That's the best Interpretation of Schenectady blue and crimson I've seen, very close to the Caledonian Railway livery said to have inspired it. Gorgeous loco and scenery, pure class! The Jupiter replica at Promontory Point looks gaudy in comparison.
The passenger car is very altered Roundhouse Overland car. It has completely new livery using large decals printed on a Ink jet printer, waterproofed and then applied.
The sounds of the 4-4-0 locomotive do not match the prototype sounds of the real restored locomotives, at least from the audio track on this video. However, most people will not pick up the differences. The customizing paint and detail work on the 4-4-0 is very nice. You should offer pro-printed decal sheets of the Victorian scroll work and lettering so others can easily convert their 4-4-0’s and old passenger cars into special models. Just a sad note, the past model manufacturers of 1860 - 1880 American Style passenger cars are either out of business or decided to no longer to produce these models. Athearn has abandoned the Roundhouse line of old time cars. The tooling is either lost or not usable and they have no plans to reintroduce these models in the future. As conditions dictate, they will make only contemporary passenger car models. So Model Power, Mantua, MDC / Athearn Roundhouse, ConCor, Blackstone, IHC, etc. are all gone now leaving Bachmann has the only company still producing 1860-1880’s Era passenger cars. Note, their car body designs are basically from the 1960’s tooling and not accurate to scale.
It's a brass engine which I bought on Ebay. It was imported by Pacific Fast Mail from Japan in the 1960s. It comes in a set of two engines. The first one Central Pacific No60 the Jupiter and the other one Union Pacific No119. It is the Jupiter to which I added sound.
A wonderful loco I like also the beautiful layout greetings Franz
That paint job is amazing.
troyjholt Thanks!
What a neat American. Cool layout too!
That's the best Interpretation of Schenectady blue and crimson I've seen, very close to the Caledonian Railway livery said to have inspired it. Gorgeous loco and scenery, pure class! The Jupiter replica at Promontory Point looks gaudy in comparison.
Thank you!
I love the western station scenery
Thanks!
Looking at the driving wheels makes me think that this is the antelope
What is that passenger car and where do I buy it from?
The passenger car is very altered Roundhouse Overland car. It has completely new livery using large decals printed on a Ink jet printer, waterproofed and then applied.
The sounds of the 4-4-0 locomotive do not match the prototype sounds of the real restored locomotives, at least from the audio track on this video. However, most people will not pick up the differences. The customizing paint and detail work on the 4-4-0 is very nice. You should offer pro-printed decal sheets of the Victorian scroll work and lettering so others can easily convert their 4-4-0’s and old passenger cars into special models.
Just a sad note, the past model manufacturers of 1860 - 1880 American Style passenger cars are either out of business or decided to no longer to produce these models.
Athearn has abandoned the Roundhouse line of old time cars. The tooling is either lost or not usable and they have no plans to reintroduce these models in the future. As conditions dictate, they will make only contemporary passenger car models.
So Model Power, Mantua, MDC / Athearn Roundhouse, ConCor, Blackstone, IHC, etc. are all gone now leaving Bachmann has the only company still producing 1860-1880’s Era passenger cars. Note, their car body designs are basically from the 1960’s tooling and not accurate to scale.
Can I buy this train off you
Does it smoke ?
Is that Bachmann?
Which wow-sound decoder
where did you get the set?
It's a brass engine which I bought on Ebay. It was imported by Pacific Fast Mail from Japan in the 1960s. It comes in a set of two engines. The first one Central Pacific No60 the Jupiter and the other one Union Pacific No119. It is the Jupiter to which I added sound.
Very nice. Is the sync fixed? Thanks, Paul
Yes I at least think so :-)
Is it tender driven?
Joe Newstead No it has the motor in the cab.
nope
It is still has the motor in the engine although a different one from original.
How much would you sell these for?
Zza