Just a quick go cup of the TH this morning, Zoe. Thanks! Morning, Diners!
Heartland Division CB&Q wrote:Jim CG....... is that one of those light, healthy, bed time snacks??? Wow! The layout plan looks good. I might add a run-around track at each industry so the engine is not at the wrong end of a cut of cars. I don't know if you have room for that. Other than that, are you behaving yourself, Jim?
Jim CG....... is that one of those light, healthy, bed time snacks??? Wow! The layout plan looks good. I might add a run-around track at each industry so the engine is not at the wrong end of a cut of cars. I don't know if you have room for that. Other than that, are you behaving yourself, Jim?
Garry, on this most recent plan, I don't know that I could get a runaround track on all the industries (especially those in the town at the bottom), since it would cause hassles with having the swing gate on the right side (where the three bridges are). Oh yeah, that's a healthy bedtime snack, sure. I had Chloe take all the bad calories out. Me, behaving myself? Sure...
Well, gotta get going this morning. I'll check back in later today and see what everyone else's up to.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Morning folks!
How about a spot of Green Tea today!
Thanks Chloe!
Philip - Nice photos of that semi load, nothing like being at the right place at the right time eh!
Well, day one "Home Alone" and I got some time in the train room last night and worked on three projects.
Oh....and....a.....Jim, per your request, here are a few photos of the latest progress.
This is the mixture, and it is Portland cement, patching plaster, vermiculite, and water, and this is the formula that Joe Fugate uses.
Initial stages of the scenery base application
Scenery base applied on frame foundation and around roundhouse and roundtable area
JimRCGMO wrote:Oh, here's a variation of one layout design I'd been playing around with a long while back (for taking over my current bedroom), modified to 11 X 11 (my room is about 12 or 13' tall, actually). Main drawbacks for me are the shortness of the run from the top part to the other town, and the 3-1/2' reach for the lowermost tracks from the inner area. Guess until I get a house with a basement (or is that a layout with a house covering it?), I won't have all that I'm looking for on my layout expansion... Ah, well.
Oh, here's a variation of one layout design I'd been playing around with a long while back (for taking over my current bedroom), modified to 11 X 11 (my room is about 12 or 13' tall, actually). Main drawbacks for me are the shortness of the run from the top part to the other town, and the 3-1/2' reach for the lowermost tracks from the inner area. Guess until I get a house with a basement (or is that a layout with a house covering it?), I won't have all that I'm looking for on my layout expansion... Ah, well.
Jim - The track plan looks interesting, and my only comment to you would be to add a double crossover at that choke point just above the yard lead on the left side of the plan. Seems like everything converges at those two switches and this could present some headaches especially if you plan to run trains and switch too.
Later on folks!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Mornin'!
Mighty nippy out there this morning!
Today: mostly sunny & much colder, diminishing winds - high: 38Tonight: mostly clear and cold - low: 25
Right now it's a balmy 27 degrees out there. Time to break out the swim trunks, huh?
Well after running all over the place doing errands all evening last night, I awake this morning to do it all over again! Man, this wife being laid up thing is tough! I'm doing all of my errands and hers too. I didn't get done until 11pm last night, and it looks like it'll be 10-11pm tonight before I'm done. I'm a busy boy these days! Got a ton of schoolwork to do this weekend too. Maybe next week will calm down, huh?
So whats up with you?
RT, radius is from the center of a curve to the outside of the curve (or in our case, to the track centerline), so double it to make a 180 degree or more curve. To give you some idea of how that loco (I have three of them, including one of the big tenders) looks on a curve, the tightest curve I have on my layout is a 17.50"r curve and it looks OK on that, but it looks much better on my 22"r and 24"r curves. I can take a pic or two tonight if you'd like. It's just a big honkin' loco!
philnrunt wrote: pcarrell- Great shots! Did you catch the name on the loco? My eyes aren't as good as they once were, and I can't make it out.
pcarrell- Great shots! Did you catch the name on the loco? My eyes aren't as good as they once were, and I can't make it out.
"Consumers Energy" & "Proud to wear the colors"
Also, where is that caboose? I've seen it before, just can't place it.
It's in one of the older sections of Noblesville, IN.
I used to live just off of 69 at the 40 MM exit, and when i was there the track just north of the exit was a very busy NW main. The strangest thing I ever got a pic of was a 5" 38Cal Destroyer gun mount on it's own special train flying- I estimate it was running 70MPH at least- west. I figured the Russkie's had made it to Illinois and they were gonna try to hold them at the line!
That would have been quite a sight!
SilverSpike wrote:Jim - The track plan looks interesting, and my only comment to you would be to add a double crossover at that choke point just above the yard lead on the left side of the plan. Seems like everything converges at those two switches and this could present some headaches especially if you plan to run trains and switch too.
Ryan - do you mean to keep the double mainline in place of the single section on the left side, and put a double crossover in that? Or something else? If you could mark up a copy of my layout pic, it would help me understand (I'm visually oriented, remember). Not sure about adding a double crossover (due to more complexity and more $$ involved (and Murphy's law would say also more chance of something to go wrong...) But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
Thanks,
Good morning.
JimCG. I was not real clear about run-arounds. They don't need to be in the industry, but if you have room they should be parallel to mainline near where industrial sidings connect to main line. If you do that, then local freights can trvel in either of both directions, switch the industry, and continue going in same direction. My
Cheers, everone.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Some thoughts, Jim.........
(Good execution of the compound yard BTW. Be nice if the lead were longer, but there's no room. Awesome interchange behind the door! Ingenious!)
Morning Chloe, is Vinney gone ??
For the morning starter i will have two slices of Banana bread with strawberry jam and Hot Choc.
Der, I see that you have seen our Roughrider Fans with the hollowed out watermellon helmets. There was hundreds of then around. We really must have made a prosperous season for the mellon growers. I sure enjoyed the kitten picture Lol.
Spent the evening last night making some moulds to make more tunnel portals and retaining walls. Also casting some tunnel liners. Kind of tedious goings but necessary.
When test running on one of my cuts, I tore the front railings off my SD40-2. So I'll have to get the dozer out and open that up a little. Don't know how I missed that, must be "Old Man's Eyes" I guess.
Still in the -30C range this morning, but the wind has gone down, thank goodness. It was bloody horrible here for a couple of days.
I have some more "Honey-Do" things to get done today. leading up to Christmas. Will try and get them done this morning so I can get an hour or two in the train room before going to work at 4.00pm.
Have a great day gang, and stay warm, except you Jeff, youre warm all the time.
Johnboy out.........
James:1 Verse:5
The "Wobbly" looks good this morning.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
JimRCGMO wrote: SilverSpike wrote: Jim - The track plan looks interesting, and my only comment to you would be to add a double crossover at that choke point just above the yard lead on the left side of the plan. Seems like everything converges at those two switches and this could present some headaches especially if you plan to run trains and switch too. Ryan - do you mean to keep the double mainline in place of the single section on the left side, and put a double crossover in that? Or something else? If you could mark up a copy of my layout pic, it would help me understand (I'm visually oriented, remember). Not sure about adding a double crossover (due to more complexity and more $$ involved (and Murphy's law would say also more chance of something to go wrong...) But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.Thanks,Jim in Cape Girardeau
SilverSpike wrote: Jim - The track plan looks interesting, and my only comment to you would be to add a double crossover at that choke point just above the yard lead on the left side of the plan. Seems like everything converges at those two switches and this could present some headaches especially if you plan to run trains and switch too.
Okay...here are a few very basic mark-ups on what I was talking about. First, the double crossover:
OR, maybe just add another main line track like this:
Re the layout- Why not take off the swinging door and install a "pocket door"? Would give you more room.
Flip
Flip,
A bi-fold door that would open out into the hall would give up a lot of real estate for the layout. Almost 10 sq. ft. for the layout....
Good morning, All. Coffee please with a cinnamon roll.
Ryan, I am enjoying your progress around the RH. Is that a mud mixture or asphalt? It looks gray. My party is for the folks that I work with. Since I work in two offices, one group comes on Friday, and the other comes on Saturday. It is a wreath making party. I supply the noble bough material and they get to build their own wreaths. Friday is a small group, but Saturday if the whole office comes could be ten people.
Jim, Looks like lots of great suggestions for the layout. Thanks for the demensions. That stage was exciting when Larry and I worked on our plans.
I will check in later.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
LSWrr wrote:Fergie: This will sound stupid to those that haven't been there, but I still find myself sleeping with one leg out 90 degrees to my body with my knee bent and the opposite hand resting near the edge of the mattress. On the 165' patrol boats I would crawl in the coffin rack face down then try to roll over quickly. This would bind my left shoulder to the rack above me and my right shoulder to the mattress thus wedging myself in the rack on my side. I did mostly Caribbean patrols during hurricane season; the south Pacific side was always calm. My days in the north pacific found me driving a 44' Motor Life boat in 35' to 40' breaking surf. after 21 years of getting beat up by mother nature I like my nice calm office job right now, LOL. I will transfer in 2008 and I've requested a 140' Ice breaker on the US/Canada border.
No... No Not at all! The crazy part is those who work on the 44's! Absolute nutz!! I really have to take my hat off to anyone that work on the 44's as it's a mean and nasty job that only a few can do. Courageous by any standard and the ones asked to do what only a very few can do and will do. I was assigned to the CCGC Souris, a 44' back in 85 and did that for three months. Had one call all that time and a day of gales. That was enough for me! Ask me what I'm doing now, holding on for dear life as we are in a 20-30 Swell out of the west and I just watched two couches and a pair of scientists sail across the lounge. Why they never lash these things down escapes me!!! That'll be a refit item. Got jarred awake at 4 this morning as we took a greener over the stern as we were holding station (science) I always liked Icebreaking, did six seasons in the Arctic and quite a few in the Gulf of St Lawrence. At one time the whole gulf would freeze over, We are lucky if we see a 10th of the Gulf freeze up now.
Dick: Have you seen the 6 day forecast map on the NWS today... OMG!!!! Showed it to the Old man this morning... I think we may go in a tad early
Kevin: I'm going to Sunday River with five other guys, one of them being my Captain, two engineers another mate and a "Birdieologist" (Environment Canada Ornothologist we carry to do migration counts). So it's the annual Boy's Road trip!!! 5 days skiing including lodging, lessons
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If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Hello again everyone.
Jim CG.... Looking at Ryan's post for your plans, I see there is a run-around because the double track main will serve the purpose in the upper left quadrant of the plan. It can also serve as a passing siding. I like the second plan in Ryan's latest psot and think it's a winner.
Cheers everybody.
fec153 wrote:Re the layout- Why not take off the swinging door and install a "pocket door"? Would give you more room. Flip
Flip, that's a good idea. However, I don't even have a spare bedroom for this layout yet (this is future planning), and I doubt my landlord would go for putting a pocket door in... Thanks, though!
Hey howdy y'all.
I leave for a bit, and we have another new dinner? Jeesh...Confusing. Took me a while to find it, I went all the way to page 6 looking for it.
I've been kept busy, between work, Sarah, and now X-Mas shopping. But hey, life is good.
Sarah and I are approaching three months...Working with Norfolk Southern is approaching three months...Everything is going well and so far so good with it all.
I'm gonna try to hang around some more, but if I keep getting stuck with 9-13 hour shifts, I don't know how much time I'll have.
See y'all later.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Howdy All.....Its sunny and cold here today....Posta get up around 40....I'll have a big bowl of chili with oyster crackers and egg Nog please...Thank You....well the railroad will be closed till after the first of the year..Karol our caregiver put the Christmas tree on top of it...
PC......Nice photos...We have Trailor train would that be Train trailor?
Ryan....Looks like more good progress on layout...can't wait to see round house area finished...
RT.......I'd try for the biggest curves you have room for you got a lot of engine there plus large tender....
Jim...Track plan is coming along...Just think of the N scale layout you could put in that space?LOL!
Well you all have a good one...Jerry
Ryan- Not a "bi-fold" door- A POCKET door! Jim knows what I mean.
Ryan; do you have a copy of the article on you scenery base? Can you email it to me? lswrr@ameritech.net Thanks
Fergie; I drove 44' MLB's for 10.5 years out of 20. Worst place on earth to drive them is the Great lakes because of the confused sea state and you can never get out of the "surf line" to take a break. Matter of fact the grave yard of the Pacific offers you the opportunity to put out to sea where you can at least navigate rollers for a little while. I don't envy your job, guy I work with was on the CGC Polar Sea when they went to the South Pole, and his job was to keep the scientists happy (he did mention something about a drinking binge when they hit Australia on the way back).
lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Hello everybody....
We're taking a break from Christmas decorations at the moment. Just stopped in for two egg nogs to go. Time for a fire in the fireplace, too. Later, the Lionel trains will be back on Christmas duty.
Cheers!
OK, I have the major components for my PRR M1b kitbash now:
I also have a KW rear truck from the K4 and an assortment of styrene and wire. It took about 90 minutes to get the Spectrum 4-8-2 running decently. Chief problem, as expected, was pulling power. I inserted tiny strips of electrical tape on either side of the journal box for the 3rd (traction tire) driver. It went from pulling virtually nothing to 12 boxcars or 15 loaded hoppers on a 13.5" curve. That's decent but not as good as the Spectrum 2-8-0.
Other problem was that the fireman's side crosshead kept falling in away from the upper crosshead guide. Careful tweaking and straightening of the crosshead guides seems to have fixed this.
The trailing truck wheel was ridiculously out of gauge, but was easy to fix. I also lightly bent down the connector bar for the pilot truck to put more pressure on it to keep it on the rails. I'm anxious to see how much reduced my pulling power will be if I have to mill the frame to fit the K4 shell. It also looks like my firebox will be on the short side unless I shorten the K4 boiler a hair to allow more room for the extended firebox.
Stay tuned!
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Evening Gang: You sea dogs have a bunch more then I have. I did one trip on a ship. It was a WWII era LST from Quinyon to LZ Montazuma in Viet Nam. I was the troop CO for the move of our assault helicopter company. The Capt. and crew were Japanese and not real versed in English. I did manage to comunicate some with the XO. He gave me a bunk above the bridge in a small house. The sea was as smoth as glass for the whole trip, thank God. That was one of the best nights sleep I got over there. The lakes can be real rough at times. Folks don't think they can because they are fresh water lakes.
I had planned on going by Tony's house again but I didn't get out of the VA clinic untill afternoon drive time so headed home. He's on the other side of Ft. Worth and getting there is a real problem.
Nothing in MRRing today again. I did call Walthers and order a couple of FM Erie builts in Milw Rd. Unfortunately they had discontinued them and were out. I did get a FM Erie in CN&W. Now I guess I'll have to get some CN&W passenger cars.
So with that I'll say
Good Night All
Hi gang. Glad to see everyone's staying busy.
I had to go the dentist yesterday and have a bottom tooth capped, so I've spent all day today trying to get my tongue use to the change in my mouth. I hate that...
My mom calls me today and says that she found a $50.00 bill laying on the ground next to the gas pump when she stopped to get gas this morning. I swear, that woman can go to the grocery store and between getting out of her car and getting to the door of the store she'll find a diamond ring, a $20.00 bill and a lost lottery ticket worth a thousand dollars. She just has that kind of luck.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've spent almost $400.00 on WWII German soldier figures in the last two weeks. I've been collecting them now for about ten years - most of which were made by Dragon.
I've been slowly thinning out my N scale collection recently. It's a painful thing to have to do but it's got to be done. Some of that stuff is worth a small fortune and I hardly ever run it anymore. Some of it I haven't touched since the day I took it out of the package.
Well. That's about it for this one.
Take care.
Tracklayer
PC I'm thinking of buying a rtr set but the problem I've seen is the bigest layout is like 24" unless I go with almost $200.00 set (hobby lobby) it then has 44" radius and this engine again lol. ) I do have 6 pieces of flex track but never have bent my own curves as I've always delt with lionel O-27 or O gaube (O-31) track Just recently introduced to gargraves track which is flex track If I ever get big enough area again as I have passenger cars that acually need like O-54 or larger as there 18" long each and have six wheel trucks there awsome but take a lot of room , really should have around O-72 or O-84 but no room lol.
If I ever get my layout (ceiling ) done will try to take pics and enve may try to free hand draw it as don't have no track plans program .
Don't think I've shown you all my trains lately buso heres some pics of what I have on display anyway not countinmg what all I have for sale on ebay right now.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Hello to everyone in the Diner.
Despite the freezing cold air that Johnboy has sent to us to follow up on the snow, I am feeling quite mellow so make it a coffee, double-double. That's Canadianese for double cream, double sugar. It is warm at the desk as I type with the heat blowing under the desk and the 2 dogs sleeping on my feet. They are Westie's who are supposed to be hardy but these 2 sure do like to be warm.
I am enjoying seeing how Jim's layout plan is coming along and am particularly interested as I may be able to use some of the ideas when or should I say if, I get the go-ahead to re-locate upstairs. I would like to do an around the room plan too. I especially like the large engine service yard. I put a small one in my present layout and find that it does double duty since it is also an industry of sorts what with coal, sand, and even diesel fuel to be delivered. I like the look of massed steam power. Well in my case it is only 5 locos but it is a start. I'm trying to be somewhat selective in what I acquire. It has to at least somewhat resemble a type that CN had. Can't afford exact copies as that would mean brass.
Well the cookies are out of the oven and I've been invited to sample so I'll say good-bye for now.
CN Charlie
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
RT, bending your own curves is easy. It sounds a lot harder then it is. with a little practice you can lay a curve in just a few minutes. Warm up the soldering gun and grab a piece of flex. Give it about 6" of straight on the flex before you start the curve. This gives you a nice smooth lead-in to the curve. Now, make sure the sliding rail is on the outside and bend it on around, securing it as you go. I use latex caulk and a small stack of old MRR mags. Secure all but the last 6 or 8 inches. Now you'll notice that the inside rail is longer. Grab some rail nippers (at the LHS) and as you finish that section of the curve, cut the rails even. Now you can let the 6-8 inch section straighten out. The inside rail will get sucked into the ties, thats OK. Now with either the rail nippers (it's tight manuvering with these) or a xacto knife (my tool of choice), cut the last tie or two from the track on both sides without cutting any more rail You can do this ahead of time if you like, but why make it easy?). Now grab a rail joiner and slide it onto the outside rail on this piece and the next section of flex. Now solder that bad boy up. Now, once it's cool, bend the first section of rail back around the curve (making sure the rail goes back under the spikes on the ties) until you can slide on the joiner and join it to the next track. Now solder that one up making sure there's no kinks at the joint. You can use a putty knife to get a little caulk in there if you want after it cools. Now just do the same with the next rail until you've completed the curve. Oh, and save those ties you cut off! Cut the spikes off and slide them (with a litle glue) under the joints so you don't have any bare spots.
Now, for the pics of the loco on curves. I took a couple of shots for ya.
This is on a 24"r curve. (click to expand any of these)
And this is a 17.50"r curve.
Both look acceptable, but you can see the larger curve does make a bit of a difference.
As to the sets, I'd probably but the stuff seprately myself, but the set is a one shot deal.
Good evening , I don't think I will last much longer...up early this morning to take the car for a 55K maintenance, then to the clinic for a Phenomonia(sp) shot. My doc said that all children under 2, OF's over 65, and all people with compromised immune systems, Diabetes, cancer patients, etc. need to have this shot, it is good for 5 years. Apparently regular antibiotics no longer work for this, and the consequences are NOT good, so get the shot guys and gals.
Of course this gave me a perfect chance to keep driving west to Tucker's (LHS) and pick up some items that came in that I ordered, one of which is a "honey", the new P2K 0-8-0 with decoder and sound. We ran it in the store, and sounds of the air pumps, and steam release, and chuff are just great!!!! Guys, you have to go at least try this loco even if you don't buy it. Picked up a couple of cars and two B&M books also. I was very tempted to purchase one of the new Rapido passenger cars that just arrived, a Canadian National car, and they are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! My budget was blown by then, so I wiped the tears from my eyes, said goodbye and headed to the Palmer Train station for lunch and watch two 100 car freights roll by as we ate lunch.
FERGIE: Yes I have!!! And the storm that was off the CA coast has blown in over the Rockies and is at 4 corners now and headed into the midwest. By Sunday night and Monday we are in fro trouble here and then you in the North Atlantic...this will be a big blow so get that ship back to port!!!
JOHNBOY: Good to have the dewline early warning system from your reporting station, keep us informed !!!!!
RYAN: A pocket door is a door that slides "into" the wall, thereby taking no space at all in either room. The receiving wall needs to be a little thicker of course to handle the door. I have seen them built into the rear of wall bookcases, very effective and efficient.
Ohh man this shot has me tired, the Doc warned me that this might be a side effect for 24 hours, so I will say "bon soir mais amis", PS, if this makes the TOTP, my credit card is with Zoe
pcarrell wrote: So I'm driving down the road, I 69 out of Indianapolis, and I'm fighting all this rush hour traffic. It's cool, I expect it at 10 after 5 in the afternoon, right? So anyways, I'm cruising along, and up in the next lane is something you just don't see everyday. There's a train on the hiway! Actually, to be more precise, a train on a truck on the hiway. (No, this isn't going to turn into some kind of Dr. Suess thing here.)Now I had taken my camera to work today because I knew of this old caboose that I wanted to get a pic of on my way home. OK, it's not on the way really, but thats all academic, right?Seizing the moment, I reach over and grab the camera and, while trying desperately not to drive off the road and become some sort of weird statistic, squeeze off a few pics.http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-070.jpghttp://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-071.jpghttp://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-072.jpgOh yeah, and I did make it to the caboose, though the sun was quickly fading.http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-073.jpg
So I'm driving down the road, I 69 out of Indianapolis, and I'm fighting all this rush hour traffic. It's cool, I expect it at 10 after 5 in the afternoon, right? So anyways, I'm cruising along, and up in the next lane is something you just don't see everyday. There's a train on the hiway! Actually, to be more precise, a train on a truck on the hiway. (No, this isn't going to turn into some kind of Dr. Suess thing here.)
Now I had taken my camera to work today because I knew of this old caboose that I wanted to get a pic of on my way home. OK, it's not on the way really, but thats all academic, right?
Seizing the moment, I reach over and grab the camera and, while trying desperately not to drive off the road and become some sort of weird statistic, squeeze off a few pics.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-070.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-071.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Prototype%20Train%20Photos/11-28-072.jpg
Oh yeah, and I did make it to the caboose, though the sun was quickly fading.
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Train travel, showing up as soon as you need to already be there...
I can see the headline now. "Man killed by train not on track."
That's cool. And I know where your talking about. Where's the caboose at? And what;'s with the earth color scheme? I've seen it on Dash 9s as well.
My train story. A week back Dad and i were heading for Grandma's recovery home at Prestwick. (between danville and Avon IN). We decided to wait on a tain I saw down there. Now, I don;t know my desiels well yet, but the Lead engine was a CN FP-45 looking thing. I'm not kidding. That was the wildest thing I've seen around here. A CN, and an older engine at thaT.
-Morgan
Thanks PC not sure which way I'm going to go but figure once I get brave may repaint this engine one of 3 liverlies (B&O, Southern or NS) LOL .
speaking of NS Trainfreak409 saw a stange thing to me anyway behind a NS train (one engine) about 25 or so cars instead of the red beakin all it had was a red flag attached to the coupler. Is this normal on trains that may have been split to drop some cars off or pick some cars up and position them at a certain point in the train? I'm guessing this is what may have been going on here. not sure though.
Well not much happening here today have an appointment in the morning for maybe a better job, I might go back to Plumbing more $$ if I can get back in.
rtraincollector wrote: Thanks PC not sure which way I'm going to go but figure once I get brave may repaint this engine one of 3 liverlies (B&O, Southern or NS) LOL .speaking of NS Trainfreak409 saw a stange thing to me anyway behind a NS train (one engine) about 25 or so cars instead of the red beakin all it had was a red flag attached to the coupler. Is this normal on trains that may have been split to drop some cars off or pick some cars up and position them at a certain point in the train? I'm guessing this is what may have been going on here. not sure though. Well not much happening here today have an appointment in the morning for maybe a better job, I might go back to Plumbing more $$ if I can get back in.
Per chance they were short a fred? Or had a long train on a strep hil? I read abpout breaking trains in two for grades where there's no helper available. me not know.