Atlas RS-1, modified and painted for a friend's railroad...
Wayne
More ALCos, please.
doctorwayne Atlas RS-1, modified and painted for a friend's railroad...
Wayne, who is this incredibly talented friend? Never have I seen a more realistic scene, looks like a photo from real life. Likewise your loco...
-Rob
Thanks for your kind comments, Rob.
A friend was looking for an RS-1, and I knew of a used one, for sale, in a nearby hobbyshop. I bought it for $50.00, then added a few details that I had on-hand (I used to model diesels myself, but backdated my layout's era to the late '30s, so still had some diesel stuff kickin' around). I also had some CNR diesel decals and paint, and I did the paint scheme pretty-well as what CNR used, although they never owned RS-1s. Fortunately, he wanted it lettered for his freelance road, so I did that with alphabet decals which I already had, too.I also replaced all of the moulded-on grabirons with homemade wire ones, and replaced all of the handrails with ones formed from piano wire, drilling-out the Delrin stanchions, then threading them onto the wire. I took that photo, and several others, on my layout, before sending the locomotive to him, in return for fifty bucks.
He then had someone else put a decoder in it (my layout is DC), but a couple years later decided to leave the hobby, and offered me a number of items, (for a price, of course) including the locomotive. While the RS-1 is among my favourite ALCos, I didn't really need it, and another friend, who had seen the diesel before I had sent it, expressed interest in it. He did end-up buying it (obviously for more than $50.00), but I took the decoder out of it for him (also a DC operator), and he was able to sell it, bringing the price back to the original fifty bucks. It has returned to my layout once or twice, too, but just for a visit.
Here are a couple more photos, taken a bit closer...
I believe we're still looking for more ALCos.
Alco? Here's one passing a small super market and a Pizza Hut.
More Alcos please.
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Here's a CN C-425 in one of my favourite paint schemes...
...CN owned lots of ALCos and MLWs, but no C-425s
More ALCos or MLWs, please.
Wayne wrote: "More ALCOs or MLWs, please."
NYC S3 #874 doing a little switching on the BRVRR.
Keep the ALCOs coming please.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
BRVRRKeep the ALCOs coming please.
A venerable Alco PA has just arrived with #6 while #5 prepares to depart. The EMD switcher is waiting toward the left.
IMG_4256_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
ALCo locomotives are popular, let's see more. Any ALCo steam?
3781 is an ALCO 4-8-4 'Northern' steam locomotive.
Please show me any steam locomotive.
Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Please show me any steam locomotive.
A pair of "steam locos" crossing Rt. 9.
More steam locos please, real ones.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
HarrisonMore steam locos please
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STRATTON AND GILLETTE number 857 is a steam powered locomotive.
Show me another steam locomotive.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I actually do have two steam locomotives. This one, a Mahano, still DC, runs like champ, nice and quiet. It will run all night during our family Christmas Eve thing.
I don't know what class it would be as far mallot, or Berkshire or whatever, as I'm such a steam buff.
I actually have another, a Bachmann Spectrum, 2-8-0, DCC and sound, 2005 version, I just don't have any pictures of it.
More steam!
Mike.
My You Tube
CB&Q 6303 is a 2-10-2.
Please show us a kitbashed model.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry said: "Please show us a kit bashed model."
A mild bash based on some of them shown here, New York Central #4034 was converted from a Proto 2000 Burlington E7. I removed the second headlight, stripped and painted it for the NYC 'cigar band' livery. It has a Soundtraxx decoder and speaker installed for motor control and sound.
More bashed models please.
For a contrast, this is an HOn30 diesel that I kitbashed for Boothbay Railway Village. The shell started as an HO Athearn Hustler with a Bachmann 44 Tonner mechanism. I shortened it and cut it more narrow. Critters are fun!
Show me more kitbashed pleased
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G PaineShow me more kitbashed pleased
This is a "work-in-progress" of a PRR tower car for making repairs to the catenary structure:
PRR_line4 by Edmund, on Flickr
Based on one of the PRR M-of-W cars like this:
http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=oew275-conv.gif&sel=tower&sz=sm&fr=
More kit or scratch-built subjects, please.
George, in garden tractor talk, without any running boards, or foot boards, your little loco would be called a "foot dragger"
I'm hoping Ed means kitbashed?
If not, I'm sneakin in one more:
An SD40T-2, spartan cab cut off, and a wide cab added.
Just one more? OK?
A Con Cor sleeper, with a streamliner roof and side panels from an Athearn coach, to give me a sleeper car for my up-coming passenger train.
OK, that's all
More kit bashed, or scratch built please.
I would guess this would qualify as a kitbashed model, it was a kitbash in a box from Eastern Car Works, the GATC 3500CF Dryflow Covered Hopper.
Kit pieces as I opened the box, you essentially received two Airslide Kits with a new roof and floor, while you diced and sliced the sides to fit.
Sides after cutting, filing and glueing together.
The finished car!
More kitbashes please!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Here's a kitbash to match a prototype kitbash: IAIS 6988, a China Railways QJ that was imported to the US and Americanized
Show me another kitbash or scratchbuild
mbinsewiGeorge, in garden tractor talk, without any running boards, or foot boards, your little loco would be called a "foot dragger
This small locomotive would have only room for 1 operator; he would have to get out to do his own switching unless there was a caboose where a switchman could ride. A 44 tonner would look huge next to it
Silver Fountain is a diner/parlor/observation car. I bashed it from a Walthers observation car.
Please show us your most recently acquired locomotive.
The Athearn BB PRR SW1200 is my most recent acquisition, though I hope to change that soon.
More switchers please.
HarrisonMore switchers please.
Here's a beat-up Conrail road-switcher showing a Penn Central and Pennsylvania railroad heritage.
CR_GP9_7105b by Edmund, on Flickr
Another switcher, please.
gmpullman Another switcher, please.
MP15AC 23 is a recent acquisition for the B&CCS, and is still in its Union Railroad paint. However, that hasn’t stopped it from heading out on an evening switching run through Beacon, where a railfan’s camera caught it crawling behind some buildings and heading out after completing its job.
Keep the switchers coming!
Check out the Balfour and Colucci Creek Southern Railroad, my proto-freelanced N scale model railroad, at bccsrailroad.weebly.com or on Youtube on my channel, N Scale Train Boy.
-Dennis
GE 44T switcher at the scrap yard.
Plese show another switcher.
Garry said: "Please [sic] show another switcher."
New York Central SW8 #9622 , the Grafton Turn, eastbound.
More little switchers please.
BRVRRMore little switchers please.
Here's a little Pennsy B6 in fresh paint next to a behemoth, EM-1.
B-andEM1_2000-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Show me another steam 0-4-0 or 0-6-0.
A NH 0-4-0.
Show me any Geep.
An Alco S-4 brings in a boxcar for the paper mill. The locomotive is made by Bachmann.
I'm new to these forums, but I have been modeling in HO Scale since 2011. If I'm doing anything wrong, please, feel free to correct me.
More ALCO locomotives, please.
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." -Lin Yutang
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HarrisonShow me any Geep.
Here is a Clinchfield GP pulling some tank cars on the Country Road Model Railroaders portable sectional layout.
Show me any road switcher.
SeeYou190Show me any road switcher.
A venerable EMD SD-7 still plugging away —
BnO_SD7_yard by Edmund, on Flickr
An other road switcher, please. Bonus if it is a Baldwin or F-M.