Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the linking of two great railroads —
and two great Oceans!
In many parts of the world this weekend is also Mother's Day, a good cause to celebrate!
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 a current project.
We are back to cooler, wet weather here in NE Ohio. The grass is getting taller and I don't care. You'll find me somewhere near the layout or workshop
As if I needed yet another PRR rolling stock project . I realized my roster of head-end cars was a little heavy with RPO cars so I decided to reassign this one to Maintenance-of-Way service.
I like the sea-foam green interior I painted so I'm going to keep that. I'll paint the floor an oxide red, not that you'll actually see it. Maybe I'll keep one or two of the doors open? Walthers did a great job of catching the details in here
PRR_BM70M_MoW2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I disassembled the intricate Walthers exterior in order to get the windows out for the repaint.
PRR_BM70M_MoW by Edmund, on Flickr
I made some more progress on the PRR Z74 Business car. I'll be ready for a simple interior and some glazing soon.
PRR_Z74-7505 by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great contributions, Folks!
Regards, Ed
Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeat Ohio! (Sounds like a broken record)
Thanks for starting us out Ed, good looking postal car, especially like the interior.
Gary, did not get a chance to comment on your fine, that is really an awesome model!
Managed to get a couple of cars done this week and progress on another.
Buffalo Creek Railroad was a joint venture of the Erie and Lehigh Valley to servce the grain elevators and flour milling factories in Buffalo, New York. They had over 1,00 boxcars for shipping flour bags across the country. Car is an Atlas ACF 40' Boxcar kit with a 7' Door, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Black Paints, then lettered with Smokebox Graphics decals.
Proto 2000 52'6" Greenville Gondola kit, the DT&I purchased 100 of these cars in 1943 and in the 60's sent many of them to the Ann Arbor for transporting steel coils, this is one of the cars retained by the DT&I with the change from Boxcar Red to Black paint on the car, Scalecoat II Paint used and lettered with Herald King decals.
Finished the PS3 Open Hopper kit, will be painting and decaling the car in the future.
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!
Great job on the car kits Ed and Rick. Always fun to see.
I Haven't participated here for a while. Nothing new to post I guess, so I'll post something more recent again.
I'm helping the Club with a model railroad show tomorrow. I will be discussing the distressed signage decals I need made for this model.
Keep the pictures coming. TF
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking in the Boothbay Railway Village vehicle parts drawer, and found two old Walthers resin truck kits. I stripped the old paint, repainted and added some home made decals.
A US Mail truck
A Divco van to go with the Country Kitchen bakery I am kitbashing
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Yesterday (May 9) the 150th celebrations began with Big Boy #4014 and Living Legend #844 meeting nose to nose in Ogden, ala the two 4-4-0s doing so May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit. Below is a loose HO version of yesterday's Ogden meeting.
HO Ogden Meet (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
peahrensBelow is a loose HO version of yesterday's Ogden meeting.
Well Done, Paul!
-.. --- -. .
Cheers, Ed
My ongoing wharf in N scale
This week was prolific, I made some big steps foward.
Most of the buildings are nerly finished, wheathering is ongoing.
I will share also the first back pictures of the wharf because he is double sided.
The deck of the wharf is also made, I use a base of gator foam covered with North Eastern wood side planking; the surface was thinned with wash of india ink and brown leather with isopropilyc alcohol.
The base is drilled for the pillings, more than 80, but the pilling are not cut to the proper height because I wait for an order of small fishing boat which will determinate the height of the wharf.
peahrens Yesterday (May 9) the 150th celebrations began with Big Boy #4014 and Living Legend #844 meeting nose to nose in Ogden, ala the two 4-4-0s doing so May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit. Below is a loose HO version of yesterday's Ogden meeting. HO Ogden Meet (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
While I didn't get all the way to Ogden for the celebration, I did get some good photos of the BigBoy thru Wyoming. I decided to do some prototype trains instead of model ones last weekend.
First two shots were taken at Pumpkin Vine Road Crossing, West of Harriman Wyoming on the #3 track South of Sherman Hill. The 3rd show was take just outside of Rock River Wyoming at milepost 601 on the south side of the tracks.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Thanks Ed for starting off WPF. The RPO/MOW car is interesting. Lots of cubies and bins for maintenance stuff.
Rick - More good looking cars as usual.
TF - I Like the weathered look of the elevator.
George - Neat little trucks. I particularly like the Country Kitchen van.
Paul - Nice mock-up.
Marc - The wharf scene is going to be great.
Renegade - Great photos of the Big Boy. Thanks.
From a recent session on the BRVRR:
New York Central Generations
Santa Fe Generations
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/
Ed, Thanks for opening the WPF, and with a most appropriate title. I just happen to be reading Stephen Ambrose's 'Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869'. Oh, and I like your interior color choice, so nicely industrial.
TF, Enjoying your elevator, a lotta' good going on there, great weathering too. Just a note: Printing a sign on paper and then thinning it and distressing it with sandpapers can work.
Thanks to all the contributors, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
I have done little things here and there over the past couple weeks on the layout.
I saw this textured paint in Hobby Lobby, and thought it might look good. It kinda looks like ballast.
Great stuff this week guys!
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
Nice-looking stuff this weekend guys.
George I like the job you did on the delivery trucks, I especially like the street sweeper. That thing is so full of character, it looks like it could be someone's pet.
Paul Good job on the meeting point on your layout.... NICE!
Renegade I hope you don't mind I took one of those big boys shots. I'm going to give it to my brother the photographer and have him blow it up and put a frame around it.
Marc Great idea on the wharf. Looking forward to seeing the progression.
Allan Thanks for the compliment, the New York Central and the Santa Fe scene. I like it.
Ho-Velo A compliment from you means quite a bit to me as I have always admired your scenes. Especially your Street Scenes. They look so real they make me feel like going for a walk down them and looking around a little more.
Harrison The layouts coming along nicely and you're right, fleck paint does look like ballast. If you figure out a way to get the rails and the ties on our track to repel it so it only sticks around the ties, please PM me first
Thanks all Track Fiddler
Hey everybody.
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This has been a real good week in Weekend Photo Fun. Everything looks great. Thank you to all the contributors.
I will be back next week... I promise.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Track fiddler I especially like the street sweeper.
It is a JL Innovative Design metal kit, not dfficult
https://www.walthers.com/pelican-style-vintage-street-sweeper-unpainted-metal-kit
Thank You to all the good folks who contributed to WPF this weekend.
It is always an inspiration for me to see the results of the great modeling skills and ideas out there.
Looking forward to more next weekend.
Harrison I have done little things here and there over the past couple weeks on the layout. I saw this textured paint in Hobby Lobby, and thought it might look good. It kinda looks like ballast.
Track fiddler Renegade I hope you don't mind I took one of those big boys shots. I'm going to give it to my brother the photographer and have him blow it up and put a frame around it.
I don't mind at all. In fact thank you letting me know that you used it! I sent you a PM as well.