Getting feet wet in HO; just ordered a Bachman S2 ( DCC & sound ) and an Atlas code 83 track starter set........
I'll add photos at some point, but I've been adding to my SP&S fleet. Sunset Z8 Challenger #910, BLI E7 #750 (the only SP&S E unit), BLI SW9 #43 and #44, NBL business car #99 and car #279, Great Brass Fleet (?) Mount Adams 8 section Buffet-lounge-sunroom, Precision Scale RPO/Baggage car #44 and lastly, BLI 4449 hybrid and what few prewar Daylight Cars they've released.
Picked up three F7A units. Two Canadian National (no idea why), one SF blue freight. All HiF drives, got two done, bands, painted sideframes and tanks, rewired and tested (right rail positive, forward...). Might be picking up some more...who knows. Now I need to find a SF blue B unit shell to round out this A unit. Dave
Just getting back into HO. I'm "getting for Xmas" a pair of bloody nose SP GP9Es and c50-9 bay window all from Athearn Genesis. And LOKsound decoders to go with them.
Another obscure/unique loco that caught my eye. 10pts if you can guess what it is. No layout as of yet so no idea if and how it runs... (Hint: only one of it's class, but was converted to the previous type)
This is the little known "QJ-2" #0001 with experimental coal gasifcation tender. The loco itself was basically a slightly modified QJ so after the experiment failed they removed the gas duct from the cab and added a normal tender. It was sold as QJ 7291. Fun fact, we have 3 in the US.
This weekend I picked up an Atlas Master series GP38 w/factory DCC in Penn Central, a Walthers Trinity Cement hopper in NS and some vehicle kits from Athearn & Lonestar models.
Pictures and a video of my new Bowser C-430's with a Flexivan Train at the Strongsville, OH Club Layout! This is the video! Rick J
Got this off eBay from a fellow model railroader of mine up in Tulsa, who models the northeastern US. It's a model of one of the Northeast Oklahoma RR's cabooses relettered for Frisco after their 1968 takeover. The real NEO cabooses were built in that road's Miami, OK shops in 1950. This is going to be mated to either one of my GP7s or an S2 I'm painting in Frisco colors.
Picked up a couple of cement hopper and weathered them up a little. ( needed to, to clean for photos)
So I got this. My layout can now have plants that I can't even grow legally in real life. It isn't as bizarre as some of the stuff that Viessmann and Noch have brought to market however. Once you see some of their select "products" you can't unsee them.
Last week I bought a barely used lightly weathered Intermountain ES44AC and 4 exactrail box cars for $180 total. Barely any run time on them. No pics yet
