Santiago,
Great work with the washing area. The detail is off the charts. Keep the layout progress coming. My curiosity is getting the best of me.
Dave
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Santiago,
Great work with the washing area. The detail is off the charts. Keep the layout progress coming. My curiosity is getting the best of me.
Dave
Every time I run across these wash rack items in my watched folder, it rekindles my interest in having such an area on the layout. Got me thinking that to show the wash rack is really doing its job, I should have one diesel or one zephyr car that is half weathered. That way it can be dirty going in and clean coming out. I don't think I've ever seen a half-weathered model train car!
I love your pictures, great subject matter and beautiful photos.
Thank you!!!
very very very nice the set you have beautiful but I don't have the space to do it only one structure and I like it very mutch. Are you go to weather it? very nice layout also.
weathering is on my mind, I’m sure I’ll do it in time. Just not a priority.
Santiago: does everything pictured in your wash facility come in the 2 wash rack sets from American Scale Models? Or did you add some details?
Santiago and T4TT: do you think that one set each of brushes and high pressure nozzles is enough to model what you've seen prototypically? Or would you do more if you had the funds and real estate?
Thanks guys.
I love the Key E5 CB&Q in the wash rack
@ED3945 posted:I love the Key E5 CB&Q in the wash rack
I'm flattered! The E5 is a 3rd Rail from last year. I did the research for Scott, these were Phase II E5s.
@lionel1946 posted:Santiago: does everything pictured in your wash facility come in the 2 wash rack sets from American Scale Models? Or did you add some details?
Santiago and T4TT: do you think that one set each of brushes and high pressure nozzles is enough to model what you've seen prototypically? Or would you do more if you had the funds and real estate?
Thanks guys.
Jay, what you see in my picture is:
1x wash rack
1X diesel brush set
1x additional brush
There is no rule for modeling the washing station, I've seen one brush... no was rack.... three brushes..... two brushes.... three brushes at different distances.... it all depends
@SANTIAGOP23 posted:I'm flattered! The E5 is a 3rd Rail from last year. I did the research for Scott, these were Phase II E5s.
Wow beautiful Santiago sunset did a very great job, do you have more pictures of this fine model. Have you also the key version? The E5 is one of my favorites. There was offered two years ago one set (Key models) to me but I didn’t buy it, I’ve always been sorry since that time.
You can see some in this thread.... https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...l-cbandq-e5-phase-ii
Sadly I don't own a Key E5... they are spectacular!
Santiago - You note this as a "diesel wash rack". Quite true. But, in my younger days, I used to ride into downtown Chicago with my mother on the Burlington......always sat on the north side of the "double decker car" as that would provide a glimpse of the Baltimore & Ohio wash rack adjacent to the Robey Street roundhouse. AND a glimpse of a B&O Chicago Terminal 0-8-0 shoving B&O streamlined passenger cars through the wash rack! Steam lasted there until Spring 1958 (some say later - can't confirm). So steam would not be out of place switching your wash rack. Suspect one of Burlington's "unusual" 0-6-0's (rebuilt from 2-6-2's) pushed Zephyr cars through the Denver car wash, too.
@dkdkrd I'm not familiar with the mechanical workings of the washing station, but I would say that the depression is a drain.
Thanks for the in depth info, Mark. As per usual I'm jealous of your awesome recollections. I've had the chance to acquire on of the latest 3rd Rail O1a engines, but I've restrained myself. I do intend to use one upcoming GP7 black bird to work the wash rack regularly!
Santiago: I know you aren't an enthusiast of the O1a, but Denver had a number of them assigned through 1955 and presume switching was one of or the primary tasks they performed. Those O1a's were retired after 1955. That certainly overlaps the Zephyr era, and certainly the Aristocrat's period of operation.
Then in Sept 1958, due to two catastrophic wrecks on the Colorado & Southern which destroyed about 5 diesel locomotives, the C&S asked Burlington's Chicago headquarters for help - they sent out 5 O1a's, which worked from Oct 1958 to about Feb 1959. O1a's were long lived and versatile locomotives for the Burlington. Those O1a's did not work Burlington trains but were visible switching the C&S yard adjacent to Denver Union Station. One of those O1a's has been preserved in Mendota, IL (#4978, with Elesco feed water heater. That specific locomotive was done by Sunset 3rd Rail).
@mark s posted:Santiago: ...snip... One of those O1a's has been preserved in Mendota, IL (#4978, with Elesco feed water heater. That specific locomotive was done by Sunset 3rd Rail).
This one?
I took these on a 2015 visit to Mendota when attending an event at Sandwich, IL. That little museum is quite an interesting place. When I was there, they offered rides on a track car and trailer; not to bad for (at that time) around $1.50.
Yes, that's the one !
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