Richard Todd's Page

Thanks Richard 

Richard, I hired as a brakeman at Eureka summer of 1971, and worked there until transferring to the SP at Roseville in Feb of '72. I got promoted to an engineer in '73, and I'm still here, and on 1/1/13, I am finally going to retire with over 41 yrs.

I didn't get to the nose hearld or the frame stripes today like I wanted.  Yeah, I am pretty pleased with how the lowered nose turned out.  All of my other locomotives are going to be right out of the box.  No manufactures make a chop-nose SD9, so I was forced to do a kit-bash.

I have four other undecorated and powered Athern Blue Box SD9's and three undecorated shells.  I plan to make NWP SD "Black Widow" #4324, #4327 and #4424 as well.  I have alrady modified some of th eshells and put aftermarket white metal detail parts.

I also want to do two CFNR SD9's (#200 ad #201). I came across a website that sells Rail Power SD 9 shells that fit on the Athearn drivetrain.  These shells appear to have the correct details for the CFNR units.  Athearn's have molded on detail parts on teh roof that the CFNR units do not have.

I'll keep you updated as to my progress of the next few months.

Trevor

In case someone on this site doesn't know, this is a real prince of a guy.  I never expected such a helpful response to a modeler whose interest track is on a railroad 2500 miles to the East.

Richard, once again, many thanks!

Rick Shivik

Halleluia!  Thank you, Richard.  I've visited the site and bookmarked it for future use.  I had a feeling it was German technology and I knew I was on to something when I saw those machines in that article. 

Rick

Richard,

One reason I joined is because I'm trying to find out what company makes the switch machines you use on your layout which were featured in the March 2011 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman, Page 77.  I can't find anything remotely like them on the web and I have beaten my search engines to a bloody pulp to no avail searching for them.  I've even emailed RMC so far with no result.

I am especially interested because of the low profile they present when used at track level in a staging yard.  Mine is suspended from my drop ceiling gridwork using threaded rod holding up a six track yard 22" wide on 1/2" plywood using 1.5" wide 3/16 thick foam topper tape with a 1.5" wide masonite fence on the edges to prevent plummets to the floor and partially block the view of the trains.

I'm pretty sure these machines won't be visible from floor level. 

Rick Shivik - Conyers, GA - HO D&H Champlain Division under construction - highly respectful of NWP modelers and humbly requesting information.

Richard, that horse is not yet dead, it would seem!  Just learned from Ning that complaints about the activity feed change were so widespread that they will be reverting the behavior early next week, so once that happens I'll make the change on this network and perhaps you, I, and a few other members will be a good deal happier.  Thanks!

Mark D.

So an update on my progress, I ended up going with the cork exclusively for now. This really helped when needing to sand transitions to industrial spurs and such. I think there is a place for foam on the layout, just not yet =). Thanks for the recommends.

Cory

Richard, unfortunately there's nothing I can do to change the current activity feed behavior -- it's all or nothing.  Ning has received an avalanche of negative feedback about this latest change, however, so I expect they'll allow networks to return to the "old" style or something like it very soon.  Thanks for your input, as always!

Mark D.