Locos - Rolling stock (general)
My first attempt at weathering rolling stock...
Well yesterday and today I finally bit the bullet and tried my hand at weathering a piece of rolling stock. I'd been putting this off for some time as I was unsure if I was going to be able to achieve the standard I wanted.
My idea is to be able to get one piece done in a hour or two (and down under an hour with practice), I also want a weathered look that is in line with the "good enough principle".
Truck & coupler tool idea
I have another weird idea. If anybody likes it, I'd love to hear how it works. I might even try it myself one of these days.
The way I see it, there has to be a definite relationship between the height of a body bolster and a coupler mounting pad. If we imagine that there is one standard bolster height, and one standard coupler pad height (for a given scale/gauge, of course), then you could make a go/no-go gauge which touches both and would show whether one or the other was off.
Two problems with that assumption:
Norfolk Southern GE 70-Ton Loco (A Cheapskate kit-bash)
I really enjoyed the article in this month's MRH (October) on modeling a NS GE 70-tonner. I own a model of that loco from Bachmann, and it got me to thinking about some work I could do on it. Up to that point, it was detailed and painted for my freelance RR, but I have been wanting to find an obscure, short line prototype railroad to model.
Old equipment worth using?
I am returning to the hobby after 20 years or so. My layout has really old Atlas custom line turnouts ( stamped points) all code 100 NS, and really old Athearn engines. Block cab control of course.
All the new stuff seems so high priced ( old guy talking); is it worthwhile trying to get my old stuff to run reliably, or should I scrap it and go on to something newer? I realize that ultimately I need to make some choices, but are other folks still using 30 year old equipment successfully ?
NWDan
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