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What is the PC&NP? Lore Dump
This post consists of a rather large lore drop for the fictional railroad that will occupy my layout. There is quite a bit of creative liberties taken with the lore, including some re-writing of history.
The PC&NP is a fictional North Dakota-based class 2 railroad founded in 2010 by the merging of three Class 3 railroads—The Pioneer Central and…
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Layout update!
I planted all of the trees and now the next step is to ballast all of the track.
afterwards I will focus on installing the signals and I am looking forward to keep making my layout more realistic everyday!
Greetings Oscar 🙋🏼♂️
Founder Model Train Media
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Another Layout Update
Heylo and Happy Monday everyone!
I have another update on the layout, got the foam fully cut and laid out so now i just need to glue the pieces together and make sure they stay all flat.
I also got a bunch more track from my local hobby shop Colonial Photo & Hobby to get even close to the full layout track plan, here’s some pictures of it all,…
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New Switcher
I received this BLI NYO&W NW2 switcher as a late Christmas gift from my brother. The NYO&W abandon operations in 1957, so now I have backdate a little bit and ‘build’ a train for it to pull and switch. Our father was a huge O&W fan. I’m thinking a simple local. Finding a caboose is going to be a challenge as Atlas is the only company to produce…
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Coupler Identification Help
Hit the local train shop this week and got a few cars, they are a mix of brands (Atlas, Bachmann, Life Like) but all have a coupler I haven’t seen before. These are rigid knuckle couplers that snap together by pushing the cars together and they release by pulling the cars apart. Can anyone identify them?
I assumed they were MTLs (or…
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New additions
Centralia Car Shops GN BSB Coach for my Amtrak Rainbow Era fleet. The other cars are all RailSmith for my version of PRR’s South Wind and Southern’s Royal Palm.
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My friend came to run trains today and we did this
Of course, we had to put all our BN/BNSF locomotives in a lashup and then have it run with my GN empire builder.
The F7s, SD70ACe, and ES44AC are mine. The GP30 and both C44-9Ws are my friends.
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Newest addition to the Amtrak Rainbow Era Fleet
GN Big Sky Blue 56-seat coach. Centralia Car Shops, N-Scale
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Weathered Tropicana reefers. Yeah these have no business being on my layout (out of era and location) but sometimes you just gota run what you wanna run, ya know
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Modules
Here is my ‘NO Dumping’ / Tucker Creek, Pennsylvania and Fischer Street Viaduct modules. ‘NO Dumping’ is a combined Single Bridge and Single Straight with a 2mm spacer between them to give the standard Double length. The viaduct is a Single Arch Bridge. All modules are from Klawndyke’s.
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