Current Projects

Here you will find a list of some of the current layout-related projects I am working on. In no particular order. As I finish things I will mark them completed and eventually remove them from the list. In some cases there may be progress photos.

 

1. Build benchwork.

 

2. MDC RS-3 Locomotive - already decorated as Reading #470, but the decals are the wrong font and the paint is a few shades off. It also needs a new 3-chime horn and bracket to mount it to the front of the cab, and the old horn mounting holes on the hoods filled in. Electrically, it needs a DCC decoder and LEDs for lights.

 

3. Athearn RTR RS-3 Locomotive - already decorated as Reading #492. Needs wires run for the second rail pickups (it uses the chassis and bolster like the old Athearn Blue Box drives). TCS T-1 DCC decoder already installed. Working on installing shell on an Atlas/Kato RS-3 chassis to get around the pickup issues.

 

4. Pair of Proto 2000 Northeast cabooses - currently undecorated. Need to be painted and decalled as Reading, and final details added. Electrical pickups for the interior light (aka the 'brakes') will be removed. The single bulb looks a bit hokey, plus with full power on the tracks at all times with DCC it runs too hot.

 

5. Stewart VO1000 Switcher, RDG 86. TCS T-1 decoder installed, orange LEDs replaced with white. Needs details installed.

 

6. Branchline Yardmaster WM boxcars - kits need to be assembled. Total of four cars, three have already been assembled.

 

7. Branchline Blueprint Reading boxcar - kit needs to be assembled.

 

8. Two Proto 2000 tank cars - kits need to be assembled.

 

9. Proto 2000 GP-7, RDG 628 - needs LEDs installed for lights. TCS T-1 DCC decoder already installed. Needs Kadee couplers installed.

 

10. Proto 2000 S1, RDG 50 - needs DCC decoder and LED lights installed. Needs Kadee couplers installed.

 

12. Train-Miniature Reading 55t hopper - has been assembled, needs decals applied for number.