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Johan, I will gladly post photos of MEC #11 when done.
I have never painted a brass engine. I stalled on it as I acquired a finer scale model made by W&R enterprises. It is in the planning stages now.
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Here’s one I think is interesting
Al
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It's a beauty! Is it Canadian Pacific? This is an engine MTH or Lionel should model!
Great posts this week everyone, thank you to each of you for stopping by and contributing, and to those of you "lurking" (reading but not posting pictures/comments/etc.), we'd love to have you contribute too!
I spent some time in downtown Fredericksburg VA yesterday, we got to see a CSX freight train zoom through, and I caught this little (G Gauge) critter doing some short line work on a shelf layout at one of the stores.
I hope everyone has a good weekend, keep posting here if you want, and I'll see you all next week...Rich
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Here’s a neat little 2-foot gauge switcher manufactured by Orenstein & Koppel Locomotive Works in Germany in 1935 and used inSouth Afrika in mine service. Refurbished and on display at Railfest in Fillmore, CA the weekend of April 27-28.
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reminds me of the popular G-Gauge LGB “Stainz” model.
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Hey Rich - Regarding " Hump day". Does this mean we must do switching work on railroads using only Camelback switchers on Wednesdays???
Chicago Great Western TR2 pull out three freshly repainted steel reefer cars from North Western’s car repair shop in Marshalltown, Iowa.
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Steam Crazy
Yes this is one of shop swithers the CPR had.
Also since Camelbacks were also mentioned in the post for switching on hump days, I have included a pic as well
Al
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How did you know I love Camelbacks, too! Thanks for posting!
That Conrail 9900 conversion project looks interesting. Quite a few of the RS-3 rebuilds were assigned to the former CNJ shop at Elizabethport, NJ. I knew a number of employees who worked with these units and, interestingly, they weren't very well regarded. Following the rebuild, the guys said they were underpowered and insufficiently ballasted, resulting in adhesion problems. CNJ operated a large fleet of RS-3s and crews liked them for their pulling power and responsiveness...kick the throttle, get that big plume of black smoke and away you'd go. Understandably, Conrail was standardizing at the time and desired to rid its huge locomotive roster of power from minority builders long out of business. At least some of the RS-3s were run through a rebuilding program. The rest of the ALCo and Baldwin units were just disposed of straight away.
