Some Microtrains N scale heavyweight cars. The Southern Pacific green was somewhat lighter than standard Pullman green. Makes for interesting contrasts in a train.
Nice Russell ! BTW, I did your suggested fix for my MT heavyweights trucks. Works like a charm. Thanks Carl
That is kit bashed from a Kato bridge. I built it for an article I wrote for Kirk's mag four or five years ago. The fish would have a hard time swimming through the plexiglass that I used for water.
Quiet morning in the yard ahead of the approaching rain. I caught a pair of 40' boxcars setting under the Route 33 overpass while the yard job ran west out to the B&O interchange.
Breaking in my new Athearn Genesis GP7 on the layout at work. It didn't have quite enough tractive effort to run the track cleaning car so I had to MU an Atlas GP38 to give it a hand. The layout was built by the store owners son and most of the structures in this photo are scratch built. And just to show off, I recently bought an A-B-A set of athearn genesis F units. Lead unit is a modernized F7A, middle is an F3B (upgraded to F9 specs) and in the rear is another F7A. I saw these arrive in the store and snapped them up really quickly. And just a close up of the nose detail. Have a great week everyone!
I've seen photos and videos of ATSF F units, which have the altered exhaust stacks as seen here. What was the reason they did this? Is there a spark arrestor inside? Or?
I'm not entirely sure of the reasoning behind the stacks. I'd assume they're there to either be spark arresters or mufflers.
They are spark arrestors. They were to prevent the small sparks from setting fire to the right of way.
