PRR J1 6170 with a hot consist of perishable produce and meat overtakes a coal train early in the 50's.     Charlie

CP Rail makes its' way into Rail Port.

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I just read that we have lost a great railroad friend. Jerry Joe Jacobson passed away yesterday.
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Charlie.

My first attempt at making something complex...

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Kevin

Hello everyone---like many others I lost all my Photobucket pictures so I've had to start again.I'm now using Flickr so here we go with Part 4 of pictures from my hometown---hope you enjoy.

Here are a pair of Mt Hood units I recently completed for the Mt Hood Model Engineers, a club I belong to.

First one is a good ol' Atlas "yellow box" RS11. I picked it up for only $25 from our local Mecca, The Hobby Smith. It had never been used and she will get used extensively now. Colors are Floquil and decals custom made by Rail Graphics.



This second one was an unused Atlas/Roco S2 donated to us. I still had one of the discontinued NCE decoders to install in this puppy. This is our new Clackamas Yard switcher and she will see lots of action in that location.

Sadly, I did not get pics, but I am working on getting some pics together of the equipment I saw used to add to this thread a little later, but I wanted to share because it was quite interesting. The industry consisted of a single office, with a couple of company trucks next to the office, one track full of probably 20 covered hoppers, and several trucks with covered hopper trailers. To unload the hoppers in to the trailers, there was a small, mobile conveyor belt (like what you'd see for aggregate or something similar) which, when not in use, was parked alongside the tracks, and when in use, was moved under the hopper with the taller end over top of the trailer. When the trailer was full, the truck pulled away and another took its place.

I think this would be quite easy to model and would be an easy way to add most any sort of covered hopper-based industry to your layout. You wouldn't have to have so much in front of the cars, it would be quite easy to spot one or two hoppers on a short spur (or even on the main, which is a practice I have still seen in use today on short lines that only run one train or so at any given time) with a conveniently placed mobile conveyor belt to give an indication of what takes place there, a very small office and truck, and a waiting tractor trailer to be unloaded in to.

I ran in to this while driving in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania (the totally unironic name of an actual group of mountains here), and was unable to take any pictures since my camera was totally dead.

... on its way for finishing!

Long time, near to ten years, this old coal tower project waited for continuing.



This was the last condition as a friend sold his US-modules with a planned steam loco museum and changed to British modeling. With this the need of finishing the coal tower was lost.
But now, some months ago our friend's group of US modelers here in the area could acquire these modules and the former station awake now to new life including the railroad museum with the coal tower. The work could start again! And here are some pictures of progress.

Compleating the stair ways.

Adding handrails.

An overview about the coal tower.





The roof tiler are on work and they are short for finishing. However that's not the end of this project!



This is an older view on our station Shelbyville with the railroad museum. Now a new modele is added for lengthened the station and museum and you see the free area on background where the coaltower will obtain its place for the steam locos which will be in service with historic tourist trains. A water tower will be added yet and so a whole fleet of steam locos can run also in combination with modern traction.

This is one of my recent completions for my railroad, Wishram Oregon & Western.
Here is the latest from the Wishram paint shoppes, an older Athearn GP7. I actually detailed this humperdill over 20 years ago and did not get around to finishing her til this August. When detailing, I did not feel like going through the trouble of lowering the high hood. Ahhh well. During the latest process, the old Athearn motor was replaced with one from Canon. I took the scintered iron wheels and polished 'em up considerably and she runs very well. The paint is Floquil which I still have a fair amount on hand. Decals are a mixture of Gary Collins, MS, Champ and Highball. The shot was taken in Milwaukie on the Mt Hood RR.