Signature locos

I know I said the next project would be ballasting in DuBach, but I just can't seem to find the ambition for that right now, so...

For the last week since getting the JMRI up and running again and the track work in DuBach done, I just haven't had the ambition to go down and get anything started again. I did get the layout staged for a possible shakedown session this weekend, and then I have one planned for May 9th.

I went down and walked around the layout, trying to find something that would peak my interest. It's not for the lack of anything to do, but more so of the amount of things that I could do. I was mainly looking for some scenery that I could quickly start on, but most will take a decent amount of preparations first.

So I shut the lights off and walked back upstairs.

Chatting with a friend last night about finding the next project and then thinking about it more today while out delivering, I think I'm going back to the bench for some more loco building? I've been wanting to get after a trio of these ever since I settled on modeling the Little Rock line. They're kind of a signature loco for this section of the Rock and kind of the mainstay of power towards the end. The fourth one I'm going to do because I'll have the airbrush out and dirty, plus I forgot to do it when I did the other 5 U33B's.

I'm not feeling fully pumped yet, but I'll try to force myself to get started on them with the details...