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Post by texrail on Dec 24, 2018 7:40:32 GMT -5
The train is a mix of AZL, MTL and the wonderful cars from Marsilius. I painted them in "Jenks blue".   I couldn´t wait for AZLs lightwights. Sorry Rob & Hans. But I expect matching cars for the MoPac E 8 anyway. A Merry Christmas to all of You! |
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Post by cwrr on Dec 24, 2018 10:11:32 GMT -5
Great lookin' train!!
Merry Christmas!!
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Post by Commodore on Dec 24, 2018 18:38:48 GMT -5
Good photo, Ingo. I'm becoming familiar with the area...
Looking forward to more views of West Texas trains there in the coming new year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years
Rory
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Post by Rob Albritton on Dec 25, 2018 0:23:59 GMT -5
I couldn´t wait for AZLs lightwights. Sorry Rob & Hans. But I expect matching cars for the MoPac E 8 anyway. A Merry Christmas to all of You! There nothing to prevent you from picking up some of our lightweights when released. I think you will find them a very nice compliment to your Jenks Blue painted Marsilius cars. And Merry Christmas to you too! |
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Post by texrail on Dec 26, 2018 10:30:54 GMT -5
Mail trains are an underestimated spice for every schedule! This one is composed with rolling stock from MTL, PennZee and AZL. I contains only SP- and REA- cars! It illustrates impressively the big variety of z scale material to a specific topic in the meantime. The coming AZL lightwights will be an excellent addition!   |
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Post by texrail on Dec 26, 2018 10:39:25 GMT -5
Two other shots from the mailtrain. It shows how colourfull such a train can be. And " No", the daylights in the middle are not misplaced, the are leftovers from the former TNO ( 100% SP subsiduary ), which ran the "sunbeam" in daylight colours between Dallas and Houston.    Best wishes, Ingo |
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Post by texrail on Dec 27, 2018 13:09:07 GMT -5
Thanks, cwrr! Terrible "night shots", but the best I could do with my smartphone  Best regards, Ingo |
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Post by cwrr on Dec 28, 2018 10:19:57 GMT -5
Thanks, cwrr! Terrible "night shots", but the best I could do with my smartphone Best regards, Ingo Not so much "night shots", just a big cloud going overhead! |
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Post by texrail on Jan 13, 2019 13:28:16 GMT -5
The Argonaut ( SP train 3 & 4) on it´s way through west Texas:   Motive power is from AZL and MTL (F7 dummy), the cars are from AZL, Marklin, MTL and Marsilius ( now MTL ). |
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Post by texrail on Jan 13, 2019 13:43:07 GMT -5
A short look into the future shows my next project: Allamore/Tx. and Van Horn/ Tx. staging ( inside the backdrop). It reveals also my (hopefully) only sinn for this mainline: the radii are the "normal" marklin radii and not my preferred 49 cm, and above. But this was the only way for me to create a reverse loop and a 3 track staging for the T&P. As I´m dreaming from a T&P Texas-Type 2-10-4 , made out of a Marklin Mikado, these radii might be a challange. The SP part of my layout will continue with wide radii from Atlas flextrack.   |
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Post by markm on Jan 14, 2019 21:14:05 GMT -5
I love looking at long trains and these are definitely appropriate.
As you may have noticed I enjoy collecting trivial details of the UP, SP and WP.
Your Argonaut trains 3 & 4 confuse me. From my sources the train is generally described as all heavyweight in Olive Green very much like the AZL Sunset Limited set. The "Sunset" paint scheme wasn't implemented system wide until 1958, about the same time trains 3 & 4 were terminated. So I was wondering what references you used as I feel like I may be missing something.
Mark
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Post by texrail on Jan 15, 2019 3:34:53 GMT -5
I love looking at long trains and these are definitely appropriate. As you may have noticed I enjoy collecting trivial details of the UP, SP and WP. Your Argonaut trains 3 & 4 confuse me. From my sources the train is generally described as all heavyweight in Olive Green very much like the AZL Sunset Limited set. The "Sunset" paint scheme wasn't implemented system wide until 1958, about the same time trains 3 & 4 were terminated. So I was wondering what references you used as I feel like I may be missing something. Mark Mark, you are absolutely right! I should have said "MY Argonaut", because the Argonaut was already dicontinued between L.A. and Houston in 1958. So, a ML-4000 could never pull the Argonaut. Of course, I have the AZL Sunset train set, but in my mind, it is reseved for a SP 4 - 8 -4 (which I don´t have) or SP Black widows. But it might be really better to change the assignments. Btw, It was nice from You not to mention that the Argonaut was not Train 3 & 4, but 5 & 6  . Best regards, Ingo |
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Post by texrail on Jan 15, 2019 4:03:08 GMT -5
Mark, allow me an additional thought: You Americans love to create displays which stick very much to a specific date or year , let´s say, Friday, Oct 6th, 1975 , which is wonderful if you have enough material to do so, but for me, German, far away, it is sufficient to represent a time period. In my case, it is " my youth". For Germany that means, having steam until 1977! It was not unusuall to see Pacifics or Decapods side by side with very modern trains. As steam ended in US on class I railroads in 1955 / 56, I´ve choosen a timeframe from 1955 to 1971 ( before Amtrak). And even here You have to be a little lenient concerning some locos ( SD 40-2 ). But for me, it is "close enough". No critical comment to your comment, just an excuse and a explanation of my philosophy. I love conversations like this! Best regards, Ingo |
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Post by markm on Jan 15, 2019 11:42:56 GMT -5
Ingo, Thanks for the information. I am slightly disappointed as I was hoping you had found some new-to-me information on the Argonaut. There is not much information on the Argonaut after the route was shortened to Houston. But it did run until 1964, so your train is very plausible. As far as motive power, on the SP "if it rolls, it goes." SP was never afraid of using freight power on secondary passenger trains. When DGRW sold their ML-4000s to SP they would have had to travel to Texas to transfer to SP. So the ML-4000 is a possibility, although it would probably have been in DRGW gold with SP patched lettering: www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=527902 The only thing unusual to me is the placement to the B unit. I would expect it to be the last locomotive as it would have been the only one to have a steam generator for the passenger cars. You're quite right about Americans liking to model a specific year or even a specific day. Myself, I like the oddities of the second half of the 20th century: the streamliner pulled by both a diesel and steam locomotive, a shiny Budd sleeper in the middle of a Pullman Green train, the many variations of "Daylight." Even the early Amtrak is interesting as the trains were a wide variety of roads until they got around to repainting them. Mark |
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Post by texrail on Jan 15, 2019 16:51:58 GMT -5
Mark, thanks for your remarks, especially the position of the B-Unit. I put it in the middle because it looked "cool" to me. It was not the look of an experienced engineer! Concerning the Argonaut, information is really poor. See attched my major resources. A lot of pictures about the sunset, but only a handfull of the Argonaut.  Best regards, Ingo |
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