Your pride and joy(s)

[BRAKIE]

Here's my 3.

First the apple of my eye.

My pride.

And finally my joy.

[Tracklayer]

Talk about a loaded question... The fact is my entire layout and all of my locos and rolling stock are my pride and joys. But. If I had to pick just two I'd have to say that my Norfolk & Western J along with the six car consist I pull with it and my Southern Pacific Daylight loco and cars would be at the top of the list.

-Tracklayer-

[steamage]

This is a 1952 all metal model Athearn Crane kit I had purchased at a train show as a kit in the box. Notice it has all the cable sheves and sprung trucks.  It was cheeped out when Athearn went making them in plastic with only one cable sheve.  Not that the crane is actually holding up on end of a heavy brass Baldwin AS616.

 

[Burlington Northern #24]

tracklayer, I agree with you I favor alot of my stuff. 

steamage, nice.

[ChadLRyan]

I believe that the best ones are the 'ones' that have 'the' passion....

Just my thoughts...

[BRAKIE]

Chad,The 410 looks good..

Very nicely done.

[ChadLRyan]

Brakie,
Thank You!!!
That Kato GP35, really is a honey, it almost doesn't need any track.  She is so smooth & quiet, in a very gentle way, it is a pleasure to run with her. My dig is that; in that pic I had accidently left off the Nolan Re-Railers on the hooks over the rear truck.. Ooopppsss!
This is the model I used for the 'Working DC Ditchlight & Strobe installation write up a while back..
Although I have not seen much, feedback on it, (what was there, was very positive!!), I think it turned out good.
This is one great loco, & even though I got a couple more, they just don't 'seem' as 'fair natured' as this particular one..  Sometimes you get the nice ones, the exceptionals!!
I think "ya' all" will know what i mean, as MRR's you been there..

Here is that other Thread;
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/198637/2175074.aspx#2175074

Thanks agian!!.

[zgardner18]

ChadLRyan

 

I Don't like! I don't like it one bit!  Such desecration!

I love my MRL's

......and my faded BNSF

[Burlington Northern #24]

Nice stuff guys. yes I love the locos that are perfect and extremely cooperative. here's some more units for me to add 

[keithh9824]

My Newest Pride and Joy is shipped

[Burlington Northern #24]

I like that scheme. 

[hon30critter]

Here is my pride and joy:

Several of you have seen it before but I just couldn't prevent myself from showing it off again. I apologise if I am being repetetive.

It is an HOn30 scratch built brass diesel using a Bachmann N scale 4-4-0 drive system. The engine body is sheet brass. The visible 'fake' diesel engine is from a Life Like power generator. The gondola contains the drive motor. The gon is simply the original N scale coal tender in disguise. All that remains of the original N scale engine is the worm gear/drive wheel assembly which is glued to the bottom of the fake diesel engine. It has constant LED lighting with both a headlight and a red 'tail light' that work in both directions. There is a ton of lead stuffed into every available space so it actually has some heft to it.

This was one of my first ventures when I got into model railroading. I picked up the N 4-4-0 at our LHS (now defunct unfortunately). It was well used but it was cheap and ran fine. The design was a compilation of several critter engines that I had seen on the net. I did not choose a particular prototype (I should have) and by not doing that I set myself up for a couple of dumb mistakes, like the fact that the roof mounted headlight beam is partially blocked by the exhaust stack. I think I may have the only engine with the headlight mounted on the roof. In hindsight it doesn't make sense because the glare on the hood would interfere with the engineer's forward vision. I also chose a red rear light instead of a proper white reverse lamp, mostly because the tiny red LED that I had fit the headlight bezel perfectly.

Bottom line is that it actually runs quite well and it all came out of my wee little mind! (There's probably not much left in my wee little mind these days!)

Anyhow, I picked up a second 4-4-0 a while ago so at some time I will build another critter, hopefully without the deficiencies that this one has.

Thank you for your interest.

Dave

[Burlington Northern #24]

looks cool, so is your layout urban narrow gauge or rural narrow gauge?

[hon30critter]

Burlington Northern #24:

My layout will be in HO. The critter will run on a small oval on a mountain above the main HO lines, transferring whatever the mine is mining (I haven't decided yet) from the mine to a loading terminal. There will also be an engine shed, bunkhouse, office, latrine, dynamite shed, hoist house, mine building and a tailings track.

This is the engine house:

Dave

[narrow gauge nuclear]

Very nice work, indeed!

I have always had great respect for the rare HOn21/2 folks.  They are VCIW's by choice (voices crying in the wilderness).  They are brave in that they are tied to HO scale but are hand tooling stuff at the near N gauge level.  I cast about for decent kits in HOn3 and have a hard go of it.  One can only imagine the lonliness in the two and half foot gauge HO scale world.

Thus far, in my limited recent experiences with train shows, I have only run across one dealer that caters to the whole spectrum of NG across all scales on the east coast and that would be "Crusader".  At their booth, I saw several interesting HOn21/2 kits.

Anyone still hangin' around here in TT with a pride and joy! (blast from the past)

Richard

[Burlington Northern #24]

nice work indeed HoN30critter, yeah come on guys I know there's more people out here who want to share don't be shy, and for those who've got more that's what the (s) means. you an have more than one.

[ChadLRyan]

Zak G;

Hey, I appreciate the compliments!!!
As we have conversed before, you know "I just can't STOP! Flying the Classic Colors of the MRL!!!"
To me thay are a great point in time here in NE IA, & I really would like seeing more of them!!
So I do!!!

Here is another fictional, an Atlas MP15DC, with fresh Laquer smell, at no extra charge...
I'm still flying that awesome paint scheme!!

Thanks!!!

[Burlington Northern #24]

that blue seems really fitting on that MP15DC. Keep on sharing guys!

[rdgk1se3019]

First and second generation horsepower gather for my open house today.

[ChadLRyan]

Good Looking Fleet Dennis!!! 
Nicely Done!

[rdgk1se3019]

Thank you.

I can only take credit for the 3 GP30`s in the pic......I painted, decaled, and did the sound install on those.

The rest were factory done.

[Burlington Northern #24]

they all look good. come on guys more, more, more! 

[ChadLRyan]

It was asked...
A few from the archives...

[rdgk1se3019]

A pic or two from open house last night.

[Southwest Chief]

Pride and joy of the G scale layout would be my three K class locos.

First K-28 #473 and K-27 #461:

Next K-36 #489:

Pride and joy of the HO layout?  Maybe this little Bachmann Alco S4.  I just love this thing...after adding a few road specific details.

[CAZEPHYR]

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BLI Paragon J1, a Texas type used by the Pennsylvania Railroad.  Even though I have a small collection of articulated locomotives which I love, this one twin-cylinder beast had just short of the pulling power of a Union Pacific Challenger 4-6-6-4.  It also happens to be a very nice looking, highly detailed, and smooth model.

Crandell

What a great looking scene with a super locomotive!    I have some of the J1a models and they are really the best of the best of the Pennsy.   

CZ

 

This is one of the great Texas type locomotives that was leased by the PRR in the summer of 1956 and worked along side by side with the J1a class on the PRR for one last coal season that year.

 

The Challenger is a #1 scale model that is great to watch run and hear the sounds.

 

 

 

[Burlington Northern #24]

there's a lot of great stuff, I need to super detail some of my locos, my 4-8-4 could use it.