Look at my wonderful box of kittens waiting to be taken to GNMRE tonight for some exercise Front to back B&O 8408 SW1 – Walthers Mainline B&O 5606 GP7 – Bachmann B&O 4139 GP40 – Bachmann C&O 8217 U30B – Atlas Master C&O 8226 BQ23-7 – Bachmann B&O 7612 SD40-2 – Athearn
Remember that Chessie SD40-2 I was restoring back to health a few months ago? Here’s the latest on that project. After my last restoration post I had got some standard Kadee #5 couplers into the Athearn coupler box but I didn’t like that the metal centering plate stuck out a bit. I also tried putting […]
I picked up a new engine a few weeks ago and new is a relative term as in it means I just recently own it. The engine had some rough points to it. The back truck cover was missing, the railings were broken missing or bent, no horn, no couplers but the body itself was […]
I haven’t posted a train update on the blog in a bit so I figured I would give a quick summary N Scale I sort of stalled here for a bit but I have returned to it. Finished laying roadbed on the board and I have track held in place with nails currently until I […]
So I was checking out a new hobby shop in Beamsville Just Train Crazy and first impressions being everything I of course came across some Chessie gear. The only problem is that it was in N scale and other than some old gear that was given to me I don’t model N The items were […]