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Post by sd40dash2 on Sept 21, 2024 19:55:21 GMT -8
Newly-arrived 6405 has just received its usual tune-up and posed for the camera including obligatory underframe shot. Work here involved renumbering the Rapido RTR unit, painting missed spots behind pilots, replacing couplers, re-profiling wipers and uncoupling levers, weathering and re-attaching parts that had detached during shipping. This is the late-1980s version of 6405 that is still running today. Questions welcome.
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Post by cf7 on Sept 22, 2024 3:42:42 GMT -8
I finished my first Squaw Valley Central loco, an Atlas / Kato GP7. I did minimal detail since I'm modeling the 1950's. I removed the molded on grabs and lift rings and replaced them with Tichy and KV models parts. I also added a DW speed recorder and bent some brake cylinder lines using Tichy .012 wire. A Digitrax DH165KO decoder was installed along with a couple LED's. These old Kato drive locos are still my favorite. They might take a bit more work, but I love 'em! Occasionally I build a "for eBay" model. This is a PBL Sn3 D&RGW long reefer. I have built numerous PBL kits and they don't disappoint. I hope to finish this one this week. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 22, 2024 9:54:53 GMT -8
9/22/2024, starting close to 2 p.m., EDT
Happy Autumnal Equinox, everybody!
sd40dash2 and cf7, very nice modeling! Thanks for posting.
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 22, 2024 10:41:43 GMT -8
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Post by cf7 on Sept 22, 2024 10:58:16 GMT -8
Hi-nose on the Rio Grande? What!?
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Sept 22, 2024 15:57:01 GMT -8
Hi-nose on the Rio Grande? What!? |
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 22, 2024 16:02:09 GMT -8
It's a fun group, almost always good for a laugh, there was a GEVO of some kind in Sounder colors last week  |
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Post by hudsonyard on Sept 22, 2024 16:33:10 GMT -8
These old blue box CNJ hoppers have been bench anchors for a long time, i decided to at the very least dust them off and finish a simple weathering on the bodies, the underframes will get done when I get another order of wheelsets in  Some fleet cars passed through, I'd like to get around to weathering the WM hoppers like the one I posted last week.   And finally, from todays operating session on Dave Barazzas New York and Atlantic:  The crew of RS-50 has the 261 and two other GP-38-2s, including the newly arrived lease unit CIT 402 coupled to the first cut of their eastbound train in Freemont, the interchange tracks above Fresh Pond yard. When the crew returns from the pizza parlor on Metropolitan Avenue they will switch the markers off, turn on the headlight and ditch lights and double over onto the rest of their train, after an air test they will tiptoe down the connecting track from Freemont into Fresh Pond east yard. Then out via the east crossovers onto the LIRR Lower Montauk branch. The RS-50 will continue through Jamacia and onto Pineaire, NYAs east end yard where the train will be broken down into two different consists for the next days RS-60 and RS-70, the AM and PM east end locals. It may look like CP is looking to head back to Albany on the adjacent track, but it is 2:45 in the morning and the Canadian Pacific/D&H crew are asleep in a hotel nearby. The RS-301, the job that works all classification within Fresh Ponds derails has "borrowed" the laid over CP SD-40-2s to work tonight, a practice that happened quite often on the prototype. When the RS-50 departs, the 301 crew will get back to work classifying outbound cars for interchange to CSX, CP and NYNJ/NS. The following morning CSX will arrive from their Oak Point yard in the Bronx and the daytime RS-301 will begin breaking it down into yet another RS-50 and all the other departing jobs, the cycle repeats. |
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Post by cpr4200 on Sept 22, 2024 19:22:39 GMT -8
Did you paint and letter the WM hoppers? Looks awfully good to be a stock Bowser paint job.
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Post by hudsonyard on Sept 22, 2024 20:14:07 GMT -8
Did you paint and letter the WM hoppers? Looks awfully good to be a stock Bowser paint job. Factory bowser from last year with the 70T trucks swapped out for tangents, those old stewarts are a bit long in the tooth (those brakewheels are....well....circular) but for roughly 20 bucks a piece with a solid paintjob and graphics I can work around it. |
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Post by cpr4200 on Sept 23, 2024 5:30:30 GMT -8
^^^ That is a nice paint job. In the 70's most of the WM fishbellies had been stretched into 66-tonners (like simulatortrains's printed kit) but there were still a few short ones left. Will definitely try to get one or two.
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Post by amrec99 on Sept 23, 2024 6:51:42 GMT -8
On the Squaw Valley Central GP7, did you need to do “surgery “ on the shell interior to get the decoder to fit? Just curious
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Post by lvrr325 on Sept 23, 2024 10:46:03 GMT -8
I had one 20 years ago with one of the first decoders in it and all I recall was if it had those plastic tubes for the lighting, they'd been removed. It was a "get rid of this junk" from the hobby shop that I flipped on eBay at the time.
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Post by cf7 on Sept 23, 2024 10:53:41 GMT -8
On the Squaw Valley Central GP7, did you need to do “surgery “ on the shell interior to get the decoder to fit? Just curious No surgery required for the decoder. I did shorten the light bars and super glued the LED’s to it. I then used shrink tubing to cover the joint. |
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Post by marknycfan on Sept 23, 2024 13:10:59 GMT -8
On the Squaw Valley Central GP7, did you need to do “surgery “ on the shell interior to get the decoder to fit? Just curious No surgery required for the decoder. I did shorten the light bars and super glued the LED’s to it. I then used shrink tubing to cover the joint. They are very nice looking units |
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Post by cf7 on Sept 23, 2024 14:46:53 GMT -8
No surgery required for the decoder. I did shorten the light bars and super glued the LED’s to it. I then used shrink tubing to cover the joint. They are very nice looking units Thanks, Mark! |
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Post by simulatortrain on Sept 24, 2024 3:04:14 GMT -8
Did you paint and letter the WM hoppers? Looks awfully good to be a stock Bowser paint job. I think it's the exact same artwork as the run Elkins Car Shop did a few years back, WM class H-33, just with new numbers. After the 1900 car stretch program was over, WM kept rebuilding the remaining 55 ton cars just to remove the Duryea cushion underframes, resulting in these. I'm looking forward to Timonium in a few weeks to pick up 8 of the newest ECS custom run, some 3-bays. |
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Post by cpr4200 on Sept 24, 2024 5:58:08 GMT -8
First time I've heard of ECS. Darn. The decal set with extra numbers and stenciling looks interesting. Could use it to update my Trainman triples to add the WM.
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