Weekend Photo Fun 7/3/15

I posted this awhile back in the 3 rail forum, but since it's my favorite caboose I am posting it again. It is a brass Key Imports N scale N5C caboose.

The Alberta Pacific runs from Red Deer, Alberta, to Vancouver BC.  There is a branch line that runs down to Osoyoos, BC, where there is an interchange with the Spokane Southern Railroad's Okanagon sub. 

These shots are from July 3, 1957, and show locomotive #702 pulling a manifest freight up the 2% grade at Athabaska Crossing, AB.  

I tried some of that newfangled color film too, came out OK. 

Model notes - Photos shot on my friend Warren's Alberta Pacific Railroad (HO).  Locomotive is a Sunset Models D&RGW M-69 class 4-8-2.  Rock face was created using techniques developed by Joel Bragdon (check out his "Geodesic Foam" site at https://www.bragdonent.com/).  

Regards,

Jerry

Now showing, "The Great Locomotive Chase".

Highlight for seeing the lights.

A Kato N scale E8 New York Central passenger set running by. 

The bicentennial on the old Oak Park Society of Model Engineers many moons ago...

Rusty

Was this on the old layout at the park district?  

Regards,

Jerry

Steam into History

Yep.  In the basement of the Carrol Park (if I remember correctly) fieldhouse.

Rusty

For the 4th of July, here are a few of my HO Bicentennial models. The SD45s and cabooses are by Athearn. The RS-1 is an Atlas model.

Bob

"The summer of 1970 finds a set of Kansas City & Gulf F's idling in the yard at the West Bottoms of Kansas City waiting for clearance. Once cleared, the pair will soon be trundling off to the Santa Fe yard to retrieve a transfer inbound to the KC&G. The tired and faded lead unit is the "class unit" for the KC&G's F unit fleet, and the effects of years of minimal maintenance and general neglect of the bankruptcy is clearly shown. However, hope is in sight as is evidenced by the recently shopped F7 323 trailing behind the tired old warrior. Perhaps the "reorganization" is going to help after all."

NOTE: The above models are leftover from my last HO layout, dismantled in 1998. They are sitting on the incomplete and soon to be dismantled small room shelf layout. I haven't decided whether to reuse any/all of the KC&G motive power for my upcoming larger n' expanded "KC Lines" layout based on the West Bottoms industrial district of KC. At this point, I intend to keep the motive power on the upcoming "KC Lines" layout all prototype... but I may relent and run some KC&G power, too!  Time will tell.

Andre, I think no matter how hard you'll try not to, your KC&G units will show up on your railroad somehow...

Rusty

Ah Rusty, but there is a catch:  I modeled my KC&G units to reflect the state of disrepair that many railroads were experiencing in the late 1960s to early 1970s.  Thus, the majority of my KC&G units are quite neglected looking.

BUT...

My upcoming KC Lines theme is based in the early 1960s... so typically most railroad units weren't as worn as I depicted for 1970.  Thus, a worn and battered KC&G unit will sort of look "out of place" among the better overall condition that SHOULD be represented by the units of the early 1960s KC Lines.

However, as with all things, the wise old saying comes to the fore: WE SHALL SEE!

OH... but there WOULD be exceptions.  For example, here's a picture of a Missouri Pacific RS3 taken in the EARLY 1960s...

And here's a picture of a KC&G RS3 that is similarly weathered that could fit in okay with the early 1960s scheme..

And YES, I DO want a Mop RS3 for the layout just as nasty as the above Mop #974!!

Andre

Here are a few more Bicentennial units on my roster. These are the Burlington Northern U30C and Milwaukee Road SD40-2 as presented by Kato in N scale. The MILW unit is part of Kato's "Kobo Custom" line.

Bob

A follow up to my diatribe on weathered diesels in the early 1960s...

Been browsing some of my diesel-oriented books... looks like there MIGHT have been examples of some pretty nasty engines as early as the late 1950s, depending on locomotive make and the railroad.  For example, some of the Mop Alco FA's, RS3's, RS-11's, and Baldwin AS16's, looked pretty grungy by the early 60s. Haven't really seen the same nastiness in Mop's EMD models, though. (At the Mop, by the late 60s the writing was on the wall for some of the locomotives of the minority builders.)