Locos - Rolling stock (general)
Lettering position help
Hello! I am finalizing the company image for my freelanced railroad, the Spring City & Northern (SPRG), and am looking for your opinion. Here are two versions of the lettering. SPRG 405 on top with the lettering straight across the top, and SPRG 404 on the bottom with the lettering stacked. Which do you prefer? The SPRG is set in southern Wisconsin, circa 1995, and most of the rolling stock in company paint will be hoppers. Although a good chunk of them will be all gray instead of the blue and gray.
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LARGE SCALE : 50ft Railbox
Does anyone make a proper 50ft plug door box car in large scale? I see offerings of Railbox examples but aren't accurate to me (they have roof walks for starters).
It seems pretty hard to represent a modern standard guage shortline in large scale (1:24) these days without resorting to dodgy era combinations.
Is anyone aware of new offerings that I may have missed?
53´ Evans plug door boxcar
Dear all,
I have an H0 53´ Evans plug door boxcar featuring Ralston Purina advertising (I attached a photo). Since I have not found information revealing its true existence I decided to change it. I want it to represent a real prototype. I found an excellent prototype in Rail Pictures, very good for weathering: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=10813.
Early C&S Refrigerator Build
Derrell Poole begins construction of a Leadville Shops Tiffany Reefer kit, and converts it into an early C&S rebuild version:
http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/
Enjoy if you visit, Darel
weathering and graffiti one side
When modeling prototype rolling stock from a photo you usually only have a photo showing one side of the actual car so you don't know what the opposite side of the car looks like. In this case I'm thinking of just weathering one side per the prototype including graffiti and leaving the opposite side as "new." When the car is on your layout you only see one side a time anyway. Has anyone done this?
GP 7/9 Handrails
Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone would know if the handrails from any other Athearn GP loco would fit BB GP 7/9s? I have a half dozen GP 9s that I bought at a yard sale, in good condition, but no handrails for any of them. I have not had any luck finding handrail sets for these anywhere. I thought possibly there were other GPs that have the same configuration....maybe?
Any way, thanks for any help.
Mark
3D Printers outside the U.S.
I wanted to ask for some information on 3D printing in countries outside of the U.S. For the membership living outside the U.S., do 3D printers have searchable online catalogs like Shapeways has? http://www.shapeways.com Can you order items from their websites directly?
Is it possible to collect a number of links to these companies that have model railroad items?
To fit diamond stacks or not fit diamond stacks, that is the question...
Hi everyone,
I have a bachmann spectrum 4-6-0 and 4-4-0 on my HO thoroughfare gap railroad which is set around 1900. I am thinking of fitting some diamond stacks to these locos as I do like the look of the balloon and diamond stacked locos.
My reasoning is that my railroad passes through a dense redwood forest and logging area and the diamonds would be used to arrest any sparks, even though these are coal fired locos I understand that some coal fired locos were and still are (in the case of the shays at cass) fitted with spark arresting stacks.
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