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Days of future past

Mon, 2016-04-25 21:39 — mesimpson

Diesel locos

There won't be an appearance by Alberta's favourite son Wolverine, however there is a GP9 or two involved. As part of my decision to back date to the 1980's I purchased a couple of GP9, one of which is going to a friend, the other is staying with me. The one I am keeping is of special significance to me.

Greenville & Howland Paper. Work in progress

Mon, 2016-04-25 16:23 — Nelsonb111563

Working on some foreground scenes for my paper mill complex. Still need to weather the heavy equipment but that will come in time.

The tracks at GHP is the eastern terminus for the railroad and uses both tracks in this area for switching. The layout uses a "modified" double oval being that the main track is the outside loop and the passing track is the inside loop. The passing track has almost all of the industries on the layout with the exception of the Town of Bownell which is the midpoint and has a few sidings there.

Stripping paint from metal.

Sat, 2016-04-23 04:17 — GregW66

I have a brass and white metal kit locomotive that was assembled using CA. It was painted with old formula Floquil. I want to strip it. I know Acetone removes CA, how will lacquer thinner react with the CA? Any danger of the locomotive falling apart?

GregW66

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The Ohio & Eastern gets a locomotive

Thu, 2016-04-21 18:30 — kerrydel

The Ohio & Eastern is my imaginary line that runs from Cleveland to Pittsburgh in the late 90's. I run mostly Conrail equipment. This is the first loco that I've lettered for my railroad. It is an Atlas U23B that was patched out.

Kerry

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Another color question...

Thu, 2016-04-21 09:31 — marjac99

Hi @all

I have here a CF7 from Athearn on the workbench, and want to recolor it to #50 of the Central Florida Railroad.
I've found the decals at Highball Graphics, but now I wonder about the red color of the engine.

Any idea which color I can use?

Thanks and regards,

Martin

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Atlas/Kato Diesel Wheelsets

Wed, 2016-04-20 12:46 — JC Shall

I have about 18 or 20 Atlas diesels made by Kato, mostly early Alcos. I acquired them in the early 90s in anticipation of using them one day on a new layout. That day is coming soon.

New chassis for a Walthers Trainline Alco FA

Tue, 2016-04-19 19:35 — DSteckler

Does anyone know if the Walthers TL Alco FA body will fit with little or no modification on the Bachmann FA2 chassis or the MTH FA1 chassis?

CSX colors codes

Tue, 2016-04-19 03:38 — HugeEngine

Dear Gents,

After several days of research on the web with no real success and rather than selling my Kato Iocs, i plan to repainting them on the CSX scheme, YN2 & YN3, but to do this, i need to know the exact colors codes. As you propably know, Testors, True-colors or other US brands are very difficult to find in Europe, i think i'm going to use Tamiya or maybe Humbrol. I'm taking all informations and ideas you can get as well as any European dealers addresses, if any. Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Sincerly,