Dan,
The name for your RR is very interesting--I recently stripped the
lettering off an entire passenger train lettered for the Allegheny and
Northern! Through several detours/owners I obtained a 5 car passenger
train of Kinsman wooden passenger cars plus Hood's milk reefer. The
entire train and several more in-progress cars were built by a Ron Koch
from up your way someplace! It's too bad he apparently got out this
part of the hobby because you two could have run some kind of
interchange traffic.
Very good looking stuff--the hopper looks convincing.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
Well. I hit send before I had finished the message, so here is the
entire message:
A few weeks ago I shared photos my my first passenger equipment
lettered for the Allegheny Western (see my website at
www.AlleghenyWesternSub.com <http://www.AlleghenyWesternSub.com> for
background on the ficticious history of the Allegheny Western Railway).
Attached is another photo showing the Allegheny Western freight
scheme, applied to an S Helper USRA hopper.
One additional photo shows some American Models GP-35's that were just
placed in service. These units were purchased from the original S
Helper Service offering, I think about 20 years ago!! After I had
switched to DCC, these units just sat in their boxes, because I was
not yet ready to do a full redetailing job on them.
This year, I decided that it was crazy to just let these units sit in
the boxes, so I got them up and running with a minimal upgrade
program: I painted the trucks and fuel tanks an off-black color,
painted the handrails the correct colors, added Don's numberboard
decals, installed Tsunami sound decoders and LED headlights. Later, I
will add light weathering, and possible add MU hoses if I can find an
appropriate HO part for this.
They look much better running on the layout than sitting in their boxes.
Dan Vandermause
Ellicott City, MD
