Hi Arthur
Do you mean this one? I did up this Atlas reefer with CDS transfers
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I have a few more freight cars that I will be repainting. They are waiting for decals or transfers to be ordered before I start.
Here is another quick vid of 3rd Rails latest P2g Mike, pulling freight up and down the grades....
Al
Al, looks great! But the question is, "Does the cat approve??"
Al, that is a great looking locomotive. If it wasn't for 3rd Rail, authentic Canadian steam would be just about nonexistent. On a Canadian note, thanks to Beth Marshall at Public Delivery Track, she tipped me off that Golden Gate Depot had an eight car "The Canadian" passenger car set available. Had been searching for this passenger set, thought they were all gone, warehouse find, UPS delivered today.
Arthur
Nice score finding those! I'm looking for a set a well, hopefully some overdue $$ owing to me will show up soon. How much was the set?
Al
Al
The set was $2,000.00 plus shipping. Fortunately they take PayPal, so PayPal credit gives me six months to pay it off, my 2017 train budget was just about exhausted but this was a must. I guess you are aware of the Canadian Toy Train Association ? http://www.canadiantoytrains.org/
Art
Finally purchased a new Samsung phone and decided to take a few videos and pics of recent rail action on the layout.
I have installed the roundhouse tracks with power but threw a belt on Atlas TT motor.....arrrgh. So that will be my next project.
I am having to run additional feeders to the station tracks as I'm losing TMCC signal, which can be annoying.
Other than that I still have 8 more switches to wire up under the layout. I keep putting that off tho. Lol
Al,
Very nice photos and video. Yes I have heard the Atlas belts can be a problem. Looks like Morris the Cat isn't phased by the trains.
Well tonite i decided to run some trains and blow off some steam from another crazy day at work...lol
I havent ran my Weaver G5a #1200 in a while, so......on the tracks it went and coupled up to an MTH set of passenger cars. Only able to pull 4 cars up the grade, which i think is pretty good.
It is a great running and looking loco for sure.
Kali is my resident smoke inspector
Here are few vids of the action
Al
I have been working on repainting some 90s vintage Lionel NYC heavyweight cars into CPR.
Money has been tight even though I have been fortunate enough to be working full time but with adult kids living at home and my daughter going to university.....its been a struggle.
I haven't been able to purchase the GGD heavyweight cars yet so in the meantime ......here is my progress
Well I did manage to apply transfers to the baggage car last night.
Hopefully I will finish the rest up tonite....
Looks really nice.
This weekend was all about painting and lettering the 4 car passenger set and prepping a bunch of freight cars for lettering to CPR.
These have been on my to do list for a while so i decided to get at it.
The passenger cars were lettered with Black Cat decals and the freight cars will get CDS dry transfers
Both groups of cars look great Al!!
Great looking heavyweight passenger cars, I like the look more than the MTH cars.
If you want outside braced CP boxcars you have to do it yourself, I'm a bit surprised Atlas hasn't done the outside braced boxcars for the CP.
Al, your railroad is doing the CPR proud ! You have an excellent stud of motive power, too !
Remember the days when Canadian Pacific described itself as the world's greatest transportation company? They had the railroad, an airline and steam ships, plus a string of hotels.
I like the look of the Lionel Heavyweight cars better than the MTH ones as well, Arthur. Unfortunately, these cars did not have the interiors, so I opted to install "blinds" on the windows which helps in hiding this fact. I would like to find some diaphrams to install on the cars, but probably too expensive if available.
Better scenario would be to find some later version Lionel cars with interiors and diaphrams lol.
Mark, I wish I was around back then to have seen things back in steam days.....oh well.
My next project is repainting an MTH Royal Hudson(Im on a roll lol)
Mark / Arthur
Thank you for the comments. There are a lot of CP and CN steam era cars that have NOT been done, other than by Weaver, which are nearly impossible find now. It seems that buying other roadnames and re-decorating is the cheap way to go for me.
I am hoping to purchase either a K-line 18" CPR passenger set or 6 of the new Lionel CPR Box cars
Al
Al,
I would have liked to see the steam days too. Born in 1956 was just a little late for the B&O and other Western Pennsylvania railroads.
Funny thing about being so old that steamers were commonplace . . .all we wanted to see were diesels!
Steamers? Bleah! a dime a dozen!
Yep, that's how it was for a train watching kid in the early fifties in Canada. I recall trying to get around one stopped at the station before it started moving. Got a shower of cinders in my hair for my trouble. I actually had hair!
How things change!
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