Just before I started packing for our move back to the states, I started superdetailing my fleet of Amfleet 2's.  I'm adding HEP cables/receptacles, air hoses, hand grabs, blacken wheels, and some road grim.  Think the final detailing will be adding marker lights controlled by a DCC decoder.

Also one of my big projects is building the Conrail Business Train:

http://www.trainweb.org/conrail/models/ocs.htm

You could have posted in both places...or Short Synopsis/glamour shots here and the rest there...you know, advertising for your blog!

But as for me, the whole modeling thing is backshelf since I moved out of the apartment 2 years ago.  I simply haven't been able to set up a proper workbench since.  And that is very important!!!

I just bought 3 Atlas GP38s decorated for the Buffalo & Pittsburgh. Same paint job as my Willamette & Pacific (or very close at least) so I'll be able to Microsol the numbers and logos off and replace them with the WPRR ones like I did for my first one of these locomotives.

That will bring me up to 6 total locomotives in my home road's colors.

I also picked up the Marklin Z-scale bridge I'd ordered last month at the Hobby Smith (along with another near $30 worth of stuff...) so I can now work a little further on my Z-scale figure-8 "amusement park railroad."

Joe - FWIW, I started with a CNW a Kato SD38-2 and reworked/repainted it as a CSX unit in the summer of 2007.  Snapped ~ 15 in-process photos as I went along.

I posted a pic of the finished product on the modelrailroadforums.com photo gallery, but the one person who rated it gave it a failing grade (6 out of 10).  I think anything painted for CSX brings out the worst in some people.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/CSX_road_slug/2454_project/SD38-2...

I only have 2 CSX locos a Bachmann Ho loco type not sure of and a K-line/lionel O gauge SD70M(a monsterious loco)

I am dithering on locos and rolling stock, does that count?

The Lyndonville subdivision of the Canadian Pacific in Northern Vermont, my current choice for the "next one", ran pretty much the same freight schedule from 1965 to 1980 and beyond. So did it's interchange partners, the MEC and StJ&LC. This schedule included pool power with the B&M during most of this time between Newport VT and whatever was the current interchange point of favor with the B&M.

Whats killing me is trying to pick an era so I can start picking up rolling stock and locomotives. I prefer the freight cars of the late 70s. I prefer the locmotive schemes of the B&M in the 60s.. the CP & MEC in the 70s.. and the StJ&LC in the late 70s early 80s. Passenger traffic ended in 1965 although I can "jiggle the handle" and let it run later..

I never should have bit into the apple of prototype knowledge.

Now that I have.. I find selecting an era and the resulting trains I can run to produce enough waffling for me to open my own breakfast shop. It doesnt help that the wife keeps reminding me I need to pick soon if I want to get any new freight cars for Christmas..

Chris

Why malign them, when you can have fun with them? Here's a pic of a Kato SD40 that I picked up in Milwaukee Road for just 25 bucks. A dip in Chameleon, some Floquil and "altered" decals and it's now at home on an east coast pike.

Wait til I get the GP30 road slug finished that goes with it!

I have a Kato SD45 that has been on the workbench for months.  Someday, I'll assemble it.   

When I ought to be working on my layout to make sure it will run when my bro-in-law and nephews come over on Sunday, I'm instead working on some locomotives - I've got 3 out of 4 of my re-decal projects finished (to the point of needing to do numberboards, something that mildly terrifies me). I've got the trucks on two locos painted silver using "rub n buff" per an article in an older MR. Now I've got to do the following:

Coupler swap-outs for Kadees

Detail (like handrails) mounted

Decoder swap-outs for TCS A4X's.

Put 'em on the programming track and get them set to roll.