N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wm3798]

I've seen this on other road names as well, but most often on the same paint scheme over several different carbodies.  Interesting that number stayed the same even over the several different color schemes and artwork.

What a bunch of slackers!!

Lee

[peteski]

I've seen this on other road names as well, but most often on the same paint scheme over several different carbodies.  Interesting that number stayed the same even over the several different color schemes and artwork.

What a bunch of slackers!!

Lee

Back when these were produced N scale was just a toy train scale. 
Most manufacturers didn't care about duplicate road numbers.  This was before Internet, so these were probably done using some photo from a book (if even that, since they were made in Eastern Europe, thousands of miles away from the prototype).

[wm3798]

We pretty much covered this topic ad nauseum about 60 pages ago.  I just found it interesting that the same road number persisted over several completely different color schemes (albeit the same road name).

It would be interesting to see other examples of that.

Lee

[peteski]

We pretty much covered this topic ad nauseum about 60 pages ago.  I just found it interesting that the same road number persisted over several completely different color schemes (albeit the same road name).

LOL!  I have hard time remembering what happened last week,and 60 pages ago seems like  ancient history (and I don't religiously follow this thread either - sorry).   

[learmoia]

I'm not sure it was an N scale 'Toy Train' mindset but a general production and cost savings mindset at the time.

In my latest research in vintage N scale variations, I have come to find out that most of the A1G / AHM and some Minitrix cars were direct (letter for letter) copies of AHM, Tyco, Lionel, and Athearn HO scale models.

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There are plenty more I haven't put together yet.. but last night at the CSH show, I discovered the A1G Jack Frost 3 bay hopper is an (almost) copy of an AHM car (the HO car has red in the logo, where the N scale car is only blue and white).

~Ian

[wm3798]

Fresh from the paint shop.  The latest addition to the Laurel Valley Retro Fleet.




The ancient and venerable Atlas C Liner.




Also a freshly lettered A1G boxcar. (Might be Trix)  I oversprayed the WM markings and kept the data.  The red I used was a pretty good match!

Lee

[wm3798]

It's getting closer.  This weekend had me loading a couple of significant boxes of rolling stock and other supplies.


Next trip will likely have the layouts on the move.





The track and scenery boxes went into storage.  It will be quite awhile before I'm building more layout.

But perhaps more important, the other B&O in my life successfully made the jump, along with a carefully curated selection from my vast record library.  Emmylou Harris got the nod for the inaugural play in the new house.

[mu26aeh]

You must have really strong faith in those straps.  I don't think I'd have trusted those totes in that position

[MK]

Yeah, I would put out those totes inside the cab.  Looks scary unless you are taking local roads with 40 MPH speed limits. Even then...

[wm3798]

This ain't my first rodeo.


Chocked, blocked, one solid rock.  80 mph tested and true.

Besides, the back seat is already reserved.

Lee

[mu26aeh]

I sure once strapped down, you gave it the old grab and tug test and said " that's not going anywhere" 😁

[nkalanaga]

And, the individual straps don't have to hold much after several bundles are packed into a solid mass.  If his packing is like the shipments our plant gets, they're just to hold the pieces together until the entire skid (load) can be secured.

[wm3798]

Packed up the layouts and the stacks of stuff, and put them into storage for a few months...






They rode safely enclosed in "Mom's Attic" in the big U Haul we rented.  I was a little surprised at how much "stuff" I had accumulated since starting the Hi Rail Project, and also how much stuff I had squirreled away from the old WM layout.
I may not have to buy another piece of track, scenery material, or piece of rolling stock ever again.

... But I think we all know how that will work out!...

Hopefully by September the drywall work will be far enough along that I can bring them safely into the new house.  Renting monthly storage is going to eat up a lot of Hi Rail budget!

Until then, I shall rely on old photos and living through you all's work vicariously.

Lee

[wm3798]

Liberation Day!


We are in the process of consolidating our storage units to save expenses, so today I got to bring the layout and it's support furniture home!  It's a bit premature, I don't even have an outlet installed to run it yet...


But guess what I'll be working on next!
Lee

[wm3798]

Nature abhors a vacuum.


Thinking about adding a TTrak interface...


The things that make you go "hmmmm..."