"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Nice loco, Bear!
The wharf scene on my layout is slowly developing.
Great Pictures so far! I would like to share some Pictures from my CP Engines and Rolling Stock. The Engines are mady by my Friend Rod Walker and the Cars by Gary Christensen.
I like the way you hand painted that old photo Ulrich.
Excellent point on the "requirements" to appear in WPF, Bear. Prototype or model, just about anything goes...Hey, in back there, no mooning!?!...Gotta keep it clean, but other than the usual rules of the road for any posting in the Forums, please don't doubt whatever you have to show off is interesting to others.
In fact, what you have may not be scenic, finished, or even particularly polished. That's surely the case with me this week. I've been working on diesels most of the week. Parts arrived from NWSL to repower my K&M Engineering Pty HOn3 chassis. After some sloppiness and shoddy work -- see? anything goes -- I came up with a better performing drive. Then I didn't take pictures with the shell off...but it still looks like this...
Meanwhile, the build contonues on my PSC DL-535E kit. NWSL parts let me finish the basic driveline after I mangled one u-joint in a fit of stupidity, so I test ran the chassis.
I managed to complete the "front porch" and assembled the basic shell, so it's starting to look like a locomotive...
Heck, I'll even throw in pics of a Monon RS-2 working the quarry-to-mill run south of Bloomington in the stone district. We lived just south of the big mill in the first pic at one time, while the road crossing shot is at Rockport Road.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Well after the NMRA Convention last week a niece's wedding in New Jersey over the weekend, did not get a lot done last week.
I do not think I ever posted pictures of this project I started some time ago, and has stagnated on the workbench for a while as I worked out the latching mechanism I was going to use.
This is a marriage of an old AHM Clamshell Gon originally ordered by the P&LE and B&LE for the transportation of steel coils to cope with the removal of coil covers etc. Concept was brilliant but did not take into effect the vagaries of crane operators who damaged the coil covers so badly that they did not close.
The interior of the AHM car is a joke, so I am wedding the frame and interior of a Walthers coil car to the exterior of the AHM Gon.
Also as bad as the interior of the gon is, the undeframe is a real joke and does not match the prototype drawings that were published in MR years ago. These are side by side comparisons of the AHM Gon and Walther's Coil Car. Here are the cars after I have removed the frame and inside of the gon using my trusty Dremel Tool with a cutoff disc. The coil car has been completely disassembled into its component parts of the frame, coil frame, and coil trough. Here I have removed the crossmember of the coil frame and filled in the the side of the coil frame with plastic strips. I have also installed a Details West Cushion Coupler pocket on the end of the car to replace the abortion that AHM had on the car. This is the entire Coil Car Frame and Trough installed in the AHM Gon. Still to be done is installing the Breadbox Covers along with a working latching mechanism along with walkways and grabs on the gon itself. Thanks for looking! Rick J
Also as bad as the interior of the gon is, the undeframe is a real joke and does not match the prototype drawings that were published in MR years ago. These are side by side comparisons of the AHM Gon and Walther's Coil Car.
Here are the cars after I have removed the frame and inside of the gon using my trusty Dremel Tool with a cutoff disc. The coil car has been completely disassembled into its component parts of the frame, coil frame, and coil trough. Here I have removed the crossmember of the coil frame and filled in the the side of the coil frame with plastic strips. I have also installed a Details West Cushion Coupler pocket on the end of the car to replace the abortion that AHM had on the car. This is the entire Coil Car Frame and Trough installed in the AHM Gon. Still to be done is installing the Breadbox Covers along with a working latching mechanism along with walkways and grabs on the gon itself. Thanks for looking! Rick J
Here are the cars after I have removed the frame and inside of the gon using my trusty Dremel Tool with a cutoff disc. The coil car has been completely disassembled into its component parts of the frame, coil frame, and coil trough.
Here I have removed the crossmember of the coil frame and filled in the the side of the coil frame with plastic strips. I have also installed a Details West Cushion Coupler pocket on the end of the car to replace the abortion that AHM had on the car. This is the entire Coil Car Frame and Trough installed in the AHM Gon. Still to be done is installing the Breadbox Covers along with a working latching mechanism along with walkways and grabs on the gon itself. Thanks for looking! Rick J
Here I have removed the crossmember of the coil frame and filled in the the side of the coil frame with plastic strips. I have also installed a Details West Cushion Coupler pocket on the end of the car to replace the abortion that AHM had on the car.
This is the entire Coil Car Frame and Trough installed in the AHM Gon. Still to be done is installing the Breadbox Covers along with a working latching mechanism along with walkways and grabs on the gon itself. Thanks for looking! Rick J
This is the entire Coil Car Frame and Trough installed in the AHM Gon. Still to be done is installing the Breadbox Covers along with a working latching mechanism along with walkways and grabs on the gon itself.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Rule 2: I make the rules.
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A good beginning to WPF guys.
I have been working on updating my inventory in RRTrains and in DecoderPro. Here is a photo taken during that effort.
NYC F7A #1855 at the head of a mixed freight crossing Route 32 in Black River.
Bear, I would be interested to know if you can see my photos from my new website (brvrr.com). I remember you had some problems with my websites' previous location that I could never figure out. There is a link in my signature as well.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Great start to the photo session. Here's a tipple just finished for the C&O Hawks Nest Branch. It was kitbashed from a Heljan Tuscon Silver Mine kit and parts from various Walther's kits (took about 3 months to get it done).
Thanks!
Charles
Bear love the #7 one cool lookin loco
Ulrich Your Dock Scene is a work of art
Mike i love the old RS2's
Rick Awesone Coil car
Allan Nice shot of the F unit
Charles A very convincing mine tipple
Still waiting on my decoder to install into my RDC Budd car may have pictures next week
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
An EB Alco rounds the curve at Stoney Creek.
Bear: The 2-4-4-2 is a loco with character. Nice.
Ulrich: ... Looks like a post card with a real photo. Great!
Rick: ... You're building a prize winning model coil car.
Mike L .... More impressive work this week with diesels.
DJ . ( Grampy) ... Beautiful stone bridge and Alco.
Allan...... Nice F7 shot. I can nearly hear the EMD engine growling.
Charles. ... That is a great looking mine.
Terry in TX .. Looking forward to seeing your RDC.
Below is a GE 44 T working at the scrap yard.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Here's a D&RGW coal unit train on the Moffat line.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Good work today, I really like the "oddball" narrow gauge equipment.
I have a few photos this week. First off, I started planning my next project (hope to have it mostly finished to show off in November), the Wheeling and Lake Erie business car 1990. I drew out my blueprints to HO scale, and now just to save up for the donor car and all the misc parts.
Second, here's a photo of my Wheeling unit leading a string of 6 hoppers for the Wheeling I picked up this week,
Third. One final shot of them.
One more.
Have a great weekend all.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Sir Madog Nice loco, Bear! The wharf scene on my layout is slowly developing.
More immulsion fluid would help
Picture was taken off the RD Moses layout , located at the museum in Jefferson TX.
More pictures here.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Hi Allan,
Great photo. I too had problems getting to see your photos hosted on internode. The new site is working just fine from Australia.
cheers
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
Cheers, the Bear.
I am new to this forum. I've been posting in the "Show Me" thread, but its nice to see we have a "Photo Fun" thread too.
Here's one of a concrete batching plant I scratch built in HO scale;
See my models by clicking on the link below
Blue Tombstone Gallery
No doubt, looking at model railroad pics is fun! Thanks to all for sharing.
Ended up with an unintented partial selfie for the background, still I think my t-shirt a better background than the table saw. Maybe I should have been wearing a blue t-shirt, but it is the last weekend of Le Tour.
regards, Peter
"JaBear" and Alantrains,
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm glad to hear that you can see the photos here on WPF and on my website. I never could figure out what was wrong with the Intergate storage site.
Keep the good stuff coming from the bottom of the world guys.
As always, some great model railroading being featured in this thread!
I have been busy counting out rivets... Rivets I am putting on the little Overpass Girder Bridge I am building that is. Couple shots of what I hope is progress.
You can also see some of the soon to be installed Bridge Shoes for the bridge in the photos.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
@JaBear, thanks for the welcome and the nice comment.
best Regards and greetings from Switzerland
Jürg
Ok, I got to drop in on my favorite thread more often. The modeling and photos just keep getting better, and I feel like I'm missing a lot. Just been so occupied with my mrr music video lately. It has made me get a little scenery done on the layout, though. Here's a frame from the video. The camera was still, train in motion.
DC
http://uphonation.com
DC that is some outstanding scenery, very well done. I can't even tell where the backdrop and foreground scenery is.
Thank you, Michael. Although, what you see in this image is not a physical, photographic backdrop, I found out that chroma keying ends up taking as much work to get a decent image. Maybe more, when considering the color selection efforts, paint application quality, lighting, testing, image/video processing and editing. The plus is that photo/video backgrounds can be changed readily. It's fun.
One of my favorite things is taking a decent trainset type car and making IMHO a decent model car out of it.For instance my 39 year old LifeLike identical twin Thrall All door cars.