JimRCGMOAnd speaking of repaint jobs, does anyone know of someone who makes MOW/work train decals (dark lettering)?
Jim, you may want to check the Champ decal web site. They have / had a number of work train decal sets in various colors. Champ is not producing any new decals, and are selling off their huge remaining stock, so if they are listed you can buy, if not, they are gone forever. I bought some decals from them last year - good quality stuff.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Good evening Gentleman. It has been a longtime since i posted anything, But i look in and it looks like everyone is doing great! OK here it goes this is what Ive been up to in my time off
Re constructing this valley side with a face lift.
Have a Great Week! Tom I love The Signals My Friend Looks Good.
Carl.
Great stuff this week!
I've been working on a couple units for Tyler (TrainmanTy)
The first is a P2k GP18, and the second a P2k GP7. These pictures were taken before I extended the rear nose stripe above the headlight, and added nose stripes to the GP7. Now I'm just waiting on some decals from pike-62, and when that's done I'll be returning them... Or will I? The units are in essence of the B&M, who owned the Northern before White River Southern took over.
Here's a picture of the B&M units in blue.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=251970&nseq=2
And here's the models in red.
Alex
Wow, we're talking some MAJOR modeling here, this week, guys! Cheers to all.
John: That Burlington 2-6-6-2 is just freakin' AWESOME. What a little beauty of an articulated.
Jim: Hey, welcome to your first photo on WPF, and DO NOT CHANGE THE PAINT on the work cars ! I love that SP scheme, brought back some great memories.
Well, I've been installing Tomar semaphores on the Yuba River Sub, so here's a photo of one of them. And no, the Rio Grande, to my knowledge did NOT use upper quadrants, but mine does, LOL! Here's my little 4-6-0 with the Yuba River Express getting a green go-ahead at Sierra City Junction. And yes, I do have a stable of smaller steam, LOL!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Just ran the trains for a while
Here is a GP30 ( one of three ) that I am working on.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Guys,For those that didn't make the N Scale show in Columbus(Hillard)Oh you missed a most excellent N Scale show..
I figured due to the show being N Scale prices would be high..Boy did I figure wrong..I never seen dealers cut each others throat quite like that..No doubt about it they was in a "Let's make a deal" mode..All you had to say was "What's the least you will take for this or these cars?"
I got a Atlas N&W GP9 and a Atlas NE6 N&W caboose for $65.00.Picked up several older MDC/Roundhouse 50' boxcar kits for $3.00 each.Atlas trucks with Accumate couplers-$2.70/pr.The list goes on..I spent close to $100.00 and had a very nice "goodie" bag.
One of the highlights was on the Dayton(?) modular layout..There was a lot of animation including a moving parade with floats,bands etc..[:-thumbu]
Some pixs.
And one of my favorite scenes..
This is a working drive in and was showing cartoons.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Ibflattop Garry. I love your Grainery! Now thats Railroading!!!!! Good job also to the rest tooo. Kevin
Garry.
I love your Grainery! Now thats Railroading!!!!! Good job also to the rest tooo. Kevin
Thanks! I appreciate your comment.
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JimCG Congrats on your first WPF post. I hope to see more from you.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Found the WPF far down on page two. Time to get it back uo to the top of page one.
A general freight passes by the loading dock at the small community of Sundown.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Great stuff on here - buildings, scenery, weathering - even a scratchbuilt steamer!
Selector wrote: Unfortunately, the two lights yielded two shadow as you see to the right of the ore cars.
One photo of my layout lit with twin floodlights showed two 'suns' reflecting in the river I wish I'd kept it now.
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Having seen some fine photos of fine MRR'ing work in here, I'll apologize for my puny offering. This is my first WPF post, so go easy on the WPF 'virgin', folks.
First, basic WP boxcar # 36008 (which needs weathering, definitely), pulled by one of the CAW (Colorado, Arizona and Western) RR's SW's (still hasn't got into the paint shop since they acquired it used from the NP).
and behind that, more visible in this other view, is the CAW work train (yeah, they're kinda short on people for the repaint jobs).
And speaking of repaint jobs, does anyone know of someone who makes MOW/work train decals (dark lettering)? I'd like to repaint the work train in a lighter grey, but want these cars lettered (and not bare). If you know of anybody making the decals, PM me, as I don't get over to WPF very often and might miss it if you just post.
Thanks,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Below is the Prairie View grain elevator served with an SD7 in an era when grain moved in 40' box cars.
Nice job and that brick detail really pops!
CSX_road_slug First, the drug store - which shares the building with a union hall (this is a steel town, remember!). I edited the prices downward on some of the window ads, to make them look more like the target year 1992:
First, the drug store - which shares the building with a union hall (this is a steel town, remember!). I edited the prices downward on some of the window ads, to make them look more like the target year 1992:
Regards
Wow, great modelling and great photography, too.
I've got a pair of Proto GP-9s in Milwaukee livery. I've been slowly installing a diesel Tsunami in one of them. Once I got that job done, I realized that I didn't want to take the engine apart again, so I went right to weathering. This is it's sister, before weathering:
And here's the finished product:
While I had the weathering stuff out (and the ladies were out for the evening) I weathered the second engine, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
selector Terry, gotta love the H-8. I notice your truly excellent water near the 2' mark. Veerrry nice. -Crandell
Terry, gotta love the H-8. I notice your truly excellent water near the 2' mark. Veerrry nice.
-Crandell
Thanks for the kind words on the water !
I did 4 seperate pours
First two were Woodland Scenes when i found out it never truly hardens and traps dust
I switched to Enviro Tex Lite and added 2 more
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
I will second that nice Loathar and raise you an outstanding work, MABruce that is one sweet trestle you have there!
MAbruce -Nice!
Heartland Division CB&Q John (onequicknova) ........ That is certainly an impressive locomtive! Thanks for showing your progress. It is good to see talent like yours in this era of R-T-R locomtives made in China. I hope your model inspires others to build their own models. Others may be interested in knowing more about Burlington's 2-6-6-2 fleet. The first of Q's 2-6-6-2's came from GN in the early 1900's, and Q soon afterwards purchased some built with a different design such as the T-2. The tender was unique, and when built it had a tilting devices to help the fireman fuel the engine with coal. Later, some of these tenders were converted to oil as is the case with John's model. Some of the 2-6-6-2's worked the Deadwood Branch until the diesel era. Congratulations to John for his progress to date on this locomotive.
John (onequicknova) ........ That is certainly an impressive locomtive! Thanks for showing your progress. It is good to see talent like yours in this era of R-T-R locomtives made in China. I hope your model inspires others to build their own models.
Others may be interested in knowing more about Burlington's 2-6-6-2 fleet. The first of Q's 2-6-6-2's came from GN in the early 1900's, and Q soon afterwards purchased some built with a different design such as the T-2. The tender was unique, and when built it had a tilting devices to help the fireman fuel the engine with coal. Later, some of these tenders were converted to oil as is the case with John's model. Some of the 2-6-6-2's worked the Deadwood Branch until the diesel era.
Congratulations to John for his progress to date on this locomotive.
Thanks Garry. Unfortunately, people who still scratchbuild steam are becoming few and far between, espeically someone my age.
A little clarification on the Q's articulateds. The Q's first articulateds, classified T1's, were indeed a GN design,but only the first 3 actually came from the GN, and those three never set foot on GN property. the Q plucked them out of a GN order. They ended up liking them enough to order five more, which were nearly identical except for a few Q related details. These engines were basicly outdated within a few years and eventualy were rebuilt into 0-8-0 switchers.
The T2's were the largest single group of Mallets on the Q, with a whopping ten loco's. A few of these lasted into the 50's, which is the era I'm modeling mine in.
The last time the Q dabble with articulateds was with the purchace of a single 2-8-8-2 T3 which proved rather unsucessful and was off the roster by the early 30's.
John
onequiknova John.
John.
I'm not worthy I'm NOT WORTHY
*bows*
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Thanks in advance
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Nice work every one
Here's a video of my Rivarossi H-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlbxnRIywhc
Here is a work in progress.
Looking good everyone!
Nice work so far!
Some progress shots of my pond and trestle:
Still a lot of details to add in, but it's starting to take shape.
Seems like another GREAT WPF!!!
Here's some update shots of my layout. Not the best shots, but you get a idea.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Here's a scene from an area I've been working on for a while now. The station is Model Powers Redwood Station which I've named Deep Step Station. The 'asphalt' is Durham's rock putty and the light pole is one of Walthers. If I remember right the foreground car is from Athearn. The picture was taken with an old 3 megapixel camera and light was provided by an incandesant bulb in a reflector over to the left. A white piece of paper was held to the right of the camera to reflect light back into shadow areas.
I'm always trying to photograph models in a way that more shows how large the prototype actually is and also to simulate light at different times of the day and that's what I was after in the picture below..
Jarrell