Good morning from cold and snowy Northeast Ohio! Nothing to show this week modeling wise, but here is where the workbench will be moved to, I have put up new shelving and moved a lot of in progress and kits to those shelves. My son is coming in from Colorado this weekend and he will help me move the workbench to its new location. Last Saturday I took some Intermountain NYC F3's with a general freight to run at the club. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Great pics! Here is a second pic of the latest effort. (The other is on the Friday thread.) Shown looking across the train yard toward the freight house. Looks like the turnout needs replacing. (Happens all the time. ).
This week’s catch at the Water Tower is a PRR P5a electric motor leading a manifest train. (1 of 3) PRR P5a by Broadway Limited Monon 40 FT Boxcar by Bev-Bel/Athearn Blue Box Kit Lehigh & New England by Athearn Blue Box Kit Boston & Maine 40 FT Truss Boxcar by MDC/Roundhouse Kit Southern 40 FT Wood Boxcar by Athearn Blue Box Kit Canadian National 40 FT Double Door Steel Boxcar AccuRail Kit Lehigh & New England 40 FT Boxcar by Bev-Bel/Athearn Blue Box Kit Louisville & Nashville 50 FT Steel Gondola by Athearn Blue Box Kit Erie 40 FT Gondola by MDC/Roundhouse
(2 of 3) New York Central 50 FT Open Steel Gondola by Bev-Bel/Athearn Blue Box Kit Lehigh & New England 6 Panel Wood Boxcar (Renumbered) by AccuRail kit Ethyl Heavy 36 FT Tank Car by Mantua Baltimore & Ohio 40 FT Wood Stock Car by AccuRail Kit PRR K11 Stock Car Silver Roof by Bowser RTR Frisco 40 FT AAR Boxcar by MDC/Roundhouse Kit Rutland 40 FT Wood Boxcar (Custom painted and Dry Transfers) by Athearn Blue Box Undecorated Kit Seaboard Air Line Heavy 41 FT Steel Boxcar by Mantua New Haven 40 FT Boxcar by Athearn Blue Box Kit
(3 of 3) Gulf Mobile & Ohio 40 FT Boxcar by Athearn Blue Box Kit PRR 40 FT Wood Reefer by AccuRail (3-pack) Kit PRR 40 FT Wood Reefer by AccuRail (3-pack) Kit CNJ 40 FT Wood Reefer (Renumbered) by AccuRail Kit CNJ 40 FT Wood Reefer by AccuRail Kit PRR N8 Caboose by Bowser RTR Video
I would like to share one of the most famous Z-scale photos with you: It is from Jürg Rüedi, Switzerland. You need something hot these days ......... Have a nice WE! Sven
Many years later, Dirk Kuhlmann, took a picture of the Snake River Bridge as well - shortly before X-mas...... Enjoy! Best, Sven
In the gulch at Bellingham: Caught the outbound Sumas Turn and the local SW12 doing its work. Apparently 1245 is an anomaly that wasn't actually in the MILW roster for SW12s but it still looks nice.
I did not have any modeling time for the last couple of weeks, but I did take a few minutes to run some trains last evening. This is a quick video of my "bashed" N scale RS3M, pulling a railfan rare mileage trip for the Berkshiere Scenic RR. The RS3M stared with an atlas RS3 shell, MP-15DC stacks, and fans from another shell, fitted onto a Bachman RS3 chassis, then paint and decals for my Housatonic RR. It represents the #9935 owned by the Housatonic RR. It is DCC equipped, but there is no sound...yet. It is crossing the scenic (but fictional) Letourneau Gorge, named after a good friend from Canada.
I believe the number in that unit is 1645. (LifeLike SW9/1200 unit?) Which is a legitimate one, pre-the 1959 renumberings. MILW SW9 #1645 became the 622.
Apparently I'm blind. It is 1645 on second look. I also managed to find a new-old-stock SW9 numbered as 631 with exhaust mufflers added which will probably become my new Bellingham switcher, although from pictures it looks like 631 would have been eastern lines These days the gulch has been pretty much a torrent with floodwaters covering over pretty much everything that used to be Milwaukee road on the Bellingham waterfront.
Amazing how none of that moisture in the Pacific NW is getting beyond eastern Washington. Anyhow, for reference, 614 was the last MILW switcher used on the Bellingham lines. Two days before embargo:
