I should have posted these last weekend instead of my new cars, but as I finished nothing due to being out of town last week, here they are, my collection of Bi-Centennial locomotives, not many but I will be adding more in the future as I have decals.
DT&I GP38-2 Delivered from EMD in the Bi-Centennial Scheme.
N&W SD45 Repainted for the Bi-Centennial by the N&W Shop forces.
EL SDP45 painted by the shop forces for the Bi-Centennial.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Below is a one of my Life Like P2K E7’s which I have been operating for several years. You can see I changed the headlights. Each housing has a pair of small lights inside to represent twin beam lights. The upper has the red emergancy light with a mars light above it following CB&Q practices.
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Steven … Thank you.
Rick … Your bicentenial units are very nice looking.
I’ll second Gary’s comment on Rick’s colorful locos. Nice job on your E, Gary.
Cleaning up a rock slide at Stoney Creek.
This week, a couple pics of one of th ecrews working in the yard…
A great start to WPF guys.
Santa Fe FP-45 #5945 is an Athearn BB model that started life in Milwaukee Road colors. I stripped and painted it in Santa Fe red and silver. I applied MicroScale decals and installed custom made front and rear lights. I added Details West MU hoses and Kato air hoses. The model is equipped with a Soundtraxx DSD-101LC decoder and a 1-inch speaker. It is weathered with thinned acrylics and Bragdon Industries adhesive powders. It performs as good as it looks.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Hello, Everyone…
Thanks for getting the latest installment of WPF off and running Rick and Garry!
I remember all the Bi-centennial locomotives (and cabooses) running around back then… some were pretty attractive like your examples, Rick, others—well I guess that’s best left to the observer. Remember the red-white & blue GG1?
Garry, I really think the twin sealed-beam headlights are sharp. I have some of those adapter plates but haven’t installed any yet… they sure are tiny! Nice work—love those E’s!
Tony, those are great photos and some fine weathering [Y] the low-angle shots put you right into the scene!
Wonderful PRR scenes, as always, Grampy!
Allan, You usually have NYC power on your trains! It’s a treat to see those big six-axle units on your layout! I’m looking forward to the supposed upcoming Amtrak SDP-40Fs coming from Genesis.
There have been a few recent threads about the future of brass and that got me to thinking about some of my current roster and the fact that I have not made any additions to the collection lately.
So… with that I came across this NYC H-10a (LMB says it’s a b but I believe otherwise) that needed a home.
I have always admired the gutsy look of some of the Central’s H-10s and this model has a pretty good representation of that look.
Placing the engine on the test track I found that the motor ran but the wheels, she no-go. As expected, the rubber sleeve between the motor and gearbox was toast (this model was first offered by LMB back in 1962 or so, definitely my oldest running engine) so I made some quick modifications to the drive-line including a new Mabuchi can motor.
Rick and Garry, Thanks for getting the fun started, always enjoy seeing your photos.
Having fun with a little DTD kit and grab bag bash.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
This week I added some G scale NBW castings, scratch built bottom bolt plates and bridge shoes to the covered bridge.
Also I completed painting and test fit the bridge siding which is Evergreen G scale car siding.
DJ ( Grampy) … Thanks for commenting on my photo. Your photo is outstanding with the M of W train and the great scenery.
Ed … Thanks for commenting. The twin headlights in each housing were made with two small bulbs. I inserted a small piece of plastic which was painted silver and had holes drilled in it.
Peter … Thank you for the complement. Your building project looks great.
Everybody: Very nice work.
Revisiting a project originally finished in early 2013. As I learned more I grew less happy with it, but it’s never too late to fix it. A mantua classic 0-6-0 camelback, to be correct needed running gear work and a bigger boiler. Learning quite a bit since originally done, I decided to finally fix it.
Still working on this canyon area.The flat green paint at the bottom will look more like a river someday…I hope…
Happy Weekend!
Mike
“Here’s one of the original 1962 LMB ads showing the H-10b. ($54.50 in 1962 = $437.98 today)”
For 437.98, I would expect a better motor…
I’ll just hide now…
THIS was the 1961 motor:
Ed
Looks like it belongs on a paddle wheel steamboat!
This week, I added details and lighting to the loading dock at Atlantic Seafood Co.
Nice work everyone![bow] I’ve been thin in the contribution department recently as I prepared for three OPSIG sessions associated with the NMRA National Convention, just concluded in Indanapolis and points of interest nearby in the region. I was able to make it over to the NTS on Friday. I shot nearly 100 pics collected in an album here: https://imageshack.com/a/ZY0M/1
I want to share some of the non-HO module layouts attending here. I didn’t take close notes, so if I leave out something you know, please feel free to add it. Here’s some spectacular Z.
Then some big old G.
Then there’s O scale 2-rail in NKP flavor.
More Z, the NF&B RR.
One of 4 Lego layouts.
Thanks for the pic’s(and the link),Mike. Lot’s of great modeling,and that large z scale layout looks amazing!