Here’s my contribution, an M-75 Rio Grande 4-8-2 (fresh out of the shops) easing a freight down the east side of Yuba Summit. The big Rio Grande articulateds got all of the glory, but it was the 40 or so 4-8-2’s of the 1500 and 1600 class that were the real ‘workhorses’. The loco is an extensively re-worked Custom Brass import.
No I’m not deliberately trying to lower the modeling standards exhibited so far. This is just Phase I of a special project that I am currently engaged in. It’s a cardboard mock-up of the old DRI&NW depot in Moline, IL. I have a specific deadline for the completion of this project, next Sunday afternoon. Hopefully next weekend I’ll have some pictures of the finished project to post. I promise you they will be … unusual.
Nice, nice, nice…! I do love seeing everyones work here every weekend.
I have been doing some tearing out and trying to figure out how to save my old code 70 hand laid stub end turnouts (to be used for the Civil Engineering AP Award I hope someday…). Not much of that is really photogenic, so. I did have a package of decals arrive yesterday and I got right to work finishing up the Tichy Flat Car kits I started a week or so ago. They still have to be weathered and a suitable load must be found, but for the moment, here they are:
Nice N scale layout design. You were way ahead of me when I was your age. I wish I had the room you did. All I had was a small bedroom I had to share with my little brother. So I had a small 4X6 N scale layout myself.
I’d like to know how the future of model railroading is doing with the young crowd…just how many other Freshman do you know at your school have some sort of model railroad in the works? And how did you become so you interested in this hobby, especially with all the computer and xbox ps2 gaming systems out there that take up so much of your generations leisure time? I must admit I am guilty as well. I can’t get enough of Battlefield “Bad company” on the Xbox. [:)]
Thank you. hehe, that layout was only two feet shorter than mine is now (regular ole 4x8).
I’m actually the president of the TAMR (www.tamr.rog) which is 50-odd members strong last time I heard a member count. As to my school, as far as my friends group goes, none. Did get one kid interested last year to the point where he bought some trainsets (taught a mini-course class at my school last year, had a decent amount of kids), but idk how far he went (his personality and mine just don’t mix).
I barely play video games actually (only have a Gamecube). I’d love an Xbox 360 if I had the money, but trains come first. As far as getting into this hobby versus other ones, I can;t remember a time when I didn’t love trains, lol. Just grew from there.
If you don’t mind, I’ll throw my answer in too.
As a Sophomore, I don’t know anyone else interested in trains. Now, granted, it is a school of only 500 students total, but still. But even if there is no one that we know of, there could be a person in hiding, and there also others, in places like this.
On these forums, we teens have two threads, one for MRRing, and one for Railfanning. We have our own forum (which we are not supposed to speak of). We also have our own forum on another railroading site (which I am also not supposed to speak of). There is TAMR, as Sawyer mentioned. Sure, there’s not millions of us, but we are out here.
As for video games, I was never really into that stuff. I live a more relaxed life, with no need to constantly be doing things. During my free time, I play hockey and lacrosse, surf, and of course, model railroad and railfan.