Weekend Photo Fun 8/7/15 HONG

My new little critter arrived this week and a few other On30's also made from underground Ernie donors.

A couple of my 0-9's still waiting to start on 3 more kits............one day.

Alberta Pacific #702, an ex-D&RGW M-69 class mountain, sits on the turntable in Upper Squamish, BC.

Turntable is a Diamond Scale, built by Warren Bjornson, roundhouse is a South River Modelworks stone roundhouse built by Warren.  Scene shot on Warren's Alberta Pacific Railroad.  Locomotive is a Sunset Models D&RGW M-69, painted, decaled, and weathered by yours truly.  Also installed a NCE D-102 decoder.

Regards,

Jerry

From a momentary lapse of reason in the 1990's...

Berliner TT start set:

Potsdam commemorative set:

Fall of the Berlin Wall commemorative set:

The chunk is a portion of the wall.

Unfortunately, just as Berliner was on the cusp of releasing American prototypes for the US market, the factory burnt down and Berliner ceased to exist.

Rusty

I had done a re-paint of these HO models several years ago for a nephew.  They are similar to my O scale custom paints.

Between 1989 and 1991, three SY class 2-8-2 locomotives were built by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in China for American railroads. The purchasing roads were the Valley Railroad, Knox & Kane and New York Susquehanna & Western. Unfortunately, the ship carrying the NYSW locomotive sank in the Indian Ocean taking the engine with it. Susquehanna management then made an offer to the Valley to purchase the SY belonging to that road. The offer was accepted and the Susquehanna finally had its much desired SY class locomotive.

Numbered 142, the locomotive powered numerous specials during its tenure on the NYSW roster. Following the untimely passing of Mr. Walter Rich, the railroad's President and an ardent enthusiast, passenger operations were quickly terminated with the majority of the equipment disposed of. Thankfully, the 142 was conveyed to the New York Susquehanna & Western Technical and Historical Society. The locomotive is presently used by the society to power Delaware River Railroad excursion trains operating out of Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

A wonderfully detailed HO version of the 142 was released by Bachmann several years ago. The model was produced for the American market as an offshoot of the company's line of superbly detailed models of Chinese prototypes produced for that country's citizens' rapidly expanding interest in railroading. Had it not been for the fact that a model of the SY class was already in Bachmann's Chinese line, it is doubtful a model of the 142 would have ever come to fruition due to its limited appeal in the American market with only two SY class locomotives operating in our country.

The real 142 has been heavily "Americanized" in its appearance and the Bachmann model faithfully replicates these features with many separately applied plastic and brass detail parts. It may, in fact, be the most detailed plastic HO steam locomotive I've ever seen. My purchases are heavily influenced by my real life railroading experiences and, as I've been a passenger behind 142 on many occasions, this model is a natural fit in my collection.

Enjoy,

Bob 

Without really trying to amass them... I'm stunned at how many undecorated engines I have unearthed/have on hand. Fully 90% of them had the detailing process started many years ago and were on their way to becoming Kansas City & Gulf engines. In addition to these undecorated engines purchased over a decade ago for the KC&G, I have a few more undecorated engines that were more recently purchased (over the past year) to become Frisco engines, and Kansas City Terminal engines.

Here's a pic of JUST the KC&G fleet!!!

Oh, and there's a NIB Proto 2000 undecorated GP7 stacked in the closet that can be added to the above mix.

Lemme' see... IF I decide to STAY THE COURSE and use the undecorated RS-2 and RS-1 for their intended purchase, which was to be Frisco, (though it's tempting to move them into the KC&G pile!)... sans the RS-2/RS-1 that gives me something like TWENTY KC&G engines to prep for the layout.  (i.e. Get DCC/Sound installed in the painted KC&G engines, DCC/Sound and detail/paint/decal/weather, the undecorated KC&G engines.) Reckon' that ought to give me enough workbench projects for a while?? 

Oh... one more thing, there's a painted KC&G engine missing from the above. It's no longer on hand. Nope, it's done making the trek to "the sound guy" to have DCC/Sound installed.  I hope to keep a reasonably steady stream of painted KC&G engines heading to/from "the sound guy" for DCC/Sound installation so that phase of this project can get caught up.

All fer now!!!

Picked up an N scale version of a MTH car I already have. The MTH version has a signal man that pops out the door when activated.

BANTRAK (Baltimore Area N Trak) does a lot of shows in the Washington DC area. Today brought them to a "usual" venue for them, the Gaithersburg MD B&O Station for "Train Day". They had their T-Trak set up. Very well done. Great group of guys. I'd been wanting to stop by one of their Gaithersburg displays for a while. They occasionally set up right at the Gaithersburg B&O Station complex. The freight house is now a community museum. Outside are BC&G #14, a freshly restored 2-8-0, ex-C&O Bay Window Caboose, and ex-B&O RDC that used to run up and down the Metropolitan Branch here through Gaithersburg. 

One day I'd like to do a small N scale layout - about 2x4 or so - and join these guys. I've known most of them for many years and they are a first class group. 

Neat little ore train running around. 

CSX Train D765, the local trash train from the Montgomery County Recycling/Waste Transfer station to the PEPCO power plant that runs the 17 mile run, 6 days a week was heading west to PEPCO. 

Looking West down the B&O Metropolitan Branch. The bridge crossing the track has B&O Emblems on it. It goes to the parking garage on the left. On the far end of the parking garage is the "Wye Site" where the old Wye was. There is still a small portion left but now is a construction sight, a road, apartment building, etc. 

The Caboose, ex-C&O on display. It houses some museum displays. 

BC&G 2-8-0 #14

BC&G #14, bike rack version. This is brand new to Gaithersburg, a popular commuter train stop. I think this is one of, if not THE coolest bike racks I've ever seen!

This shows all of the rolling stock and the freight house. The station is just off to the right. 

The RDC also houses museum displays. 

Great picture's everybody!! 

Here is updated picture's of my Atlas MasterLine N Scale CSX GP40-2 

Given the recent news about Fleishmann filing for backruptcy protection, here's the two Presentation Packages I own:

Rusty