Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
MAY 24, 25, 26 & 27, 2019
Memorial Day Weekend
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, if you prefer is the U.S. Holiday to commemorate fallen Service Men and Women of the Armed Services. I extend our remembrance to all members who have sacrificed in the name of Liberty and Freedom.
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'm glad to place this Pennsylvania Railroad D78c Dining car on the roster of completed projects. Some years ago I went on a bit of a buying spree and managed to collect some two-dozen or so, unpainted brass passenger cars of various descriptions. Didn't know what I was getting into as far as the paint and decal work
PRR_D78c-4418 by Edmund, on Flickr
A few weeks ago she looked like this:
PRR_X-42-D78 by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great photos, folks!
Regards, Ed
Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Ed, great work on that passenger car!
Managed to get a couple of cars completed this week.
First up is an Intermountain Railway FMC 5283CF Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Aluminum, Black and Tuscan Red Paints, then lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used for transporting lumber out of the Pacific Northwest and could be seen all over the country wherever lumber was used.
This is an Exactrail PS 4427CF Low Hip Version Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray Paint and lettered with Oddball Decals. The Rock Island in the 60's bought thousands of covered hoppers to replace the 40' boxcars formally used in grain service.
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!
Thanks for starting us off Ed. Nice Pennsy car!
Rick, some good looking freight cars as always.
Generations.
Union Pacific F7s and Challenger.
Pennsylvania E8 and J1A on the Black River RR.
Keep the ideas and photos coming guys. Thanks to you out there, WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
It is the time of year that I take an overall picture of the Boothbay Railway Village layout to update our website photo
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine It is the time of year that I take an overall picture of the Boothbay Railway Village layout to update our website photo
Wow, I’ve seen so may of your picture of the Boothbay Railway Village layout, but I always though it was a masive club layout. It’s still sizable but a lot smaller than I though! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks everyone else for their contributions too, weekend is young and we’ve already got a bunch of new freight cars and some great layout pics, keep it coming folks!
Regards, Isaac
I model my railroad and you model yours! I model my way and you model yours!
Crew change - The Engineer tells his replacement: "She's running a mite smoky today..."
Have a good weekend,
Mike
Ed: You did a magnificent job on the PENNSYLVANIA dining car. It is a great model.
Rick: Thank you for posting the two new freight cars. They are both nice, but the HYDRA-CUSHION lettering on the SOUTHERN PACIFIC boxcar really stands out. You did an A+ job getting the decals to snuggle in around all those vertical ribs.
Allan: The generations shots on the BVRR look good.
George: The arial view of Boothbay is nice. I too thought it would have been very much larger.
Mike: Nice picture of the crew change.
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I finished two cars for the SNOW CREEK RAILROAD. The combination door car is from a CB&T kit. The "normal" boxcar is from an Intermountain kit.
I like the slightly different heralds and differing paint colors, but still maintaining a family look.
Please keep the photo shares coming.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Hello George, great pic. We go to Maine every year and always stop in Boothbay. We drive by the Railway Village but have never stopped. I guess we always thought it was more for little kids, of course still doesn't explain why we didn't stop when the kids were little! We will be up the last week of June and will make sure we stop this year!
Ed, Lots of work to make that brass really shine, but worth the effort, looks great!
Rick, That SP car would look right at home on my Rio Grande layout, lots of those in period pics on Tenn. Pass, etc.
Allan, Nice comparisons!
George, Looks more complete, years of work!
Mike, The people really make the scene in O.
I'm outside playing with trains in this week's pics again. After the initial cleanup and patch-n-fill, I've had several derailment-free runs up and down the line. Still planning on adding a bunch of ballast soon, but the basic alignment seems sound. Here's Shay 269 leaving the turntable.
Crossing Chasm Gulch.
Climbing Graveyard Hill.
The Startled Hare took a run today.
The Hare is being stalked by the cat...
Hmmm, this one doesn't seem edible like the little fuzzy ones.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
It's Memorial Wekend. Reflecting on those that gave all to keep us free.
And, it's time for another WPF!
Ed, your passenger equipment is amazing. 2 dozen brass cars!
Rick, your freight car builds are always a treat.
Allen, great shots of the "generations" !
George, I think this is the first time I've seen the complete BB lay out! Excellent!
Middleman Mike, that engineer on the left looks like he's had enough for one day! The more you enlarge your photo, the better it gets!
Kevin, your box cars for the SCR are unique, as always with your different road names! It will be a treat when we get to see build your lay out.
Mike L. The garden railroad looks like it has recovered from the rath of winter, and kitty cats! Looks like a new building in the backround!
If you will all alow me to indulge one last time on my MILW terminal cab, I have given it a coat of Pledge (used to be Future) and added the decals, then I gave it a shot of DulCoat, and did just a little weathering. "Just a little" is hard for me, as I usually get a little carried away!
The number decals over each door were a special challange!
On with the WPF!
Mike.
My You Tube
It's always a joy and inspiration to see the work here every weekend.
I'm starting to select structures consistent with my layout. Here are a few salvaged from an older layout.
Tom
mbinsewiIt's Memorial Wekend. Reflecting on those that gave all to keep us free.
Yes indeed, I knew more then a few who didn't come home
Ed, Thanks for getting WPF started; beautiful dining car transformation.
I'm hoping to contribute a photo later as Flickr is still aground.
Thanks to all the contributors and have a good Memorial Day weekend, regards, Peter
SPSOT fanI’ve seen so may of your picture of the Boothbay Railway Village layout, but I always though it was a masive club layout. It’s still sizable but a lot smaller than I though!
Our building was built to resemble an MEC freight station, so our layout room is long and narrow. Not the best for a layout display, but it does the job for us.
We have a double track main line all around the room with a small loop on the center pennsula. There is an HOn30 high line loop to loop run along the left wall, running around the back to Whitefield where the narrow gauge yard, servicing and transload facilities are located. We are almost done installing a signals system.
BTW, our website will be down for mainenance and upgrades next week. Hopfully back on line by next week.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Unfortunately, I’m also Flickred out,
My Flicker is just beginning to Flickr back to life, Bear. Too bad we miss your 'toons You got us hooked on 'em.
Thanks for all the positive comments, folks. It dawned on me tonight that I just happen to have FOUR Pennsylvania Decapods (that's 39 drivers +1 for you folks keeping score at home) So I thought I had better get them scrubbed up for an official PRR publicity photo!
PRR_I1x4a by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's the L O N G and the short of it...
PRR_I1x4 by Edmund, on Flickr
This odd fellow with the red Keystone is going to be sent off to CudaKen as his reward for staying off the coffin nails. The round numberplate was missing from BLI so he requested a keystone which I obliged him with.
PRR_I1x4c by Edmund, on Flickr
PRR_I1x4b by Edmund, on Flickr
Lots of pullin' power there!
Cheers, Ed
Gidday All, well things have been conspiring against my modelling time but I do appreciate all your really Good Stuff. Unfortunately, I’m also Flickred out, so the downside is that the three Beartoons resulting from this WPF will remain unsighted, but the upside is that the Forum members are spared my uncertain sense of humour! Have a Great One, Ffokes, Cheers, the Bear.
I hope we might see said Beartoons once Bear is Flickred on again! We might starve without that regular dose of Beartoons!
Nice Decapods Ed! Only on the Pennsy could you find so many of such a rare wheel arrangement!
Keep the Photo’s coming, the weekend still has a whole day left in it!
JaBear I’m also Flickred out, so the downside is that the three Beartoons resulting from this WPF will remain unsighted,
Oh No! I love the BearToons! I really hope this gets straightened out.
gmpullmanThis odd fellow with the red Keystone is going to be sent off to CudaKen as his reward for staying off the coffin nails.
Ed, that is an amazing gesture of recognition.
SeeYou190Ed, that is an amazing gesture of recognition.
This is the carrot dangling in front of Ken's nose. I challenged him to go 30 days without a smoke (last month's diner) and as a reward he could pick any Broadway Limited engine he wanted. He chose this
I'll send it to him this week so he has it when the 30 days are up.
Thank you for commenting
I've been going on and off with this Erie caboose project. I built this JJL Models kit years ago and have been slowly getting it renovated. The painted and lettered the body and that looks okay, but it needs some small paint touch-up. The frame isn't in that good a shape paint-wise. It's a bit blobby on the bolsters, so I'll sand those down loosing the rivit detail and replace the rivits with the decal type. Right now I'm working on the brake cylinder mounting that's supposed to look like this:
It's a fussy, small detail that wasn't included in the kit, but is necessary for the model to be (ahem) "correct". I have thin, narrow brass strip material that I'm working with and here's where I'm at with it on the bench.
Have a great holiday weekend, everyone, and thanks for posting the great photos!
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Mr Erie1951, the Prototype Police would like to commend your efforts to fix inaccuracies in the kit you are working with.
In the absence of the regularly scheduled Beartoon I had to input my own jokes!
Jokes aside that is a very nice looking project, even if the image is a bit blurry! Looking forward to the finished product!
Keep the pics coming!
P.S. if you don’t get the joke look at this recent thread: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/276134.aspx
Thanks, Isaac! The detail is really a modification feature on this series of cabeese. I took the photo with my tablet and the next time I'll use our digital camera.
Erie1951Right now I'm working on the brake cylinder mounting that's supposed to look like this:
Hi, Russ
I hope you don't mind if I poke my nose in here and make a little correction on your terminology. I believe you are referencing the air brake reservoir (combined service/emergency) bracket and not the cylinder.
Here's a handy drawing that helps identify the parts:
Air_Brake_AB by Edmund, on Flickr
I also have one of those resin JJL kits... um, partially assembled. No where near as complete as yours. Nice job
Aw, c'mon Ed...you know what I meant. Correction thankfully noted.
Sorry, I have been absent from the forum for two month's. I got into a HUGE "Bru-Ha-Ha with my internet provider..... and ended up BENDING MY SATILIGHT DISH INTO A BIRDBATH !!!!
But, Walmart has free wi-fi in their parking lot, so that's where I'm at to post these picture's.
My wife let me do some shopping and I got all of these...
You can never have too many Shay locomotive's !
There's 6 ore car's in that box. Here's what they will look like when there done.
I just couldn't wait to get to work, so I have all of these on the bench.... at the same time !
And, I also dug out my Demon's Hollow station. It's been getting kicked around in a box for the last ten year's, and really need;s some attention..... so I'm putting it back together too...
And..... I have built about 5 of these thing's. But I always end up selling them
Not this time !!!!! ( I'm building two ! Just for me !)
I will try to get back onto the forum sometime next week, and show my progress.... or lack of.....
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Havoc by Bear, on Flickr
That's a good one, Bear. He is the Mighty Hunter. Saw him gobbling some poor bird the other day and figured I'd have to go back and finish the task of the poor thing's demise with a shovel. Nope, all gone.
It's generally true a Bear will break more china, although his teenage cat social clumsiness has caused an issue or two with the matriarch of the household felines, Ms. Roweena, who definitely treats annoyances like him as Havoc when she responds.
Little TimmySorry, I have been absent from the forum for two month's. I got into a HUGE "Bru-Ha-Ha with my internet provider..... and ended up BENDING MY SATILIGHT DISH INTO A BIRDBATH !!!! But, Walmart has free wi-fi in their parking lot, so that's where I'm at to post these picture's.
That's the spirit, Little Timmy! I think you just barely edge out Bear for Most Persistent WPF User this week, although his call center adventure is soild Silver Medal territory.
Timmy: Great to hear from you again.
I hope you get your internet situation straightened out.