Hi all,
I finished recently the weathering and renumbering on an Athearn GP35 (RTR model, HO scale). It depicts an ATSF unit, phase I in the mid to late sixties #1327, in a rather tired condition. I haven't dealt with any detail upgrades on this one yet (MU hoses, lift rings, coupler cut bars, new couplers) and i need to change number boards to the correct new road number. Luckily the Athearn factory yellow matched the Microscale decals (and my prototype photos) and i did not need to repaint / re-decal the whole shell (which i ll need to do in my Kato units...)
Hi Guys
Just bought a couple of O scale NP F9's off Ebay here in the UK & enspired by a great article in Pacific Rail News Dec 1995 about an enclave of BN units still operating in Washington state I want to turn these in to a couple of recently retired BN units leased or sold to a shortline in the 80's.
I'll start the thread this week
Show 'em if you got'em............works in progress to finished projects.
Birdsboro & Reading ex-PRR N8 cabooses.
I have many HO locomotives that have sound, I am very pleased with Loksound and Soundtrax tsunami but I have many older locos that i do not wish to spend 90-100.00 dollars for sound. What other sound decoders do you like and why ??
9172 in April 2019. only took 31 years...
9198 in November 2019. I always say I work at glacial speed.
A couple months ago, I purchased a Bachmann DCC Sound Value S4 to use at my sand pit industry and it ran really well. Then I repainted it, had some issues with it running, but worked on it and it was running great again.
Hi all,
Following interest on a previous topic of mine, where I presented an EMD E8m locomotive which had some of its weathering done using the salt weathering process / technique I prepared a "small" post presenting how I am employing this technique.
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