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Post by cf7 on Sept 8, 2024 6:00:55 GMT -8
I got out a couple of my MR&T cars. On the boxcar I used A line stirrups and did a little paint modification using craft paint so I could use an ACI tag. The weathering really helps hide the pink tone of the white box! The reefer is stock except for weathering. Both have Kadee trucks.
This is a Walthers H10-44 that has an Atlas GP7 long hood (for EMD power!), Smokey Valley stanchions, etc. I'm probably going to remove the spark arrestors and replace them with normal EMD ones...
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Post by timvanmersbergen on Sept 8, 2024 9:17:01 GMT -8
Finished up another of the Brainerd 50' double door boxcars. This one I wanted a different look so I did most of the weathering before adding the restencils to give a bit of contrast and represent one that was recently re-weighed. The April 1969 Glendive date is just a few months before my summer 1969 layout era. Used airbrush, washes, dry brushing and some colored pencil on this one. It is being shoved down Jackson Street in Dubuque, IA for spotting at Spahn and Rose Lumber Co.  .  Trip to the hobby store this week found my car had arrived, the Oxford 1950 Nash Rambler. While a bit anachronistic for my 1969 era, I had to have one because my wife is the great-great granddaughter of Charles W. Nash the founder of the company for whom the car is named. She was pleased to see it added to the layout. Perhaps it is going to an auto show or was just one of those that was only driven to church by a little old lady, but whateve it is, it had stopped for gas and a cold Pepsi at the Ioco Oil gas station in East Dubuque, IL on this day.  Tim VanMersbergen |
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Post by riogrande on Sept 8, 2024 12:19:49 GMT -8
I"ve put together a Ford FAST this weekend.   |
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Post by cf7 on Sept 8, 2024 13:02:49 GMT -8
Looks great, Jim! Nice to see the progress on your layout.
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Post by riogrande on Sept 8, 2024 13:17:03 GMT -8
Looks great, Jim! Nice to see the progress on your layout. Nice to finally get some trains running. Next task is to get DCC set up so I can follow the trains. Trains running so far were DC loco's using a Star Tec Hogger power pack. The bottom photo has the s-curve I was worried the Tangent 86' Greenville's might not like. They run through it with no issues thankfully. |
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Post by rockfan on Sept 8, 2024 14:19:15 GMT -8
Rock Island had EMD hoods on repowered RS2 and RS3's. I'm sure other railroads had similar locomotives.
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Post by cpr4200 on Sept 8, 2024 15:06:38 GMT -8
I like your FM/EMD rebuild. FM hoods were so tall that there was plenty of room for the EMD engine. Two repowered FM roadswitchers I can think of were the Wabash Train Masters and Rock Island H15-44's. The only sign they were repowered was the two EMD exhaust stacks. I think KCS also repowered some H15's, along with their Erie builts.
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Post by SCL618 on Sept 8, 2024 15:38:56 GMT -8
I reworked an Atlas GSC 38' woodrack this week. The car was one of 15 purchased by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad from the D&H which itself purchased 60 examples from the C&O. This was a fun build using photographs and general arrangement measurements as my guide.  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Sept 9, 2024 4:07:23 GMT -8
Looks great, Jim! Nice to see the progress on your layout. Agreed... |
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 18, 2024 16:11:33 GMT -8
9/18/24, about 8:10 p.m., EDT
SCL618, great work on the SCL, ex-D&H, originally C&O pulpwood car. The D&H extended the height of the bulkheads. One of the very few Atlas O cars I still have includes the bulkhead extensions. Atlas's HO and N scale versions don't. I hope I can interest someone in producing a suitable part that would ease adding that feature to the D&H cars I have.
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