A pair of SD40-2's head up stone train WPCA-51X.

Bruce

PRT 's 1st Ave yard is full with cars !!!!!! :o :o

CNR S3A Mikado #3736 on the outbound lead

Trying for that 60's Cover Look.

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Full house

Grand River Southern's 5303 crossing Chippawa Creek...



Supposedly, she's heading to the Erie Northshore's shops in Lowbanks for some modifications, but rumours are rife that she'll be cut up for scrap.
On a recent test run, she stalled on the big hill towards Park Head. This was with an eight car train, which a relief Grand Valley 2-8-0 easily walked up the same grade, solo. A subsequent test revealed that the 5303 stalled a second time on the same grade, this time without a train.
"She's a sweet runner, no doubt about 'er.", offered Nat ("the Nut") Philbert, the 5303's fireman, "but she can't pull but 'er own shadow....'n' besides that, ya doan wanna be backin' 'er up mor'n a cuppla foot, or she'll put 'er trailer on the ties. "Fluffy", (Fred McCloud", the engineer), "musta put 'er on the ground eight 'er nine times tryin' to git back to the Junction so's we could head down here t' Lowbanks. Mind, though, comin' down here was quite the charm, with nary a slip and she rides like a big Packard...too bad we weren't pullin' nuthin'.

Nice steam locos again!



A small addition to the roster, an free lanced caboose with a brakeman with his hand lantern and lighted train end lanterns, using alternatively.
Some lettering corrections must be done yet however it will be a free-lanced caboose and not real after a N&W prototype.

26 preps for a days work.
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CNR H class ten-wheeler sits in the Leetown yard prior to heading the morning mixed passenger train to Christopher's Landing

Several hours, days and weeks i spent to carry out these tasks to get ready three of this articulateds running on DCC and two of them with sound too:


# 1





# 2





# 3





# 4 And do not ignore the caboose.

And at least:
# 5 Umsatzsteuerjahreserklärung (similarly attempt to translate: VAT annual decleration) and Einkommensteuererklärung (similarly attempt to translate: annual income tax declaration) was done also.
Deadline for all was 25 May 2017
# 1 till # 4 was fun, # 5 was not.