Grabbed a couple quick shots of Shore River switching some cars at the Mannheim Yard.

Bruce

Looking Good Bruce Is that a Walters LPG tank car?

I finally took the camera to our morning coffee shop in downtown Guelph.
The morning VIA train from Sarnia to Toronto. In snow.
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Bruce,

Is that Southern Boxcar one of the Wright Track Models Kits? I've been looking for that exact sort of waffle-side car, and I recently discovered this company. They also make prototype NYC/PC/Conrail transfer caboose kits, as well as the N7 class bay window caboose.

The Saturday local might be overpowered but the Athearn RTR SD40-2 was on sale and I could not resist ......

Railnet,

Thanks, the tank car is an Atlas Trinity 25500.

Chris,

The Southern cars are from ExactRail, have you seen the N-9 transfer cabooses from Bluford Shops?

Reinhard,

Your Conrail roster keeps growing, are we looking at a Conrail theme for 2015?

Bruce

Bought this beastie for parts for a GVR SD40-3C rebuild.It ran like crap so I cleaned all of the electrical contacts.Now it is one of my smoother Athearn units .I may just have to go find another parts loco. :mrgreen:



I also painted the handrails because raw steel can be ugly.

bdw9535 Wrote:.....are we looking at a Conrail theme for 2015? .....

It is a generic/freelance layout in the 1970s and 1980s timeframe primary used with CR, MILW and BN. I have still absolute no plans for 2015 layout modifications, rebuild etc.

Couple more shots of Shore River working at the yard.

Bruce

I've been working on some of the over a dozen little projects I want to complete on my layout. This one about is creating some interior details for my engine house so when my train-cam loco enters or leaves it some details can be seen on the viewing screen.

Here is the maintenance platform with some ersatz details. This is the interior of the engine house with the structure removed.


Here is an engineer's view when entering the engine house.


And, the exterior.

bdw9535 Wrote:Chris,

The Southern cars are from ExactRail, have you seen the N-9 transfer cabooses from Bluford Shops?

Bruce

Ah, I'll have to look out for some of those Exact rail cars.


As for the Bluford shops cars, I haven't inspected one for myself, but it appears to be a bit of a stand in model. I might pick one up if I find a cheap one out there, but from what I understand, the Conrail ones actually sold pretty well, so they might be a little trickier to come by.

Wright Trak offers an N6 transfer caboose kit, which might be alittle up there in price but it looks pretty good.

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Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:As for the Bluford shops cars, I haven't inspected one for myself, but it appears to be a bit of a stand in model.

Chris,

You are correct, the dimensions are off for the N-9 but I still purchased two of them.

Bruce

Some recently added rolling stock.
An Accurail hopper, from a friend. I modified the lettering slightly, then added a little weathering:



A used Atlas hopper with similar changes:



And a used Tyco/Mantua gondola. This one got metal grabirons and steps, along with some underbody brake gear. Paint is PollyScale, with lettering from Champ, C-D-S, and F&C:



Wayne

Nice equipment Doc.


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The dl&w hopper sees revenue service, nicely done Wayne