It's that time of year again. November is model railroad month. In the Houston area, the San Jacinto Model RR Club sponsors a layout tour and publishes a guide showing which weekend and where different layouts are open to the public. For many years now the Fort Bend Model RR Club has set up our NTRAK layout at the Rosenberg Railroad Museum. Today we set it all up for this year's tour and will be open this weekend and next. Here is the Imperial Sugar Company module.
I managed to get a couple of cars done this week! IMWX 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit, substituted Yarmouth Model Works Sill Steps for the cast plastic sill steps of the kit. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Champ Decals. Atlas 4650CF Covered Hopper as a standin for the EL 4460CF Covered Hopper, the length was the same, but the car was shorter than the standard 4650. Painted the car with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. And a shot taken at the Strongsville Model Railroad club in Strongsville, OH. Were not open during November for National Model Railroad Month, but we are open for two weekends in December in conjunction with the Christmas Open House of the Strongsville Historical Society. Pennsy N1s hauling a mixture of H21, H22 and Gla Hopper Cars. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A view from the bridge over the yard of a Santa Fe heavyweight train pulled by a steam generator-equipped passenger Geep (with the "torpedo tubes") stopping at East Hannah Vista depot. All the switch stands in the picture are operational, using the Wolfgang Dudler system. Nearly done with the conversion of the GP-7 to a passenger locomotive as it makes down the grade near Baumgardner. Still need to remove the lower air tanks; which is my modeling project for this weekend.... PS: When running a passenger train with multiple locomotives like this photo, and only one locomotive was steam-generator equipped, didn't that locomotive always have to be the one closest to the passenger cars so they could run the steam line to the cars? John
It did happen that some locos had through steam pipes but not steam generators. These included SP, Santa Fe, and Rio Grande F3-7 A units that ran with steam generator equipped B units. Also a number of Santa Fe F45s had steam pipes in the last years of pre-Amtrak service for operation with FP45s.
Very few, if any, freight diesels would have been equipped with steam lines. (Although some stripped of a boiler could have possibly retained theirs, late passenger era.) So the generator unit would need to be placed as shown.
Boxcab, that's kinda what Barstow Rick and I thought. We wouldn't want our HO scale passengers to freeze to death. John
Awesome work like always Candy... When do we get to see what you can do with locomotives? Surely you have fun with that too.
I work on real locomotives, I am always afraid the locomotive will break me !! Fact is they have caused some pain in the past ...
