I have my O scale SW-9 torn apart and stripped. I want to repaint it to look like the BN 149. I’m a complete novice at painting locomotives, so any tips are helpful.

I’d like to see other people BN paint jobs and the paint colors they used. Also, what color primer did you use. There are so many paint brands and it’s hard to figure out what it looks like until it’s on a surface.

Exactly 8 months after moving to our new home, I was finally able to start trackwork on the IAIS's 4th Sub, so I thought it might be time for a new post devoted to that topic. My plan is to cover each prototype scene in a bit more detail as I go for comparison to the corresponding portion of the layout.  Each layout scene is a track-for-track representation of the prototype, so the overall design was relatively easy as layouts go.

As a guide to help orient things as we go, here's the layout plan again:

I recently bought 2 Athearn/Roundhouse Canadian National 40' stock car kits: #2924 & 2925.

For the price I paid, I was somewhat disappointed. Rather than prototypically-faithful, they turned out to be updated tooling for the old Athearn Blue Box kits minus the horn-hook couplers. They had cleaned up the underfloor casting but did not correct the placement of the brake cylinder and air reservoir. And the cars still needed extra weight to meet the NMRA RP, and replacement of the plastic wheelsets.

I'm still very interested i going forward with this project (but need to my new layout running first). The subject came up in my mind recently when I acquired another VC-16 tender.

https://modelrailroadforums.com/forum/index.php?threads/adapt-bachmann-vandy-tenders-to-run-behind-other-engines.19478/page-2