An oldie from back in 2006. The T&NO Hustler is being pulled by a P6 class locomotive this morning. When the streamlined P14s were in the shop, the P6s were the choice for a stand in because they had the same size drivers and could easily maintain the schedule.
A Santa Fe ex-drover car in a 1964 mixed train patiently waits in the Hannah Vista Yard as its lead locomotive, an ATSF RS switches the local industries. When livestock shipments tapered off, Santa Fe converted many of their drover cars (where the cattle handlers would ride and sleep in livestock trains to care for the cattle enroute) to a coach-baggage-caboose to be used for mixed train service on their branch lines. Windows in the front half were closed up, and baggage doors installed by the railroad. This is a Hallmark model, with the corrected window arrangement and truck types. John
An oldie of a modified Bachmann 2-8-0 for the Heber Valley Railroad's 618. I can tell you how I made the modifications if you want...
I have 3 C&O hoppers that were in excess of my needs. Researching my area I model I came up with a solution on how to use them. One in buffer car service and 2 for MOW for carrying old ties. Step 1, lots of rust and grime..
My mom told me a cool story about riding in something like that during WWII. She had to visit her brother who was severely injured during a flight line accident at Ardmore Army Air Field. She was stationed in Springfield, Missouri so caught the Frisco down to Hugo, Oklahoma and changed trains to a mixed local for the remainder of the trip to Ardmore. She had to ride in "the caboose that had 8 or 10 bench seats, kid of like a bus." The windows however did not open and the only ventilation was what breeze came in the open front door and out the back door. As she was on leave and traveling on an Army pass, she had to be in full uniform. It was an unusually warm winter day and the only water available was from an old barrel with a crusty old dipper. "I thought they were supposed to have Dixie Cups." Evidently this was still the wild west.
Here we have the QA&P Local power from the Square house to departure to arrival at Quanah. Getting an air test Here we go past "Royal Screw MFG about to enter MT2 Eastbound Past a busy crossing These kids wave a practically every train that passes Arrival at Quanah To the service tracks at Quanah
I was digging through some old slides and found these from 20 years ago. Back in the dark ages before I had a digital camera. I would "bracket" each shot with different exposures. I guess I sent the better exposures off to some magazine to see if they would print them. Usually they would never send them back. So, I have been trying to scan these old under exposed images and adjust them in photoshop. In the old days in the photo lab you just burned them in longer but I can't figure out how to get more light and brighten them up a bunch. They show the scan lines and look over saturated but I have fun playing.
Yessir, the QA&P has no shame when acquiring power, word was those CF7's were great switch engines.. With Acme wallboard, and a few other industries, they needed a few switch engines. LOL. We should have gotten some ex-SL-SF GP7's, but they were all still in service on the Frisco at the time.
Your pictures all look good to me. It seems every day that goes by, I fall further behind in technology, and may never catch up, much less get current, at best I am considered behind 10 years. It all goes to show that the further I get behind, the more I think I may be ahead, but I regress.
Hope you don't mind, but I made this my wallpaper after giving it a sepia edit. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
Maybe so, but I was so fascinated with all these cool cars to notice there was nobody walking around lol. Maybe they're all inside the cafe? The food there must be so good to cause people to double-park! John
I have quite a few figures that have to get painting finished on them. I usually keep a tray full of figures on my work bench and will paint something with what ever color I happen to have on the brush. Eventually I end up with completely painted people.
How does one get people inside of autos so they look like folks are driving them? Or are they all Google Cars now that drive themselves?
