2005-05-02 This is a model of a B&O class I-5 caboose build from a Craftsman type of wood kit manufactured by Quality Craft a number of years ago. |
This bay window caboose was also built from a craftsman type of wood kit. |
This is another caboose built from a craftsman type of wood kit. It is a mate to the C-2312 caboose. |
2005-07-08 This is a Kadee Logging Caboose, lettered for the Hillside Lumber and Mining Company. |
This is also a Kadee Logging Caboose, lettered this time for the Inland Central Valley Resources Company, a competitor of the HL&M. |
This is a B&O gondola made from a craftsman type of resin kit. |
This is a B&O snow plow made from an old Ambroid kit. It roughly resembles the B&O snow plow numbered X-32, but liberties were taken in converting this car from a kit for a Boston and Maine unit. |
This model of the B&O's first diesel engine, the ALCO/GE/IR 300hp Boxcab Oil Electric, was converted from an MDC/Roundhouse model sold as a track cleaning engine. The track cleaning paraphenalia was removed and the roof-top details completely redone per photos of the prototype engine. The model was then painted, lettered, and slightly weathered. |
2008-05-08 Narrow gauge caboose Inland Lumber & Mining #126. Built from a Quality Craft kit for East Broadtop's #27 caboose. |
2011-01-06 Narrow gauge gondola Inland Lumber & Mining #533. Built from a kit from the (apparently now defunct) Puffing Billy Model Company of Australia. |
2011-05-12 Narrow gauge coach Inland Lumber & Mining #950. Blackstone painted/unlettered coach lettered for the IL&M. |
2011-04-10 New addition to the Central Illinois stable of motive power. These two GE 70-ton switch engines fill in, double headed, as the motive power on the main line. They were painted and lettered in the CI's own paint shop and handle both freight and passenger runs. |
2014-04-06 B&O #7603, a Class EM-1 articulated steam engine -- the largest steam engine the B&O ran. In my alternate history of the B&O Springfield Subdivision, this EM-1 was sent to central Illinois to finish its service life hauling coal drags across the Illinois prairies. The model was made by Bachmann, and features a built-in DCC decoder and provision for adding a sound chip to the engine. Its articulation is not quite prototypical (as the Akane model is) but it requires less clearance and will suffice to represent this sort of locomotive on the layout. |
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