From Peggy and me, to all our friends on Big Blue:

   

It's 6:45AM and right on time the eastbound CNR Continental pulls into the station at Leetown .While passengers are enjoying a leisurely breakfast in the dining car it's all business on the head end .Leetown is an important transfer location where locomotives and crews are changed and today U1A 6043 will take over for U1F 6060.Later in the day the same operation will take place with the westbound Continental which usually has U2G Northerns as the power.Needless to say the yard is usually full of rail-fanners catching this daily ritual.

I scratchbuilt this reefer after some drawings I found online. It's almost finished...
At the point of getting the paint and decals on. B)
I don't know how exact it matches the real deal in color and details, but I'm quite satisfied with it.
I found some Grandt line trucks that I'm using on this one.






Now some very light weathering and installing the couplers.

Hello,

On the US-Convention in Rodgau, Hessen, Germany was a swapmeet and i found an old Roundhouse caboose kit, painted but unlettered and priced at 5.00 Euros. O.k. what can you do with it? Still having too few cabooses in my rolling stock, so i purchased it. At a first glance this my become a fine stand in caboose for D&RGW. Yes there are D&RGW cabeese ready available, but all of them are narrow gauge. Here am standard gauge minded and there is simply nothing for the steam aera available.


This was in the kit box and i added some addional and replacement parts also. There are 4 Intermountals wheelsets, 2 Kadee scale couplers and their appropiate boxes, 2 channels for the new side sills, a Herald King Decal Set for Rio Grande caboose, some small parts for brake equipment and some more.





I started with the cupola and enlarged the windows.

Dock Street's leased loco SJEX 1546 unloads the float.

Bruce

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LMS 700, a C40-8W, heads up coal train WPCA-31x thru Chestnut Neck.

Bruce

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Amtrak heritage unit No. 184 at the Empire Builder in Brookfield, Wis.:

Amtrak184BrookfieldWI2-11-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


MAX light rail in Portland, Ore.:

82ndMAX1PortlandOR3-15-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Amtrak Empire Builder departing Portland Union Station:

Amtrak189PortlandOR3-15-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Albany & Eastern Winterail 2017 excursion:

AERC2501WideLebanonOR3-17-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Portland & Western switching in Albany, Ore.:

WPRR1501WideAlbanyOR3-17-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


MAX light rail in Portland:

LloydCenter5PortlandOR3-19-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Norfolk Southern heritage unit on Canadian National in Wisconsin:

NS8098Curve3HamiltonWI6-27-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


New Siemens Charger at Milwaukee:

IDTX4620EngineerMilwaukeeWI8-26-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Indianapolis Union Station and Lucas Oil Stadium:

CSX737IndianapolisIN9-17-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Sunrise over downtown Indianapolis:

UP8227IndianapolisIN9-20-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Sunrise on Wyoming's Powder River Basin:

UP7494BridgeBillWY10-1-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Union Pacific coal loads in Wyoming:

UP5414Signals2DouglasWY10-1-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


BNSF coal loads in Wyoming:
BNSF9225BillWY10-1-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Sunset on downtown Cincinnati:

CSX2416CincinnatiOH10-5-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


Amtrak's 2017 Autumn Express excursion at Rhinecliff, N.Y.:

Amtrak145RhinecliffNY10-15-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr


NJ Transit at Harrison, N.J.:

NJTR4625HarrisonNJ10-16-17 by Brian Schmidt, on Flickr

My hard drive finally died of old agea few weeks ago, and to make matters worse, it was one of those multi-terabyte ones so a ton of data, sites, passwords and everything else was locked up inside a dead brain.

Paid a lot of money to the "experts" to resurrect it, and after buying a new hard drive, paying all that money for "data transference" and waiting for a lightning bolt to revive my computer...almost no data left. :cry:

Finally got back here, though, so all is good after all.