So like, I painted a Geep30...
Alex
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.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
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.
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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])
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.
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..!
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
WCfan
Perfecto! Looks great.
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..!
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.
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.
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.
Interesting!
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.
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.
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.
I edited this pic to explain what each track's job is:
I posted how to operate the yard earlier.
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)
Sorry, Sawyer! I missed that part. It looks like it should work okay for you.
Wikious Sorry, Sawyer! I missed that part. It looks like it should work okay for you.
No problem man.
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)
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)
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.
"GG #1! GG#1! GG#1!"
Guilford Guy "GG #1! GG#1! GG#1!"
Oh now look what you did Sawyer!
LMAO.
The history of the AAT will have an alternate version to accomodate something that I hope will get done. In 2011, the AAT boght 4 SD70MACs from EMD (or some big GE power), and then rebuilt its older Geeps into mainline slugs that have solar cells on the roof and batteries in the fuel tanks and in some of the body. They will be re-charged by the solar cells. The U23Bs took over the Geeps' jobs. The GP38-2's retained their responsibilities as extra-runners.
Lets do what we do at school, call everyone by their last name.
Seems we have an alex issue. At work I have a "Chris" issue (3, 2 managers[working with all three at once was crazy]).At my MR club, I have a Ray, Bob, Bill, and Tom issues. (4, 3, 3, 2)
Railfan Alex Lets do what we do at school, call everyone by their last name.
Just don't call me the kid with the weird last name. (guyat MR club gave up after trying to spell it after I told [roster entry in decoder pro])
Oh, so basically do what football coaches do, lol. That would actually work though, lol.
MilwaukeeRoadGood luck with that idea. haha. 400th post!
Yeah man, I have no clue how to say your last name, lol. Mine is easy, but then, also easy to make fun of, lol. I'm probably going to set my layout in early November, because it's the best time of the year, lol. I think I can pull fall off.
Me understandin da akent of da Polish chah-ee-KOV-skee!
Railfan Alex Me understandin da akent of da Polish chah-ee-KOV-skee!
I have no clue what you said, but if i had to guess, it means:
"I understand the language of the Polish something", lol.