WPF 6/12-6/14

[Packers#1]

jon grant

Jon

 

Had to quote this pic. Jon, great work on a high hood Norfolk Southern GP38-2 man! I've seen a couple of these in my town, and yours looks great!

[wm3798]

Several of us Baltimore area Railwire guys got together at acsxfan1's layout for some shake down running.  He just finished a major remodel of the layout, so we were called in to test it out.









John Berger (our host) at left, with Tim Nixon (POVC), Lee Weldon, Gary Hinshaw, and Eric Payne (Seusscaboose). Rob Madson (Zox) Brian Carhart (RockGP40) and PC Carl (Choochin3) were there earlier. Ed was decidedly not there.

A couple more from John's layout Saturday...








Had a great time... Thanks again, John!

Lee

[IVRW]

MPRR

I've been working on the track the past week or so. Soldering and glueing takes a while and is so tedious that I only get about 6 feet done at a time.

This first shot give a birds eye view of the layout.  

This pic is where the lumber mill facility will be located. I have glued and solder this loop area and the grade on the right side that curves and travels along back wall. Just beyond the milk jug there is a curved turnout that provides the lead into mill.

This shot will be the industrial district. None of the track is set. I've just been tooling aroud with different configurations to see what might work. Any comments on this pic would be great.. I really feel like something is missing in this area.

Beautiful RR MPRR.

[IVRW]

MPRR

I've been working on the track the past week or so. Soldering and glueing takes a while and is so tedious that I only get about 6 feet done at a time.

This first shot give a birds eye view of the layout.  

This pic is where the lumber mill facility will be located. I have glued and solder this loop area and the grade on the right side that curves and travels along back wall. Just beyond the milk jug there is a curved turnout that provides the lead into mill.

This shot will be the industrial district. None of the track is set. I've just been tooling aroud with different configurations to see what might work. Any comments on this pic would be great.. I really feel like something is missing in this area.

Beautiful RR MPRR.

[RRCanuck]

Greetings all. I'm still in Asia for another 3 weeks, so have nothing to contribute now. Just wanted to acknowledge the great work here this weekend - special mention to Jon Grant - beautiful work, beautifully photographed. Cheers

[drafterdude]

Jim,

Check out page 4 of this issue of The Wig Wag, the newsletter for the NMRA Mid Continent Region's Eastern Iowa Divison. http://eid.mcor-nmra.org/PDFs/WigWag200804.pdf It has some tips for putting dents in a gondola.

Dale

[jon grant]

Excellent photos guys

My latest project is a P2K GP38-2 detailling project, turning this......

 

into this...

Jon

[JimRCGMO]

Many, many excellent photos, people!

Crandell, very nifty weathering on your loco - and probably hard as all get-out (vs. my meager attempt below).

Robby, you're doing your (usual) EXCELLENT job on that Railbox, of course.

Here're my before and after photos of a gondola weathering job. LBF kit - Frisco, which I still want to add dents and more refined rust scratches to. Have to find an article in a booklet that described how to do the dents... (please excuse the quality of the pics - low battery, I suspect)

Before:

and After:

I did get some fresh batteries yesterday evening, so might have some 'stage 2' photos of this one (with dents, etc.) by next weekend.

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau

[howmus]

Great work as always being shown here this weekend!

I put together a Jib Crane for the dock at the Freight House (temporary freight house for about 20 years or so...):

Some items arrived in the mail earlier this week so I have been doing some scenery near the yard lead at Hopewell as well.  A hedge row separates the filed for the Herefords from the field of beans.  The fence is scratched from scale 1x4s, 4x4s, and some 6x6 lumber.  The field itself is Silflor field mat with "mole hills".  Well those beefers have been using that same pasture most of the summer.......

Sure wish I could get properly done beef cattle.......  Even back in the 20's they had "polled" (hornless) Herefords which aren't made by anyone that I could find.  Today, you seldom find Herefords with horns (at least not in these parts).  Those with horns are fine except that Herefords did not have horns sticking straight up out of their heads....  They curved around towards the front of the head.  I may go back and make them polled Herefords without any horns at all.  OK where'd I put the horn clippers?
 

[Packer]

I got an Autorack and 2 containers in the mail the other day:


The flat car I've had for a bit.

After a lot of tinkering, I managed to fit 2 40 foot containers on a car, and allow contaniers to be swapped out. I did this by drilling a hole in the container shoe so that the conatainer's lugs will slip in them. It's quite easy to locate where since there is a dimple in the perfect spot. Then file the rail on the bottom of the shoes so it fits in the grooves on the deck. After that, file off half of that rail off so that the 2 conainters will fit, and the inside containter shoes will be touching. Then to secure them all, i used tacky glue so I can remove them and put them on a different car if I wanted. The one you see is a mock-up. I don't have a picture of the finished product yet.

I also went to the Pensacola show and picked up an SD40-2 (finally!!) but it wasn't quite the ones I had in mind:

No one had any of the normal SD40-2s, so I got the Bicentennial SD40-2, 1876. I'll eventually get around to putting the sound decoder I have for it in.

I also got this tool for 10 bucks, should really come in handy.

I also bought a boxcar kit, 3 hoppers, and a reffer (also, finally!!). I was looking for trailers, but only found the 2-pack of athearn ones that were $15 each (60 bucks for the rest of my cars). None of the Concor or Athearn kit ones that would be cheaper.

[IVRW]

[duckdogger]

 It is always so cool when you can see the power flow through a loco.

[Anonymous]

 After my Saturday trip to the local lumber yard to "harvest" some freebee lumber, I built a test track, so I can see (and hear) my locos run for the first time. Took a couple of pictures of my favourite:

 

... and one more:

 

Took me some time and a lot of to get the "bandit" up and running...

 

 

[MPRR]

I've been working on the track the past week or so. Soldering and glueing takes a while and is so tedious that I only get about 6 feet done at a time.

This first shot give a birds eye view of the layout.  

This pic is where the lumber mill facility will be located. I have glued and solder this loop area and the grade on the right side that curves and travels along back wall. Just beyond the milk jug there is a curved turnout that provides the lead into mill.

This shot will be the industrial district. None of the track is set. I've just been tooling aroud with different configurations to see what might work. Any comments on this pic would be great.. I really feel like something is missing in this area.

[mountaingoatgreg]

This weekend the South Kansas Free-Mo group is setup in Wichita Kansas in conjunction with the Mid-Continent NMRA meet. While waiting for trains to run me and my friend took some time taking pictures around the layout. These pitures are taken on my module and of my power by my friend. As a note there is no photoshopping done to the image! I will post some more photos later!!

 

[duckdogger]

 Driline and Demonwolf,

Yes, it is outside and my web site shows the entire building process to date. Follow the model railroad links at www.duckdogger.us. The railroad is approximately 56 x 10, 2 levels, and approximately 330 feet of mainline.  All code 83 with the exception of some code 100 in hidden staging.  All #10 or #8 turnouts.

[stokesda]

I haven't posted on WPF in a while, so here's what I've been up to lately:

My current project, nearly finished: a 4-unit (yes, 4, not 5) Thrall well car set. Started life as an undecorated kit from a train show. I added all the superdetailing, painting, decaling, etc. Several months later, all that's left is to put the stainless steel walkways on, reattach the weights, trucks, and couplers, and load 'em up! I learned the hard way today that after applying decals, make sure you clean the model thoroughly to remove any Micro Set / Micro Sol residue, because if you don't the residue will magically reappear through the Dullcote!... Only in a couple of places, though, and it's not that bad... I've been working on this project so long, I just pushed the "good enough" button and am moving on to other things.

 

I recently built a wall display cabinet for my locos. The framing is made of clear pine with plywood and masonite for the back. The white background behind the shelves is white poster board. The "glass" is the clear plastic from a cheap poster frame, to save weight and cost.

 

A couple of my upcoming projects. First up is an old Athearn SCL U33B that my dad bought when I was a kid (20+ yrs ago). I'm going to remotor and add prototype-specific detail parts.

 

After that, an old Athearn FP45 (same history as the U33B model above) painted in fictional Amtrak livery. My plan is to remotor and repaint/detail as an ATSF "Super Fleet" unit from the 1990's.

[graphitehemi]

Great stuff as usual people!

Since it's been a while, I decided to throw together a new roster shot quick. It's not pretty, but it's a little more up to date.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

A few are completly done. Some factory models need some details added yet. Plus there are half a dozen or so more on the sidelines waiting to be painted.

[Anonymous]

jguess733

Tyler, what kind of camera do you use?

 

I use a Panasonic PV-GS80 digital video camera on a SLIK SDV-20 tripod for most of my filming, but for the cab ride video I had to use a small point-and-shoot camera, a Panasonic DMC-FX01, with a video mode, since it was the only thing small enough to fit (sideways) on a piece of HO equipment without taking up two tracks on a single track railroad!

I flipped the video vertical (right side up) with a video editing program later, at the same time I dubbed the railroad sounds in and added my copyright watermark.

Thanks for the kind words all!

[demonwolf224]

Drilline I was thinking the same thing.

[Driline]

duckdogger

Now that I can actually run a train around the entire road, I have been assembling various mixes of cars and motive power to find the track work glitches so they can be corrected.  From short passenger specials to 22 grain cars.  I kit bashed this SDP40F in 1975 based on an article in MRR.  Repositioned the fans to reflect a 16 cylinders vs 20 cylinders, modified front porch, and details.

 

 

Are those HO trains outside? I'd like to see a wide shot of your layout area. That looks really good.

[duckdogger]

Now that I can actually run a train around the entire road, I have been assembling various mixes of cars and motive power to find the track work glitches so they can be corrected.  From short passenger specials to 22 grain cars.  I kit bashed this SDP40F in 1975 based on an article in MRR.  Repositioned the fans to reflect a 16 cylinders vs 20 cylinders, modified front porch, and details.

[mcfunkeymonkey]

What arrived in the mail this week?
Steam, glorious steam!
(Now that's one hot mail!)

 

 And a birds-eye, to show off me rocks on the left.

Walthers 0-8-0
Runs & looks great!
Just need to reletter & weather (and perhaps add a wee bit o' weight).

Groovy pictures, people!
Love all the different styles of cabeese out there.
Rock on!
--Mark

[selector]

George, yes, Bergie left about a month ago now, and I am not privy to who may have replaced him. Wade Emblad, to my knowledge, is looking after things, but whether or not that will become permanent, I dunno.

While I am posting, I might as well submit my contribution for the week.

-Crandell

[jguess733]

 Great work so far this week everyone, and it's only Friday.

 Tyler, what kind of camera do you use?

[G Paine]

selector

back in March or so, Bergie

A bit off topic, but speaking of Bergie, some time ago there was a notice that he was leaving Kalmbach. Did this happen and if so who is replacing him?

[wm3798]

 Made some more smoke this week...  This is fun!

Have a good weekend!

Lee

[Dave Vollmer]

Maurice

 Thanks to all who posted photos or video.

Dave-> How about the Atlas Wide-Vision caboose for Conrail? Thanks for the information on the Raritan River. I didn't know that. I am modelling Conrail early 80's in N scale as well so I may have to pick up a RRRR boxcar or two. I will post some picks if I ever get it all unpacked from my recent move.

Tyler-> I really enjoyed the video, thanks.

Have a happy and safe weekend all.

Maurice

 

 

The Atlas Wide-Vision caboose is a near-perfect match for a CR ex-RDG class N20. I have one. They're very nice!

The Atlas bay window cabin is actually even farther from the CR prototype. We anticipate that Athearn's upcoming N scale release, while again based on another SP prototype, will be closer to a CR class N7E (and will come so lettered) than the MTL comes to its intended class N5H.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Mid train helpers on the Detroit Edison coal train passing Carbo, WV.

 

Larry