Ready for service. The finished pictures are taken on a recently completed 18x30 diorama made for finished projects. Decals are a mix, Microscale Green Scheme for the tender logo, parts of my dwindling pieces of Champion steam sets for the cab numbers, left over hopper numbers for the front number board and Microscale alphabet sheet for the head lights.
Here is the video to go with it. It's a monster puller, I don't think I have the space to max it out in my "train room".
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
Anthracite Modeler - YouTube
Beautiful!!!. You should really be sitting there with a huge grin.
Joe
RDG Casey,
Congratulations!
Stunning.
Joel
Modeling the C&O New River Subdivision circa 1949 for the fun of it!
absolutely awesome! I just caught this thread for the first time and glad I got to see it from start to finish in one sitting. thanks!! and great work.
Wow, that is really nice. Incredible modeling job. How much to make another one for me?
You should bring it by the RR Museum of PA in July when the RCT&HS it set up there, many would appreciate seeing that beauty in action.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I agree you have to show that beautiful loco off somewhere
Wow, that puts top end brass to shame!
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Well done Sir, sounds a bit pathetic.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks everyone!
Like any recently finished project there are some minor tweaks I want to do but I even got lucky with a good thumb nail on the youtube video.
I do plan on having the fleet at the Reading Modeler Meet in September. It will be the second year I will attend and only the third year of the event. In the mean time stay tuned for more builds! This is the 15th currently finished engine, and I have no intension of stopping. I just enjoy building engines.
What really astounds me is the time it took you to complete this project, started Nov.25th 2014 and finished Feb 2nd2015. Barely 2 months.....now that's amazing!!
Wow! Extremely impressive and also interesting to see the whole story of progress. Thanks for sharing as it's most inspiring.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent