Track fiddler Don't worry about posting on the wrong thread,
i have done this qhite a bit myself. I usually find it pretty quickly and edit the mistake, and no one needs to know!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
riogrande5761 Athearn recently released their latest run of Genesis D&RGW GP40-2's. They are real nice and the division of the D&RGW I plan to model relied more heavily on GP40-2's than other models so wanted to beef up my fleet. Interestingly, one of the versions offered #3113, (which piloted an Amtrak CZ train I road 30 years ago) comes from a group of 3 GP40-2's Rio Grande bought that were equippped with exhaused silencers on the roof. They were #3113, 3114 and 3115.
Athearn recently released their latest run of Genesis D&RGW GP40-2's. They are real nice and the division of the D&RGW I plan to model relied more heavily on GP40-2's than other models so wanted to beef up my fleet.
Interestingly, one of the versions offered #3113, (which piloted an Amtrak CZ train I road 30 years ago) comes from a group of 3 GP40-2's Rio Grande bought that were equippped with exhaused silencers on the roof. They were #3113, 3114 and 3115.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Track fiddlerDave, Are you going to keep the CP FP9A anyway? What a mix-up. I hope you get your AB mess untangled
Hi TF,
The 'mess' has been sorted out. I returned the B unit which is still in transit. It was in good shape so I would have kept it except for the fact that I already have more 'B' units than I need.
I'll comment more once I have the FP9A unit in my possession. I know it will take some work. It is very dusty and the side grills are not all attached properly which is typical of the InterMountain F series locomotives. I know that InterMountain has worked very hard to solve the problem, but I'm not sure if they have succeeded yet.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Dave,
I had an Intermountain F7 in CP script with sound that was a nice, smooth runner but I sold it as I went to CN only. I paid $114 for it new from M.B. Klein. I think they made a mistake on the pricing as they only had one in stock. Detail was very nice too.
I did get myself something a couple of weeks ago. It is a VanHobbies Royal Hudson that was in the last run made for VanHobbies in the late '90s. It was a NIB model and it sure looks it. It was made by SR Co. not Samhongsa as were most VanHobbies locos. The detail on it is truly amazing, right down to the tiny red valves on the backhead in the cab. I did consider a Rapido model as they were a lot less expensive than this brass version but the detailing and overall finish on this one was a cut above. It runs well too.
CN Charlie
Good morning
rrebell, Sounds like a good find on the Broadway limited SP NW 2. Hope you get the CV's revamped.
Michael, I felt your enthusiasm here. Hope you get your GP 40-2's soon and I wish you luck finding your D&RGW.
Dave, Repairing that FP9A sounds like a fun rainy day project. Looking forward to the update photo.
Charlie, Makes sence you went all CN. After all, you are CN Charlie! I will have to check out the Royal Hudson availability in N scale. It seems a lot of members have one here, ... Except me.
Have a good day everyone
TF
I was browsing marketplace one day and came accross this Bachmann 2-8-0 listed for $75, talked him down to $50 and when I picked it up I realized it was a DCC with sound! Heck of a deal if you ask me!
Then at the local thrift store I came accross a set of Rapido "totally wired" pre wired utility poles still new in box and only paid $10. 2 great scores in 2 days!
That is a heck of a deal Ringo, sometimes when it rains it pours.
I don't know about HO but in the 70s Bachmann in N scale had kind of a bad rap. They sure have improved over the years, that's all I can say. I have a couple of Bachmann Spectrum locomotives and would not hesitate to buy another one. One of them is my smoothest runner, the thing creeps like a snail.
Quite a while back I quit buying N scale Rolling Stock because I have so many and I was getting quite carried away with it. But I did bum-out when I didn't buy my second American Refrigerator Transit Co. wood-sided refer.
They are my all-time favorite wood-sided boxcar and are very hard to find in N scale.
And then there were two! Number 15301 came today. Happy with the set and will be keeping an eye out for a third. These cars have to have different road numbers as they are rather large.
I'm still sceptical on bachmann. I only have 2 locomotives ( gp38-2 and the 2-8-0 ) and I like them a lot! the only thing is the details. Compare the gp38 to my athearn RTR sd39, the athern blows it out of the water. bachmann still runs nice though and is a good test loco so I dont fry a genesis or proto!
Ringo58 I'm still sceptical on bachmann. I only have 2 locomotives ( gp38-2 and the 2-8-0 ) and I like them a lot! the only thing is the details. Compare the gp38 to my athearn RTR sd39, the athern blows it out of the water. bachmann still runs nice though and is a good test loco so I dont fry a genesis or proto!
I'm pretty sure that's because the Athearn R2R is much newer tooling than Bachmann. I don't know about the Bachmann GP38-2, but much of their base-level loco tooling is 20+ year old Spectrum/Plus tooling, albeit sometimes uprgraded. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. They're good running locos that are quite sturdy.
The Athearn RTR SD39 on the other hand dates (AFAIK) to 2018 and in terms of detail, it's about as good as it gets for what passes today as "affordable" diesel power. I'm a pretty hardcore budget railroader (most of my locos were around 20 bucks) but the current Athearn RTR Illinois Terminal SD39 and NW (ITC patch over) locos have got me reconsidering...
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Ringo58Then at the local thrift store I came accross a set of Rapido "totally wired" pre wired utility poles still new in box
Those utility poles look great, and they are much easier to put in place than wiring your own.
Unpacking them is a two person job, and you should not remove them from the box until they are ready to be put in place.
My only iffy comment about them is that the lines do not sag. That is not a bad compromise.
SeeYou190 Unpacking them is a two person job, and you should not remove them from the box until they are ready to be put in place.
Was planning on it being the final peice I add
Ringo58Was planning on it being the final peice I add
Good plan. I had a single box string of them running along on the spare bedroom layout for about eight feet, and they looked good.
Mine were also near the backdrop, which worked out well for me.
Thats good to hear that one box will span 8' as thats the whole lenght of my layout!
Good evening
Model railroad telephone poles are not in my area of expertise in any way shape or form yet. But it was a nice find.
I didn't get this lately but it's a good goody.
It's my Pepe Le Pew car. I always did like Pepe, that's why I got it. Just one of those stupid decisions one late night on eBay. Maybe one beer short of a six-pack. And who said funny cars were just for drag racing.
Any of you have a funny car?
Track fiddlerAny of you have a funny car?
I have included lots of funny things in my fleet of custom raodnames.
None of them are new.
Sorry.
Prior to this past December, I only had one tank car on my layout, a Walthers UTLX anhydrous ammonia tanker. In December, I got an Athearn UTLX tanker. However, I was still needing to get more tankers since tankers are so common on the real railroads. This past May, I found several out of production Walthers tank car kits on Ebay, all still sealed in the boxes, for reasonable prices and got them. I ended up with four more anhydrous ammonia tankers (3 GATX, 1 UTLX), 2 LPG tankers (1 GATX, 1 UTLX), a Procor general purpose tanker, a Conoco general purpose tanker, a 40' GATX caustic soda tanker, and two "beer can" 30' tankers (1 GATX, 1 UTLX).
I started off going through all of the kits and gluing the two halves of the tanks together and then going back through and gluing on the ends. After a brief hiatis when I got my new Athearn SDP40F in June (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giMIdq8wakI), I then got back to work on the tankers, starting on the big tankers and working my way through to where I'm now down to finishing up the 40' tanker and just have the two small ones to go. Working from home has helped. Not having the drive to work every day, I have been going down to the basement for a little while after work to unwind and do little things here and there. Since getting the kits, I've been doing a little bit each day on whatever kit is in progress, getting 2 to 3 steps done a day on the weekends. By next weekend, I should have all 11 tank car kits completed, and then I'm going to go back through and paint the hand rails and grab irons to match the cars, which will complete my tank car fleet. :)
Kevin
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They may be small but they're loaded with detail:
Stock-shelf by Edmund, on Flickr
A set of four utility shelves from Artitec. Almost too nice to hide inside a structure. Another recent find from Artitec is this clam-shell bucket:
Bucket1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Yes, it follows a European design but I'm willing to fit it in to a North American scene.
Cheers, Ed
Congrats on expanding your tanker fleet Kevin. Sounds like you had fun with those kits. I checked out the Amtrak loco you got in the link
Ed, You organized your layout shelves already. I can't even get my shelves organized in my closets at home. I did notice the blue tarp rolled up on the second shelf. Appropriate, everyone has a blue tarp.
I guess you don't have to worry about any of those boxes getting wet and Soggy. There is no rain forecasted on your layout. Is that extra toilet paper on the forth shelf just in case people start hoarding it again
The clamshell bucket looks like it's working by the pile of dirt underneath it. The scenes look Great Ed ..... All in the details
Track fiddlerEd, You organized your layout shelves already. I can't even get my shelves organized in my closets at home. I did notice the blue tarp rolled up on the second shelf.
Yeah, TF, but look at all those half-used cans of paint drying up on the middle shelf, far right I hate dealing with getting rid of old paint.
We have a haz-mat collection program near me but they only do it once a year now
SeeYou190 Track fiddler Any of you have a funny car? I have included lots of funny things in my fleet of custom raodnames. None of them are new. Sorry. -Kevin
Track fiddler Any of you have a funny car?
I don't think I'd worry about it to much Kevin I don't post a thread very often but when I do I'm pretty easy-going. I see slight deviations from subject all over the Forum here. I think even the Moderators have a little tolerance just as long as things don't get too out of hand for too long.
Now you got me curious! It's kind of like dangling a carrot with a fishing pole, from a cart out in front of the donkeys nose
Yes, I see them Ed, on that center shelf, far right.
You know those little bit of paint left in cans can really accumulate sometimes and become quite the invasive nuisance in the garage. Nobody ever wants to keep them in the house and once they freeze they are done.
I think Hazmat should have a place you can bring old paint cans in at any time. It's kind of like recycling, they could take all the paint and make black paint out of it and resell it. That could perhaps pay for part of the service of reclaiming all the old paint.
The problem is with having nowhere to bring old cans of paint is, I have read people dump it down the toilet. This is not good. If they lived in the country and had their own septic tank they wouldn't be doing that, would they?
I was always painting something all the time and ended up with those darn paint cans accumulating in the garage and I hated it. We had what was called Earth Day once a year at the high school and I was always so glad to get rid of them. You could get rid of anything on that day but I always thought they should have had it twice a year.
I got a new MT Minneapolis & St Louis on Thursday last week.