01-07-2011, 05:40 PM
Thank you all for your encouraging comments. I tell you, I am all excited about this new start and I can’t wait for the wood ties to arrive so that I can lay track and find out if running trains is more fun than on my last attempt (Plymouth Street).
Pete, thank you for the NY&A pics. #268 is the engine I am building at the moment and after this will be finished, I will build its sister unit #271. In addition to these engines I hopefully will get NY&A MP15AC #151 in March or April when Athearn releases their next run.
Since my last post on the Plymouth thread I made a little progress on #268. It got new buffer plates, Cannon Co. radiator fans, an antenna, Salem air filters and ditch lights. Next I will replace the P2K air tanks with Cannon parts and make new railings for the rear and install the grab irons on the long end of the hood. Then it will be ready to be painted.
![[Image: 268-13.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/268-13.jpg)
![[Image: 268-8.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/268-8.jpg)
![[Image: 268-9.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/268-9.jpg)
![[Image: 268-14.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/268-14.jpg)
Pete, thank you for the NY&A pics. #268 is the engine I am building at the moment and after this will be finished, I will build its sister unit #271. In addition to these engines I hopefully will get NY&A MP15AC #151 in March or April when Athearn releases their next run.
Since my last post on the Plymouth thread I made a little progress on #268. It got new buffer plates, Cannon Co. radiator fans, an antenna, Salem air filters and ditch lights. Next I will replace the P2K air tanks with Cannon parts and make new railings for the rear and install the grab irons on the long end of the hood. Then it will be ready to be painted.
Kurt