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Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Road: Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Whyte: 2-6-0
Description: F-3 MOGUL
Importer: Gem Model Railways (GEM)
Catalog: 410P
MANUFACTURE
Builder: OLYMPIA
Year(s): 1972
Qty Made: 150
A few photos of a Rock Island mail train. Kenichi built the models and took the photo, I broke the photo down into areas so more detail can be seen.
The Chicago South Shore & South Bend is represented at the Museum of Science & Industry's Great Train Story. Here it switches an auto rack yard.
This beauty belongs to my friend Scott, he asked me to give it a weathered look as it was too black to see all the wonderful detail that this model has. Here are a few before & after photos of the weathering paint.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Type: ARTICULATED
Road: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Whyte: 2-8-8-2
Description: H-7
Importer: Challenger Imports, LTD (CIL)
Catalog: 2063.1
MANUFACTURE
Builder: Samhongsa
Year(s): 1993
This is a Custom Brass New York Central P-2A Electric Locomotive in HO scale that I bought recently. I spent this weekend repairing it. It was a basket case and was missing some parts. I still have to find a pantograph shoe for the roof to complete it, but, now it looks much better and runs very well.
Scale: HO
Category: Electric
Road: New York Central (NYC)
Description: P-2A
Importer: NJ Custom Brass (NJCB)
Catalog: 307
Builder: Mizuno
Year(s): 1974
Qty Made: 588
I have just started restoring this Akane C&O 2-6-6-6 for my friend Sean. This is a series of photos showing how it was received (in parts), going through drive modifications and finally, paint and reassembly - This photo shows the boiler mounted on the rear frame in order to check all the clearances of the motor and gear tower.
Kenichi has added to his layout, he sent a single photo of the new addition, I broke the photo down into several areas to highlight the great detail he has put into his work.
The green sticker indicates this car was cleaned by Union Pacific Railroad in May, 2019 in Kinney, Texas. The car is lettered BKTY.
This is a new release from Athearn and is the unit that the Union Pacific is using behind the 4014 Big Boy as a just in case unit.
And the battery box comes like that from the factory as well as the silver trucks and PTC antenna.
See the mail call video here youtu.be/5JL2orMLCcY
The engine house at Jimtown boasts of it's safety record while an Allegheny Midland MP15 gets serviced inside.
TBOX 640835 on a train in CCX's Cayce Yard in South Carolina. I was hoping to get a close up of the ghost, but they shoved this cut of cars into the yard and left them there.
Here are a few older HO scale brass models of articulated steam locomotives. I am not a great photographer, but, I do the best I can with what I have. All photos are of different models, even though you may see several of the same type of engine in this set. Akane Models - Baltimore & Ohio EM-1 2-8-8-4 Imported in 1962. (Simple Articulated)
Here are a few recent additions to my brass locomotive collection.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Road: Southern Pacific (SP)
Whyte: 4-2-4T
Description: #1 C.P. HUNTINGTON
Importer: M.B. Austin (MBA)
Year(s): 1957-60
Qty Made: 600
Scale: HO
Category: Diesel
Switcher
Road: MISC. (MISC.)
Description: ALCO HH-1000
Importer: Hallmark Models Inc. (HALL)
Builder: Kumata (KMT)
Year(s):
A former CSX box car now lettered for the Hartford & Slocomd railroad was in the Norfolk Southern yard in Columbia, South Carolina back in 2013. It was built for the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad.
This beauty belongs to my friend Scott, he asked me to give it a weathered look as it was too black to see all the wonderful detail that this model has. Here are a few before & after photos of the weathering paint.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Type: ARTICULATED
Road: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Whyte: 2-8-8-2
Description: H-7
Importer: Challenger Imports, LTD (CIL)
Catalog: 2063.1
MANUFACTURE
Builder: Samhongsa
Year(s): 1993
This is a Custom Brass New York Central P-2A Electric Locomotive in HO scale that I bought recently. I spent this weekend repairing it. It was a basket case and was missing some parts. I still have to find a pantograph shoe for the roof to complete it, but, now it looks much better and runs very well.
Scale: HO
Category: Electric
Road: New York Central (NYC)
Description: P-2A
Importer: NJ Custom Brass (NJCB)
Catalog: 307
Builder: Mizuno
Year(s): 1974
Qty Made: 588
Here are a few recent additions to my brass locomotive collection.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Road: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (AT&SF)
Whyte: 2-6-2
Description: 1800 PRAIRIE
Importer: Balboa Scale Models (BALBOA)
Builder: KUM/KAT
Year(s): 1967
Qty Made: 420
You haven't seen much in the way of model photos on my photostream. It's been nearly 30 years since I've actively modelled with a layout in high school. I've dabbled with plans and sporadic equipment purchases since but it's been short changed relative to other hobbies. While not my layout I do have a few photos to share from the 2nd half of my birthday weekend. Pat Thoney's Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad has been a bucket list item for me since I first viewed a few photos online.
I grew up just down the hill from the Q&TL route in a house on Quincy Street. The ghosts of this narrow gauge mining railroad were always close at hand. The railroad has long played 2nd fiddle to the preserved mine itself, the Quincy #2 shafthouse and hoist. In recent years Pat and other volunteers have made remarkable progress in repatriating and restoring Q&TL equipment, most notably locomotive #6 that had been languishing in New Jersey since the 1970s.
Back to the models, Pat has done a remarkable job of recreating the Q&TL in HOn3 and I didn't need to be asked twice when offered a chance to see the layout and participate in an operating session. The technology of model railroading has come a long long ways since I built a layout. I was a little nervous to take the throttle of these exquisite models but it's a little like riding a bike. Besides, Pat's layout is very well crafted and runs like a swiss watch, designed for fun operations. I had a blast.
The first train I drew was a passenger train running from Quincy down to Mason. Passenger trains are made up of cabooses and serve as an employee shuttle from mine and to the mills and coal dock 6 miles away at Mason. Really fun piloting a train over this line. The last time I traced this grade I was participating in highschool cross country practice, we would run along the lake from Ripley to Dollar Bay on the old Copper Range grade then switch to the Q&TL grade and run that back to Hancock and the top of the hill.
Now, only awaiting a road name and number, this model is ready to go. I bought it last week on Ebay. It was in good condition except for the bad paint (check out the other photos in the set to see the before pictures). I removed the original open frame motor and installed a long flat can motor with a 13mm x 13mm brass flywheel, then removed the paint and repainted it with locomotive black and added some weathering / rust to the drive line.
The boys put up a banner at Fallowfield station for Memorial Day. And it just so happened that a military train came along with some specially painted unit and ran through it. You can see this and other trains like it at the Arnprior Train Show June 03 & 04 2023,
TR 1965 is a 60 foot high cube box car lettered for the Tomahawk Railway L.P. a Genesee & Wyoming railroad property in Wisconsin.
Scale: HO
Category: Diesel
Switcher
Road: MISC. (MISC.)
Description: ALCO HH-1000
Importer: Hallmark Models Inc. (HALL)
Builder: Kumata (KMT)
Year(s):
The Reading T-1 Northern was born of necessity during the WWII years when building new locomotives was frowned upon due to the steel required for the war effort. So, the Reading Railroad (RDG) took some of their older 2-8-0 Consolidations and converted them into the Northern type.
This particular locomotive, the 2101, was chosen as the first engine to pull the "American Freedom Train" during the bicentennial celebrations in 1976.
In 1977-78 it pulled the "Chessie Steam Special" excursions. In March of 1979 it was severely damaged when the roundhouse in Silver Grove, KY burned down, and was considered a constructive loss. However, it now resides in the B&O Railroad Museum undergoing a cosmetic restoration into its No1 "American Freedom Train" livery.
I have just started restoring this Akane C&O 2-6-6-6 for my friend Sean. This is a series of photos showing how it was received (in parts), going through drive modifications and finally, paint and reassembly - This photo shows the dremel tool with a large wheel for polishing after the parts were put into a quick acid bath to remove solder flux and other debris.