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I was intrigued by this one when I saw it at the Museum of Science & Industry's "Great Train Story" HO-scale model railroad. The real BNSF #1914 was built as an ATSF SD39, becoming BNSF #1914. It was a sort of "homage" to GN, with a GN hearold added to the nose. Here's a photo of the real thing
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
A railroad covered hopper laden with graffiti, MBKX 175393. If I did not know my animated robots better, I would say this is the robot from "Futurama."
This is just a mock up of my N scale city structures. In the future I'll be building a nice size N scale urban layout with trains, ships, ocean scene etc. I still have a lot of buildings to finish in this photo as well as buildings I've yet to build. Yikes... so much work. :D
TBOX 671074 sits in Andrews Yard in Columbia, SOuth Carolina. It has been tagged with graffiti including the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Wally Gator.
The fuel bunker has been straightened and re-assembled, but, only rests on the rear frame at this time.
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 bought this on Ebay just yesterday. A nice little Colorado Midland ten wheeler which has been painted for the D&RGW. These are the sellers photos from the listing.
Litra Fals - Herningværket I/S Vestkraft
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Togklodsen's exhibition at The Danish Railways Museum in the city of Odense, 2-5 June 2023.
Photo © Asbjørn Theodor Schøn Merstrand 2023
More photos: www.flickr.com/photos/93468412@N08/galleries
This is a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) S-2 type 4-6-2 in HO scale brass by Kumata for LM Blum Models. This model has severe damage due to foam rot in the original box. The paint was ruined by the decaying foam and most likely parts of the brass surface will require repair because of etching of the brass. These are not extremely rare models, but, they don't show up everyday either. There were 562 of them made by Kumata in 1967. PFM also produced 5 of them in 1960. The PFM version is extremely rare.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Road: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q)
Whyte: 4-6-2
Description: S-2 PACIFIC
Importer: L.M. Blum Models (LMBLUM)
Builder: Kumata
Year(s): 1967
Qty Made: 562
In the shop today we have a CP unit getting the front plow fixed and VIA 903 just got it's 92 day. Also the boys are ready for Remembrance Day.
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).
TBOX 673595 lays oer in Columbia, South Carolina's Andrews Yard in April 2023. I've seen Freight Bandit's work before.
Cryo-Trans, Inc. offers the largest fleet of privately-owned, mechanically refrigerated and insulated railcars. By the end of 2018, Cryo-Trans, Inc. had more than 2,000 private railcars on the North American railway network.
Here are a few recent additions to my brass locomotive collection. This one needs to be repainted, the existing paint is horrible!
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Road: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Whyte: 4-8-2
Description: J-2 MOUNTAIN
Importer: NJ Custom Brass (NJCB)
Catalog: ST-803
Builder: DAI YOUNG
Year(s): 1978
Qty Made: 500
Some before and after some much needed repairs and clean up on this HO scale Crown Willamette 2-6-6-2T engine by Toby Models (Japan), imported to the USA by Northwest Shortline in 1959.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory: Logging
Road: CROWN (CROWN)
Whyte: 2-6-6-2T
Description: #12 ARTICULATED
Importer: North West Shortline (NWSL)
MANUFACTURE
Builder: Toby
Year(s): 1959
Qty Made: 202
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
A Lineage cold stage boxcar (LINX 8416)
Lineage Logictics was formed in 2008 to, as they put it, reimagine "the world’s food supply chain by preserving, protecting, and optimizing the distribution of food." Lineage has numerus locatiolns around the world inluding Gaston, South Carolina where I live now.
Graffiti is best defined as writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. It is, ofcourse, illegal to defance the property of someone other than your own. I have a lov/hate relationship with ot. I would rather see an untouched railcar denoting either a fallen flag railroad or who owns it now, but tose days are past us now anyway. Admittedly, some graffiti i very well done and very creative and the artists who paits is are often very well known.
Lineage Logictics was formed in 2008 to, as they put it, reimagine "the world’s food supply chain by preserving, protecting, and optimizing the distribution of food." Lineage has numerus locatiolns around the world inluding Gaston, South Carolina where I live now.
This 1930's Lionel Standard gauge No. 384 2-4-0 is a good example of an original condition, used, but well maintained, model. Considering it's original owner received it at around 6 years old, it has held up very well. He, by the way, still owns this same engine some 70 years later. It is here to have some light maintenance done so it will be ready to circle the Christmas tree next month.
A recent purchase, the model was in rough shape. All of the valve gear needed work, many parts needed to be re-soldered. Made by Akane Models on March 11, 1963. Distributed in the USA by Gem Models.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory: Logging
Road: BOOTH KELLY (BOOTH KELLY)
Whyte: 2-6-6-2T
Description: #2 ARTICULATED
US Importer: North West Shortline (NWSL)
Builder: Toby
Year(s): 1975
Side-by-side photo of my LEGO version next to the original delivery photo of the LTM51.
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A bit about the prototype:
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The Netherlands isn't particularly famous for its steep terrain, but in the south of Limburg there are some hills to be found. To overcome them, the Limburgsche Tramweg-Maatschappij ordered one of these articulated Garratt locomotives from Henschel. It was delivered in 1931 and was the the only Garratt locomotive to operate in The Netherlands.
Similar to ther LTM locomotives, the Verhoop valve gear was internal. The watertanks for the engine where located on the outside of the frames, under the footplates.
The locomotive seems to have been a succes, I couldn't find any evidence of serious issues or extensive repairs having to be made. Despite this, the locomotive was retired after only 7 years in service. By this time the road infrastructure in the area has improved, and in 1938 the LTM stopped operating trams on the line Maastricht - Vaals, where this locomotive was designed to run. The locomotive was apparently sold to a buyer in Germany, and has since disappeared.
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About the LEGO model:
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The lego version is modeled in approximately 1:45 scale, and is currently powered by two 9v train motors. I'm thinking about replacing the old 9v motors with RC train motors so I can use custom wheels & maybe even add connecting rods, but for now the model is done.
The cab roof is removable to reveal a simple interior, with just about enough room for 2 mini-figures to stand.
The technique for the smoke exhaust comes from Farouq (www.flickr.com/photos/108174470@N03/) and is made using part of a LEGO technic shock absorber.
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If anyone wants to read more about the prototype, a lot of info can be found here:
www.modelrailroading.nl/articulation/netherlands/pages/LT...
One never knows what they will find spray-painted or written and drawn on the sides of railroad cars.
A montage of some railroad heralds and logos I have shot recently. This image would look best printed large and on metal.
Well before the next club meet the boys wanted to do a service on the power cars and an inspection of them as well. So the cars were disconnected and the power units were put together and sent to the shop. After things were ready they were run slowly into the shop and will be there for the week. Check out the video youtu.be/PAaTX1jETVw
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
I was happy to buy this model this evening from an Ebay listing. It is a rare "Ruby Signature" model imported to the US by Gem Models in 1964 and made by Olympia Models. Only 50 were ever produced for Gem, this is number 26 of 50. (These photos are from the Ebay Listing)
One of the joys of model railroading has always been the ability to recreate moments from the past.
This afternoon, I stopped by Mike Porter's place in KC to photograph the Rock Island combine #2893 that I built for him. The photo below was inspired by the one actual photo of this combine that I've seen, with it running on the RI's Estherville-Cedar Rapids, IA mixed train in 1961. Unfortunately, in those days, these trains were hardly glamorous, ran through underpopulated areas, and both film and travel cost a lot of money, so they were very rarely photographed.
Ahh... to go back in time!