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Post by mlehman on Mar 27, 2016 7:17:04 GMT -8
Hope everyone's having a great holiday weekend, so am diving in to start SPF. This one's to celebrate the expansion of Rio Grande Motor Ways service in Silverton thanks to relocation of the freight house.  The big project this week was the new boarding house and co-op store in Eureka that serves miners working the Sunnyside. First, I needed a spur to service the new business.  Then the older, lower parts of a soon-to-be much expanded structure.  And I got this far at quitting time...  Looking forward to what others have been up to. |
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Post by tony45324 on Mar 27, 2016 7:46:11 GMT -8
A couple pics of a coal prep plant (Golden Oaks Mining). One of 4 loaders on my layout.   |
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Post by dti406 on Mar 27, 2016 7:54:36 GMT -8
Here is what I managed to finish this week!  Intermaountain Railway 40' PS1 Boxcar Kit with the 8' PS Door, Replaced the plastic sill steps with A-line Sill Steps, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals.  Atlas ACF 3560CF Covered Hopper Kit, removed the cast on Roofwalk, stiffening rib (ICG cars did not have it), and walkover platforms. Replaced the roofwalk with a Plano etched metal roofwalk and also the walkover platforms. Painted the car with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Daniel Kohlbergs ICG Decals. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by TBird1958 on Mar 27, 2016 8:14:27 GMT -8
Happy Easter guys! I have a couple more shots from a recent photo outing. Here's a car produced by the SP historical group, wish I had a few more of them.  As a '74 built car this Atlas 52' Evans car is still pretty clean. The model has some Plano cutbars and metal walkways added, it's painted with TCP and lettered with some Herald King decals.  I'm slowly getting on with scratch building some car sides to make a CB&Q 475XX series 50' double door boxcar. Here I have the Ambroid drawings taped down on a lightbox and the second side is in process. I'll make the underframe from Evergreen and Branchline parts.  |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Mar 27, 2016 8:50:32 GMT -8
Here is an oldie that I built 20+ years ago. It had cast resin sides, redone grills and intakes, added HTC trucks, etc. A few months ago, I started stripping parts from it to upgrade with Cannon fans; a redo on the horns to something other than the oversized brass ones currently on it; moving the "Florida" nose strobes back to the cab roof for western service; strip and repaint into phase II paint, Sargent couplers and DCC. Now of course all of the parts have been put in a box in preparation for moving, the persistent rumors of an Athearn release, and the fact that I just don't want/need an SDP40F probably spelled the kiss of death for this thing.  Jim |
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Post by BEDT26 on Mar 27, 2016 9:11:10 GMT -8
Here is an oldie that I built 20+ years ago. It had cast resin sides, redone grills and intakes, added HTC trucks, etc. A few months ago, I started stripping parts from it to upgrade with Cannon fans; a redo on the horns to something other than the oversized brass ones currently on it; moving the "Florida" nose strobes back to the cab roof for western service; strip and repaint into phase II paint, Sargent couplers and DCC. Now of course all of the parts have been put in a box in preparation for moving, the persistent rumors of an Athearn release, and the fact that I just don't want/need an SDP40F probably spelled the kiss of death for this thing. View AttachmentJim Jim that's a great looking model please don't get discouraged and finish it I am really hoping for Athearn Genesis SDP40F but as I said please try and finish your model because I assure you that at the end you will be glad you did. I personally enjoy my own built up models more than a RTR because you put so much work and effort into it and you feel the pride and joy of your work ! |
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Post by steveturner on Mar 27, 2016 9:40:05 GMT -8
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Post by antoniofp45 on Mar 27, 2016 10:54:23 GMT -8
Hi Jim, She's a beauty! I used to see #628 in service hauling, both, the Silver Meteor and Silver Star back around 1980. Somewhere in my collection I have photos of her. Respectfully, your version appears spot-on except for the horn. From what I remember, she had a mellow sounding Nathan P5a horn. I remember seeing photos of 628 (in the phase-2 paint scheme) on a western train in which there was some type of curved metal rod on the cab's roof. I assume that its purpose was for cutting overhanging ice at tunnel portals during the winter months. I certainly hope you keep and feature your unit in photos and/or vids hauling Amtrak varnish. Since you mentioned DCC....are you including sound? If so, which decoder are you going with?  Here is an oldie that I built 20+ years ago. It had cast resin sides, redone grills and intakes, added HTC trucks, etc. A few months ago, I started stripping parts from it to upgrade with Cannon fans; a redo on the horns to something other than the oversized brass ones currently on it; moving the "Florida" nose strobes back to the cab roof for western service; strip and repaint into phase II paint, Sargent couplers and DCC. Now of course all of the parts have been put in a box in preparation for moving, the persistent rumors of an Athearn release, and the fact that I just don't want/need an SDP40F probably spelled the kiss of death for this thing. View AttachmentJim |
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Mar 27, 2016 13:16:42 GMT -8
Here is an oldie that I built 20+ years ago. It had cast resin sides, redone grills and intakes, added HTC trucks, etc. A few months ago, I started stripping parts from it to upgrade with Cannon fans; a redo on the horns to something other than the oversized brass ones currently on it; moving the "Florida" nose strobes back to the cab roof for western service; strip and repaint into phase II paint, Sargent couplers and DCC. Now of course all of the parts have been put in a box in preparation for moving, the persistent rumors of an Athearn release, and the fact that I just don't want/need an SDP40F probably spelled the kiss of death for this thing. Jim Looks okay to me. My attempt with a Kaslo shell, Cannon fans, inertial air filter and a bunch of parts from Detail Associates and Details West.    |
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Post by icrr3067 on Mar 27, 2016 15:01:55 GMT -8
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Post by onequiknova on Mar 27, 2016 16:00:48 GMT -8
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Post by Tom on Mar 27, 2016 17:13:01 GMT -8
I took couple of shortcuts on this U28B, but at least it's on a milled Atlas chassis. -Tom Attachments:
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Post by Christian on Mar 28, 2016 4:00:58 GMT -8
I RCed this Athearn Ford box truck this week. That's nifty! How long does battery last? It looks like the gizzards will fit a much smaller truck - except for those flat pack batteries. Just thinking - imagine that truck fitted with road/rail wheels. Or another sort of rail maintenance vehicle that would fit the parts. It would allow modeling an interesting bit of operations. |
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Post by riogrande on Mar 28, 2016 4:07:31 GMT -8
Here's a car produced by the SP historical group, wish I had a few more of them. Mark, the SPT&HS flat car looks nicely weathered. It looks like they are still available from the SPT&HS too and they have added the 53' flat car kits to their store recently which the bulkheads are based on. The SDP40F's look very good and hopefully an announcement from Athearn on their own Genesis version is coming soon. It's an iconic diesel for me since I made two trips by myself behind SDP40F's on the San Francisco Zephyr between Osceola Iowa and Sacramento and on another trip between Sacramento and Denver. |
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Post by onequiknova on Mar 28, 2016 6:33:10 GMT -8
I RCed this Athearn Ford box truck this week. That's nifty! How long does battery last? It looks like the gizzards will fit a much smaller truck - except for those flat pack batteries. Just thinking - imagine that truck fitted with road/rail wheels. Or another sort of rail maintenance vehicle that would fit the parts. It would allow modeling an interesting bit of operations. The components are definitely small enough to fit in a smaller package.   The run time on the little VW is probably 20 minutes or so. I'm hoping for hours of run time for the big batteries. A working highrail would be sweet, and I have been collecting parts to try it someday. |
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Post by roadkill on Mar 28, 2016 7:43:05 GMT -8
That's nifty! How long does battery last? It looks like the gizzards will fit a much smaller truck - except for those flat pack batteries. Just thinking - imagine that truck fitted with road/rail wheels. Or another sort of rail maintenance vehicle that would fit the parts. It would allow modeling an interesting bit of operations. The components are definitely small enough to fit in a smaller package. View AttachmentView Attachment The run time on the little VW is probably 20 minutes or so. I'm hoping for hours of run time for the big batteries. A working highrail would be sweet, and I have been collecting parts to try it someday. That chassis would be perfect under a Brekina Dodge A100 van! Nice! Gonna have to get one and do that conversion  . |
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Post by onequiknova on Mar 28, 2016 8:10:47 GMT -8
The components are definitely small enough to fit in a smaller package. View AttachmentView Attachment The run time on the little VW is probably 20 minutes or so. I'm hoping for hours of run time for the big batteries. A working highrail would be sweet, and I have been collecting parts to try it someday. That chassis would be perfect under a Brekina Dodge A100 van! Nice! Gonna have to get one and do that conversion . I wish I would have used a better looking model. I picked up a Brekina VW bus to swap bodies, but it's too narrow. A Dodge A100 painted up in MOW paint would be cool. Who knows, could be my next project. |
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Post by roadkill on Mar 28, 2016 9:44:40 GMT -8
There's a couple of pics in the Penn Central In Color series that shows Dodge A100 pickup highrailers. Problem is the beds were empty on both so there'd be no way to hide the inerds  . |
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Post by roadkill on Mar 28, 2016 9:46:15 GMT -8
I took couple of shortcuts on this U28B, but at least it's on a milled Atlas chassis. -Tom Nice! I've got a couple PC U30b's in the works and I'm using the same Atlas U23B drives. Just a few licks with a file and the P2K shells fit like a glove. One thing I did to mine that you might consider is replacing the sideframes with Atlas C420 parts. You get nicer bearing detail and much nicer separate brake cylinders. |
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Post by roadkill on Mar 28, 2016 11:53:28 GMT -8
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Post by GP40P-2 on Mar 28, 2016 12:54:27 GMT -8
Thanks guys for the comments on the SDP40F. If I haven't lost the parts already, I'll probably rebuild it.
BEDT: It has survived this long, so there is a good chance that I'll rebuild it. I totally don't need and SDP40F now; originally it was to be a Santa Fe unit just prior to rebuild, thus the Phase 3 paint. Now I'll probably rebuild it and end up with a Reno Fun Train when/if Athearn releases a Phase one in Phase one paint. I wonder if there are pictures and consist listings of a 1978 - 1984 Reno Fun Train...
Terrier Jim: Your Kaslo looks great. I did this with kitbashed blue-box sides, made resin castings of them which are seen on this model, then modified the pot metal chassis and SD45 trucks to what you see. The Kaslo would have saved a lot of hassle. A potential Athearn will save even more. I suppose that it still is okay, but as you know we always look back at our older efforts, and as we know every item that is wrong, we find it too easy to label it as a piece of cr#%!!
Antonio FP45: The horns (which as we now know are over-size), are representative of the arrangement on one of the 64x units; not the 628. I'll correct the horns when I do the fans and straighten out the icicle breakers (victim of falling off the truck in a previous move!!). Speaking of icicle breakers, some pictures of 628 show an additional assembly in the center of the cab roof. I am guessing a removable or folding center piece. It seems from the pictures that I have reviewed, that the Phase 2 (flat nose) units went directly from Phase 1 paint to Phase 3 paint; the ph1 was probably too new to get ph2 paint. Phase 2 paint seems to always be on Phase 1 (pointed nose units). I don't do much sound, though my Rapido F40PH sounds good. There is certainly enough room for sound in here, maybe I will add it. I don't know what LokSound has separately, but I am not keen on downloading and programming my own sound!!
As I get older, I have gotten more impatient and it is harder to stay focused on the nit-picky details. I should see if Diesel Era did an SDP40F article and get going on rebuilding this. Or maybe I'll just grab the bike and head 50 miles out into the Mogollon Rim country.....(for fun)...
Jim in the AZ
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Post by GP40P-2 on Mar 28, 2016 13:04:37 GMT -8
For those who are interested, this is how we got the models we wanted way back in the bad old days of the early 1990s. Would I do it again? Why do I suspect probably not.....  If I come across the masters that I made the molds from, I'll take a picture of those as well. Jim |
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Post by bdhicks on Mar 28, 2016 17:04:34 GMT -8
There are plenty of interesting things that could be done with a Dodge A100: /photo/1
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Post by Tom on Mar 29, 2016 11:11:13 GMT -8
Nice! I've got a couple PC U30b's in the works and I'm using the same Atlas U23B drives. Just a few licks with a file and the P2K shells fit like a glove. One thing I did to mine that you might consider is replacing the sideframes with Atlas C420 parts. You get nicer bearing detail and much nicer separate brake cylinders. Thanks! This was done a while ago using the DW bearings in the bored out Atlas frames from the U23B on one side and the DA wheelslip sensors on the other. I actually sold this unit not too long ago and have been working on a phase I U30C for a friend of mine. For some reason, I really like the U28/30B shells. They've got no place in my personal modeling locale, but they look cool . An A100 that runs.. and doesn't rust easily, that would be awesome! There's this too: www.pbase.com/image/131767202 |
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Post by stevef45 on Mar 29, 2016 19:11:59 GMT -8
not much done to my sd33-eco build. added plumbing that carries teh sinclair antenna wiring.  |
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