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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:10 PM

Packers#1
Probably going to give them reporting marks for the South Carolina, Georgia, and Western

 

Awwww...the car looks red and rusted enough to be owned by the WRS! Smile,Wink, & Grin

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:39 PM

 lol, gives me another project. Probably going to give them reporting marks for the South Carolina, Georgia, and Western (the Aiken Northern RR history will be up soon)

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:10 PM

Packers#1


 

So much for reporting marks!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:59 PM

Hey guys. No video this time, as there really isn't much to discuss/explain. Been making some headway on scenery, although the pace has slowed. Also finished up both engines; someday in the future I will get undec. shells for all three ANRR locos (both geeps and the U23B) and paint it in the red and white scheme, but this will work for now.
GP9:


GP35:


Tracks:

Improved hoppers:


Overview:

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:28 PM

To be honest I probably don't have anything you'd want.

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:25 PM

 I've got a spare Metroliner shell that i might part with if you have anything i'm interested in.  I could also probably give you the trucks, less the wheels (you don't want them anyway, plastic junk).  its a first run Metroliner, so it's frame is crumbled, so i can't provide you with that.

 

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:18 PM

 Yep! P42, some amfleets, and a 9600.  I am need of way to much money so it will be awhile but still, yes.

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:13 PM

Guilford Guy

Or you could WAIT until I have my Amtrak push pull set...

 

 

You building a Metroliner Cab? I'm doing one Phase III, and i might do another more recent one. 

I still need to get some more Metroliners.  I've decided I'm going to try and build up a large fleet of them, but not just the standard bachmann paints.  I'm going to try and do the later-run Metroliners with the different paint and roof humps, as well as put some in Penn Central paint.    I should be able to make stemman pans after my arrow III experiences. 

 It will be fun if i can find some more dummies. 

 

I actually have it painted, but i don't have any photos of it.  I just need to modify the doors, and its done. 


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Posted by Guilford Guy on Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:06 PM

Or you could WAIT until I have my Amtrak push pull set...

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:55 AM

Yeah...I'm thinking that this will be a long-time goal for me - there is money for trains in the budget (my Kodak Zi8 camera is coming in this week and I'm not getting a DSLR until I need to!) but I have loads of projects that take priority over an optional passenger train...which I'd still need a locomotive plus a decoder for.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:24 PM

Walthers Amfleet coaches are on sale!

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-6003

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:02 PM

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Pffft! Buy your own commmuter trains!

 

You were the one lobbying for them in the first place!

Maybe I'll get a long-distance Boston - White River Junction (to connect with the Montrealer) Amtrak service. An F40PH and a trio of Amfleet coaches should do it. I'll name it the Red Wing or the Alouette after the Boston & Maine trains that once served the line... Nashua, Manchester, and Concord have wanted passenger service for a long time and I bet Boston would like a connection to Montreal that doesn't require going via Springfield.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:53 PM

 Sweet pics GG.

Finished up the weathering on my locos today. Surprised at how easily that red weathers compared w/ ATSF blue. Think I WELL overdid it though, so while they still aren't horrible, I will probably end up redoing them along with the U23B when I get the funding for some new shells etc. from Atlas (just something I've wanted to do, and keeps these original shells how they are for comparison/memories). but anyways, did a bit more scenery work today, though the weathering was the main focus.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:04 PM

Pffft! Buy your own commmuter trains! I'll take decoders anyway though! Wink

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:56 PM

When I buy 4 and 6 function decoders for ditch lights on the GP15s and GP18s, then I can give you a decoder to put in one of the RDCs plus alpha-numeric decals to reletter one "NHDOT" because the citizens on my railroad WANT COMMUTER RAIL! Big Smile

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:52 PM

 I didn't want to over-do it but yes, they all have weathering on the under frames.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:47 PM

Nice buy GG. The weathering looks good. I can't tell if you did or not by the photos, but if you didn't, I think you should add (add more) grime to the bottom of the cars to represent dirt/mud being thrown up from the balast and the wheels. I don't think there would be very much soot along the bottom of cars (especially the pilots). The only place you could have soot is around the two Detroit Diesel engines located in the middle of either side of the car.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:32 PM

RDC Pix!

 Noses, heh, they have 2. Tongue

 

 General View


Roof Weathering

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Posted by teen steam fan on Friday, November 20, 2009 9:35 PM

modelbnsfer

Hey

Is your layout finished and do you operate yours with like car cards or a switch list and is this your first layout because your diorama pixs were really nice, better then some of the ones in mr.Smile,Wink, & Grin

What kind of airbrush do you use because I would like to get one but have no idea what brands are good or what I even need.

Taylor 

I have an old Passhe that was my dad's, I love it and still sprays great. I have had my eye on the SATA minijets. They are automotive grade airbrushs, cost about $300. Good quality though.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Friday, November 20, 2009 9:14 PM

I found the coupler boxes, just need to strip off the old weathering from the RDC3s and I'll have a 5 car train!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, November 20, 2009 3:48 PM

 Sweet GG, looking forward to those pics!

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Friday, November 20, 2009 3:37 PM

 My RDCs arrived today! I'm still hunting for the coupler boxes to my 2 RDC3s so I can run those in consist with my 3 new RDC2s. I just finished weathering them, pix will be up later tonight when the parents come back with the camera. Still waiting on that second GP15 though.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, November 20, 2009 3:28 PM

modelbnsfer

Sawyer- haven't touched the train in a month and havent worked on it for over 6 so don't feel bad.

 

lol, ok man. I'm hopefully going to add some more woodland scenics grass tonight, either to the ditch or the other "field" by the interchange track.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 20, 2009 8:44 AM

WCfan
That's pretty neat Tyler, although I wouldn't mind some captions under the pictures. Tongue

 

The actual calendar has them under all the photos - I've just replaced the old screenshot on the download page with an image of the new calendar, with the captions.

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Posted by ns3010 on Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:34 PM

Tyler: That calendar is sick! I'm gonna haveta print me out one... 

modelbnsfer
My high school is small though so you guys probably go to big high schools.

Not even close. We only have about 500 kids. Catholic school, that's why. And it seems like it's shinking by the second, since people keep leaving...

Jordan- That makes zero sense to me...

Here's mine:
Monday Lab
Double 1, 2, 3, 5, 56, 6, Double 7 (no 4 and 8)
Tuesday Lab
Double 2, 3, 4, 5, 56, 6, Double 8 (no 1 and 7)
Wednesday Non-Lab
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 56, 6, 7, 8 (all classes)
Thursday Lab
Double 3, 4, 1, Double 5, 56, 8, 7 (no 2 and 6)
Friday Lab
Double 4, 1, 2, 56, Double 6, 7, 8 (no 3 and 5)

For me, 1st is Chem H, 2 is Band, 3 is Theology, 4 is Gym (driver's ed 1st quarter, gym 2nd and 4th quarters, and writing [ugh] 3rd quarter), 5 is lunch, 56 is English H, 6 is Algebra 2 H, 7 is US History, and 8 is Spanish 2.
On Thursdays and Fridays, you usually end up with a different lunch. For example, my regular lunch (M-W) is A (period 5). On Thursdays, I have B, and I have C on Fridays. I just wish there was double lunch.

Each class is 40 minutes, with 3 minutes in between, and doubles are 83 minutes. Homeroom starts at 8 and ends at 8:07 (first block [I would say period, but 1st period is not always first] starts at 8:10). I'm not gonna go through the entire day, but I'll say that last period ends at 2:34. On Faculty Meeting days (1st Wednesday of the month), classes are 30 minutes, and we get out at 1:04. On Liturgy days (when we have Mass), it's wierd (it's like homeroom, 1, 2, homeroom again, liturgy, 5, 56, 6, 4, 7, 8, or something like that [I'm too lazy to reach over and look at the schedules in our planner...]). We have a different schedule for every possible scenario, and it gets kinda annoying...


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Posted by WCfan on Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:12 PM

What you guys need is the Flex-Mod scheduling... Tongue

That's pretty neat Tyler, although I wouldn't mind some captions under the pictures. Tongue

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:06 PM

Cool. Thanks Ty!

And I can beat all of your crazy schedules, I definately have the simplest:

7 periods of 50 minutes, 5 minutes between each class except between periods 2 and 3, we get 15 minutes break. Period 5 is lunch.

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Posted by modelbnsfer on Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:05 PM

Hey Everyone

You guys all have confusing schedules. Mine is 1,2,3(15 minutes longer for homeroom time),4, lunch 5,6 hour and its like that everyday of the year. My high school is small though so you guys probably go to big high schools.

Sawyer- haven't touched the train in a month and havent worked on it for over 6 so don't feel bad.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:36 PM

Higher quality version with photo captions created and posted on the website - the older one has been removed so you'll only see the new one.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:52 PM

Alex and others: If you want to wait to download, I'm working on a higher resolution 300ppi VS 72ppi) version with photo descriptions - I'll post again here when it's done and posted on the website.

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