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While messing with Nn3.....
...Caught a set of F7s on Fish Creek Viaduct. Still a-lot to be done. JS: You did a ton already
...Caught a set of F7s on Fish Creek Viaduct. Still a-lot to be done. Especially the backdrop.
I worked on some "home road" cars , the 50 foot cars started as undec shells, I built styrene floors and added BLMA trucks and MT Z scale couplers, and I used decals and paint I already had on hand, so these ended up costing me about 12 bucks each, not too bad!..They still need some brakewheels.....The 40 footers are the new Atlas PS-1s, I chopped the ladders and swapped out the trucks for BLMA ASFs to be closer to the protos....and tried out adding some real wood tack boards, and weathered everything up.......Thanks for looking!
Who's cars did these start as?
Been trying something different on The Sub - distributed power. Testbed is the 96 car earthworm, power is four FVM ES44s. I made sure the locos were running approximately the same, and put one on the rear. First couple of times around I found a few very minor issues and easily corrected them. Train now runs beautifully. The rear loco pushes more or less 25 cars, depending on where it is. The Sub's steepest grade is 2% and the train handles it both up and down with no problems.....I was a bit nervous when I tried it for the first time but I'm now confident in the train's performance - so much so that when the new release comes out soon I'll be adding another dozen cars. That'll be interesting.In the interest of full disclosure, all couplers are body mounted and trucks are equipped with FVM 36" metal wheels.
They are MDC shells, I think they may have been made by Athearn more recently....
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