Friday Night a few of the aussie Trainboard contingent - Gats, Patrick, Greg and Jason came over to operate a few trains, here is Jason's recently purchsed SD70M's on the layout.
Cool. No ugly yellow patches with red numbers on the cab. Here is a shot of the SP in T&NO days. Train 16, the Hustler, left Dallas at 8:10 AM behind P-6 #618 and will arrive in Houston at 2:05 PM. The equipment will be turned and a parlor car added to the consist to head back to Dallas at 4:45 PM as the Sunbeam. The power will be replaced with a Daylight painted steamlined P-14 Pacific locomotive. These are N scale models.
Here comes the inevitable question for you. How do these run and operate as compared to Kato, Atlas or Life Like diesels? Ie., Are they as quiet? Are they able to operate in the same lash-up without DCC to normalize operations? I think you get my drift! They sure look good. I've had my eye on one of these at a local hobby shop for sometime.
I would say that run on par with Atlas locomotives maybe a touch louder but all in all you wont be disappointed
Old Time Tank Cars? Great pictures so far. I have to admit we are getting weak on quantity of photos here, so let's get those photos up there! :thumbs_up: Not the least of which is myself. Here are two more tank cars. These are old-time decals on more modern equipment. Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient RR; Atlas 11,000 gallon tank car. Magnolia Petroleum Company; Micro Trains 10,000 gallon tank car. I will have some more later, I hope.
Pete: I like your ships very much. In the rebuilding you are doing to some part of the harbor area, are you going back to detail some of your earlier ships? Or do you just start over when you need a better model? It seems that making a ship is such a big effort that starting over would be difficult. Thanks.
End of the line??? No! temporary staging. As long as I build the new Westport, I have had to empty the staging yard under Westport. So all trains are crowded over the layout. Wolfgang
I've redone two ships so far, the C2 freighter and the Benson destroyer. It might have been easier on the C2 to start over, as hulls are not a big deal for me, and I stripped it basically to the hull. It was hard to work on the superstructure when it was mounted on the hull, and I could not split it off. The Benson was a different case, as I was happy with the superstructure, and the hull just needed a little work. So it depends. I think the deciding factor is how much do I like the hull. It'll be a while before I do another renovation, as I'm not too far along with the Beavercove, where I want to show my best.
Wolfgang - that might be a scene from here in Holland Michigan. Although we don't see them much anymore, we do get SOO units running through on extras. It's been raining here for a week now, and the vegetation is greener and growing faster than it has all summer!
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf A freshly painted KO&G 50 foot boxcar prepares to leave San Antonio and return to the home road. KO&G was merged into the Texas and Pacific in 1964 and then into MoPac. This is an InterMountain undec painted according to Oddballs Decals criteria. I have found pictures of boxcar red KO&G boxcars (with MoPac herald) and blue KO&G boxcars, but no silver ones. I was glad to be able to paint the silver as I have always had it turn out grey, but it was better this time. The Oddballs Decals were excellent.
Great photos everyone. I've been busy on a 3' extension to the layout over the past few weeks. Here's the progress so far Jon
For me, Revisiting a project that I completed in June, here are closeups of the frame modifications for lowering an N scale Micro-Train Hi-Cube boxcar. This project was inspired by Tom Mann, his superb job of lowering and weathering this same MT boxcar, which he shared in a thread started 5/24/06: http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28931 His results are *so good*, it inspired me to try my first lowering job shown above. Check out his thread above if you missed it the first time around. Thanks to *Tom Mann* for his inspiration and tutoring me on how to do this. Here's my lowered boxcar (nowhere near as good as Tom's, but it's so much better than the as delivered car from MT! : This red MT boxcar Santa Fe 40' Hi-Cube was lowered, used body-mounted Z scale MT 905 couplers, painted trucks, and given a light weathering job with Bragdon Enterprises weathering powders. Here's the original too-high appearance: Here's how the frame had to be ground down to clear the low-profile Micro-Trains Roller bearing trucks: Other projects in the works, slowing coming along..... Have a good week, all!