Weekend Photo Fun 22-24 August 2014

[Hobbez]

Both are Carey cast metal shells.  #49 is on a modified Athearn Genesis sound chassis.  #47 is on a dummy frame for now.  The boxcar is Exactrail.

 

[C&O Fan]

 

Busy morning in the Thurmond yards

 

 

 Here's a video of #5 and #25 leaving the water tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KA6_SXTY2k&feature=youtu.be

 

 

[mlehman]

GP9_Man,

Those mountains look great!

Yeah, the SD30 thing sounds familiar now. I wonder if it was going to be on the same frame or on a longer one like the SD24?

On the EMD turbo-ed 12 cylinder, I think that came in with the GP/SD/38/39 series, so a SD30 having one might be a stretch. Then again, maybe the SD30 was HOW they secretly tested it in a mountain hideaway?...

Now, a NG one would be cool, but the bulk factor looms. We shall see...there's always something on the secret drawing boards at the Lookout Mountain Locomotive Laboratory.

Now for some more pics of my work cars...

This one was seen in unfinished form in last week's WPF. Now I wish I'd done a bit more sanding. It's still a little "fuzzy" in hi-rez. It's an outfit car, so basically a rolling office/break room/warm place, very useful on a mountain railroad. It's based on a boxcar the Silverton Northern  had on the roster, a Rio Grande-hand-me-down via the Silverton RR. I presumed it survived into the 1960s by being in MOW service.

Silverton Union RR 0112 is a Tool Car. It was modified from HOn3 Railway Engineering Carter Bros ventilated boxcar kit, which helpfully has end doors in both ends, making it ideal for this transformation. This side has the walk-in door, but the other retains its sliding door for loading large items. Windows from the scarp box. I also added modern safety appliances and rebuilt the underframe so the coupler was part of it, rather than slung underneath. The trucks are brass takeoffs from brass cabooses upgraded to Blackstone trucks.

Camp Car SURR 0123 is another Carter Bros/Railway Engineering model. It provides sleeping facilities, a small kitchen, and -- best of all at the end of a hard day -- a solar heated shower. particulars as with 0112, except walk-in doors on both side. I'm assuming the Carter Bros cars were bought used from a California NG line, but no evidence of them actually being in Silverton...but who's keeping score?

 Carter Bros trucks by Rio Grande Models were supplied with both kits, replaced by the cushy ex-caboose trucks. I plan to use the RGM trucks for a future logging project.

[GP-9_Man11786]

Bear, Love the tin plate. It's always neat to see our hobby's roots.

Mike, Your locomotives look great.

Michael, The night shot of Cheyenne Depot looks awesome.

Here's what Iv'e been up to this week:

Michael's had a 40% off one item coupon ths week so I took advantage and printed a stack of them and bought some more lichen. I was only able to buy four bags before they caught on. But the mountains have trees all the way up one side of Horseshoe Curve.

I also started building the Gallitzin and New Portage tunnels:

The suppoort columns inside the tunnel box were all cut from a cardboard tube that was rolled inside of an area rug my wife and I bought.

 

[Motley]

Cheyenne Depot Station at night.

[Catt]

Mike, EMD had a SD30 on the books,but no buyers so it got no further than the drawing board.In our version of reality however there have been several versions of SD30s including a hi hood Southern unit.If you do your version (NG I assume) please post a lot of pictures.

["JaBear"]

Not sure about your time frame or how many horses you want Mike, but the NZR DFT class had V12 turbocharged EMD 12-645E3C prime movers producing 2510 h.p.

Cheers, the Bear.

[GDRMCo]

Mike, a 12cylinder version of the GP30's turbo 16-567D3 engine would produce 1687hp, close to what the SD7/SD9s were making. Might be an idea?

[mlehman]

Woah, someone must spend a lot of time polishing brass.

Many may have seen my Rio Grande SDL39 already.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/231838.aspx

Now I'm thinking about a SD30?!!

There was no such thing, but that hasn't stopped me yet After all, they're practically the same length. I'd like it to be a SDL30, but EMD had no lightweight 12 cylinder, turboed engine to drop in  that was suitable...we'll have to see about this.

I finished 3 camp cars for my MOW gang.

Got coal to retailers finally, but it's late and can post more tomorrow.                                                                                                                                                                                               

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, well a photo of the 6 Tichy stake pockets that I managed to find time to affix to the side of my scratch built, (or to be more accurate, should that be scratch building???), flat car is not about to awe or even amaze the Model Railroading world. In fact, quite frankly, it doesn’t even cut the mustard, so from my train show archives, this is where it generally all started in this part of the world, Hornby O gauge clockwork.  

Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One fflokes,

Cheers, the Bear.