I finally got around to finishing up this locomotive. I painted the new 120-C tender I scratch built and modified a Con Cor skyline casing that AB&CRRone gave me so that it would fit the old streamlined Hudson boiler. I also stuck a decoder in it so I can run it on the red line in Louisville next week. Here is a shot of a poster I have showing the same locomotive on the point of the Sunbeam somewhere between Dallas and Houston.
I took pictures of individual cars this week. CNW covered hopper. Custom painted Atlas. InterMountain boxcar. Custom painted hopper car. Trix, I think. TOFC with custom deck from Atlas flat car. Special run trailer.
Very nice images, everyone. Russell, you done good! :tb-biggrin: I hadn't known that there were Hudsons done up in that livery. Live and learn.
Thanks all. Yeah, Kato made them for Con Cor back in the late 60s/early 70s painted in the Daylight scheme but with the NYC style tender. I swapped out the 4 wheel trailing truck for one off a Trix Pacific. The drivers are pretty close to what was on the prototype Pacific.
LOL! I actually remember seeing those Campbell 66 trailers rolling on the Will Rogers Turnpike (I-44) in northeastern Oklahoma.
Turtle Creek Central shots These are some shots I took today. The flatcar is an old Tyco, the hopper is Stewart, the SW7 is Athearn, and the boxcar is an Atheran too. Paul H. Liddiard
A Billings-Shelby, MT manifest crawls west just east of Sun Prairie, MT: I also took a few shots on the big Missouri River trestle in Great Falls. I an unsure of which I like best? Tight angle, GN depot: Wider, with MILW and GN depots: Almost in the river, lower angle:
Thanks, jerry--here's the other half of the S-curve; it simply follows the Sun River, so the RR had to curve as well!
