I've just completed my Southern Pacific M8-2-6-0 project to Proto 64 standards , all told it's construction entailed several years of labor (99% scratchbuilt you know). Not resting on my lurals, i've got a urge to scratchbuild a early SP MC Cab Forward. i'm curious as to what others have in planning or on the workbench concerning their motive power .
Thanks
Dave
Dave,
I'm having BLI build me a NYC 4-8-2 Mohawk. Maybe one of these days I'll know enough to be able to do something like what you just accomplished. Congratulations! Make sure you post some pics sometime.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I'm planning on building another one of these:
I kitbashed this from a Bachmann Spectrum N scale 2-8-0, and parts from a Trix 4-6-2 and 0-6-0. The result is an almost-PRR class H10sb.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
It will probably be adding sound to something, but I'm not sure what yet. I've got a pair of P2K GP-9's, and an ancient Athearn BB F-7. The F-7 shell is spacious, while the Geeps would likely require a bit of metalwork to remove enough weight to add a speaker box.
And then there's that old Dockside 0-4-0. I had it working, headlight, decoder and all, but after only one or two passes around the layout, the decoder fried. I think the valve gear might have come loose and locked up, causing the old motor to stall and draw more than the decoder could handle.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I'm about half-way through applying the details to a Kato BNSF SD70MAC. I wouldn't mind finding another one or an AC4400CW to go with it and the hoppers I'm accumulating.
David B: since you're modelling CP Rail, are you gonna do any SD40-2's?
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Cheers to West Coast S for keeping the scratch building aspect of model railroading alive. That's fantastic. If you have a way to post a photo, I'd like to see it.
Other posts on this thread are impressive. Congrats, Dave V on the N scale kitbash Pennsy 2-8-0. Cheers to all others.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I have waaaay too many projects lined up to do. I have a Bowser Big Boy to finish plus a Challenger and tweak my other challenger that runs and paint them.
Another project I have been ebaying parts for is a never built 3 foot gauge D&RGW 2-8-8-2, it will be rather freelanced since no real prototype existed, going to use a bachmann 2-6-6-2 and MDC outside frame drivers. Could get interesting.
Right now I have this HOn3 Ken Kidder 0-4-2 needing work, and I found another on ebay needing work, between the 2 I am parting each other to make one working version. I think my original one is the major parts winner, the second one if I want to make run would need new drivers and motor, maybe PSC can do something with their parts. or make it an entirely different wheel arrangement.
I paid just over 100 bucks for the second engine, pretty much just to get some good parts, but the opportunity to make one work and maybe the other has a chance of a double win. The money wasnt the issue, restoring the kidders is.
I could go on and on with lined up projects but got the harder itch to make my layout and get something running.
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Finally painting up some of the undecorated N scale Atlas GP7s and 9s that I have aquired over the past 3 years. I'm also thinking about chopping down the noses on 2 of them.
Eric M
After the bank recovers, I have plans to kitbash some Reading GP39-2s.
Nick
Take a Ride on the Reading with the: Reading Company Technical & Historical Society http://www.readingrailroad.org/
My newest engine project is kind of a whimsy. I have a HO Mantua 0-6-0T which is being turned into a oil fired 2-6-0 Cab forward. It is a fun project.
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=3934.html
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
I just started a project to wire two MDC "Critters" to run as a single unit. I want to wire the two engines together to avoid the ocassional stall on switch points. Thanks to some advice in another thread, I will eliminate one headlight from each engine. Once I have that all running the way I want, it will be time to add some details.
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
A CNJ Camelback from a Tyco 0-6-0
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Converting an Atlas ex-WC GP40 to a CN GP40-2lw. Started in the spring, but it's been a busy summer. Ah well, no rush.
UP2CSX wrote:I'd also like to add those big screen affairs that were mounted to the rear of NKP switchers. Does anyone know of a good source of pictures of these things?
UP2CSX wrote:Wow, some of you guys are really ambitious. My plans are to rearrange the noses of four NKP engines with the Mars light and headlight in the right place. I'd also like to add those big screen affairs that were mounted to the rear of NKP switchers. Does anyone know of a good source of pictures of these things?
I am at work and don't have a my collection of Mainline Modelers, but Mont Switzer did a paint job on an NKP Switcher with those screens. When I get home I will find out the date of the article.
Rick
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Mont Switzer painted and detailed an NKP NW-2 Switcher with the Safety Screen in the May 1994 Issue of Mainline Modeler.
I plan on finishing my What If DT&I GP-60's. D&TS GP-7's equiped with the proper details. I also just got an undecorated Atlas C420 that I will put all the proper details on such as headlights, horns, fuel tanks, bell placement.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
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My next locomotive project is to build my HOn3 Keystone Shay kit. If it comes out well, I need to build a second. There are (too!) many projects after that.
- build/convert/backdate a Roundhouse 3 truck Shay (HO) to a very early Class C 2 truck.
- find a suitable mechanism/frame/drive for my Model Power CM 2-8-0 (made in Brazil). My unbuilt Tyco 4-8-0 kit may be just the ticket due to its oversize cab and other parts.
- build/bash my Tyco General kit into a suitable older 4-4-0 for passenger service in 1900.
- remotor/detail/bash my HOn3 Porter 0-4-0T into a useful small logging locomotive
- remotor/regear/bash my MDC Climax into a more plausible Class A Climax
- build my MDC HOn3 2-8-0 into something resembling a C-20?
- and if I get really ambitious, put together a Baldwin HOn3 4-4-0 (maybe PSC or Blackstone or somebody else will bail me out first).
The above should keep me busy for the next few decades between building a layout and rolling stock kits, too!
....modeling foggy coastal Oregon, where it's always 1900....