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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 17, 2023 7:51:23 GMT -8
Where has this month gone?! Productive week for me, though. I painted and decaled these two RDG gondolas. The GHy (covered car) is scratchbuilt. The GHz is a Tangent car with DA fixed ends and some modifications to the ribs--of course I found out afterwards that since of the GHz rebuilds came from classes exactly matching the ribs of the Tangent car... Then here's progress on my Moloco WP PC&F car, about halfway through the roof.    |
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Post by drsvelte on Dec 17, 2023 8:16:42 GMT -8
Really nice! I especially like the covered gon. How did you do the covers?  |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Dec 17, 2023 8:18:13 GMT -8
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 17, 2023 10:16:58 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 17, 2023 10:35:17 GMT -8
That train needs a caboose.......  |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Dec 17, 2023 10:37:19 GMT -8
That train needs a caboose....... or ten!! There, fixed that for you  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 17, 2023 10:39:12 GMT -8
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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 17, 2023 10:48:00 GMT -8
Really nice! I especially like the covered gon. How did you do the covers? Thanks! The covers are a mix of printed parts (gray in the below + the hooks) and styrene (everything else.) I had tried printing the covers several times, but I was getting weird results so I gave that up. I think it ended up a nicer result this way anyway.  |
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Post by danpik on Dec 17, 2023 11:26:13 GMT -8
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Post by cklx on Dec 17, 2023 11:26:58 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
What happened to this engine? Cornelius. |
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 17, 2023 11:43:59 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
What happened to this engine? Cornelius.
moved it into that spot setting up for a job that switches some trash flats, crew reported an hour later and it's decoder had committed suicide. no read back on JMRI. RIP.
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Post by nebrzephyr on Dec 17, 2023 12:41:33 GMT -8
Stuff.............  Love the pipe load. especially the corrugated top load. Curious on how to made those. Also, would that type of load typically have tie downs to the flat car? Bob |
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Post by jacksong1218 on Dec 17, 2023 12:44:59 GMT -8
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Dec 17, 2023 12:51:47 GMT -8
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 17, 2023 13:24:46 GMT -8
Love the pipe load. especially the corrugated top load. Curious on how to made those. Also, would that type of load typically have tie downs to the flat car? Bob The pipe loads were on ebay, they were not expensive, they most likely should have tie downs but at the time I couldn't find a photograph of what that might look like. |
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Post by packer on Dec 17, 2023 13:57:25 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
*Suspiciously stares at my SW1200* Don't
I haven't been doing a whole lot after hurting my wrist:
 Turns out the tip Scaletrains recommended for the SDL39 works on the SD40-2. These two had the front pilots drooping a bit. I still wish they would have attached the sand lines to the frame, and made the coupler boxes screw into the frame. But I'm no engineer. Made a little progress on the Espee Models flat. Made a lead weight for it and got the underbody glued in. The lead weight is heavier and thinner than the supplied steel weight which seemed thick. Also masked the deck, to paint, but it's too humid here in Florida to want to paint.
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Post by sd40dash2 on Dec 17, 2023 13:59:27 GMT -8
Wow that truck detail is exceptional -- those look like real springs vs molded plastic and the raised mfr lettering is also top notch.
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 17, 2023 13:59:33 GMT -8
Nice models again this week everyone. I finished a couple of cars this weekend. First is a factory painted MTH 55 ton USRA hopper. The RI got over 700 of these cars from the N&W. They were quickly stenciled and put to work. The staff mounted brake wheel was replaced with an end mounted brake wheel, and it received new trucks. The Rock Island decals were printed on the ALPS.  Next up is an Atlas 4650. I removed the factory CN lettering, added new draft gear boxes, cut bars and air hoses and lettered it with K4 decals. This one just received a quick pan pastels weathering.  |
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Post by jacksong1218 on Dec 17, 2023 14:17:22 GMT -8
sd40dash2 Thanks! Exactrail really knocked these out of the park. onequiknova Wow that ex Virginian hopper looks fantastic, great work on the faded lettering
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 17, 2023 14:23:35 GMT -8
Nice models again this week everyone. I finished a couple of cars this weekend. First is a factory painted MTH 55 ton USRA hopper. The RI got over 700 of these cars from the N&W. They were quickly stenciled and put to work. The staff mounted brake wheel was replaced with an end mounted brake wheel, and it received new trucks. The Rock Island decals were printed on the ALPS. Next up is an Atlas 4650. I removed the factory CN lettering, added new draft gear boxes, cut bars and air hoses and lettered it with K4 decals. This one just received a quick pan pastels weathering.
where did the RI load that much coal?
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Post by Mr. Trainiac on Dec 17, 2023 16:23:00 GMT -8
Here is a small project I recently finished. It's an Intermountain 60 foot PS-1 boxcar. The kit was a mostly out-of-the-box build, but I swapped the plastic crossover platforms for Plano etched ones, and also added a Plano coupler cut lever. This part of the build had been finished for around a year now, but I picked up some replacement Tangent trucks a few weeks ago to finish the model. The trucks in the box were the weird three-piece equalized trucks with plastic wheelsets that normally come in Intermountain kits, so I swapped them for Tangent Barber S-2-A 70 ton trucks. These are the older version without spinning bearings. I had to file the bolsters a bit to get the car at the right height, but now it's looking much better compared to the shop trucks it was sitting on previously. In 2001, there was only a single car from this number series remaining; unfortunately it was not this road number. This was a factory-painted Intermountain kit so theoretically I could renumber it, but that seems like a lot of work. I have a bunch of other projects to finish up instead, so this will be a 'fleet' car to fill out my auto parts train. The details look good with the separately-applied ladders and the cut lever, so I won't get too 'rivet-countery' about the road number.  |
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 17, 2023 18:26:42 GMT -8
where did the RI load that much coal?
Honestly, I'm not sure. There was a five day a week coal train from Lafayette IL to Silvis IL that was distributed to a few different power plants in Iowa, but that wouldn't account for such a large fleet hoppers. |
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Post by Christian on Dec 18, 2023 2:30:17 GMT -8
where did the RI load that much coal?
Honestly, I'm not sure. There was a five day a week coal train from Lafayette IL to Silvis IL that was distributed to a few different power plants in Iowa, but that wouldn't account for such a large fleet hoppers. Illinois and to a lesser extent Missouri and Iowa were major coal producing states until after WWII. Shaft mining in the northern part of Illinois and strip mining in the south. As for these cars - 700 of them - they seem typical of RI management mistakes in the sixties and seventies trying to maintain business that had already gone away. The coal business left Illinois because the coal was high sulphur and better, cleaner coal now came from the west. Some railroads adapted. Chicago & Illinois Midland, for example. Some didn't. RI for example. |
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Post by mdq on Dec 18, 2023 6:36:10 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
Darn! Another rapido-not-working-out-of-the-box issue? |
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Post by timvanmersbergen on Dec 18, 2023 7:39:23 GMT -8
9339 has joined it's other two fellow 1200s on the OOS line.
My CB&Q SW1200 died in the middle of the Black Friday operating session while switching Savanna yard. It appears to be the motor on mine. Sent a message to Rapido about getting a new motor and received crickets in three weeks. I have obtained a Walthers Mainline SW7 with sound that actually looks pretty good by comparison not even considering being half the price of the Rapido. I am modifying it to be the new yard goat.
On a positive note, I was on the fence about the recently announced Illinois Central SW9 but that is no longer under consideration. Just going to keep using a geep for the Dubuque Yard job.
Tim VanMersbergen
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Post by surlyknuckle on Dec 18, 2023 9:29:25 GMT -8
Some good stuff this week!
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Dec 18, 2023 9:44:11 GMT -8
I have obtained a Walthers Mainline SW7 with sound that actually looks pretty good by comparison not even considering being half the price of the Rapido. Those WalthersMainline switchers are fantastic value for money. They run well and look fantastically good considering the price. The detailing is quite fine, though somewhat spartan and generic. But as a basis for further detailing that's perfectly OK. They seem to be reliable too. To my mind the only downside is the budget sound decoder, but that also can be replaced, and the stock decoder eBayed to recover costs. |
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Post by stevef45 on Dec 18, 2023 15:18:58 GMT -8
Power buttons crapped out on my newer spray booth. Figured it out by jiggling wires. Ordered new ones and once they arrived and I got one working i tried fixing my old which had similar issues. Low and behold it was just the switch the whole time. So I combined both and got new filters and tubing. Thing is amazing minus the two different lights which will be addressed after the new year.  20231216_183459 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr  20231216_170356 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr |
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Post by stevef45 on Dec 18, 2023 15:20:23 GMT -8
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Post by cemr5396 on Dec 19, 2023 9:53:29 GMT -8
I have obtained a Walthers Mainline SW7 with sound that actually looks pretty good by comparison not even considering being half the price of the Rapido. Those WalthersMainline switchers are fantastic value for money. They run well and look fantastically good considering the price. The detailing is quite fine, though somewhat spartan and generic. But as a basis for further detailing that's perfectly OK. They seem to be reliable too. To my mind the only downside is the budget sound decoder, but that also can be replaced, and the stock decoder eBayed to recover costs. at that point just get a DC one in the first place, instead of paying extra for a useless decoder. |
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