubt that will ever happen. Too road specific, I guess. The only AC series that was not a cabforward. Hope you enjoy. Carl
Nice, Candy! You have a photographers eye for framing your photos. Carl, I think that locomotive looks great. Very detailed.
I finally got around to placing the headstones in the Greenbrier Cemetery tonight. I also have a new hearse made by Noch which I Americanized and added glass to the sides. Creepy stuff.
I got some more work done on my D&RGW wreck train, I finished up a model a Dining car X3277, that still sits down the road from me. cut and spliced a baggage car X3220 to match some photos. I had to scratch build the steps, smoke stacks added Calscale brake details too. The prototype pic X3277 MW My rendition in HO scale The baggage/tool car X3220MW proto pic Model Thanks for looking
I didn't get to visit this site last weekend and it looks like a whole lot of superb modeling slid by me. R I Straw's F units and old time freight, Jim J's posts. Candy's factory, and gjslsffan's wreck equipment are all top notch.
