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Post by sd40dash2 on Dec 23, 2023 22:00:21 GMT -8
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 24, 2023 0:15:16 GMT -8
work has been a death march up until the final week of the year but i managed to finish this RDG hopper   got a week ahead of time off, look forward to cranking out more fleet cars and getting some new staging installed on a friends layout. |
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Post by tom on Dec 24, 2023 6:28:38 GMT -8
Here is my Penn Central SD45. Model started as a undecorated Scale Trains SD45 (PRR version).  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 24, 2023 10:08:53 GMT -8
Here is my Penn Central SD45. Model started as a undecorated Scale Trains SD45 (PRR version). Nice model, how difficult was it to put together? I have a SD40-T2 that has me flumuxed.  |
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Post by valenciajim2 on Dec 24, 2023 10:10:17 GMT -8
First of all-Merry Christmas to everyone. It was 67 years ago this evening that I got my first Lionel train set. I was trying to find a picture of a three-year-old me playing with that set, but I could not find the album in which it is posted. Speaking of Toy-like trains, yesterday I built these two box cars:  The car on the right is an Accurail box car which went together easily as do most Accurail kits. The car on the left is a Scale Trains kit. I had never built a Scale Trains kit before. There are features of this kit that are great. The bottom detail is more robust than that of Accurail, the coupler pockets are different, but I had no problems installing Kadee #5 couplers. The two tricky parts were installing the roofwalk, which has brackets on the end that made installation tricky. I also thought the door installation was funky. Both boxcars look good and run well on the layout after adding a half ounce of weight to each to bring them up to NMRA standards. I am sorry that the picture is so small, but I cropped the original picture and that must have reduced the size. I have a busy day ahead of me, so I do not have time to mess with the dimensions of the image. |
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Post by stevef45 on Dec 24, 2023 10:27:36 GMT -8
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 24, 2023 11:24:56 GMT -8
A couple of Kato SD45s that I have reworked the handrails on....  Correct sideframes really help the UP one.  Upgrading an Athearn SD39......Way too involved!  |
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Post by tom on Dec 24, 2023 12:36:01 GMT -8
[/quote]Nice model, how difficult was it to put together? I have a SD40-T2 that has me flumuxed. [/quote] I guess you have been flumuxed for a while now as you asked the same question when I posted photos of my first Scale Trains SD45! atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/9619/photos-scale-trains-pc-sd45It is a challenge but the second one went a lot easier than the first! See comments on the first post. I reread that one before I finished the second one. |
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Post by danpik on Dec 25, 2023 9:38:10 GMT -8
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 26, 2023 6:53:00 GMT -8
Nice model, how difficult was it to put together? I have a SD40-T2 that has me flumuxed. [/quote] I guess you have been flumuxed for a while now as you asked the same question when I posted photos of my first Scale Trains SD45! atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/9619/photos-scale-trains-pc-sd45It is a challenge but the second one went a lot easier than the first! See comments on the first post. I reread that one before I finished the second one.[/quote] Yes I have.... gave up and set it aside back in those days. Plenty of other projects I can, usually, accomplish.. Had an unopened one I sold, as well. Get the TO DO pile down some might revisit it, and probably grumble about the lack of plans, again. Besides, I just like to say flummuxed..even if I can't spell it.  |
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Post by packer on Dec 26, 2023 7:39:55 GMT -8
A couple of Kato SD45s that I have reworked the handrails on.... Correct sideframes really help the UP one. Upgrading an Athearn SD39......Way too involved! How’d you do the end bits of the handrails where they go into the cab? Little late to the party, but here’s my submission: Finally found one of these Intermountain reefers in BNFE. Unfortunately Intermountain’s yellow is almost orange and whomever had it before me lost the box. So I ended up replacing the stirrups with some Yarmouth model works ones. Painted with a rustoleum orange along with the draft gear. Soon to be weathered.  Picked up an Athearn SW1500. Nice of them to add the all weather window, but they added it in the wrong orientation. Luckily it was loose out of the box. So plugged the holes for it, cut off the tabs, and glued it in the correct orientation. Also Athearn graciously provided the later style cut levers, but then glued the older style one in really well (came off in pieces)  With the aforementioned reefer, I grabbed another one of these southern boxcars. No door change this time. Don’t know why soo many photos/videos of BN trains I’ve found had a southern boxcar in the first few cars. I’ve since weathered it but am waiting on the weather to not suck to seal it.  And my Christmas present to myself was a Rapido mystery box. I’m wondering if the NP tanker would have made it to 78 like that in company service, and it that reefer would have lasted that long. U-boat could be an odd run through?  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 26, 2023 10:34:21 GMT -8
Foe the Kato cabs I used some Evergreen rod, either .060 or .080, I've forgotten which.
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Dec 26, 2023 19:28:55 GMT -8
A couple of Kato SD45s that I have reworked the handrails on.... Correct sideframes really help the UP one. Upgrading an Athearn SD39......Way too involved! Are those KV stanchions or Smoky Valley? |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 26, 2023 20:21:48 GMT -8
Are those KV stanchions or Smoky Valley? They are Athearn sets actually. |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Dec 27, 2023 7:17:02 GMT -8
Are those KV stanchions or Smoky Valley? They are Athearn sets actually. Wow so they are not metal? |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 27, 2023 8:41:36 GMT -8
They are Athearn sets actually. Wow so they are not metal? All plastic! I have several more to do, I'll take some in process shots. |
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 27, 2023 9:22:54 GMT -8
Wow so they are not metal? All plastic! I have several more to do, I'll take some in process shots. Impressive how good they can look when the stanchions actually stand straight up. |
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Post by stevef45 on Dec 27, 2023 10:43:35 GMT -8
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Post by surlyknuckle on Dec 29, 2023 6:33:30 GMT -8
More great stuff this week. Love all the motive power. Those Transit Geeps are wicked!
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Post by jonklein611 on Dec 31, 2023 12:33:56 GMT -8
Moving to correct SPF...
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