Well, I managed to finish a couple of cars including the 40' Southern Brick Boxcar. First is the Resin Kit for a 40' Southern Brick Boxcar, the Southern Railway saw the need for a boxcar that they could load two layers of brick on rather than only one on a flatcar, it would also keep the bricks out of the weather. These cars had cushioned underframes and DF loaders so the bricks would not be damaged. They built several hundered cars for both the Southern Railway and the Central of Georgia. Cars also had strengthened underframes and better springing to haul heavy loads of brick along with 16' plug doors for easier forklift loading. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red with some Roof Brown added to get the brownish finish that the Southern cars had, then decaled with Mask Island Decals. I also finished an Atlas 23,500 gal standard tank car painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Nelson Brothers was a producer of emulsified blasting products that were used in coal mining and quarries. So the painting of these cars red would warn the railroaders of the nature of the product carried by these tank cars. Their factories were located in Kentucky and Alabama and served most states east of the Mississippi. Here are my new Athearn RTR SD38's with the Malinta turn which delivered XLI and RBL boxcars to the Campbell's Soup Plant in Napoleon, OH via the Tecumseh Branch which was the old main line before the Malinta cutoff was built in the 1920's while Henry Ford controlled the railroad. This is on the Strongsville Club layout. Rick Jesionowski
Officially off the workbench as of this afternoon... Off to my dad's layout tomorrow (his birthday gift) to join the other Joe I built him a few years back. Cheers! -Mike
A rarity. Two Baldwin AS16 locomotives (Bowser) mu'ed leading 2-bay covered hoppers over the bridge approaching Leiperville Union Station.
Wow! Your Dad is a lucky man, sir. Nice pair of Baldwins!* Great detail and sharp colors. * not talking about the actors...
It is a lazy Saturday in Chessie-land. The Commuter train is as always heavily delayed.......... ... the ice cream is melting, the two taxis are waiting for customers, ........even the two monks hide in the shadow..... .... only the omnipresent coal trains pass through, crashing the silence ..... Enjoy your WE! Best, Sven & Dirk
Some new ST AC4400CW locos on the tail end of their break-in cycle. As always, details and performance are superb. -
I vaguely remember that... it was sometime before Apollo 8 and Expo 67. Cool photo... I make myself a big mug full of Joe every morning. A good thing those locos never left for the drab old USSR. We would never have seen them in those gorgeous MILW colors!
This is excellent! Don't know much about these but always thought they were and interesting looking locomotive. Good Job! Hmmm, wonder how it would look in a Batman paint scheme, Two Face maybe?
