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Post by ron045 on Jul 6, 2024 13:07:00 GMT
Here is a SSS July 6th contribution. Tank car unit trains often have different variations of weathering from what looks new and shinny, somewhat dull and then faded. Here are three I did.    |
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Post by seayakbill on Jul 6, 2024 13:39:52 GMT
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Post by healey36 on Jul 6, 2024 13:58:04 GMT
I've got nothing new to add this week, so here's a shot from the archives, an Ives Illinois Central box car:  It needs a good scrub/polish (I've been saying that for ten years). |
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Post by af3020 on Jul 6, 2024 16:38:42 GMT
Here's a few more IC's to add to Healey36's contribution Bing  Fandor  ...and Lionel  |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 6, 2024 20:35:40 GMT
Here's a few more IC's to add to Healey36's contribution.
This week real life has got in the way of any advances on the model train front but I took a minute to straighten out part of the wall display that is mainly train-themed and was reminded of what's in the tank car corner:
The "Deep Rock" car is an RMT special meaning that it looks a lot better on the shelf than it rides on a track . . .
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Post by healey36 on Jul 13, 2024 13:28:09 GMT
I picked up this rough MPC-era Borden tank car from a friend of mine that was thinning the collection/project pile. I've been wanting to make a few U. S. Army Ordnance cars for awhile, and this looks like a good place to start. I found a suitable tank dome top in my parts bin, and disassembly looks pretty straight-forward. I think a good scrub will remove the decals (and maybe most of the "chrome" plating).  |
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Post by ron045 on Jul 13, 2024 13:54:56 GMT
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 13, 2024 14:37:01 GMT
The wrong scale for this forum, but I rescued these "G" scale coaches from a hobby shop ready to put them in the trash. They now run around my Christmas tree and are named after my kids.
Yours are really nice, especially the kids' names.
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Post by seayakbill on Jul 13, 2024 14:38:28 GMT
AT&SF, on the rails of the S&Y RR. A K-Line modern SD-75 and Lionel Postwar ABA F-3's Bill    |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 13, 2024 18:15:33 GMT
This monster - big and certainly heavy enough to take on Godzilla/Kong - is on the tracks for the first time in a while, the die cast Lionel Baldwin Centipede in fantasy UP livery:
Part of the reason it’s been mothballed is that the last time I tried running it the smoke unit fan motors - all four - had to be serviced because they developed the nasty whine Lionel fan motors of the time do, and then I had to figure out why the smoke units used were installed on body mounts that don’t allow the fan output to function as it should. Put it down to a design/manufacturing shortcut you would not see except in low smoke volume.
There are tons better photos of this set than mine including a couple posted a few years back by thebigcrabcake I have borrowed here and a still from the Eric’s Trains review:
  
A reason for getting out this model is that I needed to check out and video one of its signature features, the motorized roof fans, for the purpose of my UP2066 thread, where the video will be posted when I next update that.
P.S. There are some great side views of Lionel Postwar freight cars posted on another thread by seayakbill here: o-gaugeforum.com/thread/10841/lionel-postwar-freight-cars
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Post by david1 on Jul 13, 2024 20:25:43 GMT
Part of the layout that has been redone. Added 10 buildings and some height. I redo a section of the layout every year to keep it fresh. Usually the track stays the same. Dave Attachments:
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Post by atsda on Jul 18, 2024 2:11:37 GMT
Nice going Dave. Alfred
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 20, 2024 14:10:23 GMT
Saturday Morning Special: The main reason that this Legacy Frisco A-A E8/9 set is on the test track is not that I have always liked it even if purists can fault the color scheme, which in this photo is not quite as rose-tinted as it really is:
The real reason is that this is one of the few Bluetooth-equipped sets I have and I am going to see how it functions with the CAB3 App. Thanks to superwarp1 I was put on to the fact that the App can operate Bluetooth engines even without a CAB3 base, which I am not inclined to get, so I’ll see how/whether it works.
This set of photos taken a couple of years back is a more accurate reflection of the main body color:
Of course it does not quite match the Lionel Texas Special cars I already have but I am not fussed about that - any more than I am about Lionel’s latest catalog but that subject has already been discussed to death.
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Post by af3020 on Jul 20, 2024 15:26:42 GMT
Marx made trains for both the Mexican and English markets. Here's an English Set  and here's the box cover  |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 20, 2024 17:35:38 GMT
Marx made trains for both the Mexican and English markets. Here's an English Set and here's the box cover
Not my thing and sorry for my extreme ignorance, but is there a reason that the actual set and the box cover don't match?
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