Hi guys I was wondering how many CN modelers are here and if any of you have some interesting projects and tips you would like to post here. I just recently finished building a MLW M420W here are some pictures.
Nice small pictures,[:D] but you really need them to be bigger to be truly appreciated[dinner]
oops they were suppose to be larger images, but you can see the full pictures here
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=CN%203553a.JPG&public_view=1&album=0&fullsize=1
Was your model built using the Kaslo kit? I’ve been thinking of buying a few of them myself! Whatever you used it looks great![tup]
yes its a kaslo kit, they’re great kits but it takes some time and patience. right now I’m working on a kaslo SD40-2F
I know of one or two. Doctorwayne, if I have that typed correctly, does steam era modelling with CN. He may look in.
I have a CN Mogul from IHC that’s got an SP prototype, does that count? [:D]
Bob Boudreau has a large collection of CN as well as other roads, IIRC.
I’m a CP guy myself…
Wayne is a very good modeler and his layout his quite nice. [tup] I’m sure he’ll post a few pics for us to enjoy.
Tom
If you count a train sim TRS…I gots a few CN ex-WC routes going that I am doing in Wisconsin
My layout is centered around a freelanced Canadian metropolis on Lake Ontario. While the layout focuses mainly on commuter rail and the freelanced belt line around the city, CN is of course one of the railroads that feeds into that belt line.
I’ll admit my CN roster is pretty weak, consisting of a few Athearn SD40-2s and an SD40, but I’d like to start getting more of the signature CN units. Does anyone make (RTR or kit, no matter) a GP40-2W or a SD40-2W in HO?
Cheers!
~METRO
Does Freelance but mainly CN Stuff count? My web site www.xdford.digitalzones.com says it all on a 4 x 8.
Are you a member of CN Lines-Cnet yahoo group? Some good stuff there.
Cheers from Down Under
Trevor
Artur, nice work on your diesel, and a very good job on the paint, too. For modern diesels, that scheme is my favourite, by far.
Thanks to both Crandell and Tom for the kind words. While my layout is free-lanced, I do have a CNR loco, with a couple more still in the shops. The layout will eventually include a working interchange with the CNR. I also have a good friend who is a real CNR buff, and I do a lot of paint and detailing work for him.
This is my Proto2000 USRA 0-8-0. I managed to add enough weight to it to double its pulling power, so I decided that it was worthwhile to rebuild it to more closely ressemble its prototype. I stripped off all of the undersize piping, then lowered the running boards, adding new lead-filled brass air tanks. The front of the frame was lengthened to accomodate the CNR-style front end, and a new pilot was fabricated from brass bar. I added a built-up frame at the rear, altered the cab roof, then completely re-piped the loco, using brass wire. The tender got an open coal bunker,with modified handrails and new steps and rear footboards. Raised brass numbers on the cab completed the modifications.
This is an Athearn Mikado that I modified for my friend:
And one of his brass locos, to which I added the Elesco fwh system:
Here’s another of mine, a model of a CNR prototype, an FPA-4, although I lettered it for one of my free-lanced roads, using parts of an Accucal set for CNR freight locos. It started as a Model Power FA, but I removed many of the body panels and rearranged them, then did the same with the rear of the roof in order to get the fan in the proper location. The louvres were scratchbuilt from styrene, as was the fuel tank. The icicle breakers are built-up from brass bar. I also have an FPB-4 to go with it.
My latest project for my friend was adding the auxill
Hey Artur
I model CN as well as CP and a small amount of BC Rail, I have just finished detaling a Genises CN MAC 70 as well as weathering a Kato CN RS-3,I try to keep an equal amount of CN & CP running on my layout,I have a 2 seperate Mainlines one CN & the other CP, I do find finding CN rolling stock at shows a bit more Challenging than CP rolling Stock, My avitar is my newest CN F-7 at my Fueling platform, it will be weathered and detailed in the near future.
Mike G
Wow! Beautiful work as usual, Wayne! [:)][tup] The 0-8-0 looks completely different than it’s original foundation. It looks more like you took a BLI Mike and “dismantled” it than a P2K switcher and altered it heavily. I love the look of that Elesco FWH.
Again, beautiful work, Wayne! Keep it up!
Tom
P.S. Wayne, how big is your freelance layout? Do you have a track plan that you can post? Just curious.
Tell us, is that -2f getting Sergent stripes or Action Red?
David B
Yup, CN and CP - all eras.
Doctor Wayne you do great work - I went to university in Guelph, and later, lived there for a few years ('90 - '93ish) - so I looked t your Elora Gorge paint job with interest. Nicely done.
Cheers.
I’ve been known to do CN models once in a while:
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I too model CN in HO scale. I recently added 4 TLT cabooses to my roster after a little bit of customization. I changed the smokestacks from the ones provided (which were on coal-fired stoves) to the H-type used on oil burning stoves.
I also painted the platforms and steps orange.
Since all of my rolling stock run on sprung trucks, I replaced the rigid plastic trucks provided with metal (Kadee and Walthers) trucks (with leaf springs) I salvaged from the 4 old cabooses I decommissioned.
You can view many photos of my other stuff by clicking on the two links in my signature at the bottom.
Thanks once again, Tom. I don’t have a trackplan available (I didn’t have much of one when I started building the layout, either, as my “train room” shrank due to family considerations shortly before construction started). The current room is about 560 square feet, and as you can see from the crude drawing below, a very odd shape. I lost almost 240 square feet to a small rec room for the kids. The additional space would’ve been to the upper left-hand corner of the drawing, with the wall with the door pushed to the left about 6’, and the left wall at Dunnville moved about 16’ to line up the left side. The door would’ve then been in the 6’ extension, but on the same wall as the GERN factory.
The layout is designed to be double-decked over the area in grey, with all staging stacked at the location shown. The layout, basically a “Y” shape, with the two “arms” stacked, when completed will be operated as a point-to-point-to-point, with South Cayuga as the “hub”. Here’s a link to a Layout (room) tour . Those on dial-up should be warned: there are lots of pictures - basically what you’d see if you could visit in person.
Wayne
I too model CN in HO scale, anything late 1980’s to the mid 1990’s. CN is/was quite unique with their locomotives and modeling them is chalenging yet fun. Some of my custom units i’m workign on: CN GMD1-M, SW1200RSM with the GP9 long hood, GP38-2 (most likly will be a hump unit) GP40-2LW and a few SD40’s will be CN’ized.