Weekend Photo Fun
AUGUST 24 - 26, 2018
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress or to simply post a photo or two of your favorite railroad-related subject.
Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.
I am starting Weekend Photo Fun for a second week in a row. Interesting. I hope I am doing this well enough to satisfy everyone. This is the best thread of the week.
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For the past three weeks I have posted pictures of Athearn Blue Box cars I have been assembling. This week I went back to aproject that is more of my typical style.
I do not often post pictures of works in progress, but I did get a lot of work done on this kit this week, and it is one I have had on the back burner for at least ten years.
I am going to begin WPF this week with a picture of a Westefield boxcar kit I am assembling. This one is an older kit with the brown resin castings. It you are not familiar, older Westefield kits were made with a metal bearing resin that was brown in color. These are very brittle and difficult to work with. They file quite nicely, but drilling and tapping holes leads to breakage with little effort.
This car is an of older Union Pacific Automobile Boxcar with ends doors. It is one of the first all steel boxcars ever made. I was hoping the kit would be re-released in the newer gray resin, but I have never found one. The only other option is a brass model that usually sells for around $200.00, so I finally decided to give this kit a try.
The wall castings were too short, so I filled the gaps with 0.020" styrene strips. I hope it does not show when the model is painted. Altering the roof was not an option.
I was able to drill all 80 of the #78 holes into the body and only cracked it one time. I made a quick repair and it is hardly noticeable. The roofwalk crumbled when I tried to work with it, so I used a plastic roofwalk from a Proto 2000 kit.
The underframe also broke while being tapped for 2-56 screws. I cut another underframe out of a Red Caboose boxcar kit and made it work. It also has an AB brake system, so that helps the car fit into my 1954 era better. I know the details are too modern for the brake system, but from side view it looks fine.
It turned out to be a real trick to get the trucks to have enough clearance from the side sill stirrups. I tested it on a 19" radius S curve and it works just fine. The new underframe has the trucks slightly further away from the center, and that cuased the issue.
Hopefully this car will be painted and finished in a few weeks. The humidity needs to go down before I try the airbrush again. Should be in a month or two.
What have you been working on? What have you been up to? Please post your pictures and share with all of us.
Happy Model Railroading!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
CNJ camelback entering the final stretch of fabrication.
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Casey,
That looks great!
Do you know the manufacturer and part number of the ladder casting you used on the tender?
Kevin, thanks for starting us out this week. Good work on that old resin kit, many of them had problems with all the parts not fitting perfectly like the Sunshine one I am building where the floor was cast too short. Keep it up and you will have a nice looking model.
Casey, your work on kitbashing and coming up with models of unusual prototypes is simply outstanding, great to see this model coming along.
Another week with getting the house ready to sell and packing stuff up for moving, so another picture from the archives.
Stewart C-628 & C-630 with a Pennsy Ore Train.
Rick Jesionowski
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Kevin ..... Thanks for starting the thread. ... Your boxczr project looks challenging. Have fun with it.
Casey.... Iy looks like you may have another prize winning locomotive.
Rick .... I like the big Alcos.
I'm running my "Heartland Zephyr" which is a "pike-sized passenger train. Four of the fice cars are BLI Budd cars which I recently modified to prevent derailing on curves.
Here it is in Blackhawk...
... and again in Prairie View...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
This week I finished an Athearn BB caboose that I had stripped and repainted for B&M. The caboose has a Soundtrax Soundcar decoder with a Currentkeeper. SHown on my layuot, but is for Boothbay Railway Village
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
A good beginning to WPF everyone. Thanks for starting us off Kevin.
Kevin - Thats quite a project car.
Casey - The little steamer is coming right along.
Rick - Nice ALCOs.
Garry - Love the "Pike Sized" passenger train.
George - Thats a good looking caboose.
Nothing new on the BRVRR. So, something from the recent archives:
New York Central E7 #4034 at the head of a short "Mail and Express" train rounds the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. WPF is always the best thread of the week. My thanks to all of you out there.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
A little bit of snow
I switched gears back to the refinery. I have been working on the warehouse. I have it about 75% complete. I still need to finish the 2nd floor lighting, the awning on the front and the stair railings. As you can seen below it is a cut-away model so I had to install an interior. I have been busy making shelves and populating them. There is also a small work shop as well. The doors are all functional but I have yet to intall them since I still have to paint them. I still have to "Tile" the upstairs floors as well. This will basically be tiles printed on cardstock glued to the styrene floor. I have some touchup paint to do as well.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Interesting interior, Renegade....It appears You are a man after My own heart with details......keep up the fine work.
Garry.......the more I see of Your layout, the more I like it. Makes Me wish I didn't have this damn problem with MY shoulder or age....getting near impossible to work on parts of the layout anymore.
I'm sorry I can't comment more on all the other fine work......never was much of a talker.
Managed to get JaBear construction co's base for the drop in diarama.....built a new sliding chain link fence gate for it and still making all the fence that it will require:
Made out of 3/64th/ 1/32/1/16 Brass rod and 1/16 square tube,1/8'' I beam, soldered together with silver bearing solder paste:
A shot of it installed on site.........the screen is 3/64 X .011'' copper wire, also soldered on:
Take Care, All,
Frank
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Finally put the speeder crews to work
TerryinTexas
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George ... Your cabos with sound must be impressive as it rolls down the track.
Allan .... THanks for commenting on my photo ... The NYC E7 looks good.
Mel.... Feel free to post one of your older photos if you have nothing new this week. I like your stuff. I just looked at your blog, and it is amazing.
Trainmaster.... Your snow in August photo is remarkable.
Renegade.... The warehouse with interior is imprssive.
Frank ... A big thanks for the complement from you. ... I'm impressed with your sliding gate and building interior. Kudos.
Bear .... LOL .... Why would he want to keep the bear in ?
Terry in Texas ... Your speeder with trailers and crew is amazing !
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
RR_MelFrank: Great gate, are you going to automate it?
More than likely, I won't Mel. If I did that......I would have to do the doors also.....they just slide up now....that was a project in it's self. It does have an animated sign and an Arc welding circuit in the last door.
On the other sliding gate I made a few yrs. ago It does have an animated sliding gate.......But the ''Bears'' broke it with their shenanigans some time ago and I never got around to fixing it:
Take Care!
RR_MelSlick looking Caboose, shame I can’t hear it.
Soundrtaxx has a video with the latest Soundcar with cows, like the one I installed in a stock car a few weeks ago. You can hear the sound of the rails behind the mooing. The cow sounds need to be turned on by changing a CV. You can change the CV to cows, horses or sheep
http://www.soundtraxx.com/dsd/soundcar/videos.php
Kevin, Good save on the Westerfield. Resin kits are challenging but very rewarding to construct. I've got a couple that took a couple of decades to finish. Too tricky for me back when I bought bthem for the amazing details, once I'd built a bunch of narrowgauge kits pulling them off to shelf to finish was a pleasure.
RDG Casey, An impressive Camelback!
Rick, Once the move is done, you'll love it. Unltil then it's a lot like Gourndhog Day.
GARRY, I love my pike-sized passenger trains. That's a good topic for WPF, sorta, a WPF-sized photo eassy!
George, Talking cabooses are a great idea. Looks good, too.
Allan, Anything with lots of pine trees in it is just peaceful and eyecatching.
trainmaster, After Allan's pines your snow is giving me chills. Nice work!
Renegade, good work on the detailed interior. May need some lighting in there to show it off?
Frank, The last shot is particularly awesome.
Bear, Frank better have ordered the Extra-Sharp, otherwise you've just arranged to get a new backscratcher.
Terry, That's an amazing piece of rolling art!
Ulrich, They could make for an interesting sitcom.
Mel, That little fellow could be put to work a lot of ways.
zstripeOn the other sliding gate I made a few yrs. ago It does have an animated sliding gate.......But the ''Bears'' broke it with their shenanigans some time ago and I never got around to fixing it:
Frank, That just the half of it. You known how all those tanning bed places are closing because it's just not that healthy? Well, around here they're being replaced by Back Scratch Emporiums, which are advertsied as 100% healthy. They supposedly utilize a mechanism made of corrugated fencing pulled gently across your back by "salvaged" gate opener mechanisms...
George, Good thing Soundtraxx has not gotten into really accurate smells...
Been crazy busy here leading into a crazy busy month ahead. I finally gave up on sortiung out the Raspberry Pi with JMRI on it, so installed JMRI on my iMac and started the long process of rebuilding the decoder files, etc. Just tedious, not too hard except for the occassional really confused decoder. Did get a chance to take a few pics in an imaginistic artistic series I call Alcoheaven, because you really have use your imagination to account for how all those Alcos ended up in Durango.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
As always, I am so impressed and inspired by everyone's photos here!
Put in the backdrop and lighting this week. The backdrop is removable and foldable, so I didn't plaster the seams-- maybe takes away from the realism a bit, but I don't mind.
Phil
RR_MelAnother something to do, make an HO scale hammer.
Mel, BTS has a lot of detail parts from the old Master Creations line. #20639 is a woodworking tool set, you might contact them to see if includes a hammer
http://www.master-creations.com/btsdetal.htm
G Paine Mel, BTS has a lot of detail parts from the old Master Creations line. #20639 is a woodworking tool set, you might contact them to see if includes a hammer http://www.master-creations.com/btsdetal.htm
Got my conversion of an HO Bachmann 4-4-0 to an Sn3.5 1870's 4-4-0 to a point where the loco is running.The gondolas need new trucks and decking.Harold
RR_Mel Thanks George! I bought a package of HO tools a couple of years ago off eBay. These are Laser cut from wood, I finished them using several coats of Dullcote then made a mold so that I could dup them from resin. Just something else to fix. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
That's some fine detailing Mel. Very impressive. It goes without saying I'm sure you had your optivisor on doing that.
I bet the reaper, almost like a normal resident here, would like to get his hands on some of those tools
Kevin, Thanks for the WPF start-up. Nice modeling work with the boxcar, challenging I would suspect, yet fun and satisfying.
Renegade1c, Your well stocked spare parts warehouse and shop looks good and an appropiate oil refinery addition.
Likin' your scenes Phil, I've a few backdrop seams that have cracked, they bug me sometimes, mostly when photographing, but seem to disappear when operating the layout.
Thanks to all and have a happy Sunday, regards, Peter
"Heavy Metal Thunder."
Cool stuff, everyone! Great modelling and nice photography.
I assembled two Tichy 53' war gondolas and got to the priming step. One came with 2 sets of decals, so one will be NYC and one Pennsy. These await some flat black & boxcar red to arrive in the mail.
20180826_174123 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
I decided to make a rail load for one of the gondolas. Like the needed paint not on hand, I had used up my track stock on a recent storage shelf addition. I need only 1/2 of one 3' stick of flextrack to finish. A good excuse for a MBK order...
20180826_173327 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Enjoy your week!
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
mlehman Renegade, good work on the detailed interior. May need some lighting in there to show it off?
Already done! That was this weekend's project. The hard part was making convincing Flourecent light fixtures for the upstair offices. I ended up using some clear tubing which I sanded to give it a diffused look and filled them with White LED's.
Next thing to do is flooring and furniture on upper level.
I'll try to post picture of the lighting on next WPF.