Good morning from cold and wet Northeast Ohio!
This is where the forum members can show their completed or in process projects for the last week, or dip into their archives for some older pictures that they like.
I got a couple of cars completed this last week.
Branchline 50' Tabbed sill Boxcar Kit, added A-Line sill steps, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Color and lettered with Greg Komar Decals. Car was built in 1951 and this was a 1954 Repaint of the Shadow Keystone Paint Scheme. Car was in auto parts service as noted by the 102 over the road same suppying parts to the main assembly plants.
Atlas Pre-71 ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with a decal set I got in a bunch off of E-Bay with no manufacturer listed. One of three cars in this group, built in 1964 used in general grain service. There was no diagram or pictures I could find, so I applied the decals in a manner that most ACF cars were lettered.
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!
Mornin Rick Thanks for starting us off
Like the Pensy Box car you did ~!
Working on my last caboose adding lighting Marker Lights and cabin lights
Using SM LEDs
Heres the finished ones
All are Steam era
Currently workintg on a blue early Diesel era
one of 2
TerryinTexas
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Rick.... Great looking frieght cars .... I always did like how WM lettered their freight cars.
Terry .... Your lighting of marker lights looks real.
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Here are some older photos of the steel mill.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning all. Here's my FPF.
As you can tell, it's blueprints to creating a bridge in HO scale. I'm planning to do this completely from scratch using styrene I-Beams. Itll be almost 4ft long when it's finished.
(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).
'Morning,all.
Time for some coffee...
Have a good weekend,
Mike
Nice work guys! Jimmy, that bridge is going to be huge!
Another loco conversion just about done. I'm waiting for the all-weather window for the engineer's side.
Did the usuall, fans, scratch made winterization hatch, grabs, hoses, hooks, plow, window glass, LED ditchlights, head light and rear light, and something a little different, Plano intake grills for the radiator. I didn't know the Athearn grills just come off, as I thought I would have to cut the opening. I had to do a little fabricating with plastic to prepare the area, but over all, it went good.
Chassie and motor all ready to go and waiting.
The WC didn't have any SD45's with a 1900 series number, this was a gift from my wife back in the 90's, from a hobby shop in Billings MT. The shop owner custom painted and decaled the model with my birth year.
What a woman.
Mike.
My You Tube
I have not posted in a couple of weeks because I was between photo hosting sites - the third in about 9 monhsPhotobucket --> Imgbb --> Imgur ???
But I have been taking pictures
From a few weeks ago, I have been working on a waterfall on the Boothbay Railway Village layout I finshed scratch building a 4 ball signal for Monson on the narrow gauge; I left it for the guy working in that area to install. It is based on a signal in Vermont from an article in Classic Trains I finished a B&M well car. It's an F&C resin kit. The prototypes were built in the B&M shops to transport large ship reduction gears built by the GE Turbine Div shops in Lynne, MA I finshed a kitbash of a paint factory from an Atlas factory kit. It is another of the buildings that will hide the grade on the right side of the layout.
I finshed scratch building a 4 ball signal for Monson on the narrow gauge; I left it for the guy working in that area to install. It is based on a signal in Vermont from an article in Classic Trains I finished a B&M well car. It's an F&C resin kit. The prototypes were built in the B&M shops to transport large ship reduction gears built by the GE Turbine Div shops in Lynne, MA I finshed a kitbash of a paint factory from an Atlas factory kit. It is another of the buildings that will hide the grade on the right side of the layout.
I finished a B&M well car. It's an F&C resin kit. The prototypes were built in the B&M shops to transport large ship reduction gears built by the GE Turbine Div shops in Lynne, MA I finshed a kitbash of a paint factory from an Atlas factory kit. It is another of the buildings that will hide the grade on the right side of the layout.
I finshed a kitbash of a paint factory from an Atlas factory kit. It is another of the buildings that will hide the grade on the right side of the layout.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Rick: Thank you for starting the Weekend Photo Fun thread for the week. As always, those are great looking freight cars.Your knowledge of things like the details of PRR lettering is amazing.
Terry: Great work with the LEDs in the marker lights.
Garry: The steel mill buildings are very impressive. You, Dean Freytag, and Rod Stewart make me quite jealous.
Jimmy: Your bridge is going to be impressive.
Mike: The water tower scene is very pleasing.
Other Mike: The EMD SD45 has alwyas been one of my favorite looking locomotives. It just exudes power in its appearance. Your custom one is special for sure.
George: Funaro & Camerlengo kits are among my favorites. Yours looks great. Good job on the construction.
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I finished this brass caboose this week. I don't know the prototype or manufacturer. I bought it at a train show without a box. I believe it is a New Haven prototype, but I am not certain.
I think it sits a little high on the trucks, but the coupler height came out perfect and there is not an easy way to lower the car body.
Please keep the photos and commentary coming.
HAPPY WEEKEND!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Great items again and the steel mill brings back memories of a class tour of CF&I steel in Pueblo, CO back in 1969.
Here is my Turtle Creek Cental boxcar:
Thanks for opening the WPF, Rick.
Cold, indeed! We have about an inch of snow here in Chardon! Good train weather, though. Nice work on the details and decals, as always
Lights really make your scene come alive, Terry!
Steel mills are probably my favorite industry, Garry. Hot, dirty and heavy stuff.
A four-foot bridge, Jimmy! Pretty ambitious, take lots of photos
That's a great Rio Grande scene, Mike. I'm sure glad my dad took me out to Durango back in '66. I have a real appreciation for the narrow-gauge operations.
SD45s are real workhorses, Mike. Glad you're enjoying your sentimental engine.
Good looking work from you as well, George. I'm trying to recall if the ball signal was in place when I was in Palmer, Mass back in the late 1960s? I think it was. Nice detail!
Your caboose sure has a straight-forward safety slogan, Kevin. Keep Alive!
Good looking Turtle Creek car, Tankertoad!
Well... to the roundhouse! I feel like I'm building a ship-in-a-bottle right now. All the details have to be put in place with long tweezers. I'm almost done with them.
This photo shows the steam-heat pipes along the walls.
RH_detail1 by Edmund, on Flickr
In the foreground is a vice and a few tools and material. The railing represents where a wheel-drop pit is located.
RH_detail2 by Edmund, on Flickr
...another view of benches, carts and material.
RH_detail3 by Edmund, on Flickr
I decided that an additional door was needed at the back so I made this air-lock type of enclosure from Evergreen styrene. Of course it needs to be "smudged-up" a bit.
RH_door2 by Edmund, on Flickr
As a little side job I began a tower-splice kitbash for my Union Station area. Had a pair of these Walthers kits and just decided that a bigger tower was needed for the place I have in mind.
CP_union by Edmund, on Flickr
I'm going to put some Minuteman laser cut shingles on the roof.
Great Stuff, Everybody! Carry On...
Thank you, Ed
2 of the models I built for my friend Art Bormans C&O layout
made it to the Hawks Nest Modelers meet this weekend courtesy of Andy Cummings who is attending
on the layout
Thanks for starting off WPF this week Rick.
Terry - Love the marker lights. Any chance of a materials list and wiring diagram?
Gary - Great looking steel mill. Wish I had the room for one.
Jimmy - That bridge is going to some building project.
Mike - Nice little steamer!
George - An unusual signal for sure. Don't think I have ever seen one like it.
Kevin - PRR?
Don - A good looking boxcar in a great color.
Ed - The roundhouse details are overwhelming. Keep it up!
Not much new on the BRVRR. Too much interference around here lately. Here is one photo from a recent short operating session:
The Grafton Turn eastbound.
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/
BRVRRAn unusual signal for sure. Don't think I have ever seen one like it.
I modeled it after an actual ball signal in Vermont. There was an article in Classic Trains a few years ago,'The Ball Signals of Vermont'.
Ball signals were a common control and safety system before standardized block signals came into use. There is one in New Hampshire that was used into the 1980s
BRVRRKevin - PRR?
I was complimenting Rick on his Pennsylvania Boxcar. Isn't PRR the reporting initials of the Pennsylvania?
Rick, Thanks for the WPF start-up view of your latest rolling stock gems.
George, I like your paint factory, the Sherwin Williams Cover the Earth animated sign, iconic for sure, as a kid it was always a treat to view the one that could be seen from the eastshore freeway at Emeryville on the way to grandma's house in Oakland.
Thanks to all the contributors, regards, Peter
In thirty days, the barley in these hoppers will become Coors beer on grocery shelves.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Nice Robert, now you got me thirsty!
I jump back in for a couple more pictures. A bash I did using the quonset hut, you know the one, we all have one somewhere!
I added the side addition using left over Walthers parts.
It sits on the very edge of the layout, so I was trying to hold up that blue panel as I took the picture, to avoid including the rest of the basement.
BRVRRTerry - Love the marker lights. Any chance of a materials list and wiring diagram?
Working on it will send you a link when i get it done
Here ya go
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx
Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link
Weekend Update
gmpullmanI'm going to put some Minuteman laser cut shingles on the roof.
So, tonight I put a Titanic documentary DVD on the Victrola and set to applying shingles:
CP_union4-a by Edmund, on Flickr
Then I remembered I had some copper peel-n-stick flashing (after I had experimented with styrene )
CP_union4-8 by Edmund, on Flickr
Laser shingles are the cat's pyjamas! I'll be using them often Now I have to see what I have to do to get the verdigris copper look on that shiny-new copper.
Apparently it involves vinegar and salt. At least I won't have to wash my hands while eating French fries
C&O FanSorry couldn't make it a clickable link
https://tinyurl.com/ydgznaf4
Take your pick—
Hope that helps,
Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
C&O Fan Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link
Thanks ED ~!
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gmpullman C&O Fan Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx Hope that helps, Ed
Terry,
Thanks for the "How To" on the caboose lighting. I appreciate it. Just out of curiosity what decoder did/do you use?
I'm going to make up and order and try this soon.
Thanks again.
Kevin,
Based on the looks, lines and simplicity, I was thinking that your caboose had its origins with the PRR.
Just a guess.
The link to the decoder should be in the article
but its a TCS KAT16
https://www.litchfieldstation.com/product/1463-6-function-harnassed-decoder-with-built-in-ka1-keep-alive/
Rick: Couldn't you screw up a freight car once in a while? Can't speak for anyone else,but it would help me feel a bit less inadequate...
Terry: Very nice work on the cabooses and the buildings!
Garry: Another great scene(you have a lot of them).
Jimmy: That's quite a project - looking forward to your progress.
Mike: The SD45 has always been a favorite of mine. 'Hard to believe it's a piece of the past. I like the wood trim along the edge of your layout.
All nice work,George,but I especially like that paint factory.
Nice job on the caboose,Kevin. Your Turtle Creek(last week) and Tankertoad's boxcar(this week) take me back. When I first subscribed to MRR,Jim Kelly was building the Turtle Creek layout.
Allan: Nice shot of the Grafton turn,and all that detail in the background.
Well detailed scene,Peter! Is this going downtown,or along the waterfront?
Robert,what I've seen of your layout,including the pic's you posted in the "Straight Track" thread,looks terrific.
Ed:The roundhouse is spectacular! I'm currently waiting on a 7 stall kit from Kitwood Hill - same gent who made the turntable. It has to make it's way across the Atlantic,so I'm not holding my breath,but the results you've achieved have me anxious to get started.
Thanks,all,for your contributions!
middlemanKevin. Your Turtle Creek(last week) and Tankertoad's boxcar(this week) take me back. When I first subscribed to MRR,Jim Kelly was building the Turtle Creek layout.
Mike,
Thanks!
Just in case you missed them, here are the rest of my TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL freight cars:
See you next weekend!
BRVRRBased on the looks, lines and simplicity, I was thinking that your caboose had its origins with the PRR.
That's hilarious, I thought you were referring to the PRR I posted in my reponse.
I hope it is a PRR cabin car. I have "enlisted" lots of PRR prototypes to the STRATTON & GILLETTE Railroad. I use H31 covered hoppers, an N-6 caboose, and a couple of GS gondola cars.
Since the Mighty PENNSYLVANIA does not exist in the same reality as the SGRR, I have no problems with this.
middlemanIs this going downtown,or along the waterfront?
Thanks Mike, will be at the end of town opposite a cannery and planned fishing boat harbor. Regards, Peter
Awesome work here, everybody!
Must have been another long week down at the w*%kcave in Beartown. Have a sip and put you feet up, Bear, and rest a moment here before it's back to the grindstones.
Coming back from Easter dinner with my kin in southern Indiana last weekend, I found Amtrak's Texas Eagle in Villa Grove, IL way off its usual track and wrote up a short post on it over in the Trains forum: http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/743/t/269263.aspx
I've been busy, as it was train show weekend here in Urbana, organized for many years now by the hardworking crew of the Midwest Central Railroad Club. The MCRC provides the NMRA with a table to use, which is much appreciated. Rob Brown, who does some marketing work for the NMRA, happened to be at the show as a vendor, brought along the super-slick NMRA traveling convention banner, which we displayed on Sunday.
That's Allen Byrne, the Illinois Terminal Division's chief clerk and paymaster, populating the booth. Sharp-eyed observors will note the panels of the dispay are in non-standard formation. Well, it was the first time I ever helped put it up... Then I thought it's a great piece of marketing to get people to notice what looks a little like a scrolling letter display board. And, this being Urbana, the slightly postmodern rendering of the title fits right in. I promise we'll get it "correct" the next time we get a chance to use it.
So I'd planned to do some modeling while staffing the table but never really able to get going on the Sumpter Valley coach I was building. In part, this was due to falling and landing on my wrist Friday noght when I was out and about on another project. Thought I might have broke it, but it didn't feel as bad as the left wrist I broke about 3 decades back, so I figure I;m good to go. Ths is as far as I got with my next SV coach side today underneath the one I bult last week.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL