Have for sale an HO P2K Santa Fe GP30 #1261 w/ a Soundtraxx decoder (non sound). It was renumbered by me plus it has a can antenna & the horns over the engineer (2 bells) & fireman (1bell). This was done to make it for the early Santa Fe pin stripe era. The engine runs very well AND quietly. Bought it w/ only the front headlight which is OK by me as the real RRs don't change headlight direction for reversing. If you don't want 1261 have 3 other shells (1234,1241 & 1243). It comes w/ the P2K box & paperwork.

       
   

Selling this for $50.00 plus postage from 907016. In the box it weighs 1 1/2 lb. so it will have to go USPS Priority Mail. Preferred payment is thru PayPal using my email addy (<!-- e --><a href="mailto:lajrmdlr@gmail.com">lajrmdlr@gmail.com</a><!-- e --> &. using "family & friends) or money order..If making an offer, please include your zip code to figure your postage. If you have any questions about this item &/or shipping please email me at the above addy.Thanks for looking

In spring i won an e-bay auction of an old Balboa H0 Scale model of an ATSF 4-4-2.








This is what came out of the box. A pretty clean and straight model. Although it was made in the early 1960's, i believe Balboa released this model 1964, it has boiler backhead, cab floor and brake shoes.


And this is what i have in my mind with Santa Fe passenger trains:
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The whole train, a consist of only two cars. This in my opinion much more friendly, at least to your wallet, to model Santa Fe passenger operations than a 15-car consist of the Super Chief with ABBA power at the front end. And on every Fremo modular meeting at least somebody has brought along a ABBA combo in ATSF warbonnet livery and a matching 10+ car consist.
Yes of course the Super Chief is much more impressive, but the daily local has a style of it's own.

This Atlantics started life as 4 cylinder balanced compound engines with the main rods linked to the fist pair of drivers:
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This was the first appereance of the Class 1480 Atlantics of the Santa Fe.
Note backward mounted linkage of the valve gear. This created the nickname of "Bull Moose" of this locomotive class. Further outside mounted steam pipes and third dome.
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Some years later Santa Fe's shops simplified the engines to 2 cylinder simple expansion. The engine was shortened, new cylinder blocks, the main rods linked to the second pair of drivers and gone were the ouside pipes and the third dome.
In this form they lasted until the very end of steam on the Santa Fe. The last soldiered on until 1953.

The Balboa model is a reproduction of the modernised Class 1480 Atlantics and fits well im my time frame of 1940's and early 1950's model railroading.
This is what i get and have had paid for. The next steps will be to make a 1960's model run like a 2010's model.

Lutz

What do you guys use as a gap filler for the corners(plastic buildings) that sometimes just don't meet up the way there suppose to?

Mark

Hi there,
I want to say helly from Germany.I´m new to this forum but not so new to modelrailroad building.I started some years ago with my first layout in the basement of our house in 2009 but never finished it. Started over in 2011 with a complete redo but haven´t changed the timeperiod and location of it.So now I´m building the British Columbia Railway Dawson Creek Subdivision in the early 70´s shortly after the namechange from Pacific Great Eastern to British Columbia Railway.More details of the construction will be posted on my building thread...I´m building in H0 Scale.
I´m into modelbuilding since some years but most of it was 1:24/25 US-Cars and Trucks and some Dioramas and also some 1:35 scale military modeling...
Someone on another forum gave me a link to this site, fantastic things going on here....great layouts and all type of railroad stuff to look at....

Kind Regards,Chris

I'm still converting over to another paint from my old reliable Polly Scale. So I picked up a few basic colors of Tru Colors at one of my LHS'. I used the black(basic) to paint an old Varney tender(tender was previously primed with Tru Colors paint) I have for a 4-6-2 project I'm working on. When the tender was painted and dried I used blue masking tape for a straight edge for some dry transfer letters. When the lettering was complete, I went to remove the tape and found the masking pulling the paint off. Has this happened to any one else with Tru Colors paint? Any input is appreciated.


Mark

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This one appears to have "double posted" The time of post is identical for both, as is the content. I'm a bit reluctant to delete one of the two, on the grounds that it may delete both.
Maybe if I knew a bit more about the board's software, I'd be able to figure it out.
Pete

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Charlie