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Model Railroading > Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend...Date: 10/27/12 00:46 Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: MrMRL Just a few photos of a UP powered stack train I ran around the club layout Friday night. Testing out my recently acquired InterMountain GE on the point, UP 5455. The rest of the power consists of the rest of the UP fleet (minus an ex Rio GrandeT-Motor...); UP 5809 (Kato AC4400CW), UP 8325 (Athearn Genesis SD70ACe), UP 9564 (Kato Dash-9). The stacks were a mix of Walthers, Kato and Atlas 53' wells, plus a pair of Athearn RTR 56' wells.
  Date: 10/27/12 00:47 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: MrMRL The domestic boxes are a garden variety of contemporary shippers from Athearn, InterMountain, and Atlas. I really need to get some green EMPs in there to mix it up even more... I try not to go too crazy with The Borg, I just get that itch every now and then.
Photos also added to my pbase site... http://www.pbase.com/mrmrl/misc_pix ~ Uncle Pete   Date: 10/27/12 01:19 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: Fizzboy7 EXCELLENT! Rare to see modern intermodal on here, so it's a treat.
Nice mix of power and containers. As you mentioned, some green EMP's would complete it. UP seems to be mixing just about every carrier (for UP service) into their domestic stack trains. You have white EMP's in there too? Date: 10/27/12 01:30 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: MrMRL Heck, I only got one 48' Walthers EMP box. I need many, many more...
Mr. MRL Date: 10/27/12 08:46 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: grandroad MRL- Good looking train on good looking layout. Thanks for posting.
Paul Brennecke Golden, CO Date: 10/27/12 09:20 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: ntharalson Can't be the UP, the units are waaaay TOO CLEAN! LOL
Nick Tharalson, Marion, IA Date: 10/27/12 09:28 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: rehunn I think you're doing good work, not sure because I'm waiting for my eyes to uncross looking at that
curved double slip crossover thing in the last picture. Yikes! Date: 10/27/12 10:35 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: electromac Outstanding! UP rules.......
Date: 10/27/12 12:28 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: bnsfsd70 ntharalson Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Can't be the UP, the units are waaaay TOO CLEAN! > LOL > > Nick Tharalson, > Marion, IA Haha, that was my thought too. Plus, none of the flags are burnt. - Jeff Date: 10/27/12 14:28 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: trainupaboy Very nice as usual!
Date: 10/27/12 14:39 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: MrMRL ntharalson Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Can't be the UP, the units are waaaay TOO CLEAN! > LOL > > Nick Tharalson, > Marion, IA Hey, I run my UP in a more perfect world. Well, not that perfect... Red sill stripes would probably be more perfect to some, but I don't mind the yellow stripes. Mr. MRL Posted from iPhone Date: 10/27/12 14:53 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: Costanza UP units are that clean for about 6 hours of thier existence...LOL....need to roll them in the dirt at the local playground for about a week or so...that should help... ;)
Date: 10/27/12 16:05 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: neilgross MrMRL Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Heck, I only got one 48' Walthers EMP box. I need > many, many more... > > Mr. MRL Why Athearn ran white EMP Stoughton containers one time when those models first came out ~11 years ago and has never run them again (except for the long-defunct Schneider Optimodal versions) remains one of life's great mysteries. Date: 10/27/12 16:47 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: uprrman156 No more 48 EMP containers on the UP anymore all 53' now
Date: 10/27/12 19:46 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: upkpfan Nice. Anymore pics. of the CAT sideboom in the 3rd. pic.? upkpfan
Date: 10/27/12 20:36 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: stampedej Congrats for outstanding photos on an outstanding layout! I bet a Centennial/Fast Forty/Centennial set would really look cool running on there too!
Posted from iPhone Date: 10/27/12 22:45 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: SRSD45 Green Hub Group containers wouldn't hurt either if you can't find the EMP ones. Earl..
Date: 10/28/12 17:59 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: alco539 electromac Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Outstanding! UP rules....... INTERMODEL RULES......Awesome, Awesome, Awesome.!!! Date: 10/28/12 18:02 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: alco539 Costanza Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > UP units are that clean for about 6 hours of thier > existence...LOL....need to roll them in the dirt > at the local playground for about a week or > so...that should help... ;) Put them in a smoker for about an hour, five hours fo SP units. Date: 10/29/12 12:25 Re: Some UP double-stacks to help start your weekend... Author: P5r24 Ya know its funny.
We see a dirty weathered up set of units out trackside and think- "how discuesting - Don't they have any pride!" And when we see a nice clean set of units running around a layout - Oh they suck, they are way to clean - dirty them up and then some - LOL! As they say in the NFL - "Auh, come on guys." They look great MrMRL! I like em just the way they are with plenty of Corporate Pride, Gary |