Weekend Update 3/22/20

[eja]

Made a bridge beam load for a PRR G31b gon with FM spacer cars.

Did you make and weather the wooden deck on the spacers?  They look great !

[nickelplate759]

Painting three NKP URTX wood reefers.  Still need to paint the sills black before decals go on.

[dougnelson]

Did you make and weather the wooden deck on the spacers?  They look great !

Those are the plastic decks of the Red Caboose flat cars. I dry brush with tan and gray and then use black ink wash in the joints. Here is a close-up view.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

A few projects nearing completion.

Conrail one and only rotary plow "Buffalo" never made it to Boston, but I'll fudge the truth a bit. Tichy Leslie kit that was reskinned (much like the prototype).
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Conrail Flanger SF1A. This was assigned to Framingham for nearly 30 years. This started out as a Walthers ICC caboose with new platforms, end rails, blades and details. Still needs final weathering and a stack.
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What did I do with the bay window parts? Glad you asked. They went into this N5K caboose. This is a LL SF 8 window model with a chopped cupola, new bay windows, end rails and trucks. The prototype had FRA ballistic glass added which quickly caked in dust. Still needs a stack.
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Finally a modified N5C caboose. Roof walks were removed, and end hand rails were modified. This actually came about because I stepped on the model. This is the result of the rebuild.
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Oh man, I love those oddball N5K's! One is on my to-do list.

[peteski]

I examined a pulsing motor.

[dem34]

I examined a pulsing motor.

Cat's revenge

[peteski]

Cat's revenge

Or a carpet monster. 

[MK]

Or a carpet monster. 

That's the finest magnet wire I've seen for winding motors!  Oh wait...   

[Brian M]

This Saturday I finally had time to start work on my first sound install in a narrow hood engine.  While RS-11's are outside of my primary modeling era of 1949/1950, and the NYC didn't have very many of them, I still like them.  And I've always liked the short-lived script herald the NYC applied to some locomotives in the late 50's.  So when Atlas released this model however many years ago, I kind of had to get it.  I had previously installed an NCE decoder in it, so swapping over to another drop in board isn't a big deal.  I still have a bit of work to do, but it felt good to make some progress on a project that has been sitting around.



-Brian.

[Philip H]

Paint rack done.  Now to get the workbench cleared enough to actually use it.

[brokemoto]

Are you SURE those 2 are the same locomotive?

I looked up the history of the Chatahoochie locomotive.  I forget where I found it, but, it read that it was originally built for ATSF and sold to Atlanta and Saint Andrew's Bay, which chopped the short hood, thus I assumed that it was the same locomotive.  I would not be surprised, however, if ALCo delivered RS-1s to ATSF at different times and when ATSF got rid of its ALCos, it sold more than one to Atlanta & St. Andrew's Bay.



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This Saturday I finally had time to start work on my first sound install in a narrow hood engine.  While RS-11's are outside of my primary modeling era of 1949/1950, and the NYC didn't have very many of them, I still like them.  And I've always liked the short-lived script herald the NYC applied to some locomotives in the late 50's.  So when Atlas released this model however many years ago, I kind of had to get it.


Those things showed up on NYCS in 1957.  A number of years back, Atlas issued them in HO in Lightning Stripes(!).  I had considered this curious, as the order went down from 230 Park Avenue to paint in Cigar Band in 1957.  The only photographs that I ever had seen of NYCS RS-11s were in Cigar Band.  I looked into the matter and learned that ALCo actually had delivered several of these things to Selkirk in Lightning Stripes in 1960(!).  They sat there unused, as ALCo and NYCS were trying to work out a lease agreement  They could not work out an agreement, so they wound up on the D&H.  As 1960 was three years past the "Cigar Band" order, I considered it curious that they showed up in that scheme, that late.  To be sure, the railroad did wait until major shoppings to re-paint, which is why you see Stripes into the late 1960s, mostly on EMDs.  The EMDs were more reliable, thus last to get major shoppings.  Baldwin Sharks were among the first to get Cigar Band, as they spent almost as much time in the shops as they did working.  I never did find out why
those RS-11s showed up in Stripes, but, I did finally find a photograph of them as they were lined up at Selkirk.

[SkipGear]

Since my weekend was busy getting the store ready to shut down for the next 2 weeks or more, here is last night's progress on a long standing project. Windows and doors installed. Interior and eave bracket details are all that is left. [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[Brian M]

Those things showed up on NYCS in 1957.  A number of years back, Atlas issued them in HO in Lightning Stripes(!).  I had considered this curious, as the order went down from 230 Park Avenue to paint in Cigar Band in 1957.  The only photographs that I ever had seen of NYCS RS-11s were in Cigar Band.  I looked into the matter and learned that ALCo actually had delivered several of these things to Selkirk in Lightning Stripes in 1960(!).  They sat there unused, as ALCo and NYCS were trying to work out a lease agreement  They could not work out an agreement, so they wound up on the D&H.  As 1960 was three years past the "Cigar Band" order, I considered it curious that they showed up in that scheme, that late.  To be sure, the railroad did wait until major shoppings to re-paint, which is why you see Stripes into the late 1960s, mostly on EMDs.  The EMDs were more reliable, thus last to get major shoppings.  Baldwin Sharks were among the first to get Cigar Band, as they spent almost as much time in the shops as they did working.  I never did find out why
those RS-11s showed up in Stripes, but, I did finally find a photograph of them as they were lined up at Selkirk.

The story I've read most frequently is that a manager of some sort went ahead and ordered up the second batch of RS-11's without receiving approval from higher ups.  Maybe this guy knew that he'd get turned down if he asked ahead of time?  So the NYC never took official delivery of them.  I would also hazard a guess that this same manager preferred the lightning stripes, so ordered them as such, even though the railroad was switching over to the Cigar Band.  I wonder if the NYCSHS has ever published a story on this?  I should ask, as it would make for an interesting read.

-Brian.

[ednadolski]

[dem34]

Buy toilet paper. Re-Sell toilet paper to fund crippling addiction.