Modeling topic

Transfer caboose

Wed, 2016-07-06 19:26 — BR GP30 2300

I have been working on a home brew transfer caboose.......the kit I`m using started out as a kit from Moloco.

In this kit was an Athearn 50' flat car kit..........I decided this was too big for this transfer caboose.......so I`m using a Tichy 40' flat car that I had built back in 2007 but did not paint until 2008, I had yet to decal this car so it was no loss to me to soda blast the paint off of the car where I needed to glue additional parts.

It's Just Blue

Wed, 2016-07-06 16:47 — tschwartz

When I decided to paint up a few HBMS GE70 Ton Locomotives, I picked a paint based on photos. I knew there were shades of blue in the photos. In some cases you can see swapped parts with shades of blue on the same locomotives. However, I picked Conrail blue for my locomotives as it seemed to be the closest to my guess of faded paint. Now over the twenty years I have been up in Flin Flon, and visits to the locomotives, I never thought about pulling some peeling paint. Then all but one of the locomotives were scrapped so I missed the opportunity for most of the locomotives.

Durango press

Wed, 2016-07-06 06:40 — ashcreek

Hi all, was just considering some of durango press, MOW equipment. But wondering if the kits are plastic or some kind of cast metal?

Has anyone built any of them, and can show some pics of Assembly and or finished?
Really appreciate any thoughts at all, thanks!

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Are all the good layout themes already taken?

Tue, 2016-07-05 14:15 — pschmidt700

I've been struggling with developing a unique and plausible theme for the new layout. Whether based on a prototype or proto-freelanced, I'm running into the "Someone else is already doing or has already done that" wall.

It's getting a bit discouraging. It's like being at a high school dance and finding that all the girls you find attractive are already taken.

Mixing rolling stock road names in a freight train

Tue, 2016-07-05 09:26 — SP Steve

I'm looking at buying some rolling stock and I'm interested in finding out what I can use with a 1950's - 1960's Southern Pacific or Santa Fe freight train?

From my limited knowledge I understand I can run about any road name box car. What about other type cars like tank cars, gondolas, hoppers, flat cars, etc.? Other than lease tank cars, do I need to run only SP or SF road name cars?

Thanks!

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Heralds on ribbed cars

Tue, 2016-07-05 08:06 — Ford86

All,

I am looking for some advise on painting some MDC thrall gondolas, particularly a simpler was of getting a Herald over the ribs:

Here is my dilemma I have 30 undecorated MDC high side coal gondolas I'd like to paint into BN which is easy in itself....just black however I'm not thrilled with applying decals over the ribs or masking every car, I am thinking about perhaps a jig that would go over the ribs and so it could be used more than once and saving hours of work.

Suggestions?
Thanks

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The Itch to Switch

Tue, 2016-07-05 07:51 — friesonmyburger

Operations

I've been spending the last couple of weeks blissfully running 3-2-2 Inglenook sessions on my grain mill layorama. With five total cars, there are 60 possible three-car trains that can be made up. And I've found that it can take as little as three moves to build a train. Contrast this with a 5-5-3 and its eight total cars producing 6,720 possible five-car trains, and you can see how the puzzle complexities of each variation are orders of magnitude apart. While still entertaining, this can get rather unsatisfying even when working at prototypical speeds.

need layout built

Mon, 2016-07-04 14:41 — challenger70

Hello Gents,

Being new to this site, I would like to ask: are any of you layout builders?

I need a quote for a layout build. I dont have time to do it myself. I am old school so it will be DC. I would like to run 4 trains or more at 1 time. Mainline, european mountainous.

Can anyone give me a ball park?

I have all of the track.

I have a space of 13' long by 50" wide.

I can be reached at: nonisl@comcast.net

larry.nonis@aircompressors.com

I live in Michigan, 48047