Hello to all!

I would like to show you and to explain what I've done with a Atlas tank car. This tank has two lives.

To begin, I've bought a Atlas Trainman 8000 gals tank car there is a little more than 10 years ago.

I used the tank to scratchbuild a 1918 US imported tank car for the french railroads. The tank was too long (just a few millimeters). So I've cut down it to obtain the good size.

After spending a couple of days recording Florida Midland Railroad operations at Bartow Airport Industrial Park, I've been playing around with the idea of having go at reproducing it in HO scale as a freemo module. This is what I've come up with, 

It will be extended by 4 feet on the right hand side, which will hold the loco spur

At the end of July, I showed the results of my first installation of a drop-in Digitrax SDN144K0a into an N-scale Kato F7A . The unit had a modified Aztec frame that accommodated a TTX 16mm speaker.   This is also the same decoder that I had previously installed into an N-scale Kato E8A back in April. 

This is a lumber load I built for my railway.

To me the type of load that is just a solid block with printing on it to represent the layers of lumber bundles just doesn't cut it, as it just looks like a 2D block and the graphics line up too cleanly.