Good morning from Sunny and Warm Northeast Ohio!
This is the thread where modelers can show their completed projects, projects under construction or layout photos past and present.
Finished a couple of cars this week!
Athearn PC&F 50's RBL painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan, Silver and Black Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The SP ordered these cars with 14' doors to facilitate the loading of canned goods with forklifts and sending these cars across the nation from California canning plants.
Athearn 34' Ribbed Side Hopper with Pikestuff Panel Sides attached, painted with Scalecoat II Black, then lettered with Champ Decals. The Wabash, NYC, SLSF and others replaced the worn out flat panel sides on their hoppers with these punched out side to gain an extra 60 CF of load carrying ability. They did that with these cars and the 31' USRA hoppers.
This is the underframe from an IMRC 57' R70-20 Mechanical Reefer, all the detail has been installed and it is ready for the paint shop.
Last Saturday our club had its first operating session since last March 2020. I took my PFM B&O E27ca to the club where I operated the Mallet Creek local which included switching the plastics plant I finished.
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!
Rick . ... Thanks for starting weekend Photo Fun . Thanks for providing historical background information for the SP boxcar and the Wabash hopper. Very nice models ! .. Nice details for the underframe of the mechanical reefer. I like the B&O steame locomotive, too.
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In my photo I have and SD9 leading some hoppers across a bridge above a grist mill. The old mill was a leftover from my previous layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thanks Rick for starting WPF. A great start with the boxcar and hopper. Well done.
Garry. Amazing picture giving height to the bridge. Love the old mill.
Not done much personally this week. Waiting for a hospital appointment regarding my eyesight.
Last week I did put figures in the Class 142 'Nodding Donkey'. (That is how they traveled in real life; and model.)
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Thank you to Rick for starting this WPF. Like the consolidation.
Gary: Neat shot of the bridge from below
David: THe figures look great!!
Been away for a few weeks with too much to do but thought I would add acouple of passenger train shots this week.
Train 10 is a motor car today stopping at the St. Cloud station.
Train 10 on a different day pulled by engine 236, stopped at the Glenbulah station. The motor car must be down today.
Scott Sonntag
Good Afternoon,
Thanks for starting the last-of-June WPF, Rick! Great work on the rolling stock
I'd like to visit the Strongsville club next time you have an open house. I have a MR friend in Brecksville who'd like to tag along, too.
I like your "high view" of the working SD9, Garry.
Those big windows demand having figures inside, David. Nice work on the Nodding Donkey. Those cars have a neat nick name, sort of like the Galloping Goose or the LIRR "Ping-Pong" cars over here
I like your scene, especially the train order semaphore, Scott!
I fired up the paint booth and got the first coat on the Treadwell hot metal car:
Treadwell_hotmetal by Edmund, on Flickr
While I was at it I had a pair of PRR observation cars that required a coat or two of Tuscan Red:
PRR_POC-85 by Edmund, on Flickr
The upper one, Metropolitan View, was built in 1938 for the Broadway Limited. The car was once part of the "Quaker Square" shopping complex in Akron, Ohio. Prior to that I was in the car at a museum run by a fellow named Mack Lowry. The car was in pretty good shape back then.
PRR_POC-85-b by Edmund, on Flickr
Brass cars are notorious for lacking any kind of diaphragm. I like to epoxy the ones once available from Rivarossi onto the ends.
Another project on the bench is interior painting and applying the name decal to the Santa Fe 10-6 Pine King:
ATSF_10-6_Pine-King by Edmund, on Flickr
Last night I added figures and tonight will be keep-alive lighting. More pictures soon, I hope.
ATSF_10-6_Pine-King-int by Edmund, on Flickr
My nephew actually owns the real Pine King and has it in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Here she is getting the underframe "Un-Weathered"
ATSF_PineKing_trucks by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
dti406 Athearn PC&F 50's RBL painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan, Silver and Black Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The SP ordered these cars with 14' doors to facilitate the loading of canned goods with forklifts and sending these cars across the nation from California canning plants Rick Jesionowski
Athearn PC&F 50's RBL painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan, Silver and Black Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The SP ordered these cars with 14' doors to facilitate the loading of canned goods with forklifts and sending these cars across the nation from California canning plants
Didn't Athearn offer those already painted that way?
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
dti406Athearn 34' Ribbed Side Hopper with Pikestuff Panel Sides attached,
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
As usual everyone, excellent work!
Rick/dti406, those freight cars look great! I love the decaling on the HYDRA-CUSHION car. That B&O E27 looks good pulling that short train. I used to have a PFM L2 0-8-0 that PFM imported alongside those. My first brass model.
Garry/Heartland Division, I enjoy that below the train shot as well. I feel like I'm looking up in the air at a train overhead, good composure!
David/Northbrit, dig the figures in the car.
Scott/Lakeshore, nice trains at the station.
Ed/GMPullman, nice paint jobs on all those cars! Looking forward to seeing more progress on that treadwell car. So exciting that your nephew owns ATSF Pine King.
I bought my first craftsman structure kit recently, Wrisley Papers by South River Model Works. Wow, what a kit! It's kind of daunting, but the instructions are excellent and I have experience building resin and wood models. I spent much time just getting materials ready and I've read and reread the instruction manual a few times over. This is seriously a kit to take one's time with, as there is so much to it. So far, I've done some priming and preparing various pieces. Learning how to do nail holes with a pounce wheel was fun. I just ut some pieces together to just get a feel for how it may look and the size of the building. It's huge!
Next is painting wood pieces in primer colors. I first did washes of india ink and alcohol. Then, a couple coats of Krylon gray primer, and now about two coats of Tamiya white surface primer. The final color on the small wood buildings will be Model Master PRR Buff with drops of white added to make a paler buff color. The main building will be Model Master reefer gray.
Next, I used Krylon red oxide spray paint as a primer for the brick buildings. I'm looking at videos on techniques to paint bricks on models and will use some to add more color, variety, aging, and so on to the brick portions of the building. I think the brick and stone base for the large wood building will get a lot more weathering effects that the large brick building on the side as apparently it was an extension added to the building at some point in its history.
The NWSL Chopper II is an amazing tool. I'm glad I have it on hand to work on this kit. Long ago I would have said no way to one and just got by cutting strip wood and plastic with razor blades or a saw, but after spending a few minutes using it to cut strip wood for craftsman kits I'd not want to go without one.
dti406 Athearn 34' Ribbed Side Hopper with Pikestuff Panel Sides attached, Gidday Rick, that hopper car appears to have been built in the 30’s and rebuilt in either 45 or 65. I tried to blow up your image to clearly read the dates, but my eyes could not cope. Good to see all the really Good Stuff, so far! Cheers, the Bear.
dti406 Athearn 34' Ribbed Side Hopper with Pikestuff Panel Sides attached,
Bear, thanks for the reply, and I did some lookup and I was in error, the Wabash only put replacement panels on the USRA and USRA Clones in the 34000 and 35000 series. The first of the 36000 series were built new with panel sides in 1937 and were repainted in 1955 with the 33" WABASH in place of the 18' WABASH on the sides of car. Very few of the panel sices made it to the NW in the 1964 merger and many were sold to the Anderson's grain elevator in Maumee, OH for transporting grain from Maumee to the Port of Toledo for shipment by ship after the St. Lawrence Seaway opened.
riogrande5761 dti406 Athearn PC&F 50's RBL painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan, Silver and Black Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The SP ordered these cars with 14' doors to facilitate the loading of canned goods with forklifts and sending these cars across the nation from California canning plants Rick Jesionowski Didn't Athearn offer those already painted that way?
I had the decal and found a car cheap because most people don't want to paint and decal anymore and I would rather build my own so I don't have to worry about dealing with the Ready to Repair Athearn and Intermountain RTR cars.
Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF with more interesting rolling stock, I can visualize the SP box sitting alongside a Calpak/Del Monte loading dock.
Garry, Like the way your shot gives an impression of precarious tonnage.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and Happy National Canoe Day, regards, Peter
dti406 Ready to Repair Athearn
Russell
Well, after a few weekends away, I'm back once again. This time I'm sharing what I did yesterday in preparation for my first layout visitor next week.
https://youtu.be/hBWaGlR-4Q4
I've also been doing quite a bit of other things, most notably custom decals, but I haven't had the time or effort to take photos and/or make videos. Have a great Sunday everyone.
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
Thanks for comments on my photo from David, Scott, Ed, Cats Think Well, Peter, and anyone I missed. I appreciate each one.
David... It is good seeing passengers in the passenger car.
Ed ..... Your paint shop has been very productive (hot metal car and 2 observation cars) . The Santa Fe 10-6 sleeper looks excellent.
Scott.... I like your photos of the doodlebug and #236.
Cats .... You have made great progress putting together the industrial building.
Peter ... I cerinly like your water scenes, and the canoe looks great.
Bear ....Your hopper project is looking very good.
Harrison .... Thanks for the video showing work on the module. The highway crossing looks good.
This is an ITLA kit. Allstate machine. I decided to add on with a couple of thier modual sections. so I stopped here. Waiting for the new pieces to arrive. The ties are stained now and some rail on it. It is interesting how the darker weathering shows up very dark. I have quickly grown to like these kits. simple yet highly detailed. out of the box.
In the meantime, I am working on HOe scale. A layout is designed and currently obtaining pieces. and rolling stock. Here are the first two. The loco needs weathering, is shell is not sitting on the motor block(a kato n scasle) propperly. The single board wagon is the 009Society member kit that comes with membership. I finished, painted, and weathered it. but still has a little left to do. clear coat and a car number to be added. and anything else needed after a week of curing.
Shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Rick: Thank you for starting this edition og Weekend Photo Fun. Your consolidation looks like it is having a good time at the operating session.
Garry: Great picture of the bridge from below. Your grist mill model looks great.
David: Your figures look really good.
Scott: I love the Doodlebug. Welcome back!
Ed:I am glad someone is getting to use their paint booth. It is humid/rainy season here, and I will not be able to paint for a few months. Your passenger car interior is looking very good.
Cats: Great work on the craftsman kit. I love all the pictures you posted. A building like that can be a real centerpiece to a layout.
Peter: Your canoe scene is wonderful. Great picture.
Bear: There is nothing wrong with moving slowly on a project. Your efforts are looking good. Great work.
Harrison: Neat video. I agree with Garry, the highway overpass will be a great little scene. Your module is sure coming along. Thank you for the update.
Shane: That building kit does look very good. I am going to look up the manufacturer.
Sorry if I missed anyone.
All I am going to share this week is a picture of what I bought on my trip out West this month.
I will see you all next week!
-Kevin
Living the dream.