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IAIS's West End - The draw of the caboose
Growing up in the 1970s, I've long had a fondness for cabooses, especially the MP short bay window design. In fact, the lack of cabooses on my portion of the IAIS has been the only major regret I've had about my choice of prototypes. It's been so bad that I've often thought about backdating the layout to RI times, or even starting over with a different 1970s prototype, in order to allow caboose ops.
A before, after...
....here a little "before, after" from the thrall boxcars (Walthers Gold line) I am working on, waiting on the Kadee trucks so I can finish with a lil road grime and seal it all together with some dull coat.....
All the weathering and dry brushing was done with artist oil paints, added some grab irons and Kadee 158's together with some air hoses....
I will go heavier on the second one, regarding rust and beat up....
Fine Tuning
Here are some shots of my upgrading and recording of my rolling stock with some comments. First, weighing the cars, I then check for coupler height and to see if they roll freely. I don't mean roll; I mean roll freely.
Model Railroad Maxims
I have spent the morning going over every freight and passenger car on my railroad (30 or so and continuing) to replace any broken or missing parts, make sure they weigh the correct amount, the coupler height is correct and write the car road name and number on a master list. I have also re-acquainted myself with several important maxims about model railroading:
rr car ends
I'm new at this. Please help. How do you determine which end of any type of railroad car is the A or B end? This may have been answered already, many times, so would appreciate direction to post.
Thank you,
RABrown
San Pablo Valley #19 (Backdating a Blackstone C-19)
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.
HOn30 Railtruck Pt. II
Plastic Boxes
Derrell Poole offers his views for an alternative solution to store your precious rolling stock models. Suitable for N, HO and Sn3 scales, you can view them on the C&Sn3 blog at: http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/
Enjoy if you visit,
Darel
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