I like when WPF goes past the weekend.
Kevin, Interesting locomotive and nice project. Having experienced the shock and mess of knocking over a full bottle of liquid styrene glue I like your proactive bottle holder.
Thanks and Regards, Peter
trwrouteI like this! Nice job, Kevin.
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Chuck, thank you for the kind comment. I am so glad the car turned out well enough to finally run it with my trains, and that after more than 20 years in the project bin, it is finally done.
Thank you to everyone else for the kind comments. Maybe I will also get this one done eventually. It has also been in the "in process" stage for more than 20 years. The good news is that I finally bought an Overland SW1500 chassis for it, so I can move forward... maybe.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Got back to an old project the last couple of days, converting a few ACF centerflows into pellet hoppers.
On the prototype, there is generally 4 vented hatches per car. Making those has been the challange for today. I have 6 more to go.
I found isometric drawings with dimensions from a manufacturer's web site.
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
Mike.
My You Tube
I have been doing some more scenery in South Plattsburgh on my layout.
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
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I like this! Nice job, Kevin.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
Great photos so far, everybody.
Some of you are showing Metro vans..... You can see an REA Metro in this photo.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
The paint shop has been busy this weekend. I have four cabooses that I have been working on. They are Protowest Scale models resin craftsmen kits. I got everything assembled last week and this week has been painting them.
Here is everything primed and ready for color
Here is all of them after while they are drying. There are 3 different paint schemes. Two are the "Action Road" scheme used in the late 70's to the time the Rio Grande was absorbed into the SP/ UP conglomerate. One is the Single stripe scheme and ther other is the 4 stripe scheme. I have to wait until paint is dry to add the gloss coat so I can start decaling. Hopefully the decals are still in good shape since these kits have been in closet for about 4 years. They were a fun build but man that two tone paint scheme is not an easy one.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Good Afternoon fellow modelers.
Good to see you back, Jimmy and thanks for hosting this edition of WPF! You have lots of ambitious projects to keep you busy.
Great stuff here, again, everybody.
I was in the mood to get back to structure-building after spending quite a bit of time on painting, decaling, decoder and locomotive work. I recently shuffeled around some boxes and (re) discovered an old Kibri factory kit that I bought way back in the late '90s.
Gearworks2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I really don't know what this factory will represent on the layout, or even where it is going to go? For now it is a "Gear Works"
Gearworks by Edmund, on Flickr
These European-made kits are a pleasure to work with. The fit is precise and the results very good looking. Lately, of course, almost all kits have improved as far as fit-and-finish but these old models from the likes of Kibri, Vollmer, Faller and such are very well tooled and designed.
Some of the windows are already frosted but I placed some rudimentary details inside to make it appear that there is something going on inside there.
Factory_winch by Edmund, on Flickr
That way whan the lights are on you can see the silhouette of the machinery projected on the glazing.
Excellent contributions this weekend, folks! Hope to see more
Regards, Ed
Metros are popular, I repainted and made decals for this one on Commercial St in Portland on the Boothbay Railway Village layout. The tail of another in the alley delivering Wonder Bread to the IGA store
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
RR_Mel I must say your Metro looks like I feel Peter, old, rusty and ready for the junk yard.
Oh No!
Let me post a picture of a Metro in much better shape.
I hope it makes you feel better.
Jimmy, Thanks for opening the WPF, looks like your holiday season will be busy and fun.
A few days ago the finishing touches were added to the backlot of Raymond's Welding.
Thanks to all the contributors, Happy Holiday weekend and regards, Peter
Hi there. Wide variety of pics so far, I like them all!
Our club will have an open door event soon, and I have been working on a military train - which is always a hit with the young lads. Assembled a few flat cars carrying Shermans last year. This year, I assembled a midget submarine I built from a kit. It is originally a german prototype (Seehund) - never to be seen in our neck of the woods, but hey, it's my railroad and I just love the lines on the thing... The scale is off a bit (1/72), but it is close enough. I need to put some chains or tie it down some way, and it will be ready to roll. Next project: a Higgins boat.
Simon
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Nice work everyone! I have been working on a small diorama that will attach to my layout.
I have also been taking advantage of the snow to do some sub-zero railfanning.
Yesterday on the way to Thanksgiving dinner we stopped in Albany and shot some heritage units.
Keep bringing those photos everyone!
Kevin, thank you. I got my decals through circus city graphics. Im planning to have another set made up for the patched hoppers, gondolas and maybe a leaser GP38-2. Your cars looks great
rick, at least 15-20 custom Hoppers. Since no one makes my hoppers at a reasonable price, I buy the 3 bay hoppers at train shows or that site, strip them, and redo them. Sure it's getting a bit monotous, but I have a couple other projects going on, to break said monotony.
Mike: good to see you here. I have the Alamosa parlor car as an HO scale car from Con-cor the 2000s run, along with most of the D&S cars as well. I've only been out to the "promised land" twice in my life.
pp
(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).
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Nice work, Jimmy, Kevin, and Rick.
I dug out some old vacation pics, so I'm going prototype this week on the Durango & Silverton, back in 2006.
We rode in the parlor car...
but the second Silver Vista, then nearly new, was also part of the consist.
It's a long way down to the river, so there's been a slow order restricting trains to 8 mph thru this section since 1882.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Jimmy, thanks for opening the thread this week. How many of those W&LE cars have you completed. I know I got real tired doing a bunch of club cars when I lived in Alaska, and the same with all the Anderson's cars I have done recently.
Nothing new this week again, I would show you a picture of my clean workbench before I moved, but I can find my menory card holder to load the picture. But I do have a picture from the archives to share. Also have about 200 boxes to go through and store in various places.
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!
Jimmy_Braumwell, so let's see what everyone is working on.
Happy Thanksgiving Jimmy. Thank you for starting Weekend Photo Fun for all of us this week. Your custom decals look good. The orange seems to really cover well and pop out against the black. The T-Trak modules look like fun, but I never finished the N-Trak module I started 20 something years ago.
This week I finished a different project that I started more than 20 years ago. This hopper car kit had had a difficult life and a long path to the rails.
I cannot say for certain, but I am pretty sure it is the first Westerfield kit I tried to assemble. I had a problem with the coupler mounts, I stripped out the threads when I tapped the holes. So, it sat unfinished for years. Then I figured out how to slip some 0.080" thick styrene into the end sills, so there was enough "meat" there to mount the couplers.
Then I painted it for its prototype, the NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM. This is back when the STRATTON AND GILLETTE was trying to exist in the real world, before I created my current world of complete nonsense.
After I installed the cast resin load, I decided I hated it. The casting does not look like anything. It is awful. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no way to get it out of the hopper car. It sat for some more years.
Finally, about five years ago I painted and painted and painted on the load until I decided it might actually look like something. I mounted it too high to add any gravel or coal, so I was stuck with pianting it as best as I could. It was finally kind of OK. It still doesn't really look like anything, but at least it is not completely awful.
Now I had a nearly finished NYC car that I could not use... no prototype equipment is allowed.
Well, I carefully stripped the car and repainted it. I decalled it for the CAROLINA MIDLAND, and all looked good... finally.
Well... on this older Westerfield kit I had to form the stirrup steps from brass strips. These kept breaking off because there was nothing on the frame to really fasten them to. Drilling for A-line stirrups was not an option because there is not enough material in the model.
I botched an Intermountain boxcar kit... and lo-and-behold... the stirrups from that kit were good for this hopper. They had a long bar across the top, and there was plenty of surface to glue to. I installed them, did some touch up paint, and finally after more than two decades this car is rail ready.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Please keep the pictures coming, and stay safe.
its that time of the week again, weekend photo fun. Th is one of my favorite threads,since it inspires such creativity. For those who aren't familiar with this, wpf is where we show off what we have been working on during the week or weekend. all scales and eras. So here's my stuff I've been doing or planning to do. First off:
another custom decaled wheeling & Lake Erie Hopper in HO scale. Fun fact, I designed these decals and had a company online print them out for me.
Next:
I bought a scaletrains.com rivet counter SD40-2. Staying in the number since it still wears it on the Wheeling, the plan is to install loksound into it.
Next: I'm not switching scales, but doing a side project-T trak
Todays project related to the modules was this:
i drilled screws into the wood sides, and then used the metal footings to give it lift off the tables, leveling, and preventing scratching any surface.
well, so let's see what everyone is working on.