N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wm3798]

@peteski you're on.  I can send you 3 lokies that need your attention.  The E60 I can just send the trucks, an 0-4-0 that ive already torn down, and a Bachmann Mikado that I'll send intact. 
@nkalanga I will look up Clover House.  That's a great idea.  I like working with dry transfers.

[peteski]

@peteski you're on.  I can send you 3 lokies that need your attention.  The E60 I can just send the trucks, an 0-4-0 that ive already torn down, and a Bachmann Mikado that I'll send intact. 
@nkalanga I will look up Clover House.  That's a great idea.  I like working with dry transfers.

Allrighty!  I'm gettign more than I bargained for.  I'll send you a PM.

[CRL]

Thinking I should change the name of the layout to the Akron, Detroit, Huron and Duluth...  the ADHD Line...  last night I repaired my ConCor RDC, started mapping out the repower project on the Bachmann E60, and repaired a few ancient freight cars crying out for trucks and couplers.

Then today the Camden and Amboy conversion kit for the Trix 2-10-0 arrived in the mail from @Tom Todd today.

I have enough projects queued up to last the rest of the year.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this mind numbing experiment!

Lee

That’s better than the Cincinnati, Louisville And Peoria.

[VonRyan]

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Then today the Camden and Amboy conversion kit for the Trix 2-10-0 arrived in the mail from @Tom Todd today.

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Got yourself a real winner there! Glad to see an original C&A product being put to use after all these years!
After all, it’s been 28 years since Konrad closed up shop.

You get just the boiler shell or the whole boiler and long tender kit?

As far as I can tell, the tenders seem to have gotten used more than the boiler shells. Or at least fewer of them survive.
I’ve got one complete unopened kit, which stays in the “company museum”, and somewhere I have one loose boiler shell.

[wm3798]

The kit came with the tender.  I don't think I'll be using th boiler though. 

In other news, it's Penn Central Night on the Retro!



Top to bottom, my Trix FM switcher (one of four PC units I have), a Rapido GP9 in original paint, a Bachmann GP40, the really old school one with brass gears (no splitting!) followed by a Trix U boat, and my up-motored Metroliner.  I also have an Arnold GG1 which is presently experiencing some mechanical difficulties, and a pair of Trix F7s.  I also have a couple of those old cast iron Rapido FAs. 

My favorite part about running these old dogs, is that when these models were all released, Penn Central was current events railroading. 

Man.  Am I really that old?
Lee

[CRL]

Apparently. ^^^^^

[nscalbitz]

But in the mean time...

Hey Budd!

Newly arrived today.
Lee

Lee
Sorry if this has already been posted:

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Loved the Bmanns when i had them.
We have a Budd unit down here and the diesel (sound) is pure heaven! Travelled way back in 70's on it and it was refurb'ed for commuter service back in '00s but never got to ride her again. Damn!
regards from a slightly safer nz,
dave

[wm3798]

A few more wires, and the lights start to come on in Old Town...










Getting closer to ballasting track and more complete scenery.

[wm3798]

It's @Ed Kapuscinski night on the Retro.  Just obtained a nice Atlas GP40 classic today!


Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Are those two on the lower level Atlas/Katos? They almost seem TOO new for what you're doing! You should send them my way... lol.

[wm3798]

Straight DC, Rapido couplers, mid to late 80s ... maybe 90s vintage.  I'm calling it good.  In fact, I was going to ask if you had a couple unmodified laying around!

At least I can get some work done while they're running.  Between the brass gears and the pall of ozone in the air, the old Rapido engines can be a bit distracting...

Lee

[peteski]

I wonder if that blue loco in the back on the lower level is Kato GP38-2?  That would be the first loco Kato USA produced under their own name.  It was revolutionary by having flywheels.  Chassis was made with a heavy lead-based alloy. Great puller!

Like I just posted this in another thread, I bough one of those right after they fist came out (and still have it).  In time Kadee/Micro-Trains made pilot coupler adapters to replace the truck-mounted Rapidos.

[wm3798]

I have one of Ed's old ones.  I had attempted to install DCC in it, and probably gooched it up.  It runs, but not terribly well.

The GP38 on the upper deck is a Lifelike, the later run that had the right blue.  The original run was way too dark. 
Lee

[Doug G.]

The loco in the back on the lower level is a GP40.

Doug

[peteski]

The loco in the back on the lower level is a GP40.

Doug

Is it the 3 radiator fans?  Who made that one?  It has black handrails and seems to have truck-mounted couplers.  I thought Kato only made GP38-2 and GP50.