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59th and Rust
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08-23-2014, 02:59 AM
A wonderfully composed scene, Ray, with plenty of operational value. Nice
 Reminds me of john Wright's fabulous P87 'Pennsy' layout. jonte 
08-23-2014, 03:15 AM
Cheers Jonte,i'm down your neck of the woods 1/2rd November at MMRS Exhibition at Wallasey with HELM,if your there come and have a crack,may be there next year with 59th,thats if Steve wants me!!
John's federal st was a great layout, part of it rubbed of on me,he's also a good friend and a excellent modeller,i'm hounored to be metion in the same sentance as him  Ray 
08-23-2014, 06:05 AM
Wonderful pictures, great modeling!
Mike
Sent from my pocket calculator using two tin cans and a string
08-24-2014, 03:43 AM
long island jack Wrote:Cheers Jonte,i'm down your neck of the woods 1/2rd November at MMRS Exhibition at Wallasey with HELM,if your there come and have a crack,may be there next year with 59th,thats if Steve wants me!! Thanks, Ray. I went to the Wallasey show a couple of years ago; nice and laid back affair. Good luck, anyway, if I can't make it. Regards, jonte 
08-29-2014, 07:21 PM
I love the attention to details - even beyond the layout. The "street sign" layout name is a great touch - it truly adds some production value to the layout. I did a quick YouTube search for "59th and Rust," you've got some fans! I'd love to see it at a show someday.
09-10-2014, 08:15 AM
Got a couple of more diesels for the layout,PC RS11 with loksound select direct decoder,NYC RS1 with same decoder as RS11
all i need to find now is a NYC caboose,as rare as rocking horse droppings,why is this,there's every colour and road name but NYC,makes me want to go to the western roads!!!! i'm slowly put photo's in a file to burn to a CD,which i will give to any one in a wheelchair that can't see the layout properly at a exhibition due to the height (54"),i have a couple of regulars in wheelchairs who come to see me and my other layout HELM which is a bit lower (49") they were pleased with the CD i gave them,now they can browse at there leisure on there pc/tv. Every little helps Ray 
09-10-2014, 04:59 PM
Hi there,
Looking great.Fantastic details . Cheers,Chris
Building the BC-Rail Dawson Creek Subdivision in H0 scale http://bigbluetrains.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=7835
09-12-2014, 01:49 PM
Ray,
Problem is NYC didn't use off the shelf cabooses like many roads. Their most common wooden caboose, the 19000-series cars were home built. True Line Trains in conjunction with the New York Central Historical Society is working on releasing a RTR 19000 car. AMB LaserKit has also just announced a wooden kit for the 19000 cars. That said, I've only seen pictures of one that made it into the Penn Central years. One of the more common steel cabooses, the Lot 782 cars were again built in house at the NYC's Despatch Shops. Wright Trak has produced a resin kit for these cars. This link will give you quite a bit of info about NYC cabooses: http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-M...ABOOSE.htm Your best bet might be to look for Penn Central cabooses. Walthers, Proto and others have produced a number of models that would work plus a large assortment of Bowser Pennsy cabooses that are accurate for the Penn Central years. Jason Cook
09-13-2014, 08:37 AM
Ralph
there both by Atlas Cheers Jason i've got some PC cabooses,need NYC ones,i like to have a caboose for the different railroad i can use on 59th,it's only NYC i need,will keep looking,thanks for the link. Ray 
09-13-2014, 10:28 AM
Thanks! The details of the rivets and grills really stand out.
09-14-2014, 02:57 AM
Ray!
Perhaps this may help you. A couple of years ago (2005?) Märklin released a NYC 19000's series caboose. And also under their second marque name Trix. They were pretty well detailed, but have some bugbears: - rather expensive, you pay the name "Märklin" - wrong trucks, there were fitted with ordonary freight car trucks - the useless short coupling device I have eliminated the two last bugbears and because this thread will not be the right place to post it here, i will post a new thread in scratchbuilding and kitbashing. Otherwise i found by comparing prototype photos with the model as only deviation the placing of 2 grab irons on the end platforms. They are mounted in horizontal manner instead of vertical. Sometimes they appear on e-bay.de: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ebay.de/itm/45703-Marklin-US-Caboose-New-York-Central-Neuware-mit-Originalkarton-/271591376303?pt=DE_Modellbau_Modelleisenbahnen&hash=item3f3c1b85af">http://www.ebay.de/itm/45703-Marklin-US ... 3f3c1b85af</a><!-- m --> And sometimes with good luck on e-bay.com too. Will it be worth to purchase one of those Märklin Trix caboose? My opinion is, only when get it for a reasonable price or it is a "must have" item. I think the announced True Line Trains NYC caboose will be better and more worth the money spent to it. My 2 cents Lutz 
09-14-2014, 05:55 PM
Ray,
Bluford Shops is supposed to be doing a NYC transfer caboose, <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bluford-shops.com">http://www.bluford-shops.com</a><!-- m -->, but it may be awhile till it shows up. Nicely done and detailed layout. Bruce
10-03-2014, 02:34 AM
I've managed to find a Trix NYC 19000 caboose on Ebay,done most of the modification that where needed,but you think Trix would have done there homework first before they put them on the market,don't get me wrong there a nice model,put some of the things thats wrong show up in all the pictures i've seen of the 19000 caboose,if i can see them why didn't Trix!!!
as bought 24 hours later next day in service,dooesn't she look bootifull!!!!!! Ray |
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