Hi!
I model the St-Lawrence and atlantic railway.
Are any of you modeling other secondary railways with liveries we don’t see much?
Here is a picture from my layout. It’s 17x4 island style Ho scale. I photoshopped the clouds in the back because you don’t want to see my messy basement, haha!
Antoine, check your photo connection as no photo shows up.
Since we’re talking about liveries we don’t see much, I have some models of Florida East Coast locomotives in the classic red and yellow paint scheme, circa 1940s-early 60s.
For some reason, your photo won’t come up.
All of us have some clutter somewhere. One of my modeling friends always complains that all the layouts in magazines are so finished. When you take a ride on a video, we often see unfinished areas, a much more realistic scenario.
I am thinking of adding a DCC w/sound loco from a small line, if the dealer still has it. I have seen Lamoille Valley done on a couple of layouts. It would reasonably connect with the rest of my roads. I think you will find there are a number of regional rr modeled and some homemade names too.
Have fun,
Rcihard
It should work now, I see it on my screen!
Antoine
This one?
I see your photos now and yes, very nice shots of FEC’s classic scheme. [8D] I have several P2K FEC E-units. In my modeling world, the paint scheme remained the same , the big 1963 strike never occured, and FEC continued hauling ACL and SAL’s passenger trains up and down Florida’s east coast until the 1967 merger to form SCL.
I have some PGE (Pacific Great Eastern) that became BCR (British Columbia Rail) in 1972. Since I model (or try to) the first half of the 20th century it is PGE and not BCR mixed in with all my CPR.
I have lots of fond memories of the PGE when visiting the relatives up North especially in the dead of winter. When we were kids we would be playing Hockey on the outdoor rink in the dead of night and we would hear and feel the rumble of a heavy freight approaching. Out of the winter fog these beast would roar by just the other side of the boards. One night the engineer threw a couple of pucks on the ice as they went by. He obviously had a good arm. We would always wave to each other and get a midnight toot from the horn. I was nine the first time we went North for Christmas and had more trips after that. Out on the rink at midnight at nine.[tup] Getting old sure sucks.
One year we had a bad car accident driving North two days before Christmas and ended up taking the train home from Prince George after Christmas. The train was a whole bunch of Budd cars. At one point the train stopped in the middle of nowhere and picked up a couple of natives along with a couple of large deer or elk they had just shot. We dropped them off a few miles down the line at their village. Now that’s service.[(-D] The trip took 14 hours! I wonder why?
The BCR probably went close to a thousand miles to the North of Vancouver. That seems like a long way for a regional railroad. I wonder how it compares to other regional lines on the continent.
A little more info.
Antoine,
The paint livery your St. L&A has is now being wore by one of my local favorites, the Indiana Southern since it is now a part of the G&W family. I hope Atlas or Athearn will run some GP40’s or SD40-2’s in I&S in this paint as it really looks good in person and up close, although i was kind of attached to the IU red & white- Purdue black & gold (Go Boilers!) paint of the RailTex years. Ralph
I managed to score a P1K RDC locomotive in Dominion Atlantic colours on eBay a few months ago. The colours are identical to the Canadian Pacific RDC’s. The only difference is the lettering. I have a CP RDC as well and I plan on running them as a consist. I’ll have to make up a story to justify running them together. Almost all of my motive power will be Canadian Pacific so I don’t qualify as far as your post goes, but I think it is neat to have a few less common names in the mix.
Dave
Antoine L.
I saw a similar paint scheme just outside of the Mactier yard west of Sudbury, Ontario a few years ago. I couldn’t read the name because I was driving at the time. Unfortunately some idiot had just decided to try to beat the train across the tracks and had failed. Fortunately the car looked to be in fairly good condition so I don’t think anything tragic happened, but I’ll bet the engineer was a little ticked.
Dave
Yes this Livery is from the Genessee and Wyoming Railways who holds a lot of shortlines around Canada and USA.
I heard they were one of the safest railroads. Always keeping tracks safe and up to date. Locos are always in good shape and look good.
This model I have is from Atlas Silver series as my layout is DC. But it has directional lights, they only light up once the loco has power (therefore moving).
I wonder if the guy driving the car had a clean pair of underwear with him?
I have only seen a few people model this road-myself included.
Hi Jimmy,
Is this loco custom painted?
Your geography is a little scrambled I think, since Mactier is a couple hundred miles south of Sudbury, but the G&W line running west of Sudbury to Sault Ste Marie is the Huron Central Railway.
Yes, I’m modelling a Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo passenger consist. There’s lots and lots of TH&B freight available out there in commercial releases but nothing in passenger apart from the not-quite-prototype IHC Hudson that I got for my prime mover. So I’m doing a CP Tuscan red (maroon) repaint on some Athearn Bev Bel heavyweights & have sourced the last of some Black Cat decals for the lettering. I’ll probably use some Rapido lighting for the interiors; I had originally gotten them for my Hogwarts Express but that idea was scrubbed when it turned out that the Peco cardstock HE interiors went all the way to the roof. I’ll probably have to kitbash some Rivarossi ‘old time’ interiors to finish the TH&B off.
Yep, done by yours truly. It started life as an undecorated Kato SD40-2. I spray painted it, decaled it, dcc’ed it,and etc. I think it turned out okay.
Chris! You are right! It wasn’t Mactier. My bad!
However, there is a yard about 40 miles west of Sudbury. It is at McKerrow, not Mactier. It isn’t much of a yard actually, just a couple of storage tracks. Anyhow, the locomotive that hit the car was apparently going fairly slow as it approached the yard.
The name ‘Huron Central’ rings a bell. Is it possible that the Huron Central and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic shared a common livery?
Thanks for correcting my bad compass setting. I have driven north from Barrie often enough that I should have been able to get it right. Old age, too much booze - you name it, I’m guilty.
Dave
The St. Lawrence & Atlantic runs alongside Route 26 in Maine, my route to skiing at Sunday River. So, we ride parallel to the tracks and cross over them a few times on every trip north. A custom painter did this GP-9 model for my LHS:
I took the photos on the shop’s in-store layout. It’s a P2K GP-9.
PM me if you’re interested in it, and I’ll send you the information.
Yep. Huron Central and St. Lawrence & Atlantic both have the same parent company.