Although they're looking more than a little dusty, the first batch of '55 Fords is otherwise ready for their Michigan State Police decals. Hope I find time to make them this weekend.
Such a wonderful scene and I love the wig-wag signals a bunch. Did you make these or are they offered by a manufacturer? Thanks.
Managed to get some work done and continued on with other projects. An old MDC Railbox style Gon I picked up in a grabbag of car kits, I removed the cast on grabs and replaced them with wire grabs. Painted the car with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Herald King Decals (the only ones that sort of fit that car). Prototype was built in 1980 for general service, I stuck in a Duha Rusted Pipe load to finish it off. Second ACY Boxcar I have done, cut down a 7' Plug to 6' to match the prototype and pulled a 9' YSD out of the scrap box to finish off the car. Painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and Black Paints, then lettered with Greg Komar Decals. Different from the other car I did, I left it in the 1964 as delivered state with full height ladders and a roof walk. Cars were used in transporting tires to assembly plants and lumber to various locations. Work in progress is the Canadian Grain Hopper where I am installng the roofwalk supports (a real PITA). Also working on a Branchline Berwik Boxcar Kit, still have to install the Hennessy Door Opener and a plate to place the placard. Thanks for looking! Now on to the good stuff! Rick Jesionowski
Thank you, so very much!! The wig-wags are from Showcase Miniatures. I agree - they are awesome. And where fun to build. Wolf
A Union Pacific GP38-2 pushes a short string of covered hoppers into the spur at the Halliburton Barite facility in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The crew is carefully spotting the first car directly under the loader. After each car has been loaded with processed Barite, the crew at the plant advances the string of hoppers to the next empty one in line using an electric winch located near the end of the spur.
I am getting closer to finish up the Pacific Electric 1124 (I chose that number since they all were all together on the decal sheet). I still need paint and install the lights and get/paint/install the poles. I put a Los Angeles letter board and destination sign on one end and a Long Beach letter board and destination sign on the other end. Yes, I know that the 1100’s never ran to Long Beach, but see Rule #1 of model railroading….
Haven't posted for a while...been working on a few things, thought I would post this shot of an Irv Athearn train. the caboose is the Athearn Wide Vision painted by Bev-Bel.
