The builders plates on both units? Does this mean the end is near for the Public Service SW1001? I haven't seen it at the plant recently (but it...
great couplers... i've been playing around with a number of pairs (haven't actually operated with them perse, but alot of straight track couples...
i think wikipedia has become my favorite website these days... mind you, i used to be that dorky kid who didn't mind cracking open encyclopedias...
matt it needs a kadee brake wheel! it's looking really nice though! :cool:
wow, very nice model, i've been watching this project, quietly wondering how it was coming along and just seen the finished results now....
I wonder if any of you guys remember when they had the MK5000C on the cover, it was the next best thing :D I remember telling my dad,...
i remember referencing his site for various frame lengths and things like that... Deepest sympathies to his family and friends. :(
My deepest sympathies, as a young man who just recently lost a grandfather, i can't even imagine what it must be like to lose a son. :(
Big turnouts would be nice, with correct frogs, unlike the huge #10 walthers did in ho... benjamin
gee that makes me want to finish this... [img] I was attempting to modify it into a late SD9 with the higher short hood and boxes. I haven't...
how do you know which SD60s are the early models with known issues. by model number or when they were built/ benjamin
I wish there would have been at least one pic of the handrails in that other thread. I think thats probably the only real weakness on the model....
I dont own either model, but i'm pretty sure its the SD40-2s that have that problem. The SD40s never did. benjamin
On the other side of the hill i guess, I remember reading about some big electrics that would visibly lower the lights when under heavy loads...
Alan, Athearn has a shot of their jindo containers here pic It looks like they are corrugated, but you can't see too much detail. benjamin
and to think i thought i was the only one with this problem? :D i even have plastic car models in boxes that are "in progress", and i've...
The Kadee #58, while close to scale size is still too long. I really wish Kadee would have shortened the knuckle. But its the best coupler out...
Our cats have done more then their share of damage to various models over the years. Whenever i have a house of my own, the train room will be...
mine would be too if i had any money to spend! :D benjamin
I saw the 2 unpainted but patched ex DRGW GP60s yesterday in Denver... The 1900 and 1901, an interesting note is that one is patched with a white...
