Hey check this odd ball loco from KCS
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C8094%5CKCS%20666.jpg
I was on a live steam page and saw this loco. Was there ever a loco made like this one?
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w1/n0ssy/HN2006_001.jpg
Dewayne
It looks like an SD40-2, If your pointing out the number, Both Elgin Joliet & Eastern and CSX have engines numbered 666. Although CSX did a great one, Its a Lightning Bolt 666 lightning Bold. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=562025
Here is EJ&E 666 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=409512
The devils trains have arrived
Questions for the assembled masses. If I try using 9.75" radius curves on industrial spurs…50s vintage small town grain elevator, coal dealer, and freight ststion…is it going to end up being one of those to quote Bugs Bunny “If I dood it I’ll probably hate myself in the morning” things?
Also, does anyone happen to know the length of the Atlas stone arch bridges?
nscaler711, this isn’t really an “odd ball” loco; it is a short nose SD40-2; big porch on the front - big porch on the rear. I can’t tell what is in front of the front porch and that could be what is giving this photograph an “odd ball” appearance.
In regards to your question about SW8s and SW1200s, at this particular moment I don’t have ready access to my Kalmbach Diesel Spotters Guides; but I am almost certain that most of the differences between these two units will turn out to be internal; there may well be some differences in the placement of louvres on the doors on the long hood but that is probably going to be the extent of cosmetic differences.
Wish I could help you more; maybe someone else can be more enlightening.
Hey,
Have you got room for one more N Scaler.
I just thought I would stop in and say hello to one and all my fellow N Scalers and maybe tell you a little about myself.
I started way back in ‘75 playing around and going to a few shows, back then there wasn’t very many N users. I got out of it just after getting out of the Military (Couldn’t find the time or the space) so I handed all my stuff to a good friend and he got the BUG. Quite a few years have passed since then and I was very pleased with how ALL the Model Railroading has progressed since 1975. Being semi retired from the Computer Industry now, I found myself extremely bored, my wife suggested that maybe I take up a hobby. Soooooo I decided to get back in to Model Railroading…But which scale to go with, No room for LGB, Z just a little to small for my old eyes, HO Hummmmm maybe, but it still takes up a lot of room, I always loved N but there was never very much for it, at the time most stuff you either scratch built or it was a little pricey. I did some surfing on the net and to my suprize, WOW!!! It sure has come along way since ‘75.
I am now building an 11’ X 6’ layout that is DCC controlled, as soon as I get some Pix I will post them as I go along.
A Fellow N Scaler
Garry
Reno, NV
Lets see now: 1950s, grain elevator, coal dealer, freight station. The NMRA recommended practices may say that the perfect radius for fifty foot cars is 11.25 inches but I think you’ll be able to get by with 9.75 inches; I would not, however, plan on spotting any 89 foot flats at the freight station!!!
by odd ball i meant the number ill have to explain myself [oops] thanks by the way also could i just add another exauhst* stack.
ALSO RT did u used to work on a railroad sounds like u know ur stuff
*dictionary not handy at the moment
Good observation there, nscaler711; the significance of the number on this loke went completely over my head.
Never worked for the railroad; I spent the majority of my career in the Air Force in various aspects of electronics maintenance; I have spent most of my time since retiring twenty eight plus years ago in computer operations and programming. My prime interest is history; trains does bring up a very close second however.
History huh? interesting we have something in common. i like to learn about past things. do you watch the History Channel
local short line here in columbia missouri it’s called the COLT…COLumbia Terminal. It is 24 miles long. Stretches from Columbia to Centeralia MO. line was Built in 1865…the COLT didnt come out until 1980 something. i want to model this rail road and its two locos.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215465
Ah, yes, the mark of the beast… So clearly this train was headed to the battlefield at Armageddon?[}:)]
This next one’s entitled “Paint and the pain in the… well, you get the point.”
My parents came down two weekends ago for my younger son’s second birthday. My father, also a sometime-PRR fan, and I were discussing the lack of a standard building paint scheme for the Standard Railroad of the World. Officially, PRR structures were most often painted a light buff/tan with darker brown trim and red window sashes. However, this scheme as applied to Pennsy structures in real life seems to have spanned anywhere from two-tone gray to yellow and brown. PRRT&HS has published formulas for mixing your own paint using Floquil, but since switching to N scale I work primarily in styrene, so I thought Polyscale would be better.
Some years ago I settled on a Polyscale paint scheme that looked pretty close (aged concrete and D&RGW building brown). I wanted to use straight-from-the-bottle colors rather than custom mixes to ensure consistency from structure to structure. Well, Polyscale then changed the formulas on the paints I was using, so in the middle of a project, I had to find a new scheme since the new formulas (formulae?) for the old colors didn’t quite work anymore. The new colors were too light.
Eventually I had settled upon earth and roof brown as my colors. A bit dark, but not objectionable. Over time though, the more color photographs I see of PRR structures, the more I’ve been thinking that the earth color was too dark. My dad agreed. Here’s the current scheme on LEW Interlocking (tower and speeder shed) on my layout:
So yesterday I bought a jar of the new Polyscale D&RGW “building cream.” Testing it on an unused interlocking tower showed promise. So, I grabbed a Walthers watchman’s shanty and painted it with the new cream color. Wow… Way too ligh
Not a bad idea. Not sure if it’ll work on the push side though. BTW, I’m already a member on that forum too. I thought I’d ask here first. Thanks though!
Welcome to the club Garry. I think you will not be disappointed on your choice of N scale. Lots of good information on these forums and a great bunch of people here.
Jack
Hey guys. I made the switch from HO to N about 10 months ago and cant see myself going back. N scale is great
Victor
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What make is this locomotive proto type it is “N” scale, six wheel drive runs great,but needs an cab.On the bottom it says “MRC yugoslivia”
Thanks for your help.
Ilove my “N” scale
JIM
what loco is that? i cant tell
Jim, I am going to take a by-guess-and-by-golly stab at identification of this unit even though I may be taking a shortcut to showing just how uneducated I absolutely am in such matters.
I believe what you have is a model of an ALCO RS11 made in Yugoslavia by a company named Mehano and marketed by MRC in either the late-70s or early-80s. MRC has been into and out of the model railroad equipment business more often than Matt Dillon has pushed open the swinging doors of the Long Branch saloon. I can’t remember for sure whether MRC was the original distributor of this item or not; I seem to recall that it was handled at one time by someone else, either Life-Like or Atlas. If I remember correctly Life-Like used to offer this locomotive with (one of) their train sets.
These items such as you have were, I am led to believe, - I never owned one; if my time frame is halfway accurate I was still toying with HO in those heady days of yesteryear - pretty good runners straight out of the box but their motors were just a little bit on the flakey side. Sooner or later the motor was, I guess, going to fail and when they did one never knew who was importing it at that time and where spare parts could be obtained. For this reason a lot of people shyed away from purchasing them, yours truly included when I bolted HO for N in circa 1982. These units were ripe for remotoring; if yours has not been remotored and is running with the original motor then you can count yourself very lucky. This is one of those items which always seems to be in the way when one is fumbling through their junk box searching for something