Bear, Thanks for the WPF giddy-up. Ah, Christmas and trains, I’ll never forget Pop’s ol’ Marx set around the tree, tinsel shorts, wheels sparking and the mavelous mixed scent of pine and ozone.
Hey Frank, “Keep on Truckin’!”
Merry Christmas to all, Peter
The sky board has been removed, the ground forms torn out, and we’re laying out the diagram for the Winter track project on the Operations Road Show layout– reworking the CW Tower area to operationally resemble the real arrangement.
Hopefully, the trackwork will be complete by the week after New Year, so we can resume operating sessions.
CW Tower is just west of Peru, Indiana. The yard on the right, normally hidden from this view by the sky board, is East Yard, on the edge of Lafayette, about 50 miles away.
Phoebe Vet, I enjoyed the tour; I gather from spying a couple of coaches that there are some (?) young ones who like to see a certain blue tank engine on the layout from time to time. Like the subway photo as well.
Frank, quite understandable that progress was slow, BTW nice scene inside your tower last WPF, it’s the sorta place that I’d like to drop in for a coffee, but the cakes no good for me.
Jimmy, good to see someone modelling a lesser known modern railroad, some more new stuff for me to learn about.
Rick, your knowledge on freight cars is encyclopaedic.
Hello all !
An update of my thread there :
[link]http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/t/217622.aspx?page=2[/link]
Kato Heavy mikado with micro V4.0 Locksound
And detailled construction of my future RTD ligth rail bridge in N scale :
Great photos,all!
just a shot of trains:
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Trust me, with that last shot at Tyrone, I was a little more concerned about the quality of the track maintance than the squealing! [;)] Still, I have to say that Tyrone, Lewistown, and Horseshoe Curve are my favorite spots to railfan.
Eventually this pile of crap will become my new model bench.
what kind of loco is that ? rambo1…
what kind of loco is that mlehman
Presume you’re talking about the diesel? It’s a Liliput model of the Austrian Gemeinder B-B loco, a 2004 model used on the Zillerthalbahn. Cost including a Lenz Silver decoder and the gauge conversion kit (which makes it easy to hack to HOn3) lists at just over $200.
It is HOn30 (HOe 9 mm gauge) from the factory, with a conversion kit available to convert it to HOm (12 mm gauge, same as TT standard gauge). I converted it to HOn3 (10.5 mm) and custom painted it for my purposes. A full writeup on it is here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/215880/2433855.aspx#2433855
It is a powerful, very smooth running loco, if you don’t mind having diesels around.
