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Hopper Manufacturer ID?
I need help identifying some rolling stock I picked up at a train show. The back story was the previous owner would take the kits (vendor I.D.'d as Athearn) out of their box, assemble them with new Kadee couplers, put them back in the box and put them on a self. The problem is the couplers are not correct and causing issues. I checked with the Kadee conversion chart to see if Athearn hoppers required something different than the boxcars I got, but didn't get any good info. Before I get too crazy, I thought I'd throw this out there.
Happy (early) Father's Day to me!
An un-named fellow out our model railroad club has been bugging me to purchase the new Athearn Genesis GP38-2 that was recently released for the good old Louisville & Nashville (among others). I've been resisting the best that I can, but then Father's Day is just around the corner.........................
Well, you know what happened...."resistance is futile". Here's a shaky iPone(tm) video of the loco running around the club layout:
Weathering the Rails
Started weathering the Rails with the Rusty Pipe color acrylic paint. It's a bit tedious but looks good so far. May do one more coat.
In the pics I placed a piece of white paper in front to get a better idea of the color, as it tended to blend in with the base color in view.
‘The World of Tomorrow’ - Scenes From the 1939 New York World’s Fair
‘The World of Tomorrow’ - Scenes From the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Some of the scenery creation in these photos is incredible for the time (1939), and very interesting to see 75 years later.
Link to the full LIFE magazine article:
http://life.time.com/culture/1939-new-york-worlds-fair-photos/#ixzz30N6M0WzW
Thanks Tom Johnson
Tom's layout will be in the next MRH. Tom was nice enough to share some of his road pictures with me and we used one at MSMRC. In this video at 6:30 mark you will see the picture in use at MSMRC.
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