Weekend Photo Fun 9/29-10/2

[HO-Velo]

Jimmy,  Thanks for the WPF start.  Making "what if" a reality is fun.

WPF is a fun and inspiring way to visit the past.

Rick, I like those flanges!  What a neat looking pipe load, takes me back to my "wrenching" daze in the oil refinery.

Mike,  The P.U. at the crossing is the same make, model year and color as a truck I was out bid on at a company auction in the 70s.

Bear,  Gosh, already a year since Andy Sperandeo passed.  Back in 88' Andy's MRR Paint Shop articles provided me the inspiration to acquire an airbrush and try painting and detailing some locos.

Thanks to all for sharing your hobby work and passion, oh, and the memories too, regards,  Peter

 

 

[tbdanny]

I managed to finish off 3 rolling stock projects this week & weekend.

Firstly, there's BVLC boxcar no. 15, built from a Boulder Valley Models kit:

I also put together logging flat no. 14, which was scratchbuilt:

Last, but by no means least (especially in terms of time involved) is BVLC loco no. 7:

This started out as a Bachmann On30 porter and a Backwoods Miniatures slope-back tender kit.  I scratchbuilt a new boiler top for the locomotive, as I wasn't a fan of the original high tank.  I also built a new, lower chassis for the tender.

[Tony73]

First day of the last weekend this month..whew time goes faster every week it seems..lol  Anyway, looks like a lot of great pics this week.. I will need some time to go back through them for the details.  I took a quick (drone) pic of a loaded coal train departing my yard..

[BRVRR]

Great stuff again this weekend guys. Thanks for sharing.

Ed the Hullets are going to be magnificent.

A short Santa Fe freight passing the Farmer's Union elevator at the west end of the BRVRR layout.

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

[Grampys Trains]

I like those new perspective shots, Mike. Kudos to you, Ed, great modeling. A shot of an SD45 in Blackwood cut.

[dti406]

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Ed, like the Hullets rember seeing the NKP ones in Huron and the ones on the Maumee River in Toledo when I was a kid.

Casey, always like the various tank engines that the railroads had that serviced suburban passenger service.

Terry, good job on lighting those structures, sure adds to night scenes on the railroad.

Mike, the low angle shots are sure different than your normal ones.

Bear, thanks for the comments and the ATSF scene looks great.

Luckily we did not have to do the block work, the historical society paid for and did the repairs to the wall, we will have to paint it and replace the layout sections we removed.

Here is a shot of removing the track, marking it prior to the saw cut being made. not shown is the module under this section of track with all the control circuits for the signal system.  All the wires were cut and marked so they can be reinstalled at a later date.

The cutout section of the layout was stored on top of the yard and the entire layout was protected with plastic to keep out the dust etc. from the new wall construction.

Rick Jesionowski

 

[RDG Casey]

More official pictures of the recently finished Reading 2-6-4 tank locomotive. It was built on an IHC 2-6-0 frame I got at a show for $5, so the lead and trailing truck wheels cost about 3 times as much as the running frame did.
A little info on the engine, it was used in commuter service in the lines surrounding Philadelphia PA before electrification in 1930. The engines were all scrapped by 1935.

Also in action.

[C&O Fan]

Nice Work All ~!

I spent the last week lighting many buildings

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This will be the camp fire for the hobo scene i'm building

I'm using a TCS FL4 fecoder to make it flicker

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I will bury a Bachmann smoke unit below it to help animate it

 

[gmpullman]

What's this??? OCTOBER already! (Well, almost...)

Thanks for the great send-off to WPF, Jimmy! You must be building quite a roster there. Seems like every weekend you have a new engine or two to show off! Nice!

Where is laying-up cement block part of the "Model Railroading Is Fun" tagline, Rick? One of the first things I had to do to get my basement layout area finished was cut about sixteen feet of concrete floor to move the laundry drains to a new area. FUN hobby isn't it... pass the Motrin! That open-top load looks great! One of the things on my to-do list is make up a "high-wide" special move train. Someday...

Yes, it was unfortunate that we didn't meet up at Fitzwater Shops, Rick. I'll have to let you know when I'll be there again. There's a chance I'll get to Berea but it is "iffy" right now.

Mike

Those are great results with the low-angle shots. I have a couple of Canon SLRs but the things are just too clumsy to try to position for close-up layout shots. So I'm always stealing Mrs. Pullman's Canon Elph 340HS. Easy to manipulate in those tight areas. Now you have a whole new perspective in seeing the layout. So often the camera sees what we usually miss with the naked eye.

Nice of you to remember Andy, Bear!  He would have liked those zebra-stripes. And "The Floyd". Yes, I have built many-a-model with Comfortably Numb playing in the background. Pinky, get off the line you bloody idiot! Here comes the train! Ahh yes. I'll always remember Andy's sign off... So Long. My dad would say that often when leaving.

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Well, I have procrastinated enough so I grabbed the bull by the horns and CLEANED OFF my work table. Well, most of it, anyway...

Just my little diner project there. So, speaking of procrastinating—I have two of four Hulett ore unloaders built and I finally decided to get the other two built so I can progress on the ore boat dock.

Aah, the smell of polystyrene in the morning... smells like—Victory! A stack of new #11s, fresh bottle of Tenax, Ice cold beer and six Star Wars movies await!

After about sixteen hours, we have another bridge base finished. Trimming and cementing those wheels (there's 64 halves for each Hulett) can get tedious! Beer helps.

As of 0500 this morning I have the bucket leg and winch house completed, about 75% there. Then to start in on Number Four! I, for one, am thankful for the good folks at Walthers for producing kits like this. I began making silicone molds some years ago to cast my own Hulett parts out of resin using Mike Rabbit prints. These kits are infinitely more detailed than anything I could have scratchbuilt!

Well, here it is, time to turn in... Carry on with more great stuff, fellows!

Regards, Ed

["JaBear"]

Gidday Jimmy, an interesting what if.

 

Hadn’t heard of Duha before Rick, interesting variety of loads, and your third photo inspired me to listen to a certain Pink Floyd album while I compose this.

 

Like not only the low angle shots Mike but also the humour.

Jimmy_Braum

So, let's see some more projects!

 

At the present I’m in the process of turning a small block of kauri timber into sawdust so not visually exciting but I note that on the 2^nd it will be the 1^st anniversary of the passing of Andy Sperandeo and as I, rightly or wrongly, associate Andy mostly with the AT&SF, I thought this switching scene at the Club might be appropriate.

 

 

Looking forward to more really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[mlehman]

Jimmy,

I like what ifs, they make you think outside the box.

Rick,

Ah, infrastructure, it's what keep RRs going, big or small.

Inspired by the low angle pics done by Grampys Trains and others, decided to work on that some recently. The yard in Durango.

Around Silverton

The Wilde Mine at Sheridan

The sheriff is looking for these joyriders, who "borrowed" the section foreman's pickup, although he's not sure the local jail can hold them...

The were also caught climbing around on equipment at the Nine Lives Cat House.

Thanks to my friend, Tofu Nutloaf, for the last two low angle shots.

[dti406]

Jimmy, looks like an interesting project!

No new cars or locomotives finished this week, but I did add another load to one of my gons!

This is another Duha load I picked up cheaply on E-bay awhile back. Added it to an E&C Gon I upgraded and painted for the MKT railroad.

I have mentioned that our club had to remove a portion of the layout so the block wall could be rebuilt, I have a picture taken of the layout before the work was done and the new block wall withthe layout section removed.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[Jimmy_Braum]

It's that time again, Weekend photo fun.  For those who are seasoned posters, welcome back! to those who are new here is a general run down:

WPF is where we post photos of weekly projects/archive photos.  Railfanning photos seem to be accepted here.  For example here is what I have been working on

It;s a fantasy "what if/heritage" unit of the P&WV railway.  The prototype was absorbed into NW in the 1960s.  It;s most famous scheme is the one I'm doing, which was worn on the fairbanks Morse locos they had, right up until the end.

So, let's see some more projects!