Good morning from mostly sunny and cold Northeast Ohio, lake effect snow expected later today. Dan, thanks for starting us out with those unique trailers, can't wait to see the finished models. Not muc done these past few weeks, but I did build and paint a Bowser ACF 1958CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray paint and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. The Annie used these cars originally to haul cement from the huge Dundee MI cement plant and then they migrated to the Yuma MI sand pit where they hauled casting sand to the Ford Brookpark, OH Engine Plant. A couple of weeks ago I took some PC and NYC covered hoppers to the Strongsville Club along with an SD40 and SD45 for power. The first 13 cars are PC 4785CF PS Covered Hoppers from Scaletrains, followed by some mixed NYC 4785's H51's and PS 4750's. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
The wife was going through old pictures and found these. They are of my first layout that she took when we first met back in 2001. I did get it to the point I could run trains but it never really came together and was dismantled a few years later before we moved. Was a great room for a layout but the house just didn't work for a family. Anyway, some good memories.
Yes, this is Z-scale More? --> https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/the-old-port-shop.125242/
New York Ontario & Western Bachmann Spectrum USRA Light Mountain 4-8-2 pulls a mixed freight through the station area.
From August 1978, my N Scale road. I must have used 500 LBS of plaster making those mountains. The layout would live on for another year or so, then meet its doom when I graduated from college and moved out.
Because I had a bunch of epoxy resin left over from making a fiberglass rudder and center board for my boat, I decide to use that for making my mountains. I first made a skeleton of strips of old coffee can metal soldered together then draped strips of old bed sheet over that. Finally painted on the epoxy and let it cure. Painted that and glued clumps of lichen moss over it. It was light weight and easy to move around. Later after I had moved out during college my folks down sized and there was no place to deploy the layout so It was hung upside down from the ceiling in their garage. When the garage door was open, the cat would climb on top of the door and bat the lichen moss and telegraph poles around. Totally deforested the mountains. This is a diorama on display in the lobby at the place we are staying at here in Colorado.
UP`s Big Boy crossing the Salt Lake in the last light of the day...... If you like to also see Espee`s Oakland Lark, click here: https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/across-the-bay-into-the-desert.126807/page-4 -- it is a Night Train.......
