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Presenting for your enjoyment: The Pine Hill Logging Company GP20 and matching streamline caboose.
One of my all-time favorite Tyco cars is the Pine Hill gondola. There is just something about those big bold letters and bright yellow body. I like the vaguely "Western" image of it. But unlike other themed sets like the Kansas-Durango-Colorado, and Rocky Mountain Line, there were no matching engine and caboose. Cox had a nice logging themed train set, the Big Pine Lumber Co., so I figured it was time to create some Tyco-based competition.
My criteria:
1) Colors should match the gondola.
2) EMD power, either the GP20 or SD24, well, just because I like both. (Western shortlines used a lot of Baldwins, but I just couldn't bring myself to bringing a Shark out west...)
3) Like other Tyco fantasy roads, it had to be based on a song.
My strange mind works in strange ways, and Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song" was the first thing I could think of. From there it all went downhill very quickly. 
I searched around for an image of a lumberjack. Of course the most famous is Paul Bunyan, and in my search I found a neat US postage stamp with Paul and his companion Babe the Blue Ox.
I used Photoshop to create the design and I printed it on waterslide decal paper. This is the first time I used printable decals and I'm quite impressed with how good they are. As you can see, I used brown for most of the lettering, again to match the brown on the gondola. I took a photo of the tree on the gondola and used that as a nose decal.
After stripping and painting the engine, I applied the decals. I still need to use some lighter fluid to make the decals snuggle down over the details (the manufacturer recommends against using solvaset).
I used Krylon "short cuts" spray paints. The yellow has a nice finish, but the green is a bit gloppy. But otherwise I'm happy with the results. I still need to find and install a handrail set.
Let me know what you think. 
-Thomas
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 Posted - August 17 2013 : 4:26:42 PM
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I want the caboose!
Just be moar crazy Why don't you do one in a BOXCAR?
Matbe I oughta have you do up my Soo Tyco boxcar with BnL on it hehe
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Posted - August 17 2013 : 5:40:04 PM
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"I sleep all night and I work all day!"
I love the bold graphics on the locomotive! Reminds me of the StarKist car, so it kind of fits in with the brown box era. And you gave it the "correct" road number too.
However, I don't think Tyco would have chosen that particular song!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Edited by - gmoney on August 17 2013 5:48:01 PM
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Posted - August 17 2013 : 5:51:47 PM
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| I wear high heels & a bra Wish I'd been a gurlie just like my dear papar
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Posted - August 17 2013 : 11:10:26 PM
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Looks great! Very Tyco-esque! 
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Posted - August 20 2013 : 11:53:09 PM
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quote:Looks great! Very Tyco-esque!
Originally posted by DaCheez - August 17 2013 : 11:10:26 PM
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Thank you, I tried to be Tyco-esque and also forge a little bit of new ground with the smiling face.
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Posted - August 20 2013 : 11:57:56 PM
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quote:
I really do want to do a boxcar -- I wish that Tyco had done an all-door car (like Bachmann's or Life Like's)... that would be perfect. But I will try to stay all-Tyco, perhaps as you suggest with a double-door hicube.
I think my next car in the series though will involve a flat with a log crane, similar to Cox's. And maybe a fire-tank car too. All Tyco based of course
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Posted - August 21 2013 : 12:23:52 AM
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| Very Nice, Redwoods...
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Posted - August 21 2013 : 02:21:37 AM
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I think the obvious (and unimaginative) choice would have been to go solid yellow like the gondola, which would have been quite boring and monotonous. Very creative to grab the green in the tree and expand on it for both the loco and caboose! And then to add the bold graphic a la the mountains on the RML is in keeping with the over-the-top décor of brown box Tyco. Your design fits right in.
IMHO, if you do other car types, go easy on the green, otherwise the original gon won't fit in!
Nice job; I like it!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - August 24 2013 : 10:24:57 AM
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| awsome job. loved the engine. this is why we model, cause it's FUN!!
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Posted - August 24 2013 : 1:15:05 PM
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| I like it, great job
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Posted - August 24 2013 : 10:53:14 PM
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He puts on women's clothing, and hangs around in bars... 
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Posted - August 24 2013 : 11:48:12 PM
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Awesome thread!
I think we're all okay...
John
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"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - August 25 2013 : 8:35:56 PM
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| Great job Redwoods. Love your graphics.
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Posted - August 25 2013 : 10:04:48 PM
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I think you need to UNpaint the numberboads & the headlights & add on railings too
You should also do a stakebed flatcar too
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Posted - August 26 2013 : 04:47:55 AM
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At first I thought it was a TYCO one off!!!!!!!!!!!NICE WORK.....
I like the graph-hicks too
~John
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Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - August 26 2013 : 04:48:35 AM
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Hey Ben.. how the hell did you get "Resident Spammer" under your name?
~John
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Posted - September 01 2013 : 10:29:47 AM
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hi ben,remember i said i had one for you,here it is,will get it to you asap ken
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Posted - September 01 2013 : 11:01:41 AM
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quote:Hey Ben.. how the hell did you get "Resident Spammer" under your name?
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â August 26 2013Â :Â 04:48:35 AM
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The old-fashioned way: he earned it.
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Posted - September 02 2013 : 03:45:17 AM
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LOL Nelson, I suppose he did then! I'd love to have the Big Boy removed and "Yellowstone" added but.....I'm not sure ho to have that one done!
Resident Spammer is pretty damned funny tho!
~John
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Posted - September 06 2013 : 09:09:04 AM
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hi ben,it looks like its never BEeN out of the box,ken
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 Posted - September 06 2013 : 9:01:23 PM
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Redwoods that is so TYCOesque I want one!!
(or at least do something similar)
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - September 10 2013 : 01:48:32 AM
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| Logging company layout would be pretty cool. I can't imagine the number of trees you'd have to build or buy, but there could be loads of cool details to put together.
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