Oakhurst Railroad Engineer Geared Steam Great Locos Marty I assume they are the latest run? They are the latest versions and are very nice. A little light on pulling power if you have steep grades like I do but OK after adding about 1.5 extra ounces ...
Geared Steam Great Locos Marty I assume they are the latest run?
Great Locos Marty I assume they are the latest run?
They are the latest versions and are very nice. A little light on pulling power if you have steep grades like I do but OK after adding about 1.5 extra ounces ...
MIne was the last run (DCC Ready). It's my best puller.
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Lovely stuff, everyone, and it is a pleasure to come here these days to see so much involvement! Wow!!
An oldie from the stable:
You did a nice job on your railroad......with the details.....I thought it was G gauge at first.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
The Heislers are HO and from the new run from Rivarossi/Hornby ...
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Oakhurst Railroad Engineer Welcoming two new Heislers to the Oakhurst Railroad ...
Welcoming two new Heislers to the Oakhurst Railroad ...
G Paine AVRNUT This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel. Carl I am not that sure about that Carl, to me the 0 on the right looks a bit out of line with the rest of the number. Add a good dose of Solvaset, some weathering, and a decal can pretty well disappear. Hard to judge without the car in my hands. My
AVRNUT This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel. Carl
This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel.
Carl
I am not that sure about that Carl, to me the 0 on the right looks a bit out of line with the rest of the number. Add a good dose of Solvaset, some weathering, and a decal can pretty well disappear. Hard to judge without the car in my hands. My
Hi George & Carl,
It might be something as simple as this......
Most of my way-cars are Western Pacific with one DRG&W and one BN. I wanted to have a presence of the LM&E and so I completely did a re-do on an old John Deere caboose. I put my black Diamond on it with LM&E in the center of the diamond and on one side 66 below the letters and on the other side 77 below the letters. I read about that trick years ago in MR. it think, that gives a larger presence as it then appears that there is two way-cars belonging to the LM&E. Did I fool you ?? Maybe I am only fooling myself, but it was indeed a written article in one of the mags.
Johnboy out..................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
G Paine AVRNUT Take a close look at the ice reefer. I bought this car at an indoor flea market a couple weeks back for $4.00. It's an older one, but not sure of maker. No markings on it. It had horn-hook couplers which I promptly swapped out for a pair of Kadee #5's. But it wasn't until I started the weathering that I did the double-take. HUH??? This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel. Carl I am not that sure about that Carl, to me the 0 on the right looks a bit out of line with the rest of the number. Add a good dose of Solvaset, some weathering, and a decal can pretty well disappear. Hard to judge without the car in my hands. My
AVRNUT Take a close look at the ice reefer. I bought this car at an indoor flea market a couple weeks back for $4.00. It's an older one, but not sure of maker. No markings on it. It had horn-hook couplers which I promptly swapped out for a pair of Kadee #5's. But it wasn't until I started the weathering that I did the double-take. HUH??? This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel. Carl
Take a close look at the ice reefer. I bought this car at an indoor flea market a couple weeks back for $4.00. It's an older one, but not sure of maker. No markings on it. It had horn-hook couplers which I promptly swapped out for a pair of Kadee #5's. But it wasn't until I started the weathering that I did the double-take. HUH??? This car has two different road numbers on it! Under the BAR shield on the left is #7564 & on the right is #7560. This car has not been re-marked or decaled by anyone. It's factory paint & markings. Someone was asleep at the wheel.
Hi George;
I suppose that is possible, but if so someone had to have changed only the 4 to a 0. Yet, the car shows no evidence of "patch" painting under that number & the rest of the markings certainly appear to be factory done & not the result of decaling (or re-painting). There is no hint at all that the whole car was ever re-painted either. There was no weathering whatsoever on the car when I bought it. I double checked the other side & the 0 is perfectly alligned there. Strange.
"I could never belong to any club that would have me as a member."
I have been working on my Helix. Currently 5 turns out of 10 are done. It is two tracks serving 3 different levels of the layout. The inside loop connects the lowest level with the top level and the outside connects the lowest level to the mid level and connects the mid level to the upper level.There are also 2 reverse loops and two return loops that are on the outside of the helix
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Since I always post pic's of a scenery short on WEPF , I thought I would post a pic of my very first ever weathering attempt, on a covered hopper.
Thanks for looking
Sam
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Birds eye view of Norfolk Portsmouth Belt Line small industrial yard
Bob
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A great beginning to my favorite thread. There is some serious modeling taking place out there.
Bear - good video and some great modeling.
Jerrell - your photos look like post cards.
Terry - very interesting videos.
Curt - nice sharks.
DC - great bridge and river scene(s).
Here are a couple photos taken while my grandsons were running the trains yesterday:
Our vesion of the Broadway Limited passes Berea Tower on the BRVRR. The locos are P2Ks. The A-unit has sound and the B-unit is powered. The cars are a mixture of Riverossi and Walthers.
Rival named trains meet near Berea Station. The NYC Mercury is powered by an ABA set of ALCO PAs. The locos are Athearn BB kits. Both A-units are powered and the B-unit has a Soundtraxx DSX decoder and dual 1-inch speakers. The cars are Athearn BB heavyweights.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
John R.
I run live loads on my layout between the mine and the coaling tower using Tyco operating dump cars
that are loaded at the mine by a working coal loader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHTcJye5jTY
then the cars are taken to the coaling tower where they dump the coal into a container under the layout
here's a video showing the process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdgZjJpfzZ4
TerryinTexas
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It's been a few weeks where I've been very busy, with little new to share. The good thing is I finally got the first draft of my diss finished, some 1,166 pages. Right now, I'm trying to get that down to about 800 pages. So I hope to have more time for the layout as things progress at this stage.
I am hosting our divisional meet and ops session Saturday. Here are a few action pics.
A meet at Rockwood, with the eastbound local passenger behind #454 meeting the westbound San Juan Zephyr behind #82.
An overview of Tefft:
A pic of the New Mexico Express sitting in front of Silverton station:
Up at Red Mountain Town on the Silverton Union RR, #3 and #4 are taking water as they prepare to doublehead mixed train #2 up to Sheridan Summit.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
UPinCT Thanks Gary, I totally followed Cody G's tips for ballasting. The secret is to apply full strength while glue to the shoulders of the track then sprinkle the ballast on. When the glue dries vac off the excess. Then ballast normally, the ballast already on the shoulder gives the "second coat" something to grab onto. Derek
Thanks Gary,
I totally followed Cody G's tips for ballasting. The secret is to apply full strength while glue to the shoulders of the track then sprinkle the ballast on. When the glue dries vac off the excess. Then ballast normally, the ballast already on the shoulder gives the "second coat" something to grab onto.
Derek
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Sweet video, Bear.
Cottonwoods are coming out under the trestles, and it's getting a little wooly. Better get a clearing crew down there to help the ranger.
DC
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your ballasting looks amazing UPinCT.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Looking Good Everyone, although I too believe that Robby is trying to pass the real thing off as his modeling.
I'm starting scenery on my layout so no more pics with plain plywood.
Happy Modeling
PSAP #424 a custom paint, that I was working on today. I still think I could've done better, but alas issues had ruined some of my work. like the line decals they wouldn't work so I tried paint it sorta smeared so I'm gonna have to touch it up later. I had a youtube video lined up showing how I do things and 5 hours worth of work deleted itself, what did I ever do to you Mr. Murphy.
Got on a weathering kick the other night. Thought I'd post a couple of pieces of rolling stock I just got done weathering. I don't like to too carried away on weathering, just enough to make the piece look like it's been around a while. I'm pleased with the results on these & the second one gave me a surprise.
WOW, great stuff everybody. Wisconsin, congrats on your first WPF.
Log Car remains in central Louisiana
Looking good everyone....
A shot of cars along the highway.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Here's my dad's latest surpise, got a good deal from local hobby shop. Cheapest online $220 plus shipping and he got less than $200, awesome sound and the low speed control is out of this world. Creeps along on our NCE at speed setting 1. Only thing dad doesn't like is it has traction tires.
Shanny10
B&O, C&O, PRR
Just lovin trains