More Milk cars

I have bought some more milk cars over the past couple of months. Here are some pictures. I am still looking for the 2 TCA cars and a few others. I have a New Haven and NYC that are not pictured becasue i couldn't get a good shot of them on the shelf. If you have a milk car that isn't pictured and you want to sell it for a reasonable price then please email me at e07little@aim.com

So far i havn't had to pay more then $35 each except for the 2 LCCA cars because they arn't easy to find. I also picked up a "Buy War Bonds" railking caboose and an orange one. These are really nice for railking products i think i might get one in CNJ or maybe Leigh Valley if i can find them.

New engines

Sorry i havn't had an update in a while. There are a lot of things that have gone on since my last update. One of them is for my 16th birthday my grandpop got me a K-line C&O Allegheny with TMCC. And i bought a few other engines since then. One of them is a MTH Leigh Valley Camelback with ps2 and a MTH GG-1 with ps2. I picked up both of these off of the OGR forum for under $150. I also had a K-line A-5 with a whistle and i bought one with TMCC off OGR for $175 and sold the one with the whistle for 135. So i pretty much upgraded it for $40. I have aslo started collecting Lionel Milk cars so far i only have 3. But I have a Hoods, Farifield Farms, and a Bordens on the way and I found a NYC and Dairymens at affordable prices. I also found the 2 rare LCCA cars for decent prices but i have yet to make a decision on them since they are so much diffrent from the rest. Here are some pictures of the engines and milk cars. Stay Posted for another update.

First PS2 engine

I got my first PS2 engine the other day, it's great i can't stop playing with it. It is a MTH Railking Decapod. When i was first looking at buying DCS i had no idea that the sounds where this good. Now i am glad i bought it. Heres some pictures.

Weathered freaight cars

I started weathering a few freight cars this week. I finally bought an airbrush its a passache VLS double action brush. I like the double action brush because i think you have more control then you would over a single action brush. I think the Rock Island car looks the best. To do these all i did was verly lightly spray the cat starting from the trucks moving slowly up with dirt. Then i sprayed the trucks and couplers with rust. In the future i want use some of my grimy black. I thought the process was going to be alot harder then it is. It takes me about 10 minutes to do a car. Heres some pictures of my first few cars. I plan to do more soon so i will keep you posted when i do some more cars.

Weathering

I decided i was going to take the plunge into weathering. So the first thing to get the treatment was the track. I found some ZIG painty pens that i used. I am about 3/4 done. I used the clay colored marker. They go on fast and easy only one coat needed. When i finish that I'm going to start weathering my buildings, rolling stock, and if i build up enough courage an engine or two. I just bought an airbrush on ebay and some paints from hobbylinc that arrived today so as soon as the airbrush gets here i will practice a little bit then when i weather my first car i will post pictures here. I think everything has turned out pretty good so far hopefully the rest of the weathering turns out that way as well.

MTH DCS

Well I finaly bought a control system. Only not the one I thought I would end up buying. I bought the DCS system from MTH. The main reason i bought it is because with the new DCS 4.0 upgrade coming out i can get almost all of the features out of a tmcc engine. And i can run TMCC in command mode as well as PS2 engines. As of right now I do not own a PS2 engine but from what I hear the TMCC steam sounds are better and the PS2 diesel sounds are better so I am looking forward to being able to runing both. I plan to get a PS2 engine very soon probably within the next couple of weeks. When i get one i will post it on hear.