Living the dream.
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!
This week my share is another new brass model of a covered hopper car. This one is a representation of BALTIMORE AND OHIO's distinctive "wagon top" cars.
In my fleet, the "wagon top" cars of the B&O are represented as Tony Koester's ALLEGHENY MIDLAND. This was simply because Fox Valley Models offered their magnificent "wagon Top" model beautifully pre-decorated for this ficticious private roadname. I have two of these, so the AM will be properly represented in my freight car fleet.
I plan to paint the covered hopper car BNSF white with black lettering. I will need to somehow find a black decal for the distinctive MIDLAND ROAD stylized script herald. I can decorate the rest of the car with alphabet decals and generic data sets.
If Kadee would offer their 2 bay offest side hopper in an AM 3 pack, I would jump on that also. After all, the ALLEGHENY MIDLAND was a transition era coal hauler.
Are you listening Kadee?
I am looking forward to seeing everyone's photographs this weekend. This thread can always be counted on to be the best of the week.
-Kevin
Thanks for the startup on this October Weekend Photo Fun, Kevin!
I missed out when those Wagontop hopper cars hit the market from Spring Mills Depot. They sure look sharp.
I'm posting this photo as a favor to MetroLink Fan as he does not have a way to post photos and wanted to contribute:
Here is my Metra Ho Emd F40C hand painted from water base paints. It was a Chessie System F40C shell I had.
Metra_611 by Edmund, on Flickr
Carry on good folks!
Cheers, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ed: Thank you for posting the picture from Metrolink. It is great to help everyone participate.
Metrolink: Wow, that paint job sure took a good effort to apply by hand. Way back when, I tried hand painting a locomotive or two, but never had anything as presentable as yours. Great job.
Bear: Those Tichy GSC flat cars are great models. If you remove the center part of the underframe you can fit 3 ounces of lead up under for floor and bring the car to full recommended weight, empty. They are well detailed and look great when assembled. The panel side hoppers are also beautiful, but I have never found a way to bring them up to weight empty. That is a shame, because the inside of those cars is perfectly detailed. They beg to be run empty.
The wagon tops look great.
Metrolink: wonderful work.
Bear: the stake pockets on the tichy trains flats nearly made me go crosseyed, when I tried it.
Here's mine:
I put the back drop in with a temporary installation.
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Good morning from sunny and cold Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, I think I have an Allegheny Midland coal hopper somewhere in my stash. Don't think Kadee does fictional names on their cars so I think you will be out of luck with that one.
Metrolink, keep up the good work.
Bear, don't worry the 52'6" flats don't have the stake pockets you have to glue on they assemble easily. On the coal hoppers, don't follow the instructions, install the brake gear stuff in the B end before attaching the end, don't ask me how I know.
Jimmy, nice looking backdrops!
Cars I completed this week.
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One of several hundred Wabash built Panel Side Hoppers (Athearn rib side hopper with Pikestuff Panels installed) these were built in 1948 and remained in service until the N&W merger of 1964 when they were disposed of.
McKeen Models ACF Exterior Post Boxcar kit, added end of car cushioning from Moloco, wire grabs and sill steps, Plano walkover platform, grab over the platform, extra reinforcing under the plug door. The St. Mary's Railroad (11 miles long) rostered several hundred varied IPD cars and managed to keep using them after the IPD boom collapsed in the early 80's.
Will head north of the border with an old picture of Bowser GMDD SD40-2's with a grain train of my painted Canadian Wheat Board cars at the Strongsville Club Layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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I'll try this..
20200321_152501b on Flickr
Simon
dti406I think I have an Allegheny Midland coal hopper somewhere in my stash. Don't think Kadee does fictional names on their cars so I think you will be out of luck with that one.
I have one of the NMRA "Living Legends" AM hopper cars also. I will probably rework it one day with wire grabs and details and it will be my only AM coal car.
My ultimate dream would be a Kadee Six-Pack with three AM hoppers and three V&O hoppers. Yes, it is just a dream, but I can dream.
Jimmy_BraumThe stake pockets on the tichy trains flats nearly made me go crosseyed, when I tried it.
The forty foot 50 ton Tichy flat car has seperate side pockets that need to be glued on. So does the 40(ish) foot Red Caboose flat car. Those can make you go cross-eyed for sure!
The 50(ish) foot Tichy GSC flat car has molded in stake pockets that are perfectly sized for 0.040" or 1mm square plastic strip to make stakes.
I used this model for all of my TOFC flats using 0.040" styrene to scratchbuild the rails. These cars weight 5 ounces without the trailer with the fishbelly packed with sheet lead. Kadee metal trucks help raise the weight also. I can run them with or without the trailer.
Thank you Kevin for starting WPF. The wagon tops look really good.
MetroLink Fan. Great looking locomotive.
Bear. Those kits should keep you busy.
Jimmy. Simple looking backdrops yet very effective. I like them.
Rick. Good looking rockwork. Scary how the Navvies must have blasted the rock to have a trackbed.
Dennis. The locomotive looks to have travelled many miles to be in that condition. Well done.
Simon. A great looking military train.
I have had a very busy week and have hardly looked into the railway room.
As it is soon to be Armistice Day a couple of pictures of WW1 nurses and 'wounded' soldiers on a practice 'for the real thing' outside Leeds Sovereign Street Station. My grandmother was a nurse in the Great War.
David
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Hi all! I'll second what David said above to everyone, and add that I really like the effect of his figures, especially in that 2nd shadowy picture, it really captures some atmosphere.
Some locals are enjoying a stroll on the newly planked dock. The braces are up on the chip retaining wall too. That was easier than I thought.
This one guy, Otis, seems to be bugged about something though, and would rather just be left alone. Hmmm
Talk about cutting it close; I calculated I had enough of that home cut planking to do the dock and retaining wall. This was all I had left when finishing the dock! I don't have access to the fine cutting tablesaw used to cut these any more, and it would look funny to switch to basswood or something. Further, you can't tell unless you put them next to ones on the dock, but these were the thin and narrow unacceptable culls and runts. Whew!
There are still details to add, ship tie off piles, cleats, a 12x12 across the top at the edge, etc, but the majority of the dock itself is done. By the way, I drew heavily on a John Pryke article in MR when building this dock. There's over 1000 pieces of scale lumber in this. I can only imagine the patience some of you guys put into big wooden trestles.
Dan
Thanks for the kind comments last week Kevin and Ricky W. This week looks good too.
I did a bit more work on the new quarry with ground cover and ballast.
There is not much room for earthmoving equipment.
Cheers everyone,
looking forward to more contributions to WPF
Alan J
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
Thank you to everyone that has contributed so far.
Jimmy: Your backdrop is going to add a lot to your layout. It is coming along nicely.
Rick: Great job on the decals on the Saint Mary's boxcar. They look like the snuggled around the posts perfectly.
Dennis: Thank you for stopping in with the photo of your layout. It is a very pleasing scene.
Simon: Nice looking military train.
David: More great small eye catching scenes on your layout are always wonderful to see. Nice contributions this week.
Dan: Your finished dock is magnificent. I have really enjoyed watching this project come along. The diagonal braces are just the right finishing touch.
Alan: You captured the look of a red dirt road quite well. I hope we will see a lot more of your work.
Let's all keep the good stuff and helpful responses coming. I am looking forward to it all.
Kevin, Thanks for rolling out the WPF with appealing 'wagon tops'.
This is the kinda yard work I like, ez on the ol' back and doesn't require a rake nor lawnmower.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Kevin - Thanks for starting off WPF. Nice looking wagon top hopper. I think the Midland box car is cool as is.
MetroLinkFan - Good looking loco. You're a good guy Ed.
Bear - I have a few Tichy projects to get too as well.
Jimmy - The back drop looks good. More clouds?
Rick - The WABASH hopper is interesting. I've never heard of the St. Mary's road. You continue to amaze with the depth of your research.
dennis461 - Good looking loco and scene.
Simon - Didn't know the canadians patrolled in the west.
Kevin - Thats a good looking flatcar w/load.
David - Great scenes. You don't see "The War to End All Wars" modeled very often.
Dan - The dok looks like quit a project. Good job.
Allan J. The quarry is coming along. The re earth looks like wet Georgia clay.
HO-Velo - Nie yard scene.
A 22-car coal drag behind a pair of UP SD70ace's. I used all of my hoppers, a combination of 4 and 3 three bayopen top cars, from the Nickel Plate, VIRGINIAN and a couple of other roads. The train was about eight cars too long for the BRVRR layout. But fun for awhile.
Another UP train. This time with modern box cars and covered hoppers west bound behind the same two locos on the BRVRR.
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/
Jimmy_BraumBear: the stake pockets on the tichy trains flats nearly made me go crosseyed, when I tried it.
SeeYou190 dti406 I think I have an Allegheny Midland coal hopper somewhere in my stash. Don't think Kadee does fictional names on their cars so I think you will be out of luck with that one. I have one of the NMRA "Living Legends" AM hopper cars also. I will probably rework it one day with wire grabs and details and it will be my only AM coal car.
dti406 I think I have an Allegheny Midland coal hopper somewhere in my stash. Don't think Kadee does fictional names on their cars so I think you will be out of luck with that one.
Mine is not NMRA, sorry I will not have anything to do with the NMRA until they change some of their policies.
I have an old McKeen 100 Ton Hopper for the AM, I think they also did an Ohio Southern but I don't know if I purchased one of those.