This is the topic where we can show work completed the last week, work in progress or old pictures that we would like to share with the fellow forum members.
One of my favorite pictures!
Pennsy N1sa 2-10-2, with a coal drag going up the hill. The Pennsy used these monsters to haul ore from the docks on Lake Erie to the steel mills in Piitsburgh, Wheeling and Youngstown. On the return trip they hauled coal from the mines in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Southern Ohio to the docks on Lake Erie where the coal was sent to power plants and factories on the upper Great Lakes. These were the first engines to be gotten rid of when dieselazation started in earnest.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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!
Rick, nice coal train photo!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
My recently completed Roundhouse Boxcab, modeled as B&O No. 195.
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Rick, Thanks for starting up the WPF. That's a good kind of drag, easy to see why it's a fav.
Thanks to all the contributors, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Excellent!....Peter....
Back to the addictive bridge build.........
Take Care!
Frank
Happy Weekend everybody!
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Rick: Thank you for starting us out. That PENNSYLVANIA train sure looks slow and heavy.
Mel: You are lucky to still have such a gen in your possession. I wish I had my firts scractchbuilt structure.
Jim: The Roundhouse boxcab is a beefy looking model. Your looks well assembled and beautifully painted.
Peter: Uncle Dan's Pizza sure looks good, but I will remain loyal to Panucci's.
This week I finished the last three pack of Train Miniature Billboard Reefers I had. These were all for meat packing companies.
Hope to see a few more people make some shares this weekend.
Stay safe!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good Stuff,but kind of a light turn out so far!
486 by the sand house:
Still plenty of weekend left - jump right in!
Happy weekend,
Mike
Pizza
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Hey Bear,
Somehow a bridge got dropped on JaBear Construction Co. property overnight and we can't find the night watchman either. His car is even gone along with a lot of equipment, including the antique truck....Aliens...????
Gidday Rick, thanks for kicking us off and it’s not hard to see why that’s one of your favourites. Hope the move is progressing satisfactorily.
Thank Youy for kicking things off, Rick!
Great (but sparse?) stuff this weekend, fellows!
Frank, Every time I see your lift bridge I'm reminded of a twenty-million dollar rebuild that they did on one of the (roadway) lift bridges here in Cleveland back in 2006. They used a barge to float it off site, made the repairs then floated it back between the towers.
When they were ready to re-connect the counter weights they discovered that the cables were THREE FEET too short!
Now, the Cuyahoga River is blocked, the road still can't be used and it took another two MONTHS to get all new cables (64 of 'em!). Turns out the contractor was using blue-prints they found that were never updated after an earlier rebuild and I guess they put bigger sheaves in. It never occurred to them to actually measure one of the cables they took out.
I spent much of my time this week re-working four of the older "Continental Line" Rapido coaches that have never really been track-worthy. I glued the sides to the floor, replaced the trucks and trimmed some of the underpinnings from around the truck-swing area. Not really photo-worthy since they pretty much look the same after-as-before.
One little project I tackled was to place a safety slogan onto the sides of the turntable bridge. I have been wanting to get to this for a l-o-n-g time
TT_bridge by Edmund, on Flickr
I used Woodland Scenics 3/8" Gothic dry transfers. I like the results
Q2_on_TT5 by Edmund, on Flickr
I don't really know just how many railroads did this but I've seen a few photos showing the lettering like this. My little people need the safety reminders.
Q2_on_TT by Edmund, on Flickr
Q_on_TT by Edmund, on Flickr
Well, there's still almost a whole day (plus Bear's Holiday ) so how about some more photos, folks?
Cheers, Ed
Looking good guys! Some great things to look at here. Nothing too spectacular at my end, just a little fiddling around yesterday.
I buy junk cars sometimes at the railroad shows for a couple dollars. I really like the old Western Pacific cars. Unlike the new ones they are chalky brown in color and the yellow writing already looks faded and weathered. This one was missing its stirrups. I took an old Southern Pacific car that had crooked writing on it. I cut off its stirrups and put them on the Western Pacific car. I also replaced the stirrups on this red white and blue car.
Then replace the rapido trucks with micro train trucks and you no longer have junk cars.
Nothing new this week, just an older photo of the Dragon Products cement batch plant and storage silos on my layout
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Nice-looking cement plant George. I can see you worked hard on that.
One of the guys at my Railroad Club shared something with me. Even with micro train trucks on ore cars in N-Scale, do not look completely prototypical. I've heard of some guys putting Z scale body mount couplers on N-Scale cars, apparently it looks amazing. I'm not going to get that crazy. I've already spent a boatload of money on new MTL trucks.
This is what was shared at my train club. Prototypical ore cars have drawbars. You take a rapido coupler and cut the end off. Then you remove the cap, coupler and spring on the other end. Then the cars clip together.
Of course you want to replace the old junk rapido trucks with micro trains rapido trucks if you don't want your cars falling off the tracks everywhere. I don't suppose you would want to do this if you're prone to switching cars. But if you have a long ore train you store in your staging area, this really looks good.
Again nice looking stuff guys. Is there anybody out there?
It seems things were offline for a while here.
Frank & Kevin, Much thanks for the kind comments.
Bear, My pleasure, and thanks for sharing your pizza related memory. Countless times my memory has been pleasantly jogged by forum photos and links, reminds me of Bob Hope's old signature tune, "Thanks for the memory."
Everyone have a good week ahead, regards, Peter
Not a photo but a video update on my HOn3 Rio Grande Southern:
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Great start Dave, always like to see your work!!
I have been working on a central Valley Through Truss bridge for my Coors Brewery location. While it doesn't match exactly its a pretty good stand-in. I have since painted it silver and cut the abutments to the right height.
Here is the actual bridge that crosses Clear Creek. Photo Courtesy of Google Maps.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/