Welcome! Winter still has its icy grip on many of us — some worse than others!
Hopefully some of us can use this time indoors for some model railroad projects
I've had this brass Soho Fourteen-section Pullman on the paint shop list for over a year! Glad to have it running on some of my PRR secondary overnight trains.
Pullman_14Section by Edmund, on Flickr
And a future paint shop project showed up yesterday. An Overland New York central S-3 motor:
NYC_S3_Overland by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_S3a_Overland by Edmund, on Flickr
There were still a few of these running on the NYC's electrified zone from Grand Central to Harmon when I was there in 1971. In later years these were used as switchers in the coach yards of Mott Haven and for relaying trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal. The later S-3s were built in 1909!
NYC133 by Edmund, on Flickr
This will join one of my earlier, NJ Custom Brass models:
IMG_6943_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great contributions!
Cheers, Ed
Great looking engine, Ed! Ive always liked little electric locomotives, but I don't know a lot about them. Were these all electric? Fantastic job on the Passenger car too!
This week I've been playing around with track plans and I think i've made my decision.
Spur is going to be a small lumber yard and there will be a creek somewhere in there with a small trestle crossing it. Not sure if it will run under the mainline or the spur. Still need to play around with some building configurations.
Lets see some more good work this weekend!
Good morning from partly sunny and cold Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Ed, great looking models! (Where's the 3rd Rail?)
Tichy Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Silver (with couple of drops of green paint), Reading Green and Tamiya Earth paints, lettered with decals that came with the kit. After the NKP/Wabash/N&W merger the N&W sold the Wabash Panel Side Hoppers to the Anderson's Company, who added the extensions to the top of the car with tie downs for canvas coverings to protect the grain as it was shipped from the elevator in Maumee, OH to the Anderson's facility on the Maumee River in Toledo, OH. I used to see solid trains of these cars go past my house on the old NKP/Wabash joint line in Toledo.
Athearn 50' Seico Built boxcar kit, painted with Floquil DH10 Caboose Red and Scalecoat II Silver paints then lettered with Herald King Decals. The Raritan River was an 11 mile shortline jointly owned by the CNJ and PRR (PC) that was to be absorbed into Conrail in 1976, but they sued to stay out of Conrail and eventually lost the suit in 1980. These were IPD cars to get the railroad extra funds and were absorbed into Conrail in 1980.
Since I got my new Flexi-Flows last week I took them to the club and had them right behind my NYC C-430's along with a general freight consist.
Thanks for all the nice comments last week, and all the other great work that was shown by the participants in last weeks thread.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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Ed .... I like the Pullman sleeper and the NYC S3 electric locomotive.
Ringo ... It is good you are making progress with your layout.
Rick ... The hopper and boxcar look great. I also like the C430's.
My photo has an F9Am and a F3B .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Ed - Thanks for starting WPF. The Pullman car is really nice. The little electric locos are cool
Ringo - Progress. Good luck with the water feature.
Rick - An unusual hopper. Love the red box car. It stands out! Nice photo of the C-430s. Great looking layout.
Garry - Love the Burlington locos.
A continuation of my light standard project from last week. These lights have slightly larger gussets and are a little more stable. Now to find a place for them on the layout.
Ran a Santa Fe passenger consist with my BLI F3 locos and a short freight train with my F7s. Here is the freight train in motion. Sorry for the slight blur, I guess the shutter speed isn't fast enough.
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/
Great Stuff Guys!Ed: I hope my Lounge car turns out at least half as good as your Pullman.Ringo: Looking good, is that lunch in the bowl?Rick: That is one sharp looking bridge!!Garry: Like the touch of weathering, looks great.
Allan: Can't wait to see the street light on your layout, lit up.
I got my two donor diner shells Tuesday and the one I’m kitbashing last Saturday. This is what happens when old shaky Mel starts modifying things.I moved two windows and added two more on this side and three on the other side. This is going to be a large area lounge car when its finished. Got more ladies coming from Shapeways on Saturday and Parlor chairs due late next week. Thanks for the help Ed, he gave me the link to the parlor chairs that he uses. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Excellent work by all.
Ed - Love the S3
Ringo - I like it
Rick - TF will want to see more of the bridge.
Garry - Love the locos and scenery.
Allan - Looking fod.
Mel - Interedting kit-bashing.
Not done much myself. Bought three containers that were 'Triang Toys/Pedigree Prams. One in good condition. Took the decals of the other two and added Craigellachie ones.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Hey finally! I have something to show other than construction!
Here's a flatcar I plopped down at the end of a newly-ballasted (and not yet cleaned-up) spur in my main yard at Casper:
The track bumper ties need painting a the ballast/dirt mound enlarged a bit, but...
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Ed, enjoy the NYC motors and betterment car.
Ringo, look forward to the spur coming to life.
Rich, great paint jobs on the freight cars.
Garry, enjoy the scenery and the F-unit lashup.
Allan, love the Warbonnet diesels.
Working on my Sunset N5b and getting the lettering done. The EASTERN REGION decals are not as centered as they should be, but I'll either redo, or ignore. Leaning towards ignore. I had to get another set of decals and will be applying the rest later tonight. And I'll post pics!
Alvie
cats think well of meThe EASTERN REGION decals are not as centered as they should be, but I'll either redo, or ignore.
Don't feel bad, Alvie, you're in good company
PRR_5012X by Edmund, on Flickr
I got the number and the assignment offset somehow. After a while I don't even notice!
Thanks to everyone for the great contributions
Plenty of time for more...
old pic i found of the 757
Decals are I think done on the N5b model.
gmpullman gmpullman wrote the following post 3 hours ago: cats think well of me The EASTERN REGION decals are not as centered as they should be, but I'll either redo, or ignore. Don't feel bad, Alvie, you're in good company
Things can start out homely and end up OK. Case in point is my latest aircraft over the layout, a Canadair CL-415. It's N scale, so somwhat smaller than my usual fare. I especially mangled the canopy. The paint and decaling are up to my usual low standard. Still, at 3 feet, she looks good on her way to the local foresty fire.
This is a CL-415 in French Civil Defense service livery. These planes are often leased among nation's on a reciprocal basis when fires flare strongly, as no nation can afford to keep the size of fleet needed in the air under such contingencies. I sorta doubt a French one could make it back to this side of the pond, but perhaps it did, something that anyone with a similar prototype might find useful. There's also a 1/72 version of this kit that might work for O or S scale layouts. Since I model the Durango & Silverton, I actually have a forest fire problem to deal with considering the steam that is also part of the mix up to the present day.
I'm slowly building my fire fighting crew. I have a decent Walthers pumper set up for back country fires, plus a Hughes 500 copter from Matchbox in some indeterminate scale in fire department paint to serve as a spotter for the Cl-415 and other aircraft and helos dumping water on the blaze. Here's a pic of them working together.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Ed: Thank you for starting weekend photo fun. That NEW YORK CENTRAL S3 is truly an iconic locomotive. There was a recent thread about an HO scale boxcar that looked like a Lionel box car. The NYC S3 looks like Lionel "Standard Gauge" to me. I love them.
Ringo: I also do my track planning in full size by experimentation. Drawing plans does not work well for me.
Rick: Great job on the Tichy Anderson hopper car. I built one a few years ago and lettered it for the OMAHA WESTERN "The Wheat Line". The resin casting for the tarp made the model kind of top heavy, and it tended to wobble on the rails. I hope yours does not do that.
Garry: I always love to see pictures of your layout and equipment.
Allan: No doubt about it, lit-up scenes with lighting are great. I hope the lamps work well for you.
Mel: It looks like you are off to a good start with the passenger car kit bashing.
David: Those are great looking containers.
Mark: Thank you for sharing the first picture of a scene on your layout. Looking good.
Alvie: Believe me, once the trains are running you will never notice the slight error on the decals. Many are the things that look like big mistakes on the workbench but cannot be noticed on the layout.
Thomas: Thank you for sharing the picture of the NKP Berkshire. It is a great locomotive.
Mike: The fire fighting plane looks good. That is some very nice scenery you have.
I have nothing new to share this week, but here is a STRATTON AND GILLETTE caboose at night.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Ed, Thanks for getting the WPF rolling with an interesting locomotive, in the later years of the S-Motor's service I like to think her maintenance crew as curators as well as mechanics.
Mike, Looking good, a fleet of those 'water bombers' would more than come in handy here in Calif. during the long fire season.
Took the plunge with artist tube oil paints in adding rust effects to the roof of CN 408024. I like oil's long working time, ease of movement, thinning and subtraction. Was an exercise in patients with the oil's long drying time and required a couple applications of Dullcote to kill the glossy finish.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good and safe weekend, regards, Peter
Took a bit of break from Union Station to make the North Yard Rail Office Building. I designed the building using photos and google maps to get the basic building dimensions. I used my laser cutter to engrave all the bricks and then painted all the walls with a mixture of orange red and white paint to get the brick color I liked.
I then when over the bricks with watered down drywall spackle for the mortor lines.
I made the sign from black and orange acrylic again cut on the laser. The sign is back lit using LED' strip lighting. The photo shows the lighting to be uneven but it really doesn't look like that in person.
Here is the building assembled. Still have to fabricate all the windows and the upper doghouse sign and trim. After that its all the roof details and ladders.
I did get back to the station this weekend and finally got some paint on the thing.
I still need to paint the base with a red sandstone color.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Enjoying that Union Station facade immensely. Looking forward to seeing the model come together.
Ed- thanks for starting and that's a neat brass model.
Mike- those aircraft are awesome!
The only thing I have to offer this week is a livestream I was on. It's rather long, and we do talk about the D&H probably too much, but here it is for those interested.
https://youtu.be/HRyRmEtZ1TE
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
This weekend I made myself a magnetic board for building on. (I glued a sheet of steel to a board.)
I have also been working on the roof of my water tower.
-HG
gmpullman Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun February 19, 2021 through February 21, 2021 All Are Welcome! Welcome! Winter still has its icy grip on many of us — some worse than others! Hopefully some of us can use this time indoors for some model railroad projects I've had this brass Soho Fourteen-section Pullman on the paint shop list for over a year! Glad to have it running on some of my PRR secondary overnight trains. Pullman_14Section by Edmund, on Flickr And a future paint shop project showed up yesterday. An Overland New York central S-3 motor: NYC_S3_Overland by Edmund, on Flickr NYC_S3a_Overland by Edmund, on Flickr There were still a few of these running on the NYC's electrified zone from Grand Central to Harmon when I was there in 1971. In later years these were used as switchers in the coach yards of Mott Haven and for relaying trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal. The later S-3s were built in 1909! NYC133 by Edmund, on Flickr This will join one of my earlier, NJ Custom Brass models: IMG_6943_fix by Edmund, on Flickr On to more great contributions! Cheers, Ed
Is that a Railway Classics Creek series observation? I'm curious.
I enjoy the excellent examples offered up. The detailed freight cars really catch my attention.
This week I assembled the 4 black Accurail 55T hoppers in the photos. Simple to assemble, plus Kadees, metal wheelsets and weathered wheels and trucks. I'm adding coal loads per the red hopper example. The coal load floor is a piece of styrene. The shape is a bit of Sculptamold and then Ariz Rock & Minerals real coal gets glued atop. The red car is the example, the new black cars get the coal added Monday.
20210220_132447 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
20210221_190501 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Nice work, everyone. There's a lot of modeling talent on display this weekend.
York1 John
TheFlyingScotsmanEd, Is that a Railway Classics Creek series observation? I'm curious.
You have a keen eye, Scotsman. I couldn't afford the 8 car set when it was released but I did treat myself to Sandy Creek (first wife's name was Sandy).
It is certainly a fine model and I see other cars from the set going for the neighborhood of $700 give-or-take.
Century_Sandy-w by Edmund, on Flickr
Century_sm by Edmund, on Flickr
She's a looker, allright! Thanks for asking
Great contributions this weekend, folks! Hope to see you again next week...
GREAT WORK TO EVERYONE
gmpullman TheFlyingScotsman Ed, Is that a Railway Classics Creek series observation? I'm curious. You have a keen eye, Scotsman. I couldn't afford the 8 car set when it was released but I did treat myself to Sandy Creek (first wife's name was Sandy). It is certainly a fine model and I see other cars from the set going for the neighborhood of $700 give-or-take. Century_Sandy-w by Edmund, on Flickr Century_sm by Edmund, on Flickr She's a looker, allright! Thanks for asking Great contributions this weekend, folks! Hope to see you again next week... Cheers, Ed
TheFlyingScotsman Ed, Is that a Railway Classics Creek series observation? I'm curious.
Now I have on the stocks a Walthers Creek series which I am going to attempt to detail as far as I can get to the one you have, but again the colour match with the older NYC sleepers isn't great which I dare say is a deliberate ploy to stop the skinflints like me adopting this plan
Having had the Railway Classics though the dead-eyed look of the Walthers '48 Century with no blinds and mono-coloured interiors would take some graft to get right, but I may have a go.
it's always great to see some beautiful varnish pictured and the handy-work of yourself and Antonio etc on here. I think interest in the passenger scene is not as strong these days.
Hang onto that one though. It's fabulous.