Living the dream.
Hello everyone, I am able to post on the forum again! Welcome to a new weekend!
EMD Mike asked in another thread if anyone received any brass models for Christmas. I self-gifted this beautiful little model this year.
I have wanted a ten-wheeler for the STRATTON AND GILLETTE for a long time. My desired model was the NEW YORK CENTRAL class F12 because it had a USRA look to my eye. Those models sell for several hundred dollars, so I looked elsewhere for a good-looking model.
I came across this LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS oil burner on eBay. It does not run, and the seller was asking a pretty high price. I made a more fair offer, and he accepted.
I have not opened it up to see what is wrong with it. The motor runs, but the locomotive does not move. It might just be a failed motor coupling.
While it does not have the same lines as the NYC model, I think it is plenty handsome. I am glad to have it.
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
Hey, Kevin, great to have you back! And thanks for opening the door this week.
An oldie I worked over in the 90s, a Bachmann 4-4-0. A "Jupiter" I do believe. I had a old timer passenger train painted to match it, a couple of MDC cars, lost 'em in a fire. But I got the loco out and took 'er for a spin around the layout. I'll never remember where I got that green.
No other layout action worth showing again this week. But let's see you's guy's pix. Dan
Nice brass, Kevin! You got your reply in as I was posting mine, so I didn't catch it. I like the proportions on that 4-6-0. It'll look good in S&G paint. I like oil burners too, probably because I'm an SP fan also. Again, Welcome back!
A great start to a WPF that will close out a tumultuous year and bring in some hopefully better times! Thank you Kevin! Great stuff, already!
After years of procrastination I've finally decided it is time to tackle the Big City!
Here's an overall view of my intended down-town area:
City_wideview by Edmund, on Flickr
I had one little sticking point with a small elevation change that was bugging me and suddenly I was inspired to chop up a Cornerstone Hardwood Furniture building I had on hand and remove two floors.
City_overhead by Edmund, on Flickr
This gave me a neat loading dock off the city street and nested the building into the elevation change.
City_brick by Edmund, on Flickr
My son gave me one of these neat multi-tools last year and I love it for lots of tasks around the house and layout.
City_Bosch-cut by Edmund, on Flickr
Now with the modified warehouse/shipping dock I can concentrate on the tall city structures and roadways that will make up the city area of my layout.
City_curve-dock by Edmund, on Flickr
City_curve by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks again and on to some great year-end and new year projects!
Cheers, Ed
Ed, I'd usually wait for quite a few more replies before chiming in again, but I have to say it now, the way you worked that elevation change is ingenious. The off angle of the building makes it even better. So perfect! Cool city in general, btw.
Also, I'd been trying to remember who it was here who uses low pile carpet for fascia. I'm strongly thinking about shamelessly stealing that idea. Dan
Thanks for starting WPF, Kevin. A great looking 4.6.0 locomotive. Hopefully nothng serious with it and you get it going.
Dan. A beauty of an 'old timer'.
Ed A lovely scene in the making. Altering a building to make it fit thus making it individual. I like it.
Dan. Nothing wrong in stealing good ideas in model railroading. Done it and had done to.
Not done much on the railway, but did a clear out of stuff no longer required.
Some may have seen the Director's Saloon I did on my layout thread.
Converted from --
To ----
Yesterday I played around trying to get a thin layer of 'snow' at Leeds Sovereign Street Station. I think it needs more attention. I know it does.
A view looking towards Longstruther Fields (near the Junction). The scenery is getting rather tired looking. I shall have to brighten it up.
Keep the pictures coming.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, glad to see you are able to post again. Those were good looking engines, but they were an early Korean import and their running gear was suspect, mainly the gear boxes it may need to be replaced. I did a number of replacements when I worked at the hobby shop.
Dan, that is a nice old timer, a little too old for my liking though.
Ed, that is a nice scene in the making, at the club we have cut and diced a number of buildings to build a scene.
David, sprucing up scenery is always a good thing to do, we have been replacing the old christmas tree pines with some much better looking replacements on the club layout.
Well, after a hiatus I finally got some cars done this week, output will be less in the coming weeks as they asked me to come back to work to help with the year end close and starting out the new year accounting wise.
First up is a Tangent 86' High Cube Boxcar, painted with a 50/50 mixture of Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Reefer Yellow along with Silver Paint then lettered with Herald King Decals. The Annie acquired the 12 Green Bay & Western cars, three Greenvilles and 9 Thralls, this is the Greenville car and thanks to a post on the MFCL I found out it was equipped with a HydraCushion Underframe and I built the Tangent kit accordingly (they had both the Keystone and HydraCushion parts in the kit). Car was used from the Dearborn Stamping Plant mainly to the Final Assembly Plant in Minneapolis and traveled via Car Ferry over Lake Michigan.
Also finished up an Intermountain NSC 4550CF Covered Hopper kit, and substituted a Plano metal roofwalk for the plastic one in the kit. Car was painted with a 75% to 25% mixture of Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Cars were acquired by the Canadian Wheat Board as the railroads would no longer supply new cars due to the Crows Nest Pass areement where car rates were frozen at early 20th Century rates which precluded the railroads being able to finance new replacement cars. Many thousands of cars were built and were apportioned to the CP and CN for maintenance.
Another picture of my Kato GP35 and Atlas RS-32's with a general mixed freight on the hill of the Strongsville Club Layout.
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, a few weeks ago you suggested I look for an Eastern Car Works kit for the early Airslide Hopper rather than the Overland brass model I was seeking. I finally found one "new in package" on eBay.
It looks great, and exactly what I needed.
Thanks for the tip.
Good morning, everyone.
Kevin, it's great to have you back on the forum, opening up the WPF! Things are going back to normal! Congratulations on getting the 4-6-0 locomotive you've been wanting.
Dan, that's a neat looking 4-4-0. That's also bad news about losing model stuff in a fire.
Ed, that's impressive! I love your solution to the elevation problem. It looks like you built the layout for just that effect.
David, I always enjoy your photos of your layout with the tracks disappearing into the trees and bushes. It adds so much interest to the layout and makes it appear larger.
Rick, great work on the CP covered hopper. Your work on rolling stock is impressive.
I have not done much with the layout the past several weeks. I've finally come to the point that I don't think I'm go to do much more until my mind is made up of what I really want.
So far, I've just kind of built and built with no real objective.
The other issue is that I started with N Scale, and I'm considering scrapping it all and changing to HO. I don't know if, at my age, I really want to do that.
Maybe I'll use January finally to clear my mind on what I want to do.
I finished the 'parsonage' for the church, and it took care of a problem area on the layout. I don't like the crossing signal's placement on the side of the house, but again, that's due to my poor planning.
I'll put in a plug for Tichy windows. I love scratchbuilding, and those windows are so easy to work with.
Thanks, everyone, for the photos which inspire me to keep working and improving!
York1 John
Kevin, Thanks for starting the WPF and showin' some brass.
Switchin' in the New Year.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a safe weekend and a Happy New Year. Regards, Peter
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Southgate 2Also, I'd been trying to remember who it was here who uses low pile carpet for fascia. I'm strongly thinking about shamelessly stealing that idea. Dan
Maybe I'm the guilty party? I put the dark green "fabric" up starting maybe ten years ago. Never regretted it for a moment. When I bought mine it was 50¢ a square foot and I had Home Depot slice it into various 12 to 20 inch pieces for me with their cutter machine.
IMG_0759 by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_4964 by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_0171 by Edmund, on Flickr
As an added bonus, the "hook" side of Velcro® fastener tape sticks very well to it so signs and labels can be arranged or removed easily.
Let's keep the great photos coming, Folks!
Regards, Ed
FedUp by Bear, on Flickr
Caught me, Bear!
I had that on there the other day for the grandkids to see visiting for Christmas, and I forgot to take it away for the photo. I have an excuse -- I'm old. That excuse is even working with my wife lately.
Thanks for the laugh!
Thank you to everyone that has contributed so far... We are off to a great start!
Dan: Nice 4-4-0 American. I think I have a Jupiter stashed away somewhere for repaint into SGRR #3. I already have #1, #2, and #4. Antique locomotives are great photograpsy subjects.
Ed: I am looking forward to seeing the progress on your city scene. I have never included a city scene like that on one of my layouts, but I did build a N-Trak module with a few Green-Max skyscraper kits. I like the way you concealed the elevation change, very nice. I bought an oscillating cutter to remove shims, and found hundreds of uses for it.
Dave: Nice work on the Director's carriage.
Rick: I hope I don't need to replace the gearbox! Time will tell. Your GP-35 looks great on the club layout. GP-35s were my favorite diesel when I modeled 1968. I even used one on the SGRR letterhead. I wonder if I have a copy of that somewhere...
John: I like Tichy windows also. I did not know they were made in N scale. Back when I was in N scale and scratchbuilding I used a lot of cast metal windows that were not all that good.
Peter: I love the New Year baby!
Bear: I missed the dinosaur in John's picture until you pointed iut out for a laugh! As always, I love the toons.
Let's all keep the good stuff and helpful responses coming. I am looking forward to it all.
gmpullman Southgate 2 Also, I'd been trying to remember who it was here who uses low pile carpet for fascia. I'm strongly thinking about shamelessly stealing that idea. Dan Maybe I'm the guilty party? I put the dark green "fabric" up starting maybe ten years ago. Never regretted it for a moment. When I bought mine it was 50¢ a square foot and I had Home Depot slice it into various 12 to 20 inch pieces for me with their cutter machine. IMG_0759 by Edmund, on Flickr IMG_4964 by Edmund, on Flickr IMG_0171 by Edmund, on Flickr As an added bonus, the "hook" side of Velcro® fastener tape sticks very well to it so signs and labels can be arranged or removed easily. Let's keep the great photos coming, Folks! Regards, Ed
Southgate 2 Also, I'd been trying to remember who it was here who uses low pile carpet for fascia. I'm strongly thinking about shamelessly stealing that idea. Dan
I'm wondering if that might be a good low cost material for a valance. Eventually I'm going to get around to putting one up. I had considered hardboard but am concerned about expansion/contraction issues.
Happy new year everyone! Some really cool photos already.
Here are some photos of a N scale Bachmann Consolidation 2-8-0 that I recently modified and weathered. I modified the tender from coal to oil and added S.P decals. Afterwards I weathered the engine/tender with panpastels.
Since these photos were taken I've added the engineer and fireman figures to the cab.
No hobby projects planned for this weekend, so I'll likely run some trains on my coffee table layout:
It's always warm in this little place in the tropics!
Have a great holiday weekend!
Jeff B
Just taking photographs of minor alterations to the scenery. The sunshine through the window 'playing tricks'.
All three photographs taken around 1215pm today U.K. time.
No touching up of pictures whatsoever.
-Kevin -- Welcome back! Nice little loc0.
Dan - Cool little loco. I have one in the original color scheme somewhere.
Ed - Good stuff. A soved problem no one would know was a problem.
Davit - Great phtos as usual. The snow at Leeds looks okay to me. Like it is starting to melt off.
Rick - Goos looking cars as always. I like the layout shot too.
-Kevin - A nice find.
John - The parsonage looks good to me and I like the dinosaur. I have one I occasionally place on the layout to see if it garners any comments.
Peter - Thanks.
Bear - Good one!
Ed - Great looking layout. The carpet fascia is a good idea.
John-NYBW - I'm pretty sure the carpet idea would work for a valance, but it might need stiffening to keep its shape.
Jeff - Good looking little loco. I salute everyone who can work and detail to that level in N-scale.
David - Interesting how the light changes things.
Except for my Amish buggy being completed, there isn't anything new on the BRVRR. Running a few trains for my own ammusement is about all.
The Amish buggy on the approach to the Route 32 bridge:
I mounted the buggy and horse on a strip of styrene for stability and it makes it easier to move around and secure when necessary.
Keep up the good work 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/
Weekend Photo Fun is looking good on a Sunday morning, and we still have a few hours of weekend left.
Jeff: Your N scale Consolidation is a wonderful looking model. You did a great job on the weathering. I love your waterfront scene, it is charming.
David: More great pictures of your layout... thank you.
Allan: I have spent some time stuck behind horse-drawn wagons like that. Great scene.
Thank you everyone!
Good morning
Some how I missed it and now a little late. Not here to post just to pay some well deserved complements.
As always some very fine craftsmanship here gentleman
That brass loco is a gem Kevin. When they look that new gold, I've always felt it's a shame to paint them. But you have quite the nitch for that custom paint and decaling you do for your S&G Railroad. Can't wait to see it finished.
Nice scene! That Jupiter is pretty sweet as well Dan. Great shade of green that goes with the slate gray and gold trim. Nothing looks better than a string of ore cars Great job on those realistic rocks in the background.
I was impressed with your layout pictures Ed. I've always been impressed with you photos but I never remember seeing the full layout from a step back. From the track-side photos I never thought there was two peninsulas in the basement. What a great job on the elevation change
David your cool style of modeling always looks good In the detail is always something new to look at that I didn't see before. One of those sunburst light things, those are cool.
Rick you finish the cars and they look Factory man and I can tell you put a lot of work into them
John, I don't know why you always beat yourself up. You do great work and I think that parsonage house you built looks perfect, not a better choice of where it was placed. You said you had a problem with fitting the roof a while ago. Well, I don't see it and the roof looks good in the photo Give yourself some credit as not many people know how to build something from scratch. Just remember everyone's critical of thier own work but we are the only ones that see anything wrong. Trust me when I say there are things wrong with everything I made. My Grandfather used to say "Your the only one who will ever see it"
Peter, ...If that cartoon guy wasn't there hanging off the ladder. I would have thought you posted a prototypical photo.
That's one of the better weather jobs that I've seen Jeff Not overdone. I would like to pull up a lawn chair under that lamp post with a beer, Peaceful.
Love the Amish cart Allen. Great job on the detail. Busy part of town by the bridge. I've always been a big fan of the VW Microbus.
Thanks and have a great day everyone.
TF
Track fiddlerThat brass beauty is a gem Kevin. When they look that beautiful in Shiny Gold, I've always felt it's a shame to paint them.
My wife, who has never cared for the trains all that much, feels the same way. Ever since I put that brass SOUTHERN PS-4 in a display case in the living room she has joined the "don't paint them" crowd.