It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Thought I would share something different this week. I share a fair amount of my G Scale trains but on the opposite end of the spectrum, I also work in N Scale. I had been developing my city area this past winter. Today I thought I would share an image of it with my Santa Fe steam train running by it. I still have lots of detailing work to do but I am pretty satisfied with how it is coming along so far.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is of the 3rd and last incredibly detailed model built by Herbert Votaw at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The 3 models are all 1 inch scale. This one was built between 1955 and 1958 and took 1850 hours to build. It is a Rio Grande Challenger type locomotive and took 6160 handmade pieces to build. it is 123 inches long. Amazing detailed and beautiful work.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is another of the beautifully detailed models that were at the Colorado Railroad Museum built by Herbert Votaw. This is of a Big Boy, number 4019. The coal in it's tender is from an actual Big Boy as is the sand in it's sand dome. It was built between 1958 and 1962 and took 2050 hours of work! It is 133 inches long and weighs 410 lbs.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! While I was in Colorado this summer I was able to see this beautiful model at the Colorado Railroad Museum. This is a model of Union Pacific locomotive 844. It is a very accurate model and was built by Herbert Votaw between 1958 and 1961 and required 1,848 hours of work and was the 3rd locomotive that he had built. The model consists of 6,720 pieces which were all handmade and is 116 inches long and about 17 inches high and about 11 inches wide. He had crawled all over the actual locomotive to collect information needed. It was really amazing to see.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Once again I am focusing on model trains and my N Scale layout to be exact that I got running again this winter after an, at least, 10 year pause. N scale is pretty small and finicky with how it runs so I got a bit frustrated with it and got interested in the total opposite scale, G. After seeing some things on YouTube of how others get their trains to run well and seeing that my locomotives still worked after sitting idle for so long I decided to try to get it up and running again and it has been very successful. I did just have to redo a section of track this past weekend due to some warping of the board but it is running even better now, I just have to landscape that to get it to look better. The Santa Fe Blue Goose that the hubster got running for me better than when it was new by re-soldering a couple wires on it. The mountain in the rear is not snow, it is just in progress. The town that you can just see a bit of on the left is my current project where I am doing the streets and sidewalks.
I have a video of this locomotive and my diesel on YouTube HERE if you would like to watch. It shows a good share of the layout and has more information in the description about it as well.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! I've gotten back into working on my N Scale layout that I have in the basement after a good 10 years or more. I'm not sure why I stopped for so long, other projects originally I guess, and then the worry that it wouldn't work correctly any longer. Recently we tested several of my locomotives and found that they still ran and one, after some tweaking by the hubster, runs better than when it was new. So that got me motivated to start running and working on it again. Today's image is of my Santa Fe "Blue Goose" set which is the one that runs better than new, by the factory on my layout that is one of the oldest parts on it.
I have a short video Here of the first test run around the layout but it is with my diesel type locomotive and not a steamer. 😅
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is a little different, I have not been anywhere to see real steam trains. 😏 I was out in Pennsylvania a little over a week ago. This was taken at a museum I was at that was one of the most detailed HO (oops it is O Gauge, missed the 3rd rail) layouts I had ever seen. This was at the Antique Auto Club of America in Hershey PA. The layout had a gas station and firehouse that actual had working features like moving garage doors and vehicles It was very cool. This farm scene was quite detailed as well. The steam train was moving so is not the sharpest. 😅
