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N scale. A good example of projects I've embarked on that strive to be too complex to be copied by ebay sellers and passed off as their own designs. In the end it makes for a better diorama.
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 re-assembled this model after cleaning and repair of broken and missing parts. It was a rather sparse in details, and I did not add any to this project just to keep the appearance original. Some small items still need tweaking, but, for the most part it is done. This is the first Akane model that I have seen that came with a serial / production number. This one is number 93, and it is stamped in several locations with the number. These are common models, so this must be number 93 of hundreds made. This is the 1959 run year, with un-sprung drivers. The videos are the first and second test runs after assembly, they are not good, but, you get the idea anyway.
Several weeks ago I worked on building a programming station/track to program my HO Scale locomotives.
Components used:
- Bachmann EZ Track and bumpers.
- DPDT Toggle switch (Program - OFF - Run)
- DCC Specialties PowerPax (to program any and all DCC decoders on the market)
- Digitrax DCS51 "Zephyr Xtra"
- Digitrax PR3 (For USB connectivity to computer and computer interface)
- Electrical box to have the ability to plug everything in using one cord.
- Apple PowerBook G4 running JMRI's "DecoderPro" for programming.
I was looking through photos of Kenichi's layout and found so many small details that I had never focused on. So I decided to blow up a few areas and re-post them. All the photos are located in one of my albums. Kenichi took the photos and built the models. He does great work.
N scale. 4 feet long. Finished Background structure with unfinished original Machine Shop Structure in foreground. Based on Machine Shop #2 Structure at Bethlehem Home plant.
Custom Build based on previous iteration of custom parts. 4 floors were removed in the main body to allow more of a step back towards the top. The top 3 floors and art deco top were all custom built to accomodate the design.
Hand Made Tenshodo Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy- 1958 Signature run with only rear drivers powered. Model is numbered on cab skirt and frames. Only 30 were produced for Pacific Fast Mail, although Tenshodo did make hundreds of limited production and crown models of the UP Big Boy. These hand made models are rare.
Here are some various logging and mining steam locomotives in HO and HOn3 scale.
To group administrators: If I am uploading to many photos to your group and it gets annoying, please let me know, I will stop. I put the photos in the groups hoping other model railroaders will appreciate and enjoy them as much as I do.
This unit is an HO scale Atlas Classic series GP38. The unit is lettered for CN road #4700 and houses a TCS decoder. This unit has the front lights on the low hood and MBE snow shields and bell. Kadee #5 couplers front and back . The underframe and trucks are painted and weathered a grimy black and the diesel is detailed and lightly weathered..
The railroads that made up the Family Lines System on the side of an old cvered hopper car I shot back in 2013.
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 re-assembled this model after cleaning and repair of broken and missing parts. It was a rather sparse in details, and I did not add any to this project just to keep the appearance original. Some small items still need tweaking, but, for the most part it is done. This is the first Akane model that I have seen that came with a serial / production number. This one is number 93, and it is stamped in several locations with the number. These are common models, so this must be number 93 of hundreds made. This is the 1959 run year, with un-sprung drivers. The videos are the first and second test runs after assembly, they are not good, but, you get the idea anyway.
I bought this early hand built brass model recently. It is un-restored, but runs very well. These early hand built models are extremely rare, with only a handful in the world, for me, they are an exciting find for my collection. This model is unmarked, therefore, I am not sure who the maker was, but, I suspect it was made by Tetsudo or Kawai Models sometime between 1950 and 1955. (Sorry for the bad photos, these were the best I could get using my iphone).
I found this box car with reporting marks HS 3856 in the Columbia, South Carolina NS yard back in 2013 but am having some trouble finding out how own the HS reporting marks. Various web serches bring up both the Hatford and Slocomb Railroad and the Husatonic Southern. The Hartford and Slocomb has been a fallen flag for amost 30 years from what I can find and the Housatonic and Southern was incorporated in 1983. The latter is a New Jersey railrod and the former was an Alabama road. Reporting marks can be transferred from one road to another. One thing I think I can be fairly certain of is that this box car was at one time on the Valdosta Southern.
Housatonic Southern Railroad
Here are some various logging and mining steam locomotives in HO and HOn3 scale.
To group administrators: If I am uploading to many photos to your group and it gets annoying, please let me know, I will stop. I put the photos in the groups hoping other model railroaders will appreciate and enjoy them as much as I do.
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. Erie Triplex 2-8-8-8-2 Imported by LM Blum (LMB) 1961 (two motors, one in the tender and one in the locomotive). (Compound Mallet)
A hopper car lettered for Interstate Commodities Inc. but previously owned by Pillsbury crosses the Congaree River in 2013 on Norfolk Southern train 192.
Welcome to the humble control centre of Miniatur Wunderland. 930 trains, 1270 signals, 3050 points, 200 cars, 40 airplanes and 15 ships at your hands.
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.
See the mail call video here youtu.be/5JL2orMLCcY
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. Tenshodo Model Section - Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Imported in 1958 by PFM. This is a hand made - Signature Model, with only the rear drivers powered. Only 30 were produced for PFM.