General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Im looking for any pictures of N scale steam engines if anyone has any.  I dont know what steam engines are avaliable to me so i would like to gather some information and insperation from the N scale moddelers on what sizes there are and how they have them weathered. 

Id also like to see any pictures of steam era servacing facilitys in N scale (if you can please say how much space the facility takes on your layout) 

Thanks  

Try this url -- (you'll have to cut and paste -- my mac OS doesn't seem to make clickable links)

http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html

hope it helps -- his opinions about the locos I run seem to be dead on.

First attempt at uploading photos from Photobucket! See if it works.

Calfpasture wrote:

First attempt at uploading photos from Photobucket! See if it works.

 

It works.

 

Well that (posting photos) wasn't too bad at all -- now for the captions: the roundhouse is scratchbuilt and is based on the prototype at North Conway, NH -- the turntable is a manual Heljan model and operates by means of a string belt connected to a dial on my control panel. Not shown are the water tower and coaling tower that I scratchbuilt back when I was a teenager -- they survived over thirty years in storage and many moves and still look pretty good. Still to built will be a sand tower and an ash pit. All told the sevicing facility must cover about one and a half square feet.

The bottom pic is my trusty Roundhouse 2-6-0 Mogul -- by far the most reliable and best running of all my steam (admittedly not the most highly deatiled of today's affordable RTR steam) and as for weathering -- well, she's just battled throug a December Nor'easter!

Wow that link showed more N scale steam engines than i knew there was.  Thats a nice scratchbuilt roundhouse, what size is the turn table?

Calfpasture wrote:

Try this url -- (you'll have to cut and paste -- my mac OS doesn't seem to make clickable links) http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html hope it helps -- his opinions about the locos I run seem to be dead on.

You can actually just type url tags on your link and it'll work then.  You just type [ url]http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html[/ url], only without the spaces, and you get http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html.

Yeah, I like my little 2-6-0 too.

But then again, bigger loco's are cool too.

They all need weathered though.

are the 2-6-0s DCC compatable?

Here's my Bachmann 2-8-0 Consolidation.  I gave it a nose job to more closely resemble a Western Maryland H-8.  This is an incredibly smooth and reliable runner.  Highly recommended.

Lee 

The light was bad, it's a movie taken with a still cam, there's no scenery.

But here's our new Big Boy:

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/jlbaz/?action=view&current=MVI_0789.flv

 

Is that the Athearn Genesis Big boy?  That is some pritty good sound from somthing that is what about 9 inches long?  i have had a eye on the Bachmann Consolidation they look pritty good.

Sandeky1989 wrote:

are the 2-6-0s DCC compatable?

Sure are!  Check this out: http://www.tcsdcc.com/decoderpics/mdc-n-scale-mogul.html