Locos - Rolling stock (general)
SNE Reefers and Hoppers finally get the corporate treatment
I have had lots of input from contributors to this blog and I am extremely grateful for all of the comments. Although, sitting in the UK, my viewers aren't going to be very critical as they will know diddley squat about US freight car practice, it was still worth all the effort to get it as near to right as I can. If I have got it wrong now, I am sorry but it will stay! - Big Grin.
Grab Irons for Walthers Gondola Kit - Make or Buy?
I found a Walthers P2K Drop End Mill Gondola kit at the shop today for $10 and decided to give it a try. Come to find out that it's missing the grab irons. I've never done any of the more detailed kits like this, and ironically this would have been my first attempt at installing grab irons.
Can they be found pre-bent somewhere, or do I need to learn how to do it myself sooner than I wanted to?
Off Layout Car Storage
Am looking for ideas to store freight cars off layout.
I'm planing on having a rolling cabinet with drawers or shelves for storing the cars. Any ideas some of you have
used, either laying flat or standing upright ?
PAINTING CARS FOR CLUB LAYOUTS AND YOUR OWN
Car is painted for Mid South Model Railroad Club. Nice to have a actual RR that Micro scale make decals as the clubs road name. N Scale for road name. Rail Graphic for car data. Micro scale car numbers.
Locomotive help
There are so many manufacturers of both steam and diesel locomotives, but which ones are really good running and worth purchasing? I don't want to buy something that is not going to be quality. I really need your advice as I am about to purchase some steam and diesel locomotives for my era 1956 layout.
Thanks so much for your guidence...
Picking the roster
I'm staring to get my arms around my next layout. It will be based on the Boston and Maine. With the recent discussions on setting a time and place and era police, I'll share some of my (probably fuzzy) thinking and conclusions with all of you.
Your comments are appreciated.
Jerry
N Scale 40' Tank Cars
It seems I am missing a piece of the pie here. I have a small number of cars on my layout, about 25, all of my cars are weighted to exactly 25 grams and all have Micro-trains trucks and all run perfectly with the exception of my 40' tankers. These cars tend to derail at a higher rate and want to roll to one side or the other no matter how evenly I weight it or how well I try to center the weight, I use modeling clay for the weight since it is easily molded and I can put it exactly where I want it.
Intermountain Coupler Boxes
Coupler and Draft Gear Ramblings:
If this has been addressed somewhere else, my apologies, but why in the world does Intermountain glue the lids on their coupler boxes? I don't have many problems popping them off and for the most part I can drill through and use a screw to reattach, but it can be tedious. I think even Kadee does this, but usually no reason to replace their own couplers obviously.
Bachmann 70-ton single motor version
A recent thread (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/9792) about the two motor version has led me to start this discussion of the single motor (current) version.
I am looking to model a shoreline railroad (the Santa Maria (California) Valley Railroad in early 1962. At that time they had a light Mikado and 5 70-ton GEs and (the very first) U6-B. http://mrdccu.com/layouts/SMVRR.htm
I can kit-bash a 70-ton into a U6-B. however, the issue is getting a good 70-ton loco to start with.
Reefers get the new corporate treatment
In our supposed Sunset North eastern, one of the main industries is a meat processors called 'Easter Meat Packers'. This is a railroad owned company so should be in some sort of alignment with corporate branding!. I did look up EMPX but that was taken along with EMPY so I have gone for the EMPZ reporting mark.
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