Locos - Rolling stock (general)
Custom designing a shell for a passenger coach
another neat project of mine I am currently working on. I am planning on designing and building a body shell to fit on top of this Athearn Observation coach kit. The planned modifications would keep the observation deck, but add a dome that extends almost the full length of the coach, as well as the possibility of a small anti-aircraft turret on the section of the roof above a the deck. The completed coach would be named “Primo Victoria”, which is Latin for First Victory. Any thoughts or advice on how I could build the dome?
Possible uses for an articulated tanker?
Alright
so I recently acquired a pair of tanker cars that are literally the exact same, with the same car number and labelled for the same company. I decided that instead of repainting or renumbering the cars, I would use an extra bogie I had available to make what is now my only articulated car. It can still take my 18 radius curves, but the question is, what sort of operating capabilities do I have with said car? Any thoughts or opinions?
HO scale DCC operating CNJ steam crane (and wreck train) build. The journey.
After a lot of back and forth with myself I decided to strip the repaint the cab with the correct decals to the era I model as well as changing out the digitrax decoder for an ESU loksound micro. I then added a custom made sound set I created using their software and lokprogrammer.
Undecorated Locomotive Conversion...
Did another undecorated shell tonight, this one cleaned up much better than the last, and the SMS - White Surfacer went on much nicer too.<
3-D printed motorcar shell
Hello everyone!
I am modeling the Missouri & Arkansas railroad and I would like to have an ACF Motorailer but of course none are available and my scratch building skills are not good enough. I wonder if it would be possible to 3-D print a shell that could fit a existing powered unit. The Bachmann doodlebug is very close dimensionally and this is what I had in mind for the power unit for the shell. Have any of you had any experience with something like this? Is there a 3-D printer out there that you have worked with?
Thrall All-Door Box Cars
This subject came up recently, and I found this very interesting site discussing these cars, with lots of photos,..
https://atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/7340/talk-thrall-door-cars-links?page=1
I collected a good number of these cars as the more detailed ones from Walthers came out. I'm going to have a number of them, along with centerbeams loading up at my finishing mill on my new layout.
Athearn SW1500 Motor Removal
I have an HO Athearn RTR (Horizon-era) SW1500 that appears to be afflicted with the common solidified-lubricant issue due to lack of use over the past couple years. The process for cleaning Athearn RTR trucks once they are removed is well-documented, but I'm struggling to find good instructions for actually removing the trucks.
What's on Your Workbench - February 2021
Here we are in February! Thank you all for sharing lots of interesting projects over the last few months. Let's keep the shares rolling with the latest from your workbench and layout!.
Eric
Eric Hansmann
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