As I have been off on vacation for a while, I have not had time to generate a new image so here is a recycled oldie to kick things off.
From my old N Scale road, LV RS-11's make their way on a local freight. I painted these. The real LV acquired a number of RS-11's from then-owner PRR.
Good morning from cloudy, warm and damp Northeast Ohio! I completed a couple of cars this week. First off, a Proto 2000 SD 50' Boxcar kit, painted with Floquil PC Green and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. 1968 the NYC shops modernized 4 lots of cars from 1939-1949 by lowering the ladders and removing the roofwalks and they were repainted into PC in lot 965B. The A signifies the cars is suitable for clean lading. Next a 60' Con-Cor Boxcar kit, removed the rivits to more closely replicate an ACF built car, also changed the wheelbase from 41' to 46' to match the prototype, added grabs and walkover platforms to the end of the car. Removed the plug door hardware and substituted a pair of YSD left over from an IMRC 5283 Boxcar kit which fit perfectly. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan Red and lettered with decals from Microscale, Mark Vaughn and Herald King. Car was in auto parts service hauling engines from the Tonawanda Plants in Bufallo to final assembly plants. Last week I mentioned our club was installing an Intermodal Yard, and here is a picture of my SD39's with a general freight with the new mostly completed yard in the background. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
This week I offer a short video of a train I ran last weekend at the N Scale Enthusiast convention in Reno, Nevada. The layout is Peninsula Ntrak from the SF Bay Area and the module that the train is running through was done by Don Carney.
I discussed the possibility of adding a small intermodal yard to our club's new port facility but was reminded that, technically, "intermodal" was too recent for the era that the club models. We might, however, be able to add a trailer-on-train siding. Since I spent several months unloading vehicles on sidings like that at Fort Campbell during Desert Storm, I think I'm going to try to make that happen. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
There has not been any recent layout progress, but I did want to post one more video of Randy Stahl's 150 car Milwaukee Road ore train, pulled by two of my HRRC GP7s, running on my N scale Housatonic RR layout. Randy body mounted MT True Scale couplers on all of the cars, with a traditional MT coupler to couple to my locomotives. Ther was no slinky action and no unexpected derailments. The train measured just over 22 feet long! [video=youtube_share;gLP4gs4e_tg]
Awesome! I like the slow speed of the train. It makes it look that much longer. I calculated that at 1:1 scale, it would be about 3500 feet long! Interestingly, the 22 foot N-scale train would fit right inside a 1:1 scale 22 foot ore hopper!
I like the idea of an old tank car as a holding tank for fuel. What's really cool is the tank car data that includes a weight that was measured at the former CN Turcot yard. That yard sprawled from the Saint-Henri ward all the way to Ville Saint-Pierre and had a capacity of 2500 cars. Included was the largest roundhouse in Canada (56 stalls, all the way round except for two tracks in, one out) which was sadly demolished in 1962. The yard was replaced with the new Taschereau hump yard (twice Turcot's capacity!), next to the CP Cote-Saint-Luc yard. As for the cops, maybe Smokey found his Bandit...
Well, it's been a while since I posted here. But here we are. I bought 5 SPSF boxcars from eBay... They each have different car numbers, and look great with some Kodachrome locomotives, and and Athearn widevision caboose.
There are two schools of thought on this: 1. There's no need to waste detailed walls where theyt'll never be seen. Use a plain sheet of styrene instead. 2. Only do that if you're sure you won't want to make changes and use those structures somewhere else. Someone (Maybe Tony Koester? Not sure.) wrote about getting burned on this after making some layout changes. In any case, you got a good result with it here. Nice scene.
This week we are somewhere near Maybrook as a Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-2 USRA Light Mikado (Broadway Limited) meets a New York Ontario & Western 4-8-2 USRA Light Mountain (Bachmann Spectrum).
