Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share a new blog I've set up to chronicle my modeling in HOn3, as well as some HO standard gauge.  There are only two posts so far, in which I've discussed the basic concept of my freelanced railroad-to-be as well as a notional history.

http://redrocknarrowgauge.blogspot.com/

Hopefully some will find something useful or interesting in there!

Chris

Consolidation #20 is ready to join the roster.  She started as a Blackstone diamond-stacked C-19 and received a lot of the same treatment #19 did.  The most notable differences between the two are that #20 has a notably shorter smokebox and older-style headlight, in addition to an intermediate C-16 pilot rather than the plow.

I've added another new engine to the roster after some finishing touches tonight.  SPV #19 started as one of Blackstone's diamond stack C-19s and received somewhat significant modifications, including a slightly shortened smokebox, rearranged and replumbed appliances, a backdated tender arrangement, and a paint job that more realistically (at least to my eye) replicates a Russia Iron boiler jacket.

A new engine is close to joining the SPV roster - #51, the line's only standard gauge power.

#51 started as a Bachmann Spectrum 4-4-0 (the "Modern Baldwin" version).  Out of the box, she looked like this:

Yesterday I completed (well, nearly completed) the first locomotive actually lettered for my freelanced HOn3 railroad, the San Pablo Valley.

The locomotive started out as an unlettered Blackstone C-19.

And emerged from the SPV shops looking like this: