Model Railroading > Livin' Large, in the Permian Basin

Fun meet in the nation's oil patch this past weekend.  Drilling/fracking activity in West Texas is insane.

New to our group is this A-B-A set of T&P F7's - there is a gyralight in the nose of the lead F unit.

This set of FT's debuted at Train Mtn last June, custom built by a local builder extrodnairre.
Power is a John Deere diesel engine with hydraulic drive.  Owner is ex-Santa Fe / BNSF employee., 

My rig St.L.S-W #669.  All my cars are homemade, some built by me, a couple by others in our group, all made in Texas by Texans..

 

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Roundhouse view of some steam present, these are all coal fired, as the good Lord intended.
Yes, the shop behind the steaming bays is a real roundhouse.

F units perform a meet.  Before you comment about the short pilot on the FTA unit, this one is experimental
and will be re-fitted once all the bugs are worked out on the overall mechanism.

Trainorders.com member TomSTP injects water into his boiler, ready to steam onward on his georgeous T&P ten-wheeler.

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What sharp looking locomotives these are !!!  Thanks for posting. --Kelly

Good stuff Shane.Didnt you make a tank car at one stage ?



''Trainorders.com member TomSTP injects water into his boiler, ready to steam onward on his georgeous T&P ten-wheeler.''...or is it the local product :-))
Regards,DK



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/19 19:17 by DKay.

Yes, I have others that I have made that I didn’t bring to this meet.




DKay Wrote:
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> Good stuff Shane.Didnt you make a tank car at one
> stage ?
> Regards,DK

One of those original ATSF FTs was the first diesel loco I ever saw - in Bbkersfield!
Beautiful engines!!
 

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

WrongWayMurphy Wrote:

> My rig St.L.S-W #669.  All my cars are homemade,
> some built by me, a couple by others in our group,
> all made in Texas by Texans..
>
 Is it true that they started out as "N" scale and since texans built them they became 1/8th scale?
SantafeDan*

As a LALS memeber, nice........Can you say where the track is besides Texas?

Track is on home acreage and with respect to the owners privacy,
this thread title gets you close enough.




CPRR Wrote:
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> As a LALS memeber, nice........Can you say where
> the track is besides Texas?

Picture 2 illustrates that legendary Texas law

When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.

TAW

TAW Wrote:
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> Picture 2 illustrates that legendary Texas law
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> When two trains meet each other at a railroad
> crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and
> neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
>
> TAW

Awe.  I thought the law in question was it was legal to drive your pickup and drink a beer, as long as you weren't over the legal limit!

 

TAW,  in a lot of cases "over the limit"  down here  is a right of passage!