An introduction (LOTS of photos)

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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My name is John.

Some of you may know me from other forums (Lee, Dave).

I’ll start off with a couple of prototype shots:

The first locomotive sat on Radio Island, between Beaufort and Morehead City, NC, for years. I managed to get a bunch of photos of it before it was scrapped.

The second was probably one of the last Fairbanks Morses left in revenue service. I managed to get a cab ride a week after this photo was taken. We switched a couple of boxcars. It was absolutely awesome. She now resides at the railroad museum at Spencer, NC.

I can probably say that I am one of the few people to walk the entire length of one of the railroads I model, the Beaufort and Morehead. The others are Atlantic and East Carolina and the orginal Norfolk Southern.

Ok, can you guess what scales the following are? (Those that know me, please don’t spoil it!)

Conrail covered hopper:

Some Norfolk Southern stuff

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Welcome to the board. Some great Photo’s and very nice weathering too.

As far as scale? I guess HO would be too easy… so, I will go with the odd ball and say TT? or maybe N?

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I say HO & N.
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Some nice lookin’ cars there. The Norfolk Southern car looks like HO, and most of the rest look like N, with maybe some Z scale, too.

Wayne

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Yo doc wats up![#offtopic]
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Welcome

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[#welcome] Great weathering. My quess from observing the the rail is N scale. Ken

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welcome !

i’m guessing based on the paint containers in the background of one shot that the models are N scale . it’s possible they’re Z but i haven’t seen enough Z stuff to decide . nice weathering whatever scale they are

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Welcome!

My guess would be N-scale. I recognize the lack of trip pins on the Accumate couplers because they likely fell out. [:D]

I also recognize the N-scale Atlas NS GP-38 early version #2001.

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Its gotta be N!..look at the POOCH…cant get that in plastic in HO.

David B

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[#welcome] to the forum Iain!

Beaufort and Morehead city, NC is a wonderful area to model. Wish I had known about that area before I started building my current layout, it makes for a great railroad prototype. I put together an entry for the Model Railroader Layout Design Contest that did not win, but it was based on modeling that very area.

This is a link to an interactive layout plan that I submitted for the contest, just mouse over the numbered sections to view images for the respective areas:

http://piedmontdivision.rymocs.com/iatp.htm

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[#welcome][#welcome]

I’d say HO or N, although you’ll have to answer something for me, are they all the same scale?

E-5; what do you mean?

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Welcome [#welcome][8D][tup]

Scale: N

The couplers were, for me, the giveaway. There’s a red U30CG. As David pointed out, not available in plastic HO. Nice work on the weathering :slight_smile:

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I don’t discount the possibility that you are creating an exageration and using something akin to Code 125 - or larger - rail under an HO Scale locomotive but the locomotive/trackheight relationship under your NS whatever - GP38(?) - gives your scale away as N Scale. Some may have spotted other things but that, to me, was an instant giveaway.

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HO: The NS covered hopper and the red Fs passing the double headed steam coal drag.

Z: The red and white passenger car, not nearly finished.

N: All the rest.

Thanks for the compliments on the weathering.

Yes, I hate the size of the MTs. I’ve started using Z couplers on scratchbuilt and kitbashed stuff.

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My new layout will feature code 55

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Anything from N scale and down, the thickness of the paint is a giveway, and that red plasticville U30cg (which looks really bad) make this pretty small scale, maybe they are carved from soap.

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My last five layouts have been done in Code 55 and my next one MAY use Code 40 for Industrial/Sidetracks - dependent, of course, on having a lathe which will allow me to turn down the flanges on my wheel sets.

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Hi Iain… Another explorer from Planet Railwire, I see…

Lee

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Ah yes, I have a girlfriend named Lauren that models Raleigh, NC in HO.