From the Firefly Shops.........

[rogruth]

Rufus,

Thank you and it is interesting.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,

Thank you and it is interesting.

It's actually Photoshop cropped from the upper right corner of a CVRR pass; forgotten what year s that they used this emblem. Always thought that they should have used on their rolling stock...................and I do now and again do just that using decals that I made for just that purpose,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One that I did a bit of finishing out work on.......

[mickeydee]

Rufus your models are exquisite and unusual, the sort of stock I'd like to buy if only to display them!

What they make me think of is Roland Emmetts railway which was actually built for the 1950's Festival of Britain but otherwise existed only as cartoons in Punch magazine.

Come to think of it, those characters are somewhat like I imagine your personna as! Certainly very much in tune with the Bonzo's brand of eccentricity, very peculiarly English.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus your models are exquisite and unusual, the sort of stock I'd like to buy if only to display them!

What they make me think of is Roland Emmetts railway which was actually built for the 1950's Festival of Britain but otherwise existed only as cartoons in Punch magazine.

Come to think of it, those characters are somewhat like I imagine your personna as! Certainly very much in tune with the Bonzo's brand of eccentricity, very peculiarly English.

Thanks, Mike!

Unusual; I tend to gravitate to that aspect of all modeling as I =tend to find the "average" boring or at least too readily achievable. While I certainly can pursue the rigidly strict conformance to prototype emulation, I'm probably a bit more expressive and maybe more of an artist than modeler at times.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The matching Turtle Creek trailer.....

[rogruth]

Nice set.
Didn't see many like that in my home area.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice set.
Didn't see many like that in my home area.

Thanks, Roger!

I hope that I can get back into the swing of building these cars more in the near future. Got too many other people's stuff in my way and a bit of an upheaval in the shop - bit of a re-org - while I'm trying to get some of that "other stuff" projects completed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A bit of a variation on a car that I have built many times............

[rogruth]

Rufus,
What do you use for power to your motors? Overhead or two rail or are they convertible?
I don't know why I just thought of this.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
What do you use for power to your motors? Overhead or two rail or are they convertible?
I don't know why I just thought of this.

As I do not have my wire up yet - last thing to install given having to work around it doing scenery stuff - all of my drive units are actually insulated sot hat I can run stuff on regular track, and then later I will be able to run them off overhead as well. The 2-3 commercial brass engines that I have on the roster have a little switch underneath as do some of my own models to go to overhead running vs. track, so convertible is how I choose to go to have max flexibility.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A little Derr 25T steeplecab.....





....that has been on work bench #1 for about 18 months quietly waiting for it's turn for some attention TLC......which is rapidly approaching.

[rogruth]

There was a factory in my home area that had a loco similar to that.
I have no idea who the manufacturer was just that it looked similar.

Looks great.

I realize the model isn't finished yet but is there a reason for two different couplers?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I realize the model isn't finished yet but is there a reason for two different couplers?

Right now it's as I received it and I think that the coupler difference is that one is not mounted properly or just loose.

This is a really small engine as well for O scale.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Finally wrapped this little one up and off the one bench!