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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!
(Der nachfolgende Dialog resultiert daraus, dass der Aufnahmeort zu erraten war )
Wo in Berlin aufgenommen? Und (voller Erstaunen): Wie kann sich das Geschäft in dieser Gegend halten?
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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.
Here are a few recent additions to my brass locomotive collection.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Subcategory:
Road: New York Central (NYC)
Whyte: 4-6-4
Description: J-3A HUDSON
Builder: George D. Stock
Year(s): 1950's
Qty Made: 1
This is the start of a scratch built (mostly) pilot assembly for the Akane H8 that I am restoring. The pilot beam and foot boards are cast brass from Precision Scale. Everything from the pilot beam up, with the exception of the headlight is built from brass stock. These photos were taken after initial assembly, soldering is complete, now the piece needs to be filed and cleaned. Some pieces still require some straightening. Some small details still have to be added.
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 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
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.
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 lineup on the storage tracks of Dave Smithey's HO scale Rio Grande layout. Brendon Groufsky's Athearn Genesis SD75M , my Athearn Genesis Union Pacific Heritage unit UP1983 in the Western Pacific heritage scheme, and at the back an Atlas Silver Series U23B (#2254) in the green Western Pacific scheme. All locos DCC and sound.
I picked up this articulated logging locomotive on Ebay today. The seller gave little information regarding the maker, and it may be a scratch built model, but, it appears to be all brass construction and by the measurements given by the seller, I thought it may be On3 scale, but, to my surprise, it is standard gauge HO scale. These are the seller's photos from the listing. I intend on restoring it to brass finish.
These are electrical structures I have scratch built or kitbashed. I like going through my electrical engineering books and designing scale models that are close to prototypical. With time and practice I might actually become quite a model builder!
20180908_4857_7D2-70 Punks in an alley
On the HO scale Freemo model railroad, a mix of sections belonging to the Skill Wise organisation and local individuals.
#9967
This is a rare model, only 50 made by Olympia Models in the early 1960's. I was not able to purchase this model, however, I wanted to post the photos from the Ebay listing for those who may have an interest.
Is it important to have the right apparel to run your new locomotives?
Check out the mailcall video here youtu.be/25rw5oUpv-o
Scale: HO
Category: Diesel
Road: New York Central (NYC)
Description: GE DES-3
Importer: NJ Custom Brass (NJCB)
Catalog: DE-100
Builder: Kumata
Year(s): 1972
Qty Made: 750
NOTES: CUSTOM BRASS FIRST MODEL!
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
O grabbed some shots of the WECX 800 as it made a few runs through Columbia back in 2013 and 2014 between Charleston and the nuclear statin that was then under construction near Jenkinsville, South Carolina. WECX 800 is a heavy deuty rail car designed for the heaviest of the heavy loads to be delivered by North American railroads. It is called a Schnabel car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight of the load and the lifting arm
The two largest Schnabel cars in operation are owned and operated by by Kasgro Railcar for Westinghouse Nuclear and are used in North America primarily to transport reactor containment vessels.
This car, WECX 800, has 36 axles. Each half of the car contains nine trucks which are connected by a complex system of span bolsters.over a large number of wheels.
The word Schnabel is from German Tragschnabelwagen, meaning "carrying-beak-wagon", because of the usually tapered shape of the lifting arms, resembling a bird's beak.
This is the Amtrak RTL Truboliner model from Rapido Trains. These were made by Rohr a company in California back in 1976. This model is the phase III late version 152,173,174,175, 153.
The beautiful layout work of Kenichi Matsumoto - Mr. Matsumoto, the former editor of Train Magazine (Japan) and editor of The Art of Brass, The Tenshodo Book and several other publications regarding brass models trains, kindly allowed me to post a few photos from his layout. Kenichi took these photos and sent them to my Friend Sean, and myself recently. I will edit the titles to add information shortly.
Steel Mill Model in N scale as of about mid 2009. Some changes have been made since to improve layout.
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 beautiful layout work of Kenichi Matsumoto - Mr. Matsumoto, the former editor of Train Magazine (Japan) and editor of The Art of Brass, The Tenshodo Book and several other publications regarding brass models trains, kindly allowed me to post a few photos from his layout. Kenichi took these photos and sent them to my Friend Sean, and myself recently. I will edit the titles to add information shortly.
20230615_8347_R62-110 Ship it on the Frisco (166/365)
A boxcar on my HO model railroad (a glorified test track at the moment)
#15241
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)