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Monthly Archives: October 2010
… And Finished
Here's the display case, coated with polyurethane and mounted on the wall. The trains have moved into their new home 🙂 and all that remains is to get the sliding glass doors.
Display Case — Completed
Well, almost! 🙂 All of the machining is done, almost all of the sanding, it's glued-up and the back panel has been cut to size and attached. All that needs to be done is final touch-up sanding by hand (to … Continue reading
Display Case
Following my own directions for Display Case Construction, 🙂 I'm building another small display case that will go on the wall and will hold some of my passenger cars. This will enable me to move locomotives that have just been … Continue reading
The Big Green Fleet
I've done this before, by request, but never in True HD 1080p! Here's my entire Big Green Fleet, the Great Northern (GN) Z-6 Challenger (4-6-6-4) in the lead, followed by the R-2 Chesapeake (2-8-8-2), with the S-2 Northern (4-8-4) bringing … Continue reading
A Very Heavy, Heavy Freight Hauler
The Great Northern (GN) R-2, a 2-8-8-2 articulated steam locomotive was a real brute of the rails and this MTH Premier model which came out in 2001 is a very good representation of the prototype. With a loaded tender, these … Continue reading
From Bygone Days on the IRT
In 2005, MTH produced this RailKing model of the New York City subway Lo-V cars. These were low voltage cars (hence the name Lo-V) that were manufactured between 1916 and 1924 for use on the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) system. … Continue reading
A Blast From The Past, Part 6
I thought I was finished shooting the original Protosound (PS1) locomotives that I refer to as the "oldies but goodies" but I totally forgot about this one, sitting undisturbed in a display case for at least the last ten years. … Continue reading
The World’s Fair Subway
Though I was quite young, I still remember taking the subway with my parents to Times Square and changing for the #7 train, the IRT Flushing line, to the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. And I remember these … Continue reading
Double-Headed GG1’s!
If one GG1 is good, and two GG1's are better, then how much better are two GG-1's running double-headed? (^_^) Here are both of my GG1's running together, pulling an extra-long passenger train made up of 18 heavyweight cars, quite … Continue reading
The Slant Nosed Subway
I remember well when these slant-nosed futuristic R40 subway cars showed up on the F train — the Culver line on McDonald Ave. — in Brooklyn in the mid to late 1960's. Originally, it was quite dangerous to move between … Continue reading
A Second GG1!
In my previous GG1 videos, I've shown my older GG1 which came out in 1997 and which I converted from PS1 to PS2 some years afterward. I recently acquired a GG1 that came out in 2006 which came with PS2 … Continue reading
The First IND Subway Cars
In 2005, MTH brought out a Premier line model of the New York City's Independent Subway (IND) R1 cars. These were the first cars that were ordered for the IND, the city owned and operated subway that was built in … Continue reading
