This one started out as a UP Athearn BB Dash-9 but then I painted it up faded BNSF Style.
Here are a few more that I have but they are factory painted.
I have a few more that are not ready. Mostly SD40-2 units that I am custom painting. I also have a lot of cars too but the engines are more exciting to look at.
Wow, Great Work Here!!!
I’m Humbled, I won’t name names, but Geez , the awesome creativity & execution!
Here are two HO BB Shells, one was ‘Chad- Accessorized’ [Upper one], & the other left stock. This was before I was intoduced into prototype modeleing, but, I tried to match the “look” -a sort of ProtoType attempt…
Although I now have the slant’y DitchLights in stock, & other than the 4 window Cannon cab, & wrong red paint (which will be faded with light over coats), it may turn out to be a nice model, sometime???
I kinda have fun looking at, & attempting to fix & correct ‘earlier’ modeling efforts, & this is really one of the earliest examples of them…
In retrospect, seeing old CP units in IC&E consists, it told a tale of things to come, as I always believed they were ‘in cahoots’ & so it came to be…
Hey, we all start modelling somewhere!! Right?
Good-lookin’ locos, Chad. I’m certainly no expert on CPRail, but I’m pretty sure they used at least two different “reds” on their diesels. Your 6075 looks pretty close to the version they’re using nowadays, while 5683 looks closer to the original CPRail red
Bob, are those MDC/Roundhouse cars now considered part of the Blue Box line? They’re very similar in construction to Athearn cars and they did, for a time, use a predominantly blue box. [swg] I have some of the same cars, although mine have been downgraded to work train service:
…and I also re-did this 36’ reefer as a Tool & Supply car:
Also of similar construction were the Train Miniature (later Train Miniature of Illinois, and currently part of the Walthers line) cars. Unfortunately, Walthers doesn’t offer the complete line-up.
A couple of re-worked TM plugdoor boxcars:
An ARA steel boxcar:
A single sheathed boxcar:
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After looking at what others have added, I decided to open a few boxes and get out some more Athearn blue boxes that I had not photographed previously. All of these cars started as undecorated kits.
Bunker Hill and Eastern is my freelanced '50s railroad. The brown car is in the original steam era colors. After WWII, BHE started repainting their rolling stock blue, but kept the original RR Roman lettering. By the mid 50s, managment wanted a more modern scheme, so the blue with white door colors with Gothic lettering was tried.
A B&M heavyweight baggage car and 2 MEC cabooses. The caboose with boxcar red sides and red ends represents MEC steam era colors. The wide vision caboose shows MEC colors that starting to appear around 1955. The older caboose is an old Roundhouse truss rod caboose kit, but now that is almost Athearn isn’t it?
The 2 BAR flatcars have a Jaeger pipe load. The Monsanto tank car was done with an old Walthers decal set
A couple of more modern cars
A number of railroad clubs also used blue box cars with custom runs as club cars.
Eastern Maine Model Railroad Club has done a number of runs of BAR jade green wood chip cars. These are kitbashed from 40’ boxcars and are still available from time to time. The ECC America covered hopper was used to deliver kaolin clay to Maine paper mills.
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Athearn CNJ Train Master
Wayne, that is a fabulous model, very nicely done! What is the yellow thing hanging down by the fuel tank, a re-railer? Also, where is the model posed on your layout? That is a very interesting background. Is that the coal seller’s facility?
I will also note that generally when you post (or reply) the only thing people really regret, is not asking for more…
[dinner]
John
Wayne, how many locos does your layout roster?
John
We had over three feet here in the Northern Virginia area last year. It was not fun to shovel. And my mailbox was a casualty. Got run over by the mailman and the snowplow. The only good thing about the snow is that it kept the mailbox from falling over for another month 
John
DoctorWayne,
Your work looks great! Thanks for the comment on the CPR red, I plan to fade the deeper one with a mix to make it look used & sunburnt, a little more. Watching IC&E they never had anything ‘new’ in CP colors (well perhaps not until the merger) Also I will be patching it to be an IC&E unit)
Thanks agian!
Once again, thanks for the kind words.
John , that is indeed a re-railer on the NW2. The loco is what Athearn at the time called an SW1500, although it was closer to an SW7, I think. I followed an article in MR that showed how to alter the hood to make it more like the earlier NW2, and I added some details and a very large can motor - I measured the inside width of the hood, but neglected to take into account the “draught angle” that resulted in the opening becoming narrower higher up. This resulted in a lot of work with a mill file to allow the motor to fit. It also got Ernst gear sets and Tomar pick-up shoes, plus a GSB cab interior.
In the photo shown, it’s sitting alongside Creechan’s Fine Fuels, a free-lanced and mostly scratchbuilt coal dealer’s yard. I wanted to de-emphasise the height of the grade separation for the mainline tracks through the station at the rear, which resulted in elevated storage bins under the dump track - I don’t know how prototypical it is, but it seems a logical option afforded by the height.
I used Central Valley lattice-work columns and Evergreen structural shapes, plus lots of strip styrene. The unseen back side is mostly .060" sheet styrene, and includes an almost unseen (and therefore un-detailed) garage/barn for delivery vehicles. Sheathing is mostly Campbell corrugated sheets over a structural framework. The removeable roof is built-up, with trusses supporting furring strips to which the corrugated sheets were attached with contact cement.
Here’s a view from Liberty St., looking through the gate:
…and an overhead view, courtesy of Secord Air Services:
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Wayne,
Let me know if you need some USRA “cabs” as I have some spare Genesis versions assuming those are the cabs you planned to use. Also I would love to get my hands on any extra of those Bachmann cabs, again assuming you have no plans for them.
I have some of the Bachmann SY 2-8-2’s and feel they could be converted to really nice “American” looking engines without that many modifications but the cabs and the tenders are the biggest “sore thumbs” in my book.
Let me know if you have any interest in this direction,
Mark
When I got back into the hobby about 20 years ago, I’d pick up used Athearn models on the cheap at local train shows. Since I didn’t pay much for them, I had no problems cutting them apart, modifying them, etc. Over the years I’ve made many models, and had a great time learning techniques and trying out new ones. I doubt if I’d be interested in paying $200.00 or more for a recent Athearn diesel and doing something drastic to modify it. Its a whole lot different from bashing a $15-20 model.
Here are a few whose images I already have in my Photobucket account:
You’re right, Bob: if the supply of used Athearn cars and locos ever dries up, the hobby will be much the poorer for it, in my opinion.
Love the job you did on those locos, especially the “Sweep”. [tup]
Wayne
And now that my PA’s are tuned up and running, a video!
Found some more!
Thanks for the offer, Mark, but I have a couple of Bachmann USRA cabs for those locos. The Bachmann Consolidation cabs are available from Bachmann, although they sell you the cab and the boiler, plus that big weight that fits inside the cab - I’m going to have so many boilers left over that I’m thinking of adding a boiler works to my next industrial area. [swg] They’d make interesting flat car loads, although would require modifications to make them suitable as stationary boilers.
Wayne
I understand Wayne, the Bachmann cabs are a finer looking item than the Genesis cabs. I only offered that as Bachmann parts are like getting ahold of dinosaur “lips” therefore I have scavaged every Spectrum steam part I can lay my hands on for various little projects of mine.
That’s kind of a “bite” that you have to buy the entire boiler just to get the cabs but…they aren’t in the “parts” business.
Used to be able to get any part you wanted from Proto and very reasonably priced as well, now you might as well “wish upon a star” if you want any Proto parts. Personally I feel as though they are missing a good opportunity there but then of course “I” don’t make the decisions and really don’t care to get involved in that aspect of the hobby even if I had the chance to do it again.
P.S. As for your last set of photos, beautiful again as usual. I never get tired of looking at what you have done, do you hear that MR staff??? 5-6 pages at least??? Buy Lou Sassi some snow tires and send him north of the border as it’s obvious drwayne isn’t the only one showing some fine modeling here.
Mark
I love the blue box and roundhouse kits they are great for weathering and modifying here are a few of mine:
Regards Jon.
