Good morning from foggy and cool Northeast Ohio!
This is the area where we show what we have been working on, completed or old layout pictures for the inspiration of our fellow modelers.
As we are still in the packing mode at home, nothing is getting done so here is an old picture from the archives which may or may not have been posted in the past.
Athearn GP38-2's led by DT&I 1776 with a train of coil steel flats.
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!
Rick ... Thanks for sarting Weekend Photo Fun ..... It is good to see the DT&I GP38-2's.
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Below are two pictures of a freight train rolling through the country side. ... The lead unit is 700D which is a F9Am which was rebuilt from parts of a wrecked F7. It is followed by an F3B and a SD9.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thanks Rick for starting off WPF. Good looking locos.
Garry - The Burlingtons look good as always.
Mel - You really dig down into the hobby. Great looking cab forward loco.
Nothing new here. I'm still struggling with the radio-telephone antennas on my FAs. Here is one from the past:
NYC GP-40 #3083 at the head of a coal drag is passing Black River Tower and approaching Black River Station.
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/
Haven't done much modeling this week, but today I am packing up for tomorrow's show in Massena, NY, as our club is going to set up.
Looking good everyone,
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
Henry is now a CNJ T-32 commuter engine. It made it's debut at the Reading Railroad Modeler's Meet last weekend running with the other former friend of Thomas, Gordon (Reading L-7).
before and after...
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
Anthracite Modeler - YouTube
Well I have managed to finish 2 of 5 home road locomotives. The first is a GMD-1. The second is an SD-9. The Colorado Front Range has decided that it will be solely an EMD end user for ease of maintanance and record keeping. Of the 7 locomotives in the fleet, 5 of them are used locomotives purchase cheap and restored in the local shops. The GMD-1 and the GP-40-2 were purchased new as part of the joint venture creation.
Obviously this is all a fictional backstory for my railroad. The beer line to Golden, CO is owned by the BN but I love the Rio Grande so born is the Colorado Front Range Railroad. It is a shortline joint venture between the two railroads to switch the local Denver area traffic and interchange it to the class I's (BN and DRGW) to ship out of town.
Besides the home road power, the CFRR has access to the BN and DRGW locomotive pools when they are short on power. On the layout you will see lots of Green black and Orange. Occasionally a UP unit (ewww) may make an appearance as a interchange train.
The other power on the layout is Coors Brewery. I have 3 switchers for all the brewery tracks. The CFRR, DRGW and BN are not allowed on their property and vice versa.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good evening y'all. I enjoy this thread the most. I always appreciate and enjoy looking at all the things you guys are doing.
It also gives me incentive hoping I can get my layout to the point some of you have.... Lots of hours, lots of weeks and lots of years. Where did September go???
This was kind of interesting. I stumbled across this contraption at Hobby Lobby. It's a clay roller. It's adjustable and cranks out clay all consistent thickness.
I am starting my abatements for my newest bridge I built. Sure I could buy material pre-made and do it easier but I like a challenge and I enjoy making things. So I got out the Sculpey oven-baked clay and ran it through this crank machine.
I measured out 2 1/8 inch with for for the start of my abatement brick stock. I made a mark with my exacto knife every 3/32 on both ends. Then I took a pizza cutter and a steel ruler and lightly rolled all the horizontal lines. Then I took a jeweler's screwdriver and made all the vertical lines. I need to make one more of these.
After that I will do color washes before I start cutting and putting my abatements together
Thanks, I will follow up after more progress is made.... Keep posting the projects guys
PS I have future plans now that I have this clay roller to make a brick Roundhouse. Always something to do and look forward to.
Thanks for starting up the End-Of-September (Already!) WPF, Rick.
That's a neat depot in your scene. Is it scratchbuilt?
I never tire of seeing your scenes of the "Q" Garry
Those Cab Forwards look like they could pull the wall of the roundhouse down, Mel. Great work! I can see how you are enamored with the Cab Forwards. I was fortunate to be able to see the one on display in the Sacramento Railroad Museum. What a machine!
Nice NYC scene, Allan I have a few of those Cal-Scale antenna kits and they sure are a lot of work.
Good Luck at the show, Harrison. I did look at your storage idea on your blog. Good stuff.
You are the transformation magician, Casey. Absolutely top-notch modeling skills at work there!
I like your plausible railroad scheme, Renegade. Sounds like a good plan.
Good shot of Nigel's Empire Builder, Bear. I sure like the looks of a good streamliner.
TrackFiddler, that machine and the pizza cutter are making me hungry! Can that thing make lasagna noodles?
I gathered some brass passenger cars together that are in-line for the paint shop. Got the paint booth cleaned up — finally — so I can get back to work in there.
Booth918 by Edmund, on Flickr
I've got two ERIE 1000 coaches and a pair of Erie diners, although one is going to be a stand-in for a Nickel Plate modernized diner.
Erie_brass1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Erie_diner1 by Edmund, on Flickr
It is close enough no one will argue, I hope.
NYC_Combine1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I found a deal on this Lambert combine and plan to give it a NYC two-tone gray paint job. Combines are hard to come by in HO so I decided to go for it.
LL_E8_DCC by Edmund, on Flickr
Last week I showed a photo with an old Lackawanna Life-Like E8 in it. I thought it had been sitting on the shelf too long so spent some time installing a WOWsound decoder in it.
LL_E8_DCC2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Well, that's it for now...
On to more great stuff!
Thank You, Ed
That's funny Ed. I did not see an adjustment for the wavy ends that are on lasagna noodles on my clay machine. You got me thinking though. My Judy makes delightful homemade noodles for the different soups she makes. She has not become wise to my clay roller and I think I might try to keep it that way.
The passenger cars are looking good Ed. Keep your progress posted. Interested. I have a Hunger for more progress
JaBear I like those old school long dog locomotives. The unique paint job and the gold stripe remains.
I was bidding on an Empire Builder set like that on eBay....I lost.
I always like seeing them. Thanks!
RDG Casey Not only the extremely unique little locomotive looks great but your scenery and the sedimentary rock is very impressive..... Old busted-up ceiling tile, tree bark?.
You know what?, nevermind me guessing. You just tell me what you did if you would. Looks very Impressive. Thanks for sharing.
TF
Garry your modeling never falls short of impressing me. Very nice, very nice. I will come to you for advice when I get to that point... that is a given
Renegade That green machine creeping up from the lower right hand side of the picture and finally getting there, winding down by the that tan building you built.
It takes me back to the early-mid seventies when I was just a kid. My whole life then, myself and my friends in the area we thrived in was Green Machines...... Appreciated
Nice work, everyone. I'm a little late to the game, but I made it, unlike last week when things were just too busy. Some pics from the past tending toward a trtack-=level view.
Goose #5 passing Summit on the Cascade line,
The rare Rio Grande SDL-39
NW2M 100 & 101 head off onto the Rio Grande Southern
Standard gauge action at Durango
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Track fiddler RDG Casey Not only the extremely unique little locomotive looks great but your scenery and the sedimentary rock is very impressive..... Old busted-up ceiling tile, tree bark?. You know what?, nevermind me guessing. You just tell me what you did if you would. Looks very Impressive. Thanks for sharing. TF
The rocks are ceiling tile, with acrylic washes. I got a bit of an unintentional fade at the bottom spraying the track brown which gave it some more variation.
Awesome stuff to start us out this week (no surprise, hah)
Mike, how can Saturday AM be late for Weekend Photo Fun?
Casey, your transformations always inspire me to do better. Really amazing work.
Renegade, I really like your freelanced paint scheme, very sharp.
I've been working on a bit of scene design-- I bought two Walthers kits, the Trackside Oil Dealer and the Farmer's Co-op Grain Elevator, which should give me enough plastic to make all the structures I want to represent. Most are going to be flats given the very narrow spacing of the layout, so I get two buildings (or a larger one) out of one:
Also thought I'd get a little more spaciousness out of the illusion if a few of the flats were NOT parallel to the backdrop:
Nothing's in its final place yet, still deciding how to compose the scenes to make them interesting visually. The storage tanks (and whatever else I model of the oil dealer) will be in front of the tracks, hiding one of the hinge seams. I turned back the clock on the rightmost tank by scraping the welded seams and adding some Archer rivet decals:
Thanks for looking,
Phil
Great stuff this week.
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Rick: Thank you for starting us out. I never get tired of pictures of your modelling work.
Garry: I enjoy your pictures too. That is an interesting F unit leading the train.
Mel: That is a fantastic modeling effort. Beautiful!
Allan: Good shot of the NYC coal hauler.
Harrison: Those racks for hauling the portable layout look very well made and effectice.
Casey: Well.. just amazing... your locomotive is a work of art.
Renegade: Your paint scheme for the Front Range is sharp. I love the GMD South of the border!
JaBear: Good picture of the Empire Builder.
Fiddler: That clay roller looks like it has some handy uses.
Ed: I am also working on a couple of passenger cars right now.
Mike: Nice pictures of the Rio Grande equipment.
Phil: That looks llike some good progress. It sure seems like it will be a nice scene when it is completed.
I have not built (completed) anything this week. I did finally buy a brass bridge needed for my next layout. This is a very nicely made model that will fill the need perfectly. One more step closer to the dream
Please keep the pictures coming!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF with another inspiring shot.
Garry, Like your dirt trail with horseback riders, bet iron horses would find some traction on it too.
RDG Casey, I also like your tilted stratified rock formations, so too the coarse texture of the ballast.
Track fiddler, Your work with clay is interesting and can see where it would be especially useful for curved applications.
Bear, Always looking forward to the fun and clever posts you create. Dare I ask the status of your splendid car ferry?
Kevin, Wow, that's a sharp lookin' bridge, like the paint too, reminds me of workin' at the gear works in the early 70s. I can see the old craggy painter now, standing in his stained apron, dirty crumpled ball cap perched atop his head and a smoldering Camel cigarette dangling from his lips. But it's those hub caps on his faded blue Rambler that stuck out, they were the same flat red lead color as the gear box castings, lol. Thanks for the memories.
"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, addin' to the scenery, delightin' my mind."
Thanks to all the contributors, have a good weekend and regards, Peter
Made a little progress on my HOn3 Rio Grande Southern in the vicinity of Ames and Ophir...
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Dave those sure are some sweet looking rocks. They gave me the urge of wanting to the climb them if I was 20 years younger..... Interested, please elaborate on how you created those rocks if you would. I really like the bridge too, scratch built? She sure is a beauty.
I was foiled tonight. After work I rushed home to make another clay, brick stock pattern for my bridge abatements. After working on it for an hour and a half it stuck to my hobby mat and was ruined trying to peel it off. It didn't do that last night. I don't know what gives
Dang! That's how it goes sometimes. Wax paper is definitely on my list.
The rocks are a combination of commercial rigid foam cast rocks, commercial flexible foam rocks, commercial cast rubber rocks, hand-carved Styrofoam rocks, and hand-carved rocks from a blend of Hydrocal and Sculptamold. I don't like to stick to just one technique or product. The trestle is scratchbuilt after RGS Bridge 45A.
HO-Velo Dare I ask the status of your splendid car ferry?
Peter, Kevin, Ed , Allan, Mel, and anybody I overlooked ... Thanks for commenting on my photos.
A big thanks to all who particpated this weekend. Great photos by all !
Everything looked great this weekend guys.
I got a little time to mess around with my clay again this afternoon. I almost feel like I'm re-living my childhood with this stuff. I never played with clay much when I was a kid, maybe a sculpture or two.
I realized I had to get a little smarter than the clay. This poking a slab with a jeweler's screwdriver a thousand times was getting old real quick. Plus it takes too darn long.
It dawned on me if I made a negative impression I would only have to do the tooling of the clay once. The four slabs of clay on the left, the top one is the negative proof that took a few hours, the three stamped pieces only took 3-4 minutes to do. All I do is put a slab of clay over the proof, cover it with wax paper, roll it with a wallpaper seam roller, then cut them out with the pizza cutter and cook them..... quick and easy.
The clay piece on the bottom right only takes about 15 minutes to make with these new found tools. The little homemade tool makes all the horizontal lines super quick and the little blue tool makes all the vertical lines at once per row. Now I'm cooking..... maybe some color washes next weekend.
Thanks to all who participated this weekend, I enjoyed each and every one of your posts