Time to bring this thread to the front ! ! I am remiss at not posting my wife's Smokey bear train. I did the changes to the loco to better represent the 1:1 and added the Smokey 50 year decal. Added a couple of bears onto the decks as Diane is a Teddy Bear collector. Am I out of the doghouse yet ? ? Story of my life.
The members of an online group I belong to were interested in how I run a ops session on my 24" x 80" Hollow Core Door layout. Here is a video I put together for them. No great camera work and the on air personality is a little dry But hopefully Everyone enjoys the video.
I picked up a lone Lone Star 000 British Rail Mk1 coach at a train show last November for a few dollars. I have an old Lone Star F unit painted in British Rail livery but that made for a short train. Soooooo, I made an RTV mold of the coach to make a few more. Well, a few turned into five. Once they were all painted up in the Crimson Lake and Cream (Blood and Custard) paint scheme and rolling, they really needed a steam locomotive to pull them. I had an old Kato Japanese National Railway (JNR) Mikado mechanism salvaged from an MKT Mikado I kit bashed many years ago before Kato released their USRA Mikado. I had a JNR pacific shell and tender from another project that sort of fit. Painted that to resemble a British steamer and now I have another passenger train.
