Or you could WAIT until I have my Amtrak push pull set...
Alex
Guilford GuyOr 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.
Modeling Conrail, Amtrak and NJ DOT under the wires in New Jersey, July 1979.
Yep! P42, some amfleets, and a 9600. I am need of way to much money so it will be awhile but still, yes.
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.
To be honest I probably don't have anything you'd want.
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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So much for reporting marks!
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)
Packers#1Probably 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!
TrainManTyPackers#1Probably 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!
Those are actually two different hoppers.
lol, idk what numbers the WRS would want though. Shoot me a PM
Packers#1lol, idk what numbers the WRS would want though.
If you wanted one or both to be WRS cars, covered hoppers are in the 4700 series. Here's the WRS designations for rolling stock. (Alex, pay attention for when you decal my caboose! )
- 4100s: Cabooses- 4200s: MOW equipment- 4300s: Other- 4400s: Flatcars- 4500s: Gondolas- 4600s: Hoppers- 4700s: Covered hoppers- 4800s: Reefers- 4900s: Boxcars
Gotcha man. they're plastic pellet hoppers. If the WRS ever needed a new source of business, a factory using plastic pellets might work well. could be on an unmodeled portion.
I'll probably make at least one WRS, probably both since they were lettered for the same company. I also have plenty of future cars for the SCGW.
Alex is lobbying for a Walthers Magic Pan Bakery to be built in West Canaan, so I might replace Lebanon Cold Storage with a plastic pellet plant someday - that's the only industry that I don't mind replacing since it's just a piece of foam-core board leaned against the backdrop right now. Plastic pellet plants make good background buildings!
I was going with a five-digit numbering system (20000 series was boxcars) until I bought 4900 from Alex. Someday I'll get around to putting car data decals on it...I puchased them this summer and they've been in a drawer ever since!
What are you going to number the caboose, Alex?
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I had an old mechanical reefer patched for the AAT at one point - right now it's in primer paint and I'm going to put patch over patch over patch and weather it into submission. I might make it an AN car if you're not modeling something else by the time I get around to that project!
I was thinking 100 or 101... Looks like I wont have ditch lights in until Springfield because of money issues.
Tyler, it'd be better to make it a SCGW car.
How the SCGW fits in:
(excerpt from the history of the ANRR)
"In 1996, the Aiken Northern Railroad signed a corporate partnership with the South Carolina, Georgia, and Western; a railroad bringing bridge traffic from ports long the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers in Tennessee and Kentucky through the Appalachian Mountains in North and South Carolina and Georgia to ports along the Atlantic coast in SC, Georgia, and the north bit of Florida. By signing this partnership, the ANRR kept it's corporate identity, while allowing captive car service from the SCGW to roll on their own lines and having a parent company that could help with the track maintenance etc. In return, the SCGW received the revenues from a bustling shortline railroad in Aiken and Edgefield counties."
The captive car services will be those CSX boxcars mainly. Also, the SCGW would be more likely to own cars than the ANRR. I'll probably keep the old AAT numbering system for freight cars though.
When I get around to actually getting cars, I'll have cars from each of your railroads!
If you guys wanna, you can have Tri-State cars. Just let me know, and I'll give you the infoooooo....
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Guilford GuyYou'll need some ANRY cars then... (Not ANRR)
huh? The name is Aiken Northern Railroad, reporting marks ANRR. there ain't an ANRY (Aiken Northern Railway).
Not Aiken Northern...
I spent all afternoon today working on the layout, adjusting track, turnouts, and equipment. The layout is now (almost) flawless and ready for the next operating session, and my reversing circuit switch is installed and finished. I took apart #8569 to try to fix the headlights...got both of them to light up, got the shell back on, then tested...now only the front one works. Three steps forward...three steps back...I'm right where I started! I'm leaving it with no rear headlight until I HAVE to take it apart again to fix something or swap out the faulty decoder.
But now I'm ready for an operating session! I doubt anyone is free this weekend because of Thanksgiving, but if you are Alex, shoot me an email and I'll see if you can come over to play with choo-choos.
Hi guys,
Well just wanted to share some new cars with you:
I acctually bought these at the beginning of the month, but just got the loads in today. They are Walthers Gold Line 4000 Cu. Ft. 3-Bay coal hoppers with Loadking/Dan's Resin loads. I think they'll go nicely with my SD70MAC (BN Executive) and my F45 (Cascade Green W/ Sound). The are the heaviest, highest quality, and most expencive cars in my fleet right now (about $11 a car with the load). I figured it was time to get some rolling stock that matched the quality of my locomotives. This is just a start, I plan to buy more hoppers as I can afford them and eventually have a HUGE coal drag (you know, 100+ cars).
If I don't speak again before then: Happy Thanksgiving
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Sweet cars Jamie.
GG, that's freelanced as well, right?
CDWJ idles at the Grafton, NH, crew change.
Sweet pic Tyler. I don't have lights for my RR yet, and DC sucks for taking pics w/ healdights.
Jamie: That's quite a load (no pun intended) you got there!
Tyler: Very nice! Where's that light from, another train?
Well, now I have a few pix when I begin modelling Transit Multilevels. I thought it would be cool (and really really really unique!) to model one (probably only one, because it'd be so tedious) with a full interior (MAYBE):
I've never been in a multilevel so those are interesting shots. I'm not sure it would be worth it to model the interior though, as the windows on those kits are shaded, i don't know how well you could see in them.
do you have the cars yet? i keep putting them off, but i better buy some.
Yeah, I had that same thought with the windows. Maybe if I put interior lights in, it could work.If anything, maybe I could just put destination signs in the windows. Since it would be impossible to program different destinations into them, I'll probably just make them say "NJ Transit," since the sometimes say that.
And no, I don't. Same here, I've done nothing but put them off...
Thanks! Yes, the light is from another train and is refracting through the Grafton Depot windows. (actually, I never modeled Grafton...the photo was taken in New Poland before The Rebuild. )