Kevin
The bridge is an O scale single track bridge from MTH. It needs some work to make it look right.
Inspiration:
Apologies to Peter.
Bear, Really got a kick out of your humorous tribute, mucho thanks and regards, Peter
dti406I would not use Tuscan Red normally for PRR equipment,
I agree and I used 50/50 oxide and boxcar. Jeep 35 mentioned the three colors he already had on hand and by adding boxcar to Tuscan, used as a starting point, a few drops at-a-time, he might come close to Freight Car Color.
Godfather Rails (John Dziobko) has some good color PRR photos:
http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=23
http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=2467
Happy Modeling, Ed
gmpullman jeep35 I got a couple of Pennsy cabin cars I want to paint. Could you tell me what color did you use. You could probably get away with Tuscan in stead of the oxide, and a few drops of boxcar added. Color photos of PRR cabin cars showed quite a variation over the years.
jeep35 I got a couple of Pennsy cabin cars I want to paint. Could you tell me what color did you use.
You could probably get away with Tuscan in stead of the oxide, and a few drops of boxcar added. Color photos of PRR cabin cars showed quite a variation over the years.
I would not use Tuscan Red normally for PRR equipment, the press many times states that the PRR painted their equipment Tuscan Red, but that is a misnomer, may of the paint hues for the PRR were very orangish or reddish depending on the period modeled.
The below link is the paint formulas determined by some of the most fastidious Pennsy modelers, and although they reference Floquil, substitutions can be made using similar hues by other paint suppliers.
http://pennsyrr.com/index.php/general/172-paints
Here is a Pennsy N5c Cabin Car I painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red.
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!
SeeYou190Nooooooooo! Say it isn't so. I love Raymond Loewy's style! What he did outside of railroads was truly beautiful.
Oh, I don't deny that his contributions were very significant. Maybe just a little too flashy for my taste. I find the Henry Dreyfuss influence more to my liking.
My sister's husband had an Avanti back in the day that I thought was pretty "cool" and, of course, the Air Force One color scheme is outstanding
If you can find an old Cloor Craft PRR ND caboose kit you can get the "bobber" pedestals and back-date the NDA into an ND. They come up often on Ebay. I got one for about $10.
Hi, Jim
I used equal parts of 02 oxide red and 13 box car red for the cabin cars. I started out painting the roof of a PRR electric locomotive with mostly oxide red. I decided to do the cabin cars so just added an equal amount of the box car red.
Here's a better photo showing the final color:
PRR_5012X by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks everyone! Ed
More great stuff!
South Penn - The new bridge looks great.
Gary - The Erie Built locos look great in the War Bonnet livery.
Keep them coming guys.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Those Pennsylvania cabin cars look great. I got a couple of Pennsy cabin cars I want to paint. Could you tell me what color did you use. I got some tuscan, caboose red, frieght car brown by Scalecoat. Also ordered some Tru Color PA freight car brown. Not sure which color is correct.
jim
gmpullman I was never a big fan of Raymond Loewy's styling tastes.
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Nooooooooo! Say it isn't so. I love Raymond Loewy's style! What he did outside of railroads was truly beautiful.
Great week everyone! Really great stuff in here.
I am posting late again this week. I was too busy yesterday with a Cinco De Mayo series of battle recreations with my regular wargaming group. Here I am as William Travis in the middle with Jim Bowie and Davie Crockett. We lost the Mission at Alamo on the first wave, so it was a terrible loss for the Texians. We sure killed a lot of Cerveza and Nachos!
Jimmy: The scratchbuilt bridge project is off to a great start. I love working with styrene.
Rick: Nice work as usual on the Penn Central boxcar and Mid Iowa covered hopper.
Allan: I have several locomotive awaiting numberboard decals. My painting sequence makes them come last, and it is easy to keep putting it off. They sure do make the locomotive look complete.
Mel: Those shapeways chairs look great. Your interior is very impressive. Nice work. I doubt I will ever put interiors in my passenger cars.
South Penn: That is an imposing bridge. Is it built from a kit for a larger scale?
Mike: The large scale enginehouse is neat. I love garden railroads.
Other Mike: I also have a locomotive that always has something obscuring the pilot when a picture is taken. It has a broken pilot that I have never fixed, so when I photograph it there is always a shrub, car, pole, etc in the way!
Garry: Those Erie Builts look really good. I'll bet you are glad to have them back in operation.
Steven: Where are you? You promised you would begin posting weekly updates in Weekend Photo Fun.
Ed: I love the Pennsylvania NDA caboose. It is one of my favorite designs. I have two of them waiting to become STRATTON & GILLETTE cabooses. I am going to modify the underframes a bit to bring the trucks closer to the center.
I managed to get a Blue Box Athearn car painted for the SGRR this week. This guy is destined to find a new home on a Hobby Shop's display layout in the near future. He is going in the mail tomorrow.
Happy weekend everyone! Stay safe!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I like it so much here I decided to make a return visit.
That is a huge collection of locos there, South Penn! I think you can; I think you CAN!
Great looking C-Liners, Garry. I have an A-B-A set in NYC. Now you have me thinking of upgrading to sound in them (someday). Did you add the handrails to yours? I haven't done that on mine yet. Glad I got them when I did, though
I'm still holding out for a Cleveland Transit System New Look, Peter. I have my fingers crossed that Jason will do them next run.
We won't pick on colors (or PRR electrics) anymore, Rick. Actually I started out as a dyed-in-the-wool NYC fan but after spending some time on the Standard Railroad, well, the bug just bit! Still like NYC, B&O, Erie and a few others, though.
Speaking of Pennsy, I finished up the N5 tonight.
PRR_N5_5012lg by Edmund, on Flickr
PRR_5012bw_sm1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Yeah, the number is just a smidgen too far to the right, but we won't fuss too much about that. For some reason I was trying to avoid that rivet plate and I should have placed the 5 right over it... better luck next time
We still have another day here folks, keep 'em coming, even if it looks like the Sunday Comics (Bear)
Cheers, Everybody, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
G Paines that one of the new Rapido busses?
Yes, I added a driver and a few passengers, looking forward to weathering it and adding details, like advertisement placards, bus number and route/destination sign.
Regards, Peter
gmpullman middleman Ed: Isn't that DTI car painted in the same "Sparkling Pea" as the Griswold's "Family Truckster"? Thats where I've seen it before! Don't we all love those colors of the '70s! Happy Modeling! Ed
middleman Ed: Isn't that DTI car painted in the same "Sparkling Pea" as the Griswold's "Family Truckster"?
Thats where I've seen it before! Don't we all love those colors of the '70s!
Happy Modeling! Ed
For your information the match for the green on the DT&I Green Boxcar is BN Cascade Green, so now you are dissing all the BN modelers on the forum now!
South Penn, nice bridge for your layout.
Mel, those seats really look good in the car.
Gary, really like the looks of those Erie Builts in the Santa Fe colors.
Middleman Mike, looks like a photograph that I would take with a utility pole in the wrong place.
Peter, is that one of the new Rapido busses?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Jimmy, Thanks for starting WPF and the opportunity to see your bridge progress. Modeling on an absolute flat surface like plate glass is a good idea.
Thanks to all the contributors, regards and Happy Cinco de Mayo, Peter
Allan ... Thanks for commenting on my photos ....
Mel .... The chairs look great. Thnks for showing them. I will consider them next time I do an interior in a dining car or a restaurant.
Mike L .... The turntable looks great.
South Penn ... That is an awesome bridge.
Mike MIddleman ... #497 looks fabulous, and the pole is not a problem in the photo.
Yesterday, I installed decoders in my Proto 1000 Santa Fe Fairbanks Morse Erie Builts. ... I have owned the engines since before I converted my layout to DCC, and I finally got around to doing this installation.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
middlemanEd: Isn't that DTI car painted in the same "Sparkling Pea" as the Griswold's "Family Truckster"?
Great stuff,everybody!...with a couple of hideous exceptions.
Ed: Isn't that DTI car painted in the same "Sparkling Pea" as the Griswold's "Family Truckster"?
497 heads for the roundhouse - a good photographer would have taken the shot before the pilot went behind the pole.
Enjoy the weekend!
Mike
First test fit of a new bridge.
SouthPennI believe the rail line with concrete catenary was part of a Henry Ford railroad.
Yes, the electrification took place during Ford's nine-year ownership of the DT&I. I mistakenly thought they electrified under Pennsy ownership after 1929.
The electrified segment was opened in January of 1926 and scrapped shortly after purchase by the PRR in 1929. They only had two, twin-unit, electric boxcab locomotives, I believe.
Ford, like Cornelius Vanderbilt, hated railroads.
Regards, Ed
Great stuff, folks, sorry can't leave more detail, as I have like 5 minutes to devote to WPF this week. I didn't get anything inside going in HOn3, but my Fn3 beasts now have a real home to take cover from the elemernts in, the new Tin Cup enginehouse.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
gmpullman dti406 Ed, its about time you modeled a real railroad, I did not say that the DD-1's were ugly but uugly (so ugly that they needed two u's). I got to ride the DT&I from Toledo to Detroit back in 1974. Many of the concrete catenary arches were still up. Come to think of it, wasn't DT&I under Pennsy ownership when they electrified? They sure have a colorful history I'll concede to Uugly (capitalized AND with two u's) when it comes to some of Pennsy's "one-of-a-kinds" like the L5 shown here: PRR_L5-2 by Edmund, on Flickr I loved and grew to admire the GG1s and E44s of course but I was never a big fan of Raymond Loewy's styling tastes. Thank you, Everyone! Hope to be back later, Ed
dti406 Ed, its about time you modeled a real railroad, I did not say that the DD-1's were ugly but uugly (so ugly that they needed two u's).
I got to ride the DT&I from Toledo to Detroit back in 1974. Many of the concrete catenary arches were still up. Come to think of it, wasn't DT&I under Pennsy ownership when they electrified? They sure have a colorful history
I'll concede to Uugly (capitalized AND with two u's) when it comes to some of Pennsy's "one-of-a-kinds" like the L5 shown here:
PRR_L5-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I loved and grew to admire the GG1s and E44s of course but I was never a big fan of Raymond Loewy's styling tastes.
Thank you, Everyone! Hope to be back later, Ed
I believe the rail line with concrete catenary was part of a Henry Ford railroad.
I began using a strip of .020” sheet Styrene for the floor then glued the chairs to the floor.
Thanks Jimmy for starting of WPF. The bridge/trestle appears to be progressing.
Rick - Nice cars. I particularly like the Jade Green Penn Central boxcar.
Ed - Good looking cabin cars.
Garry I like the busy background in the second photo.
Finally got around to putting some numbers in the number boards on my NYC E7(s).
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. WPF is always the best thread of the week.
dti406Ed, its about time you modeled a real railroad, I did not say that the DD-1's were ugly but uugly (so ugly that they needed two u's).
Howdy ...
DT&I did have several obnoxious colors on its boxcars. They got worse after being in service for many years and rust accumulated.
Rick .... Your freight cars look great.
Ed ... The caboose looks very good .
Jimmy ..... Keep up the great work building that bridge.
Here are a couple of older pictures.
gmpullman Last week someone — I won't mention any names — made a rather uncomplimentary comment about (some) PRR electrics being ugly! Well, them's retaliation words where I come from, so I'll really show you ugly! DTI_PS by Edmund, on Flickr Again, not mentioning any names
Last week someone — I won't mention any names — made a rather uncomplimentary comment about (some) PRR electrics being ugly! Well, them's retaliation words where I come from, so I'll really show you ugly!
DTI_PS by Edmund, on Flickr
Again, not mentioning any names
Ed, its about time you modeled a real railroad, I did not say that the DD-1's were ugly but uugly (so ugly that they needed two u's).
If you need to see some more real railroad cars I sure I have a number of them to share with you like one of these!
Jimmy, I have built a large number of Intermountain kits including the Canadian 4 Bay 4550's,PS 4750's, ACF Two and Three Bay's, 40' and 50' PS1's, 1937 AAR and 1937 AAR Modified Boxcars, and ART & PC&F Refridgerator cars. Most are easy (to me) to build, but each have some hard processes in order to finish.
Rick, those cars are looking good. Have you any experience with inter mountain cars?
Ed, that N5 looks great.
(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).
Hi, Jimmy—
Good to see you here and the bridge is really shaping up well. Thanks for setting up the first WPF for May...
I've kept busy on several projects this week. Right now I only have a few photos but hope to get more posted soon.
I had a couple of cabin cars awaiting the paint shop so I got the airbrush fired up since I was doing the PRR electric anyway:
PRR_cabin1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I'm making this N5 into a passenger Railway Express crew car and the little NDA lettered in an early scheme.
PRR_cabin-NDA4 by Edmund, on Flickr
The roof of the NDA is a case of a mistake turning out well! I began to mask around the cupola and decided brush painting would be easier than trying to mask around all those braces. Well, the old bottle of Model Master wasn't cooperating so I gave a light dusting of rattle-can gray primer over the whole thing, then hit it with a warm air gun. All of a sudden those cracks showed up and they look great for an old crusty roof.
PRR_NDA by Edmund, on Flickr
Here she is ready to go to work!
PRR_NDA2a by Edmund, on Flickr
Well, that's it for me, for now. I hope to be back in a day or so with some updates.
Thanks, everyone! On to more great models!