Whee!
Nice birthday present from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
casey382 who pointed me to an Ebay listing for a new Atlas GP-7 locomotive (unpainted) at a good price. Nabbed it immediately. I found a photo yesterday that was taken in 1956, right on target for the period I want, showing a DT&I GP-7. The scheme is simple and should be quite workable.
I acquired two cabooses of the appropriate design this morning for $10 total including shipping. They will need repainting, but the 1940s scheme is plain red with simple logo and numbers. The 1950s is a two or three color scheme but still pretty simple. I'll probably do one in each. I can pick up some more cars as I go along. DT&I had a slogan "We have the connections" and they certainly did, so a mix of cars from connecting lines is entirely appropriate. Those would include C&O, Wabash, Pennsylvania, and several others in the mid-1950s.
Need to get some track, of course, but that's easy enough. Time to actually think about a layout for it. I want to set up to run two trains at once, one with steam and one Diesel. I'll have spent a little more up front than I intended, but not a fortune by any means. By using materials we have at hand, The total may come in under $150 to get this going and hey, it's my birthdday AND Christmas this month, so...
casey382 who pointed me to an Ebay listing for a new Atlas GP-7 locomotive (unpainted) at a good price. Nabbed it immediately. I found a photo yesterday that was taken in 1956, right on target for the period I want, showing a DT&I GP-7. The scheme is simple and should be quite workable.I acquired two cabooses of the appropriate design this morning for $10 total including shipping. They will need repainting, but the 1940s scheme is plain red with simple logo and numbers. The 1950s is a two or three color scheme but still pretty simple. I'll probably do one in each. I can pick up some more cars as I go along. DT&I had a slogan "We have the connections" and they certainly did, so a mix of cars from connecting lines is entirely appropriate. Those would include C&O, Wabash, Pennsylvania, and several others in the mid-1950s.
Need to get some track, of course, but that's easy enough. Time to actually think about a layout for it. I want to set up to run two trains at once, one with steam and one Diesel. I'll have spent a little more up front than I intended, but not a fortune by any means. By using materials we have at hand, The total may come in under $150 to get this going and hey, it's my birthdday AND Christmas this month, so...
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We're considering space options. Modular building may be the best solution, though it limits the complexity of the layout somewhat.