Weekend Photo FUN 20 - 22 November 2015

[Guy Papillon]

Nothing new on the layout this week as I am still working on the ballast. However here is a nice scene I caught on the Boothbay Railway Village layout earlier this fall.

Thanks for our fellow forum member George Paine for his warm welcome.

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[middleman]

Happy Weekend - I'm enjoying everyone's pictures.

Bear: A couple of nice looking trains. Like everyone else,I love N&W's big steam,and I've always like the big high-hood Alco's.Unfortunately,except for a few on the Santa Fe,they never seemed to find favor here in the west.

Jimmy Braum: Nice job on the car - congratulations!

A freight rolls off the hill on it's way into town:

Mike

 

[BRVRR]

Bear, thanks for starting WPF again this week. That is a pair of good looking locos you have there. Care to share your methods for track cleaning cars?

Mike, really cool rail fanning scenes. Great scenery.

Rick, Love the ore train and the NYC Jade Green box car.

Howmus, Your bridge is a modeler's work of art.

Garry, I like the colorful passenger train.

GP-9 Man, Good job of taking the hobby to the people.

Grampy, Great shot as usual.

Jimmy, Congrats! Thats a really nice car!

Casey, great looking loco and scenery.

From the BRVRR:

Pennsylvania RR T1 #5501 at the head of a westbound passenger train passes the Black River Station.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

[mlehman]

Bear,

That's a might fine job getting a track cleaner to blend in so discretely. Makes them more useful when they can operate in low key fashion.

Thanks to your contributions and all the others, especially for the kind words on my pics.

Wish we had more jumping in, as it's just so easy to see your latest work here along with eveyone else's across a broad spectrum of skill levels. Consider taking a pic or two and posting them here. You will get a lot of support.

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, Just a quick note. The club open weekend went reasonably well, some were complaining about the small turnout and lack of money made, but the rest of us had a great time running trains, and I think we did a pretty good job promoting the hobby.

Apart from getting the layouts presentable and reliable, my personal task was to make some track cleaning cars for the club; as I have mentioned before the hydrogen sulphide in the air plays havoc with metal surfaces.

This is one of them that I’ve lettered for the club, I’m experimenting with making decals and I need to do a lot more experimenting! The over exuberant weathering was done in a hurry to disguise some of the inconsistencies, but as it was done with water colour paint it is able to be washed off.

 

Thanks to everyone for their really Good Stuff,

Cheers, the Bear.

[G Paine]

HO-Velo

Plans for an elborate interior were for naught as the thick gridded window frames reduces visibility

I agree. When I built this kit with the interior last year, I should have removed some of the muntions from the windows to open up the view. Even with LED lighting, the best view inside is through the large front door.

[HO-Velo]

Bear, Thanks for the WPF kick-off and club shot, appears the diesel elect. is ahead by more than a nose.  Club holiday shows and open houses are in full swing around these parts.  

When complete the Walthers kit will represent the older part of a power plant complex and coupled with an overhead pipeway also serve as a view block where trackage passes thru the backdrop.  Plans for an elborate interior were for naught as the thick gridded window frames reduces visibility.

Thanks to all and regards, Peter

 

 

 

[RDG Casey]

Great work everyone!

Heres big steam in the new scene.

[Jimmy_Braum]

Hey guys.  My second place winning car from last weeks

 

And my freelanced roads newest caboose

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[Grampys Trains]

Really good stuff from everyone this week. An I1sa with a coal drag cresting the grade at Stoney Creek.

[DGX GP 38]

Thanks Bear! Nothing like a little WPF to start off a great weekend.

Here is a CF 7 rolling through the Pine Bluff cotton merchant district.

[GP-9_Man11786]

Bear, cool shot of the club layout. I hope the open house goes off without a hitch.

Mike, your narrow gauge is impressive as always.

Howmus, Your bridge is turning out nicely.

Rick, Great rolling stock.

Terry, I like the CCTV idea. The best I have is a mirror over the layout.

Garry, Your SDs look great.

I do believe that today is Take a Model Train to Work Day. Okay, that is still a thing right? Anyway, that's just what I did. I took my portable N Scale layout up to the South Carolina Welcome Center. I ran locomotives from railroads serving the Palmtetto State and put out brochures about our railroad-related attractions.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Bear ... Thanks for starting WPF and for the great photo. 

Mike L .... Your scenes clearly show why the Rocky Mountains have their name. Nice!

Rick J ... The 60' box cars look great. The Alcos hauling ore cars look good too.

Ray .... Your brdge is looking perfect.

TX Terry .... Evidently, it was a very good open house. CLosed circuit TV is a great idea. 

Here is a photo of a football special.. Old passenger equipments hauled by SD's. 

 

[C&O Fan]

Tomorrow is also my open house Bear

So i've got the Closed Circuit TV hooked up so people can watch trains from the Couch

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I also have the internet camera hooked up so my out of town buddies can watch the trains run

 

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Gotta get busy cleaning house have a great weekend folks

 

 

 

[howmus]

Ah!  The weekend already!  Great start on the best thrread on the forum.

Progress....  Progress is being made, I hope, on the Girder bridge.  After several more hours of tedium the rivets are basically in place on the first half of the bridge.  I am not going to put the rivets in places where the sun don't shine and will never be able to be seen.

Rivets will be added to the top and bottom of the girders after the second half has been finished and the two sections are joined.  The bridge will then be ready to paint and weather....

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[dti406]

Good morning from mostly cloudy and cool Northeast Ohio!

Bear, I love that Y6b, its the one engine I would like to get a good model of!

Mike, more nice scenes along the layout.

I did not get any work done this last week, so I am going to show some old work I have done that I do not believe I have ever posted before. The cars shown were built over 20 years ago when I lived in Alaska.

Robbins Rails 60' Greenville Boxcar, changed the wheelbase to 46' from 41', removed the rivits and scribed weld lines to replicate the Thrall 60' Boxcar. Painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals.

Pennsy X59 Class 60' Boxcar by ACF, again removed the rivits and scribed weld lines to match the prototype along with changing the wheelbase from 41' to 46'. Painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals.

Another 60' Box, this time the Greenville version with the rivits, but the wheelbase was changed to 46' from 41' Car was painted with Floquil Jade Green and Black and lettered with Walther's Decals.

All the above cars were used in Ford Service for auto parts.

And a picture taken at the Strongsville, OH Club, Stewart C628 and C630 hauling a string of G39 Ore Jennies.

Thanks for looking

Rick Jesionowski

[mlehman]

Bear,Great pic!

A few shots from railfanning around the layout.

 

 

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, well the sun is well and truly over the yard arm, that is if I could see it as it has been, and still is, a grey and misty day, the rain has been very welcome though.

Tomorrows the Clubs Open Day, so here’s another shot on the HO modules.

 

Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One fflokess,

Cheers, the Bear.