It's Thanksgiving (in the US), but there's still model railroads to document even as the smell of roast turkey permeates the homes of many of us. I caught #480 bringing in an eastbound freight to Durango from Silverton. Here it is passing the big ASARCO smelting complex.
Next, the cars rumble past the Oriental Refinery loading racks.
After dropping its train of concentrate loads bound for ASARCO and a mix of MTs on Yard #4, #480 backs onto a westbound merchandise bound for Silverton on Yard #1.
Thanks to all who contribute to WPF throughout the year and to those who comment here. There are thousands of model railroads out there, but only a few make they cut to appear in WPF...because their owners care enough to share
I also give thanks for the friends I've made here. They hold a special place in the support system that sustains and encourages me to model and share here.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Thank you for starting Weekend Photo Fun Mike.
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That is a beautiful locomotive. I love photographs of narrow gauge equipment. There is so much more character than you see in standard gauge. Great pictures.
I finished this boxcar this week. It is a model of a pre-war Pullman Standard all welded boxcar. This pre-dates the PS-1 by a few years. This is a brass model that was imported by A&W enterprises. I do not know the manufacturer.
Keep the pictures coming!
Happy Thanksgiving!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from partly cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio!
Mike, thanks for starting, and with Kevin I also like the narrow guage stuff, I still have a K27 left and will get it painted someday and build some of my narrow guage cars to go with it.
Kevin, nice job with that paint and decaling job, people forget that PS made standard 1937 AAR and 1937 Mod AAR Boxcars prior to the PS1 boxcars with both welded sides and rivited sides.
Nothing new this week as a lot of house cleaning was being done prior to visits by my childred and grandchildren for Thanksgiving this year.
Pennsy N1sa struggling up grade with a string of mixed Pennsy coal hoppers.
Happy Thanksgiving
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!
An oddity, the B&O in British Columbia Canada and traveling on the C.P.R main line. The bridge is a reproduction of Stoney Creek Bridge and the scene can be seen on the MFM layout Trois-Rivieres Quebec.
https://youtu.be/J3OhHrLEIqM
Jack W.
Mike, thanks for starting, and as always, I LOVE your narrow gauge stuff. You should be up for a Master Model Railroader title, if you don't have one yet.
Kevin, the boxcar looks pretty cool.
Rick, I do love Pennsy as well. Well done Modeling to.
Myself? I haven't had much chance to do any projects worth showing off, between our first open house of the season on Friday night, to being open for a NMRA division meeting on Sunday, and then to the crazed week this has been...so I'll have to show a project I did last week....
Ballast work to cover up a bare siding.
From left to right: Switchback tail track. Crossover from switchback tail to northbound mainline. Southbound mainline with crossover between the two mains. Spur into the scrap yard I built. Spurs into the Ashland oil facility- first lead is to the loading rack for tank cars, the second track is for either storage of loaded tank cars, or freight deliveries. Open house season is in full swing now, so I won't be able to do a ton of noticible projects.
Let's keep seeing good stuff.
(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 Stuff this extended weekend, Folks!
Thanks, Mike for a fine send-off! Forget the aroma of turkey— had enough of that! Give me some coal smoke from that sweet K-36 and some of whatever they're cooking over in the smelter. In a way, I miss the pre-EPA days in the Cleveland "Flats" when all the steel mills, coke ovens and refineries were going. NO I don't want to return to that nasty air, but I do miss some of those industrial aromas.
Great looking job on the box car, Kevin. Anyone know who scribbled the fancy "K" on the A end?
Your scene would make any Pennsy fan envious, Rick! I recently picked up an N2sa at the Berea, Oh. show! Can't wait to get a paint job and decoder in 'er.
That air reservoir up front really gave them a brutish look, more than the I1s even.
Jack, that B&O passenger train is rolling across that bridge as smooth as silk! Very nice. Is the bridge scratchbuilt? Tell us about the B&O cars...
That trackwork sure reminds me of some of the complex arrangements I see so often in Western PA! You nailed it, Jimmy!
BUSY week for me! In a good way. No dryers to repair so I could spend more time on Trains. I had two friends over Tuesday and we operated for close to five hours! Fun stuff.
I still managed to get a few things wrapped-up.
Ironic timing on the Larry Puckett "Make Your DCC Power Supply Safe" article in the December M-R. I knew I had a mess under the benchwork and as Larry says, it is one of those things that can easily get forgotten.
I bought nice, compact supplies over a year ago and just the day before I saw the article I swapped out the old "Loy's-Toys" transformers I have been using for over a dozen years!
IMG_0311_fix_W by Edmund, on Flickr
This looks better, although I may want to provide a little more ventilation. They are 24VDC 8 amp supplies.
IMG_0310_fix_W by Edmund, on Flickr
I dialed the voltage down to 19.5 volts and the system runs as good as ever.
On the bench I installed an interior, markers and constant-intensity lighting in this 3-2 observation car.
IMG_0357_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
I wrapped it up tonight but haven't taken a decent photo of it. I like that carpet!
For my visitors, I got the wharf area and quay wall installed and cleaned up
Seawall1 by Edmund, on Flickr
The "water" is old fiberglas sheets that I brought home from work. Darned if it doesn't look pretty good for a temporary fill-in. It has a pebble effect molded in. I may try some floral tint to knock down some of the too-bright green color.
I finished up lighting on 3 of the 4 Huletts. Don't know why I waited so long to get these big-boys painted and set in place. The bronze contact strip works beautifully for the power pick-up and I can lift off any Hulett without unplugging anything
Hulett_fix2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I found a photo in a 1953 Popular Mechanics article that shows crawler/loaders on the Hulett operation. These were lowered in the hold toward the end of the unloading to clean out the corners and push the ore for easy pickup by the buckets. Then they were chained to the Hulett leg and lifted right out of the hold.
In later years they used rubber-tired Payloaders and there aren't any decent ones out there in 1:87. By using the tracked loaders I can use the Woodland Scenics ones as the above example shows. I bought four more kits for the purpose.
Hulett_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Well, I've used up more than my share of bandwidth here...
On to more great stuff from you fellas!
Regards, Ed
Great start to WPF guys. Keep it up.
For whatever reason I have a fixation on these Virginian hoppers. I buy them when I see them at train shows. This one is representative of four that I purchased at a recent show. I weighted it to MRA standards, altered the number with left over decals and made a removable coal load for it. I installed body mounted couplers. I'll add metal wheels when they arrive from Walther's.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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I have been adding small details to the town of Neelyton.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Had some time over the holiday to run trains
Here's my H 8 with a coal drag and my newly finished sound car caboose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niou9GMcPSI
Have fun~!
TerryinTexas
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Early morning in Erindale Ontario ca. 1986https://photos.app.goo.gl/8qR70260WKlEdxC62
Ed (Gmpullman) a reply to your query about the Stoney Creek Bridge and the B&O train.
The bridge is scratchbuilt in styrene with Central Valley parts. My involvement in this projet was to research for photos and stats on the net and books about the C.P.R. A full size HO plan was draw with Autocad and it took the better part of a year modeling time for two members to built it. To give an idea of the work involved, the rail and guard rail on the deck are held in place with 8 tiny spikes for each ties. This involved drilling pilot holes and inserting each spyke individually. There are 5000 rivets on the bridge, every rivet plates were drawn with Autocad, transferred to a piece of styrene and punched one by one with a Sensipress. At the club we are very proud of this model.
The B&O train, the locos are first run P2K E7A and E6B. The wagons are Walthers Heavy Weight. It took much thinkering to make them track well on 30 inches curves.
Thanks for asking.
Mike, Thanks for the thoughtful WPF Turkey day kick-off. I like your oil refinery & smelter, rail served industries that have provided a living to a multitude for more than a hundred years & counting.
Initial fade got away from me on POVA 35030, maybe a Bob Ross "happy little mistake" that I was reminded of by one of today's General Discussion topics.
Thanks to all and a Happy holiday weekend, Peter
gmpullmanGreat looking job on the box car, Kevin. Anyone know who scribbled the fancy "K" on the A end?
That fancy K was actually an R on Microscale's 87-1522 Chalk Markings decal sheet! I trimmed the top off to make it into a K! It was me.
Thanks for the comment.