Project N&W

Looks great, my O gauge buddy would love that!  He is a huge NW fan.  I am gonna make him envious with my Weaver  NS GP38-2 high hood I am building.  NW/NS and EJ&E are his roads.  Great job on the Alco! 

Stephen,

Excellent. Looking forward to seeing more.

Yes. Very nice.  Cannot see the handrail improvement in those photos - any chance of a closeup?

Is this a Car Works T-6?

Very Nice!

I always like seeing ALCo's! 

VGN 64 yes it is a Car Works T6 with major rework. 

Here is an correct N&W ex Nickel Plate Caboose that I just finished painting.  This the first of 4 Overland  Bay window cabooses I purchased to do different paint schemes.  This is a mid 60s version.

Stephen

Here is an N&W ex NKP C-13 War Caboose. 

Bob2, here is the front end of the T6 with the scratch-built N&W style handrails. 

Stephen

I have a ex-NKP bay window with a little damage so I will plate over the windows to get that version done.

Stephen,

Nice work!  What did you use for the decals?  I have an Overland C-17 that I want to finish in the N&W "hamburger" scheme.  I'm thinking road number 562761, 562750, or 56720.

Thanks Rick: I had decals made for all the N&W cabooses - 60's thru 80's - red and blue paint schemes that I plan on doing. Next up will be a blue ex NKP C7 caboose.

Great work! Lately I've been upgrading handrails and cut bars on an SW1200, which has made me develop a better appreciation for scratch built brass details. Shaping brass to follow somewhat complex geometry is easier said than done. The smallest difference in symmetry is apparent to even the less educated eye.  

Thanks SANTIAGOP23! I would love to see the SW1200 when you are finished.

Stephen

If you don't mind, I'd like to contact you off line. My email is rbaconiii@earthlink.net.

So I'm looking at slides this afternoon at a friend's house, and up pops a shot of 17, though in NW days.  Were these units built with rb trucks [ ie, pre AP] , or converted "soon" afterwards ?   I'm guessing the base model you used was basically the PRR version ?

Best, SZ

SZ: W

When Car Works did the T6/DL440 model the manufacture messed up the N&W version very bad. Basicly they were the PRR versions. That is why most boxes were never marked PRR or N&W. The trucks would be a great project for a 3D printer.

Stephen

Here's another N&W project I've been working on.  I've always wanted to do an N&W Scale Car.

Stephen

You should have seen four of these puppies humping a cut of coal at Shaffer's Crossing at night. Beautiful red exhaust coming from the stacks! I wish someone would make these in 3R.

That scale test car is neat too. Ever since MTH came out with them, I've been wanting to do one.

Knee knockers.

A T-6 is a knee knocker.

The control stand is so cramped and the engineer's quarters are so small, several times a day I knock the snot out of my knee(s) when swiveling around in the seat to look the other direction. Used to run T-6's pretty often, then they started staying north.

However, here a couple months ago or so, a T-6 was sent down to our terminal on account of all the bigger engines were in use/being shopped.

So, it was back to running a knee knock'n T-6. Actually, I didn't mind... sort of a trip back in time for me. (The smell of the T-6 cabs remind me of the aroma of the cabs on Baldwin VO1000's that I was in back in 1970-1972.)

However, being reunited with a T-6 didn't last long: It went B/O before lunch and out of service! (Governor went out.) To the service track it went, and another job had to loan us an engine out of their consist so we could finish our day.