I usually post completed pictures, but as nothing has been completed in the last two weeks, I am submitting these. I was checking my progress photographs and I can't believe it has been a year since I last worked on these ExactRail PS4427 kit cars!!
Installed all the roof walks, brake wheel platform, brake wheel, hand grab on the roof walk and the cut lever. The second picture shows the cars ready for painting. The car with the placard will be for the Anderson's and the other for Monfort out of Greely CO.
Cars have been painted since these pictures were shot earlier today and will be ready for decaling after gloss coating tomorrow night!
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Here's a "new" mechanical reefer plying the rails of the BSR, taking some sort of meat product to the AGWAY warehouse:
I also started working on my entry in the N Scale Vehicle Association's CMW R-190 Challenge:
Some steamy shots from both layouts to go with the 100+ deg. heat in my garage today:Hope you guys are having a chill weekend!
M.C. Fujiwara
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Silicon Valley Free-moN
stebbycentral steamage: Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today. Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one! But would you buy a wine shipped in tank cars?
steamage: Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today. Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one!
Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today.
Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one!
But would you buy a wine shipped in tank cars?
Once they pump the wine from the tank car into a box, who is to know?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I'm not sure if Ive posted this one on a WPF before, but in case I haven't, here's the FHN's #301 easing into the West Tate, Neb. depot with Train #2 (smoke, steam and clouds added):
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http://fhn.site90.net
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Just thought of joke,..first you have Vin Ordinare and then you have a step below it, Vin Diesel...
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
steamage Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today. Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one!
I came across an undec Walthers heayweight baggage car at a train show at an unusually low price. Knowing that I was going to be short of head-end equipment, I picked it up.
Since the PM didn't have any cars that looked very much like it, I created a new and entirely false number series for it and painted it up.
The trick here was that nobody makes Pere Marquette passenger car roadname lettering that would fit in the space between the doors. Fortunately, I have an ALPS printer and was able to lay out what I needed.
I also picked up three undec Walthers Trainline baggage cars in the same deal. Once I take some photos of those that are actually decent, I'll post them.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
Wow thanks for the nice words Crandell
it's alot of fun to do but then a lot of worry that the postal service will play football with the packages
TerryinTexas
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Terry, I like your handiwork. It looks terrific!!
Crandell
Thank you Galaxy,
That layout took me 15 years to complete, and it no longer exist . I am now working on my new layout, and hope to have some photos soon.
Thanks again,
Sam
ollevon
That looks EXCELLENT!! A lot of thought and details.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Here's a few models i built for my friend's layout in AZ he models the Milwaukee Road
Heres a proto type shot of the town of Avery
Here's the Station in Avery in the first photo it's gray and white
in this photo it's brown
Here's my model from the back
and a front shot
Here's the proto type station in Plummer
Here's my model the rubber bands are used to train the roof to the contour of the walls
a close up of the proto type
My Model
A different angle on Sir Madog's favorite scene on my layout. Ezra Johnson's gas station, garage and home.
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A good beginning guys. Some great photos here this week.
Here's one from the BRVRR:
CR SD40-2 #6520 rounds the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout at the head of a short freight. I dug this old Athearn BB SD40-2 out of storage and ran it on the layout just for fun. The CONRAIL blue looks pretty good but the loco has suffered a little hangar rash in storage. Some touch-ups are probably in order.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Motley Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don't know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.t.
Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don't know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.t.
Thank you, you can do it, simple, step by step.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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It has been quite a while since I have photographed anything on my layout. Figured I'd take another image to keep my hand in the use of the camera and stacking software.
Thanks for taking time to give me such a complete answer!
Tarhawk
Hows it going guys? Its been a long time since i have posted on the forum, had a lot of stuff going on. Im really glad to be back though, ive switched to N-Scale to get away with a little more in the space i have. Here is a picture of my layout, with of course BN power.
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-Kade
Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don't know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.
The Ski Train at Denver Union Station at night.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Here's the finished crossing.
Now comes the next turnout, cod 55, #8, dual.
tarhawk Mcfunkeymonkey, Looks great. May I ask what you used to create the great looking flat tall background buildings? thanks. Tarhawk
Mcfunkeymonkey,
Looks great. May I ask what you used to create the great looking flat tall background buildings? thanks.
Thanks.
The "Bella Fonte Cannery" (based on the Del Monte cannery in Alameda) is made up of two Gripp's Luggage kits bashed together with some photo flats behind it to take up the rest of the 3 1/2" backdrop space, while the yellowish building with lots of windows (behind the chain-link fence) is a photo of a real building in Alameda I scaled down, printed on card stock, and affixed to the masonite backdrop with spray adheasive. A two-story DMP brick building flat with styrene spacer behind it covers the right side.
Everything has to be less than 3/4" off the wall at that point to allow the backdrops of the middle 3" spacer and the right 1'x3' (1/2" and 1" shorter, respecively, than the 12" left section) to fold inward when I close the layout into a 1'x3' box for portablility.
You can check out the construction of it on this thread.
Train Master I like the way everything is in focus from the foreground to the background. I know from being there that is a distance of over 4 feet between the closest tree and the back wall. Did you use photo stacking?
I like the way everything is in focus from the foreground to the background. I know from being there that is a distance of over 4 feet between the closest tree and the back wall. Did you use photo stacking?
jeffrey-wimberly
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!