The Chronicles of Norm #11 – The Appalachian Dirty Dozen



I set up and weather some early 2000s era Lionel and Atlas hoppers 3 Rail Scale style.

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27 thoughts on “The Chronicles of Norm #11 – The Appalachian Dirty Dozen”

  1. You talking about a second run of jlc alleghenys made me wonder if youd go for the legacy allegheny released a while back. As far as i know it uses the tooling of the jlc one with a more accurate sound set. Great video and layout as well, man

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  2. Those are some sweet hoppers Norm!! Back in the 80s my cousin
    set up a nice Lionel layout and since
    we lived next to the Big 4 Dow line
    we would walk it and pick up chunks
    of coal that came off a passing
    Conrail unit train then Dave would
    crush them for loads on his hoppers!! He still regrets selling
    all of his equipment off to this day!!!

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  3. Enlightening and fun video with your usual awesome results Norm! The more of these tutorial type videos you show the more I realize you really are human, lol. Two questions…do you just use the coal loads that come with the cars to add your own coal load? Also, do you use real coal?

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  4. Dude, I am so impressed with your work and the time you take to truly bring your locos and rolling stock up to an incredible level of prototypical realism. I think your level of weathering is just about perfect, just enough to show it's used but not so much that it looks like it's ready for the scrap yard. Keep up the great work!

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  5. Who would give this thumbs down? As always, I'm left speechless at Norm's artistic ability and attention to detail. This video had me thinking of back in the day on the N&W with two Y6s on the point and one pushing or maybe an A mixed in.

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