Portable Transformer car part 2

Cut a section off a Bachmann 50' box car and added insulators.

Boiler House Part 1

Pictures of a boiler house I am working on.

Portable Transformer car part 1

Had a good friend send me a picture of a portable transformer car. Found it to be pretty neat so I started planning. Here is what I come up with so far.



Locomotive Maintenance Part 3

Here the start of the asp pit and the water tower. I keep putting off the ash pit due to having to cut a small hole in the layout but once that was done it turned out pretty good.

Locomotive Maintenance Part 2

Got to work on the locomotive terminal a little more. Started the diesel fuel storage tank. Used an older Bachmann tanker and Walthers piping. The building is from a Bachmann kit but I don't remember the name of it. Also did piping on the sanding tower.

Locomotive Maintenance Part 1

Started redoing my locomotive terminal for the past week so far this is what I have got completed.

Sanding Rack started out as an Atlas covered hopper that I got off eBay with a couple locomotives. It had some damage, and details were broken off. In June 2011 issue Model Railroader author Kazuo Terasawa did an article on kit-bashing a Modern Sand Tower. Since that article, I have been wanting to build one like it.

From the kit, I removed the grab irons some of the couple pockets and build a frame out of Plastruct material that the car could sit it. I then added handrails, roof vents, and piping.

I also detailed the coaling tower. Since I had the kit one thing about it I didn't like was the ladders. I am modeling between the 70s and 80s and I felt like they needed cages around them. I added Plastruct cage ladders. It took more then what I thought it would but I like how they look.

Next build is an asp pit, water tower(scratch built), and a diesel fuel storage tank (built from old tank car)

Found a picture of the Trix BOF Vessel before I painted it. Also pictured is ladles from Brandon Wehe and the ladles that come with the Walthers Electric Furnace.