Dang this is early. Well AJ, you have all day Sunday to get those trees up. Set your alarm for O’dark thirty and plant some trees like a good conservationist.
I don’t remember if I posted this yet or not for SPF, so I will anyway. Over a few weeks of weekends I build my First Rix Products kits. I really like them, and they fit well on my modern layout. All the details about my construction are on this page:
Ok Guys since I don’t know how to post a picture a link to my photo album on the RRF forum will suffice.Please enjoy! These pictures was taken out inmy work shed…Notice how the section gang been hard at it.
Passenger operations: A doodlebug ticks over in the platform next to the yard office, while an Erie-Built with commuter bilevels waits for the 'bug’s crew to come back from the yard office and move it off to the refuelling track!
Need to finish in this shot: Backscene painting, “concrete” loading pad/platform in foreground, also paving between rails on this section and thin strip of concrete on the other side. Holding off further work until the room is reorganised though, when the layout will be in a semi-permanent location.
Railroading_Brit, the gas-electric peaked my curosity. Is it a kit-bashed Walthers, scratch-built or made by a model manufacturer in the U.K.? I built the Walthers G.E. in HO and bought an Aristo Craft in ‘G’ scale which needed a lot of cosmetic alterations. Frisco (U.S. R.R.) ran an awesome looking gas electric out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It sported a high arch roof, loaded with detail (exhaust stacks, huge blower fan, etc.). The air cooling intake vents were located in the center of the facing bulkhead (cab). Matt, I can’t recall having seen a “Doodlebug” with front windscreens (windsheilds) across the entire front bulkhead (cab). Was this a common feature for some R.R. shops? Have a happy.