Bowser’s Hi Hood Century C-628s

Bowser’s doing Hi Hood Centuries in C&NW in both paint schemes.  I’ve waited a long time for this.

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How To Disassemble Walthers Passenger Cars - Keith Turley "Twist"

I wince watching this....

Glendower - Spectacular OO gauge model railway layout in a 4ft high basement!

Check out how he enters his layout room....

OFFICIAL Paragon2 PRR T1 As Delivered, HO Promo Video by Broadway Limited Imports, LLC

Mixed feelings on the smoke but it's a beautiful piece.

Atlas HO REA Steel Express Reefer

From Atlas’s announcement (link) below.  Not new I’m sure, gotta be the Branchline version, but a very nice model to see.  Thanks Atlas!

New Model!

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In 1947, REA ordered 500 of these all new steel express reefers from ACF, in an effort to handle express and parcel traffic. During the same time period, Atlantic Coast Line purchased 50. These cars were added to the front of passenger trains traveling coast-to-coast on all major railroads. These new steel express cars utilized welded construction and a new high speed truck design. They were able to carry both refrigerated loads as well as parcel loads due to their collapsible ice bunkers that were stored away when not in use.

Atlas HO REA Steel Express Reefer

3D printing - Bob's Workbench

Great post on 3d printing!   I’ve got the CAD software downloaded and want to give this a try… 

3D printing - Bob's Workbench

Passenger Car Window Tinting | Model:160 N Scale Model Railroading

Good post on tinting Passenger Car windows.  It’s N scale but the concept’s the same across scales.

Passenger Car Window Tinting | Model:160 N Scale Model Railroading

Model Railroad News: HO-scale InterMountain Railway Paducah GP10 Diesel

Old news but still exciting…  lets home for some in Chicago Central red; Model Railroad News

Milwaukee Road 1946 - "A Railroad at Work" - American freight & passenger trains

More old promotional video... I love these.

Athearn Genesis 57' FGE Mechanical Reefer

I'm sort of old school and make my own sounds but these have a generator sound that turns on randomly just like the prototype. Kind of cool...  considering you need whole blocks of these cars, I doubt I'll buy many with sound though. 

Chicago & North Western System - "Rolling the Freight" - 1947

CNW Flambeau 400 in 1963

Some great video of a long gone train (and time).  Check it out and leave Gerry a thanks for sharing.

Treasure Island Special

This will be a spectacular but awfully expensive model.  Were Walther’s only to do it in plastic…..

Over at Coach Yard: Treasure Island Special

IHB and BRC Gensets

I didn't even know the IHB or BRC had any Gensets but sure enough here are pictures on the IHB and more of the BRC's trio.

Atlas is announcing these in HO due spring of 2013.

And here's some video to enjoy until then.

The correct RPO for those Walther’s Pere Marquette Cars

The RPO car coming out with the new Walther’s Pere Marquette cars is all wrong.  Now, if I can only get the guys over at NKP Car Sides to give us the sides for the correct car shown below from the Pere Marquette Historical Society.  Link below.

H/T Pere Marquette Historical Society Photo Gallery

Broadway Limited’s IC E6A

This looks like a very nice model in a much needed scheme.

2339 EMD E6A, IC #4002, Chocolate & Orange Scheme, Paragon2 Sound/DC/DCC, HO

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Your Price: Order from your dealer today!

Item Number: BLI-2339

Product Line: Diesel, HO

Expected Delivery: Feb-13

A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THIS MODEL

EMD built the E-Units between 1937 through 1963. Originally the name E unit referred to the fact that these units boasted of eighteen hundred horsepower. This designation remained throughout the E unit production even though later models incorporated higher horsepower ratings. Due to the technology of the time, E units like many locomotives used multiple units to achieve the required power. EMD offered cabled units called B or booster units. Some railroads ordered AB, ABB or ABA units depending on power needs.E6s were manufactured by EMD in La Grange, Illinois, between the years 1939 and 1941. To achieve 2,000 horsepower, EMD combined two 1,000 horsepower, 12 cylinder, model 567 engines inside of the engine compartment.

2339 EMD E6A, IC #4002, Chocolate & Orange Scheme, Paragon2 Sound/DC/DCC, HO

HO Single Window and Paired Window Heavyweight Coaches

Nice to see Atlas bringing these Branchline Coaches back.  I hope they do the UP Overland scheme.

HO Single Window and Paired Window Heavyweight Coaches

Santa Fee Railroad Historical and Modeling Society Books

A pretty impressive sounding book from the Society.

Sleeping Cars of the Santa Fe is the final installment in our Passenger Car Reference Series. A comprehensive overview of Santa Fe sleeping cars from the wood car era through the heavyweights to the end of the lightweight era, this volume covers Wooden Sleeping Cars, Wooden Sleepers Acquired from the Pecos Valley and Northeastern, Wooden Emigrant Sleeping Cars, Wooden All-Section Tourist Sleepers, Wooden Sleeping Car Assignments, Heavyweight Sleeping Cars, Heavyweight Cars Purchased for Work Service Only, Heavyweight Cars purchased for Business or Special Purpose Use, Foreign-Line and Pullman-Owned Heavyweight Sleepers used on AT&SF Scheduled Trains, 1950-1959, Lightweight Sleeping Cars, Lightweight Sleeping Cars Not Built, Lightweight Sleeping Car Assignments, Foreign Road Sleepers on the Santa Fe, Santa Fe Sleepers on Foreign Roads and Dormitory Cars.

11" x 8 1/2" library found with dust jacket, 406 pages, 459 photos (41 in color), 101 drawings, 58 maps and ephemera, Appendix (including Glossary of Santa Fe Lightweight Sleeping Car Names and Reservation Cipher Code), Bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-933587-27-1.

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Wisconsin Southern, Madison, June 2012

Shot these Sunday in Madison by my kid's dorm. Hard to get a good shot from this angle but it was all that was available to me without stepping into a busy street.

Sparkling clean SD40-2's in Wisconsin Southern's classic scheme.

Athearn Good News / Bad News????

via Trainorders.com

Just got a call from my Horizon rep and found out that the retail prices on products will most likely hold where they are but the discount to dealers will be lowered by 8%. That is a big hit for the hobby stores. First Walthers with their 10% hit to dealers, now Horizon on Athearn products.

Bottom line good news for the model railroader bad news for the local hobby shop.

Athearn Good News / Bad News????

It’s bad news for everyone concerned with the hobby.  The prices are killing Model Railroading.  What’s bad news for the retailer is bad news for all of us, because it’s the retailers who grow the hobby.