Dang, where did January go? This is a 4-4-2 Atlantic that I kit bashed from bits and pieces 20 years ago. Mostly Atlas Rivarossi Pacific parts. I milled a new frame out of brass and came up with a new motor from somewhere. The tender is from a Kato Mikado.
Good morning from cold and snowy Northeast Ohio! Slid into work this morning after the bone chilling cold the last two days. I worked on some more kits this last week, still have not got my painting area set up yet, and I was not going out to the garage and paint in this weather! A pair of covered hoppers that I completed, will attach the roofwalk to the larger one after it is painted and decaled as I want to leave it in its galvanized state. These will both be for the same railroad, but vastly different paint schemes. Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar Kit. Exactrail 4427CF PS Covered Hopper kit, have the weights installed, bulkheads, frames, and slack adjusters installed. Another shot of my SD45's with a mixed covered hopper train of PC, PRR and NYC cars. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Going through some files I came across this one from my previous layout. I don't think I have ever presented it here on the weekend photo fun but apologize if I have. Passenger service on the Northwestern Pacific in the era of my layout was provided by an RDC-1, Southern Pacific # 10. Here passengers are awaiting it's arrival at the fictitious town of Nona Creek (named after my wife). Have a great weekend everyone
This week's thread is definitely off to a roaring start! Fourth town in the series of "nighttime" downtown shots from the Gulf & Pacific Railroad.....Hannah Vista with Union Station in the background.
It's been a week of -30 weather here, so i worked from home all week. In between, I planted some trees, made some roads, did some weathering, and general clean up
When the BN and ATSF announced their merger, me and my friend Brian came up with this loco scheme for the BNSF locos. He took this picture of and sent it off to BNSF. It kind of a loud paint scheme but I like it.
I actually think this would have looked better than what they have now! Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Just got around to replying to this post now. Have to say atlantics are my favorite passenger power. Very nice model.
Yeah, there it is- the quintessential early 70's muscle car. A 'cuda with the rear end jacked waaaay up to handle a set of wide hides. Gotta love it.
I went to work on the D&RGW SD40T-2 5360 today. First was the dis-assembly of the locomotive, yea I'm crazy, I do this for every new Loco I get. Then the frame went out to the lathe, got chucked up and the aft cast frame weight were drilled out with a 1/2 drill bit. This is necessary for operating room for the drive lines, more on this later. After some time in the mill, we see the frame clearanc'd to accommodate the rear truck now running backwards. So, now to the rear truck we go, here is an image of the rivets that hold the truck haves together with one side ground off with a cut-off wheel. I then essentially swapped one side for the other to off-set the #5 axle , so that the wheels would be in the right place to run backwards, this is necessary to not only turn the plates around, but to also have a clean surface to solder the inside frames back together. The plastic had to be cut or ground to provide running room for the shift in axle location, the plastic locator lug has to be cut off too. Here is a simple wooden jig I made using 18 penny nails to hold these truck halves together while soldering them. I was lucky in-that not only did it hold stuff in the right places, but also provided a heat sink to keep the plastic from getting destroyed upon soldering, there was a lot of heat to solder this all back together. Here is the Details West #362 traction motor details for HT-C trucks. This would not really be necessary, but remember we just turned the rear truck around, and the traction motor cast on details had to be cut off this truck to be correct, I just added this detail as it was convinient to do at this time. And here installed on the rear and front truck. And here is the chassis, with the trucks in place as well as the PTC (Positive Traction Control) and speed recorder generators installed. I dont want to add the cables till the trucks and frame are painted with Scalecoat black. Anyway, still a long ways to go, and this was a ready to run model. Thanks for looking
Wow, my kind of "modeling" where you get to slice and dice things and then put them back together differently.
Thanks. I had it apart last night to change out the old incandescent grain of wheat light bulb for an LED and add a DCC decoder. Here is a closeup of the mechanism.