Weekend Update 9/18/16

[ai5629]

I finally finished a project I started last Fall, renumbering 19 BLMA Conrail gondolas.  Here are the last seven.  I have found six more road numbers to do, and that is my next project.  I also stumbled upon something interesting (for me at least).  Kato recently reran their SD45's.  One of the roads they ran was Great Northern which has blue handrails.  I took a chance and ordered a set of handrails from Kato to see how they would look on my Conrail units.  I am very pleased with the results.  Thanks.

Jeff

[JMaurer1]

Ugh... So, the pics are oriented correctly when I view them on my PC. Why do they keep posting upside-down when I post here? Preview just shows the placeholder for the pic, not the pic itself, so I don't see it until it's too late.

Are you in Australia?

 

[cbroughton67]

Are you in Australia?

 

Great minds... I had thought to myself that maybe the servers are in Australia!

[Chris333]

Ugh... So, the pics are oriented correctly when I view them on my PC. Why do they keep posting upside-down when I post here? Preview just shows the placeholder for the pic, not the pic itself, so I don't see it until it's too late.

Did you post them directly from your phone?

[cbroughton67]

Did you post them directly from your phone?

This time, no. I emailed them to myself and downloaded to my laptop, checked the orientation (everything was rightside-up), then posted from same laptop. The originals were taken on my iPhone, however.

[cbroughton67]

Ugh... So, the pics are oriented correctly when I view them on my PC. Why do they keep posting upside-down when I post here? Preview just shows the placeholder for the pic, not the pic itself, so I don't see it until it's too late.

Their orientation is correct ,now.

[fcnrwy23]

Jerry G:  Instead of putting white trim film on the loco, then applying a blue decal over that, how about printing the decal ON the trim film?  That way, when you cut it out, it will all be backed by white, with no overlapping edges.

Sweet Idea!!

I must try that! Thanks!!

That's why I like visiting this forum.. 

Jerry G

[Ed Kapuscinski]

One of the roads they ran was Great Northern which has blue handrails.  I took a chance and ordered a set of handrails from Kato to see how they would look on my Conrail units.  I am very pleased with the results.  Thanks.

Brilliant!
And I hope your SD45 behaves better than mine is right now. It's running like a real one...

[nkalanaga]

Ed:  The GN/NP/BN had good luck with their SD45s, and the F45s.  I know, some roads didn't, and EMD made a few changes to fix the problems, but the GN bought some of the earliest ones.

[C855B]

Ed:  The GN/NP/BN had good luck with their SD45s, and the F45s.  I know, some roads didn't, and EMD made a few changes to fix the problems, but the GN bought some of the earliest ones.

And SP liked 'em. They had a couple (360, IIRC), going back to the EMD trough several times.

[unittrain]

Getting ready to weather track and ballast on my truss bridge module pictures soon, thinking of using Scenery Express #50 grey blend ballast anybody use it? If so is it good ballast?

[Tom Todd]

The first production SD-45 is still operational. The GN 400, Hustle Muscle, still runs at the Minnesota Transportation Museum.

[mcjaco]

Can't play with the little stuff ALL the time...

My annual pilgrimage to the Illinois Railway Museum.

I rode these cars for a year when commuting to downtown Chicago:



And there was steam as well:



And some old friends - LUGO by UP, and where better to store them?

We were there on Sunday.  Nice to see those Metra units out and about.  They've been on a yard track separated almost all summer with the other two cars. 

[bbussey]

Getting ready to weather track and ballast on my truss bridge module pictures soon, thinking of using Scenery Express #50 grey blend ballast anybody use it? If so is it good ballast?

I've never used the gray blend, but I used Scenic Express cinder ballast the past weekend and I'm very pleased with the results.

[Catt]

Is the Senic Express ballast real rock or some other kind of stuff?