Living the dream.
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!
This week my share is just a simple picture of a caboose.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I am very excited for the train show this weekend, but I will be out of touch for a few days.
Have fun!
-Kevin
Good morning from cloudy, cold and windy Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, nice picture and good looking caboose model.
Here is what I managed to finish this week.
First a Bowser 1958CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II M0FW Gray Paint and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals. The DT&I originally ordered these cars for sand and cement service out of the plants at Bondclay Ohio, they later migrated to the Yuma, MI sand service on the Ann Arbor where they supplied sand to the engine casting plant in Brook Park, OH for Ford.
Next, an Intermountain 12 Panel 10' IH 40' Boxcar kit, these were a GN car of which they had several thousand made to replace the wooden cars after World War II. Car was painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and lettered with Microscale Decals. These cars carried many different paint schemes over the years as the GN experimented with them. They were mainly used in general service and in the late summer and fall were in grain service over much of the railroad.
Here are a couple of Ann Arbor FA-2's with a sand train running on the Strongsville Club Layout.
Have a great weekend!
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!
Kevin. Thanks for starting this weeks WPF.
More often than not a simple scene shows so much. Cobblestones, the crossing signs, drainpipes, signage, and more. A lovely scene.
Myself. A newly purchased Auto carriage has arrived. A few things to add before running. I shall post pictures later.
Meanwhile; Some simple scenes.
British Red Squirrels
IMG_4010 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A picture that has my son is on the quad bike
IMG_3630 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A scene at Clarence Dock Goods Yard.
IMG_2443 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Nighttime.
IMG_2042 (2) by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
dti406Nice picture and good looking caboose model.
Thanks Rick.
The model is box-stock Athearn Blue Box with careful paint and decals. I use this caboose as a photo-prop.
Rick. We must have been posting together.
I always admire your work. I love the array of decals available your side of the pond. Here in the U.K. those that are available are dull and uninspiring.
Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with a caboose shot. Is that a Mini-Metals Plymouth at the grade-crossing?
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good President's Day weekend. Regards, Peter
I just came back from a train show. Here is a few of the things I got.
I got two cresent limited passenger cars.
A penn line steamer (I do have the tender)
I got a tenshodo brass gp20. It ran but some tubing inside broke when I ran it. I paid $25 bucks for it, I think I got a decent deal.
I am not at my house so I can't work on it yet. When I get back to my house I will repair the locomotives.
Hello, Folks...
Catching up here — Thanks for the start up of the WPF, Kevin. That scene is quite ideal. Lots of texture, too Happy Hunting at the train show!
Thanks for the informative back-story on your freight equipment, Rick. Always interesting. You are a master at your paint and decal work I imagine some of those decals are in the antique stage by now. Some of my older Champ decals literally disintegrate in the water.
HO Squirrels, David! Excellent scenes there. Your layout has marvelous details that makes me want to explore every square inch shown.
What a great mood shot, Peter! The lighting brings out that brick color and texture perfectly. Edward Hopper would be impressed!
Good stuff, BM Trainmaster! I'll have a train show coming up mid-march. Glad they're up and running again. Gotta ask, were you ever a B&M trainmaster? I had several relatives in Massachusetts and New Hampshire that worked for the B&M and the B&A.
I forgot that I'd ordered a Rapido E8 until I got an email from Overland Hobbies reminding me
I used to ride behind the E-L 816 when it was running between Cleveland and Youngstown. Had to have at least this one model of it.
E-L 816-track-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Rapido did a pretty good job on it but in reality it is only a slight improvement over the "vintage" Proto 2000 model.
E-L 816-passing by Edmund, on Flickr
E-L 816-dock by Edmund, on Flickr
It does pull pretty well handling twelve passenger cars up my 2% grades.
E-L 816-broad-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
My other modeling chores this week involved making some upgrades and modifications to some locomotives. I had an Athearn Genesis F unit that was acting odd and after some testing I discovered that the motor would draw 2.25 amps when stalled. That's not a good sign. The motor looked fine inside but there must have been some problem with the windings. This was a Bühler motor and I've had several of this brand, both in Athearn and Bowser modesl, go bad. Glad I discovered it before it toasted the decoder.
Cheers, Ed
gmpullman Good stuff, BM Trainmaster! I'll have a train show coming up mid-march. Glad they're up and running again. Gotta ask, were you ever a B&M trainmaster? I had several relatives in Massachusetts and New Hampshire that worked for the B&M and the B&A.
Heres a photo of a Fairbanks Morse engine in Frisco Texas
bmtrainmasterNope. Its a play of my initials and Fairbanks Morse trainmaster.
Thanks, just wondering.
Here's my grandfather, the B&M station agent at Barre Plains, Mass.:
Francis X., Agent by Edmund, on Flickr
Lots of great pictures so far.
I have a Tichy flat / gon on the bench.
I also got a bit more done on my Tomahawk Tramway pay car...
its still in the rough .... I still have some " sculpting" to do...
Rust...... It's a good thing !
The last of the stock cars from the 50's has been finished wasnt going to do a riviet counnter detail upgrade. just replace broken details and decals and fresh paint.
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
So I wanted to have one reading and northern boxcar. they are 5077 pullman standards with type 5 sill. well the prototype are ex csx cars. closest I could find was 5277 PS from intermountain. everywhere I went, they were sould out. When i got to pwrs, I found the correct csx cars of the ps 5077 type. bought three csx cars, and one for the yellow door CR. That CR will be a slap over for Marshcreek valley. the only piece of rolling stock thta line will have. one of the three csx will be repainted for R$N The second pic is the CR ready for the slap over.
Shane
Speaking of Marsh Creek valley. her is the H16-44. needs weathering. I was surprised to find not only had it been converted to DCC. but I founf the seapker in the fuel tank. $40 not a bad find.
Slug set in progress. needs draw bar, weathering, lighting work.
The trolleys in progress. I opted to put them together and away for now. Thet still need alot of work The area they will run is still a long way out from appearing, so no need to hurry to get them done. The wood coach color turned out far better than I tought it would.
Nice Starting photo, Kevin. Neat caboose in a pleasing setting.
Rick, how you can know all that prototype info amazes me, and then get it into scale models...wow!
David, life is made of simple scenes. Nicely done.
Peter, again capturing the atmosphere with almost startling realism.
BMT, Nice scores at the train show. If all else fails, put a BB Athearn chassis under that GP 20?
Ed, that E-8 is really impressive, and the setting makes it even better. (both of 'em) Pretty cool having a grandfather in the RR trade.
Timmy, nice work so far on the tramway pay car 'bash.
Shane. Good looking stock car to me. And like Rick, you must also know your stuff on prototype equipment. Nice colorful trolleys too.
I was able to make some headway on the roundhouse, just in time to get it into this weeks WPF
I had to narrow the Grandt Line doors a bit to fit my need. The sherline mill did the trick, even and uniform, four at a time.
All the windows are painted, the doors and big side windows are glazed. The drilling jig shown last week did its job too.
After painting the doors gray, they looked rather plain. I went back and masked and added some red around the windows to add a little color and style to the drabness.
Open wide and say Ahhh:
The 50 panes are cut and ready to add to the small windows up above, and I've got the technique down, but you can see the basic idea. A big paper shear was used for all the panes. Big and overkill, but accurate and easy to set up for multiple uniform repeatings.
Hopefully when the roundhouse is back where it belongs it will look the part. That may be by next weeks WPF, I hope.
Dan
Great pictures from everyone this weekend.
Did a short operating session on the layout and had a hot load that needed to get added to a northbound MILW freight from the CNW.
MILW freight pulls into Plymoth just ahead of the CNW interchange.
The CNW swith engine backs the car onto the train.
The MILW train couples back up, pumps up the air and heads out of town.
Scott Sonntag