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B&B - An overdue update.
About a month ago my family went to see some friends out of state which left me with a good week to be able to make some good progress. Since then I have been consistently working towards getting trains running. The following will be a brief description of what I have done:
Industry:
Magnetic couplers - time to go?
Kadee has my undying respect and gratitude for inventing and marketing its highly successful HO coupler with the wire "brake hose" that allows remote uncoupling over a magnet. The "delayed" position is a further innovation that allows uncoupling where a magnet is not present. Kadee advanced the state of the art, and other manufacturers followed suit with similar couplers. Bravo!
Introduction & my TT-scale models
Let me introduce myself.
I am Russian, but I am interested in American railroads and America of the 1950s at all. I collect railroad models in TT scale (1:120). I know that it is not too popular in the USA, but nevertheless there are some TT-scale modellers.
BTW, TT scale was invented in the USA in the 1940s! And today it is quite popular in Russia and some other European countries - Germany, Czechia, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia etc. In Russia TT is more popular than N.
Kitbashing a pair Canadian Pacific gp35
Hi,
I had a deal on a pair of Athearn rtr Canadian Pacific gp35. At first I thought that
a good weathering job and a few details here and there was all they
need. But when I started to look for some prototype reference picture
it doesn't take long to realize that those cp model are all wrong.
Fist the Bell and headlight are not at the right place.
Fine, that's an easy job. Let's do it and they will run again in a week.
MRH podcast
Hi All,
Just wondering what happened to Paul, Ryan and the podcast. There haven't been any updates since Oct 2012.
Steam modeling forum
Hi all.
I'm a dedicated turn of the century (20th) steam era modeler. I'm fast becoming a fossil, I fear. Would it make sense to create a category in the forums for just that......Steam era modeling?
PRR boxcars
Dear friends, this is the first part of my model train roster about Pennsylvania Railroad (primarily) and others railroads.
In this topic I present the major common types of PRR boxcar (from top to bottom: X48 PS-1, X29, X26c USRA rebuilt, X26). The Pullman Standard -1 (X48 class for PRR) were used by Pennsylvania Railroad in only 20 units in the fifty years (my modeling era) but this boxcar type was very common among all other companies.
Building a GE 85 ton steeple cab
Back a few years ago I started to scratch build a GE 85 ton steeple cab based on the two Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting had the 60 or more Utah copper owned. I finished it about a year ago as a non operational locomotive in a HO scale diorama.
Over the past year I have been designing HO cars in 3D and printing them though Shapeways.com.
The Atlas HH600/660 has a slightly larger bolster to bolster dimension than the actual 85 ton steeple cab but is a good platform for it.
After designing the cab and trucks I have started the locomotive with the plans of making two.
Up Black Creek on the Narrow Gauge
Welcome to my blog covering my modelling adventure in 0n30
I have been an enthusiast of the 0n30 format more or less since Bachmann released their first models in 1998.
Virginian with a twist
I am now working on preparing art work for some custom made decals to use on my equipment and will be modeling the Virginian with a twist. There will still be lots of Virginian Equipment present as well as equipment for the other railroads that will become part of the new railroad. I have added a blurb about the concept of my revisionist history.
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