Modern Muscle on the Tuscarora Railroad

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ttrigg

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February 2004
From: North, San Diego Co., CA
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Posted by ttrigg on Monday, November 9, 2009 4:50 PM

Another masterpiece! How about a vid in action. p.s. Should you ever get tiered of it, UPS knows where my front door is! Bow

Tom Trigg

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toenailridgesl

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May 2002
From: South Australia
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Posted by toenailridgesl on Monday, November 9, 2009 4:49 PM

Nice work as usual, Kevin

Phil Creer, The Toenail Ridge Shortline,

Adelaide Sth Oz http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge toparo ergo sum

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kstrong

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September 2003
From: Centennial, CO
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Modern Muscle on the Tuscarora Railroad

Posted by kstrong on Monday, November 9, 2009 2:06 PM

A momentary distraction from my usual c. 1900 modelbuilding yields brute strength for the TRR. Mostly just a bit of a repaint with some very light cosmetics.

This started as a "Post-wreck" #455 version of the K-27

Some dark green paint on the boiler and a proper dosing of weathering

Lowered the roofline about 1/4"

Proper "warm white" LEDs in the headlight and class lamps

New lettering and transformed coal bunker boards (steel to wood)

A full account of the loco and its history can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/TRRMikado10

Later,

K