In the 50s, Imperial Sugar Company started using a fleet of old worn out SSW Blue Streak box cars to ship raw sugar from the Port of Galveston to their refinery in Sugar Land. The Missouri Pacific used some of their Ten Wheelers to haul them.
Good morning from partly cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio! I did not post last week what with visitors and trying to schedule my wife a trip to California to help out with the one year old grandchild who got pneumonia, so I am left batching it this week. Now I have completed the car for the Club gift exchange and here it is a 60' Atlas ACF boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Silver Paints then lettered with Oddballs Decals. The MP had a couple of hundred of these cars in auto parts service for GM and Chrysler Plants. I am posting one of my favorite pictures taken at the Strongsville Model Railroad Club. A pair of Athearn GP40-2's with an auto parts train consisting of Coil Flats, 60' and 86' Auto Parts cars, a livelyhood of the DT&I railroad. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Eastern End of the Southeastern section of the 'Livingroom Layout'. On top the Shinkasen line curves around toward the Eastern Terminal. Below there I will be putting a multi-scenic section where I can swap out the various scenes. Scenes will include: * Tall broad topped messa with my fantasy home, (comprised of cardstock shipping containers. I'll be able to watch freight and Shinkansen from the room. * Smalll village with passenger station. * Very tall imposing mountain. Bottom you can see the 'Grey and Grandure' curving into / out of the 'Wescott Yard'. The Power supplies will likely be on wheeled cars. On the left 1/2 way down you can see the turout leading to the Grandure Valley and 'Wescott Yard' interchange. The mainline will mostly haul mixed freight as I find that the most interesting.
Just Plug lighting mock up, for the Walters Modern Gas Station. It should be really cool in the end? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
@in2tech: that nice little two-story house in your photo gave me a flashback to 46 years ago, when I was a young lad with my trains: Thought it would be nice to share with you all a little Christmas moment from 1975. That's my second layout, a more compact one than the first but with a lot more action in it. That one gave me uncounted hours of enjoyment (hence the dreamy expression on my face). And apparently, from the number of photos my Dad took when I was out at school, I wasn't the only one enjoying it...
That's really cool. I am a flight simulation person too, love the airport! And of course the Sam Houston Zephyr. I have the CB&Q Zephyr, are there several of these?
Something whimsical and revealing: Oooops That's better. Message to my wife was a 'Trial Fit' as part of my 'Special Days Train' Revealed: The Shinkansen line support isn't. The critter I have had since my gaming days: Panzers vs Dinos. He showed up again about 2 years ago and I've been using him to 'point' as he contrasts with the background. Don't tell anyone but I talk to him also.
It is a train I put together when Kato first came out with the Budd cars. I had to kit bash an E5 to go with it but have replaced that with the new Kato unit. The Sam Houston had one baggge car, three coaches and the obs car.
Cute little critter! Fred Flintstone equivalent of a pointer dog... Don't sweat it. You wouldn't believe the things I talk to...
Here is something out of the ordinary, a Chessie System Steam Train Run By Chessie System 4-6-2 Pacific by International Hobby Corporation Baltimore & Ohio ACF 70 FT Heavyweight Baggage Car by Walthers Ready-to-Run Heavyweights Baltimore & Ohio Heavyweight Paired Window Coach by Walthers Ready-to-Run Heavyweights Chesapeake & Ohio Heavyweight Paired Window Coach by Walthers Ready-to-Run Heavyweights Video
Yes I would. At my age, (and I'm young compared to some here), I would believe more than, well, "Be so lucky as to live so long". Attrib: Yoda
My wooden trestle built for our Division meeting next weekend is completed. 16 kits were issued, I’m looking forward to seeing how the other 15 came out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My FRONTRUNNER train in my living room. I run the full sized version from Provo to Ogden, Utah. Running with an F59PHI, as opposed to the MPI36...
These are made by Athearn. I don't know if they did MBTA.... They did the RailRunner.... http://www.athearn.com/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=Bombardier+RTR&CatId=THRP&OA=True
