Post by umtrrauthor on Jun 3, 2012 5:14:32 GMT -8
I get the feeling that everyone was waiting for someone else to start off this week... so I'll bite...
A bit of background since this thread is now multi-scale. My N Scale Wilmington and New York Railroad is a shortline set in 1963 but I also do "what if" equipment for other time periods.
Several years (!) ago... specifically, 2009 (Aargh) I did this Micro-Trains Center Flow painted up for the home road, which I tend to call "The Wilmington" on boards these days:
Since that time, I have wanted to see what this scheme might look like on a locomotive. But not one set in 1963, though that would be interesting. No, I wanted some modern power, to fit with the mythology that following the coming of Conrail, the Wilmington and New York expanded greatly from its base to serve the entire Adirondack region and some of Central New York as well. Therefore, we have this...
This started as an Atlas SD60 in Norfolk Southern paint that I picked up for "not much at all" at a local auction. The blue paint is from a "rattle can" (specifically, Tamiya TS-15 Blue).
The decals are from five different Micro-Scale sets: the lightning stripe from the New York Central set of those stripes; the "circle W" herald from the NYO&W diesel set, the reporting marks on the cab from the New York Central diesels set, the "ILMINGTON" from the Art Deco alphabets set, and finally the words "The" and "Route" from the now-discontinued C&NW Slogan Boxcar set (60-1006 in case anyone happens to find any more of these!)
It only took about a year and a half from shell dissassembly to first run on the layout...
But that's not all... I also wanted to do a caboose commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Wilmington, which again according to the mythology was founded in the first decade of the 1900s. Somewhere on the old computer I have the "history" I started writing...
And of course I am late with this, and I can't remember the exact birth year of the Wilmington anyway, so I just went with a "100 Years" car, starting with a Micro-Trains undecorated bay window caboose which I bought, er, well, in 2010...
And here it is, a "heritage paint scheme" of sorts...
I don't even want to count how many different decal sets I used for this one! The heralds surrounding my adopted "Circle W" represent Fallen Flag railroads from which the Wilmington obtained track to reach its "present size."
The loco and caboose have made their first trip around the layout together. Now I'm thinking it might be nice to have a longer modern train to run for The Wilmington Route...
By the way, I do have a website for the Wilmington, although it is long overdue for an update:
www.irwinsjournal.com/wny
Your turn...
A bit of background since this thread is now multi-scale. My N Scale Wilmington and New York Railroad is a shortline set in 1963 but I also do "what if" equipment for other time periods.
Several years (!) ago... specifically, 2009 (Aargh) I did this Micro-Trains Center Flow painted up for the home road, which I tend to call "The Wilmington" on boards these days:
Since that time, I have wanted to see what this scheme might look like on a locomotive. But not one set in 1963, though that would be interesting. No, I wanted some modern power, to fit with the mythology that following the coming of Conrail, the Wilmington and New York expanded greatly from its base to serve the entire Adirondack region and some of Central New York as well. Therefore, we have this...
This started as an Atlas SD60 in Norfolk Southern paint that I picked up for "not much at all" at a local auction. The blue paint is from a "rattle can" (specifically, Tamiya TS-15 Blue).
The decals are from five different Micro-Scale sets: the lightning stripe from the New York Central set of those stripes; the "circle W" herald from the NYO&W diesel set, the reporting marks on the cab from the New York Central diesels set, the "ILMINGTON" from the Art Deco alphabets set, and finally the words "The" and "Route" from the now-discontinued C&NW Slogan Boxcar set (60-1006 in case anyone happens to find any more of these!)
It only took about a year and a half from shell dissassembly to first run on the layout...
But that's not all... I also wanted to do a caboose commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Wilmington, which again according to the mythology was founded in the first decade of the 1900s. Somewhere on the old computer I have the "history" I started writing...
And of course I am late with this, and I can't remember the exact birth year of the Wilmington anyway, so I just went with a "100 Years" car, starting with a Micro-Trains undecorated bay window caboose which I bought, er, well, in 2010...
And here it is, a "heritage paint scheme" of sorts...
I don't even want to count how many different decal sets I used for this one! The heralds surrounding my adopted "Circle W" represent Fallen Flag railroads from which the Wilmington obtained track to reach its "present size."
The loco and caboose have made their first trip around the layout together. Now I'm thinking it might be nice to have a longer modern train to run for The Wilmington Route...
By the way, I do have a website for the Wilmington, although it is long overdue for an update:
www.irwinsjournal.com/wny
Your turn...
