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Very nice, Jet, very nice! Make no mistake...TRACTION IS BACK BIG TIME!! :thumb: I'm finishing up the body details on my steeple cab and have the mechanism and AMB chassis kit ready to go. I think that weight can be put in the cab on the chassis....that's what I'm looking into...along with a...

Hey, Brian... I finished putting the decals on my GE 40T switcher #105 and am going to be installing the handrails and steps this week sometime. I should be into building the running gear next weekend. ;) Russ

I used the LazerKit parts to make the chassis and mount the motors. It works great and, to me, is the only way to go. My models are a freelance design for my Hudson Electric, but certain details are borrowed from the SN switchers...like the angled number boards and the striped fronts. Like...

Cannonball Car Shops is a house brand of Model Railroad Warehouse (www.mrrwarehouse.com). The 40T steeple cab models were a complete sell-out. Check out the website for more traction offerings and future releases.

Hey, Greg.... Rich has this technique down cold and is a real artist! As Rich points out, by buying some pastel sticks at an art supply house, you can begin to get to where you want to go. The black pastel dries as a grey, the browns, reds, and tans all work well, too. They can be turned into...

Good Morning, David... :wave: The lower photo is the SN 62 ton GE switcher. The Sacremento Northern had 3 different power transmission types on their line. The lighter overhead trolley wire was used with the roof mounted pole, the heavier overhead was used with the pantograph, and there was...

Hey, NH... Greetings from the NH West End! I checked out the photos of the model and it looks pretty darn good...certainly worth the 60.00. The only way that you can get the price down is to buy an undec and paint/decal the shell yourself. I had to do just that when I wanted to get an Erie RR...

:) Thanks, guys! The prototype was a light switcher design used just for small moves. The photo below is from the CERA book 'Not Only Passengers' and gives a dead-on view of the original. Of coourse, Chris and I think alike...no broomsticks on our stuff! BEEEEEEEG antennas!! :cool: The other...

This is the pair of Cannonball Car Shops switchers that I'm working on. They're based on the 1912 GE 40T prototype and I've made variations in the details so as to not look identical. Eventually, they'll get DCC decoders with reversing headlights and markers. Gettin' there! :wave:

Good Morning, Jim... Makes you wonder, doesn't it? I was in a brass dealer's showroom once talking to one of the staff. He was testing a new On3 D&RGW C-16 that someone paid $1,500.00 for. It was a replacement because the first one ordered wouldn't track right! If you get them from an on-line...

I've been inventing my own railroad's car leasing programs and this is the latest. The first is a fleet of freight reefers with air and steam lines that can be cut anywhere into a through passenger night train. The cars are leased to Atlantic Produce Express (APEX) but APEX is owned by two...

Good Morning... Let's see...I put the brake rigging, trucks, and couplers on my HE 10K tank car and started the touch up. I'm still short of decals...I have to get tank car data decals from Champ. Russ

Hey, Crew... For thise who would like to build a model of the IT class C or D motors, Model Railroad Warehouse will be offering them in HO scale kits. Here's the link: http://mrrwarehouse.com/ Also, check out the photos from John Hintzman's American Model Builders LaserKit 'auxiliary'...

Thanks to Chris for opening up this topic. The period from the late 1800s to the 1920s was the great 'Interurban Era' in the United States. Although there is a definite criteria to what constituted a trolley line and what constituted an interurban line, not all interurban lines were the same...

Hey, Crew! Ron hit it on the head. In my 1:1 career, we spray solvent-based and water-based lacquers, use solvents such as xylene, acetone, thinners, reducers, spray enamels, etc. Some guys thin out their water-based paints, such as Poly-S, with windshield washer fluid. This probably explains...

I posted it because I know that you just HATE boxcabs, right? :D :p Personally, I'm a steeple cab kind of guy. I can't wait for Model Railroad Warehouse to get those Baldwin Class D steeplecab kits in production. But first, I have to get my 40T steeple cabs finished! :eek: :rolleyes: Keep...

The photo at the top is of a PRR class P5A 2-C-2 loco built in the early 30s by both Baldwin and the PRR's Altoona shops. The photo could have been taken in either of the two locations, but my guess would be at the Altoona shops of the PRR because of the stage of completion. Although I'm not...

Good Morning, Brian... Instead of concentrating on FINISHING UP my 95% completed models, I just moved onto another one this weekend. I picked up a Tichy 10K tank car from eBay and had to figure out if it would be in MW service or line service. I created a scenario whereby a NJ-based solvent...

Hey Chessie! Great job! :thumb: You and I think along the same mainlines, too. The Hudson Electric needed an MW crane, too, but, well, you know, budgets and all that! This is a Vintage Vehicles Erie B-2 steam crane kit mounted on a Funaro & Camerlengo potbelly flat car. The 'boom car' is a...

Hot dawgs heere...gitchur hot dawgs heeere! Great job!! :thumb: