Well, I've been away but I'm glad to be back and starting another Weekend photo Fun Thread. For new posters, Weekend Photo Fun is where we show off what we are/have been working on during the week/end. Generally it is one of the best threads on the board in my opinion. All scales and gauges are welcome. To start, here's my project- a Wiseman Models Mack B logging truck. I took the metal Kit, and instead of it becoming a perfect model, it's been aged heavily to simulate a breakdown and abandonment along side the railroad tracks. I still need to weather it with powder though, but it's a start.
So let's see what everyone has been working on/.
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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).
Hey Jimmy, thanks for starting WPF! One thing could we expand the date to include Labor Day - Sept 3rd??
Thanks!!
Pennsy
A Model Railroader's Credo: Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
This week I completed another of the buildings for the right side of the Boothbay Railway Vilage layout. It is a Wirthmore Feeds plant
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Thanks for initializing the Holiday WPF, Jimmy! Good to see you back! Last day of the month — how fast the time flies...
Yes, some weathering will make that truck look just right. Nice!
Good looking mill you have there, George
Your "little people" are outstanding, MEl! I'm still in awe over the ones you showed in the lounge car a few weeks ago. I have boxes of unpainted Preiser figures waiting for a snowy day... Yours look many times better than anything commercial
There was a thread about some Life-Like kits this week and I dug one out to scan the instruction sheet. That lit the fire for me to assemble a few.
I always liked the Burlington's Chinese Red. Not too bright but enough to get noticed. Really classy.
CBQ_LL by Edmund, on Flickr
Another "mini project" I did was to install a CNR style number board to this Grand Trunk Western Mike:
GTW_3734 by Edmund, on Flickr
I drilled through the smokebox and ran two pieces of fiber-optic filament to the headlight LED. I'd prefer it to operate independent of the headlight but I wasn't about to try to run more wire through the boiler.
Last run of the day — take the cabin to the service track then head for the barn.
Cabin_x2_sm by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great stuff!
Cheers! Ed
Jimmy, Nice work on the logging truck, very effective weatheirng.
George, An impressively big industry.
Mel, That fellow must be in management. No hard hat, no safety specs? Looks ready to go, though.
Ed, Lots of atmosphere in that pic.
Most of what I did this week wasn't very photogenic, entering the loco info for about 75 units into my new build of JMRI after my Raspberry Pi decided to quit talking to me.
The big modeling project wasn't very much, but it fixed an irritating problem I'd been putting off dealing with for several years. At some point, the nose door on my PA went missing. I searched everywhere, including videoing the hidden track both ways in hopes of spotting it. No dice.
After looking over prototype pics, it looked more doable to hack a door than I thought. The headlight in the door is simply recessed into a plain opening and otherwise lacked in detail. I needed to modify the funky lighted plastic chunk that originally fed the headlight, plus the lighted numberboards. This went OK, as the numberboards ere OK without lighting, but to retain the structural integrity I couldn't put a LED exactly where it was before, but a little lower. That meant the light opening in the door would cut off the top of the 4-stripes. My paint wasn't an exact match either, but looked OK. Cheaper than a new shell, used or not. I cut the pieces needed to fix the stripes from a Microscale decal sheet. Although not a perfect match, pretty close. Looks dignified enough to me up close.
Back up 3' or so and it's good to see it roilling off some miles with the somewhat reduced consist of the fall Houston-Portland Zephyr as it passes Cascade Falls.
THe JMRI data entry and testing task led to another pic in the Monon in the Mountains collection.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Henry facing the end with a smile, looking at the half detailed CNJ T-32 (with his old legs).
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
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Good morning all from mostly cloudy and warm Northeast Ohio.
Thanks for starting us out Jimmy, good work on the abuse on that abandoned logging truck.
Mel, your worker looks good and in that time frame no hard hat etc.
Mike, nice try on matching that paint, it is a hard thing to do, but it allows you to run that engine.
Ed, what a cornacopia of pictures, all show your handiwork.
Casey, as ususal your handiwork is amazing!
Last week Gary showed us his beautiful short Zephyr, I will follow up with my own pike sized passenger train.
The Wabash Blue Bird, ran St. Louis to Chicago and returned the same day.
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!
mlehman Mel, That fellow must be in management. No hard hat, no safety specs? Looks ready to go, though.
Good morning ..... Weekend Photo Fun started on Thursday and goes through Labor Day. ... That's a long weekend.... Maybe, we shopuld do Weekly Photo Funs instead of Weekend.
Glad to see 9 posts already ahead of me. There is plenty of photo fun already.
Jimmy ... Thank you for starting the thread. Looking forward to seeing the weathering on your truck.
George ... The feed plant look great.
Mel.... Great job with the figure. Does he have a name ?
Ed .... I agree CB&Q red is classy..... Nice boxcar ... I certinly like the GTW 2-8-2 with its number board. .... The last photo with the cabin car (must be Pennsy) captures a mood.
Mike L .... You did a great job with the front of the PA1. ... Nice scenery. ...I'm smiling at your Monon in the mountains.
Bear ..... LOL at your caption for Mel's figure. ..... Over the moon ?
Casey .... The T-32 is going to be a winner for sure.
Rick ..... I remember the Blue Bird of the Wabash. ... I like your model of it.
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Below is an SD9 on a branch line.
Next is a pair of E7's rolling west through the country. ..
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
RR_Mel mlehman Mel, That fellow must be in management. No hard hat, no safety specs? Looks ready to go, though. Back in the early 50s we were lucky, never heard of OSHA. Moving to California I learned a whole new meaning of OSHA . . . . it is called Cal-OSHA. In California your hardhat has to have a hardhat.
True enough, modeling pre-OSHA saves some "headaches" .
However, RRs often had such safety requirements years before the feds got involved. Most larger lines has some sort of Safety Dept. Obviously, the application of safety gear on the job could thus vary widely, depending on what each RR found necessary. This is an aspect of prototype research I've heard nothing about that provides no easy reference to check AFAIK. But I suspect those familiar will a certain line maybe will be able to recall when such gear first started appearing in old photos.
Then there are certain industries like mining that were early adopters of gear like hardhats. Makes for another marker of era that is subtle but can be deployed relatively easy.
GARRY,
Thanks for the commnt on my PA nose door. It's homely but at least less embarassing to run without the door being "open" all the time.
how much more of that back wall have you got to go?
The grade on the right side of the layout is about 30 feet long with the low end being in Portland. The plan was to have "tunnel" of buildings hiding the trains starting with industrial structures at the low end, transitioning to commercial in the middle and ending with residential at the top. I have maybe 40% of this done.
I wanted to post a couple pictures, but imgur.com is "over capacity" this morning
Edit:
It's working better this evening. This is an overall layout view from about 15 months ago. It shows the top 2/3 for the grade on the right side. A couple residential buildings show at the top of the hill.
This is the top of the grade with some apartments and houses taken last October. I have done some re-arranging since them.
Well finally got most of the lighting on the Refinery warehouse done. All that is left is the external lights and final assembly. Here are a few photos. Upstairs got "fluoresent lighting", and downstairs got normal industrial lights.
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Thanks Jimmy for starting off WPF on this long holiday weekend.
Some great stuff here again this week.
Mel - Your man has a new hammer. Great work.
Ed - I like the bright Burlington red too.
Mike L - Love the Rio Grande PA.
Casey - The loco is coming right along.
Rick - Good looking pike sized Wabash train.
Garry - The Burlington locos look good as usual.
In keeping with Rick's pike sized train, I unearthed this one from the BRVRR 2014 archives. Pennsylvania E8 #5713 leads a short "pike sized" passenger train eastbound on the BRVRR.
And something a little more recent:
New York Central Niagara #6008 at the west end of the BRVRR layout with a short heavyweight mail and express train as a NYC merchandise freight passes 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
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Here's what I've done so far this weekend.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Heartland Division CB&Q Over the moon ?
Last of the MOW speeder equip
TerryinTexas
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Jimmy, Thanks for starting the WPF with your "Bulldog."
Thanks to all the contributors, "Every picture tells a story."
Have a good holiday weekend while honoring Labor, Regards, Peter
From this
To this
Just for the fun of it.
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
I did visit the Boothbay Clubs website, and wondered how up to date the photos were.
I do need to send some updated photos for the site. Many of the older closeups are scenes that are complete, and have not changed. There are some new scenes that should be added.
Here's what I got done today.
George, Great view of the layout!
Renegade, Really nice lighted effect through the windows
Allan, Good example of the pike-size breed with the Pennsy. I don't model it other than a car here and there, but had relatives back 3 generations who worked for it.
Bears on Mars?!! That'll shake those Martians up. I hear they\re all about snack-size for a bear.
Terry, Awesome job on the MOW gang and its cars.
Peter, the depth of field in your street scne is more subtle, but very awesome, too!
Guy, Sow's ear into silk purse comes to mind here.
NWP SWPHere's what I got done today.
Like that Monon gon. It's only very approximate IIRC, but I like mine nonetheless.
On that B unit, needs more putty.
But you may want to straighten the panel lines some, putty can heal many flaws, but won't straighten anything out. You'll be much more satisfied in the end and reworking it is a good exercise in getting more from your modeling efforts. It's a good start, though.
Yeah the B unit needs some tinkering, I was trying to straighten it out but the superglue had already set.
WOW.......With a long weekend and the last post was Sat?
We need more,more to add to all the fine work already presented.......how about a kick-start?
A completed photo of the JaBear Construction Co's. first vehicle, that will be going in the front of the office parking. I would have taken it on site, but the diarama is on it's side.....working underneath with wiring:
Photo may be clicked on for larger view......
Take Care, All!
Frank
Wow, what a crazy amount of activity in Weekend Photo Fun this week. Great stuff in here.
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Jimmy: Thank you for starting us out. That rusty truck will be a great little mini-scene.
George: The Wirthmore Feeds looks quite at home on the layout. Did you make ther sign for it?
Mel: You guy with the hammer looks so angry. Great work as always.
Ed: I agree, sometime assembling a Proto 2000 boxcar is just what the doctor ordered to get my feet back on the ground.
Mike: Ugh, entering data is never fun.
Casey: "Henry" looks very satisfied with the work you have done. Simply amazing.
Rick: The Bluebird sure looks right at home in that scene.
Garry: The E7s look fabulous in polished stainless steel. Those are really nice looking locomotives. Great photograph.
Renegade: With an interior that looks that good it only makes sense to light it up so it can be appreciated.
Allan: Pennsylvania Tuscan Red passenger rains always make me reminisce about my youth. Not that I ever saw one in real life, but I had a model of one when I was still very young.
Steven: You did a great job taking that flatcar out of the box.
Terry: Your speeder project is incredible. I can't wait to see the finished project.
Peter: Yet another awesome photograph.
Guy: The transformation of that flatcar was surely worth the effort.
Frank: I love the old "heritage" truck on the plinth.
I spent all week with my babies that are still in Orlando. We rented a red Mustang convertibel for the trip and had a blast. I would never own one, but it is exhilerating to drive with the top down when the weather is good.
I had no time at home, so I quickly assembled another Athearn Blue Box commemorative car so I would at least have something to share this week. This one is for the NMRA's 50th anniversary convention in Milwaukee back in 1985. I guess having a stock of "shake the box" kits on hand means I can still participate when time is low.
When I was in Oviedo (just outside Orlando), I stopped in an antique store and picked up three packs of old Train Miniature Billboard Refrigerated Boxcars. I guess I will be assembling these and posting pictures in WPF soon.
Everyone stay safe.
See you next week.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hold up there, that heavy flat is a kit, that had to be assembled, and little bitty tiedown details added. So I did more than "take it out of the box"
Perhaps a better desciption was in order other than "here is what I've done so far this weekend". I was only going by what the picture looked like. Sorry if the humor escaped you.
Please do not refer to me by any nickname, especially "Hoss", we do not share that kind of familiarity, not to mention I am three times your age. It seems very inapropriate, and I have never called you anything but Steven.
Yes Kevin the humor escaped me.
Perhaps I should've been a bit more descriptive.
I think my humor escaped you as well.
It's all good though
SeeYou190The Wirthmore Feeds looks quite at home on the layout. Did you make ther sign for it?
I found an image online which I cleaned and resized up using Adobe Photoshop Elements. The original had rust, discoloration, and a bit of distortion.