"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Nice flat car Bear!
All the best!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Happy Remembrance; Armistice or Veteran's Day to all who served!
Happy Birthday to you, Jimmy. You share a birthday with General George S. Patton? Quite an honor!
Thanks for unlocking another WPF, Bear! I certainly know what you mean about some projects seemingly taking forever... Nice work
For those of you following along at home, you may have seen some photos of the "forgotten corner" of my layout...
Before...
And as of 0400 Eastern Time:
I had a "Topping-Out" party, witness the single pine tree. (There should have been a flag, too ) It was a difficult situation to deal with to try to hide the helix. At least there's a view-break now.
On to more of the great stuff!
Regards, Ed
Hey Bear,
You are wishing Jimmy a happy 25th birthday, Jimmy signs his posts with the following:
(My Model Railroad, My Rules) These are the opinions of a 22 year old guy from the NS Mon Line.
Either he is behind in updating his threads or you're advancing him in years. What's the go Jimmy?
http://southcoastrail.blogspot.com/
Hi Bear, Dave, Ed and Jimmy... ''Happy Birthday''......but now, I really feel old.. My birthday was Wed. the 9th. no big deal for Me though....I'm only 49yrs. older than You Jimmy......WOW! Where did the time go???
I planned on having some new pic's to share of some projects I have completed....but I had got sick...so..gotta get better first.
Take Care, All!
Frank
SouthCoastRailHey Bear, You are wishing Jimmy a happy 25th birthday, Jimmy signs his posts with the following: (My Model Railroad, My Rules) These are the opinions of a 22 year old guy from the NS Mon Line. Either he is behind in updating his threads or you're advancing him in years.
Happy Birthday Jimmy, and to all of your who have served our various countries, have a great Veteran's day.
Did not get anything done this week, due to other stuff being done this last week.
Here is a picture from the vault of old pictures!
Since it is a Holiday, I will throw in a picture of my DT&I Bi-Centennial #1776 with a Coil Steel Train.
See you all later!
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!
Almost ready for my open house on the Houston Fall Layout Tour
Just a few more buildings to light
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TerryinTexas
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Wow, I guess I forgot to update my Signature lol. That's fixed now lol
First off Bear, thank you for the thread and the name is really touching to me. As usual, a lot of nice work this week. I spent my birthday photographing the section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie I plan to eventually model, and I was rewarded with a photo of their crane, and a coke train later on in the day.
The Wheeling is like a box of chocolates, you never know WHAT you're going to get. I think the sun worked with me in this shot- a nice thoughful "gift" the Wheeling "gave" me.
This week had me start and finish the first of two more Wheeling hoppers. Stripped the lettering and applied the decals from highball graphics. The result is shown below
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Great photos so far. ...
Jimmy: Happy birthday.
Below is a Baldwin switcher moving some sleepers at Union Station.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Happy Veteran's Day to all who have or are serving. Thank YOU!
Here is a photo from the "Railroading Page" on my updated website:
New York Central Niagara #6008 is westbound at Pasture Curve with a mail and express train bound for Buffalo.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Happy Veteran's Day and thanks to all who served. This photo reminds me of the many times I rode the PRR on liberty or leave in the mid 60's.
Happy Birthday, Jimmy!
And slautes to our veterans on this day of rememberance.
Nice pics everyone. And congrats to Bear on finishing up that project, it's a sharp-looking flatcar
This week didn't see as much RR action as I hoped. I have focused on getting ready for my Golden Spike presentation at our local divisional meeting here on Saturday. The NMRA set up the GS as a sort of introduction to its Achievement Prograam (AP). It's not everyone's bag, but it does help your modeling by helping you focus on improving it. More info is here: http://www.nmra.org/golden-spike-award
Here are a few examples of my work that will be on display. First, one requirement is to display 8 square feet of basically completed and scenicked layout area. I chose the oldest part of the layout, Red Mountain, as it was a module I built prior to moving here. It's a little larger than required and will see more changes, but here it is; the small dayglo card marker designates each example as I'm doing this in part to encourage other members by showing how easy this is once you've got a few things under your belt.
The Haymarket Tram is one of the 5 required structures. They have to be something more than a simple assembly of a basic kit. In this case, I bashed together 3 Grandt Silverton Ore Bin kits (not visible as on the far side), built a crib out of Grandt Cribbing sections, filled it with crushed rock crumbles from the Animas Forks area, built the headhouse for the tramway, and built-up an QAnvil Mountain Models tramway to serve the mine above. Totally freelance, it's in the spririt of the San Juan mining tradition.
Diesels #64 and #100 are familiar to WPF readers. #64 is a brass PSC WP&Y DL-535 kit I built, detailed, and painted for the Rio Grande. The #100 is a narrowgauged Kato that I modified to suit my needs.
The west siding switch at Purgatory is one of the 3 examples of trackwork (which can be RTR) needed. This is from a BK wye swicth kit and is at a crucial location, where a bridge on a curve is also very close to the layout's edge. I've installed a few discrete bumper disguised as road edge markers and haven't loct any equipment to the 400+ scale foot dropoff yet -- knock on wood.
I hope to report that I "made the grade" in next week's WPF. Don't know how actively I'll then proceed with the AP, but we'll see about that after this first step.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Building up my HOn30 roster for the eventual limestone quarry for my eventual layout. Still have many details parts to add to all the models plus paint.
Bernd
New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds
protolancer(at)kingstonemodelworks(dot)com
Grampys Trains Happy Veteran's Day and thanks to all who served. This photo reminds me of the many times I rode the PRR on liberty or leave in the mid 60's.
I don't remember Mrs. Santa Clause looking like that. I think I would have remembered if she did.
jecorbettI don't remember Mrs. Santa Clause looking like that. I think I would have remembered if she did.
Ya! I'd want her to sit on my lap instead of me sitting on Santa's!
Bernd:
Nice start to the collection!
I'm assuming that the rail truck/trailer is scratch built and powered. How did you power it?
Mike:
Those are all great scenes! I'm sure you will do well in the Golden Spike awards.
Happy Veterans Day, many thanks and best wishes to all our Veterans.
Bear, Thanks for opening this special edition of WPF, nice flatcar, nice backdrop too.
Grampys Trains, Great scene and photo as always, but the vice-squad might be on the way to the station.
Thanks to all the contributors and regards, Peter
hon30critter Bernd: Nice start to the collection! I'm assuming that the rail truck/trailer is scratch built and powered. How did you power it? Dave
Dave,
I'll start a new post so this thread doesn't get hijacked.
Great start to the weekend!!!
I decided to change pace for a couple of days and get some track laid at Milo Mills on the SLO&W. There will be a siding here and a small frieght station that will be a scratch build based on the small freight house in Naples, NY. The turnout has been installed and the siding track has started to be put in place. Just waiting for the crew to arrive to finish it up... There will be room for two 40' cars at the siding.
Lots of wiring in progress as well. The Tortoise has been installed and wired, and there will be some other DCC power drops in the area as well. Some of the buildings will also be lighted so I brought the nearest DC power over to get that done.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
hon30critter Mike: Those are all great scenes! I'm sure you will do well in the Golden Spike awards. Dave
That's for the kind comments. The GS is pretty low pressure. Show up with what's asked for and you're usually good. It's meant to convince you to take the next step in the AP, as well as recognizing a decent start on that effort. Not sure how rigorously I'll pursue things after the GS, but it does get you thinking about what's next.
Thank you Bear for launching another WPF.
Great work everyone and nices photos.
Here are some assembled Tichy Train kits waiting for the paint room.
Those kits gave me some hours of pleasure.
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Guy:
Nice job on the Tichy kits!
I have several of them that I haven't started. Too many projects on the go. Seeing yours kind of puts a bee in my bonnet.
A couple of months ago, LL Bean contracted with Boothbay Railway Village to design and build a layout for their 2016 Northern Lights Celebration.http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/512152?page=northern-lights
The layout has a Christmas and winter outdoor activity theme. It is 12'x28' with a double track G scale loop at grade and an O scale high line in the center. It was built by our volunteers in about 6 weeks!! it will be running in the Children's Department at LL Bean in Freeport, Me from Nov 15 to Dec 31.
Overall views from both ends
LL Bean store and Freeport Station. The store is a model of the original LL Bean store, built for Bean's a long time ago. Freeport Station was scratch built by one of our volunteers for this project
Train and Farm
Thordike Station and Church. Thorndike was scratch built by another of our volunteers for this project
Loco in Snow
Skaters
More pictures on the BRV Facebook page, scrool down intil you see the posing with the layout photoshttps://www.facebook.com/RailwayVillage
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
George:
That is the perfect display layout! When I was a young guy my Mom and Aunt would take me to Toronto to see the displays in the Eaton's store. They had windows full of animated scenes and, of course, a model railroad. At one time they even had a ride on railroad in the store. Fond memories!
hon30critter When I was a young guy my Mom and Aunt would take me to Toronto to see the displays in the Eaton's store. They had windows full of animated scenes and, of course, a model railroad.
Hey, I remember that. Thanks for triggering a long forgotten memory.
We lived in Rexdale at the time.
CG
Did you go to the Santa Claus Parade? I can't remember most of the floats but I can recall being really cold!
Sorry for hijacking the thread Bear.
CentralGulf hon30critter When I was a young guy my Mom and Aunt would take me to Toronto to see the displays in the Eaton's store. They had windows full of animated scenes and, of course, a model railroad. Hey, I remember that. Thanks for triggering a long forgotten memory. We lived in Rexdale at the time. CG
I don't remember looking at department store displays or Christmas parades. What I do remember is every year we would get the FAO Schwarz Christmas catalog filled with way cool toys, most of which my parents couldn't afford so it was just a wish book for us. The other vivid memory is every year one of the local TV channels would have a weekly Santa Claus program from the North Pole. One year I recognized that our plummer and family friend was the guy playing Santa Claus. I told my mother who immediately called his wife to confirm that. The funny thing is his own kids didn't recognize him.
hon30critter Did you go to the Santa Claus Parade?
Did you go to the Santa Claus Parade?
We went to a parade somwhere, I recall vaguely. It might have been in Weston, though. That was what we considered town. Toronto was the big city.
Man, that was a long, long time ago.