Now wait a minute, I remember a promo photo years ago that showed a steam locomotive with a tree as an ornament....
My wife is Italian, beautiful olive skin. Her foundation makeup is a darker tan....and a lot lighter than Southern Pacific Boxcar Red..... Looks like a good fade to me.... How long do you think that I will live once she figures it out?
Excellent development of the scene, though I'm disappointed the cooler isn't dispensing Moxie, not that other.......beverage.
A couple of Union Pacific GP's gingerly pass the Sarah's Valley depot after finishing switching the industrial district there. John
Hi Candy, That is some outstanding modeling the scene and figures are placed to make it a realistic scene. Thanks for posting pictures of your efforts
I have been looking at this Loco in a wall display cabinet of mine for a few months. It is a RPP shell and frame, that I built a few years ago. Used a Cannon cab and nose with a set of Smokey Valley truck side frames and hand bent the handrails to build the model... The brake cylinder piping was added with Scalecoat paint and Micro-scale decals, along with many detail parts. I have always enjoyed the looks of an SD45, and at 3600 hp they were high horse per powered axle at he time, and could pull as well as accelerate with the best. I have been on many of these SD45's and they were fine locomotives, if maintained and taken care of. On these type of trucks, they were Hyatt roller bearing truck Journal boxes. These journal boxes got checked and filled with journal box oil at every fueling point. Believe it or not, there was no actual mechanical seal between the journal box and axle. The fit was tight enough that the oil bath bearings withstood the elements. This also explains why there is a wet oily look at he bottom of the journal boxes. SD50 and later EMD's have Timken locomotive journal box axles with a mechanical seal, you can theoretically run them in liquid environs without issues. Anyways, as you know I try to model some of the particulars of a prototype unit. If you look at pictures of this prototype, the engineers side rear truck #6 axle, has a top mounted brake cylinder. All other truck mounted brake cylinders were low mounted. I wonder why? The hand brake is on the Firemans side (FS) nose. I will tell you as a machinist that the low mounted cylinders and slack adjusters were a real PIA. You would change brake shoes rather than try to adjust the brake rigging slack lol. Anyway I always enjoyed hearing that 20-645 EMD too. Man what power in the day, and it was smooth power when you called for it, not a few minutes after you needed it. Always liked the name on this BN unit too "HUSTLE MUSCLE" now thats kinda cool. Kudos to BN for carrying the GN lettering FWD. As usual after I built this model, Athearn came out with the RTR model... Drives me nuts.. Thanks for stopping by
I too spent a lot of time on the SD45. The handbrake was always an issue on the underslung brake cylinders because in order for the hand brake to actually work the QRB cylinder release valve also had to work. If the pressure in the brake cylinder did not release it would APPEAR that the hand brake was set but in reality it was not. If the engine was shut down and the pressure in the brake cylinder leaked off the engine would roll away. Wisconsin Central had a 106 of the big 20 cylinder engines , they will always be special to me ! I can tell you are familiar with the engine as I can tell where the batteries are ! Nice job ! Randy Stahl
Had that happen to me a few times too. Once I bought a undec MDC Roundhouse box car kit. I painted and decalled it in McCloud River Railroad Brown & White. Decals were barely dry when MDC Roundhousw put it out in McCloud River Railroad brown & white paint. Had some locomotives and cabeese get made in a road I custom painted. The EMD SD45 was a real powerhouse in it's day and a good looking locomotive.
I got a notice the other day that the Hanover Sub had money sitting in rainy day fund (PayPal account), so of course we couldn't let it sit there. The railroad made a purchase of a MT SW1500 in Conrail colors. After taking it into the shop and discovering major electrical issues (faulty board from Digitrax) we switched suppliers (got a TCS board) and the engine fired right up ! This unit will be patched somewhere into the 1069-1099 range. #9594 in real life actually went to NS in the split, along with #9590, the other number that MT produced. 20151226_160955 by Adam Henry, on Flickr
Here is a car I built using the Moloco GATC RBL Kit, right after I painted it and was going to start decaling it he announced a RTR version of the car, I still think mine is better as some of the important information lettering was left off the RTR version. The brake rigging detail including air lines and brake rodding and guides, was a real eye opener with doing other cars. Rick Jesionowski
