Thanks guys. Only the middle light on the roof is lit using the stock red light pipe from Kato. The LED is under the floor and the lite guide snakes up through a black plastic shield to the rear light. The drum head is not lit or are the two side markers. I have used micro LEDs before to light everything up but not in this case.
Finished up my small run of old time passenger cars for my early steam era modeling. Cars are lettered for the Portland And Seattle which was the first name of the SP&S before the road was fully completed. Early passenger service was made up of a hodge podge of cars acquired from some of the small lines that became part of the SP&S plus some borrowed cars and motive power until the delivery of the first new cars. Most of these cars went into secondary service and then into M of W service.
John , I really like the old cars and the looks of the truss rod cars. Now if I could just get into steam engines!!! Mike
There are some nice 4-4-0s, 2-6-0s, 4-6-0s, and 2-8-0s these would look good behind along with some truss rod, boxes, gons, flats, and stockcars. I now finally have the ability to change my era on a nightly basis just with the equipment I put in staging. And if you model any M of W at all then a few fit right in there up until about 1960 or so.
In the hodge podge of different roofs and window arrangements the K&N, CRN, and ACR with it's collection of different cars is in there. Just everything but the RPOs got a paint and re-lettering. Maybe at some point I will find a few baggage and throw in some Wells Fargo cars. But that is for another time. Now have my attention turned to what will be the last BN cars I will do, a mixture of passenger and business cars. And yes BN did have at least one RPO in the green and white.
While waiting for paint and decals to dry on the BN cars I started on my $2.50 project to create a boom car for my pile driver. All my boom cars have assignments and the flat I was using was inadequate for length. So my remaining Bmann 65 foot combine has gone under the knife. Left 21 feet of baggage end and cut off the window area right above the side sill. Also carefully cut and saved the end for reuse for the inside end of the rear tool house. Thin weight will replace the stock weight and be covered by a wood deck. MT body mount couplers with original truck re-used and a coat of Oxide Red with a BN lettering will complete this.
Finished Milwaukee Road caboose 991916 circa 1976. Used the body shell from the new Fox Valley oil stove version with the end railings and wooden roofwalk from the older version. Stripped it down, added new railings from .006 and .008 wire, rebuilt the end railings with wire, and then painted and decaled. Please excuse the lobster claws on the ends. I truly hope that by next year N Scale finally has a scale coupler and I didn't want to modify the existing pocket for a Z Scale one. And yes I know I need a new camera. Bob
I've also been on a weathering kick lately. CB&Q 17475 is a Deluxe Innovations car with BLMA trucks and body mounted couplers; Rock Island 26685 is also from Deluxe with the same mods; C&NW 154102 is an Atlas car; Milw Road 98283 is from BLMA; Bob
Some more progress on the boom tender. Scribed styrene for inside well walls and floor and filled in the clerestory roof section at the inside end again with thin styrene sanded to shape. First coat of Oxide Red. Other than minimal decals will probably be finished tonight.
Clearing out the workbench at last. Finally made up my mind what to do with the RSC so it became a Turtle Creek unit. And that is B&M blue on it. Finished converting the old Bmann combine into a boom car for the pile driver. Added three new wide vision cabooses to the roster, one each of BN, GN, and SP&S. Finished the snow dozer and redid my smooth side obs. into a BN business car plus converted the last passenger cars I will do to BN paint. The silver one is a former Burlington with a BN patch job.
John, what car did you use as the start of Canadian River? Think that's the car, the business car observation.
Well this one just came off it .... more of them to convert ..... new 3d printed chassis and kato inside bearing trucks and this is technically on the desktop as a file still .... ( more to go both sides are done and the end caps working on the roof ) Metrolink Hyundai coach ( just assembled 2 sides to see if all aligns... when done it will be one piece shell that can use the same above chassis ) forgot about that one got the decals ready for it already ( amtrak #42 )
A long time back I took an old Concor car and had converted it to a NP business car. Didn't like the outcome much on the rear platform so when I was redoing some of the cars lately the rear was reworked and turned it into the Canadian River an earlier version before it received the onboard generators.
