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As promised, here come the pics.

I actually "recquisitioned" it from work I hope to get the pics of the nearly finished work wen I get home in about 3 hours. The only problem with those pens is that the paint dries VERY fast. It isnt very good for painting larger surfaces at all. It is decent for touch ups however...

Well I have all the new grab irons installed now. Just have to install the windows and find the Clinchfield lettering for it and the road numbers and other graphics. The pin stripes are done. New technique I discovered. I used scotch tape and the same yellow paint pen I...

DT1967 , That is exactly my point really. Some folks enjoy making their models as close to the prototype as humanly possible. Others enjoy just having something that resembles the train they want. Others are satified with a simple toy train with a loop of track on a 4x8 sheet of...

Yep, You will definitely love DCC. When I picked up my Digitrax Zephyr (got it slightly used from the LHS off the store layout as a display model :D ) I was amazed at how much better my DC loco's ran with it. And when I installed my first decoder (an MRC AD370 sound decoder) I was...

Thanks for all the compliments folks. Sumpter, I actually have two of them in the midst of getting repainted right now, the CSX and my Clinchfield . I just puts up some pics of the Clinchfield since it is the one I am currently working on. I still need to get the blue paint for the...

I would like some input on this one from the Gauge. I plane to paint the roof black tomatch the locos but what about the roof walk? Should I leave it grey, or paint it another color? The holes are where I pre drilled for the new finescale grabs that I will put on it later one the painting...

And here is a shot of the Caboose after the repaint thus far. I still need toput the stripes on the caboose and find me a decal for the Clinchfield on the side as well as numbering and such.

Hey guys and gals, I am at it again. I have taken a couple of old Athearn Cupola Cabeese and I am sort of kitbashing them into a new Clinchfield caboose for my layout. I have already taken the working parts from the two kits (some of the detail pairts were broken or missing...

The Atlas handrails are much less expensive, something in the nieghborhood of 2 dollars per complete set for a loco or something if I remember correctly. Mind you that doesn't include shipping . I was seriously thinking of that as a possible second option if my scratchbuilt ones look like...

Fantastic as usual Shaygetz. I enjoy the little "easter eggs" , to use a computing term for little hidden extras, that you come up with. You should get a shot of all your little whimsical bits like this and make a sort of "family photo" of them all .

Shaygetz you never cease to amaze me with your modelling ideas. but a rocket powered delivery truck? Man those LPB's must be hitting that home meade liquid "lubricant" pretty hard. As for my weekend accomplishments , I put some finescale grabs on my MOW flat and on my CSX caboose...

well I work as a security guard at a factory and it get REALLY boring on the graveyard shift there. I took that flat and my CSX caboose and put grabs on both of them. The caboose is still in pieces because it is schedule to be in the paint shop soon to get a repaint in the CSX Stealth scheme...

Well I finally got around to putting some finescale grab irons on some rolling stock. I took some pics to show my MOW Crane and Flat car. The Flat has the irons on it.

Well I woke up to a pleasant surprise today. Mom has discovered how to make groud cover using a cheese grater and florist foam.

So it seems that .015 is the correct size wire for handrails. I was getting the .080 fro Tichy Train Group due to that being the size of the grab irons I just bought and installed on a couple of my rolling stock. I though that .080 was larger than .015 though. I.E. .080, .090...

Well I now have wire grab irons on my soon to be repainted CSX caboose and an Atearn 4 truck flat car. Once I get home from work I will tkes some pic s and make a thread on it.

It looks great. I wish I had kept that old chessie B unit I had now so I could try to do that. It's amazing what you can do with things if you get the notion to do so.

That looks like an F series B unit you have converted for traction. Is that correct or do I need my eyes checked again? Great pics though. Nice layout. Wish mine looked that good.

This is exactly why I used AMI Instant roadbed to lay my track with. That way I can change things as I go along without hqaving to unglue and reglue things numerous times. I waws having the same problem as you in designing a trackplan. I finally just went and bought some flextrack...