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Out of simple idle curiosity, how old are you?

Montrealrail, that's the old Bachmann 4-8-4 from their standard line. It's based off of an ATSF 4-8-4. Their CN version lacks the Santa Fe prototype smokestack extender, and Bachmann used their UP-prototype Vandy tender, which ironically is actually very, very close to a CN tender. The new 2-8-4 owe...

That's OK, Bob, I understand "typical gramatically challenged txtspk". To the OP: Well, I'll tell you right now that they'll look very good, but the old Alco Models drives quite literally sound like coffee grinders at full-tilt. No sound decoder for any electric ever built will be audible ...

Welcome to high school - it's a fact of life.

All I can offer is that it's best to just suck it up, and accept that there will always be people who don't like you. But that's their problem.

I wish I was 18 again. Oh, the things I'd do different.

The MEC GP38s were some of the very first GP38s built. They date to 1966 and originally had oil-bath air filters, and were later retrofitted with PAF boxes.

Old post, I know. The S&L RS-1s were of ex-Minneapolis & St. Louis and Soo Line heritage. This is why the steam loco-style bell was installed on some of the units - it was an M&St.L modification. To accomodate the bell, the walkway over the fan housing was offset from the middle to the f...

If you're talking brass traction models, there's a 90% or better chance that it's Ed Suydam & Co.

Sounds like you found the motherlode.

I do remember Fyr-Pruf stove polish. Ya gotta be able to remember cast iron stoves to know what it's for! Former Model Railroader editor John Page related a story back in the 1980s about when he was editor in the 1950s and an article came up about painting brass and metal casting locomotives. Actin...

Very, very nice job! I'm originally from Nova Scotia and, during the 1980s and 1990s, would visit my grandparents every year in Halifax/Dartmouth. I sometimes saw the prototype SWEEPs switching cars at the Halifax yards. Your model certainly possesses the SWEEP flavor even though it's not 100% proto...

Nope. Plastic shell, upgraded Stewart drive, new Dofasco trucks. We're not far from an M636.

Are you running it on DC? You may need to place the jumper plug in the correct position.

Hmm. The companies that offer, or have offered, an HO scale RS3 are the following: Atlas/Kato (1980s - 1990s) Atlas Classic (still offered, same as Atlas/Kato but with better paint, metal grab irons and thinner handrails) Athearn Ready-To-Run (current offering, upgraded improved Roundhouse tooling) ...

First - this thread is two years old.

Secondly - IHC went out of business in November. They're done, shuttered, gone with the wind.

Hi Randy,

Yeah, I know - I'm just poking a little fun. I like your C430 - lotta work went into that one.

A plastic C430 has existed in HO since 1966: