Today at Dads...OR, CNW's on PARADE! PART 1 OF 2
Well folks, Saturday has come and gone, and heres what happened at dads today. when i showed up at dads, the first thing i noticed was he had his old Burlington geeps out and running...well, kinda. those old geeps were bought in about 1973, and haven't been run in years
, i checked the wheels, they were REAL dirty, and i knew the engines were in desperate need of oil and grease...looks like thats next weeks projecttooth1. i wired dads layout to run on DC or DCC, with the flip of a toggle switch, this is nice for dad since he has TONS of engines he can run that will never be converted to DCC, and those old Burlington's wont be.
i mentioned before, we added on to the layout so we could have a couple passenger trains on it. BOTH of us have a few passenger trains, but the add on only gave us enough room to put two passenger trains each on it, still, thats better then none
. ANYWAYS, we have one depot all set up, and are working on a HUGE station:thumb:. the new station is totally dads envisionment(is that a word?tooth1 ). it is an above ground station, so the trains go under the station, and passengers take stairs/elevators to board below
. we have been making good progress on this project, dad(besides being the foremantooth1) cut a bunch of the styrene for it, and i put the railings on today, painted the concrete base, and worked on the station some too:thumb:.
while the glue and paint was drying, we ran SOME of dads, and SOME of my CNW units:thumb:. we had a GREAT time running trains, and doing a bunch of "train talk"(we seem to talk about trains mostly
ops:tooth1). ANYWAYS, i have some pics to recap the day!:thumb: i hope you enjoy them
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PIC 1- dads two old Burlington geeps.
PIC 2- my NEW CNW RS-32 on the point, dads CNW RS-27 behind it.
PIC 3- my CNW FM H24-66
PIC 4- dads CNW FM H10-44
PIC 5- my CNW F7 i converted to a CNW commuter train. A THANK YOU!, TO WAYNE(doctorwayne)FOR THE INFO ON WHERE TO GET THE "GONG" BELL:thumb:. i am NOT finished with this engine, i still want to put the grabs above the windshields, and coupler cut bars on it
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PIC 6- my CNW DL-109. and yes, i know its NOT prototypical to run it with those commuter cars
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PIC 7- a shot of PART of the yard. its not even CLOSE to being finished
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PIC 8- a progress pick of the NEW STATION we have been working on:thumb:. NOT EVEN CLOSE to being finished, just wanted to give you an idea of what we have been doing:thumb:.
PIC 9- MY DAD
, checking out the progress on the station:thumb:.
-Deano
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