Last weekend, my mainline was part of our oNetrak layout. We were standing at an N-scale exhibition in an old medieval church in the east of our country. http://youtu.be/unJCXmV_vQA
hmm 2 brand new unopened N scale sets...........and a pile of whats left of my HO scale stuff I couldnt sell......HO stuff broken into little itty bitty pieces lol
Texas & New Orleans train # 304, The Boarder Limited, on its last leg from McAllen to Houston. Here it is crosses the Brazos River in Richmond after coming off the Victoria subdivision at Tower 17 in Rosenberg and switching onto the Sunset Route mainline. The Victoria Sub was known as the "Macaroni Line" and is now owned by KCS.
I recently took this picture of a locomotive that I purchased and remarked for the Oregon Western Lines. It was pulling a MOW train over the a bridge on one of my layout modules. The second picture shows some of the MOW cars it was pulling.
Nice one, Rett. Looks like there's lots of lease/purchase motive power talk on the board recently. Here's some shortline action on my main line: Did I say SHORTline?
I saw a UP consist at Broadview today, UP 8038 was leading, it's not common to see UP power as leaders on the Prairie Sub, but I got to see on today! On a side note, I really have to get a better camera!
Well; I needed some more six axle power for the BN (well; I call it BN, I almost don't admit the BN exists and the GN and NP are still alive and well in 1973, but that's another story...LOL) so I detailed a former swap meet find - this little CBQ SD 40 and she's pulling duty with a pair of GN SD 45's on the twice weekly heavy haul into Puddington Valley. I added the correct horns, nose and high lights, MU's, bulder plates, the normal stuff and got her moderately dirty like a good locomotive should be..... She's earning a good living with her brethren and enjoying the beautiful BC weather
The M&StL yardmaster at Cedar Lake when a little crazy when she dispatched ten locomotives for the southbound freight.
Mainline action (section of previous layout) How about what's on your branch line? Again, from a previous layout.
It was a very productive week for the Puddington Valley backshops; we went from the "penthouse" to the "outhouse" with additions.... The "penthouse".... "Glengarry" is a ten compartment Canadian Pacific Sleepers. It was built using a Riverrosi coach. On the compartment side I removed the window stantions and filed them flat. The prototype had slightly smaller re-fit windows and as such the last window on the far right side for the washroom was a larger two pane version but I'll live with that slight deviation. On the passage side I filled one side of the double windows to create the smaller passage side windows. The frame was modified with correct batery boxes and the like and the a/c vents were added to the compartment side roof. The "Glen" series of ten compartment sleepers were a "must" for my CPR Dominion consist and now I have but to make an "R" series HW 8-1-2 with the re-fit windows and I will have completed a 15 car consist for that historic train... The "outhouse"..... The mtce super of the Division was complaining he needed a new tool car... he really should have been specific about what constitutes "new"... This is a Geoff Gooderham resin model kit of a CPR 36' Dominion boxcar. I built the kit and used dry brush hand paint techniques to try and achive a weathered look to the wooden sides. The car is a neat addition to the local MOW fleet; even if the local super is a wee bit miffed with me (LOL) All in all, a good train week...........
I haven't built my 'real' layout yet... but share a double oval with my son Today decided to pull out a some of the rolling stock I've accumulated so far and run a train around... well.. as you can see it got out of hand... a complete circle around (coupled end to end) with 11 boxcars, 7 center beam flats, 2 flatcars (carrying Annie & Claribel), 1 tanker, 1 hopper, a CSX mp15dc, and a unidentified diesel chassis (was a eBay impulse buy... lol)
For as much as this is my mainline (maybe 12 inches of track on some wood with PlayDoh for temporary scenery), here's some switching action:
