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[sd40dash2]

Unit 7096 was one of a group of three S-2 locomotives built for CP by ALCO in 1949. These units operated primarily in the United States and 7096 was repainted into a couple of different CP schemes in the 1960s and '70s. By 1980 this unit was upgraded with exposed roller bearing AAR type A trucks, a new custom wedge style plow, custom straight-up steps, better gasketed cab windows and 8" stripe CP Rail paint scheme with multimark on the carbody side ahead of the cab. Model is a heavily-customized Bachmann S4 to match the 1984-94 configuration of ex-CP 7096 at Courtaulds Textiles, Cornwall, Ontario.

[Colin 't Hart]

Love those trucks! How did you do that?

[sd40dash2]

^ Thanks for the 'like' and question. Replace cast-on factory journals with square styrene tube slice + MBE B22 bearing:

[onequiknova]

I am working on five cars for a mid 70s Rock Island "Quad Cities Rocket". Today I'll share the diner, which started out as a Walther's car. Blanking the small galley window and building a new door was all that was needed to match the prototype on the galley side of the car. The isle side needed a bit more work with a new wall section spliced in and the door added toward the end. The prototype had it's fluting removed, hence the styrene ribs added down the sides. The underbody detail was also completely redone.

[dti406]

Good morning from cloudy and MILD Norttheast Ohio!!!!!!

Here is what I got done this week!

First up is another of my kitbashed NYC 2-Bay Hoppers out of 100 Ton 3 Bay Hoppers, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. In the 1960's the NYC converted about 5,000 old 50/55 Ton 2 Bay Hoppers into 65 Ton 2 Bay Hoppers. At some point many of the hoppers were relettered from NYC to TOC (Toledo and Ohio Central) on a random basis and supose it was done for financial bonding reasons. By the way the T&OC was the source of NYC coal traffic in the Southeast Ohio and West Virginia Coal Fields. Oh, and the date of 73-3-66 is accurate base on photographs of the prototype.



Next is a Kadee 50' DDR PS1 Boxcar, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The DT&I ordered 300 of these cars for auto parts service in 1953 and used many of them until the 60 and 86 cars started to appear in the mid 1960's. This car is a repaint of the original as it is in the "We Have the Connections" Compass scheme.



A pair of Athearn DT&I GP40-2's with a general freight led by XLI's and RBL's for the Campbell Soup plant in Napoleon, OH.



Thanks for looking, and have a Happy New Year!

Rick Jesionowski

[kentuckysouthernrwy]

Good start to the New Year! Excellent to see results of hands on modeling skills in each post.

[TBird1958]

Rio Grande in the snow, having some fun with the diorama while it's covered in the white stuff!
The pictures are deliberately a little harsh on the lighting to simulate a low winter sun and shadows, I've also filtered them to the "cool" side.

Here GP40-2 #3096 leads two more EMD BBs westbound towards Soldier Summit - a few of the cars from the train's consist are included.

[danpik]

This week we will sample 4 beers from the great state of Wisconsin

[jbilbrey]

Here is my last HO project of 2022. My son got me a Walthers P-S bulkhead flat for Christmas and quickly made some upgrades to it:

PTTX 92338 by James Bilbrey, on Flickr

My improvements involved replacing the grabs on top of the bulkheads, adding the ACI plates, and including the piece of brake rigging that runs from the cylinder out to the B-end and brake wheel). I replaced the couplers and painted the wheel faces before weathering the car with oil-paints. The pipe load is the recent Walthers pipe load that I painted before banding the layers of pipe with 1/64-inch graphics tape.

[wsor]

Jan 1, 2023 11:06:44 GMT -8 danpik said:

This week we will sample 4 beers from the great state of Wisconsin

Is this a commercial product? I have one of the Greenway Products cars, but haven't seen one like this.

My train club was housed in the basement of the brewery for a few years, until the owner failed to pay the light bill (to the tune of $20,000). Fun moving a layout in January without working lights.

[fr8kar]

I'm mostly done with these. Just need to finish painting the wheels. Here is a model of a 40' x 96" Z-van that Central Freight cut down to 28' long and a 28' x 102" wedge pup with fiberglass reinforced plywood sides decorated for Roadway Express.

[danpik]

Jan 1, 2023 17:26:25 GMT -8 wsor said:

Jan 1, 2023 11:06:44 GMT -8 danpik said:

This week we will sample 4 beers from the great state of Wisconsin

Is this a commercial product? I have one of the Greenway Products cars, but haven't seen one like this.

My train club was housed in the basement of the brewery for a few years, until the owner failed to pay the light bill (to the tune of $20,000). Fun moving a layout in January without working lights.

not commercial, My own custom paints.
Dan

[690]

Had a few minutes over the weekend to work on an eventual project of mine; converting an old Atlas yellow box C424 into one of the rebuilt D&H C424Ms (as it appeared during Guilford as the MEC 452 in the 1993-1994 era).






Basically when the D&H had MK Hornell rebuild them, one of the major changes was taking the Phase 1 numberboards on the six they owned and cutting them down so they no longer protruded beyond the end of the long hood. I got most of the rough work done, just need to do a little more sanding and some putty work and I'll call it good enough.

[ssw]

Jan 1, 2023 17:29:57 GMT -8 fr8kar said:

I'm mostly done with these. Just need to finish painting the wheels. Here is a model of a 40' x 96" Z-van that Central Freight cut down to 28' long and a 28' x 102" wedge pup with fiberglass reinforced plywood sides decorated for Roadway Express.

I need more Central trucks and trailers than I particularly care to admit. Did you have decals made? 

[12bridge]

Almost done with my pier...

[simulatortrain]

Working on scratchbuilding a Cumberland Valley BB baggage car. Pretty easy so far!

[fr8kar]

Jan 1, 2023 19:30:09 GMT -8 ssw said:

I need more Central trucks and trailers than I particularly care to admit. Did you have decals made?

Those are from my friend Bob. He had them made by PDC. I don't know if he's going to sell them or not, but I could ask.

[stevef45]

Spent the weekend wrapping up this NJT/NJDOT heritage unit. I had to finish making brackets for the rear strobe lights for 3 of the units i built. Not sure why i waited till they were fully painted and decaled to do this lol.
Not the greatest soldering job but it was filed smooth.
20221230_201009 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20221230_210232 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20221231_190821 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20221231_190835 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20221231_190848 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr

[bridge2nowhere]

Jan 1, 2023 20:00:24 GMT -8 12bridge said:

Almost done with my pier...

I looked for a bridge pier in these pictures for way too long before I realized what I was looking at. Very nice work.

[wagnersteve]

January 2, 2023, a little before 1 p.m., EST

Thanks to all for inspiring modeling much better than what I do.

Having grown up riding Philadelphia's Market Frankford Subway-Elevated when it still emerged from the subway near where Market Street met 2nd Street, I can tell you that the facade of the Wright Docks building in one of Rick Jesionowski's photos, which I'm almost sure is from a Walthers kit, closely resembles at least on of the Municipal Piers on Philly's waterfront fairly close to the western end of the Ben Franklin bridge across the Delaware River. After a while we kids called it the "goofy goose" bridge because of the design on signs along roads pointing toward it.

Sto lat, Rick! (The first two words in the preceding sentence, which I'll italicize after I post this, are the all around Polish expression of congratulations that translates literally as "a hundred years", the beginning of a song expressing the wish that the person being sung to may live that long.)

[lvrr325]

Jan 1, 2023 7:25:07 GMT -8 onequiknova said:

I am working on five cars for a mid 70s Rock Island "Quad Cities Rocket". Today I'll share the diner, which started out as a Walther's car. Blanking the small galley window and building a new door was all that was needed to match the prototype on the galley side of the car. The isle side needed a bit more work with a new wall section spliced in and the door added toward the end. The prototype had it's fluting removed, hence the styrene ribs added down the sides. The underbody detail was also completely redone.

One of those RI diners ended it's life in Syracuse, NY after being burned by vandals.