Finished a couple of cars last week! A few weeks ago I did a Savannah and Atlanta Boxcar in the modernized paint scheme after the Southern absorbed the railroad, here is the car in the as delivered paint scheme. Intermountain 40' PS1 boxcar, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Champ Decals. I acquired an undecorated Red Caboose coil car, so I purchased a decal for it, so it is painted with Scalecoat II Black and IC Orange, then decaled with Dan Kohlberg's decals. The IC put the car number on the hoods, I wondered how long the hoods stayed on the same car? And a different shot of my U30b's on the Stongsville Club layout! Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
I like that 2667, that unit spent a lot of time right where I live before CSX leased the subdivision to another operator. Sent from my PantechP8010 using Tapatalk
An Union Pacific 2-8-0 Consolidation pauses at the Davidsville depot for a crew change in 1959 while passengers wait on the platform for their train. John
That's a great scene, and your lighting is spectacular. However, I feel for those ladies and the condition of their wash. You're modeling mid-1950s southern New England, when most, if not all steam has been replaced years before. But the first generation diesels, predominately ALCO in your neck of the woods, belched soot like there was no tomorrow. In other words, Candy, those sheets are much too white, even if they had been washed with Oxydol...
But they smell so Alco-fresh! I'd love to live in that building, though. But I would need a clothes dryer.
After doing extensive rebuilds to a couple Atlas extended vision cabooses, I got the idea last summer that I could 3D print some parts to make the process a bit easier. The idea started with replacement cupolas for the Atlas caboose and ended up with numerous separate roof, ends, sides and detail parts to assemble versions of the International Extended Vision caboose body specific to several different railroads. The first project I wanted to tackle was a Cotton Belt caboose. I grew up next to the Fort Worth Subdivision of the Cotton Belt, so I saw these often. With their square windows at the corners of the cupola, these cabooses looked like no other. After several months of studying photos, designing parts, assembling the parts into a body, designing new parts and details, then finally applying paint and decals, it actually is starting to look like the cabooses I remember. There remains work to be done - couplers, some more detailing, a little detail painting and weathering - but the nearly completed model and the morning sun provided a good opportunity to snap some photos:
That would be an enthusiastic and resounding yes! http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/the-chicopee-road-midland-sub.89373/page-3 The ladder is complete, but only at the west end of the yard. Switching is possible here, but it limited with virtually no lead past the end of track 1. Granted, it was designed this way, everything EB or WB will be switched out of the east end when that is completed.
