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Post by sd40dash2 on Sept 5, 2021 5:21:15 GMT -8
Old photo of nice Accurail 7500 series triple hoppers from the days before I was adding uncoupling levers, air hoses and removing the Kadee trip pin on freight cars. I did add weight, coal loads, air lines, metal wheels, renumbered the cars and applied light weathering. These cars cost $13.50 each in 2007 at a now-closed local hobby shop and there were no shipping charges and no mask requirements. Life was so much easier and cheaper then.
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Post by tankcarsrule on Sept 5, 2021 6:42:23 GMT -8
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 5, 2021 9:47:04 GMT -8
Some fun with an old model, here's a Life Like P2K SD7 truck after being disassembled and removal of what looks like somebody's old PB & J from the gear train - Still some remnants on the bottom clip. I decided to re-motor the old unit with a Kato set up, this involved some grinding out of the under fame with a Dremel rotary file, cutting back the weights and countersinking the motor mounting holes so the screws flush fit with the bottom of the tank casting.  Here it's kind of set up but I'll need to go back and lengthen the truck lead wires and no lighting has been set yet.  |
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Post by drsvelte on Sept 5, 2021 10:34:56 GMT -8
Since Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine has been fired up, here’s a photo of a pair of customized Model Power Baldwin RF-16s. These were decorated for my fictional Susquehanna & Western in a paint scheme shamelessly purloined from Allen McClelland’s V&O. As an aside, the September 2021 RMC has a retrospective piece by Tony Cook on Model Power’s Sharks as well as their Alco FAs and EMD Es.  |
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Post by simulatortrain on Sept 5, 2021 11:01:52 GMT -8
Working on WM's scale in Hagerstown:   This week also brought a new house including for the first time ever a very good layout space!  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 5, 2021 11:16:08 GMT -8
Most excellent, Adam! Congratulations!
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Post by simulatortrain on Sept 5, 2021 20:16:51 GMT -8
Thanks!! Late addition, I got the decals on WM 180 tonight:  |
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Post by Funnelfan on Sept 6, 2021 0:42:57 GMT -8
1994 Amtrak Coast Starlight running on the River City Western.  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Sept 6, 2021 10:08:53 GMT -8
1994 Amtrak Coast Starlight running on the River City Western. Nice looking layout! |
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Post by valenciajim on Sept 6, 2021 13:13:18 GMT -8
Here is a model I built a couple of years ago based on a 1960's article by E.L. Moore. The box car is an Accurail model that I painted, decalled and weathered.  Here is another view of the structure.  |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Sept 6, 2021 17:12:13 GMT -8
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