Western Roads Wednesday

My entry for Western Roads Wednesday is a little late!

I had a little surprise while I was setting up for the video, it's in the blooper at the end. This is of course a fantasy train as Union Pacific had acquired Western pacific at least a decade before the EMD SD70Ace was introduced.

I had backed up the SD70 train immediately after the rear ender before anything shorted out. That's a remote switch, so the stupid dispatcher was at fault! Doh!

Here’s today’s Western line up

@lee drennen posted:

Here’s today’s Western line up

Love the Studebaker! 1950 Champion I believe in that weird aqua blue they had.

Rio Grande rotary snow plow.

@trumptrain posted:

Rio Grande rotary snow plow.

Patrick, very cool winter scene with the rotary plow! Once again you nailed the snow, great looking scene!

Train No. 54, our all-stops daylight passenger train from Clovis to Temple arrives in Caprock, Texas, behind Fairbanks-Morse Erie-Built diesel 90L.

@Number 90 posted:

Train No. 54, our all-stops daylight passenger train from Clovis to Temple arrives in Caprock, Texas, behind Fairbanks-Morse Erie-Built diesel 90L.

Nice scene. The FM Erie Built is an Atlas model correct? I've been keeping an eye out for one but they don't come up for sale often.

It's Thursday, but El Capitan still heads west.

Easy Lou! That train is really moving!

@Engineer-Joe posted:

Easy Lou! That train is really moving!

Only doing 80 scale mph. The real El Capitan would go faster 😉

Western Railroads

Southern Pacific passenger train.

@Lou1985 posted:

Nice scene. The FM Erie Built is an Atlas model correct? I've been keeping an eye out for one but they don't come up for sale often.

Yes, Atlas.  I bought powered A and B units and an unpowered A unit back when Atlas first offered them  They have EOB, and are very smooth at all speeds.

Alco-GE RSD4 2103 is Atlas Trainman, and  Alco-GE S2 2337  is Lionel.

It's Wednesday, so here's some Santa Fe 2-8-2 action.

Couple U.P. for this Wednesday,

Well hello W.R.W. fans, I have a couple of cab units for you today:

First is the Marx 1095 Santa Fe E-7

Next is Marx's interpretation of the F-3.  The # 6000 Southern Pacific F-3.

Happy "Hump Day" everyone.  Best Wishes

Don

A couple western roads…

An Atlas Austrian made 40’ boxcar I recently painted and decaled for the KATY, Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad. I weighted it and added Weaver trucks. Finished it with a light weathering job…

And  a Weaver 40’ Boxcar painted by me and decaled for the Texas and Pacific Railroad.

Tom

Santa Fe 4-8-4 #2921 leads train 23, The Grand Canyon, west.

Well fans of W.R.W.  what about the Denver and Rio Grande RR?  Here is the Lionel #221 DRG Alco from 1963-64.  Not a premium product from Lionel by far but remember its the 1960's and the company is trying to avoid going under and trying to sell trains at nearly every price point.  In cataloged sets, she led set # 11321 in 1963 and the nearly identical set # 11440 in 1964 both times as a single A unit with an odd assortment of cars with various trucks and couplers but both with tracks and transformer.  Retail price for the set was $16.95 in 1963 and $17.95 in 1964.

The sets discussed above came with a plain Lionel lines caboose #6167-100 in red.  The more elaborate #9077 DRG caboose below is a personal add on from MPC in 1976-1983 and 1984-1991 uncatalogued (overlaps the emergence of LTI in 1985).

Here is a short video of her pulling her little train.  Really not too bad a performance for something 62 years old although the mechanism consisting of a simple right hand gear train directly from the vertical armature of the motor does not instill confidence. 

Happy Wednesday everyone

Best Wishes

Don

Great stuff today guys, thanks for posting. No90, that Caprock scene is awesome.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well fans of W.R.W.  what about the Denver and Rio Grande RR?  Here is the Lionel #221 DRG Alco from 1963-64.  Not a premium product from Lionel by far but remember its the 1960's and the company is trying to avoid going under and trying to sell trains at nearly every price point.  In cataloged sets, she led set # 11321 in 1963 and the nearly identical set # 11440 in 1964 both times as a single A unit with an odd assortment of cars with various trucks and couplers but both with tracks and transformer.  Retail price for the set was $16.95 in 1963 and $17.95 in 1964.

The sets discussed above came with a plain Lionel lines caboose #6167-100 in red.  The more elaborate #9077 DRG caboose below is a personal add on from MPC in 1976-1983 and 1984-1991 uncatalogued (overlaps the emergence of LTI in 1985).

Here is a short video of her pulling her little train.  Really not too bad a performance for something 62 years old although the mechanism consisting of a simple right hand gear train directly from the vertical armature of the motor does not instill confidence. 

Happy Wednesday everyone

Best Wishes

Don

Don love the Rio Grande thanks for sharing

Here’s today’s. This is my favorite Weaver Switcher Engines

@Krieglok posted:

A couple western roads…

An Atlas Austrian made 40’ boxcar I recently painted and decaled for the KATY, Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad. I weighted it and added Weaver trucks. Finished it with a light weathering job…

And  a Weaver 40’ Boxcar painted by me and decaled for the Texas and Pacific Railroad.

Tom

Tom. Some more great Custom cars of your always a treat to see them you did a great job on them. Thanks for sharing

@Lou1985 posted:

It's Thursday, but El Capitan still heads west.

Lou. Wow that’s fast but she looks Beautiful

Here's my entry lined up for Western Roads Wednesday. Southern Pacific twice and Western Pacific (mortal enemies), and AT&SF. I have UP and BNSF too, but those are from another era.

Lee:  Thanks for the compliment.  Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Lee:  Thanks for the compliment.  Best wishes

Don

Your welcome sorry I haven’t been here for awhile I’ll try to do better life sometimes gets in the way of your hobbies

Thank you Lee!

Tom

Western Pacific, can you show a video of your layout, in particular your buildings.

Thanks, Rich

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Well W.R.W. fans here we are on a beautiful (but cold) Wed in central Texas.  I am starting off the posts this week and hoping that a few of you fans will "post in" to make our thread continue.  Well anyway, my contribution this week is REALLY western, in fact to get much farther west in the continental US you would need a boat or a swimsuit.  She is a double door boxcar from the Spokane, Portland & Seattle RR. This Railway was created in 1905 as a joint venture between the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific to provide connections and access to Oregon lumber shipments.  It lasted until 1970 when it was broken up and remnants are still in use today by BNSF and the Portland and Western RR (data from Wikipedia).

Here is a side view showing the full livery of the S.P.&S.  This car is a Lionel (LTI) #19213 from 1989.  It is a reasonably robust car by modern Lionel standards with two operating couplers, metal axles and wheels, a metal floor for support and metal door guides.  

Here is the letter end showing the large S.P.&S. livery

Here is the logo end of the livery

Here she is on top of the Lionel "window" box in use at that time.

Since I was doing these pictures in the morning at the kitchen table...my assistant (and normal breakfast companion) and VP of freight rolling stock "Max" felt that he had to be involved.

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Best wishes and Happy HUMP day!

Don

Happy WRW all, may the weekend arrive quickly!

Some Union Pacific power to change it up a bit.

E6 A-B LA-10 leads The City Of Los Angeles west.

Challenger 3977 leads PFE refrigerator cars east.

Well W.R.W. fans here are a few Union Pacific trains for you on this fine Wednesday.

First the Marx #1998 Union Pacific Alco S-3, made from 1955-1962.

Here she is pulling a short freight along with her Union Pacific caboose

Here is the Marx 3900 Union Pacific caboose from 1974-75 along with two Marx boxcars, the B&M deluxe box from 52-57 and the GN medium box  (no sliding doors) from the same period.

Meanwhile on the adjacent track, the Marx M10005 streamliner prepares to depart with her fast passenger train.

Well that's it for me today.  Best wishes for a great Wednesday and the rest of the week

Don

Just in the nick of time, fortunately I live in Western Roads Territory and it's Pacific Time.

Here's a Western Roads Wednesday freight rollin' by pulled by two EMD SD70Ace's.

Sorry I missed WRW I’ll do better next week. Great looking pics this week guys.

Well folks, here it is Wednesday and we have not had many folks post today.  So I will try to get us started with a small contribution.  The Northern Pacific RR was certainly a "western road" so today I am showing an early Marx # 1678 gondola for the NP.  This fellow has the early olive bronze body, silver lithographed frame, and short wheelbase.  Her "Joy Line" couplers date her to 1934-35.  The logo reads " Northern Pacific - Yellowstone Park Line"

In the picture below you can see the Joyline couplers, with the large hole instead of a slot.  More conventional tab/slot couplers would come in 1936 along with a longer wheelbase and a black frame.

Well this fellow is approaching 90 years old and he is still capable of running on the layout.  In fact I do that occasionally just for fun and for the noise these tin fellows make .  Best wishes to everyone on this "hump" day!!

Enjoy the week

Don

Does this count? Just finished restoring my Western Pacific 1946 Fairmont M19 Motor Car!

This Wednesday Santa Fe Texas number 5009 leads a mixed freight eastbound.

@Lou1985 :  Lou great video, I love that "lonely whistle" sound that your whistle makes...it is really nostalgic.  My offering today is what I call my Santa Fe train...not that its a model of any specific train, just a normal local freight, moving a lone boxcar from one siding to another.  All the trains are Santa Fe made by Marx from various era...here it is:

The switcher engine here is the Marx # 1998 SF Alco S-3 in black livery offered 1955-1962.  The Marx # 3280 SF boxcar with type G trucks from 1956 and the Marx #4587 SF Work Caboose from 1962.

Here is a closer look at the boxcar and the work caboose.

Well folks that's it for me on this fine Wednesday...Happy "Hump" day !

Best wishes

Don

Here’s today’s WRW. How about a B&W pic. Enjoy the rest of your week.