Good morning from Sunny and Hot Northeast Ohio!
This is a place to show your completed projects, work in progress or just old photos of your layout.
I got a little work done this last week!
First up is an Intermountain ACF 2980CF Covered Hopper Kit, substituted A-Line sill steps for the plastic ones in the kit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Car was ordered in 1977 and used in cement service on the Rio Grande.
Next is another Intermountain 50' PS 1 kit, the second I have done in this paint scheme. In 1966 the Rock Island ordered a number of these cars and this group came with end of car cushioning that I replicated using a Moloco Kit and again I substituted the sill steps with A-Line substitutes. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Oxide Red and Black Paints and lettered with Mask Island Decals.
Picture taken at the club with a mixed freight hauled by a pair of Athearn GP9's.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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Rick: Thank you for starting Weekend Photo Fun this week. I hope we are in for an active and inspiring weekend. Your two freight cars this week are very nice. The covered hopper lettering looks especially great. You did a fantastic job.
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This week I am presenting a fun boxcar project. There were a few railroads that rebuilt fishbelly frame boxcars with steel sides. I decided to have one too.
This freight car was built almost entirely from scrap box leftovers. The underframe is from an Intermountain Refrigerated Boxcar. The Ends are from Tichy, and the roof is from a Red Caboose kit.
I scratchbuilt the car sides from styreme. I added those nifty rivet decals to the support strips and I am very happy with the final results. Couplers, Wheels, and Trucks are all from Kadee.
I painted the car with Scalecoat II paint. The decals are a custom set from Donald Manlick.
There is no prototype for this car. I built what just looked right to me. I am very happy with this one.
You can click on the images for a larger view.
I hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday. Thank you for looking... happy weekend to everyone.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks for starting the WPF this Holiday Weekend, Rick.
I enjoy seeing your rolling stock. I miss the "ACI Tag" era
I also like your wood car rebuilds, Kevin. Of course, manyt of the War Emergency cars were built with wood sheathing and later converted to steel when it became available after the War. I recall many railroads buying "kits" for rebuilding their fleet.
I have several little pesky projects on the bench at the moment. One is this Kibri crane kit that I decided to build-up as a flat car load:
Crane_Menck by Edmund, on Flickr
Crane_Menck2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I may try to back-date the cab as this machine is rather modern for my era. It is still unpainted, of course and as other modelers have faced the challenge, the treads need to lose the "rubber-band" look!
I was inspired by this photo in my collection:
Shovel_crop by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great Stuff!
Cheers, Ed
Ed: Thank you for commenting on my freelanced boxcar rebuid.
For what it is worth: A dragline of that size likely would have been disassembled further for shipment.
The shovel in your second picture is much smaller, and shovels are not as heavy as draglines of a similar size.
The house and track frames would come off of the turret base. The track frames would likely be on one flat car. The boom sections would probably share a flatcar or gondola with the tracks, and perhaps the bucket as well. The house might ship alone depending on clearance. The turret frame would commonly be all alone on a flatcar.
Also, judging by the house size, you could easily have twice as much boom. The counterweight would be bigger for a longer boom, and then would probably ship alone as well.
Last item... your cab placement is not typical for a North American dragline. Almost all draglines in North Americal have the cab on the right side of the house. The Lima model 2400 is a noteable exception, but that model looks nothing like a Lima 2400. If it is easy to relocate, that would improve the appearance a lot.
I am not nitpicking, just offering up some knowledge that I have. You are free to take it or leave it as you wish.
I have assembled many cranes and draglines in the field. It is amazing how many loads a good sized crane can become. Even more if they are shipped by truck.
SeeYou190I am not nitpicking, just offering up some knowledge that I have. You are free to take it or leave it as you wish.
Thanks, Kevin
Being a millwright for a good part of my career I've done some rigging and lifting myself, hence my fascination with cranes and hoists. You can see several others in the first view.
The Menck in the photo was an impulse buy. I was really planning to use the bucket and boom and put the machinery house in a scrap yard. Then I toyed with the flat car load idea, which at this stage IS still just a proposal. The crawler base is still not attached to the machinery house, I was basically just checking clearances when I took the photo.
I may just stick with the booms mounted on the 52 foot flat car. Again the house and cab are of a more modern era. Kordan, of course made the wonderful, vintage Erie B2 and Artitec has several cranes of note but theirs are already assembled so it makes it difficult to modify.
Thanks, I really appreciate your help.
Pearl_7C_0017_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
NOV_2013_0007_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
CWW_jan29_0019 by Edmund, on Flickr
GEfaceAK_0010 by Edmund, on Flickr
GEfaceAH_0041 by Edmund, on Flickr
I sure do miss those days — sometimes.
Thank you, Ed
gmpullmanI sure do miss those days — sometimes.
Me too... sometimes as well.
I really miss being young, slender, and muscular.
This week I finished my little Nscale ship for my Fos wharf.
Just missing are the two big mast wich I need to scratchbuild to have something which is good looking..
All the superstructures and deck are finished.
The gray parts are the stock part of the kit modified or rearranged to fit the new design. ( this is an old Linberg kit of a "Q" ship produced in the 60's, scale was 1/390)
I will start to paint it this weekend
For the ones interested, I put on the layout building community all the story about building my Fos wharf.
The captain is already abord !
Marc: I saw the start of this ship project last week, and I really love it. Using the smaller scale ship with a scratchbuilt structure on board really resulted in a great looking model.
I am looking forward to the finished result. Thank you for sharing with us.
Rick, Thanks for firing off another WPF, nice work & shots, especially like the Rock boxcar.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Viva Le Tour and have a good weekend, regards, Peter
LOts of great stuff here this week, started off nicely by Rick's Rio Grande LO.
Been working on these pics most of the weekend, just a lot going on here right now. I wanted to bring the lens down low, as in eye level for HO. A traditional place to start almost any RR tour is at the main engine terminal, here it's in Durango.
Up the Silverton Branch another stop yields this low-level view from the station platform at Rockwood.
Onward to Silverton, where the MOW track at the terminal provided lots of interesting stuff to gaze upon.
#375 backed its local off the Silverton Northern branch into town just before we arrived.
We got tickets to ride the mixed to Red Mountain. This shot shows the dock scene that serves several businesses.
The next day's local returned to Animas Forks and our photog was on it. Our train brought in a skidder, shown here under the gantry crane waiting to be unloaded.
Finally we reached the end of the line at McKelveys General Store.
Hope everyone had a fun, safe, and relaxing 4th.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Peter: Good photograph of the cyclists competing.
Mike: Thank you for sharing the photo tour of your layout. That is all very good work for sure.
My favorite is the skidder on the flatcar waiting to be unloaded.
SeeYou190 Marc: I saw the start of this ship project last week, and I really love it. Using the smaller scale ship with a scratchbuilt structure on board really resulted in a great looking model. . I am looking forward to the finished result. Thank you for sharing with us. . -Kevin .
Kevin , I will publish pictures of the nearly finished and painted ship in the next WPF; I have also published on the layout construction community the ongoing construction of the wharf, the construction of the ship like others will be included in a near future.
Thanks for your kindly comments.
Marc
Great stuff everyone!
Nothing new on the BRVRR this week. Here is one from way-back (2008): New York Central Pike Sized Passenger Train.
Keep the photos and ideas comeing 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/
Ed & Kevin, Your crane posts have been very 'uplifting' & interesting.
Thanks, Peter