Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio! Here is this weeks completed projects. First up, a standard Stewart 14 Panel Hopper that matches the 200 plus cars that the DT&I owned for transporting coal and coke from Southeastern Ohio to the steel mills in Detroit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Herald King Decals. Next a Kadee 50' PS1 boxcar painted with Scalecoat II Reading Green paint and lettered with Ann Arbor Historical Society Decals. In 1962 the Green Bay and Western ordered 20 50' PS1 Boxcars for Ford Auto Parts transportation. After the cars arrived, they were sent to the DT&I for installation of DF2 Loaders and Parts Racks and were essentially used by the DT&I to move parts between Ford Plants. My latest acquisitions, a pair of Atlas C-420's in Lehigh Valley livery running with a general freight on the Strongsville Club layout. I had an ulterial motive in acquring these locomotives, in 1964 the DT&I traded 3 GP35's to the Lehigh Valley for them to evaluate their use for 10 months on the LV, in return the DT&I got 3 C420's, these were passed onto the AnnArbor as the AnnArbor was used to using Alcos whereas the DT&I was all EMD. The LV also tested out PRR C-628's and purchased C-628's as the GP35's were too slippery for use on the LV. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
This is from about 2 weeks ago Also did this Have a Great Weekend everyone James Ian at my z scale ZosoRailway ✨
A photo from my old SPIDGE layout. I think I took this with a Razor phone in the mid 2000's, so quality is not great. A set of SP Dash-9's pull a tank train over Kim's Kanyon while on the lower track the local heads for their days work.
Newly converted to DCC with numbers added Stewart New York Ontario & Western F3A brings a local into Union Station. Behind the loco is the Rapido Steam Generator Car.
Forgot to take this last weekend, and couldn't wait till this Friday, so I am kind of cheating Added some items to the layout. Need to lower my back drop too, even though it is not wide enough Need to add some people to the scenes. I can never make my mind up, always changing things.
"A railroad is never finished" - that's as good for model railroads as it is for the 1:1 railroads. There's always something to do, even if you don't know yet. One day one might touch up or stabilize some ballast, plant some extra trees, change out a wonky turnout, or just add some more motive power and rolling stock. Maybe even paint and detail some of the cars and engines. A whole new world of work on my layout opened up when I bought a static grass doohickey. Scruffy tall grass looks good! And I enjoy every second I spend working on my railroad. If doing that inspired a song, it must be good!
