Mr. B,
Love the annual appearance of the Grim Railfan...
Heartland Division CB&QMike L... Bailing wire? ... There must be more to the story. ... Nice layout photos again.
Rick, GP9_Man and Garry,
Thanks for the comments
Garry,
Yeah, there is, in the DCC and Electronics Forum: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/239484.aspx
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Trick or Treat
Bear ... Nice work on your ferry project.
Mike L... Bailing wire? ... There must be more to the story. ... Nice layout photos
again.
Rick ... I like the Pennsy cabin car and the AA covered hopper.
Mr. B ..... Boo !
GP9 ... Tha is a scary PRR keystone
I showed this scene last week with a gas electirc car. Here it is with the GE 44T performing hauling a box car on the branch line.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Happy Halloween everybody!
Bear, Those smoke stacks look great.
Mike, Nice shots of the narrow guage as always.
Rick, love the rolling stock, especially the N5c cabin car.
Well, work continues at Horseshoe Curve. I replaced the cloud paper backdrop, which was splatttered with plaster and what not. I replaced it by painting the backdrop blue.
Also been planting trees and installing rock formations.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Happy Halloween.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning everyone on All Hallowed Eve!!
Bear, that ferry looks great, still can't get over the size of those stacks!
Mike, some of the in progress pictures are as informative as the finalized model!
Got some cars done this week, and here they are.
Bowser N5c Cabin Car kit with an added Cal-Scale Trainphone Antenna kit and ECW Caboose Windows. Painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freightcar Red and Black, then lettered with Champ Decals. The Ann Arbor leased one hundred of these 1958CF Covered Hoppers of various parentage from Chicago Freight Car for use in Casting Sand Service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland), OH. Cars could have the solid or the open sides. This is the 3rd Car I have done and this one has the solid side, added airlines and A-Line Sill Steps to the model, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. Walthers giant Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper Kit, installed all the metal grabs, then painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II MofW Gray/Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. (Hard to find a decal for these cars.) Thanks for looking! Rick J
Bowser N5c Cabin Car kit with an added Cal-Scale Trainphone Antenna kit and ECW Caboose Windows. Painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freightcar Red and Black, then lettered with Champ Decals.
The Ann Arbor leased one hundred of these 1958CF Covered Hoppers of various parentage from Chicago Freight Car for use in Casting Sand Service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland), OH. Cars could have the solid or the open sides. This is the 3rd Car I have done and this one has the solid side, added airlines and A-Line Sill Steps to the model, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. Walthers giant Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper Kit, installed all the metal grabs, then painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II MofW Gray/Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. (Hard to find a decal for these cars.) Thanks for looking! Rick J
The Ann Arbor leased one hundred of these 1958CF Covered Hoppers of various parentage from Chicago Freight Car for use in Casting Sand Service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland), OH. Cars could have the solid or the open sides. This is the 3rd Car I have done and this one has the solid side, added airlines and A-Line Sill Steps to the model, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Walthers giant Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper Kit, installed all the metal grabs, then painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II MofW Gray/Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. (Hard to find a decal for these cars.) Thanks for looking! Rick J
Walthers giant Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper Kit, installed all the metal grabs, then painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II MofW Gray/Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. (Hard to find a decal for these cars.)
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Bear,
That's positively bearific! And Happy Halloween
Here's hoping everyone gets treats
WPF is great because it's open to just about anything. Sometimes, like Ja Bear, we show our best work. Other times, we just show our work. I'm kinda proud of this one.
Don't laugh, that FT runs great now. I do need to get some paint on that baling wire, though
In projects started, I made a fair start on the hay barn for the Hesperus stockyards. It's important because they make a lot of hay around there and folks on along the narrowgauge up in the mountains buy it to feed their mules, horses, etc. Straw, too, for bedding and mud control. You can even ship it in stock cars, which are usually underutilized and available. This is how far the crew got by quitting time.
The battens are individually cut and applied, which gives a nice random look. There will be a dock on the rail side. Dingy, peeling white paint and a tin roof is probably next. And we'll get that foundation leveled up.
Ran a nice doubleheader with C-19s #3 and #4 up to Eureka and Animas Forks earlier in the week.
And we'll close with an image snapped from the marketing dept's helicopter, which was getting some pics to promote the 2015 San Juan Zephyr schedule. The Zephyr is sitting in Silverton while everyone gets lunch.
Really good work Jabear!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."