trisonic Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 No doubt some of them work better in "real life", Craig. New York State have an advert on local TV saying they built the first railroad in North America - no wonder New Jerseyites get up in arms! Having watched American railroad models for way too long with varying degrees of interest (since the late sixties) it has always seemed that Pennsy and NYC had the lion's share of models (though not so much lately) that's why it was a surprise. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Results of the poll - thanks to the 44 who voted NS1065 - Savannah & Atlanta (6 votes [5.71%]) NS1066 - New York Central (2 votes [1.90%]) NS1067 - Reading (6 votes [5.71%]) NS1068 - Erie (2 votes [1.90%]) NS1069 - Virginian (4 votes [3.81%]) NS1070 - Wabash (7 votes [6.67%]) NS1071 - Jersey Central (8 votes [7.62%]) NS1072 - Illinois Terminal (11 votes [10.48%]) = 2ND PLACE NS1073 - Penn Central (3 votes [2.86%]) NS1074 - Lackawanna (6 votes [5.71%]) NS8025 - Monongahela (1 votes [0.95%]) NS8098 - Conrail (2 votes [1.90%]) NS8099 - Southern (16 votes [15.24%]) = 1ST PLACE NS8100 - Nickel Plate (3 votes [2.86%]) NS8101 - Central of Georgia (6 votes [5.71%]) NS8102 - Pennsylvania (2 votes [1.90%]) NS8103 - Norfolk & Western (3 votes [2.86%]) NS8104 - Lehigh Valley (5 votes [4.76%]) NS8105 - Interstate (10 votes [9.52%]) = 3RD PLACE NS8114 - Norfolk Southern (2 votes [1.90%]) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Deserved winners! Interstate was a surprise (to many?) - I think its appeal is that it looks like a classy very modern livery. Personally I'm pleased to see the Jersey Central Royal Blue/Tangerine so popular! I only voted once too..... It's loud and larey. Many thanks for taking the time to do this, Martyn! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 No probs. Good to see they all got one vote as well, I thought for a while the Monongahela one would look totally unloved! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I liked it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 From comments on the Illinirail list they are starting to wander nicely as well, countering my earlier worry that they would all end up stuck in the mountains on Eastern coal service - the Reading and Lehigh Valley units have just been to Dilworth MN on BNSF, the LV worked back to NS directly, the RDG then seems to have gone down BNSF's river line to Kansas City to connect back to NS as seen here (link doesn't work embedded - please click) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGL-Yc02gA Earlier both had been WAY out west - seen here in Colorado headed for Montana! http://youtu.be/uRw_BkgDZhM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEngineShed Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Earlier both had been WAY out west - seen here in Colorado headed for Montana! So much for the predictions that they wouldn't stray off NS for a couple of years... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Earlier both had been WAY out west - seen here in Colorado headed for Montana! Yea!!! I now have an excuse for getting at least one to run on Essex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 The Lehigh Valley engine came thru here yesterday as the trailing engine in a set of three on a grain train. A friend works for NS...just got a text that he's got the engine in the yard at Selma NC and is using it as the switcher! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 And I managed to get the LV on the return trip...it's on the point of train 847, an empty coal train returning from the Progress Energy power plant at Goldsboro, NC. It's heading back up to Roanoke or Williamson, VA. Here's it's tied down in the siding at Clayton, North Carolina. One crew (with my friend the engineer/driver) went on duty around 11 am today, took the engines light from Selma NC to the power plant and brought the train back to Clayton, arriving at 3:15 pm. Another crew is called for around midnight and will take the train a good bit of the way to Roanoke. No, I don't understand the work rules either! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 1, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2012 Yea!!! I now have an excuse for getting at least one to run on Essex. They are going to be seen running along the California Coast aswell (as soon as Fox Valley get them produced)!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Athearn talks about it's upcoming run of heritage SD70ACEs (yay) and AC4400s (booo!) http://youtu.be/vodo2OXdCFc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I managed to pickup today the special edition of Trains magazine covering these locos, I've only had a quick flick through yet but it looks like £3.60 well spent. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2012 Stewart Wais it on sale in Smiths? Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I managed to pickup today the special edition of Trains magazine covering these locos, I've only had a quick flick through yet but it looks like £3.60 well spent. Stewart Was that the one with the photo of them outside a roundhouse on the front cover? It looked very impressive, but I have spent my mag. money this week Ed. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I hope I'm not contravening any copyright here, but we seem to see magazine covers quite regularly; if I am I apologise. I bought it in my local newsagents in Chatteris (Cambs), a small shop with a far bigger selection of railway mags than any other shop I've seen with the exception of Ian Allan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Stewart, Just a link would be safer, please. Unless you've asked them in writing and they have agreed, of course. There's also a spread in my favourite proto magazine the North East's :"Railpace Newsmagazine". Link: http://www.railpace.com/ Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2012 Found the magazine after looking in quite a few Smiths from London to Scotland...eventually found it in the centre of Aberdeen! Excellent mag but will have to wait to read it in the morning as beer is calling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2012 Stewart, Just a link would be safer, please. Unless you've asked them in writing and they have agreed, of course. Pete, you are quite safe under copyright law as you are allowed to show a picture and an extract of text for review purposes. What you say in the review might be challenged if it misrepresented what was in it or wasn't true. I've done this with books and even been contacted by the author to say thanks for an honest, and obviously positive, review. Super edition of Trains and a nice story behind it, I like that UP did a modern interpretation and NS chose the most faithful reproduction possible as it shows what if those lines had survived in a couple of ways. Personally I thought the Virginian and NYC looked stunning even though I am a Pennsy fan. I also seriously considered ordering some Rio Grande ones from the UP liveries to have a what if Rio Grande had survived model collection. Fortunately reality dawned when I saw the prices Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEngineShed Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 If you have a card you can order direct from the Kalmbach. It is one dollar more to the UK than the US mail order price. Geez, I wish the UK mags offered such deals coming this way... http://trn.trains.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 If you have a card you can order direct from the Kalmbach. It is one dollar more to the UK than the US mail order price. Geez, I wish the UK mags offered such deals coming this way... http://trn.trains.com/ And the service is superb - usually arriving on or around release date and weeks before the UK shops. Mine arrived a while back but been so busy with new job and other non-railroad interests I have done no more than glance at it. Added to the growing pile of US mags waiting for when I get some free time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjgardiner Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I also seriously considered ordering some Rio Grande ones from the UP liveries to have a what if Rio Grande had survived model collection. Fortunately reality dawned when I saw the prices Yeah, i have had the same sensation with the NS Heritage Fleet, i love the look of the Wabash locomotive, and Wabash ran through Southern Ontario, while maybe someday when i build a full layout i could justify some Wabash F-units, the price certainly will be keeping me away from a snazzy modern interpretation of their units. If you have a card you can order direct from the Kalmbach. It is one dollar more to the UK than the US mail order price. Geez, I wish the UK mags offered such deals coming this way... I'd be happy if The Railway Mag finally got into the 21st century and had either a working phone number (for some reason every year i have to email and get an alternate number as the published one doesn't work from any phone i have access to) or a website where i could renew online!! I blame Canada Post for most of my problems with my UK mags, they get mangled by posties or take forever arriving. Normally i get mine well after the publication date, but usually a bit before they hit the bookstore shelves, and while the overseas subscription rate may be a lot higher than the UK rate, it's still a lot lower than the cover price at Chapters Bookstores!! -Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 1069 (Virginian) has got as far as Pasco in Washington State...! (then returned east on a M-PASLAU). It'd have been good to see it venture onto Stevens Pass or at Black River Jn, both locations previously being electrified. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 The ITC and WAB units have been in Missouri working employee specials TnT with NKP765 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=408707&nseq=5 Wabash 'Back to the Future' shot... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=408938&nseq=0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Wabash 'Back to the Future' shot... http://www.railpictu...d=408938&nseq=0 Looking at the curves in the paintwork on the front of those units - they really have made a great effort to get it right on the 'heritage' unit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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