Hi All,

Purchasing a Walthers Centennial Mills background building proved a good choice as Walthers include a back wall which is not needed with plenty of spare windows ........ with this in mind i extended the building to double its length with some plasticard for the roof i will cover with fine sand once it is in place.




The basic walls intended to be used.



Spare backwall and windows.



Double length mock up.



Assembled 60 Thou plasticard strip to join both walls.



White Plasticard replacement roof 80 thou to give some structural strength .



Walls complete ........ a little filler to the main wall joint sanding and a longer loading deck it will be good value for money.

I will add some more pics of its completion soon.

I posted this on the n scale modeling also. I need some n scale decals. Who makes them? I would like to get them through LHS but he has no information on N scale.
Les

I am looking for n scale C&O decals. Who are some manufacturers?
Les

OK was looking at one of my old books and found this photo.
what is the welder working on ? I know can you guess.
Jim

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I was just about to order Canadian Cab's from Minatures by Eric for my N-scale steam fleet (so I need like 10 of them! ) but he has taken them off his site. A quick email tells me he no longer has the castings needed to make the cab.

This is very disapointing...

Anyone else have any idea where I could get blueprints of a Canadian steamer (Hudson or U1f style specifically) so I could cut my own? Or anyone have any Canadian Cabs I could purchase from them?

Even if one were to do a 'rubbing' of a canadian cab and scan/e-mail to me so I could create my own...

hey guys,since i started a thread for my 1950's era engines and rolling stock,i figured id split my stuff up into my new photo journal for my logging stuff.ill post some pics (hopefully) tonight but i gotta pic up my cam as i forgot it at home .anyways,i hope you'll enjoy them even though my pics will NEVER do them justice.--josh

Hi out there in N scale land.
Anyone have any ideas on how ( or where) to get number boards for diesel locomotives. I need to have some numbers put on them so I can tell the locomotives apart from one another. BTW these will be back lighted so the numbers will show when the headlight and number boards are on. I would perfer to have the numbers in white with a black back ground. Seems years back there was some one who made decals or some thing for number boards.
Thanks in advance for any help.
woodone

Sitting in front of me is an ECW 4-4-2 Sleeper kit. Also sitting in front of me is pg 6 of The Official Pullman-Standard Library Vol 2 New York Central.

The 4 Bedroom 4 Compartment 2 Drawing Room cars were built by Pullman for the 20th Century & Broadway Limiteds of 1938. The Pennsy added a few more in 1939. The were the Imperial series cars (names such as Imperial Court and Imperial Palace). While the NYC started off with more 4-4-2s than any other sleepers, they never reordered any beyond the first 14 of 1938. The were Lot 6540 and plan 4069 (A & C were PRR, B was NYC).

I knew in advance that the trucks are wrong on these models (the 1938 cars were equipped with the extremely distinctive Triple Bolster trucks...subsequent cars were of designs which all looked distinctive). But, I was curious as to the quality of the rest of the car. I'll share photos soon, but I guess that I'll use the following rule: An AHM era Rivarossi 4-6-4 will be pulling her, so she doesn't need to either be as accurate or as detailed as my South Park cars. I'll probably give her a basic interior more for fun than for showing others...I'll probably replace the "glass" she came with...maybe light her...and possibly attempt to built some correct trucks from scratch. The correct trucks were on the pilot 4-4-2 for Walther's new train (but they have the wrong trucks on the 4-4-2 currently on their website).

I assembled one of trucks just for fun...it rails fairly well...and I was pleased that it actually has 36" wheels (Rivarossi's cars had freight car wheels). Champs makes the correct decals for the '38 Century and I have a set on order. I think I'll nab a few more of these kits for service behind my J-3a. When I get a nicer J-3a, I'll build my highly accurate cars.

It is worth noting, that ECW offers a coach kit...as if it were part of the Century (coaches were too low class for both the Century and the Broadway in their primes...Pullmans only). Oddly, it isn't close to either of the only pre-war lightweight coach designs which the Central obtained from Pullman. One design had stainless steel fluting over Cor-10 steel (a nasty, rust inducing mistake) and the only smoothside coaches were the 2600 series (growing up, my dad restored and sold the real 2600). Equally as puzzling is that ECW doesn't offer a Cascade...the extremely common 10-5 sleepers...I saw one today, there is a C&O Cascade in Latonia, KY...the owner is both a good guy and an O-scaler.

When I get around to building her (after my decals arrive and I buy the correct paints...and wrap up a couple other projects), I'll post some construction pics here.

Both the 4-4-2 and 6-6-4 are reasonable for premier trains on a few different railroads...but the other cars (coach aside) are specific to the Century. The kit looks like an easy built (10min worth of filing & assembly), and the procedure is definitely to paint (and possibly letter) before assembly. For those whom care about it, they are 100% made in the USA.

Just in case anyone is interested, here's some photos of the work I'm doing to get my train room finished.
Man, I hope I re-wired this right!
   
   
one set of lights mounted, waiting to be hooked up
   

air brush compressor

I have a Kroma-Jet compresser which produces around 10 PSI and was just wondering if I would be able to use it wth model paints. If so-just what precautions would I have to look out for in order to get the best results?

Thanks
Leon :?