My O-gauge White Pass collection (Shovelnose 3d prints now for sale).

I had some alone time yesterday and decided to set up a carpet layout in my sons room.

 

http://youtu.be/-WR-uJ6Bfao

 

I stopped by my local train shoppe and picked up a 1:43 Peterbuilt tractor and trailer. Now let's see what fun I can have with this one.

 

 "There's a right way, a wrong way, and a Skagway"

 

 

I always say that there's mortal sin, venial sin and Wiscon-sin......

Very nice Peterbuilt. Absolutely me favorite type tractors.

Here's the trailer.



A little more fun on the temporary carpet layout.

I finished the paint job on my white pass tractor trailer.

 

Here is what it started out as.

 

 

 

 

And here it is now.

 

 

 

 

I need to have some door decals specially made for it. I'll probably have doityourselflettering.com make them for me.

 

Here is my inspiration.

 

 

I'm taking a break from customizing for a little bit. But I'm very happy with what I've accomplished this year. I started out with an MTH White Pass Tank car and now I have 10 pieces of White Pass rolling stock and a tractor trailer to ride on my flat car. I'm just waiting on my MTH heavy duty snow plow now.

 

 

I've done a little more work to my bunk car.

 

 

 

 

I'm wondering if I should leave the car alone or if I should add the orange stripe along the top of the sides like I originally planned.

This was my inspiration for this car.

 

 

 

 

Anybody have any comments about this?

I went to the Wasatch Rails train show in Salt Lake today. There was a lot of neat stuff to check out. I even met some guys from the Utah Train Collectors Association, a local 3-rail group, and I may join them.

I picked up this stock car for $13, not bad. I am thinking of leaving it as D&RGW. During WWII a lot of D&RGW narrow gauge equipment was shipped north to be used on the White Pass railroad to facilitate the building of the Alaska Highway.

 

 

Hey,  Tom

 

How bout, asking your friend, if he sees the Superliners every now and then

 

WOuld really like to see a long video, of 1 of them in action.  The gentlemen with that

disease, Asp*** and the video, is on the forum I have it copied, but would really

like to view 1 in action,   yes I do like your yellow and green, as it is very remote

and that is why I like the Blue and yellow, Alaska RR  as it also is remote,and the O trains are quite elusive.  thanks

Terry,

Skagway is quite a long distance from any part of the Alaska Railroad. I don't think I know anyone I could ask to do that up there.

Tom

Finally got the door decals and Alaska license plates for my White Pass tractor trailer.

Tom...I really like the tractor trailer...great job!

 

Alan

Love it, Tom!!!!!!

 

Oops, here's the whole tractor and trailer. I really like how it turned out.

 

 

And here it is on a flat car after I lowered the rear wheels.

 

 

Not quite finished, but here is another White Pass caboose. I found this MTH Premiere Conrail caboose at my LHS for $20. One corner of the roof was broken and then repaired. I'm pretty happy with the results. Next will be the rotary caboose. I need to practice with 3d rendering first.

Nice work.

 

Mike

Who made that tractor/trailer, and is it 1:50 or 1:43?

That caboose turned out great!

Who made that tractor/trailer, and is it 1:50 or 1:43?


John, the tractor trailer is a New Ray 1:43 1949 Peterbuilt.
The nice thing is that the trailer comes undecorated and the truck comes apart easily with a screw driver and a hobby knife. (I cut the chrome parts off from the inside for painting and then superglued them on after I was done).  The only problem I have with them is that the trailer sits pretty high off the wheels and truck. I cut it down so it would look better.

1:43 is pretty big for o scale I know. But the trailer is the same size as a k-line shipping container I have and I think it looks pretty good on a flat bed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Die-Ca...&hash=item4878cfdbe1

Gentlemen,

  All the White Pass stuff is definitely cool, no doubt about it, and the Caboose's

are just fantastic!

PCRR/Dave