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 :?

Hi All,

Does anyone know about this company and if they are still trading or having problems at the moment as a friend placed an order and has recieved nothing so far his order placed in January ......... and cannot contact them via phone or email.

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We'll I finally gave up on Reel Rides and finished bashing my 1/87 scale BTTF III Delorean. I started with a Malibu International Lamborguini.


and turned it into this.






Sorry for the poor pics, I'm trying out a new camera. I had to take artistic license since my thumbs were just too damn big to handle some of the detail but I don't think it turned out too bad. It'll roll along the track just fine but will probably spend most of the time hiding in the Delgado Mine outside what will become Hill Valley.

I just checked out "Our New Shop" posted by N-gauger. When I checked out the store site, I noticed that they don't list decals, but they do post cards. It would seem to me that they could use the same technology to print decals on decal paper. I'm wondering if members would like to be able to purchase decals of the Big Blue logo to make custom decorated Gauge freight cars, bill boards advertising Gauge products on their model railroads, or even a Gauge industry? I'm thinking a sheet with logo's sized to fit large scale, O-scale, ho-scale, and n-scale on the same sheet would provide enough decals for any body in any scale to make whatever they wanted to model in their scale. An O-scale decal might be big for an n-scale car, but could be just right for a large sign on the side of a factory.