Im looking for any pictures of N scale steam engines if anyone has any. I dont know what steam engines are avaliable to me so i would like to gather some information and insperation from the N scale moddelers on what sizes there are and how they have them weathered.
Id also like to see any pictures of steam era servacing facilitys in N scale (if you can please say how much space the facility takes on your layout)
Thanks
Try this url – (you’ll have to cut and paste – my mac OS doesn’t seem to make clickable links)
http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html
hope it helps – his opinions about the locos I run seem to be dead on.
First attempt at uploading photos from Photobucket! See if it works.
It works.
Well that (posting photos) wasn’t too bad at all – now for the captions: the roundhouse is scratchbuilt and is based on the prototype at North Conway, NH – the turntable is a manual Heljan model and operates by means of a string belt connected to a dial on my control panel. Not shown are the water tower and coaling tower that I scratchbuilt back when I was a teenager – they survived over thirty years in storage and many moves and still look pretty good. Still to built will be a sand tower and an ash pit. All told the sevicing facility must cover about one and a half square feet.
The bottom pic is my trusty Roundhouse 2-6-0 Mogul – by far the most reliable and best running of all my steam (admittedly not the most highly deatiled of today’s affordable RTR steam) and as for weathering – well, she’s just battled throug a December Nor’easter!
Wow that link showed more N scale steam engines than i knew there was. Thats a nice scratchbuilt roundhouse, what size is the turn table?
You can actually just type url tags on your link and it’ll work then. You just type [ url]http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html[/ url], only without the spaces, and you get http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/locos.html.
Yeah, I like my little 2-6-0 too.
But then again, bigger loco’s are cool too.
They all need weathered though.
are the 2-6-0s DCC compatable?
Here’s my Bachmann 2-8-0 Consolidation. I gave it a nose job to more closely resemble a Western Maryland H-8. This is an incredibly smooth and reliable runner. Highly recommended.
Lee
The light was bad, it’s a movie taken with a still cam, there’s no scenery.
But here’s our new Big Boy:
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/jlbaz/?action=view¤t=MVI_0789.flv
Is that the Athearn Genesis Big boy? That is some pritty good sound from somthing that is what about 9 inches long? i have had a eye on the Bachmann Consolidation they look pritty good.
Sure are! Check this out: http://www.tcsdcc.com/decoderpics/mdc-n-scale-mogul.html
It’s the Athearn Big Boy. There’s no Genesis line in N scale, as far as I know. I need to get a real DCC system now! The original Prodigy is really limited in the sounds I can access!
It looks really good, too!