Recent Binge - trying to finalize my B&O and C&O rosters. Getting close... That C&O loco is an Atlas - and it's one that actually pulls reasonably well. Smooth as butter and just pretty to look at. The B&O is another Life-Like E8 monster-puller. This one was/is a project. Needed external cleaning, wheel cleaning, and I might get brave one day and take it all apart. That said, it runs,and lights, and it pulls better than any other North American loco besides it's very own near-twin B&O LL E8 that I already own. The ACY boxcars are for my Akron, Canton, & Youngstown short/local line. About 2/3 of these are Micro-Trains or Accumate couplers. I'm trying to upgrade. Man, are they smooth and so far don't seem to have the random uncouplings that rapido have.
This BNSF SD70ACe. Though I wanted to wait for FVM to come out with theirs, the not-so-local hobby shop had it used for $60 so I had to get it. It's SHARP! :teeth:
Received Lowell Smith AFT issue #8. Now I'm up to date !!! At least 'til June !!! Still no word on BN business cars. All you SP&S people might wanna' check out his site !!!
just got my first 3D trailer. these are great, the detail!. it will look great in my truck stop module.
Complete 13 car brass 20th Century Ltd passenger train set in 1940 colors from Key IMPORTS. Never knew they even made the whole train until I found this set.
Micro Trains 40' Steel Boxcar. B&O Time Saver #470835, just got in the mail on Thursday. Six more on the way next week!
Thanks, that's still on the old HO layout. Just grabbed a spare piece of code 55 rail and set the car up for the photo shoot. Planning similar ballast colors on the N s ale layout. Most sidings will be dirt/mud/oil, coal, slag in appearance... commonplace in the 1960's. Sent from my LG-P930 using Tapatalk 2
I received another SD40-2 in the mail today. Its a mid-pro in BNSF heritage I livery. I picked it up for a cool $41.00 shipped off the bay. Not only that, but when I threw it on the layout to test it... it wouldn't fire up in DC mode. That's when I discovered its DCC equipped! BONUS! This will be stripped and re-painted in RJ Corman livery
Awesome score, Primavw! Other than that SP&S kit I got these, I believe they're within my time frame. they seemed to cool to pass up.
Ohhhhhhhh..thats just wrong on so many levels. :uhoh: Ya could do a repaint on a CSX or Conrail SD40-2 and no one would care. BUT to such a beautiful BNSF locomotive.... :crying:
My most recent purchase was the Kato F2 set in the Rock Island scheme... Really nice pair of models. They run just like a Kato 'Swiss watch'... which is a bit faster than the current 'slow motored' Intermountain and Atlas offerings. Today I received a package from Shapeways... which should be my Baldwin VO-660 shells... from the designer "PiperGuy". They will be mated with Bachman NW-2 mechanisms and painted in D&RGW livery. I've been on a Shapeways binge lately... a couple weeks ago I got the Baldwin DT-6-6-2000 designed by James Norris. These options available from Shapeways inspired designers have been very helpful for me to have D&RGW models which might not otherwise be available. As I've mentioned on other threads... I got a couple other D&RGW models with the past 2 years as follow: Matt Myers designed both a Fairbanks Morse H12-4-4 and an H10-4-4... I got the later ones for D&RGW. This was a really nice switcher that probably would not have been made by another mainstream manufacturer/importer. He has a few other projects on his 'shelf' looking for buyers too. I also got some Krauss-Maffei ML 4000 models from another Shapeways designer, Roy Stevens.
My most recent purchase has been more Kato Unitrack. This last batch consisted of a switch and a pair of bumpers, which let me add what will be a team track to my layout. I am eyeing a GE ES44AC in Conrail colors, and an SW1500 when it becomes available.
I just got this little guy to add to my BNSF collection. I had to totally disassemble it to de-grease it and add the DN163AO and after about 30 minutes of break-in in both directions it seems to run pretty well. Mike
My latest purchase was the installation of dcc decoders in the five Kato 2-8-2s that I have owned for a long time. Next purchase is the installation of dcc with sound decoders in two B'chmann Spectrum 2-8-0s from the period before a dcc version was released. I am studying the Kato indexed turn table.....but the layout is in storage, temporarily I hope.
Not to tease, but this is the third or fourth BNSF loco I have stripped... mwahahahaha. Heck I'd save a CR SD40-2 any day hehehe Yep, I was happy. I had this happen two years ago, I bought an SD70M from ebay for something like $50 and when it arrived I discovered it had MRC DCC w/ sound installed. Goes to show you some of these etailers say items are "tested" but make no mention of DCC... I'm guessing because they failed to test them in the first place. Their loss my gain.
