Okay, right after MOLOCO announced RTR versions of this car and especially the Wabash version that I did, and I was 95% completed on the decals when the announcement came out, here is my version with the addition of the ART lease information and the Return to Information that is not on the RTR car.
These were the only cars on the Wabash with a 6 digit road number, railroad historians think it was due to the request of American Refrigerator Transit when they leased these cars to the Wabash. I followed a photograph in James Kincaids WAB/NKP/DTI/DTSL/AA Book. Car was painted with Floquil Light Blue Paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals.
My next car will be the ART version of the car.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Nice work everybody.
OneQuickNova .... The CB&Q O5 is outstanding! Feel free to tell about it.
GARRY
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middleman SNIP Marc Magnus: Not sure which "Mike" you're addressing. If you're talking about my picture - my layout is HO scale. If you're talking about "mlehman"s pictures (and I would agree with you- he does nice work) I believe he models in HO/HOn3. If I'm wrong,I hope he'll correct me. Either way,thanks for looking! Mike
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Marc Magnus: Not sure which "Mike" you're addressing. If you're talking about my picture - my layout is HO scale. If you're talking about "mlehman"s pictures (and I would agree with you- he does nice work) I believe he models in HO/HOn3. If I'm wrong,I hope he'll correct me. Either way,thanks for looking!
Mike
Lotsa Mikes around here. Being a Rio Grande fan, you can never have too many Mikes, as in K-27, K-28, K-36, K-37....
Thanks for the props, Mike.
Marc: If it was me, my layout is HO, HOn3 and some dual gauge. I model Durango as if it was located on a standard gauge branch of the Rio Grande ran through between Moab, UT and Grants, NM. It's a little like Alamosa, relocated, with lots of dual gauge yard trackage and a dual gauge branch to the coal mines west of town. The rest of the layout is all HOn3, the Silverton Branch, then the Mears lines that ran north from Silverton.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
middleman Charles: Great looking rock work! Are those from commercial molds,or something you did yourself? Mike
Charles: Great looking rock work! Are those from commercial molds,or something you did yourself?
These are from Scenic Express - they are rigid foam. I repainted and generally 'doctored' them to suit my needs. Normally I'd cast rocks from molds (have a number of very nice ones) with hydrocal, but I could not figure out how to get them into the position needed as I had to insert them from the back and overhead from a step stool (real tough to do), so spent a few bucks to solve the problem. Dumb design problem perhaps, but got it worked out in the end.
Charles
What an Espee "Daylight" is doing in the Sierra Nevada miles away from the Pacific coastline is anyone's guess, but here she is, climbing up the Buttes toward Yuba Pass. The helper is an Athearn MT-4, the road locomotive is a brass Balboa GS-4, the cars are from MTH.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Chris: The layout is looking good.
I'm seeing a lot of great work here.
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After spending Friday and Saturday at the NTS, i spend some time working on the layout. It looks so much better without the blue foam.
Chris
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Lots of good stuff in the photos folks. I've been working on a section of the scnery that will be tough to access when the transition to the upper deck is completed. This shows part of the scene taken with just the LED strip lights that illuminate this portion (no room lights used). The next photo is a detail shot of the rock work in the background.
Thanks!
Hi Mike,
Look great, is this HO scale or Nscale?
Have a nice WE
Marc
Here's something I've been playing around with the past couple of days. It's an F7 slug with a chopped roof. The portholes, stacks and fans have been removed. As far as I know there's no prototype for it. It's just under eleven scale feet high from rail head to roof. A normal F unit is a bit over two feet higher. Why make such a thing? It's something that not many will have and it's unusual.
And it's powered as well. I still have to wire in a decoder.
Built the first of two MOW buildings for my Free-moN Staging Yard:
First time using corrugated metal roofing, but I think it turned out ok.(Just have to be careful handling: paint, even dry, just slides off that stuff!)
Lots of great modeling again: thanks for sharing!Have a groovy weekend.
M.C. Fujiwara
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Silicon Valley Free-moN
The saints hang out at my picture on the first page of WPF. The sinners go here, out in front of Lucky's Bar and the Brass Rat.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
CB&Q O5 leading a passenger train.
No new photos this week. forgot my camera. Yesterday I helped with the Boothbay Railway Village model railroad layout during the first day of the Day Out WIth Thomas event. Busy in the morning, but very hot and humid for Maine in the afternoon. 90F inside the building and no sea breeze to cool things off.
B-Bay 2 ft gage 0-4-0T Henschel #6 (1934) ran well all day, but Henschel #13 (1913) developed a steam leak in a cylinder in the afternoon and had to be sidelined for repairs during the evening. 2 locomotives are needed for braking on the downgrade with a 4 car train (no air brakes on this old equipment), so 1 car was removed from the train for the rest of the day. The conductors got a good workout on the brake wheels.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
A lot of great stuff this week,including some terrific shots that show the variety of western mountain scenery.
A freight drifts by the south entrance to the yard.
'Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Some great photos here as always folks!
I have finished the lower staging tracks. Decided to add a bit of scenery on them as the tracks will also serve to showcase models as well. Since the New York, Ontario, and Western is the proto influence for my freelance SLOW, there has to be a lot of weeds, bushes, and such growing near, around, and between the rails.....
I have also started top create the form to make a mold for the building sides for the Octagon Blacksmith's Shop I am building. The original in Alloway, NY was built in 1830 and was made from local cobblestone. The building is still there and is now used for storage.
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Bob,
Sharp eye. Yes indeed, it is an export Alco, known on this side of the pond as a DL-531.
It's a Powerline [IIRC] shell on a K&M Engineers HOn3 chassis. I added steam generator detail on the short hood and repainted it in Rio Grande colors. Right now it's in the backshop. Despite 24" min radius curves, it's still a little too stiff to run well on my layout, although it pulls like a mule. I think I need to figure out a way to get some more lateral play in the trucks.
The passenger rolling stock is also imported. The cars are a special run by D+R, available from Doug's:
http://www.trainstoysandhobbies.com/exclusive_products.htm
The RPO/Express car at the head end was another D+R car that I painted and decaled.
I like steam, although I also like narrowgauge diesels.
A good beginning to WPF guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
Here is one of a Santa Fe passenger train from my website:
This is always the best thread of the week guys. Keep it going.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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C&O H-8 in the engine house At Thurmond
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Mike,
what is the number 28 loco in the top photo? It certainly looks like a New South Wales 48 class locomotive.
Didn't know the Rio Grande had them.
Bob
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Passenger train makes its way over Horseshoe Trestle on my WP layout.
Have Fun.... Bob.
Thru the cut and entering South Valley. This was taken about 2 weeks ago.
Jeff: The troop train is nice as well as is the scenery it is going through,
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
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N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
Great work everybody. I have completed weathering my Steamers but in pictures I have taken of them it is hard to see the weathering. Because of this I have nothing to post this week. Everybody keep up the good work.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Awesome work, guys.
Here's a couple of shots of some of my modern passenger equipment. On the narrowgauge, this is the San Juan Zephyr.
And this is today's La Sal Zephyr at Hesperus. This RDC/ex-CZ trailer car combination alternates with a loco-hauled consist that runs in the opposite direction.
I put this quiet spot behind Brother Elias's Last Chance Mission down by the docks in Mooseport.
Caught a Troop movement on the ATSF.
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I just post this old photo to get WPF started. Sam