Weathering Rolling Stock

Weathered several pieces of rolling stock this past week. Several more to go, but the list of unweathered cars is shrinking.

Weathering Locomotives

I weathered the last two locomotives for the OASIS District layout. No more shiny plastic!

Operating the OASIS District Layout

This past weekend, I operated the layout and put together a video of a typical operating session on the OASIS District layout. I use car cards and waybills for routing cars on and off the layout.

Tom

New Power at Fourth Street Yard

A big "thank you" to Mike Kieran for sending me a replacement GE 70 tonner after the gears cracked on my old Bachmann unit.

I swapped out the replacement unit red shell with the extra green shell I removed from my other working GE 70 tonner. That unit now sports the weathered green shell from the broken motor unit. I applied my custom Owensville Terminal decals to the loco, and it looks like it's fresh from the paint shop.

GE 70 tonners No. 71 and 70 pose for a photo at Fourth Street Yard in Owensville, Missouri.