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Post by myoungwisc on Jun 9, 2024 12:40:26 GMT -8
Faced with way too many projects underway, I've committed to completing them in earnest in order to focus on a small shelf layout. Anyhow, one of the projects is an SP G-100-26 gondola that started life as a Walthers Soo Line model. After noticing the rib profile, I realized that I should have known the deal was too good to be true as I learned elsewhere on this forum, these gons are only representative of prototypes originally owned by ADN, RFP and the SP. Of the three options, I chose the SP version since the Soo/Milwaukee operated a couple of through trains with the SP and I'm generally fond of the SP lettering scheme. After a dip in 91% IPA, I removed the cast on garb irons, though retaining the NBWs. Those parts were replaced with .013 phosphor bronze wire. Next were the coupler boxes, which were removed and replaced with Moloco parts. The model also features A-Line stirrups, Plano and Tangent coupler cut bar parts, and fine scale 90-degree brass angle iron for the top chord. I elected to leave the cast-on ladders as-is. A Plano brake wheel platform will round out the details. The model was hit with Tamiya surface primer and then sprayed with its first of two coats of Tru-Color Deep Oxide Red and Weathered White. Modeling 1986/87, I wanted there to be a bit of fade worked into the paint pre-weathering. One more coat of paint, decals and weathering up next.  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Jun 9, 2024 14:34:51 GMT -8
Fine start, Martin.
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Post by simulatortrain on Jun 9, 2024 14:58:00 GMT -8
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Post by dti406 on Jun 9, 2024 15:50:23 GMT -8
Finished a couple of cars this week for a change! First, an Atlas USRA Rebuild Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red paint and lettered with a mixture of Smokebox Graphics and Champ Decals. The Ann Arbor received these 1940 Wabash rebuilds in 1953 and used them in general service until their transfer to the DT&I after the Wabash/NKP/N&W merger. _IMG_0630.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Next an Athearn PC&F 50' RBL kit, painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan Red paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was in canned goods service delivering California produce to the rest of the nation. _IMG_0631.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) A pair of Cotton Belt and SP SD45's with a general freight train, running on the Strongsville Club Layout.  Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by cpr4200 on Jun 9, 2024 17:53:26 GMT -8
Wow, that Decapod is amazing!!! But before you paint it, shouldn't there be something connecting the two firebox sides? Like the front of the firebox? ~ Walt
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Post by simulatortrain on Jun 9, 2024 20:25:46 GMT -8
Wow, that Decapod is amazing!!! But before you paint it, shouldn't there be something connecting the two firebox sides? Like the front of the firebox? ~ Walt Thanks! There is a (stock) piece that goes there, but it doesn't stay in a partially assembled state like this. I left the weight/motor/lower boiler assembly out for the photos, just because the running boards extend into that and it's a pain to get them back off. I'm with you, it's jarring without it! There's also a big frame mounted air tank right in front of the firebox which isn't in the pictures. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Jun 10, 2024 14:50:48 GMT -8
June 10, 2024
starting 6:36 p.m., EDT
In case anyone might be interested, I'm pretty sure that the small brick passenger depot in the foreground of the photo Rick Jesionowski posted is a replica of the former Rutland RR depot at New Haven Junction, VT, which was issued as a plastic kit years ago. I hope I still have one of those kits, which I intend to use on my small HO layout. The real one was too close to the tracks to be left on its original site when Amtrak and the State of Vermont were getting ready to extend route of the Ethan Allen Express north from Rutland to Burlington. The depot was moved about a mile farther east and as of May of this year was sitting next to the town's library and town offices, but it has not yet been restored. There have been no railroad tracks to its present site for many years.
starting 7:26 p.m., EDT
Correction, the station kit for the Rutland's New Haven Jct. brick passenger station was marketed not by Ertl, as I wrote earlier, but by Railway Design Associates and Rail Scale Models. Ertl had a kit for a somewhat similare DL&W station.
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Post by loco8107 on Jun 23, 2024 20:53:11 GMT -8
I know today was Father’s Day, but wow 2 weeks without a Sunday thread. How times have changed. Hope it was a happy one for all you dads out there.
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Post by platec on Jun 24, 2024 4:31:07 GMT -8
I know today was Father’s Day, but wow 2 weeks without a Sunday thread. How times have changed. Hope it was a happy one for all you dads out there. Father's Day was last week lol. |
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Post by loco8107 on Jun 24, 2024 5:31:02 GMT -8
I know today was Father’s Day, but wow 2 weeks without a Sunday thread. How times have changed. Hope it was a happy one for all you dads out there. Father's Day was last week lol. Yep- brain was tired last night! 😂 |
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