Friend of antlorch

[Patrick in Oklahoma]

Hey everyone, the names Pat. Long time friend of Anthony. We met back in the mid 90's. Been modeling for a good while, got into model trains about 94 and have been doing it ever since. Got away from it for a bit in the early 00's Mostly modeled Conrail over the years with a few BNSF stuff. Now I am converting what I have in Conrail into PRR (what if they were still around). Use too have a large collection of good stuff till most of it got stolen in late 97, like a SD80MAC painted in Tuscan Red with the gold pin stripes. Some where I still have photos.
Current project is a repaint of a Atlas C30-7 to PRR and a pretty well detailed RPP SD90MAC-H. I am doing a 2 paint schemes like ATSF had. Regular cads get all Brunswick Green with just gold lettering and the Keystone of the front and back. Where as the wide cads get Tuscan Red with gold pin strips, lettering and the keystones front and back with a black frame.

I am a former Engineer for the I&M Rail Link and Stillwater Central. Hired on with Ant in early 97 on the I&M and worked for them till late 2000.

Here are a few pics from my days with the IMRL.
Hawthorn Power Plant, east side of the KCS/IMRL yard in KC, MO


Some pics of the IRML when we got hired on in Davenport, IA for our training.




Roundhouse at Nahant Yard in West Davenport, IA


I'll try and get some model photos up soon. As for the PRR time frame. It would be around mid too late 90's Conrail but instead would be the PRR as I would see it. ;D

[antlorch]

Its about time you got over here......Welcome aboard....I actually miss those days on the IMRL..just think if we would have stayed we would have worked for the IC&E and the CP now....owell

[Patrick in Oklahoma]

Jan 1, 2009 13:18:22 GMT -5 antlorch said:

Its about time you got over here......Welcome aboard....I actually miss those days on the IMRL..just think if we would have stayed we would have worked for the IC&E and the CP now....owell

Yep, we may have been a class 2 but operated more like a class 1. We had about any train you could think of except for some speciality trains.
The cool thing about my engineer days at the IMRL where the UP run through stack trains we would get. They would have AC6000's, SD90MAC-H's, SD60's, Dash 8-9 CW's. I have a Photo of me dehind the controls of a AC6000 and SD90MAC-H. Missed out piloting an excursion train once by one spot. We had the MILW 261 come through once.

BTW, I also did some IMRL models. I did the F45 #393 and SD45 #372.

[Randy Earle]

Welcome to the Detailer Pat!

[Patrick in Oklahoma]

My ppc phone doesn't have a great camera but here are a few.
IMRL 372 and 393 both lighted and decodered



AMD109 Amtrak #9 lit and decodered, BNSF SD75i #8277 lit with no decoder and BNSF #1124
C44-9W non lit and decoder.

[sarge]

Welcome aboard, heard a lot about you

[Randy Earle]

I've got a weak spot for MRL locomotives, nice!

[CIOR]

Welcome aboard Patrick.

[Smoke]

That SD45 is a nice looking model! I plan on modeling one soon, once I finish other projects.

[Patrick in Oklahoma]

Anyone ever seen a electric hand brake kit for the later model SD90-80's. Anyone make this?

[CIOR]

Jan 1, 2009 18:04:21 GMT -5 Patrick in Oklahoma said:

Anyone ever seen a electric hand brake kit for the later model SD90-80's. Anyone make this?

Not that I am aware of. I know its been talked about.