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How about demolition crews, tearing down the Bethlehem plant, making way for a casino...
Thanks for the responses! I thought that was around the time the lettering change occured, it will be nice to have some variety to my lettering scheme. I do like early diesels, and they sure had a varied roster. I ordered the book "Western Maryland Diesel Locomotives" which i imagine would have answered that question....but didnt wanna wait! Thanks, Tim
OK...Western Maryland rounds out the railroads that i wish to be able to represent, mostly because they ran so many types of early diesels...but were their GP7s and GP9s high or low hoods, or were they high and converted to low at some point? I found pics of them with high noses and low noses....what gives? If they were converted, what year(s) were those conversions done? I plan to show their diesel fleet circa 1956 or so. Thanks, Tim
Hello folks. The question is just what the title implies...anyone have any clue of the ETA for BLI's Pennsy M-1 4-8-2s in N scale? I think they have been on hold for like a while now, havent they? Thanks, Tim
markpierce wrote: No , cars with truck-mounted couplers are bound to derail. Pushing places a lateral force to the wheels. Wheels not parallel to the rails look for any excuse to come off the tracks. Heavy trains on grades with pushers combined with truck-mounted couplers is your worse-case scenario if you want to keep trains on the tracks. Mark Yeah, thats what i was thinking....im gonna go drink a 12 oz liquid painkiller and think some about how to convert a zillion cars to body mount couplers
Hello folks. On such a lazy sunday afternoon as this, i become aware that my hopper fleet still hasnt painted and decalled itself. So i open the box, get a few out, and (due to another thread here on the forum) start to look at the wheels...the trucks...the couplers. The cars in question are some Micro Trains rib side 33' hoppers...with the truck mounted couplers. And now, a frightening thought. I want to run 40-ish car trains up and down some pretty steep (2-3%) grades, and will be using pushers
I am unfamiliar with "C N R" railroad, but i am gonna guess that they have a historical society, and probably a website. Would be my choice of starting points! Tim
Hello there. I wouldnt say that any of the cars are a lost cause, they just need another step. When i weather a car, i perform the following steps, almost always in the following order: 1) Paint trucks, couplers, and underframe with "grimy black" to kill the plastic sheen 2) Drybrush trucks and couplers with "rust" or "roof brown" to make em look rusted and used. 3) Blackwash ladders, rivet lines, door frames, roofs, etc to add depth (a wash is a thin paint, i use acrylics
I have a love-hate relationship with scratchbuilding. The more of it i do, the less i hate it, and when i finally finish something, i love it. I kinda like building structure kits too, painting and assembling one is a great way to spend a couple evenings IMO (yes, i just confirmed it. I am a very dull person.) Tim
I think a few good points have been made here, and they have made the point that i tried to make in my first post, but failed to do. A new modeler's reasons for building a layout are as varied as our reasons for building ours. It does not make those reasons any less valid. I think where a lot of people mess up, is construct a layout that does not live up to the expectations they had for it (i.e., is NOT FUN) and a large amount of the time, this is due to the fact that too much was squeezed into
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