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An introduction (LOTS of photos)

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Posted by Iain42 on Monday, November 26, 2007 9:18 PM
Ah yes, I have a girlfriend named Lauren that models Raleigh, NC in HO.
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Posted by wm3798 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:58 PM

Hi Iain...  Another explorer from Planet Railwire, I see... 

Lee 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:55 PM

My last five layouts have been done in Code 55 and my next one MAY use Code 40 for Industrial/Sidetracks - dependent, of course, on having a lathe which will allow me to turn down the flanges on my wheel sets.

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Posted by tatans on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:41 PM
Anything from N scale and down, the thickness of the paint is a giveway, and that red plasticville U30cg (which looks really bad) make this pretty small scale, maybe they are carved from soap.
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Posted by Iain42 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:12 PM

 R. T. POTEET wrote:

I don't discount the possibility that you are creating an exageration and using something akin to Code 125 - or larger -  rail under an HO Scale locomotive but the locomotive/trackheight relationship under your NS whatever - GP38(?) - gives your scale away as N Scale. Some may have spotted other things but that, to me, was an  instant giveaway.

My new layout will feature code 55 

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Posted by Iain42 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:11 PM

HO: The NS covered hopper and the red Fs passing the double headed steam coal drag.

Z:  The red and white passenger car, not nearly finished.

N:  All the rest.

 

Thanks for the compliments on the weathering.

Yes, I hate the size of the MTs.  I've started using Z couplers on scratchbuilt and kitbashed stuff. 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:03 PM

I don't discount the possibility that you are creating an exageration and using something akin to Code 125 - or larger -  rail under an HO Scale locomotive but the locomotive/trackheight relationship under your NS whatever - GP38(?) - gives your scale away as N Scale. Some may have spotted other things but that, to me, was an  instant giveaway.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:40 PM

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Scale:  N

The couplers were, for me, the giveaway.  There's a red U30CG.  As David pointed out, not available in plastic HO.  Nice work on the weathering :)

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:23 PM

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I'd say HO or N, although you'll have to answer something for me, are they all the same scale?

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Posted by SilverSpike on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:58 PM

Sign - Welcome [#welcome] to the forum Iain!

Beaufort and Morehead city, NC is a wonderful area to model. Wish I had known about that area before I started building my current layout, it makes for a great railroad prototype. I put together an entry for the Model Railroader Layout Design Contest that did not win, but it was based on modeling that very area.

This is a link to an interactive layout plan that I submitted for the contest, just mouse over the numbered sections to view images for the respective areas:

http://piedmontdivision.rymocs.com/iatp.htm

 

 

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Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger era
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Posted by MAbruce on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:37 AM

Welcome!

My guess would be N-scale.  I recognize the lack of trip pins on the Accumate couplers because they likely fell out.  Big Smile [:D] 

I also recognize the N-scale Atlas NS GP-38 early version #2001. 

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Posted by ereimer on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:29 AM

welcome !

i'm guessing based on the paint containers in the background of one shot that the models are N scale . it's possible they're Z but i haven't seen enough Z stuff to decide . nice weathering whatever scale they are  

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Posted by Eriediamond on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:43 AM
Sign - Welcome [#welcome] Great weathering. My quess from observing the the rail is N scale. Ken
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:54 AM
Welcome

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:30 AM
Yo doc wats up!Sign - Off Topic!! [#offtopic]

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:26 AM

Some nice lookin' cars there.  The Norfolk Southern car looks like HO, and most of the rest look like N, with maybe some Z scale, too. 

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:02 AM
I say HO & N.

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Posted by canazar on Monday, November 19, 2007 11:50 PM

Welcome to the board. Some great Photo's and very nice weathering too.

 

As far as scale?  I guess HO would be too easy...  so, I will go with the odd ball and say TT?  or maybe N?

 

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An introduction (LOTS of photos)
Posted by Iain42 on Monday, November 19, 2007 11:21 PM

My name is John.

 

Some of you may know me from other forums (Lee, Dave).

I'll start off with a couple of prototype shots:

The first locomotive  sat on Radio Island, between Beaufort and Morehead City, NC, for years.  I managed to get a bunch of photos of it before it was scrapped.

The second was probably one of the last Fairbanks Morses left in revenue service.  I managed to get a cab ride a week after this photo was taken.  We switched a couple of boxcars.  It was absolutely awesome.  She now resides at the railroad museum at Spencer, NC.

 

I can probably say that I am one of the few people to walk the entire length of one of the railroads I model, the Beaufort and Morehead.  The others are Atlantic and East Carolina and the orginal Norfolk Southern.

 

Ok, can you guess what scales the following are?  (Those that know me, please don't spoil it!)

 

Conrail covered hopper:

 

 

Some Norfolk Southern stuff 

 

 Norfolk Southern combine and express boxcar

 

 

Freelanced stuff: 

 

 

 

Pholl Gual, pronounced Holl Goo-al, is a freelanced steel mill that I had thought about doing 

 DS4-4-1000

Pholl Gual hopper

 

 

 

 

 

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