Hi everybody!
I'm going to take the huge liberty of starting this weekend's WPF thread. I hope Bear isn't offended.
Here is a video of a Grandt Line box cab with a BullAnt drive. The motor does not have a flywheel. Instead it has a Power Pack keep alive circuit from Loksound. It is using a Loksound Select Micro decoder. The box cab isn't finished yet but I wanted to show the incredible performance that the Power Pack provides:
I am using an NCE Powercab set at 128 speed steps.
Dave
P.S. I have just posted this on another thread as well. I want to ask if I am offending anyone by posting the same material in two different threads. Am I banging my own drum too hard?
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterAm I banging my own drum too hard?
hon30critter. I hope Bear isn't offended.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good morning forumers and nice video and pictures Dave and Bear.
I have been doing some work but nothing finished again this week, have been cleaning up a bit trying to find a one of a kind sill step from a kit that went flying off into the eather. So I can now find more than one square foot of the workbench to work on. and the pile of kits around my chair has shrunk dramatically as they are now on shelves.
I did acquire a new locomotive and took a few pictures at the Strongsville Ohio Club Layout.
My new Athearn Erie-Lackawanna SDP45 in Bi-Centennial Colors, after the Conrail takeover these engines worked the ore trains out of Cleveland,, OH. I have it paired with an NW SD45 as the engines were financed for the EL by the NW and came as all NW engines with dual controls.
See you all later!
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Dave - Good video and a nice little box-cab.
Bear - Like the old 3-rail stuff. My 3-rail memories are Marx and Lionel related.
Rick - I like the patriotic SDP-45.
David - Lots of CP equipment. Don't see much of that around here.
Here is one from the BRVRR taken while piddling around the other day:
Westbound NYC #8038 passing a short mixed local under the Route 32 viaduct at the east end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Dave ... Thanks for starting WPF.
Bear ... Nice old 3-rail trains.
Rick ... I like your SDP45.
David ... Nice group of CP disels plus a little steam loco.
Alan ... Good to see people in ypur scene.
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Below are F-units. ... Walthers Proto F7 ABA and Atheran Genesis F3 Phase 4 AB.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good stuff from everyone, this week. Just a yard shot from me.
BVRR, I love the RISS truck on the overpass. My Dad's cousin started driving for RISS in the late 70's. I went for a few rides with him. In the truck driver world, there is always comments about company carriers. Today's favorite target is SWIFT (Sure Wish I Finished Training) and CRST. I remember when Jim was driving for RISS, you would always hear someone on the CB comment "Piss on RISS."
Robert H. Shilling II
The current camelback project lined up with the other camelbacks built in the same manner. I'm sure this will happen again when the I-6 is finished.
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
Anthracite Modeler - YouTube
I have been working on scenery on the layout. This is my first time using sculptamold and I very happy with it. I'm not going back to plaster. I'm shooting for a look in the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains (not quite in the mountains).
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Lot of good stuff going on Guy's.....now that I'm finally feeling somewhat better from the flu, I can get back to building.
P&Slocal.....Like Riss? Have a couple more pic's, 50's era when Riss was still union Teamster's, My childhood friend's dad drove for them in the late 40's early 50's when we went to school together.
Some are Sylvan kits and kit basher's.
Take Care!
Frank
Trying a new idea. Tanks made out of frosting cans.
I still need to add weathering and details to it.
(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).
Impressive work, everyone.
Nice job with the Sculptamold, Renegade. The stuff really is the bee's knees.
My 40+ years old enginehouse rehabbed well. Looks presentable.
With the doors closed on their new hinges.
From the rear.
The floor
Of course, some lights.
And I finished the basic construction of the new Tefft engine terminal when the needed turnout arrived. Like the enginehouse, there will be more work, details, vegetation, etc, but for now substantially complete.
While it's not recommended, you can do this if you need to. It's mostly hidden behind a small forest, but the #4 turnout for the enginehouse lead can be spliced into a 24" R curve and work well. The resulting effective min R drops to around 22", but seems to work fine.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Dave, Thanks for the Weekend Picture Fun and as Rod sings, "Every Picture tells a story don't it?"
Even with great admiration for the Magliozzi Brothers and Disney still can't bring myself to dust up and rust this nice little RTR Brekina model. If it were the van instead of the pick-up, well.....
Thanks to all, regards, Peter
Great stuff this week. Well, in between the little one's bottles, diaper changes and nap times, I manged to instal a set of traction tired drivers in my Kato?GHQ L1 mike.
Here she is leading 18 cars into Horseshoe Curve.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
This week I finished the Railway Express Agency buildng for Boothbay Railway Village. It is a Walthers kit with a Miller EL sign on the roof. Next fall after the museum closes, I will open some of he freight doors and add interior details.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
George,
Nice work on the REA building getting those bricks to pop for the eye. They look great.
On the very right side, the end dock, looks like an electric pallet jack. Is that what it is? Brand?
Made a visit to the Arizona Model Railroading Society in Phoenix.
mlehmanOn the very right side, the end dock, looks like an electric pallet jack. Is that what it is? Brand?
It actually a small electric forklift and it came from one of our "spare parts" boxes at Boothbay RR Village. They were loose in a box of similar stuff, so I do not know where they came from. I searched forklift in walthers, but did not find anything that looked similar. Probably something like Kibri or Herpa
Mike:
I scratch built a manual pallet jack. Its really easy. Adding in the battery/motor would be simple. The bench tools are scratch built too:
Good Evevning Gang,
This is my first posting to the "week-end Photo fun" page. So here goes >>
Hope you all have a swell week end and I am enjoying the pix being shown.
Night all.
Johnboy out.........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
G Paine mlehman On the very right side, the end dock, looks like an electric pallet jack. Is that what it is? Brand?
mlehman On the very right side, the end dock, looks like an electric pallet jack. Is that what it is? Brand?
Testing out my new air compressor and blast cabinet.......using baking soda.....
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
As always, the best thread of the week! I have nothing new to share (maybe in a couple weeks I will be able to get back to doing some modeling), so I just post an oldie...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thanks. That was the problem I was having, I knew I'd seen it or something similar, but couldn't recall where. I'm always on the lookout for material handling equipment, particularly older prototypes.
Dave,
Nice work there.
Mike,
Preiser also makes material handling equipment: Hand jacks, like was shown, 6 in package, molded in yellow, 6 two wheel hand trucks, tan, 6 electric, walk along fork-lift trucks, molded in red and many crates, barrels, etc. along with 21 workers, which are of a European flavor, so you can doctor them up, they are not painted. I picked up a couple for my Transload buildings, won't break the bank, as far as I was concerned. Here's the kit link:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-16348
They also have 60 ready made pallets, which can be used, the smaller 4-ways,also by Preiser, here's the art.# 17104.
Now there is a blast from the past.
This was the second new pickup I bought when I started in my business. Same colors and and everything. (1965) I rolled it off a hot, rain slicked black top road and had to replace the cab back to the wheel wells.
Thanks for the memorys.
Lee
yankee flyerNow there is a blast from the past.
Agreed Lee, my dad traded a VW bus for the a used Dodge van version in the late 60's, automatic transmission with the shifter up on the dash
We turned it into a camper for spending weekends going to the many lakes in NW Montana.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
yankee flyerThanks for the memorys.
Lee, My pleasure. Glad you came out of that long ago mishap okay. Ford made a similar cab-over pick-up based on their van. Sitting right next to the motor in those vehicles could get a might uncomfortable on a warm day.
Regards, Peter
This afternoon, I finished 4 boxcars for Boothbay Railway Village. They are Accurail factory paints, and I have weathered them to represent cars that are in good shape, but need a trip to the shop.
MEC3580 BLT 11-15 (that's 1915)
BM71761 BLT 8-34
PTM2053 BLT 12-23
NH84263 BLT 3-13
Grampys Trains Good stuff from everyone, this week. Just a yard shot from me.
What flavor of ballast is that?