It's been some time since we did this alphabet photo thread. Almost four years, so on a whim, I thought maybe we can do it again.

Here are the rules that Mikey established for our second run, no need to change them now:

Post a railroad themed photo containing a subject that begins with one of the Alphabet letters, e.g.: S: Station C: CSX P: PRR etc.

Rules:

1 - Post a photo you took, alphabetically A to Z ---- then start again with A.

2 - After you post your photo, you must let someone else post a photo before you can post another one.

3 - Enter a text line with the letter and what you are presenting. e.g: T - Ties, G: GG1

4 – The photo can contain anything that represents the current letter, but it must be railroad related, either model or prototypical. Also, road names are allowed, so if you have a “Zephyr” – we’ll be waiting for it to appear somewhere after the “Y” word

5 – Try NOT to repeat pictures in the same run of the alphabet. You can however use that Santa Fe diesel engine for “S” in one run, then “W” (warbonnet) in the NEXT run through….

6 – Pictures that have been previously posted anywhere (even in the original M N O P hoto Thread) on Big Blue are welcome and we encourage “inside photos” e.g. “Big Blue Boxcars” and “GERN” to be included

7 - Photos of private road named rolling stock and engines are encouraged.

Another project for a friend:
   

It's a broadway limited imports SD-40-2 that was custom painted in BN and then weathered. He bought it at a swap meet and is unhappy with the original paint/weathering.

There was a few extra details added with some glue spots. I also think that some of the original paint is brush painted and not very good. This would also explain the heavy-handed weathering job, trying to cover the poor paint job.
Anyway, he wants it repainted in the same BN colors, without the weathering.

   

I did manage to get it apart. The shell actually comes off the chassis easily by removing the coupler screws. THe handrails were a friction fit so I just had to pry a bit to get them off. The long hood popped of but the short hood and cab took a bit more persuasion. The cab glass came half out. I'll see what happens after I strip the paint down.

   

I placed all the handrails and other details in a container. I'll see about stripping the paint on the handrails later.

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From ezdays:

I post this with tears in my eyes, but our good friend Mike Goad, known to us all as, Tyson Rayles, passed away Nov. 7th. We all know that Mike has been sick for some time and he did keep in touch as to how he was doing, basically saying that this was inevitable. His stepson Vince just sent me the news.

Mike was a good modeler, a downright good person and a mentor to many of us modelers. The last that we heard from him, he had dodged the ravages of a recent hurricane, this illness he could not dodge.

RIP my friend.....


From ngauger:

We all learned something from Mike.  He was always a great contributor here. His many posts and threads were always positive and helpful, even if they were just a picture of an engine he built and/or painted. He started numerous threads that were always a joy to see and review from time to time. 
As always with our Fallen Flag Member, I'll copy all his threads below, for reference.    
Based on his profile he was 77

RIP my Friend...

I post this with tears in my eyes, but our good friend Mike Goad, known to us all as, Tyson Rayles, passed away Nov. 7th. We all know that Mike has been sick for some time and he did keep in touch as to how he was doing, basically saying that this was inevitable. His stepson Vince just sent me the news.

Mike was a good modeler, a downright good person and a mentor to many of us modelers. The last that we heard from him, he had dodged the ravages of a recent hurricane, this illness he could not dodge.

RIP my friend.....

Mannheim Yard YPMA-02 classifying cars.

Bruce

   

Ok so let's bring this classic LifeLike Proto 2000 into the 21st century by adding an NCE SW9-SR decoder for Walthers / Life Like SW8/9/1200 and LED lighting front and rear.

Hey, all I'd like to refinish a set of Athearn Streamliner, and I'd like to give them a natural metal finish. Has anyone here used MR Metal metal finish.

Well, I dug out one of my favorite engines to do a decoder install but sadly the sound decoder I wanted to install seem to be out of stock at this time, so we put in this Digitrax DH126.

I just saw the Skateboard Art stamps, so I got the idea that if cut correctly postage stamps could be used for railroad graffiti.
   

I imagine it would work well in O scale too.
Here are a few stamps and a Scooby Doo and a BB-1 from Star Wars on a few cars:

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Micro-Trains and Accurail have come out with a series of weathered covered hoppers.  The sides are nicely done but you will need to do some additional weathering on the car ends and underside to blend the weathering in.  I also added metal wheel sets and Kadee couplers.
On the Southern car I painted out the yellow conspicuity striping and added some more weathering to roof hatches , car ends and the underside.  The CSXT car had some additional weathering to the side sills, roof, car ends and underside to blend in. 
If your interested check out the website at https://micro-trains.com>product .
Bruce