Good day folks.
I was going to pick up my 3 Atlas GP40-2s today (2 sound equipped, 1 decoder equipped), but my friend’s girlfriend got sick, thus he had to drive back to Vermont. Its a killer price for the locos, considering I’m paying less than the MSRP for one of those units and getting all of them, as well as some NECR/CV stuff.
Tyler, sometime in mid-April would you want to go to Palmer to meet up with a railroad relation of mine and “raid palmer?”
Happy Choo Choos
Aren’t we a bit old to be saying “choo-choos”? I can’t actually say it because I have 0 steamers.
The sky decided to let up a bit, so I dull-coted a PC hopper and an N&W box. I’ll weather them sometime tomorrow. I also snagged a Walther’s platinum line Bay window caboose for 5 bucks on ebay (that’s like 1/6 of the 30 buck MSRP).
Bump? I didn’t get the coach sides or money yet, but my friend is paying for the GP38-2s today or tomorrow.
Well, I’m hopefully going to my LHS sometime soon to get a can of semi-gloss and some scenery stuff. Spring break this week, thank the lord, so I’ll hopefully have some time to work on my diorama.
Alex, I’ll be busy this week and next, so I don’t know about the date, but I might be able to make it (and wash dishes for a week afterwards to get a ride!). Email my with more details…
Now to check up on everything I missed on the old thread while I was away…
Its possible if I can’t get a ride out there, that I’d get a ride from my railroad relation. In either situation, its possible you could get a ride with me, and whoever I’m getting a ride from.
Ah… With my parents, that wouldn’t work… “So, can I go hang out in Palmer with Alex and some guy I’ve never met?” Right…
Perhaps Worcester would work better, since I can get transportation there easily, or is there a specific reason for Palmer? There are actually more scheduled trains through Worcester (NECR is sort of a hit-or-miss when I’ve been there) because of the MBTA (although that sort of doesn’t count…[:-^]). And I’ve found a new location at the east end of the yard, on public property… Shoot me an email and we’ll talk.
In before GG and Tyler jack this thread. lol
After work today I went to the LHS. I picked up some styrene for making coupler pads for my Alcos. If worse comes to worse on my U33C, I could use it to rebuild the radiator, piece by piece (would take a long time, cutting each louver/grill piece individually, then gluing it) I also got a 65 T-bird and 64 1/2 mustang, both white. (so that’s like 30 cars now, probably but keep them all and use them on a layout if I build one)
Strangely, They still don’t have HO freight cars (they have a butt load of N that never sells [at like 3 dollars a pop, don’t recall the manufactuer], yet their HO gets sold out in a week, they order more N)
In other news, The dullcoating of the PC hopper didn’t help to hide the decal film much. Guess I’ll go back and gloss coat it, then dullcote it again.
He’s a furloughed NECR conductor, which was the reason we would go to Palmer.
Formerly of VTR, or a different conductor?
I think the new trackwork is almost ready for the operating session… I was running trains yesterday with my little brother, and we had no derailments or track problems, even after 2 weeks of inactivity and no cleaning! This may seem insignificant, but Alex knows just how bad my dirty track problems were before I installed the plastic sheeting on the ceiling!
Actually, there were two derailments… One was at the foot of the grade, a known problem area that I need to repair. The other was caused by a dummy GP30 being shoved at full speed over the diverging leg of a #6 turnout by an engineer trainee… (there’s a reason railroads don’t hire 2 year olds!) The truck hit the frog, bounced up (properly weighted cars and powered locos don’t have this problem), and derailed, shorting out. Need to add more weight!
Now I just need to lay New Poland and repair the rest of the layout…
Yeah, Alex was saying it’s some shmuck that left the VRS to go to NECR. Palmer isn’t going to be much of an attraction now, with all jobs except three on the whole railroad operating off spare boards.
Which shmuck? I know several…
You’re the biggest…
With all shmucks aside, my other non shmuck friend will hopefully be paying for my GP38-2 shells tomorrow, and my cash is enroute to Captain Shmucker in Vermont.
I’ve got my Atlas SDP35 (UP) and two Proto 2000 GP7s (PRR and C&O) headed home from being repaired today… I’ll probably be gone when they arrive, but it’ll be good to have them back in any case!
Between GraniteRailroader and GG, who’s Shmuck and who’s Shmuckitely (sp?) [(-D]
Tyler, good you’re gettting them back. Now what about the GP18? (granted you could probably throw it’s shell onto the C&O’s chassis)
Ealier I put a TCS A1X decoder I had stored (I actually forgot I had it until I was cleaning) into one of my U33Cs. However I think the decoder might be defective, since it shorts out in foward and takes off at full speed in reverse. At least TCS will replace decoders with no questions asked. Wish they did something like NCE does where you can send them any other manufactuer’s faulty decoder and get a similar NCE one for like 10 bucks.
I have a work crew coming in two weeks and one of the projects on my list is electrical work on that loco. That and filing a ton of rail joints, laying down New Poland, re-gauging switches in WRJ, and other track repair…
Ty, still haven’t figured out why the PRR GP7 or the IC GP18 worked fine before I sent them, then don’t work when they get there. At least that GP30 works great.
So I finally got my motive power together for a roster shot (warning, if you have dail-up this may take a while)
This is about as close as I could get to them while keeping everything in the frame.
Athearn BB Sw1500s, 317 and 308
P2K GP9s, 1964 and 1956
P2K Gp30s, 2216, 2236, and 2250
Athearn RTR Gp35 2507
Atlas/Kato C425 4258 (new shells are on my order list)
P2K SD9s, 6226 and 6232
Atlas SD24 6240
Atlas SD24, 6244 and CB&Q 502 (haven’t patched it yet)
P2K SD45s, 6497 and 6489
Athearn Genesis F45 6635
P2K U28Bs, 5453 and 5451
Atlas U30C 5313
Atlas U30C 5313 (no, I don’t have two, this one just managed to get itself into 2 frames)
Atlas U33Cs, 5733 and 5761
Ya’ll have already seen the others, so I won’t post them.
IDK what I was trying to get in these shots:
I forgot to turn that lamp around, for some reason I think the picture looks cool.
[img]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66
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