"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Bear, good operating car, but I especially like the boat motor scenery addition to the layout, will that be the power for your car ferry?
Well after my hint, here is the 99% finished product!
Recent Atlas C-425 model. Removed the dynamic brake detail, filled the hole and sanded smooth saving the rest of the roof detail. As the New Haven had the smallest fuel tanks, removed the tank bulges and added a styrene plate over the remaining holes along with a Details West Fuel Filler. Added lift rings and the rain shields, then painted with Floquil Soconony Red and Scalecoat II Black paints then lettered with Microscale Decals and Accucals supplying the Red NH decal. I could not find my jewels for the class lights, will install those after I get some more MV lenses next week.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
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Bear ... Your flat car looks great.
Casey .... I enjoyed seeing your video with the completed kitabsh CNJ locomotive in action. LOL at the load on the flat cars of the first freight train.
Rick ... Nice job with your NH Alco,
Below are my Stewart FT's. These were undecorated units when I purchased them for only $30 for each of the two AB sets at a train show. I assembled them and painted them to appear as they looked when delivered from EMD in 1944.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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RDG Casey - what an incredible transformation! Excellent!
Good stuff from everyone, this week. I1sa with a coal drag at Stoney Creek.
Everyone has put up some awesome stuff this week ! I had an undecorated cover hopper that needed an identity. While browsing the webz for such ID , I came across a very rusty ex- Chessie.. well, it was almost black with rust. So...
Tony
EK Sub in HO Scale
Bear,
Fantastic and impressive, an awesome sight in motion...and I could only see it tiny in the second video, will try that one again later. Building for looks is one thing, building for performance takes it to another level!
Rick, RDG Casey, Garry, Grampys, Tony,
Lots of fine work to take pride in!
Pressed for time, trying to get my JMRI online for the NMRA convention visitors next weekend, so my "pics" are updated track charts I need to get on my Webserver, but here first for your entertainment...
Someday, they'll be neat and trim, for now, this has gotta do. The square numbered turnouts are controled via DCC, mostly on the standard gauge main. Not all tracks shown or to scale. Directions of curves, straights and mains may be altered for editorial purposes. YMMV
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I have been in Berlin for over a month before having returned on Tuesday. I got a lot of neet footage of trains in and around Berlin and I will be posting them in the next few weeks. Here is the first one of the Britzer Garten Parkbahn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUz4CyJFhe0
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Gday all from Downunder...
Not much progress on the shelf but this lil fella is keeping me amused...
Cheers...
Chris from down under...
We're all here because we're not all there...
Thanks guys, there will probably be a second of Thomas' friends to join the roster at some point for a CNJ 4-6-0 like a T-28 or T-32. Bascially something I can find hard evedence of not having the split square counter weights.
As for the Gordon scrap, it was the last time he was spotted.
I had to point him going away from the camera, I couldn't think of an easy way to make him look sad haha.
Bear, Thanks for the WPF start-up and movies. Nice load, right out of "Paul Bunyan's" toolbox.
Darn the light leaks, full speed ahead with the photo taking!
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
PJM20 I have been in Berlin for over a month before having returned on Tuesday. I got a lot of neet footage of trains in and around Berlin and I will be posting them in the next few weeks. Here is the first one of the Britzer Garten Parkbahn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUz4CyJFhe0
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
RDG Casey- Every time you roll out a new locomotive, I'm blown away by how it turned out. Your transformation of Gordon has me positively gobsmacked.
Tony- that covered hopper looks like nearly every Chessie covered hopper I've seen over the past twenty five years- good job!
Here's what I've spent my last several weeks doing:
Finishing up some scenery changes and packing for the NMRA National Convention in Indianapolis. It usually takes us from 12 to 15 hours to set up the Operations Road Show layout once we get to the Convention. That's one of the reasons we only bring the layout out every couple of years. But at least we should be able to have four good days of operating sessions (Mon-Thu) there during the Convention!
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
Mike and Fritz... thank you both for the kind words!
Ah..... The Weekend photo thread! Great start on this folks, I love everything posted!
I have been finally finding a few minutes here and there to work on a bit of scenery in the last section of the layout to be completed. Last time I posted here this section looked like this:
Must have left the lights on overnight cause I went down a few days later and some greenery had taken root.... (the main area I have been doing is a removable "hill" over the lower track leading to staging. There is a turnout down there and just in case I ever need to access it I made the hill removable. That is why you can see some saran wrap in the scene. That will be removed after everything is glued in place.) Some dead trees also showed up.....
Trees sprouted leaves and some critters showed up! I bet you can find the Buck and the Doe in the scene, but we might have to wait for "Lion" to show up. Him will spot the Momma Bear and her two cubs I bet.
Meanwhile over on the other side of the tracks the hill just looks like this for the moment:
Enjoy!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Just finished this 'Performance Motors' building today. It is a Walther's Wallschlager Motors kit that I reassigned to a local business of performance autos. The interior was a quick job to get the appearance of a small but thriving business.
-Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
I believe that the Parkbahn is 600mm gauge, which is actually smaller than the than what Minitrains is based on. Minitrains is closer to 750mm gauge.
RDG Casey Thanks guys, there will probably be a second of Thomas' friends to join the roster at some point for a CNJ 4-6-0 like a T-28 or T-32. Bascially something I can find hard evedence of not having the split square counter weights. As for the Gordon scrap, it was the last time he was spotted. I had to point him going away from the camera, I couldn't think of an easy way to make him look sad haha.
Why don't you try reverse engineering Thomas himself back into B.E.D.T. 15?
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/B.E.D.T._15
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
G PaineWas that something like a 2 foot gauge? Minitrains makes an HOn30 locomotive that looks like the one ion the video;
The gauge is quite correct - it´s 600mm, just a little under 2 ft. The loco is a Ns2f from Lokomotivbau Babelsberg, not the Gmeinder look alike from Minitrains.
Busch makes a correct model of it, running on 6.5mm tracks!
steemtrayn Why don't you try reverse engineering Thomas himself back into B.E.D.T. 15? http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/B.E.D.T._15
B.E.D.T 15 aka Strasburg's Thomas is an American tank engine made to look like the british Thomas. To make the real B.E.D.T 15 (which was saddle tank) would probably be better to use more American based parts. At this point I have only found use for the Grodon/Henry frame with 70"-ish drivers in HO, not OO, for the tipcal commuter 4-6-0s used in the northeast.
Work continues of the G scale covered bridge. This week I completed adding cross beams, X bracing, and filler pieces on the truss to support the cover planking beams. Carpenter's square shows the size. The inset on lower right shows one of 6 bottom bolt plates scratch built from 0.060 styrene and G scale nut-bolt-washer castings.
As usual, I ran out of wood beams again, and had to run some more scrap wood through my table saw and stain them.
Next I need to design and build a roof trusses, cut the siding to size from sheets of Evergreen G scale car siding, and some finish details.
That is an impressive rust job