Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
JULY 19 - 21, 2019
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project, layout progress, or just a great photo of your model trains..
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, completed or in progress.
Last week was great week for Weekend Photo Fun, I hope we have another good one.
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I don't know why there are gray bars all over this post. I hope you guys do not see them. It looks weird on my end.
I present to you a brand new CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN 40 foot boxcar with a couple of "in progress" shots showing the weathering of this car.
-Kevin
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Living the dream.
Good morning from Sunny and Hot Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, the gray bars are showing up on my phone, but the entire post is gray on the computer. Nice work on that boxcar.
I managed to complete a couple of cars this week.
First is Atlas ACF 3650 Covered Hopper, where I removed the cast on roofwalk and installed Plano Supports and Roofwalk along with the walkover platforms over the couplers, removed the reinforcing rib at the top of the car as the ICG cars were delivered without this rib. Painted the car with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Dan Kohlbergs ICG Decals. Car was used for materials that were heavier than cement but lighter than gray like soda ash etc.
Next, I did a second Intermountain Railway FMC 5283CF Double Door Boxcar kit for the MILW. Car was painted with Floquil GTW Blue paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Purchased for the lumber trade out of the Pacific Northwest, cars were sold to the BAR after a couple of years.
A couple of Kato PC SD45's with a general freight train, the first cars are sand cars from the Ann Arbor being forwarded to the Ford Brook Park Casting Plant outside of Cleveland.
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 ..... Thanks for starting Photo Fun . Your boxcar looks great.
Rick .... YOur covered hopper and boxcar are excellent. Nice phto of the PC SD45's.
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Here is a picture of my old grist mill with an SD9 above it.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Kevin, While your boxcar is unreal, I sure like it.
Rick, Nice work on the ICG LO.
GARRY, Like that grist mill, although it looks like low water may have left them hoping for some electricity, some day.
The hot news around here are the UFO "rumors." While some argue the pics that seem to prove the matter, others say the pics are fake. The folks over at the uranium mill claimed that one was parked dead center in the driveway when the day shift showed up one morning this week. When they called the sheriff to have it towed, he advised since it was on private property, it was up to them to get it towed.
Before the office manager could get a call in to the tow company, the darn thing just flew off.
A short time later, a wlidlife biologist who was observing what he thought were beavers working on their dam and lodge took this pic of what he thought at first was going to be some sort of crash landing by a UFO. It wasn't; more on his astounding discovery soon!
What has convinced some were mysterious reports of livestock disappearances that seemed bogus until this group of pics showed up
It also appears that there are at least 2 of these "flying saucer" things. Whatever they are, they seem to be making off with members of the local burro community. This finally got the attention of law enforcement, who see burro theft as fitting the definition of horse thievery - and the punishment for that is often a "neck-tie party" especially if the local vigilantes get their hands on whoever is piloting these objects.
Stay tuned, we haven't got to the bottom of this alien issue yet...
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Thanks for starting off WPF Kevin. The Chicago Southern car looks good to me.
Rick - Nice looking cars as usual. The PC SD-45s look good too. Not something you see every day.
Garry - The grist mill is cool. Overshot wheel I see. I once worked in a grist mill. Even helped build the dam for the undershot wheel. The water powered wheel drove a stone grinding mill. We made all kinds of stone ground flours to sell to the tourists.
Mike - Don't you think the UFOs are getting out of hand. Fortunately, they seem to be concentrating on the animal life. I like the beaver house and dam, with or without the flying saucers.
I've been working on updating my website and on the new Black River Station. Below are a couple of new photos for comparison.
After looking at the new station for awhile, the narrow wooden platform surrounded by the 'concrete' extension looked kind of hokey to me:
I decided to eliminate the wooden section of the platform together with the station base and make a new platform/base from styrene. Here is a front view of the revised platform:
Here is a rear view of the station:
I think it looks much better. Still alot to do, but a good start.
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/
Kevin- good looking cars as always
rick- the Kato units look great, they really compliment your scenery work in the pic
Garry- nice Gristmill who made it
mike- so the ufo phenomenon hits your area as well.
Allan- that platfrom really finishes off the scene so far
Heres what I've got. I had some extra decal paper, so I decided to redo an OCS car I decaled before. I didn't like how faded the lettering was on it previously, so, stripped off the home decals, and printed new ones up. here is where I stand at present.
yes, I redid my Wheeling and Lake Erie 1990. I re sprayed the orange, since the previous color was too dark. I'm also planning to put individual windows in opening. The old decals were too faded and inledgible
MUCH BETTER!
Well the interior is getting redone as well. I ordered a bunch of seats from Red Cap Line, and love them. ignore any loose seats, they still need to be glued down. Also, the inside walls are getting another coat of paint.
I am having a friend with a 3D printer, print out custom counters for this car, which the lines on the floor mark. There will be counters, and a kitchen interior.
Now we move to the main sitting area of the car. There are 12 swivel seats here, that actually turn, a coffee table and a bathroom.
Here see the bathroom below.
Remember, the walls are getting a second coat. Also, the windows will each also feature a tray for each individual seat in the main area. To do:
install custom 3D printed stuff
repaint the roof.
Touch up the walls
glue down the seats
get the Fox Valley Models light bar working again
install custom cut window panes.
(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).
Mike L .... Thanks for commenting on my grist mill. .... IS your layout in the Tilight Zone or what ?
Alan .... Thanks for your remark about my scene. Your station platform idea is a good one. It looks very good.
Jimmy .... Very nice work on the coach .... I made the grist mill a lot of years ago from a kit with wood pieces. I don't recall the name of the kit manufacturer.
Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with your handsome boxcar.
Mike L, Hopefully those saucers don't have Gort aboard.
Viva Le Tour, the road turns up.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers and have a good weekend.
Regards, Peter
More great stuff a showin' up Gents, and really like the UFO Story! We once had a UFO visit our layout, Mt Hood RR, but it disappeared and no one knows where it went! Sheesh, maybe they are real!
Jimmy B, If you've got UFO pics, too, then things are getting weird.
GARRY, If it's Twilight Zone qualities in a model railroading context you see, then I'm in mighty fine company. I do like things a little strange, like my penchant for narrowgauge diesels, so UFOs are not too much of a conceptual leap.
Peter, I think Gort is gonna find that UFO a tight fit (it may be a narrowgauge UFO), but he/she/it may have a solution up their sleeve yet, like a shrinky ray. Come to think of it, a shrinky ray would be very handy for a bunch of modeling projects! Bikers look great, hoping it's not so hot there in the mountains as it is here!
Don, They are hard to catch on film, like other denizens of the Great Northwest like DB Cooper and Big Foot. Some say they tend to show up when humankind is under stress and needs help. Oooh boy, could we use some help.
Good morning, folks.
Great stuff as always! Thanks for opening things up this weekend, Kevin. I like that combination plug/sliding door on your car. Good to see you getting some modeling time in, Jimmy Hat's off to all the other good folks, too!
Part of my "modeling" this week was mopping up some water that had poured in from the basement window (again!). Last fall this happened when we got almost four inches of rain in less than two hours. I thought I had the problem taken care of but... guess not!
I did manage to put some stripes and lettering on a nice looking Soho PRR D85ad Budd diner.
PRR_4525 by Edmund, on Flickr
Soho is somewhat on the budget side of brass passenger cars but this one sure cleaned up nice I added glazing, Plano Venetian blinds and a hand-grab over the aisle windows plus put a partition for the kitchen aisle. For some reason the gold lettering seems to disappear under the lighting in the above photo.
PRR_4525b by Edmund, on Flickr
Last week I had a visit from a UFO—
Otis by Edmund, on Flickr
...that's an Unruly Feline: Oversized!
Still more weekend left. On to more great stuff!
Thanks, Ed
mlehman The hot news around here are the UFO "rumors." While some argue the pics that seem to prove the matter, others say the pics are fake. The folks over at the uranium mill claimed that one was parked dead center in the driveway when the day shift showed up one morning this week. . . . we haven't got to the bottom of this alien issue yet.
The hot news around here are the UFO "rumors." While some argue the pics that seem to prove the matter, others say the pics are fake. The folks over at the uranium mill claimed that one was parked dead center in the driveway when the day shift showed up one morning this week.
. . . we haven't got to the bottom of this alien issue yet.
There was a movie a few years ago starring Jeff Daniels about a group of goofy hunters in the UP of Michigan. They seemed to see a lot of UFOs and even had alien encounters. Of course, they drank moonshine mixed with maple syrup out of mason jars and I think that might have had something to do with it . . .
Sorry for the interruption. Please carry on with the great photos.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Thanks to everyone that commented on my new freight car this week.
I have been busy with the layout segment project for the last couple of days. An update is coming...
On the subject of UFOs... we don't have any around here. However, about ten years ago that crazy old scientist that lives out on route 3 claims he shot down a Nazi spyplane with a magnetic Rip-Cannon he invented. Some people say the wreckage is still in his back 40.
Hello everybody,
Sunny sunday here in Belgium; very fine weather.
I worked hard the last three days on my Fos wharf in N scale.
All the houses are finished now, painted wheathered and ready to be put definitively on the wharf.
The wharf itself is nearly complete, a full day work to put all the pillings and the cross members in place; missing are the big pilling outside the wharf which protect it from ships.
Guy's beleive me there is a real forest under this small wharf and I will wait a bit before building a new one.
( see more on the layout building community of the MR site "Fos Wharf")
Goed werk!!!
Mister Mikado Goed werk!!!
Agreed, Marc has a great hand. I really like the De Nayer Lobster sign.
mlehman Mister Mikado Goed werk!!! Agreed, Marc has a great hand. I really like the De Nayer Lobster sign.
Thanks for your kindly comments.
The small lobster which is less than 8mm is a whithe metal casting coming from a laser kit of Blair Mills in N scale.
This is part of my huge leftover pieces of kit which I have build since 45 years.
For people which are interested to find such things, the children cheap jewelery is a good source; the oysters on the red building comes from these like the anchor on the blue Magnus building.
They are fine to use in N scale.