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Quick and dirty N scale lumber loads..
Started building lumber loads for some N scale centerbeam cars I bought. More info on my blog...
http://adventuresinmodeling.blogspot.com/
FGWX 200000
In 1987 while visiting the US a friend of mine photographed this car passing Tower 55. I discovered the picture while scanning some of his slides. Does anyone know the history of the car and how it is used? I have never seen a picture of one before.
Michael.
Axle/truck mounted motors - thoughts?
Okay, take a look at this:
http://www.railflyermodel.com/products/mk-9011-traction-motor
According to the description: "Our "Traction Motor" is powered with a 6 volt, 23 ohm motor, and geared for 49:1 operation."
Success!
A new engine has entered the roster at the Euclid yard of THE GREATER NICKEL PLATE. Thanks to help from friends on this site, much sweating, swearing, soldering, testing, re-soldering, re-testing and praying. S-4 Number 12 is alive and running after installation of a new motor and a Z scale decoder.
Trolley Stripping
Alcohol - 1; Oven Cleaner - 0 !! They must not make off-brand oven cleaners as good as advertised. In short, it didn't work after several good coatings and left in a plastic bag overnight.
Motor Problem
I need some help in running an electrical problem to a hole. I have installed a decoder on an Atlas S-4 and have a light but no motive power. This unit has been checked twice by myself and another person.
1. All wires are attached correctly and the decoder is good.
2. Contact shoes are in place and universals are correctly installed with no binding.
3. Positive and negative leads are soldered and there are no kinks nor bare "cuts."
Wilmington & Northern Branch : What's on the workbench 011412
Here's what's on my workbench this weekend:
A : A 36 ft flatcar kitbashed from an MDC cast metal underframe with a scratchbuilt superstructure and mostly Tichy details.
Painting Help
I just purchased a trolley for a static display on a non operational track on the city street scene on my railroad. The body is plastic and the windows consist of painted silhouettes on a semi-translucent film. I want to repaint the body and roof in two different colors and re-letter the trolley.
Sugar Beet Gondolas
The prototype Great Western Railway had a large number of drop bottom gondolas for hauling sugar beets. They started with 150 small wooden gondolas in the early 1900s and increased their capacity with wooden racks on the top edges. In 1949, the GWR started buying used steel drop bottom gondolas to replace the wooden ones and eventually had a fleet of 188 units. All were sold for scrap starting in 1979 when trucks became the predominate method of hauling beets.
P2K 50' Single door boxcar
I just found 2 Proto 2000 50' single door boxcar kits. They are a few years old (10 or so?) but never built. They are undecorated and I am wondering about a prototype for these. I don't think my preferred road (CPR) had these so I am looking for a prototype to paint and letter these two cars. I'm just getting back into the hobby but have done some custom painting and lettering in the past and am eager to fire up the old airbrush. Any help would be appreciated.
Greg Williams
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