Some This and That In April

Looks like I'm going to have to find someone fairly nearby to do some lighting work on engines for me since I don't have any idea how or have any of the materials to do it myself.Really disappointed that the lights, all of them, on this SD38 stopped working two weeks ago.  I don't have any idea why.  One day they were working, the next they weren't.

This is about as far as I got this week repainting one of my older Athearn 8-door auto-parts cars.

It's just grey primer, but so far, so good.  I thought I had a picture of the boxcar as it was, but I can't find that now so maybe I didn't have a previous photo.  The green tape on the roof is there because I like the way the roof looks, and hopefully I'll be able to preserve that.

Back in the 90's, Trains magazine featured B&O 2002 as the magazine's average locomotive.  They had some formula worked out to calculate which engine out of all of the engines they knew of would be just the average locomotive at the time.  I took this picture myself of 2002 down at the local CSX yard here in Sarnia, so this is a scan of that print

2002 was here in Sarnia for a few years, and the last I knew of it was that now it's at a museum in Maryland, although repainted.

 

And speaking of Sarnia, here's a covered hopper with a message at the C-Yard 2 weeks ago

A visitor up from the south

This 50 foot boxcar is spotted along South Industrial Blvd here on the JSSX

And I'll close out for now with CN SWeep passing under the Gratiot Rd. overpass

I bashed this one together years ago, but I think one of the manufacturers had said they were going to produce SWeep models sometime.  Anybody know if that's right, or am I totally mistaken ?

Have a good week everybody.