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Weekend Photo Fun - Prez Day Edition, Feb 16th to Feb 19th, 2018

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Weekend Photo Fun - Prez Day Edition, Feb 16th to Feb 19th, 2018
Posted by mlehman on Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:45 PM

I found the Noir setting button on my iPhone camera today and inspired by some of JA Bear's old timey pics, I started snapping away. Here's the interechange track, with the 480 laying over in the south end.

Looking back at the Silverton station and the backside of busy Blair St.

Up on the Cascade Extenson, the workers are closing out their shift and will catch this train bck to their homes at less punishing altitudes.

At the end of the line at Snowden, the new Gramps field provdes much of the new revenue sustaining this branch, shipping out crude oil for refining while receiving new pipe to extend the field to new wells.

 

At the end of the siding sits the tiny station.

Maybe our photographer will be able to find some color film now?

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, February 16, 2018 12:14 AM

Thank you to Mike for starting Weekend Photo Fun.

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I have tried to make Bear style old time photos, but it does not work well for me. I should play with this feature a bit more.

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I actually finally have something to contribute this week for the first time in over a month.

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I finished the boxcar for the UPP STAYERS & EASTERN.

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This car was lettered with a set of custom made decals that was 55 years old! I coated the decals with Microscale Liquid Decal Film, and soaked them for a very long time. I added the black background behind the herald to help it stand out.

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I love the decals from a time when Model Railroading really was fun. I would never consider a humorous roadname, but there was a time when it was all the rage. All the cool kids, even John Allen, were doing it!

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Amazingly I also have the drawings for decal placement from the original designer. I followed them, but did not put the reporting marks on the roof.

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Keep the pictures coming.

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GO USA!

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, February 16, 2018 2:08 AM

Thanks for the great kick-off, Mike!

The black & white photos actually show details much better in my opinion! I say keep 'em, coming! Great views Yes

That boxcar has some real character, Kevin. Excellent decal work! I see even Texino made an appearance Confused

Actually, some refrigerator cars had reporting marks on the roof for the ice gang to record how much ice each car got. Modern tank cars also, but for different reasons, of course.


 I continued on the roundhouse upgrade this week...

This photo is called "The Pits"!

 RH_pits2 by Edmund, on Flickr

A major hurdle was overcome to get the 11/17- wide by 3/8- inch deep grooves routed out to accept the inspection pitts of the new roundhouse.

As you can see I calculated the offset and screwed a guide fence for the router to follow for each groove. The floor dropped in nice-and-snug!

Then the big clean-up began! This little fellow put in a few twelve-hour nights getting the sawdust cleaned up!

 RH_pits by Edmund, on Flickr

Once I began fitting the rail into the floor grooves I discovered that the foundation was going to have to be raised about 1/8" so I glued and tacked some 1/8 PVC sheets down. Tonight I finally began to set the rails into the grooves with slow-setting epoxy.

 RH_rail1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Thanks to a tip from Paul Cutler I made sure to check the gauge as there is a wee bit of slop in the groove. I couldn't help myself! I simply HAD to set a few of the timbers in place and set this road-weary old Mohawk into one of the stalls for "atmosphere" Whistling

 Mohawk1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Cheers, All!

I'm looking forward to more of your great contributions! Ed

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, February 16, 2018 2:54 AM

Great Progress on the round house !

especially like the clean up work by the dozer

I've been adding some lighting features to my newly aquired Rivarossi H-8

 

 I'm adding a cab light and a firebox light using a pair of surface mount LEDs that will use a TCS FL4 decoder set to fire box flicker for effect

 

 Waiting for the decoder to show up in the mail so i can finish

I hope to shoot some video of the finished product this weekend

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, February 16, 2018 5:48 AM

Good morning from cloudy and wet Northeast Ohio!

Mike, great start to the weekend, very Bearish Pictures and they show your layout off nicely.

Kevin, nice work on that boxcar coming up with your own paint scheme.

Ed, that roundhouse is sure a lot of work, just like the one that Jimmy is working on.

Terry, I admire people who can do that type of work on an engine, all I do is detail and paint, not much on changing lighting etc.

I did manage to finish a couple of cars this week!

Kadee 40' Cushion Underframe PS1 kit, changed out the doors and painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and lettered with Highball Graphics decals.  Car built in the early 60's and was assigned to Pillsbury in Bufallo, NY for finished food service.

Athearn 50' PC&F Ribbed Side RBL, added A-Line Sill Steps to car instead of the plastic kit supplied ones.  Painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II White with a couple of drops of Roof Brown and Reefer Yellow to match the beige color the car was painted, lettered the car with Herald King Decals matching the picture in the Frisco Color Guide.  Car was assigned to the Schlitz Brewing Co. in Memphis, TN hauling beer, which accounts for its color.  The Frisco had a number of cars assigned to industries where the color determined its use.

Thanks for looking!

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Posted by "JaBear" on Friday, February 16, 2018 5:53 AM
Gidday All, having seen that Mike had kicked off WPF, I was just going to pop in before hitting the hay after a long hot arduous w**k day, but upon seeing that I’d been mentioned in despatches, thought the very least I could do was make a contribution, and not a recycled photo either!
 
on Flickr
 
SeeYou190
I should play with this feature a bit more.
 
Kevin, I “play” with the Windows Pictures Editing features, and Gimp, and to be honest there are times when I think if I actually knew what I was doing, I’d be flaming marvellous!!
 
on Flickr
 
To wacked to make individual comments but great to see all the really Good Stuff, thank you!!
Have a Great One ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.Smile

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, February 16, 2018 7:29 AM

dti406
Ed, that roundhouse is sure a lot of work, just like the one that Jimmy is working on.

Oh! But HE tackled a 27 stall project! THAT's more like Work!

Bear, the last time I let my M-of-W crew use the Hoover they sucked up all my spikes! (Sounds like a cry from Cuda Ken)!

Thank you for all the comments!

More Great Stuff Everyone! Ed

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, February 16, 2018 8:23 AM

Mike L ... Your old time photos look like old post cards when postage was a penney. 

Kevin ... Nice job lettering of your unique box car.

Ed ... Your roundhouse project is remarkable. Bulldozer scene is priceless. LOL 

TX Terry .... The LED's are a nice touch for the H8. Looks like fun.

Rick ... The D&H box car and the beige Frisco box car look great. 

Bear .... Nice B&W photo. ... LOL on the caption for Ed's dozer.


 

Below are a couple of photos showing baggage RPO cars I made from kits produced by NKP Car Company.

First is a 72' car which CB&Q painted silver in an effort to blend in with more modern equipment. 

Second is a 40' car for branch line service which makes a good companion for my brass 2-6-2. 

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, February 16, 2018 9:47 AM

Mike, The old-timey photos are great.

Kevin, nice work on the box car.

Ed, The roundhouse looks amazing and the bulldozer scene gave me a nice chuckle.

Terry, The LEDs add a nice effect. I especially love the glowing firebox.

Rick, Another great crop of rolling stock.

Garry, Nice work on the baggage/ RPOs.

I've been very busy on the layout lately.

I've been ballasting and landscaping in the Johnstown area:

Ice House and Frieght Terminal:

I also picked up some DPM buildings at fire sale prices at a train show.

Roadkill Cafe:

Wilhelm's Mercentile:

Bruce's Bakery:

The window drapes are construction paper folded accordian style.

And Reed Books:

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

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Posted by middleman on Friday, February 16, 2018 10:33 AM

Happy weekend,all.

Mike: Great looking "old" photos!

Kevin: Nice job on the boxcar,and nice save on the decals!

Ed: The roundhouse build is really looking good.That's my next project,so it's great to see your progress pic's.

Terry: Looks like that will be a neat addition to that loco. You are probably already familiar with this gent (I know Mike L is),but for those who aren't - Laurie McLean, An Australian MMR,has many videos on youtube that show how he does his wonderful animations. He's also a nice guy,always happy to answer questions.

Rick: Glad to see your production line is back to speed - pumping out a couple of terrific freight cars every week!

Bear: Very atmospheric photo - the etched in info line is a nice touch.

Garry: It's always a treat to see pictures of any part of your layout.

GP-9_Man: Nice work - My hat's off to anyone who can paint window trim on N scale buildings!

480 and 487 work the yard:

Also,a short video of some trains in some of the newer scenery on the layout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs63dWa6U2w

Mike

 

 

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, February 16, 2018 1:51 PM

 

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Terry: Looks like that will be a neat addition to that loco. You are probably already familiar with this gent (I know Mike L is),but for those who aren't - Laurie McLean, An Australian MMR,has many videos on youtube that show how he does his wonderful animations. He's also a nice guy,always happy to answer questions.

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Yes Mike

Laurie and I have become good friends

we were Beta Testers on the TCS Wow version 4 Steam decoder together

 He is a true Master Modeler ~!

 

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Posted by mlehman on Friday, February 16, 2018 2:13 PM

Thanks to everyone for their kind comments!

Kevin, Amazing save in those old decals. Looks great!

Ed, Lots of work goes into a roundhouse, something like thinking in 4 dimensions. Amazing work!

Rick, The D&H car is really an eye-popper and the Frisco ain't shabby at all, eother!

Bear, Nice pic and effects! And thanks for the inspiration!Big Smile

Garry, Luv those heavyweights!

GP-9 Man, Amazing work on those structuresBow

Mike, Inspiring videos!

Yes, Scoop is a great and very helpful fellow. I haven't had time except to read the mail on that list the last few years. Most of those guys are older than I am and it's hard to keep up with just reading everything they have going on. Laurie's videos are very helpful and well worth the time to find and view them.

Anotheer few oldies...

Old Rockwood

The engnehouse in Silverton

 

 

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Friday, February 16, 2018 2:44 PM

Hey all. This is all I have to share.  I got all this to work with

Oh, and this boxcar, I guess the Virginia & Ohio was on my mind when I did this

 

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Posted by SouthPenn on Friday, February 16, 2018 7:43 PM

This piece of the mountain was made with insulating foam in a rattle can. I sprayed it over a grid made with cardboard strips. It would have been easier if I would have covered the grid with window screen first. You can make a lot of nice rounded lumps but it is expensive. I used 3 cans of foam on this small corner. I just finished the ballast in this area, for the second time.

This mine has been abandoned. There are the remnants of a railroad under the tipple that runs into a tunnel.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, February 17, 2018 9:22 AM

Great stuff again this week everyone.

My Jade/Century Green NYC E8 paired with a Grey E7 as was suggested last week. The contrast is obvious. Unfortunately they are at the head of a freight train that my grandson had on the track.

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

 

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Posted by NYBW-John on Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:11 AM

 

mlehman

I found the Noir setting button on my iPhone camera today and inspired by some of JA Bear's old timey pics, I started snapping away. Here's the interechange track, with the 480 laying over in the south end.

Looking back at the Silverton station and the backside of busy Blair St.

Up on the Cascade Extenson, the workers are closing out their shift and will catch this train bck to their homes at less punishing altitudes.

At the end of the line at Snowden, the new Gramps field provdes much of the new revenue sustaining this branch, shipping out crude oil for refining while receiving new pipe to extend the field to new wells.

 

At the end of the siding sits the tiny station.

Maybe our photographer will be able to find some color film now?

 

When I got back into model railroading as a young adult back in the 1970s, many of the how-to books I started with were from the 1960s and most of the pictures were in B&W. These photos remind me of those. B&W can seem more realistic since colors don't have to be as precise a shade and I think they do a lot for scenes, especially if the pike is set in the the transition period or earlier.

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Posted by NYBW-John on Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:18 AM

SouthPenn

This piece of the mountain was made with insulating foam in a rattle can. I sprayed it over a grid made with cardboard strips. It would have been easier if I would have covered the grid with window screen first. You can make a lot of nice rounded lumps but it is expensive. I used 3 cans of foam on this small corner. I just finished the ballast in this area, for the second time.

This mine has been abandoned. There are the remnants of a railroad under the tipple that runs into a tunnel.

 

I'm always up for trying new techniques and this one seems interesting. I'm running out of real estate but I have a few spots left to try this one out. Did you just spray the foam on and let it set on its own and carve it after it had set or did you manicure it while wet?

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Posted by HO-Velo on Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:59 AM

Mike,  Thanks for the WPF start-up.  Your charming B&W photos are inspiring.

Rick, Nice work, your Frisco boxcar and it's beer hauling history is especially compelling considering my catching SL-SF 600039 sitting on the Budweiser Brewery spur back in 1988.

Thanks to all the contributors, Regards,  Peter

 

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Posted by SouthPenn on Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:23 PM

NYBW-John: "I'm always up for trying new techniques and this one seems interesting. I'm running out of real estate but I have a few spots left to try this one out. Did you just spray the foam on and let it set on its own and carve it after it had set or did you manicure it while wet?"

The spray foam is an insulation product. You spray it into a void and it expands to fill the void. You can get it in different amounts of expansion. I used the minimum expansion foam. I sprayed a small amount on top of the grid. A small blob of the stuff randomly here and there. When it stopped expanding, I spayed small blobs in between the dry blobs.  The stuff is really sticky and it sticks to everything so shaping it while it is expanding or drying is almost impossible. After it dries you can cut it. I didn't do any cutting, I just let it lumpy. I painted it with rattle can paint, then covered it with lichen.

A couple problems with this stuff. It sticks to everything. It's impossible to remove from a surface. If you get it on your skin, it's a real pain to get off. You can't control the expansion and it goes where ever it wants to go. If you stop spraying for too long, the stuff sets up in the delivery tube and then the rest of the can can't be used. 

It was an interesting experiment, but I won't use it again.

Good luck.

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, February 18, 2018 9:19 AM

For some contrast, the same photo as above, but this time in Black and White.

Changes the whole look I think. Instant aging.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, February 18, 2018 3:58 PM

Thank you to everyone for the kind comments on my latest boxcar.

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It is beginning to look doubtful that I will get anythign done next week. Olympic fever is really building up, and sense a lot of popcorn eating and TV watching these evenings.

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Thank you to eveyone else that poted pictures this week. I love this thread, and it always inspires me to keep on going.

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Be safe!

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-Kevin

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Posted by Bernd on Sunday, February 18, 2018 6:58 PM

Limestone Quarry Run

"The Twins", a pair of Rolls Royce powered semi-permanently connected boxcabs heading for the quarry.

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Posted by mlehman on Monday, February 19, 2018 3:07 AM

Thanks to everyone for their comments on my "vintage" pics, especially to Peter and NYBW-John.

It's hard enough to get your own work underway, so it's gratifying when you are able to inspire in even the slightest way great work by others.

NYBW-John
When I got back into model railroading as a young adult back in the 1970s, many of the how-to books I started with were from the 1960s and most of the pictures were in B&W. These photos remind me of those.

John,

A very good point. Takes very little nostalgia and soon you're getting inspired   to see the layout in lot more generous way.

Then Bernd tops this section of WPF off nicely with his wonderful little boxcabs. They look great!

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, February 19, 2018 9:22 AM

Bernd,

Great looking little locos!!

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, February 19, 2018 10:41 AM

Bernd showed up late and stole the show! Those are magnificent little locomotives.

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I love them.

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-Kevin

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