Weekend Photo Fun 5-7 June 21.

["JaBear"]

 

Gidday All, it’s a cool clear Friday evening and looks like a frost for the morning, but the fires lit, and as it’s Queens Birthday Weekend, I’m ready for three days off. Now, as I was allowed to commemorate last weekend’s Memorial Weekend, I’m reasonably certain that HRH won’t mind if I share this long weekend with all of you.

 

Sometime ago the late Randy Rinker started three threads which were around kit bashing open hoppers into covered hoppers which were particular to the READING.

 

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/206090.aspx

 

As a result of those threads I kit bashed from a Brazilian prototype open hopper this freelanced covered hopper.

 

LRR8009 by Bear, on Flickr

 

I’m uncertain if Randy actually finished them, I recall that one of his dogs had a bit of a gnaw on at least one, but with his passing, I realised I had no READING cars, and to honour his memory, I’d have a crack at three. The Accurail 50 foot Monon box car was a “warm up” earlier in the week.

 

RDG by Bear, on Flickr

 

Looking forward to your really Good Stuff,

 

Have a Great One, ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[NorthBrit]

Thanks for starting WPF, Bear.

A great start with the hopper and Reading cars.

 

I have been busy with building new rolling stock

A six wheeled Brake/3rd (Class)  Clerestory coach in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery  to go with my four wheeled 1st/3rd (Class) coaches.

 

 

Will post more later.

 

David

[gmpullman]

Thanks for setting up the first WPF of June, Bear!

Great stuff on those covered hoppers 

You have a great scene David with all the colorful vegetation and passing carriages!

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One last look at that signal scene. This week I got a chance to ballast the few remaining feet of track leading into Union Station and put up a barrier at the end of the pavement at the Post Office yard:

PRR_Signal-View-4 by Edmund, on Flickr

At the suggestion from another forum member in the Milk Trains thread I picked up a pair of unique Overland milk trailers:

MDT_Milk-trailer-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Now the fun begins to attempt to scratch/bash a proper express flat car with turntables 

MDT_Milk-trailer by Edmund, on Flickr

On to more great weekend photos!!

Cheers, Ed

[Jimmy_Braum]

Great work all.

 

I've been still playing with the printer, and progresed to building rolling stock. I'll post a better photo later,but here's a 58ft flat car in mow service. The other parts include a five gallon water cooler, a scale cooler, and a portable welder. 

[NorthBrit]

Lovely work Ed  and the milk tanker looks good.

Jimmy.   An interesting flat car.

 

Further to my earlier post.

A Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Baggage Brake Van of 1879.   Decals yet to apply.   Baggage Brake Vans were seen at the end of a rake of carriages up to around 1924.  After 1924 a large number were convertred to Horse Boxes;  some lasting into the 1950s

 

 

Two London & North Western Railway coaches.   A six wheeled all 1st (Class) four compartment coach  and a three compartment four wheeled 1st/3rd (Class)  coach.

 

 

Note the different heights of the coaches  -  typical of the time.

 

David

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Bear ...... The covered hopper looks good. 

Dsvid .... I like your station platform with the passengers. I do see the different heights of the coaches. Do shorpeopel ride in one coach and tall people ride in the other? 

Ed .... The milk tank trailer looks very nice. The ballast in your first picture looks good. 

Jimmy ..... Your 3D prining is impressive. 

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My 2-10-2 continues down the line with its freight train. 

 

[dti406]

Good morning from partly sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!

Bear, thanks for starting us out, unique car, they NYC had some where they just added a roof with no extension to some coal hoppers.

Dave, a couple of nice shots, I had not thought about it but we also had some tall and regular passenger cars here also.

Ed, I wondered if you would bite on those tank trucks, now if you make a flat car work with them.

Jimmy, good work on that flat, can't wait to see the finished procuct.

Garry, like 2-10-2's impressive picture!

 

Athearn 40' HY-Cube finished with Scalecoat II Tuscan Red, Black and Silver paints, then lettered with Herald King Decals. SP had two classes of 40' Hy-Cubes, one for applicance service, and this one for shipping finished copper.

Front Range TOFC Flat Conversion from Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Oddballs Decals. When the 45' trailers came out the Southern was trying to get away from only one trailer on a 89' flat and came up with the converted boxcar idea as they had scads of old 50' boxcars without work.

Also painted with Scalecoat II Silver and White paints the trailer, which was then lettered with Microscale Decals.

Also did a few loads!

Duha Transformer load installed on an Exactrail Depressed center flatcar.

Jaeger corrugated pipe load installed on 50' gondola.

Athearn NKP GP9's with a general freight on the Strongsville Club layout.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[York1]

Bear, thanks for starting us this weekend with a nice covered hopper project.  I'm in the market for some covered hoppers right now.

David, as always, thanks for great photos of the scenes on your English railroad.

Ed, the signal looks great, and you've done an excellent job ballasting.  That's another thing I can learn more about to get better results.

Jimmy, nice 3D work.  On another thread, Steve Otte has suggested that modelers submit articles to Model Railroader.  Maybe you should think about sending in some information about your 3D work.

Garry, I really like your background buildings.  They fill the scene so well.  That's another thing for me to work on.

 

I've had another week of no layout work.  Warm weather means outdoor projects.  This is a photo of one of my first attempts at scratchbuilding, and one that suggested to me that maybe I should have picked HO instead of N.  The City of Los Angeles is taking on passengers in the evening.

 

[York1]

Rick, I think you posted while I was writing my post.  As always, your work is amazing.  You're another modeler who maybe should submit your work to MR with your excellent work on rolling stock.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Rick .... Thanks for commenting on my pciture. ...Your boxcar and TOFC flatcar look great. I like the NKP Geeps. 

John York 1 .... Thank you for your remarka baout my photo. I like that passenger station. 

[BRVRR]

Bear - Thanks for the WPF start. Your hopper looks good. Unusual to say the least.

David - I love your scenes and equipment. Both are a welcome change to the usual.

Ed - Great scene. The signals are magnificent. The milk trailers are unusual. Nice find.

Jimmy - Cool. You are getting the hang of your printer. That is truely a different flat car.

David - The scenes are really good as usual. The rolling stock interesting.

Garry - Good scene, busy. The big steamer looks good.

Rick - Good work on the TOFC. The other cars are impressive too. Love the GP9s nand the freight train.

John - Your structure looks better than many kit structures I have seen. Good Work!

Not much new on the BRVRR. Summer is here and outside chores take up most of my free time. I found a hobby shop in the most unlikely place the other day. Found two new cars for the railroad at very reasonable prices:

Burlington Northern 50' Insulated Boxcar #747954.

Seaboard Coast Line 50' Insulated Boxcar #494652.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

[HO-Velo]

Bear,  Thanks for opening the WPF.  Liking your hopper car, interesting and delightfully grimy.  The more model railroading photos and long weekends the better.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and Queen's Birthday, regards, Peter

["JaBear"]

Ed, that signal scene looks good, and for a moment I got all excited because beer tanker sprung to mind. However, I do recall having seen a photo, can’t remember whether it was of the prototype or modelled of those milk trailers.

 

Jimmy,one day I’d like to think I could get my head around designing in CAD and 3D printing the results, but for now I’ll leave you to keep up the good work.

 

What can I say Garry, except another great shot of your layout, and  CB & Q diesel as well!!

 

Rick, I must admit I got all excited when I saw your TOFC flat car, as I’d like to have a specific TOFC train one day. However, I did a bit of research and am led to believe that those conversions were done in the 80s. A bit too late for me. As normal though, more great modelling.

 

John, just because you model a smaller scale, there is no need to belittle your efforts, (I know for a fact that I am my own harshest critic!!) but I see nothing of your work that I personally wouldn’t be proud of, if it was mine!

 

Allan, good to hear you’ve discovered a hobby shop, and scored a couple of freight cars. My kids when they were still young bought me that Brazilian hopper car kit with their pocket money and I’ve never had the heart to tell them that it was not appropriate for what I wanted to model. However, it was good fodder for attempting to build a covered hopper roof, especially as I had discovered the outside braced PRR covered hoppers.  

 

Peter, a nice example of “delicate” weathering.

 

David, again, as per usual, great shots from your layout of Britishness!!!

 

Now viewers may notice that I acknowledged NorthBrit David’s contribution last instead of first, and that is because as it is the 6^th of June, my offering today, taken on the Morrinsville Model Railway Clubs layout at our 2017 show, is of a military train, somewhere in England, possibly assembling for its journey to support the D Day landings.

 

army by Bear, on Flickr

 

Thanks to you all, for your contributions of really Good Stuff.

Cheers, the Bear.

[mlehman]

Stopped by and saw that Bear had kicked WPF off, so figured I'd make a contribution.

That LO has a lot of character and the paint and weathering add to its charm, but the Monon box really moves me as a native Hoosier.

Here's a couple of pics. This one shows the scheduled COFC train as it returns towards Durango, after having just released the brake lever.

 

Meanwhile, back at Crater Lake the crew of RGS #40 is joined by another crew that will be double-heading the stock extra they will load here and at Summit.

 

[NorthBrit]

6th June 1944   'Overlord'     

 

 

'Battle  Stations'

 

 

David

[NorthBrit]

In the 1970s The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) at Barnbow, Leeds produced 'Challenger' Tanks.  I wanted some.   I could get any number of 'Sherman' and 'Churchill' type tanks.  All WW2 type.   My model store owner told me about him acquiring two 'Battlezone' tanks on Lomacs.   'Battlezone'  is targetted to children to play with.   As a big kid at heart I purchased  them.

 

As received.

 

 

Yes they do look 'plasticky'.  At least they look nearly like 'Challenger' tanks.   Now to find pictures of the real ones leaving ROF.  What colors?    Were they covered for security etc.?  More research. 

 

David

 

 

[dti406]

 

Rick, I must admit I got all excited when I saw your TOFC flat car, as I’d like to have a specific TOFC train one day. However, I did a bit of research and am led to believe that those conversions were done in the 80s. A bit too late for me. As normal though, more great modelling.

  

 

Well, you can go back to the beginning of TOFC, the PRR and others contributed their 52'6" GSC Flats to Trailer Train, but they soon fell out of favor to the 85' and 89' flats as they were so heavy. Here are a few to pick from:

https://rapidotrains.com/products/ho-scale/freight-cars/ho-scale-prr-f30-flatcar

You can get them in many different liveries, and 35' and 40' trailers are coming afterwards.

Rick Jesionowski

[Water Level Route]

NorthBrit

6th June 1944   'Overlord'          'Battle  Stations'    

Neat videos David.  Thanks for posting them!

[HO-Velo]

NorthBrit

6th June 1944   'Overlord'     

David, Thanks much for the interesting and timely vids.  Not forgetting that "my nice days at the beach were brought to me by 'their' terrible day at the beach."  

Thanks again and regards, Peter  

[SeeYou190]

Hi everyone.

I have nothing to contribute this week as I am traveling, but I really appreciated all of the contributions that were made.

Lots of great stuff on display, as usual.

-Kevin

["JaBear"]

Good to see you drop in Mike, nothing like a bit of narrow gauge!

 

Thanks for the links to the D Day layouts, David, and I’m sure you’ll readily deal to that plasticky look of your new Challengers. I did briefly entertain the idea of joining up for “Armour” but was told at the recruiting office that the Bear was too big for that part of the Army, and as I objected to too much walking, that put paid to any further thoughts of a career in the military.

 

I wasn’t expecting any contribution from you this WPF, Kevin. For those unaware, Kevin has been keeping us entertained and informed of his cross USA road trip in this month’s Diner.

 

I don’t know Rick, but those ffolkes at Rapido seem to have far too much Fun!! I wasn’t aware that they are/have produced those F30 flat car variations and I must say that their information regarding the cars service entry dates is most welcome. The reason I was taken by your TOFC was the partially exposed underframe. I am sure you are well aware of this site, but for those who aren’t, here’s a link to a PRR Equipment site…

 

http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/

 

… I often use it as a general reference source regarding freight car dimensions etc.

 

Thanks again to everyone for sharing your really Good Stuff.

Cheers, the Bear.

[NorthBrit]

Thanks for hosting WPF,  Bear.   Well done.

Thank you all for the comments on my pictures/films.

 

David