Keith Dart

About Me or What I Like Most About T-Trak:

Lifelong Model builder, RR+ (multiple scales), Chicago area native, USCG Veteran, NMRA/Midwest Region, Fox Valley Division member, also active in NTrak beginning in 1984-5.

T-Trak is considerably easier, lighter, and far more portable and compact than the NTrak Std., though, there are differences in 'real estate' spaces for scenery(!)

My Modules

East Conundrum

My Trains

2/'21 Roster (Photos to Follow…)

I: "Emperor of the North Pole" ('ENP', 1973 Film, set in Great Depression-era Oregon, c.1933)

A: CAST (Live Action Subject Consists)

  • OP&E Steam
    • #19 Portland (2-8-2 'tea kettle' Mixed Short Line Freight)
    • #5 USPS/REA (Blue, Silver, & Black 2-8-0 + 4 HWs: Bags, Horse, RPO, Combine)
    • #20 Pax (Silver & Black 2-8-0 w/3 SP coaches: 'Cottage Grove', 'Village Green', 'Dorena Lake', + 1 HW Pullman 'Woodland')

B: CREW (Production/Work Trains/Cars)

* BN (Flags) 'Buxton Spl.': (RS-11, GP-9, 2@Airstream, + Flats)
* Prop/Set Pcs: 'SP&S', 'Evergreen', + 'AAR 1933' Box cars

C: 1972 Prototype RR (LIVE Filming Location/Site Context)

  • OP&E (Shay w/## Logger Flats, 2@GE70T + 1 MoW train, , Spare SP/RI Pax Coaches, Caboose 'dead' line, etc.)
  • SP (EUY Power Pool — SDs, ALCOs, GE70T, etc.)
    • EB Sawmills' PulpGon Drag (##cars)
    • Proto-Manifest ("Boeing, GM, etc." — ## cars)
    • Marine Industrial Local (MP15DC/GE&)T/SW1500, + ## cars)
    • MoW Spls: RoW Repair, + Fire & Snow Fighters (2ea. Rotaries w/F7B Snails, 2@SD7/9s, + Crew Cars)
  • AMTRAK
    • ('SW Ltd.' as) Coast Starlight w/E9As
    • USDOT PR (3-car) Demo Turbo

II: NON-ENP

NRail PR Spl. (FTs, Jim Fitzgerald Box Car, NMRA 50th Box Car, MTL DropGon, TTRAK Caboose)

SP:

  • WWII Wooden PFE Drag (GS-4 + ## reefers, both Open & Closed Ice Hatches)
  • 1947 US Friendship Train (+)
  • Pullman HW Pax

ATSF (c.1960):

  • El Capitan
  • GE Golden Values Spl. ("Goldbonnet PA-1 #53L" + 'Golden Bogie' 4-car consist: Bag/2 Coach/Obs.)

UP Excursion Train
*#4141 + E9A #957, 7 cars + Business car "Cheyenne"

(Amtrak):

  • NE/C Ph. 2 Turbo

'SCOOTS' (Bi-Level Suburban Commuters):

  • SP — TM, RS11, Daylight Coach, + # BLGs)
  • MILW E9A #35A, '30s Hiawatha coach, 3 BLGs + 'Hiawatha' SuperDome
  • RTA 1970s CNW/UP-N E8A #513 (7 Pullman BLGs)
  • METX (modern)
    • #405 Bicyclists' (6 BLGs + 1 'Bicycle' Pullman BLG)
    • #90 ('Albino' + 7 BLGs)
    • #181 KATO/SBG Spl. (3BLGs)
    • #142 Ravinia Spl. (7 Pullman BLGs)
    • #133 2018 ONP Spl.
    • #426 (7 BLGs)
    • 121 JJ's 'Little John' Spl.
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