"GG #1! GG#1! GG#1!"
Alex
Packers#1 welcome back Alex #3 (GG is #1, De Lery is #2, and you're #3. Now we can keep ya'll straight, lol j/k)
welcome back Alex #3 (GG is #1, De Lery is #2, and you're #3. Now we can keep ya'll straight, lol j/k)
HAHA! I remember that! I think we lost one Alex though...I do not remember, it's hard to believe this has been around a year.
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Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Wikious Sorry, Sawyer! I missed that part. It looks like it should work okay for you.
Sorry, Sawyer! I missed that part. It looks like it should work okay for you.
No problem man.
Thanks! Yes the Green in the packer logo is off. For some reason when I pasted it into paint it did that. I picked up GMR 2009. The cover layout was spectacular! I didn’t find the rest real interesting at first glance, (I haven’t read the rest of the mag.) as I’m more of a classic EMD fan. But the layouts are stunning in there. At the hobby shop in Winona I was tempeted to buy some BN green, but I resisted. (If any one knows that that would be for)
Packers#1 Wikious Sawyer, you sure that yard will be large enough for you? You'll only be able to fit one car on that passing track next to the yellow boxcar. Might as well just make it a spur, then. Ah, I was waiting for someone to ask that question, thank you. Like I said, it's a "prototype". The real yard will be about 4 feet long and use code 55 track. I just built this to demonstrate the basic concept and see my idea take a model form.
Wikious Sawyer, you sure that yard will be large enough for you? You'll only be able to fit one car on that passing track next to the yellow boxcar. Might as well just make it a spur, then.
Sawyer, you sure that yard will be large enough for you? You'll only be able to fit one car on that passing track next to the yellow boxcar. Might as well just make it a spur, then.
Ah, I was waiting for someone to ask that question, thank you. Like I said, it's a "prototype". The real yard will be about 4 feet long and use code 55 track. I just built this to demonstrate the basic concept and see my idea take a model form.
I edited this pic to explain what each track's job is:
I posted how to operate the yard earlier.
Interesting!
Finally got around to taking some pictures yesterday. First off, here's what I bought for $77, minus GMR 2009 and a few small things:
Now, I got word from my parents that whether i move into the bonus room or attic, I'll have space for a layout in the bonus room. So I decided that instead of modeling the AAT's Aiken yard, I'll model the Savannah River branch, which serves a kaolin clay mine/processing center. So yesterday I built a "prototype" for the yard. The real yard will be much longer. Here's an explanation of how the yard will work:
Bird's eye view:
Looking down from the end:
Looking from the beginning:
So, the GP30 will push it's train down the line, while the GP35 (black loco) will haul the boxcar out to the mainline and back to the Augusta yard.
Guilford Guy Your Geep is still in the shop getting body work. The high nose isn't meant for a GP30, but rather a GP35 and up. It has a coat of primer on most of it though..!
Your Geep is still in the shop getting body work. The high nose isn't meant for a GP30, but rather a GP35 and up. It has a coat of primer on most of it though..!
If you can get the cab and low hood from a GP35 or later put on it and line the top of the 35 or later cab with the loong hood of the GP35; I could say it's a GP39.
WCfan
Looks good, but the green in the emblem look off. Might just be my monitor though
I'm almost done with my GP35 and SD9. One order to walthers should do the trick.
My C424s are coming along, slowly. I've had a shell soaking for a week in pinesol then scrubbed it, still needs to be soaked more, then scrubbed more. The black came off really easy, the green not so much. I also threw in the beadblasted shell in their. As it turns out, I might not need a entire new shell, since the Cab and sill look alright. The main body will probably be replaced due to the amount of detail lost.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Perfecto! Looks great.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
GG, the Geep is gooling good so far. Now where is the other one at?
WC fan, I have a Packers F9 AB and 2 superdome cars. Hopefully I'll get more of the cars for christmas from the grandparents (want parents to get me 2 F45s). Who makes a good SDP40 in HO anyways? (If I can get one and paint it, I'll try to create BN bicentenial engines and caboose[s], The engines are a U30C[atlas] SD40-2[Athearn] and an SDP40 [dunno])
Looks like the WIN purchased 3 Montana Western SD40. (Humm Montana Western, any one remember that RR? ) WIN kept the numbers the same, but patched over them. The numbers are 350, 353, and 356. Looks like the 350 got rebuilt with new trucks.
WCfan Route of the Packers.
Route of the Packers.
This gets my vote. Good work on the Geep, GG.
EDIT: don't think I've posted the latest roster. Hopefully some day I will have these locos. here it is:
Type
U23B
12, 14-19
1976
GE
#12, 14-18: built new
#19: Seaboard System
GP38-2
20
1977
EMD
Southern (High Hood)
GP35
21, 22
1964
#21-Norfolk Western
#22-New York Central
GP30
132
1968
SRR
GP15-1
11
Built new
GP9
127-131
1956
H-15-44
126
1948
Fairbanks-Morse
U23Bs #14-17 are used for the daily through freights between Aiken and Augusta.
U23Bs #18-19 are used for the three times daily “Soda Special” that delivers empties and loads bound for the Soda bottling plant in Aiken from Aiken to Augusta.
U23B #20 and GP38-2 #21 are used for extras between Aiken and Augusta.
GP35 #21 is used for the way freight along the main line.
GP35 #22 is used to operate the Aiken Branch.
GP30 #132 is used as the local unit on the Savannah River Branch.
GP9s #127-128 are used for interchange work in Augusta.
GP9 #130 is the local yard switcher in Augusta.
GP9 #131 is used for local switching in Augusta.
GP9 #129 is used for interchange work in Aiken
H-15-44 #126 is the local yard switcher in Aiken.
GP15-1 #10 is leased to the soda bottling plant as a plant switcher.
So like, I painted a Geep30...
Tyler, take your pick. Any of the WC cars most likely made it to the WIN. For paint, a BN cascade Green would work. Or you could simply patch a car (Former SOO, CNW, or MILW would be preferred). If you want a paint scheme I'll paint you one on the computer, but I wouldn't want you to put much money and effort into one.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=WC&Page=1
I have yet to make a logo, or a better slogan. Any one want to help me with solgan for the WIN?
The Packer Route.
Fast Track to Green Bay.
Winning Service Across Wisconsin.
I also need to make the Packer Geep.
For WIN updates they also added a SDP40 to there roster; SDP40-3 4221.
Packers#1 I have no numbering system at the moment.
I have no numbering system at the moment.
Well, now I do. Here's the chart and a brief explanation:
First 4 Digits
Kind of Car it is
Example
0101
Boxcar
01010698 is boxcar #698
0202
Reefer
02020698 is reefer #698
0303
Covered Hopper
03030698 is covered hopper #698
0404
Open Hopper
04040698 is open hopper #698
0505
Tank Car
05050698 is tank car #698
0606
Flat Cars
06060698 is flat car #698
0707
Gondolas
07070698 is gondola #698
0808
Auto Carriers
08080698 is auto carrier #698
0909
Intermodal Equipment
09090698 is intermodal car #698
1010
Steel Coil Cars
10100698 is steel coil car #698
The last 4 digits are that cars unique number. The first 4 identify the car type. As the examples show, the last 4 digits can be the same for two different kinds of cars, because the first 4 will be different. However, two boxcars can not both be #01010698, for example.
Creator’s note: The number system will be expanded to number 1111, 1212, 1313, 1414, etc. as new car types become available.
Of course, the loco numbering system is start at 10 and go up. It's at #23 as the next loco. there will be no #13. Some locos are numbered 126-131, those are ex-SRR units.
I guess Delery pulpwood sounds good, like I said, 'tis all up to you!
The 1 series? Do you mean the 1000 series or the 10000 series? All of my cars have 5 digit numbers, as the locos are in the 4-digit series. I have a numbering system, but I forgot it...
Jordan, so the WIN car should be numbered what?
Alex, if you don't know what reporting marks you'll be using, I guess you'll get an industry named after you. Delery Pulpwood sound okay?
Now I get to make a location sign for West Formanek... I base mine after the ones David Barrow uses on his CM&SF layout and it's succesors, where it shows both the track layouts and the town location relative to the rest of the layout. Here's the one in Dooley, NH.
B&M and MEC cars are unpatched because they still are railroads, and own cars. PAR Cars and locomotives mostly have MEC, B&M and ST reporting marks.
TrainManTy Also, Alex, what was the name of that shortline you were planning? Montreal & St. Albans?
Also, Alex, what was the name of that shortline you were planning? Montreal & St. Albans?
No, not anymore.
I would like it to just be a small local railroad running not more than 30km between two towns. I have no name yet, but it would be in southern Quebec.
Yep Tyler, the Wisconsin Illinois and Northern. Here is the Chicago Map (I think that‘d be more helpful). If you'd like to see the locomotive roster and or locomotive drawings just ask.
Vincent, yes, that BN SD45 made it too WC. WV got most of the BN ordered SD45s, and only got a few NP, CB&Q, and SLSF SD45s. Here's all the BN SD45s WC got. A little note, these are the last numbers they got on BN, if you'd like to see there other numbers just ask.
BN 6677BN 6502BN 6523BN 6527 BN 6534 BN 6539BN 6541BN 6543 BN 6553BN 6554BN 6559 BN 6560 BN 6572BN 6477 BN 6460BN 6417BN 6494BN 6660BN 6690BN 6498BN 6499BN 6501BN 6504BN 6505BN 6506BN 6507BN 6508BN 6510BN 6511BN 6517BN 6522BN 6524BN 6526BN 6530BN 6531BN 6532BN 6533BN 6535BN 6537BN 6538BN 6548BN 6491
Packer, the only rail line form Augusta to Aiken is a Norfolk Southern line. Aiken has a passing siding, a mainline that splits in two, some abanfdoned spurs, and three industries, while CSX and NS have yards in Augusta. They're also only a few miles apart. My modeler's license says that they are 20 miles apart, and the Southern (now Norfolk Southern) never built a line to Aiken because the SRR came to Augusta.
here's the history:
Aiken-Augusta Terminal Railroad
I need to fiddle w/ the roster a little. I'll also get that frieght car system.
Sawyer, just don't let your RR go the route of the real CRIP. (looks around to make sure there aren't any around, one more reason why I don't like florida)
WCfan, was the BN SD45 in that picture of of the ones the WC got to?
Well I finally found a name for the fictional RR I might make; Vancouver Railway Corporation. I used my initials. I didn't want to be a canadian RR but there is a Vancouver in Washington. Guess I could run it between both Vancouvers and have it interchange with the CB&Q, SP&S or GN in Seatlle.
I have a paintshceme here: http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=201&highlight=thread+paint&mforum=ntres2
Or a I could be lazy and say it was a CB&Q subsidy that got sucked into BN. Yay lazyness.
I found this: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=91710 a little bit ago. Only one of the pictues in their is actually BN 1876. (the one behind 1776 is actually 1976, an SDP40)
Mabye someday I'll have all 3 of BN's bicentainial units. Atlas made the U30C, Athearn makes the SD40-2. No one makes a good SDP40. Also not made in HO are BN E-units and C636s.
Tyler, just AAT for the reporting marks. I have no numbering system at the moment. I checked on those marks too, and there are 2 AATX ones, but no AAT, so mine are clear. For locomotives though, the scheme is the SRR locos kept their numbers, and newly purchased locos were given the number 10 and then up. I think it's at 22 though, so the next number for a loco is 23. but for a boxcar or anything, no numbering scheme for frieght cars yet, haven't gotten that involved. Might just go w/ a 1 for boxcars, a 2 for hoppers, and so on. Like i said, I'll need to give it some thought, but I'll come up w/ one.