CSX Hanover Subdivision

[R L Smith]

Upon further reflection, if I'm going to waste my N scale funds on an HO loco, then I'll get something that I want to have on the shelf in my layout room, not what our buddy might want to see on his layout.   


I'm thinking the Atlas C425 in LA&L paint, since it is the current paint scheme of my home road.  Or perhaps a Heritage Unit...

<sigh>

[davefoxx]

Upon further reflection, if I'm going to waste my N scale funds on an HO loco, then I'll get something that I want to have on the shelf in my layout room, not what our buddy might want to see on his layout.   

Heh, get a GG1.  Nothing beats switching on a friend's layout with a GG1.  Although I have been known to press 4449 into local service on his layout, too.   

[mu26aeh]

Upon further reflection, if I'm going to waste my N scale funds on an HO loco, then I'll get something that I want to have on the shelf in my layout room, not what our buddy might want to see on his layout.   


I'm thinking the Atlas C425 in LA&L paint, since it is the current paint scheme of my home road.  Or perhaps a Heritage Unit...

<sigh>

@R L Smith your local pusher has LA&L C425 #425 in stock

[VonRyan]

I've known Rick and Linda since I was a little kid. They're wonderful, wonderful people, and it's a treat every time I bump into them.

It's always a good day when I see Rick and Linda. They're two of the nicest people I've ever met.

I'm pretty sure that they were the first N-scalers other than myself that I had ever met. My mom and I had visited their layout when it was open for the local NMRA division meet. Of course, this was probably At least 7 years ago. The best part about that day was that I met god among men DKS. Only a week before that day, I had stumbled upon his various blogs while on a interwebz search for something N-scale related.
 Now I know how Catholics feel when they meet the Pope.

[reinhardtjh]

I'm thinking the Atlas C425 in LA&L paint, since it is the current paint scheme of my home road.  Or perhaps a Heritage Unit...

<sigh>

+1

I managed to get an Atlas N-Scale C420 LA&L #420 a few years ago.  I pine wistfully over the Bowser HO ALCos in LA&L and WNY&P paint.

[mu26aeh]

What a better way to spend Thanksgiving morning than some ballast work at Emory Grove.  I used straight WS light grey for the CSX main line, and mixed in some cinders on the MMID trackage. 

20151126_083648 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

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You make it sound like CSX still uses ballast on that line!



The Midland on the other hand, looks pretty good...


Lee

[mu26aeh]

I'm working with the notion it is summer of 2009, weeks after the CSX Trackdogs came thru the subdivision replacing ties and reballasting. 

http://s118.photobucket.com/user/mu26aeh/slideshow/CSX%20Trackdogs?sort=3

I only wish I had a better camera, or had taken better shots when they were in town.... 

[mu26aeh]

I've gotten a lot of the ballasting done on the sub since my last post.  Hoping to get some time this weekend to vacuum up lose material and get some pictures.  In mean time, I finally got to setting up the HO around the Christmas tree tonight.  I figured it would give me a chance to run the SD40-2 I got a few weeks ago on more than a 2 foot section of straight track.  I wish I wouldn't have done that now.  It's a DCC equipped loco on a DC loop of track, I put it on track and it made two loops, derailed on a curve, front truck shorted out across the two rails and I smoked the damn decoder    So off to MBK website to order replacement.  While looking around, I figured I can't just order a single decoder, so much wasted space in that USPS small flat rate box.  I have an Atlas MP15 for Hagerstown yard, but sometimes if I pull an entire string of cars, it would be nice to have a second switcher.  Seeing there are no MP15's to be had, I thought about the MT SW1500.  They had a few Conrail units left in stock.  A quick check of rrpicturearchives.net showed a handful of CR units with CSX patches, so I decided to add one to the fleet.  Of course this meant another decoder (damn, I was so close to being 100% decoderized) .  So something else to photograph too    Of course that is if all the CR crowd doesn't run me out of town for patching said unit. 

[basementcalling]

I've gotten a lot of the ballasting done on the sub since my last post.  Hoping to get some time this weekend to vacuum up lose material and get some pictures.  In mean time, I finally got to setting up the HO around the Christmas tree tonight.  I figured it would give me a chance to run the SD40-2 I got a few weeks ago on more than a 2 foot section of straight track.  I wish I wouldn't have done that now.  It's a DCC equipped loco on a DC loop of track, I put it on track and it made two loops, derailed on a curve, front truck shorted out across the two rails and I smoked the damn decoder    So off to MBK website to order replacement.  While looking around, I figured I can't just order a single decoder, so much wasted space in that USPS small flat rate box.  I have an Atlas MP15 for Hagerstown yard, but sometimes if I pull an entire string of cars, it would be nice to have a second switcher.  Seeing there are no MP15's to be had, I thought about the MT SW1500.  They had a few Conrail units left in stock.  A quick check of rrpicturearchives.net showed a handful of CR units with CSX patches, so I decided to add one to the fleet.  Of course this meant another decoder (damn, I was so close to being 100% decoderized) .  So something else to photograph too    Of course that is if all the CR crowd doesn't run me out of town for patching said unit.

Your road bought there's, so who ran whom out of town?

Nothing like letting the magic smoke out.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Nice!

And dude, remember, when putting that decoder into the SW1500, kapton tape EVERYWHERE!!!

[mu26aeh]

I got a notice the other day that the Hanover Sub had money sitting in rainy day fund (PayPal account), so of course we couldn't let it sit there. The railroad made a purchase of a MT SW1500 in Conrail colors. After taking it into the shop and discovering major electrical issues (faulty board from Digitrax) we switched suppliers (got a TCS board) and the engine fired right up ! This unit will be patched somewhere into the 1069-1099 range. #9594 in real life actually went to NS in the split, along with #9590, the other number that MT produced.

20151226_160955 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

[mu26aeh]

Updated to show new power is riding the rails.  Also getting my HO unit figured out from a gentleman from Australia walking me thru JMRI to get the lighting effects the way I want them.

[basementcalling]

Liking the look of the ballast under those switchers.

[mu26aeh]

Liking the look of the ballast under those switchers.

Hopefully sometime this week I plan on getting the airbrush out and dirtying up the yard.  Just too clean.  Still need 4 #8 Peco turnouts to finish the other end of yard, then I can finish ballast work in yard.