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Looks like the start of a fine Northeastern United States fleet, when you gonna start the bicentennial job, love to see it!:wave:

here's a prototype photo of the bridge area I am trying to approach:

Do you think this old Milwaukee Road box spent some time in its nameske cities industrial valley?

Not only does the paint job look good, its also technically speaking a fine custom job! What, if anything else are you running? excellent work!:thumb:

Many thanks truck lover, haven't been at this stuff but a year or so, your comments are most appreciated. Getting ready to undertake a massive amount of backdrop work, thats just about whats left, but it is a HUGE part of this, I don't really wanna post photos in areas there is no backdrop up...

I have never looked for HO size but they do have larger ones so I would assume yes. I don't know how well they'd work--its so easy to pick up detail flaws in HO (why I am N scaler:thumb: :oops: here's a couple more of 164 and 1 shot of Pottstown Pennsylvania:

Thanks!! The green thing is a highway bridge over a river, prototypical color for the Walt Whitman bridge in Philadelphia, somewhat similar construction, but wrong place! The concrete barriers by the United Steel parking lot are made from plastruct T-beam I cut and painted. Here are a few more:

(I gotta get a a camera with a decent macro feature-but this will do for now I guess) Here's some photos of D&H 164 (CP intermodal) entering Philadelphia from Montreal, behind 2 SD40-2's (one snoot), a former D&H GP38-2 in CP's new scheme, and an old SD40. Hopefully these will get better with time.

Here's a few more: a Reading and blue mountain northern Sd40-2 I custom painted a St. Lawrence & Hudson sd40-2 a SOO sd60 a CP sd40

I'm gonna post up some photos of my diesel fleet (because I like looking at everyone elses!) My period is now, eastern Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to Binghamton NY, via Scranton: Here goes the first 2 or 3: The 1st is a Kato Sd40-2 I custom painted and decaled for CP rail dual flags, the 2nd...

one more thing: with the Sd40-2 I have tried re-programming and it does not respond, no light blink, no readout of the number I just programmed, etc. I can read the programmed # on the program track for the Atlas Sd60M, and I could before on the IM, untl the plyers incident and short warning now.

O.k. I'll try! Yes, that is the sound-- electrical short. Here we go: 1) The SD40-2 is a Kato early production, I changed the original DC board out for a digitrax direct replacement, DN163K1B. As I indicated, it ran very well, but now suddenly does nothing. 2) the intermountain SD40-2T. I...

Frustration is running high! If anyone can help with a couple of DCC issues I'd appreciate it: 1) I have a Kato Sd40-2 with DCC, it ran fine, no issues, came back next day, power up and the loco is doing nothing. No lights no power. Cleaned wheels, tried reprogramming, nothing. Contact strips...

Frustration is running high! If anyone can help with a couple of DCC issues I'd appreciate it: 1) I have a Kato Sd40-2 with DCC, it ran fine, no issues, came back next day, power up and the loco is doing nothing. No lights no power. Cleaned wheels, tried reprogramming, nothing. Contact strips...

Thanks a bunch! Sounds good.

I am considering building my own drawbars to assemble a 3 car set of my walthers 48' well cars. I have an old model railroader magazine which has templates for building the entire car from scratch in HO scale (with conversion % for N scale) but I wanted to check and see if: 1) anyone here has...

Thanks for the responses, very informative. We have an enormous autorack loading and unloading facility here in Miami for the FEC, but its so huge there is no way to model it on a home layout, I was looking to see what existed in the realm of smaller loading facilities, lots of great ideas, thanks!

Does anyone have a good track plan for an autorack unloading yard? Love to see what you have as I am now planning to add one and am having trouble finding a plan

What are the noticeable outside differences between a GP40, a GP40-2 and a GP40-3?

Thanks for responses, I actually found the article on how to modify the Kato U30. Last question I guess is, can an AC4400 chassis be modified to accept the Bachman shell and would it be prototype correct? (just figuring its a 6 axle widecab GE and I have an extra).