We don’t have to show them all. I figure we all have our favorites.
I like to see what each thinks is their favorite. Different era’s show up for interest.
A steam low rider…well…I got nothin’. Maybe just got tagged in the yard?
Todd Brody said:
And now for something completely different.
“All my friends know the Lowrider.”
I like it!
Does the Skull headlight work??
If not I would be inserting 2 blue LED’s in them eyeball sockets and is homie stealing the bell or cleaning it?
Joe Paonessa said:
I like to see what each thinks is their favorite.
That’s what I posted …
Gee, a favorite. well, number 7 is special because she is my first locomotive kit-bash. But they are all special in their own little ways. Some are just a bit more “special” then others
David Russell said:
Todd Brody said:
I like it!
Does the Skull headlight work??
If not I would be inserting 2 blue LED’s in them eyeball sockets and is homie stealing the bell or cleaning it?
Yes the skull works! It houses a bi-color LED and the eyes show red when in reverse and firey orange (red & green combo) when in forward. The skull was a valve stem cover from the auto parts store that was drilled from behind to install the LED.
As you can see, the head light has been “frenched” into the boiler door. Also has “twice antennae” Frenched into the body and the mandatory Dayton 100-spoke wheel on the continental kit.
Neither, he is “tagging” the dome.
how’s this?
oh you mean these engines…
Shawn Fields said:
how’s this?
Much nicer than Mine! WOW!
Maybe I could shove it under the hood in my Silverado??
Joe Paonessa said:
Shawn Fields said:
how’s this?
Much nicer than Mine! WOW!
Maybe I could shove it under the hood in my Silverado??
Sure can Joe If its the body from 73-87, its just a 350 with some goodies…Edelbrock Carb, Intake, heads, chrome goodies, MSD Ign. nothing major…
And now back to regularly scheduled programming…
Uh oh. Look what just showed up on my doorstep!
(http://www.largescalecentral.com/public/album_photo/03/c5/01/1c23f_e331.jpg?c=ad7a)
Shawn Fields said:
how’s this?
The homies didn’t get a hold of this one. (I don’t take it into that part of town.) This was shot in development of a new alternator mount that I came up with for pre-'69 SBC with headers. This is the before.
You will also see my car in the first 1-2 minutes of Wheeler Dealers where they did the restoration of the '64 Corvette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZMgZ8e0XfkE
Nice engines fellas.
Here is a link to a video I made a while back of my steam engines doing run bys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0whRJDBnitQ
Here is a photo of my 2 favorite diesels.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/capecodtodd/_forumfiles/NW2CCCPaint.jpg)
I also have several other small diesels and steamers. I also admit to too many BUT I wouldn’t mind picking up a USAT GP9 sometime in the near future… HA !
These are mine, Shays are my favorites.
Dan,
The woodie is way cool!
Euro power on my line, here is the Harz 2-6-2T and the common little Stainz#2 The 23802 Harz is one of the late 90’s run with digital sound, bought cheap as it was a non runner. She had a blown MTS decoder, once removed and restored to non MTS mode, she runs like a champ. I would like at some point to restore MTS ablity. Second pic is of my venerable 2020 Stainz from my original starter set, purchased in Germany by my Uncle for me years ago. It started the whole LGB craze for me. Cheers Mike
Todd,
Thanks for the comment on the Woody. Here’s a link to the build.
http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/20982/hubley-track-inspection-car
I’m drawn to the two diesels in Dan’s pics, the switcher and the Penn. That switcher is getting custom painted?
Dan DeVoto said:
Todd,
Thanks for the comment on the Woody. Here’s a link to the build.
http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/20982/hubley-track-inspection-car
Very cleaver build. I like it!
The “Other” D&RGW RR Engine Roster
This is my entire roster of locomotives. They are all lithium-ion battery-powered, with Airwire receiver/decoders and Phoenix sound cards installed. With one exception, they are all Bachmann plastic models that I have modified, “bashed” and super-detailed to one extent or another. The C-21 is a brass ’n’ steel Accucraft model that tips the scale around 25 pounds – a good hauler. I use an Airwire T5000 Wireless Throttle from CVP Products to run them.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jack_thompson/jax_shack/6.jpg)
This is my only geared loco. It’s used to haul raw material (logs) to the local lumber mill. Granted, Thompson Toothpick Works is in the lumber business, but only “… in a small way.” (True Laurel & Hardy fans should get the reference.)
The receiver/decoder unit, the sound card, speaker and even a programming jack are all crammed into the tender and the battery is in the backhead/firebox area. Disk magnets imbedded in the universal joint aft of the gear box provide chuff sensing via a reed switch on the bottom of the firebox. The original steel cab was replaced by a wooden one from Banta. The engine is totally self-contained - no need for an external battery car.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jack_thompson/jax_shack/12.jpg)
Ol’ No. 12 is the oldest loco on my mythical Dulles & Reston Garden Weeds Railroad, it is now relegated to a maintenance-of-way role and occasional light passenger duty. Hence, the pilot-mounted snow plow - which often comes in handy in both applications.
I wanted to try my hand at building a pilot-mounted snow plow – and here’s the result. I designed the two halves of the plow blade with a CAD system on my iMac (actually, only one blade and a mirror image,) printed it full size then transferred them to light cardboard for test fitting and adjustment. The final result was used as a template to cut them out of .040 sheet brass.
I don’t have a roller, so I had to curve the blades by hand in a vise, bit by bit, working from the top, and checking my work frequently. The curve in each blade is simple (as opposed to compound, thank goodness) but the radius varies so I had to go “by guess and by golly.” Once they were right and the two halves met in the middle they were silver-soldered together with a mini-torch.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jack_thompson/jax_shack/29.jpg)
Now for my workhorses - the Consolidations: This is the latest addition to the roster, A B’mann C-19. When some people consider Bachmann, they think: plastic. However, everything on this model that should be made of metal, is made of metal. All the piping and the entire drive train - from the Pittman can motor (with flywheel) to the drivers themselves (fully sprung and equalized) - including the gears and gearbox - is metal. The metal plates added as weight inside the boiler (and the extra buckshot I filled steam dome with) makes this model weigh in at just over eighteen pounds. Believe me, there’s plenty of rail adhesion.
By the way, the parts that are plastic are well rendered and accurate with a lot of detail. The whole model is engineered for strength but also is easy to disassemble. This is the best large-scale model loco offering from Bachmann to date - based on a truly American narrow-gauge prototype. It runs like a dream and was a pleasure to “bash.”
I have dubbed this my “Super Connie.” Also, following the practice of several real railroads, I have designated it a “C-20” because, size-wise, it sort of falls between a C-19 and a C-21 and I have seen a similar Consolidation that ran on the White Pass R.R. in Alaska that was rated for just over 20,000 pounds of tractive effort. As far as I know, that “other” D&RGW never had a C-20 on its roster, but my D&RGW does. (That’s the beauty of free-lance modeling – you’re not a slave to prototype.)
If you’d like to see more of this guy, you can go to page 5 of the Bachmann Connie Bash Thread at the top of the column in the Modeling forum elsewhere in these pages.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jack_thompson/jax_shack/86.jpg)
This is my big bruiser, an Accucraft C-21, serial number 86 of a run of 350, so that’s what it’s road number is too. It has received my usual modifications and super-detailing.
You may have noticed a certain “family resemblance” between this and the previous two locos above, particularly in the pilot/headlamp/smokestack areas. I’ve tried to make the engines on my roster look as if they are all maintained by the same roundhouse backshop. Similar paint and lettering schemes also help to extend that impression.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/jack_thompson/jax_shack/87.jpg)
This is the result of having a Bachmann 4-4-0 that didn’t really fit the concept of operations on my railroad and an old Bachmann coach kit lying around. As far as I know, there never was an inspection engine like this on any narrow-gauge railroad anywhere (many of them, however, on standard gauge railroads everywhere.) Nevertheless, as I said above, I’ve never been a slave to prototype, so this is purely a “flight-of-fancy.” In any case, it was fun to build and garners lots of comments.
Well that’s about it. I hope you enjoyed this tour of my roster. I don’t expect it to grow any further, but you never know… (does anybody ever have too many engines?)
If you’d like to see more of any of these locos, just ask – I’ve got lots more pix.
Hey Jack,
If you intended to show us pictures, none appeared.
*edited to thank Jack for supplying the pictures. Awesome!
Thanks, Joe. They do now…