Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio, just a little haze from the western forest fires. Here are this weeks accomplishments! First, a Bowser Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and decaled with Herald King Decals. Car was assigned to sand service for the Owens-Illinois Glass plant in Ottawa, IL. Next, a Con-Cor 60' Auto Parts Boxcar kit, changed the wheelbase from 41' to 46' and added Molco ACF Extended Coupler pockets to the underframe. Also carved off the rivits and scored the weld lines. Car was painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red and lettered with Dr. George Drake's/ Mark Vaughns decals. The 167 above the PRR notes that this car is assigned to the Cincinnati, OH transmission plant moving transmissions to the final assembly plants. Finally, the Resurrection project, I started this old Robbins Rails kit over 40 years ago and had glued the weight to the underframe before packing the car away before one of my moves, well the GOO had not completed outgassing and ended up melting the underframe into a blob. I found a junker 60' box and appropriated the frame and modified it with Hydro-Cushioning and Coupler pockets from Moloco to match the prototype. Also scrounged the junk box for ladders that matched the factory applied paint. The 190 above the NKP means the car was assigned to the Monroe MI stamping plant which mostly made bumpers for Ford Cars. The modified frame! 3 The finished car! (The last new cars the NKP received before the N&W merger) A pair of Bowser NKP RS-3's on the Strongsville Club layout here in Ohio! Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Wow, that is a beautiful car Rick. Outstanding! I always enjoy reading your narratives on the prototype's purpose and service routes of the cars you build.
I did not do much, it was a prepainted car, but the NKP had a few other cars with double sliding doors and I plan on kitbashing one of those cars in the future. Rick Jesionowski
Recent visit of Randy Stahl's Milwaukee Road, 150 car, custom painted and decaled iron ore train on my N scale layout. The 150 car N scale train was 22 feet long with body mount couplers and low-profile wheels, running on my code 55 trackwork. Each loaded car has a unique road number, with no repeats and was nicely weathered.
Mo-Pac! A square hatch covered hopper! I'm feeling giddy. Going back in time to the FRISCO! Twenty-two feet! New lighting.
Feeling Old & Weary this weekend but it not a bad thing with New York Ontario & Western Stewart FTA and FTB leading a freight through the station. Both units were just decaled with numbers and the A-unit was upgraded to DCC.
Mike, for your information, the Wabash never ran their passenger trains with only 1 PA, they used 2 PA's. They did run them with one E7 or E8 but they had dual prime movers unlike the PA's so if one engine failed they could still make it to the next station. Rick Jesionowski