Model Railroading > Scaletrain UP Tier 4

Been working on a Scaletrains Tier 4 Union Pacific, took the unit apart and painted the interior to the correct color, added additional led's lighting which consist of lighting up the console, cab light, number boards, walkway lights, ground and step lights. Re-did the ditchlights and front headlights and installed Loksound Decoder. Did some light weathering on the carbody and weathering on the trucks. Will post a video soon.

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Great work. The wash you are using and the grill work is spot on. Please share how you do all of the LED lighting.

Almost looks like the real thing.

Very nice!

Mike DeBerg
Bloomington, IL

Looks great. You need some bodies in the cab.

The computer lights are great. Would suggest the step lights be reduced in voltage.

very nice weathering

They are at a low voltage it the way the camera on the iPhone took the picture

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Looks great!

Looks awesome! They should have come this way from the factory. The ditch lights were embarrassingly bad.

-Ryan N.

Couldn't stop getting distracted by the fun stuff in the background... Any closer shots of that D&H GP39-2? Nice work all around...

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Not quite there yet. Now that we illuminate the locomotive truck it is painfully obvious that the brake cylinders never extend.
Can some mad genius come up with a micro relay that pushes the piston out whenever the locomotive comes to a stop?
Put away the flame throwers, it's a joke.
Other than that this is the best I have seen.....
Thanks for sharing.

Impressive, but if you want me to fall out of my chair, show me the red lights inside the cab when the locomotive is in emergency...

Seriously, very impressive!

Mr. MRL

VERY impressive, the amount of wiring this takes is incredible. Well done!

~RGDave

railstiesballast Wrote:
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> Can some mad genius come up with a micro relay
> that pushes the piston out whenever the locomotive
> comes to a stop?
> Put away the flame throwers, it's a joke.

I'm sure someone will try ;-)

Very nice job Ken!

Elizabeth

Lighting the computer screens----now that's some hard core modeling!!

I echo everyone's comments. Very impressive work.  Could you please post some photos to show how you lit up the console?
Thanks - Mark

Casselton
Houston, TX

Love the dark wash on this model! It really makes details pop and I'm surprised more MRR modelers don't do this. Very nice looking model

Looks great! I too would be interested in knowing how you lit the controls in the cab, as well as what color you used for the cab interior.

Regards,
Russ