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I think I've posted this one before, English Electric built the L class electrics for Australia but what if they had found use over here?

Not an F unit, but close.

When I was in my late teens I had a 218 sld turbo as a cheap runaround, white with grey plastic everywhere it looked the blandest thing on the road. However on discovering the engine was actually a Peugeot lump I spent a weekend playing about with the fuel pump and a bodging a turbo from an old 605 on to it. It still looked terrible, but the way it used fly past the local boy racers was priceless.

Looks much better, I love the way the overpass frames the view of the layout.

I think the SD90's have all been rebuilt now. The loco's in that vid look like GE units.

That's a coupler for use with voyagers or pendlinos.

The size of the locomotives is one thing, but the trains they pull can be difficult to grasp till you see one in full...

Might not be to everyone's tastes this one, but here's a quick pic of my modified Benz.

The engine in a 56 which is an evolution of the 16cvst, can be seen lifted out at around the 10 min mark in this vid complete with the alternator. I'll bet that combo is past 30t.

Was this because of older wagon design strength? It seems to have been dropped by the late 70's.

If you want to run an F unit together with newer units look no further than the Penn Central, F7's would regularly be part of multi unit lashups with other locos. Here's a couple good pics: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/714568/ https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0400/pc1482.jpg http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/pc-2383.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/79/0d/0e790d47cfe3e9ad69f5236a325b0031.jpg

If you can wait till the lockdown is lifted take the body shell down to a games workshop store, Citadel paints have a big range of acrylic colors and washes you will find a match from. They are mostly small pots, but the popular colors are also available in rattle cans.

Are you looking for rattle cans or brush paint?

A good idea in a crisis. We've not driven Loco's down the road like that over here, but we have used them as generators at power stations a few times.

Thanks for the link, that website is quite a rabbit hole.

Have a look around Here on google street view.

Hi all, I've recently taken an interest in the LIRR commuter trains of a few years ago. Seems like a great subject for a small layout with their short push pull trains, a gp38 and an old FA unit sandwiching a few coaches. Has anyone here modelled these services? Cheers.

Yep, that's the pic I tried to link to.

There were also wagon turntables in the sheds nearest the running lines. Here is a link to one of the trains passing Stamford brook, a nice manageable size.

Another station worth mentioning is High street Kensington. It had 2 through platforms, 2 terminating platforms, and a substantial coal/goods yard accessed via a double kick back from platform 4. Depending on the period it also had a overall roof, later just platform canopy's. There was also what appears to be a loco siding behind platform 1 for a time. Passenger stock was a little limited, but there were regular short coal trains from the midland region. It has quite a few things in common with minories, though just not the track plan.

Another from the USA. When you think your trying to fit too much on your 6' x 4' board.....

That's excellent, thank you. I never got to see the layout in person, and the station was the part I couldn't find a clear pic of.

I agree, chasing 2 mile freights has no interest for me but things like this I find fascinating. The whole Utica sub division is full of interest, but the brewery with street running ticks all the boxes. For those that haven't seen them here's a couple more vids that show just how tight that curve is, they even have trouble coupling the cars because of it. I've not seen proof, but I'm told an SD40 has been in there.

You could try a thin wash of a sandy color to bring out the mortar courses, then see how the rest looks.

Not to far away is this setrack point and 3rd radius curve.