The JSSX is happy to have been recently awarded the contract to carry out some light maintenance on a number of locomotives for the Brownville & Ashland Railroad, owned and operated by Luc Sabourin.
This maintenance mainly involved light paint touch-ups, particularly on delrin plastic handrails where the paint had flaked off, but also a few other small spots, such as the plows where paint had chipped. Also, the JSSX shop forces (that's me) added DCC decoders (the plug-in kind) to 3 of the B&A locomotives.
The red paint schemes of the Brownville and Ashland made for quite a vivid change of pace at the JSSX, where dull and dingy locomotives are the norm.
Here's a look at some of the B&A power fleet...
Four of Luc's Brownville and Ashland locomotives outside of the JSSX maintenance shop
And this next one is my favourite (of course) of the B&A locomotive fleet...
#406 on South Industrial Blvd. A great looking model!
Looks like JSSX will owe B&A a few power hours
Fine looking power indeed!
ReplyDeleteI would love to know how engine #406 was weathered. It looks disgusting... in a good way!
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. Yes, they really are very well done. As for the 406, I don't have the answer to the question of how it was done.
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I’m with you, the ex-Soo u it is great, and all are very well finished.
ReplyDeleteFound your blog last week, it’s a great read.
James H...thanks for looking in and commenting. I hope you'll check in here often. I try to post something once a week, going back not quite 3 years now.
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