It's after midnight and I'm going to be busy tomorrow, so kicking this off now. We'll start with a nice shot of big power at the ready tracks in Durango.
Far removed from Durango at the oil fields near Snowden, the 454 is just pulling away from the Gramps loading racks with a shipment of crude bound for the Oriental refinery in Durango.
A short chase turned up this pic of 454 leading the crude into Crater Lake Junction.
The patches of green weeds are something I've been working on lately. I use a hole punch to cut bits of "turf" out of scraps of turf mats Then I dip the underside of each in tacky glue and tweezer it into place.
Final stop is In Eureka at the big Sunnyside Mill. The Oshkosh boom truck is showing off it's new pole trailer as the crew gets ready to head uphill to repair the tramway towers. The trailer was kitbashed from trailer parts found in the Hasegawa US Weapons Loading Set.
If anyone here will be in town for the Lincoln Square Train Show this weekend and wants to ses the layout, maybe run a few trains, look me up at the Illinois Terminal Division's booth to get directions to visit right after the show closes on Saturday. It's nearby.
So what's been on your workbench this week? You know you want us to gawk, so put up those pics.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Mike: Thank you for getting Weekend Photo Fun off to a great start. I like the hole punched grass tufts. Those look good, and I have the tool on hand to duplicate your efforts. I wish I was in Illinois this weekend, I would love to take you up on the invitation.
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I have been very busy with work, but I did manage to get a Mechanically Refrigerated Boxcar completed this week. It is just an Athearn Blue Box model that I painted because I wanted to test the way the black and silver STRATTON AND GILLETTE herald looks on an orange car. This freight car is destined to be donated to a hobby shop's in-store layout later this year.
Keep the pictures and inspiration coming. WPF keeps my productivity on track.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from cloudy, mild and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Mike, thanks for starting us out, I have one narrow guage locomotive left a Westside K27, which I hope to get painted someday. Nice Locomotive.
Kevin, good looking car, the NYC had a similar boxcar in their Early Bird Scheme, but a white background.
I managed to get a couple of cars done this week.
This is a Walthers 4427 CF PS Covered Hopper kit, substituting for a Bethelem Steel 4526 CF Car as we will get multiple vendors for the 4427 but no Bethelem car ever made. This is the first cars the Ann Arbor got after the DT&I took over the Ann Arbor from the Wabash, which had to divest the Ann Arbor due to the merger with the NKP and NW. The first use of the compass herald on the Annie. They were used in moving malt to breweries in Wisconsin via the car ferries.
A long involved story goes with this car. In 1972 the DT&I managed to get a new sand pit opened in Yuma, MI with them loading 20 cars a day for shipment to the Brook Park, OH Ford Engine casting plant. The DT&I supplied 100 - 100T PS 2600CF Covered Hoppers for this service to go with the Annie's existing 1958CF Covered Hoppers. After the DT&I divested themselves of the Annie after Conrail as they did not want to be involved with CR or any other railroad at the time, the Annie had to replace the 100 DT&I cars, so they leased some 77 Ton cars from Chicago Freight and 125 77 Ton ACF CH-29 Cars from the P&LE. This car is from an Eastern Car Work's pseudo CH-29 kit, but the lettering was a real problem. NYC fans will notice the capy and other lettering is from the NYC which I found on a Microscale P&LE set, the ferry in the fog came from the Herald King Caboose set and some from the 50' Boxcar letttering with the return to Yuma, MI lettering coming from a Highball Graphics DT&I set. Another neat thing was after Conrail and their loco shortage sometimes Ann Arbor power was used all the way to Brook Park.
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!
Mike- I like your scenery!
Kevin and Rick- nice looking cars! I don't know how you turn them out so fast.
The computer's acting up, and I have school work, so be back later or tomorrow.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
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Ive been moving to my new house, so I havent been able to do much. This was the first thing I've gotten done in forever-numbered the Scaletrains SD40T-2 into Wheeling and Lake Erie
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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).
Hi Rick: I always enjoy the story behind the freight car. You must enjoy looking for the prototype information and photos in order to duplicate them in models. Great job!
Mike
Mike, Thanks for opening the WPF. Liking your loading racks scene, ahh, the smell of hydrocarbons in the morning, smells like $$. And also the gasket punch multi-tasking, not to mention the pole trailer.
Rick, Very interesting info to go with your fine looking AA car, and a good reason to have an occassional 2 bay covered hopper visit my cast iron foundry.
Thanks to all the contributors and have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Mike - Thanks for starting off WPF. Some good looking photos. I'm going to appropriate the hole punch grass/weed cluster idea.
Kevin - Nice box car. The logo looks good to me.
Rick - I like the Ann Arbor car and the story to with it.
Jimmy - Nice looking loco.
Peter - Great looking scene. I particularly like the double-ender.
A short progression, al a Mike, from the BRVRR this weekend. And one from left field:
NYC GP-20 #6109 at the head of a short mixed freight passes under the Route 32 overpass and approaches the Redwing mill:
Passing the Redwing Mill.
Crossing over to the west bound main line near Barron's Fuel.
Rounding the Pasture Curve.
Westbound NYC #6109 at the Route 32 Crossing.
Santa Fe 4-8-4 #3761 with a stack deflector, at the head of an excursion passenger train rounds the curve at the West 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/
HarrisonKevin and Rick- nice looking cars! I don't know how you turn them out so fast.
I posted a new thread showing the mass painting procedures in the STRATTON AND GILLETTE railroad shops.
As always, great looking stuff here on the weekend. I know I've said it before but I always like seeing what everybody else is working on. I often get inspiration I can use from this thread.
Not much on my modeling front since the grain elevator project. I am working on some plans now for a Round House. I hope to get that kicked off the ground soon.
Nice work guys.
Track Fiddler
Ok- I'm finally back...
I did some scenery by the Boynton Ave. crossing in Plattsburgh, and installed the flashers.
A future project is to renumber and detail this pair of PAs.
My brother broke his leg recently, so I am building him a small N scale layout.
My friend keeps staging crashes on my layout. He is a model RRer, I think?
Me and my friend have been fixing up buildings for the next Adirondack diorama, to compete in the states.
Scene of the week: Folks at the hardware store busy with a local contractor.
Great stuff this week guys!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
It doesn't look like anybody's been posting on WPF today.
I've been working on the floor grate and the interior door that goes inside the shed on my grain elevator. They will go inside here, it's going to be difficult to do.
So far you can zoom in on everything and it looks OK. I don't want to mess that up.
TF