[placitassteam]

Well, I just hit the wrong button and lost my whole post.
Here are some photos for comparison. First the locomotive as it came from the ALCO shop.

Then the stock Bachmann Connie.

My Dad took this a photo of the train that we rode from Mexico City to Oaxaca City when we lived in Mexico. I was 9 or 10 years old at the time.

This is my attempt at recreating that photo with my model. I may try to get a better angle and light but here it is for now.

Now a couple of photos of the entire train on my railroad.

That is about it. I may add some more photos if I can get some good ones. Thanks for looking.

 

[Larry Green]

Winn, very nice train. I have enjoyed following your posts.

Larry

 

[Wesley Furman]

Amazing finish. Huge leap to completion since I last saw it on your bench. I now know why you have been scarce the last couple of weeks. Wonderful train.

 

[placitassteam]

Here is another photo that I tried to match the original. Closer but still not quite there.

My wife took this so I figured I might as well post it.

Well I need to get back getting ready for a steam-up/open house and some honey-dos.

 

[Crisolite]

It's looking real close, just a couple minor details.
Good work. I like it

 

[tim.miles.uk]

Hi Winn

Just caught up with your latest posts. The 291 is looking really great and makes a fine sight with the authentic baggage and passenger cars in front of your Alvarado building.

Still working on my No. 287. A bit hung up on the valve gear changes at the moment and not so much time for modelling now that Spring/Summer is with us.

Did you remove the back-wall on the Connie cab? All the photos I have seen of the G030s show that there was no back-wall.

All best and a great conversion. What's next - an HR01?

Tim

 

[placitassteam]

Hi Tim, Thanks for the compliment. No I did not remove the back although I did enlarge the opening around the backhead. I know that there are a number of details that are not quite correct due to lack of information or just the fact that I was going more for the look rather than an exact scale model. The back of the cab does make it much more sturdy. I am not familiar with the nomenclature you mention, but no, I do not plan any more Mexican trains. Everything else I run is Colorado or New Mexico.

 

[tim.miles.uk]

Sorry Winn, I was being a bit frivolous!! I attach a photo of an HR01 - it's a big loco!


All best


Tim

 

[placitassteam]

I had not seen that one. Gerald Best's book has a photo of #368 on the page opposite the contents page. I think I read somewhere that it was originally a Uintah loco. Bachmann has a couple of models of that but I think they are either 1/24 or 1/22.5. Either of those would be a real beast in 1/20.3 scale.

 

[AlaiNdeMexico]

Ndem locomotive 279

Dear fellow American modelers, this is my first posting I am a Mexican fan of all these types of trains, and I really regret not having been able to know the time in which they served in my country, however I have spent all this time looking for information and data about the fleet of railway material that existed in Mexico of narrow-gauge trains, I will leave here a sample of a model that I built on paper from one of the locomotives that until recently was still in operation as a living museum exhibit to the south of the country, it is the consolidation locomotive 2-8-0, class G-030 no. 279 that was built by Baldwin in 1921

 

[placitassteam]

Welcome to MLS. I lived in Oaxaca from age 6 to age 13 and loved riding the little narrow gauge trains from Mexico DF. I have a photo of 279 but it is not clear and hard to see the details. Where was it running?

 

[Joaquín FCM]

[QUOTE = "placitassteam, publicación: 1137482, miembro: 1166"]
Bienvenidos a MLS. Viví en Oaxaca desde los 6 hasta los 13 años y me encantaba viajar en los pequeños trenes de vía estrecha desde México DF. Tengo una foto de 279 pero no está clara y es difícil ver los detalles. ¿Dónde estaba corriendo?
[/CITAR]
¡Hola! Hello! My name is Joaquín, I am from the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, I have some photos of the NdeM 291 in Buenavista and photos of the locomotive already on standard track as number 904! Here I attach them, I hope You answer. By the way there are some photos of the 291 still like 300 inside the factory, could you please attach them to me Cheers! Joaquin Chavez Salabert

 

[Pete Thornton]

I think Winn is still around here and will be pleased to see your photos.

 

[Joaquín FCM]

[QUOTE = "Pete Thornton, publicación: 1161723, miembro: 260"]
Creo que Winn todavía está por aquí y estará encantado de ver tus fotos.
[/CITAR]
hopefully! Cheers

 

[placitassteam]

Bien venido a MLS Joaquin! Mi Espan~ol ya no es muy bueno, por eso voy a contiuar en English. I am sorry it has taken so long to reply to you. Here are the ALCO Schenectady shop photos of #300 (N de M 291) as built.