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Kind of quiet this week!
Might be a good time to post some pics of my diesel theme that is still in the works for the future. Some of these (all?) pictures have been posted at some of the threads in these OGR forums... but it's been quite a while and many have not seen them or read of my diesel theme. SO... here goes!
Here's a sampling of power from my "Kansas City & Gulf" theme that I've modeled in the past, and will be doing so again in the near future. The pictured models are right at 20 years old now and are currently undergoing DCC/Sound retrofits. My newest KC&G layout will be based on the switching district in the Kansas City "West Bottoms" area. I will be modeling the KC&G's (fictional) "12th Street Yard" and industrial area, so I'm not held to trying to capture the prototype West Bottoms features detail-for-detail/etc.
Quick synopsis of the KC&G:
* Runs from KC to New Orleans and is a direct competitor to the Kansas City & Southern. Owing that it was the second railroad to strike off from KC to New Orleans, the KC&G had to take a much less desirable route through the Ozark and Ouachita mountains of Arkansas in comparison to the KCS.
* The KC&G was poorly managed during the 1950's and ended the 1950's filing for bankruptcy. The KC&G is now under new management and in the process of trying to reorganize. (I will be modeling the early 1960's.)
Here's a look at some of the HO scale power I built for the KC&G way back in the late 1990's. There is now MUCH more undecorated and KC area-specific diesel power that has been purchased for my resurrection of the KC&G on my newest version of it.
We'll stay in chronological order these units arrived to the KC&G back when the KC&G was beginning to dieselize. Up first is a venerable NW2 switcher:
Next is RS-3 number 255. The 255 has hung in there pretty good, given it's 244 clunker prime mover. Fortunately, Alco stood good for the issues of the KC&G's Alco fleet, including replacing many of the air-cooled exhausts with the water-cooled version:
Another RS-3, the #269. The 269 has faired a bit better during its life than the 255:
And here's a look at the first EMD F-unit to arrive on the KC&G way back in the 1940's as it appears in the early 1960's: F3A #300. Behind the 300 is one of the few KC&G units (F7A #323) to be recently shopped and is sporting one of the KC&G's "simplified" paint schemes. If you look close at 300, you can see where it had an encounter during a slow speed movement, and the number board had to be replaced. Seeing as the KC&G is currently strapped for cash, leaving the number board in primer seemed to be the prudent thing to do at the time:
After the Alco's of the KC&G began to experience significant issues with the 244-series prime movers, the KC&G turned to EMD to complete its "Road Switcher" fleet. Thus, the last picture for now is one of a very tired GP7, number 412. Number 412, faded/eroded paint and all, is patiently awaiting its turn (hopefully) to pass through the Magnolia Shops (at the KC&G's main diesel engine shop at Magnolia, Arkansas) to get rebuilt and repainted "someday"... but it might be a while given the precarious financial state of the ol' KC&G:
So there you have it! You've now met the KC&G!
All fer now.
Andre
