Hello all I have spent the last week or so making more trees for the layout and repainting/soundchipping/detailling/weathering a GP40 into CSX (the loco had been painted for SP) The number reflects an ex-Western Railway of Alabama loco. I also detailled and weathered the ex-Family Lines GP38 in a bit of spare time. Jon
What great trees! At first I thought it was a photo backdrop! :thumbs_up: Great engines, too. Maybe some more of the SCL engine?
I couldnt decide which style of CSX patch style I preferred for the Family Lines GP38 so I did both. One side has a dark grey patch low on the cab side for the CSX number and the FL lozenge has been whited over. The other side has a lighter grey patch for the CSX number covering the yellow and red trim on the cabsibe and the FL lozenge has been covered over in red paint. (the actual loco - an ex-CRR loco - had the low dark grey patch on the cab side but the writing in the FL lozenge was still visible. The guys in the paint shop must have been checking to see if the foreman was paying attention! Jon
A shot of the lashup Lastly I overexposed this shot of the GP38 but it produced an interesting shot, so I've included it here I will now have to take a month's break from Sweethome Alabama while I get Sweethome Chicago ready to show at Manchester exhibition at the start of October. Jon
I was at an American Modellers swapmeet last sunday and came away with the following three locos, in exchange for a BLI AC6000 in CSX paint - nice model and sound, but far too big for the layout. First is an Atlas U23-B in the second CSX paint scheme, weathered by Saia (customscalekits), and a timesaver for me as I was going to do something in this livery anyway. Second was an Atlas SD35 in ALC livery. I will have to convert this to SCL, before patching it into CSX - an interesting job. third loco was a Kato SD40-2 - also one I was intending to do as a repaint. I intend to redo this as a high hood, but the nicely weathered windows are making me have second thoughts. I'm more than happy with the three new locos despite needing to sort out some soundchips for them. Jon
Sir I was just looking through your pictures. I showed some of my friends and they couldn't tell it was all model. You have some serious skill, I am jealous. Also, is that an AMC Pacer I spot in the last pic?
