Side Shot Saturday - starting 6 January
Jan 6, 2024 10:48:28 GMT
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jan 6, 2024 10:48:28 GMT
Not that I am trying to make this easy for anybody, including me, but who doesn't like side shots of cabeese? My selection is small because I seldom run freight trains but I have a few cabeese that are favorites, basically because often I like to run engines on their own although they look a little lonesome without a caboose or other utility car rolling behind. So I have got a few in specific railroad liveries to trail behind specific engines. This one I count as the best I have:
This is a K-Line model that was a long ago dealer special run for The Train Loft in Winston-Salem, N.C. As you can see from the photo it has incandescent lighting and a batch of details - right down to "Be Careful" stencilled on the edge of both front and rear steps. The lighting does flicker and eventually I may open it up and put in LEDs and a new power supply, and I would probably also LED the marker lights which otherwise rely on reflected light from inside the car. That really doesn't work but otherwise I count myself lucky to have this car with its unique (and probably fantasy) scheme of commemorating UP steam:
It has a smoke unit that I have never used. The same goes for this SP bay window caboose:
This was another K-Line special run from the early 2000s for The Western Depot in California. I generally put this behind my SP Daylight AC-12 cab forward, which probably gets more run time than any other steamer.
Bringing up the rear so to speak are these two Lionel Santa Fe models:
I am not big on the "Blackbonnet" scheme but that one goes behind the only Santa Fe steamer I have and the Warbonnet caboose is paired with such engines in that scheme that I run on their own.
Finally, I give advance warning that next Saturday I intend to have a big binge on my favorite type of cars - dining cars especially from the classic streamliner era, which for various reasons, including an obsession with interior details, have occupied the greater part of my modelling time.
This is a K-Line model that was a long ago dealer special run for The Train Loft in Winston-Salem, N.C. As you can see from the photo it has incandescent lighting and a batch of details - right down to "Be Careful" stencilled on the edge of both front and rear steps. The lighting does flicker and eventually I may open it up and put in LEDs and a new power supply, and I would probably also LED the marker lights which otherwise rely on reflected light from inside the car. That really doesn't work but otherwise I count myself lucky to have this car with its unique (and probably fantasy) scheme of commemorating UP steam:
It has a smoke unit that I have never used. The same goes for this SP bay window caboose:
This was another K-Line special run from the early 2000s for The Western Depot in California. I generally put this behind my SP Daylight AC-12 cab forward, which probably gets more run time than any other steamer.
Bringing up the rear so to speak are these two Lionel Santa Fe models:
I am not big on the "Blackbonnet" scheme but that one goes behind the only Santa Fe steamer I have and the Warbonnet caboose is paired with such engines in that scheme that I run on their own.
Finally, I give advance warning that next Saturday I intend to have a big binge on my favorite type of cars - dining cars especially from the classic streamliner era, which for various reasons, including an obsession with interior details, have occupied the greater part of my modelling time.
