I tuned this turnout to stop shorts at the frog.
Show me a circus or carnival scene.
Springfield PA
For some reason I got hooked on the Old Dutch Hoppers? I drove the prices up on E Bay to about double the prices.
I cut the coupler box off the trucks, used PK2000 33inch wheels. Used the truck reamer tool to get then rolling freely. Used Kadee couplers and boxes. Attached the pockets with super glue to the floor of the car. You have to cut the two small ears off the coupler box so they don't hit the wheels and make the car derail. Found if you snip a Kadee washer on one side you could slip them around the Tyco trucks mounting point. Added some weights and they where ready to roll.
Get some funny looks when I break out 30+ of them at K-10.
Show me something else you made work better.
I hate Rust
Ken ... I think your idea for a topic is a good one. There could be an entire thread just for re-built cheapie rolling stock (locomotives, too).
Here's a group of Tyco rebuilt cars. All have Kadees. Trucks are either replaced or re-wheeled. Weights are added if needed. Hoppers were "dime a dozen" CB&Q cars. Two were made a darker red by spraying boxcar red over them, and the lettering now looks realistically faded. Decks were replaced on flat cars with Evergreen scribed plastic. The GN flat car was repainted and decals were applied. The tank car was made from a salvaged junker. It was painted and weathered to look like a Burlington company services car for diesel fuel.
Please show more rebuilt rolling stock made from inexpensive Tyco or other cheapies.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Times up.
Show me a cheap Rolling Stock that you made track and roll great! I sure learned a lot from working on the cheap Tyco cars.
Stebby,
That is an awesome contribution, I have been on the lookout for a good 'HD' microcamera myself. I have seen some excellent rail videos, & some not that good. Although my cam car will not be scale like yours, you win the "SPY" award in my book!! Thanks for sharing & inspiring!!
Back to Show Me Something 'S Scale or Tinplate' Please!
Something unique in all of Flyerdom, my camera car kitbashed from a work caboose. The camera shoots through the window in the forward door. The toolbox contains the battery.
Let's see something else in "S". Scale or tinplate. I know you're out there, S-scalers!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Here is a detail Shot of my shelf display. It shows; Foxhole, Ferns, Mushrooms, a bedded down Doe, a Red Squirrel & a Pileated Woodpecker hole in the dead tree trunk. Lots of little treasures hidden in there. The Fox hole was accidental, just a void in the construction, & the rest were more intentional. The long exposure made it a little blurry, like how 'I see' things when I am in a moving car.....
Show Me Something, Unique Equipment to your railroad!
Here's one...
Show me a wild animals home.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
The only true double track on the layout:
Show me an non-signalled level crossing.
Show me a double track mainline.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Show me a station platform.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
Show me something D&RGW.
Nice pictures,everybody.
Chad Ryan. Thanks for the remarks on my layout photo in MR I am very pleased with it.
Pan Am Railways? ... Hmmmm... They'll never get off the ground.
Wolfgang. Nice little Shay!
Looking for a Heisler.
Show me a Heisler.
Here are your riding passengers.
Show me a Shay.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Show me some riding passengers.
George, that is an excellent back story! I got this car because I was mentored by a superior retired engineer & precision modeler. He was a former engineer for Pan Am! So, as my picture shpows an untouched car, I plan to do something special to dedicate him, as modeling has enriched my life, & has given me endless enjoyment!!!!
Thanks!
CB&Q Heartland, a Big Congrats for the shot in MR, well deserved!!
Here is a Hint to what I requested: (get it?) No, not the Kenworth, the container!
It's Friday, perhaps everyone is out! Hah hah...
Someone Please Show Me a NEW request (with a 'suggestion' picture in their post!)
MotleyThat would be Pan Am Railways.
That's the one! For those not familiar, this is the true back story:
The owner of Guiford Rail Systems (formally, Guilford Transportation Industries, the one that bought B&M and MEC, among others) also likes airplanes. Some time ago he bought the rights to Pan American Airlines. Some years later he started a short haul airline using that name running out of Portsmouth NH. That business did not last very long, so last year he renamed Guilford to Pan American Railways and stated painting locomotives and rolling stock blue with the familar Pan Am globe logohttp://www.guilfordrail.com/
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Whoa, it is quick tonite!
Motley here is your pic...
Doc, I hope this is close enough, I only know it as the wheel arrangement, but a unique model!
Please, show me another non-land going (should say: traversing) rail marque..
I think that Pan Am is past its "best by" date, but here's something that's about as close as I can get to an airline connection:
Secord Air Services "ace" (spelling seems to vary ) Barney Secord flying his Stearman under the Maitland River Bridge:
Show me something DM&IR (like maybe a Yellowstone).
That would be Pan Am Railways.
A pair of Mobil 3-dome tank cars WSRX
SHow me something from a current railroad that is named for an old airline (and a new TV show)
No SOO engines.
Show me a project, never mind.
Since the time has expired on the request, here's my offering: it's neither new nor an engine, but it is SOO Line and an almost new car for my late '30s layout.
Show me a private owner car (one with an "X" as the last letter in the reporting marks) that's not a beer reefer.
Show me a new SOO Line engine.
Weathered loco.
Santa Fe FP-45 #5941. An Athearn BB kit with a Soundtraxx DSD101-LC decoder.
Here is my newest.
This little SW was too cheap to pass up. It is actually a SW800 I believe, but miss numbered. Lots to do with it before it is really road ready. It is shown on it DC maiden run.
Sorry. Too slow i guess.
We're looking gor a weathered loco.
A pair of Athearn GP7's. DJ.
Show me your best weathered loco.
It is about 45 years old. I am not sure it was ever fully forgotten, but it did spend best part of a quarter century in my parents attic. Can anyone guess why I stick with code 100 rail?
Show me something you just purchased.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
The NYC 20th Century Ltd.
Show me something you almost forgot about. (Something that you had in storage and discovered it.)