Trying like crazy to come back into the hobby!

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I'm trying like crazy to come back into the hobby of Model Railroading, though there have been two setbacks as of late. One which I posted about was when I had some of my engine collection stolen from me. No work yet on those, probably never see them again unless I buy replacements. One of which was a very special one for me as the real thing sits at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, MD, the American Freedom Train #1 (i had the PCM Model)

2nd was I lost my job so i would be unable to fund the hobby.

3rdly and what kinda is helping me back into the hobby was I lost my last pup of the three I had. Had to have him put to sleep back on November 4th. I say its helping me get back into the hobby as now it gave me a project to do, which you can see below. I did a funeral train for Sarah, the first one i lost, Did the casket coach and engine for Purdy, 2nd dog i lost, and now i have the engine done for Elvis's train. I'm aiming at using old Roundhouse old timeFlatcar kits as they are of the old time stuff and come with stuff to make em into gondolas.


Sarah's is painted B&O Blue to be like the later versions of the President Class Pacifics on the B&O, Purdy's is painted Pullman Green to be like the most known version of the President Class Pacifics on the B&O and Elvis's is black and will have freight cars converted into service as a funeral train. The whole idea for this came from the Lincoln Funeral Train.


Pic of the engines and casket cars, as you can see Purdy's is a AHM/Rivarossi coach but the interior(yes it has an interior) has been modified to fit a casket stand etc, Elvis's car isn't started yet, and Sarah's is a Bachmann Open Air Excursion Car. it too has a casket, preacher, and 2 mourners.


Detail of the inside of Sarah's casket coach, she so far is the only one with a full train of 4 cars, 2 Open Air cars, 2 Rivarossi/AHM old time coaches w/ interiors



Interior of Purdys coach, see next post for more another project i finally painted up and finished.

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

B&O GS4 which i finally decided to finish up.




B&O Snow Removal train....baggage car is there to act as a weight, and as well as a GE45 Tonner which will be primarly a yard goat.



Carolowood Pacific Coach, i did two of these for the Lilly Bell to pull from the Carolwood Pacific train set Bachmann released a few years ago.