Weekend Photo Fun - March 10th - 12th

[dti406]

Good morning from cold and snowy Northeast Ohio!

Managed to get a couple of cars done this week.

First up is a Intermountain ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. Prototype was buiilt in 1977 and was in Kaolin Clay Service. The 1977 built date requires the use of the ACI label use of which was discontinued in 1979.

Exactrail Evans 4780CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White and lettered with Herald King Decals.  Another 1977 built car used in grain service, again date requires the ACI label.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[RDG Casey]

Delaware and Hudson D-3b is getting there, really just rivets, plumbing then paint.

Plus a Reading I-9 on a loaded coal drag.

[C&O Fan]

Another Animation Work in progress

Still needs lots of tweaking but getting close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9HusQ6Iyrg

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Terry in TX .... LOL  LOL  ..... I like you video with the bear rocking the outhouse. I enjoy whimsical scenes on model railroad layouts. 

Casey .... Your model steam locomotives are impressive. You must need a very big roundhouse. 

Rick.... And you need avery big freight yard for all of your outstanding freight car models. The covered hoppers look good.

Below are two zephyrs. It should be noted, the Burlington modified many of of its E-units with stainless steel side panels. Only about half of the fleet of E-units had the modification. So, it is okay to have E7's in the same photo with silver painted sides represented by Proto models on the left and stainless steel sides repelresented by Broadway models on the right.

[mlehman]

Rick, Good looking cars!

RDG Casey, Awesome action shot!

Terry, Wait until he gets to the chewy center!

GARRY, Sharp-lloking trains a good reason to model the Q!

Been working on the outdoor railroad this week, clearing and cleaning around the pation and yard while surveying the lay of the land. After my dry transfers didn't transfer, I pieced together something that works for the big Shay.

I also changed out the thirsty bulbs for LEDs in anticipation for battery power (parts start arrving next week.) Also fixed a broken rear foot board hanger. Then I raised the couplers to the standard position to run with my scale AMS cars. This also required raising the couplers on the rest of my Bachmann rolling stock, which is almost done. "G" has a lot of different configuations and getting couplers all at one height is a necessary project.

Meanwhile, I took one train out of the mix of standard gauge trains in staging down in the basement. Should have done this years ago, as it really freed up things to move around more easily. I don't do much standard gauge, but do enjoy operating it.

A MOW riprap train leaving the CCCP quarry.

Extra 5312 East meets the local at Durango.

The local leaves town.

Looking forward to seeing what you're doing. Have a great weekend!

[G Paine]

This week, I finshed two more cars for the Boothbay Railway Village HOn30 fleet. Flatcars SRRL 312 and 330 are Funaro and Camerlingo resin kits. The crate is a Bachmann wood kit and the tractor and seed drill are a Woodland Scenics metal kit. The 4 row drill was too wide for the car, so the shop has to unbolt the two outer drills and build a rack to ship them on.

[reklein]

Mini-diorama I did for a clinic.

[P&Slocal]

Terry, maybe you can hide the bears movement off the ground with a little bit of bushes around him.

[C&O Fan]

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Terry, maybe you can hide the bears movement off the ground with a little bit of bushes around him.

 

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Good idea~!

 

[SouthPenn]

By the time the painters were finished, it was apparent that they had sampled too much of the product.

[peahrens]

I haven't posted for awhile but always enjoy checking out all the nice examples that folks show each week.

Here's a shot of a shop steam engine which I finished today.  It is from American Model Builders / LaserKit but is all metal.  It took me awhile.  If measured in hours per pound, I'm not sure how high that would be.  It will likely go either in my crane company building or my 2-stall engine house.

 

[mbinsewi]

Great work this week end, guys.  I'd have to take notes to list everybody, so I just summed it all up.

I finished my "fantasy/proto-freelance" HEP project, which started with an old Athearn F7b.

Tonight, on it's maiden voyage, it powers a business / party train.  Wow, I wish the guys would've clean that loco up a little!  I think I over heard someone say it's headed for the diner.    First, a "before" pic.

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Mike.

 

 

[G Paine]

peahrens

Here's a shot of a shop steam engine which I finished today. It is from American Model Builders / LaserKit but is all metal. It took me awhile. If measured in hours per pound, I'm not sure how high that would be. It will likely go either in my crane company building or my 2-stall engine house.

At Boothbay Railway Village, we have an actual steam engine similar to the one you modeled (sorry, I do not have pictures). Engines of this size would have powered a factory or large machine shop, running line shafts overhead and powering equipmemt with leather belt drives.

We also have an Otto engine that would have been in similar service, and we run that engine from time to time during special events during the summer. We host an annual Antique Engine Meet, it is scueduled for July 1 this year
https://railwayvillage.org/event/antique-engine-meet/

 

[Grampys Trains]

Really good stuff from everyone. A yard shot.

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, thanks for the start Rick. As I’ve come to expect, another lot of really Good Stuff, though I must say SouthPenn, those painters must have been lucky not to have fallen off the ladder!!

 

Well last week I was working on the posters for the Clubs Show, this week it’s been the billboards, so from the Club archives, Nigels’ SP&S freight on the HO modules.

 

 

Have a Great One ffolkes. 

 

I feel Terry, that I can’t approve of your negative stereotype of Bears and their antics! 

 

Cheers, the Bear.

PS. Her-in-Doors thinks it’s highly amusing, I can’t think why?

[C&O Fan]

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I feel Terry, that I can’t approve of your negative stereotype of Bears and their antics! 

 

Cheers, the Bear.

PS. Her-in-Doors thinks it’s highly amusing, I can’t think why?

 

 

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Sorry Bear it was just too much fun ~!

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[mlehman]

A whole bunch of great stuff, I agree

I feel Terry, that I can’t approve of your negative stereotype of Bears and their antics!Wink LaughLaugh

How true. People like to think bears are uncouth and wanna ask "Does a bear do his duty in the woods?' when they have doubts about something being true, but I suspect that's not the case here.

Instead, I'm betting the bear is housebroken and is getting a little impatient about getting his turn to properly rest and reflect on the day. Besides, where else is a bear going to get a chance to page through the Sears catalog out in the Big Piney Woods?

 Thus, Terry, I think the scene would be more effective and amusing if the front door was closed?

[CGW121]

A CGW F3 slowly crosses the road while an rs2 crosses in the background.

[PRR_in_AZ]

Weathered Northern Pacific wood sided boxcar by Accurail I just finished.

Chris

[howmus]

Yeah, I know I'm Late to the party, but I have been seriously tied up with deadlines that had to be met over the weekend.  So here is my late addition to the great photos here this weekend (as always).

I will be giving a clinic on this area of Keuka Creek on the SLOW next weekend at the NMRA Meet so I made myself get as much done as possible on it so I could have some photos of the building of this scenery area.  Here are some photos of what it looks like presently (still much more to do before I call it "Done").  Enjoy!

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[Renegade1c]

Well I made a lot of progress over the weekend which is why I didn't get to post it until today. First up is an RDC that got a new paint job and lights.The picture doesn't show much but I installed people and light on the interior as well as sound. The strobe beacons light up when the horn blows. I am still waiting on decals for the side and front. I made some up but I need print them out. 

Second up is a one of the two Coors switchers that one of the clubs I belong to sold me. I painted the ends yellow to match prototype as well as added the functional rotary beacon on top. Unfortunately, I seem to have burned out the decoder I installed on the second unit. I have to send it back to TCS. I also renumbered it to C987 from C997 which i already have. 

Next, I got the stock yard installed. It took a while to figure out where to put it but I finally found a spot. 

Lastly, I got the high bridge installed. This bridge connects the two upper sections of the layout. In this case it connects the town of Golden to the Coors Brewery. 

Here is the overall view where the high bridge is located.