Locos - Rolling stock (general)
Greyhaven Tramway #8
The 30" gauge Grayhaven Tramway (GHT, though sometimes painted on locomotive tenders as GTH with a larger T so the G and H nestle under the top of the T) started out as one of several industrial shortlines that ran across the Faux Islands atoll.
Removing paint from Locos & Rolling Stock
I have used 91% alcohol with decent success but there are stubborn areas that I have trouble with. Years ago ( 20 or more ) we used a remover that you brushed on and did excellent. I thought it was Poly S. Does anyone know if there is anything like that out there today ??
Videos
I just posted for the first time to YouTube. I uploaded 5 small videos of trains moving on my past layout, which is long gone.
However, I noted the videos are a bit choppy, but I uploaded the videos in their original format and size.
Interesting flat car load
Was Google surfing around Hugoton, KS this morning. Noted this interesting pair of dedicated flatcars. The large containers say "Haliburton" so I wonder if they're oil drilling "mud" transporters.
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In the same town at that time was a privately owned (SFGX) GP7 loco and slug on a grain siding.
Hobby Black Metal Blackener - Any Tips?
I need to blacken some perimeter handrails that came with five Caboose Industries tank car kits. Out of the box the handrails are a shiny brass-ey metal color. They might be brass but I'm not sure. I'd prefer to not paint them as any future bumping of the handrails may result in peeling paint flaking off. I'd like to blacken them chemically if possible.
Ancient Dockside questions...
So, as noted by the pictures I posted yesterday, I have a Magic Trains Krauss I'm working on. Well, early this morning I discovered that the Magic Trains locomotives were designed with code 100 rail in mind. The flanges are WAY too deep for the code 83 rail I'm using, so I'll have to disassemble the locomotive and grind the flanges down. This is NOT a project for the near future.
CY&PRR - Potato Time
It's potato harvesting time in Central Wisconsin and carloads of this commodity are being shipped to the cities. Here we see CY&P 79, a Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 spotting a couple of Soo Line potato cars in Chicago at the City Fruit Exchange.
Summer projects: Scratchbuilt passenger car
So, having been delayed and sidetracked by a great many other projects, I have finally managed to get my first scratchbuilt passenger car mostly completed!
The magic smoke escaped...
I have two Overland Models CP Rail C424s that I recently upgraded with loksound decoders. The first one (4250) I did a few months ago with a Loksound Select Alco C251 decoder and a sugar cube speaker. The second one (4236) I did a couple of weeks ago with the newer Full Throttle version. While upgrading the second one, I went back and added extra pickups to both (OMI models from the 80's only picked up from one rail per truck) as well as a second speaker.
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