Weekly Photo Fun 4/7 to 4/14/2023.

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Good Friday---a special day for Christians around the world---perhaps a day to count our blessings and say a prayer for peace and hope for all those who are suffering---I realize how blessed I am as I sit in my train room today.

   

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As I have begun converting my locomotives to DCC the latest conversions are two B&O Atlas Master DCC System GP40 locomotives. The locos come with a DCC decoder installed but are set for DC. Converting to DCC involved switching a plug from one location to another. The hardest thing was figuring out how to access the decoder. I had to take the dynamic brake cover off. After testing them for a time I created a consist and the following 34 car run by is the result.

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Baltimore & Ohio GP40 (Atlas Master DCC System)





Reading RR 50 FT Plug Door Boxcar (Athearn Blue Box kit)
Bessemer & Lake Erie 50 FT Double Door Boxcar (Athearn Blue Box lit)



Delaware Lackawanna & Western 50 FT Boxcar (Athearn Blue Box kit)
Pennsylvania RR 40 FT Boxcar (MDC/Roundhouse kit)



Reading 40 FT O.B. Boxcar Steel Door (Accurail kit)
Bangor & Aroostook - State of Maine 1937 40 FT AAR Boxcar (Intermountain)

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Delaware Lackawanna & Western 1937 40 FT AAR Boxcar (Atlas Trainman kit)
Fruit Growers Express 50 FT Mechanical Reefer (Athearn RTR)



Ethyl Chemical Tank Car (Athearn/Roundhouse)
Staley Chemical Tank Car (Athearn/Roundhouse)



Warren Chemical Tank Car (Athearn/Roundhouse)
Chesapeake & Ohio 50-Ton Gondola (Proto1000)



Lehigh Valley 46 FT USRA Gondola
Erie 40 FT Wood Boxcar (Athearn Blue Box kit)

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Norfolk & Western 50 FT Open Steel Gondola (Athearn Blue Box kit)
Baltimore & Ohio PS-1 Steel Boxcar (Accurail kit)



Baltimore & Ohio 40 FT Steel Single Door Boxcar (Accurail kit)
Clinchfield PS-2 2-Bay Covered Hopper (Atlas Trainman)



Western Maryland PS-2 2-Bay Covered Hopper (Atlas Trainman)
Western Maryland PS-2 2-Bay Covered Hopper (Atlas Trainman)



Monon 40 FT Boxcar (Bev-Bel Athearn Blue Box kit)
Baltimore & Ohio 40 FT Boxcar (Athearn undecorated Blue Box kit Dry Transfers)



Jersey Central 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper (Atlas Trainman)
Jersey Central 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper (Atlas Trainman)

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Baltimore & Ohio 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper (Atlas Trainman)
Baltimore & Ohio 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper (Atlas Trainman)



Reading 2-Bay Offset Side Hopper (Atlas Trainman)
Baltimore & Ohio AAR 40 FT Boxcar (Accurail kit)



Shell 3 Doom Tank Car (Athearn Blue Box kit)
Shell 3 Doom Tank Car (Athearn Blue Box kit)



Shell 3 Doom Tank Car (Athearn Blue Box kit)
Burlington 40 FT Boxcar (Athearn Blue Box kit)



Atlantic Coast Line 40 FT Boxcar (Bev-Bel/Athearn Blue Box kit)
Baltimore & Ohio Bay Window Caboose (Bachmann Silver Series)



Video
https://youtu.be/vaQY3n-bNVw