08-14-2009, 02:29 PM
Wayne,
I look forward to seeing your model! Here's a link to an N-scaler, Paul Downs, whom turned a P2K AMC berk into an L&N berk...
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When I get around to build an H-5 mike, I'll use a Spectrum 2-8-0 as a starting point. Just like the first NYC H-5s, the Spectrum 2-8-0 is a better starting point than a USRA 2-8-2 due to the baker valve gear. Anyway it happens, I'll be playing musical trailing trucks in building NKP H-6 mikes and NKP K-1 4-6-2s, so the lack of a trailing truck won't matter. If I was a DT&I modeler, I'd use the Spectrum 2-8-0 to build one of their gorgeous baby berks.
Currently, one of my hudsons is bothering me right now as the motor which I intend to install fits, but doesn't like the shell to be removed. I'll come up with a solution, and then I'll use the Scalecoat paint I ordered to turn her into my primary passenger power. After that, I'll take care of my 2-8-0 and I can begin looking at my next NKP project. I'm thinking about ordering some of Bowser's 56" drivers for building NKP #382. My father has her whistle and she regularly was used on the NKP's branch near my parent's house. She met her end in a cornfield meet during WW2. I don't want to order the wheels now as she is 5 years away on my waiting list, yet Bowser might not have those parts in five years (perhaps I ought to just gamble and get Romford wheels if Bowser sells all of theirs).
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Josh & Kevin, you are both skilled modelers. What is your threshold for details? I find that my On3 cars, plus a few of the super detailed HO kits, have caused me to question whether my Athearn blue box cars have a place on my roster. I suspect that I'm going to have to give them the Doctor Wayne treatment. Perhaps it is rivet counting, but they just don't look right to me anymore. My "old time", or as I prefer: pre-WW1, MDC cars still hold up well for my eyes...but the rest of the shake-the-box cars bother me. On3 car prices ($50-$80 to get them into service) have desensitized me towards many of the HO cars I once considered to be rip-offs...but I still have disdain for $30 RTR...and $18 for an Athearn car is just insane. My LHS still has a decent number of shake the box rolling stock kits. Maybe I'll have to try my hand had building HO brake rigging and such. Maybe I'll just join a club where I'll I have to do is bring my motive power, cabooses, and passenger cars...and use other peoples freight cars.
EDIT: I just found a couple pictures of the TH&B berks...
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CN Nutbar ought to get out his checkbook! Those are handsome locomotives. They look incredibly modern for 1928. I didn't think that there were any locomotives with cast 4-wheel trailing trucks until 1930...but I now realize that my beloved NKP hudsons had that same feature in 1927. The valve gear on those 2-8-4s looks odd too. I can see the NYC family resemblance...but why on earth didn't the NYC have some of those as well? They were so much prettier than the modern NYC freight power (P&LE berks, L-4s).
I look forward to seeing your model! Here's a link to an N-scaler, Paul Downs, whom turned a P2K AMC berk into an L&N berk...
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When I get around to build an H-5 mike, I'll use a Spectrum 2-8-0 as a starting point. Just like the first NYC H-5s, the Spectrum 2-8-0 is a better starting point than a USRA 2-8-2 due to the baker valve gear. Anyway it happens, I'll be playing musical trailing trucks in building NKP H-6 mikes and NKP K-1 4-6-2s, so the lack of a trailing truck won't matter. If I was a DT&I modeler, I'd use the Spectrum 2-8-0 to build one of their gorgeous baby berks.
Currently, one of my hudsons is bothering me right now as the motor which I intend to install fits, but doesn't like the shell to be removed. I'll come up with a solution, and then I'll use the Scalecoat paint I ordered to turn her into my primary passenger power. After that, I'll take care of my 2-8-0 and I can begin looking at my next NKP project. I'm thinking about ordering some of Bowser's 56" drivers for building NKP #382. My father has her whistle and she regularly was used on the NKP's branch near my parent's house. She met her end in a cornfield meet during WW2. I don't want to order the wheels now as she is 5 years away on my waiting list, yet Bowser might not have those parts in five years (perhaps I ought to just gamble and get Romford wheels if Bowser sells all of theirs).
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Josh & Kevin, you are both skilled modelers. What is your threshold for details? I find that my On3 cars, plus a few of the super detailed HO kits, have caused me to question whether my Athearn blue box cars have a place on my roster. I suspect that I'm going to have to give them the Doctor Wayne treatment. Perhaps it is rivet counting, but they just don't look right to me anymore. My "old time", or as I prefer: pre-WW1, MDC cars still hold up well for my eyes...but the rest of the shake-the-box cars bother me. On3 car prices ($50-$80 to get them into service) have desensitized me towards many of the HO cars I once considered to be rip-offs...but I still have disdain for $30 RTR...and $18 for an Athearn car is just insane. My LHS still has a decent number of shake the box rolling stock kits. Maybe I'll have to try my hand had building HO brake rigging and such. Maybe I'll just join a club where I'll I have to do is bring my motive power, cabooses, and passenger cars...and use other peoples freight cars.
EDIT: I just found a couple pictures of the TH&B berks...
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CN Nutbar ought to get out his checkbook! Those are handsome locomotives. They look incredibly modern for 1928. I didn't think that there were any locomotives with cast 4-wheel trailing trucks until 1930...but I now realize that my beloved NKP hudsons had that same feature in 1927. The valve gear on those 2-8-4s looks odd too. I can see the NYC family resemblance...but why on earth didn't the NYC have some of those as well? They were so much prettier than the modern NYC freight power (P&LE berks, L-4s).
Michael
My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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