Good morning from mostly sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!
This is a place were modelers can show work in progress, finished projects or pictures of their or their friends layouts.
First up is an Eastern Car Works ACF 1958 CF Covered Hopper kit, added A-Line Sill Steps and the apppropriate air lines for the brake system, also replaced the plastic cast roofwalk with a Plano Roofwalk. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray paint and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Could not find a lot of information on these cars, although the Libbey Owens Ford Company received their LOFX reporting marks in 1942 and kept them until the 1970's. I have to assume they were used for hauling silica sand to make glass to their factories in IL and Rossford, OH.
Next up is the first batch of NYC PS1 Boxcars made from the IMRC kit, painted with Scalecoat II Mixture of Oxide and Boxcar Red paints and Black for the roof and ends. Lettered with Speedwitch Media Decals, car was used in general service.
A couple of shots from the Strongsville Ohio Club Layout of mine and Mike Madura's cars and locomotives. Mikes are the Erie FA's with a coal drag, mine are New Haven U25B and C425 with a mixed freight. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A couple of shots from the Strongsville Ohio Club Layout of mine and Mike Madura's cars and locomotives. Mikes are the Erie FA's with a coal drag, mine are New Haven U25B and C425 with a mixed freight.
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!
Memories of a layout which never saw completion!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
That's a fine Erie lash-up, Rick, and I'm glad to see the New Haven out and running as well. I lived in CT around the New Haven area for 25 years and also grew up next to the Erie main line in NJ. Excellent job on the hopper and boxcar and I like the idea of upgrading details to bring a model up to the next level. Thanks for the post!
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Thanks Rick for starting off WPF. A great looking NYC car there! Right in my wheelhouse.
Tin Man - A couple of interesting scenes.
I'm still working on the new Black River Station. Here are a few progress photos:
Leveling the site with Sculpt-a-mold:
Most of the ground cover in place. Still a lot of finishing to do:
The west end of the new station:
East end of the station:
Almost done. More ground cover, some kind of parking lot and more shrubs yet to go.
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/
Rick, Interesting, a LO from LOFX.
Ulrich, It was a very good start.
Allan, A needed amenity for you passengers and looks good.
Last weekend certainly was model railroading weather...
That should keep any sane person in the basement. Not your correspendent, who decided it was time for some repairs on the Telluride & Tin Cup. I repaired the Pay Day Mill, whose loading shed roof had collapsed under the weight of lats winter's snows and the squirrels and cats chasing around over it.
The natural weathering is looking better and better.
Only one problem. I managed to pound a small, sharp nail through one of the roof beams when I was fixing things. Bam! and it went right in the side of my left index finger about 1/4" deep. Even after being cleaned up, it was starting to puff up some within an hour, so off to urgent care to get some antibiotics. It was sore for a few days, but OK and getting better now. Careful out there.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I finally finished my station platform that i have been working on for a month and half.
The plaform is 80 inches long (6 ft 8 inches) and has 27 SMT LED's to light he platform. There are another 9 LED's in the "Flourecent" light used to illluminate the walkway under the tracks.
This is the model of Denver's Union Station passenger platform.
The model is based on a recollection of my memories of the Station Platform (mostly the ramp and stairs) and actual photos of the Union station platform.
To give credit where credit is due. I found most of my photo source material on this Gentlemen's website (http://denversrailroads.com/). I have no afiliation to him but found the photos he has to be most useful in designing and building it.
The model is a combination of 3D printed parts and Styrene. The roof was done with 220 grit sandpaper and tar lines were made with Trucolor Primer paint. I weather the roof with my airbrush using a combinaion of grime, rust and black.
I designed most of it in CAD before I built it.
The LED lighting was done is sets of 3. 3 0603 SMT LEDs were wired together in Series along with a 1K resistor. There were 9 sets of these to wire together.
Apolgies on the quality of the night shot. I did it with my phone.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Thanks for the great WPF startup, Rick. Excellent contributions from everyone as well.
I was looking for a little "quickie" project and found it on the "to-do" shelf in the form of a LaserKit yard office. I've had it for more than fifteen years! Here it is in its preliminary stages:
Yard_office2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I still need shingles and touch-up paint work.
Yard_office by Edmund, on Flickr
Laser cut structures are fun to build. A little more challenging than "shake-the-box" styrene kits but not quite as involved as a craftsman kit.
Great stuff, folks! Carry on, Ed
Rick, Thanks for the WPF opening. Nice rolling stock, great club shots too. Your LOFX hopper & story prompted my investigating the Libby Owens Ford Company's interesting industrial history.
Ulrich, Superb modeling and memory making that continues to tell a tale of halcyon days.
Viva Le Tour! Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Regards, Peter
Rick: Thank you for starting us off. I currently have two of the Eastern Car Works hopper cars waiting on decals. They build into nice models. The NEW YORK CENTRAL boxcar is handsome.
Ulrich: Those pictures look good. I don't think very many layouts are ever finished.
Allan: Your station prioject has been great to watch. Now that it is nearly done you cannot tell all the modification that was needed. Nice!
Mike: You are correct, the natural weathering looks perfect!
Renegade: WOW, now that passenger platform is something. Very impressive effort, It looks incredible.
Ed: I also have a few laser kits I have had for 15-20 years. Someday... Oh well. I cannot believe I bought retirement projects when I was in my twenties. That was not the plan.
Peter: The bike scenes continue to look good, as do all your pictures.
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I am going to share one more ficticious boxcar again this week. I now have enough cars to fully operate the planned layout. All freight cars added after this one will be for rotation on and off the layout from the car float.
This boxcar is for the CHICAGO DENVER AND NORTHERN. It is built from a Funaro and Camerlengo resin kit for an unusual 40 foot automobile boxcar from the 1930s. It has end doors, but a very low interior height. It is painted with Scalecoat 2 paint and lettered with custom decals from Donald Manlick. It definitely stands out from the rest of the fleet. The prototype car was owned by the CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO railroad.
The low height makes it kind of look like a 50 foot car with oversized trucks in the photograph. It is a 40 footer.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Just a little something to move the thread back up.
Mike - The natural weathering is looking good. Sorry about your finger.
Renegade - Thats quite a platform.
Ed - I like the yard office. A cool old kit.
HO-Velo - A timely photo.
Kevin - The Chicago Denver and Northern boxcar is different looking. Nice.
A photo of the first 'customers' to stop at the new Black River Station.
Keep them coming guys.
Thank you folks for the comments on the yard office.
I managed to get the shingles applied and a little touch-up work done. The chimney is temporary, don't mind that it's crooked.
Yard_office4 by Edmund, on Flickr
See you all next weekend (August already!)
Cheers, Ed