Living the dream.
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!
This week my share is my map I have been working on for the Eastern Division of the STRATTON AND GILLETTE RAILROAD system.
It is surely not much to see yet, but I am not a cartographer, so this project is taking a long time.
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
Dragons by Bear, on Flickr
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks for setting up our 'April Fools' WPF, Kevin! Looks like you'll be building lots of bridges and toting lots of fill for your S&G Eastern (Martime?) Division. Looks like FUN!
Well, it got the Bear's interest, anyway
I got a surprise email Monday stating my NYC Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson is on its way. It arrived Thursday and it is a beautiful model!
NYC_Commodore-3 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_Commodore-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
In a twist of good fortune I just happened to finish up a pair of Mercury coach and Parlor car this week, although this isn't the Mercury engine it certainly could have had these cars behind her at one time or another.
NYC_Mercury-coach by Edmund, on Flickr
I dusted off a couple of streamlined companions for a portrait:
NYC_Commodore-pals by Edmund, on Flickr
The New York Central 5344 had quite a storied history:
https://www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/locomotives/new-york-central-4-6-4-hudson-no-5344-in-four-photos/
Another arrival this week was a few of the Rapido Freuhauf box trailers:
Rapido_TTX-NH by Edmund, on Flickr
Fun Stuff!
On to more of the good photos...
Cheers, Ed
Kevin. Thanks for starting this weeks WPF.
Always good to know where the trains are to go and come from..
And Bear is interested.
Ed. Good looking Hudson. The streamliners look good also.
Myself. I have had other challenges this week. Not done anything.
A couple of of photographs.
A York bound passenger train.
IMG_5280 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A freight train on its way to The National Filling Station Number 1, Barnbow.
IMG_5148 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
Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, great track plan!!!!!!
Bear, that is a wonderful "Beartoon"!!!
Ed, Never cared for the upside down bathtup type of streamlining, I can't wait to pickup my Rapido trailers tonight.
David, thanks for some more of your beautiful layout pictures.
I did nothing this past week, what with the bowling tournament and getting my wife ready to go to Pasadena for my daughters 40th birthday. So I will post a couple of my old Strongsville Club layout pictures.
A pair of Bowser C430's with a Flexivan Train!!
A pair of heavily modified Atlas RS-32's with a general freight!!
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!
gmpullmanKevin! Looks like you'll be building lots of bridges and toting lots of fill for your S&G Eastern (Martime?) Division.
Not so many, the actual layout will only be a very small portion of the division. Just two of the cities.
The two cities are Centerville and Port Something. I keep changing my mind on the name of the second city.
Bear: I don't know if you could zoom into it on the low-resolution image I posted, but this was the first detail I added to the map:
Thanks for the laugh.
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DS-Ammonia_Mæl_2004_SRS by David Harrison, on Flickr
NorthBritThere was I lookng forward to something like:
The carfloat scene will be included!
SeeYou190 The carfloat scene will be included! -Kevin
Here is a basic idea of how the layout will work, but some revision is required now.
Kevin, thanks for starting the new weekend photo thread. I really wanted to see how you were going to build a model of that entire map! That would have been worth a trip to southern Florida for me!
Great caption, Bear.
Ed, I really like the coach and parlor car. Passenger cars are my favorite part of model railroads.
David, nice scenes. I like the old railroad junkyard.
Rick, very nice club rr scene.
Dan, more nice beer cars. Are you at 100 yet?
This is the N scratchbuilt warehouse from the old layout. I salvaged the building and will fix up some of it, and put in more junk before it gets put onto the new layout. At the rate things are going, that will be five years.
York1 John
York1 Dan, more nice beer cars. Are you at 100 yet?
I am around 105 right now. Actually stopped painting more as I have a couple of big customer jobs going right now. Most of the postings going forard will be from cars done over the last couple years that never made it to the forum. At some time in the future I may do a complete family shot if I can figure out a way to show them all at once.
Dan
SeeYou190Here is a basic idea of how the layout will work, but some revision is required now.
Great! Is this in a room so that you can walk around the layout to get the staging area?
Mike.
My You Tube
Here's a pair of GN 40 footers on a freight at North Powder. The left one is from Front Range and on the right, from McKean.
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
York1I really wanted to see how you were going to build a model of that entire map! That would have been worth a trip to southern Florida for me!
Only Jared The Artist would be bold enough to take on the entire map of the Eastern Division. There are also Central, Midway, Western, Northern, Crosspoint, and Southern divisions of the SGRR as well.
Also, on the map, the Dawdle And Delay is Purple, and the Gorre And Daphetid (subject to change) is Blue.
mbinsewiGreat! Is this in a room so that you can walk around the layout to get the staging area?
I will have access to the staging area, but at this point I am not sure what it will look like.
Originally the plan was to add a doorway from the outside bathroom to the staging area, but I have since found out I cannot install a door into that wall.
Along with track plan modifications, reasonable access to staging will need to be worked out.
Pike-62, 105 cars, well done! I am presuming though that while the cars are “foobies” the breweries did/do exist. Looking forward to more really Good Stuff. Have a Great One, ffolkes, Cheers, the Bear.
There are a couple that that had actual prototypes. Genesee being one of them. All others are actual breweries/beers that did exist or still do. Most all are from the Pre -prohibition time frame or right after repeal. Even the Duff Beer from the Simpsons is a real beer brewed in several countries and sometimes using the actual label. So far I have focused on breweries that survived for a significant time frame. I have a listing of breweries from Buffalo that is over 400 names long. Only a couple hand fulls lasted more that a year or two.
Kevin, No foolin', thanks for opening the April 1st WPF. Planning surely is part of the fun.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter
gmpullman Thanks for setting up our 'April Fools' WPF, Kevin! Looks like you'll be building lots of bridges and toting lots of fill for your S&G Eastern (Martime?) Division. Looks like FUN! Well, it got the Bear's interest, anyway I got a surprise email Monday stating my NYC Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson is on its way. It arrived Thursday and it is a beautiful model! NYC_Commodore-3 by Edmund, on Flickr NYC_Commodore-1 by Edmund, on Flickr In a twist of good fortune I just happened to finish up a pair of Mercury coach and Parlor car this week, although this isn't the Mercury engine it certainly could have had these cars behind her at one time or another. NYC_Mercury-coach by Edmund, on Flickr I dusted off a couple of streamlined companions for a portrait: NYC_Commodore-pals by Edmund, on Flickr The New York Central 5344 had quite a storied history: https://www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/locomotives/new-york-central-4-6-4-hudson-no-5344-in-four-photos/
Great looking photos, Ed. I'm looking forward to getting mine some time in the coming week. I knew the announced release date was for late March but BLI has a history of postponing releases, often multiple times so I wasn't expecting it to come out as announced. I had to give Trainworld a new credit card because I had lost the card I made the original pre-order with and had to replace it. It's due to ship Monday.
Was the NYC still running heavyweights on the Commodore Vanderbilt when this early streamlined loco was put in service and were the cars painted to match the loco or were they still Pullman Green?
These two GP18 have been shelved whle I look at how to build new couplers mounts built off the shell.
Both sugs sets. that still need wiring work
3 of the c32-8 shells . still need to build the chassis
One of two coaches finished for the business train.
1001 still needs lots of work
GP8. and GP10. needs electrical work
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
Really amazing photos, everyone! And Kevin, nice to see your plan finally. If you've ever shared it before I missed it. I'm very excited for you.
I need to bring the level of quality down a notch so we don't get too proud of ourselves up in here. Here are a couple of photos my old coaling tower with a light wired up. In the first, the tower is off in the distance behind the Perkins, which still needs a lot of work itself (light leaks, etc.).
In the next photo the tower stands in dim moonlight by itself. Broad daylight would show what a craftsman I was NOT at age 14, but I still think this old tower has a lot of charm.
I've been eager to get lights on two separate buildings as a proof of concept for using the WeHonest distribution board. It's an amazing product, but working with such tiny connections is really a challenge for me.
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
crossthedogI need to bring the level of quality down a notch
Quality by Bear, on Flickr
Beary kind of you to say, J, but I'm not sure that what I'm seein' is what ursine.
Yeah. I went there.
I just meant that not many photos here have Quaker Oats cartons for their scenic backgrounds. I'm grateful that magazine-level modelers like y'all allow me to post my photos.
It's only 9:15 here on the Left Coast. There's still time for someone to rescue the thread by posting one more really stunning photo.
crossthedog Kevin, nice to see your plan finally. If you've ever shared it before I missed it. I'm very excited for you.
I don't really have a track plan, more or less what I shared is just a reference. I do not have the ability to draw a decent track plan.
I did build it in full size, and carefully photograph everything, and make lots of notes.