Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
FEBRUARY 15 - 17, 2019
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
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 thrilled to be able to start Weekend Photo Fun this week.
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Below is a new caboose added to my fleet in my world of nonsense. Everyone should know about the magnificent GORRE AND DAPHETID from the legend himself, John Allen.
I was going to build this one "Box Stock" like the rest of the cars in this collection, but the included ladders were terrible. I replaced the ladders with Athearn caboose ladders. These make the car much better looking. It also has Kadee #5 couplers and Kadee 33" wheels in the kit trucks.
I have been collecting NMRA commemorative freight cars from the "Heritage" line and the "Living Legends" line. I wanted a caboose for this fleet, and I found this old release from Model Die Casting of a Drover Car for the G&D line. PERFECT! Now the G&D is reprersented in this collection, and I also have an appropriate caboose.
Here it is in the proper environment with a couple of the NMRA commemorative cars. These two boxcars are for the GIBRALTAR and the PLATVILLE AND CALAMINE. This new G&D caboose makes them look even better!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio!
Still no painting done this week but more progress on kits.
Finally got around to finishing the Rail Yard Models PC G47 Gondola.
Added the hand grabs, brake wheel, and brake wheel platform.
Finished car with the parts from the 10th level of hell, adding all the tie down loops on the top chord of the sides.
Also built an Atlas FMC 5077 Double Center Door Box, that will be painted and decaled for the WP.
About 75% complete with a IMRC 4 Bay Canadian Grain Hopper, the Plano Metal Roofwalk will be the last item added before painting.
Finally a blast from the past, a pair of C430's with a train of Flexi-Flow trailers on flatcars.
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!
WPF is off to a great start!
Kevin - that's a unique and interesting caboose, looks good.
Rick - your kit builds and details are always interesting. Like you said, those tie downs on the gondola must have been a PITA.
Terry
Inspired by Addiction
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PennCentral99Kevin - that's a unique and interesting caboose, looks good.
Thank you, I think so too.
Now I need a locomotive since I have a caboose!
Somewhere on the British coast - the Lighthouse Railway!
Still missing the light house, though!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Thanks for starting off WPF Kevin. Thats a good looking little caboose.
Rick - The details make the car. Impressive work. Loved the C430s with the Flexi-Flow/Flexi-Van cars and trailers.
Ulrich - Thats a cute little loco and excursion car. I'll look for the lighthouse.
I actually got something done for the railroad this week:
All the paraphernalia is out to install the 'train phone' antenna on my PRR FA.
The view from on top after installation of the 'wire'. Threading the .015" wire through the holes in the antenna posts was a bear.The engineer's side was easy compared to the fireman's side.
Here is PRR FA #9600 with the antennas painted on on the layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. 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/
Lehigh Valley T-1 ready for service.
Before:
After:
with the rest of the LV roster built...
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Kevin ..... Your G&D caboose looks very nice.
Allan .... Nice work with the antena.
Rick .... Outstanding detail on the freight cars. Nice lcos, too.
Ulrich .... Looks like a fun little locomotive.
Casey .... Your LV T-1 is magnificent !.... Same with the other LV locomtives.
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Below is a recent photo of a portion of my layout which I have worked on for the past couple of years. .... In the foreground, you can see part of a 1900 era scene I included even though my layout is mostly about 1960. In the background is my rural scene with grain elevator and stock yard. The branch line crosses through on bridges. Main line tracks are below. The tunnel leads into a reverse loop.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Kevin, That G&D drover caboose is a classic and a great way to open up WPF!
Rick, Lots of great-looking plastic!
Ulrich, Dramatic lighting really makes that shine!
Allan, Nice work on the antennas!
RDG Casey, That's a classic!
GARRY, You're packing in the detail!
Here's the service area in Durango.
Sticking it...
The Outlaw Mine foreman picked up a new truck.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Great stuff,guys!
Mike,here's 453 spotting some gon's on the other side of the coal tower:
Have a great weekend!
Mike
Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF and the shot of your handsome caboose, indeed an ideal addition to a commemoritive rolling stock collection.
Ulrich, Can't quite put my finger on exactly why I find your shot so bright and uplifting. Maybe because it's reminiscent of days long, long past marveling in the first Thomas the Tank Engine episodes with my little boy, or maybe it's just the uncomplicated, yet wonderful beauty.
Thanks to all the contributors and Happy President's Day weekend, regards, Peter
HO-VeloUlrich, Can't quite put my finger on exactly why I find your shot so bright and uplifting. Maybe because it's reminiscent of days long, long past marveling in the first Thomas the Tank Engine episodes with my little boy, or maybe it's just the uncomplicated, yet wonderful beauty.
Thanks for all the kudos! I actually feel quite the same about that shot. It brings back memories of my childhood and family vacations we spent on the Dutch coast in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In those years, train travel was our means of transport and to reach our vacation spot, we had to ride a train of the RTM - that´s the Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschapij - a steam tramway connecting Rotterdam with the southern Dutch islands, which operated tiny steam engines similar to the one in my picture. The picture makes me feel the warmth of the sunshine on my skin. Happy days, back then!
Great work people!
I've been "messin" with my passenger train build, I've found a couple 72' sleepers by Con Cor, the only thing is, they are smooth sides, with the sectional roof, not a match with the Athearn corrugated streaminers, so I'm doing some hacking and bashing.
One of the Athearn cars I've had is an older kit. The sides, roof and ends are all seperate pieces. Perfect fodder for my project.
The roof from the old Athearn is practically a "drop in" on the Con Cor car, just a little tweeking needed.
Not bad so far, a little work, and it will fit perfect.
One side ready.
I found these panels on line, I'll save them for the next project.
On with the WPF !
Mike.
My You Tube
As always, nice looking stuff here guys.
I always enjoy looking at what you have done or what you are doing. I am longing for the day I get up and off the ground and have my scenery looking as nice as yours.
The moving from the temporary glass table to its permanent location is starting to take shape. The permanent cantilevered base is a little Burley, I may work on that.
I built this 3" thick bench work out of quarter inch Luan. I want everything light for me as I get older going to train shows some day. I built it on a glass table so it is straight as an arrow like glass. None of my grades will increase because it is flat as glass.
If you haven't already gathered, I'm a little crazy at times and I am the same way doing projects for myself. My whole life I've been doing cookie cutter construction so when I do a project at home it better have a challenge, at least I make it one.
This is an inverted lattice grid. Corner taped with paper, fiberglass combination and then wood glued. There are two hundred joints and sixty more to go. Paper is extremely strong alone, reinforced with fiberglass (Good Night) try to pull paper apart straight once, you can't do it.
I originally made my grid with surrounding side boards so I could cut around the height of the scenery around my layout as I will have high mountains in back. I brought it in the kitchen and cut them off because I couldn't reach over them comfortably. I didn't wish to do my scenery on a step stool hunching my back for the rest of my modeling. I will add them again when I reach that point.
So far my removable benchwork weighs about 7-8 pounds and my foam layout weighs about 9-10. It is so easy to move.
I am developing a slide system so I can pull the bench work out from the wall and have two feet clear space to stand behind and work on whatever I want.
Thanks guys. I always enjoy looking at what you're doing, I thought I'd share with you what I'm doing
TF
Kevin- thanks for starting and nice looking caboose!
I will make my WFF post tomorrow. 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"
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Thank You for the fine startup of this episode of WPF, Kevin!
Sure are some great contributions this weekend
Half the week I spent on doing some locomotive upgrades and decoder installs, not very photogenic. Then I remembered that I played around in the paint booth with some PRR hopper containers and I got a coat of freight car color on the ND cabin car:
PRR_HB-4_container by Edmund, on Flickr
I wish I would have bought more of these when they first were offered from Walthers. I found an Ebay seller with some undecorated ones, thus the paint requirement. The lettering is going to be tedious.
PRR_ND by Edmund, on Flickr
Then I played around a little with some Pan Pastel weathering effects on these E-L passenger Geeps that are now in freight service.
EL_1407_GP7-x by Edmund, on Flickr
The Pan Pastels make a pretty decent fade-look to the paint without going too overboard. I really need to step-up my weathering chores!
EL_1407_GP7 by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks for all the great photos, Gents!
Regards, Ed
TF,
I'm not sure I understand the logic behind your gridwork, but it certainly is a nice bit of carpentry. May I ask why the grid slats (for lack of a better word) are so close together? Do you intend to drill holes in the gridwork for wiring or will it all go beneath the grids?
Track fiddlerIf you haven't already gathered, I'm a little crazy at times and I am the same way doing projects for myself.
Crazy is good! The world laughs at crazy designers, that is until the world realizes that the crazies have great ideas.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Excellent
You hit the nail on the head. Drill and wiring wherever needed and the lack of slack You are exactly correct.
The theme this week seems to be 'in progress'. This week I have been working on an American Model Builders caboose. The CB&Q kit is a close match to a Grand Trunk caboose. I finished the core a couple days ago then got the sides and roof installed yesterday. Today I finished the undercarrage and ends. Lots of small pieces that would have been molded in 1 piece on a sytrene kit. It will have to be painted before I can install it.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Rick- Those cars are sure going to turn some heads at your club!
Ulrich- Very nice scene. Is the sky real or photoshopped?
Allen- it's those small(and sometimes frustrating) details that make a locomotive great.
Casey- very nice locomotives!
Garry- nice little change of era.
Mike L- good looking loco sevicing area.
Mike- I really like those grass tufts!
Peter- another very detailed scene!
Mike(mbinsewi) Fun lookin build!
TF- benchwork is looking good, wish I put more thought into mine.
Ed- those EL Geeps look fantastic!
George- fun looking caboose build!
I have made some more progress on my tranfer caboose. the rest of the handrails were installed.
I received a handheld DC throttle from a form member, and it works great! Thanks!
The throttle is hooked to a very long telaphone chord, and all connections are secure.
Keep the good stuff coming!
HarrisonUlrich- Very nice scene. Is the sky real or photoshopped?
Just a small photo backdrop propped up behind the board with the a few pieces of track. Not a layout, yet!
Harrison, your "walk-around" throttle reminds me of my last layout, early to mid 90's. I pretty much did the same thing. I had 3 different places around the layout I could plug in my "walk-around" throttle.
This morning I finished up the basic body work for my sleeper car.
The gray part is the ConCor car, the black parts are the Athearn parts, paint removed.
It took just little work with a file to get the Athearn roof to snap into place, like it was made for it.
I decided to do the body work to build this car, as it seemed like an easier project than reworking all the windows on a coach car, to represent a sleeper.
Keep the WPF going!
Lots of really cool, interesting stuff going on....always the best thread of the week!!
A drone catches an old, crusty centerbeam waiting for it's next revenue run....
HarrisonGeorge- fun looking caboose build!
Is is an interesting build, but lots of small parts. This afternoon I counted the parts on the frame shown in the photo. There are about 35 or 40 parts; a far cry from the 1 or 3 part frames on the typical injecteion model. I still have to install the brake gear and train line.
Thanks Harrison, Glad you're havin' fun and movin' forward.
Regards, Peter