Great news, I was able to locate another Atlas GP7 in the Santa fe livery. Now as soon as I get the engine and finish testing I will work on the conversion into a GP7B an interesting engine and possibly a one of a kind on this forum (if you do have one lets see it) I am aware Athearn is working on one but I have two problems: 1. Way out of my price range and 2. It will have a different drive and make speed matching a little more difficult.

I am trying to find an Atlas Classic (Black and Red Box) GP-7 from a few years back. I am looking for it in the Santa Fe paint scheme and google isn't being that helpful. I am going to try some kitbashing to make it into a GP-7B to add some interest to my engines.

Here is a set of images from the weekend shot on some of my small dioramas, Later (on another thread) I will go into what was used. To make the roads in each.

Old Bluebox cars work great except for the metal coupler covers, they can pop off causing derailments or damage to your cars. One solution to this is from A-Line and it i the bullseye tap jig. The basic starter kit comes with a set of screws and the jig itself. (I forgot to get photos will try later or another day) The jig itself slips onto the area where the coupler would go and helps keep your drill or whatever you use straight when making the hole. Once you are done with that simply screw in the screw and your car is ready to go and couplers won't be falling off willy nilly.

Anyone else get this?

Here I will post photos of the cars (and cars) I weathered today after school at the Railcats meeting

I ground some chalks and made some separators so here is my weathering kit.

The big brush is not part of it. The items include (a car I recently wetheared) ground powdered chalks, A pencil sharpener (for grounding chalks, and exacto for finer powder, softip foam things and a brush along with a thing of testors rust paint. It definitely works well (and you can fit a freight car in the large storage side (YAY)

What do you think of these two? I want all those industries and preferably stick to needing 1 4'x8​' sheet cut in any way.

A more rough plan, not my favorite.

Does anyone know where I can find some of the older walthers woodchip hoppers at a good price? I know they are no longer produced and some pretty crazy bid wars pop up on Ebay every now and then but I would like 2-4 more.