Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
APRIL 5 - 7, 2019
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.
I have a neat new freight car to start Weekend Photo Fun this week.
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This project started as an old Walthers kit for a "General Service Gondola". I do not know how old this kit is, but it was interesting to build. The castings that made up the gondola body were so thin that you could see through them.
I added a Tichy brake detail kit. I did not detail the underframe because I needed a place to add 2 1/2 ounces of weight. Sheet lead made this possible. I glued a sheet of plastic to the bottom of the lead weight, and then added brake detail there.
I also used Ticky grab irons to improve the appearance. The brass grab irons that came with the kit were way to thick. I also added A-Line stirrup steps at all four corners. The cast in step were awful, and as it turned out, also very brittle.
An Ertl bailed scrap metal load finished the car. I chose this load because it had open spaces that allowed clearance for the truck mounting and coupler mounting screws.
I painted and decorated this one for the imaginary PANTHER CREEK VALLEY RAILWAY in a light boxcar red.
Please keep photos coming. Weekend Photo Fun is a great place to let everyone see what you have been up to, what you have completed, or just a great photo you have taken.
Share away...
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from cloudy, mild and rainy Northest Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, car looks good considering where it came from.
Managed to finish up a couple of cars this week.
First is another DTI XI boxcar for the fleet of Campbell's Soup cars. The DT&I serviced the huge Campbell's Soup Plant in Napoleon, OH on the Tecumseh MI, branch. The branch was the main line until the Ford build Malinta cutoff was built back in the 1920's. These cars were rebuilt from ACF and Greenville 40' boxcars with the addition of plug doors and insulation to keep the canned goods from freezing. Car was an old Front Range kit that I used the plug door, then painted with Scalecoat II Armour Yellow, Boxcar Red and Aluminum paints then decaled with K4 decals.
The Rock Island in 1966 ordered 300 50' PS1 Combination Door Boxcars, with each group of 100 with different equipment, the first were plain jane cars, the second group had lading anchors etc. with the DF2 classification and the 3rd group which I modeled also had PS's end of car cushioning along with the DF2 lading anchors etc. I used a 50' IMRC PS1 kit which had both kinds of doors in it, added a Moloco End of Car Cushioning Coupler Pocket, A-Line Sill Steps. Painted wiht Scalecoat II Oxide Red and Black Paints and lettered with Mask Island decals.
And for the person that asked last week, I don't always get a lot done every week, I build up a backlog of finished kits then paint and decal while adding to the unfinished kit backlog. I think I started these back in January, but they did not get painted and decaled until this past week.
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!
Kevin and Rick- very detailed cars!
I made some bushes for the new corner scene.
I also finished up the static grass.
I took some filler material and sprayed it green to make some “hero” trees for the corner.
Photo of the week: Spotting cars at Georgia Pacific.
https://northcountrytrains.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/workin-on-the-railroad-scenery/
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
Being in a move to a new house, I haven't started on any new projects, so here's a photo of my Wheeling motive power fleet. I just need three more units
(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).
Greetings!
Kevin - thanks for kicking off WPF! Nice work on the gondola, looks good, especially the undercarriage.
Rick - always interesting to see your work.
Harrison - your "reworked" area is looking good, I'm sure it'll be a nice scene when you're done.
Jimmy - nice motive power, had to laugh at the "need" 3 more units. I'm sure your move will be over soon and you'll be back to railroading in no time.
It's been a few weeks since my last post on WPF, but it was the assembled boxcar kit and ready for paint. Here's the primer and an attempt at "pre-shading"
First layer of paint
Second layer
Final layer
apparently the boxcar has chameleon somewhere in it's family tree, here's an outdoor shot
The color is a little off from the proto, which is more of a reddish-orange, so I'll be working on a filter to bring the color around. I don't consider this a setback, just a slight snafu to work around. I think it's a cool color and wouldn't have any issue sticking with it.
Thanks, Terry
Inspired by Addiction
See more on my YouTube Channel
One of the railroads we model at Boothbay Railway Village is Grand Trunk which ran from Portland to Montreal. Finding factory painted GT equipment is about impossible; most things advertised as Grand Trunk are actually Grand Trunk Western (GTW). As Canadian National subsidiary, GT locomotives were painted in CN colors, so when Bachmann came out with a CN GP9, I took notice. A bit of searching turned up a GTW loco decal set that I could kitbash into GT. We bought 2, one to change to GT. GT trains often has CN locos in the consist, so I left the second as CN. To finish, I gave them a bit of light weathering.
GT 4456
CN 1720
Going through one of our storage boxes, I found a solid resin kit for a 1941 International panel truck. I painted and decalled it for Merril Transport, one of the big trucking companies in Maine
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Kevin, Sharp-looking gon, the kit baffles me, though.
Rick, Souper looking cars!
Harrison, Looks like you're enjoying things quite a bit.
Jimmy, Impressive fleet, especially considering you reworked and/or repainted most of them.
Terry, Good show.
George, Nice work.
What a week! The train show went great last weekend. Here's a pic of our booth.
One of my finds was a beaver pond by the Rustic Rails Div. of Musket Miniatures, which I have just the spot for.
Will take a little cutting and fitting, but plenty of room.
Then there was one of those old Walthers Dyno cars...
Not exactly Rio Grande, but it gave me an idea. What if it was about the right length to fit under a Walthers Troop Sleeper? So I found out. The result is here:
The video isn't the grestest at certain points, but not bad considering it was 1am and my wife was the engineer - sorry about the fast take-off!
Here's some more pics.
Looking in at the gauge, which is lit, controlled by a push button that protrudes theough the window of one of the end doors.
Eventually, I'll add a function-only decoder and add more lights inside, plus the two spotlights that go under the side "bay" windows. I'm also going to explore the possibility of changing the meter input to a strain gauge and see if I can get it to use Bluetooth to send the readings to my cell device.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
mlehmanOne of my finds was a beaver pond by the Rustic Rails Div. of Musket Miniatures, which I have just the spot for.
Mike, Musket Miniatures makes some great resin cast scenery items.
I look forward to the "after" picture of the beaver pond.
Kevin .... Your gondola with bailed scrap looks good. I hve one of those Ertl loads in one of my scrap gons, too.
Rick .... I certinly like both of your boxcars this week.
Harrison.... Good to see your progress with scenery.
Jimmy .... Impressive locomotive fleet .
Terry ... Thanks for sharing your boxcar painting project.
Mike L .... A beaver pond and a dyno car / troop sleeper. Interesting photos and video.
George ... The GT and CN GP9's look great. ... By the way, we are thinking of traveling to Maine, and I would be interested in seeing the Booth Bay layout.
A couple of weeks ago, there were comments in WPF about road switchers running long hood forward. I mentioned CB&Q GP's and SD's were equiped with dual controls, nd they were operated either way. These photos provide an example.
Here is GP7 210 headed up the branch line with long hood forward.
At the end of the line, there was no need to turn the locomotive around. Here it is hauling some freight cars back to the main line with short hood forward.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Qwe are thinking of traveling to Maine, and I would be interested in seeing the Booth Bay layout.
We are open from Memorial Day to Columbus Day. This is our website, but it in the process of being updated. I will be submitting photos for updating the Model RR page in a couple of weeks. Check the Explore tab to see the museum exhibits; the Events section is also being updated, check back on that one. We will be running our 2 foot gauge trains daily, some days with a diesel and others with steam. In additon to railroad, we have a nice antique auto museum, an old engine exhibit with stationary engines and about 100 outboard motors, and a number of restored buildings.
https://railwayvillage.org/
While you are in area, also be sure to visit the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington which is nearby. They have some orginal Maine made steam locomotives, and run on the orginal WWF right of way. They are an all vilunteer organization and are open only on weekends - check their Hours and Schedule page
http://wwfry.org/
The MicroMark catalog came this week. They had an ad for a "Super Buy" on an On30 MOW Derrick Car, page 86 .
Regular price $99.00, Super Buy price $7463.95
Could it be that it is April?
Hello all! So I have been working on a small water scene on my N scale expansion. I still have many details to add, but so far I am pleased with the results. Next step is to add some ripples and surface waves. Let me know what you think! Cheers
A view from the ocean, looking into shore. I built this Clipper while my water was setting up. one of the most detailed builds I have done to date:
20190405_211725 by John Collins, on Flickr
A view from the beach looking out to Sea. More people and features will bring thid to life:
20190405_211820 by John Collins, on Flickr
Looking down from the mountain onto the Bay:
20190405_212430 by John Collins, on Flickr
I hope you enjoy. Thanks for looking.
- John Collins
One last update before I hit the sack for the evening.... Surface ripples have been added, tomorrow I place some waves. Cheers!
20190406_001401 by John Collins, on Flickr
Kevin, Thanks for the WPF start-up, nice work on the gon, those little details really set the model off.
Terry, Wow, what a difference light source makes. Does "work on a filter" mean applying a light wash?
Garry, Like the viaduct shots and how the train is dwarfed by the canyon scenery.
John, Good go on the fishing boat.
Thanks to all the contributors. Have a good weekend and regards, Peter
Nice bridge shot, Garry!
I laid a bit of track this past week. Here's a short (33 seconds) video of a loco testing a new curve...
(Mods, if this isn't good for WPF, delete it and please let me know)
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Went to Timonium this weekend and the Clydesdales were there for some other function. At least 2 tractor trailers and a van.
There were several new dealers including a couple that are making laser buildings that aren't enormously expensive. There was also a company that had a big display of FSM parts. If you wanted a lathe and a drill press for your engine house, it was cheaper than 3D prices.
One of them was selling flexible stone and brick sheeting, that was 3D, it had depth at $2 a sheet!
The white elephant table had some nice but not cheap weathered gondolas with rusty loads and mini junkyard scenes, which is a bit unusual. I needed a gondola but instead bought a Bowser kit for a 40' for $10.
Had lunch with a former colleague who told me the following story about a surgeon we worked with. Martin was doing his surgical training at a hospital in Seoul, when the Chinese tanks came rolling into town. The hospital staff watched the spectacle from the front steps.
Martin survived the hostilites, married a gynecologist, and came to the US where they worked, raised a family, lived the American dream in Maryland. They retired to Florida where his wife died a couple years later. He went back to Korea, where he found the woman who was standing next to him at the hospital on that day. They have now been married 10 years.
She was not an old flame, because she says she never would have gone out with him, nor would her parents have allowed it, because Martin had a "country" accent. South Korea is 1/4 the size of California. How many accents can there be? There's a bunch in the UK. All those accents get filtered out when you learn a new accent.
What are the odds of finding anyone you knew, 50 years after you left the country, much less someone where both of you wanted to marry each other?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Mark,
If anything, show us more! Great stuff to see that big loco testing. And your cinematography is miles ahead of my shaky stuff.
Hi Peter! Yes, I'm trying a series of light washes to build up to something that looks close to the color. Thanks for your inquiry.
Terry
John, Your water scene looks great. Nicely done.
Mark, What model is your 2-10-2?
Your ability to pan the shot with the locmotive is amazing.
Mike and Kevin,
All I did was mount my cellphone on a tripod and manually pan the phone to follow the loco. Very easy to do (otherwise I couldn't have done it).
The loco is a P2K Heritage model, about 12 years old.
Mr. Mikado, Peter, and Mark P. ... Thanks for your kind remarks about my photos.
George ... Thanks for the information.
John C .... Your water scene with bridges looks fabulous.
Peter .... Your beautiful downtoen scene reminds me of the artist, Norman Rockwell. Love it!
Mark .... I enjoyed the video of CB&Q 6302. I have number 6303 also by Walthers Proto Heritage.
Kevin - Thanks for starting off WPF. Thats a good looking gondola.
Rick - More great looking cars.
Harrison - You are obviously working hard.
Jimmy - Thats quite a collection of motive power. The "Need 3 more units" statement rings a bell. I know the feeling.
Terry - Nice boxcar. I like the color too.
George - Good looking locos. Nice little panel truck.
Mike - The beaver pond looks to be a good project. The gage car is cool.
Garry - Good looking Burlington locos. The bridge is impressive. Well done.
John - Good looking water scenes.
HOVelo - Nice quiet street scene. Looks like a movie set. When does the action start.
Mark - Good Vid. Impressive camera work.
To comment on Jimmy's "Need 3 more units" statement:
There are three more locos on the layout and I have a "couple" more locos on order.
I've been toying with building an excursion train around my grandson's Challenger. Here is the motive power, there are 10-cars in the consist so far.
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/