RIO ALLOSIUS MINING & Co.
After many years in HO and 1:20.3, I started in 2002 my little mining empire in O scale (On30 ) in small place, 7' by 6', a real challenge for this scale on this small era ....
All structures, mine, ore bine, trestles and more are scratchbuilt...
Engines and rolling stock are modified B'man or scrachtbuilt!
Somewhere in Southwest.........
The mine...
Engines one switchback...
Shay # 6 and R.A.M. Co and crew poses for the photo.....
engine # 6 and ore bine...
Backdated 440 circa 1880 ( ex-B'man )
440 engine #2
Passenger train....
Cool! Those ore bins are great. Nice photography too!
Thanks for posting those little gems, Lloyd. -- Russ
Loved your photos and models. The group photo of the crew got me to laughing... what a great photo idea! But, I didn't like the blue boiler jacket!. Dang.. I had one just like it planned for my next big loco. Now I have to choose another color. Dark blue instead? Red-orange? Regardless, nice modeling. Gary
Howdy,
thanks for your interest Compadres....!
More photos...
engine #9 , 240 (ex B'man Forney ) with Grandt Line tender, changed some details and built a new cab....
engine #9 one switchback....
No train, but a great engine, the Holt 75 with heavy wagons from an old mules team...
mining trains....
Lloyd, I really enjoyed the photos...they really set your modeling off well, the black and white shots are especially effective. The Holt pulling ore wagons was a nice touch!
Was that a saguaro cactus I saw in the the background of one photo? Where is your fictitious world located?
Hello Verne,
thank you for your interest.
my little fictitious Mining Co is somewhere in south of Arizona, in a desert and arid place where only some cacti and small bushes live....and rattkesnake....
Saguaro cactus are hand made with modeling past ( FIMO ) cook with the furnace....
Of course I'm fan of your Estrella & Sonora Grande and Mogollon Railway of W.C. Greene...
Other photos...
A modified B'man 042 Porter in Coronado style...
Engines #3 and #6 on trestles...
Quote from: LLOYD on November 29, 2010, 08:03:03 AM
engine #9 one switchback....
Loved the apparent wheel slip in this shot. Gary
http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1223.0;attach=7553
Looks like you're having fun with it Lloyd and I like the era you chose . If I could ever sell all my mid 50's based HO stuff I would most definitely go On30 , turn of the century , western motif .
Terry
Nice work! Do you have any color pics of the ore bin?
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Howdy,
thanks for your interest, and other pics of ore bin...
one other...
Ore bin and mine are horizontal, but not the track...
backdated brass conversion kit to used 060 HO B'man.
Finished engine # 5
Lloyd-your layout is looking really fine! The switchbacks remind me of the Gilpin Tramway, one of my favorite lines. The little 0-6-0t is extremely nice, so it was a brass kit? Is it on a Bachmann mechanism? Expiring minds want to know.
Woodie
Howdy,
Woodie, the little 060 is a kit from Backwood Miniature, and I've backdated with domes, stack, headlight from PSC.The B'man mechanism run very well and slowly!
Not having a DCC one my little layout, I upgrade all my engine with Faulhaber motor....
The Gilpin Tram is one of my favorite line too, and the last book is great...
Hello Lloyd, Verne, Folks...Really like the back dated motive power you are doing, especially the 4-4-0...she's a beaut!
Keep up the work and post more,
Jeffrey
Hello,
thanks for your interest Jeff, but I'm not Verne!!!
My last work....A vertical Boiler Shay...
Hmmmmmm...Sorry Lloyd, name was typed but my fingers are not working right this morning...cold.
(typing challenged?) Fixed it,
Still like your Lokeys LLOYD!
Jeffrey
Lloyd, I really like your 2-6-0 backdated...very distinctive! The additional photos look great as well, thank you for sharing them.
Howdy,
Verne the engine is 0-6-0.... but the kit is available in 2-6-0 or 2-6-2
Porter's family....
Dummy built on 0-4-2 with tram body...
Standard version with some details...
without windows...
and Coronado style...
Hi Lloyd, Folks...really like the Porters you are doing...Captures the flavor of a desert mining outfit well!
Keep up the work.
Jeffrey
All are good. But lose the chains and antlers unless you want people here to give you a hard time!
You have done a very good job with all your locomotives. Very impressive lineup.
Russ
Quote from: finescalerr on December 05, 2010, 01:09:21 PM[...] lose the chains and antlers unless you want people here to give you a hard time!
I expected something like this...
Just so you know I am not prejudiced, I wear chains and antlers to most social events. It's my "Gothic" look. -- ssuR
P.S.: The rest of me already is naturally weathered.
Quote from: finescalerr on December 05, 2010, 01:09:21 PM
All are good. But lose the chains and antlers unless you want people here to give you a hard time!
You have done a very good job with all your locomotives. Very impressive lineup.
Russ
I am of agreement with you Tonton, it are that of the old remainders of a modelistic influence of another time!
I will remove all that.
With, I will make a monument....but that's nice on old 4-4-0 or sternwheeler...
A baby Climax without chains but antlers and a poor enginer!!! ;D
Hi Lloyd, Folks, ssuR...Oops, noticed the chain hangin' on the pilot beam, kinda hidden, but never the less...
Most engineers I've spoken to over the years, are poor, too!
Jeffrey
Quote from: LLOYD on December 01, 2010, 09:21:04 AM
Howdy,
thanks for your interest, and other pics of ore bin...
Nice! Great details. Thanks for the pic.
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Thanks Lloyd, my mistyping...guess it's a plague of the keyboard around here! :D
Anyway, I really like the backdated Porter, I have a few of the factory assembled ones that I need to modify...probably would have been easier to just get the kits and build them they way I wanted them in the first place! Porter never listed a 2-6-0 in their catalog, although they had 0-6-2s.
As far as the chains, antlers, etc...ease up on Lloyd, guys! I think if a guy really wants antlers on his lokie, why not? I DO draw the lines on chains, though...except as a fashion accessory for certain publishers...