Hey all. Weekend photo time
Here's my project
Old blue box loco
Parts added:
Horn,Bell, strobes,decals-home print,wipers, breather pipes,
cooler is scratch built.
Cant wait to see everyone's projects
(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).
Jimmy: Good start to Weekend Photo Fun. I like the progress on your custom locomotive project. I am most proud of the equipment I "built myself", especially the stuff I saved from my younger days in the hobby.
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I present, this week, a 50 foot boxcar belonging to the BETHLEHEM AND MANTICORE RAILROAD.
This is a Life-Like Proto-2000 kit of an automobile boxcar with end doors. The B&M decals are custom by Donald Manlick, and the data is from a Microscale set. The slogan was spliced together from an SCL decal sheet produced by Speedwitch Media. The car is painted with a custom mix of Scalecoat II paints.
It looks like I used the super-fragile kit supplied stirrups (sill steps) on this one. I wonder why I did not replace them with A-line stirrups? Oh well, I must have felt adventurous when I was assembling it.
Please keep the photos coming so we can have a weekend full of fun.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning from party cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio!
Jimmy, thanks for starting us out, that locomotive is coming along fine!
Another whimisical car Kevin, I used to do that back in my early years but have moved to more of a prototype modeler.
I managed to finish some cars this week, but only showing two of them as the other is my Christmas gift for the club gift exchange.
First up is an old Varney (now Life-Like) covered hopper with the basis of the car a 50 ton twin hopper car with a roof applied, this car was made by the Bettendorf Car Company (Same as the truck people) whose plant in Bettendorf, IA made the most cars west of the Mississippi, but went out of business in 1932 in the midst of the depression. The National Plate Glass Co. had a large glass plant in Ottawa, IL and was purchased by GM in the 1910's as one of their glass suppliers for automobiles, they divisted themselves of the plant in 1930 with the sale to Libbery-Owens-Ford and the promise of 7 years of supplying GM as the only supplier of glass. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Champ Decals. Used for hauling silica sand or limestone, major components in the glass making business.
Next is a Intermountain 50' PS1 boxcar, I cut down a plug door to 6' width and substituted a 10' YSD from the scrapbox supplies. Applied ladders instead of grabs to match the prototype and they were delivered with no roofwalks. Car was painted with Scalecoat II IC Orange paint and lettered with Dan Kohlbergs IC decals. Car was in general service on the IC.
A pair of Athearn FP7's pinch hitting on the Broadway Limited!
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!
Jimmy - Thanks for starting off WPF this weekend. Thats a good looking boxcar.
Rick - Impressive cars as usual. The FP7s look good too.
I'm working on an approximation of a WWII "pipeline on wheels" I saw in a NYC video. Here the first few cars are on a test run behind a NYC RS-32:
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/
I've managed to update some of the 'backwoods' scenery on my layout:
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
Very nice modeling.
Terry
A harbor scene:
house construction:
portal:
pickles:
overall:
Thanks, Jimmy for the start. Good stuff as always guys.
I got some parking and ballast done at the RH this week. Can't decide whether I should completely cover the ties or not.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Weekend Photo Fun sure is off to a good start this week. Thanks to everyone that has contributed so far.
Rick: I am really liking the refinished Varney Covered Hopper Car.
Allen: The NEW YORK CENTRAL Alco locomotive looks to be quite happy pulling those tank cars. What a great picture.
Danny: That narrow gauge work is absolutely beautiful.
Terry: Those are some magnificent pictures. Thank you for sharing.
Brent: What decision making process are you using to decide whether or not to cover the ties? I would just ballast them and be done with it.
Well... I guess we all knew it was just a matter of time before I went down this rabbit hole...
SeeYou190 this rabbit hole..
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Nice work so far everyone.
I've been playing with my camera and quite like how these photos turned out.
Making a call.
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
Thanks for kicking things off, Jimmy! That switcher will have lots of character when you're done with it
I wish I had some recent photos to post but with Holiday obligations and still getting things squared away in the layout room I haven't had too much time to devote to the layout.
I have been "planting" gooseneck light poles around the chemical plant project so hopefully I'll have a photo of them tomorrow, all lit up!
Brent, I would go ahead and put a thin cover of cinders over your ties around the roundhouse tracks. All the years of accumulation of cinders, oil, coal and gunk would have the ground level almost flush with the rail head.
I did most of my roundhouse with very dark gray, fine cinder ballast.
A photo from the archive:
IMG_6270_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Great contributions this weekend, folks! Let's see more
Cheers, Ed
Jimmy, Thanks for getting the WPF started and showing the progress of your steel mill switcher.
Enjoying WPF with all the grand scenes and modeling always brightens a Saturday morning.
Terry, Like your scenes, especially the rock work and under construction cinder block walls.
My latest victim, BN 320008
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and regards, Peter
gmpullmanBrent, I would go ahead and put a thin cover of cinders over your ties around the roundhouse tracks. All the years of sccumulation of cinders, oil, coal and gunk would have the ground level almost flush with the rail head.
After rechecking old photos I agree that the ties were well covered with gunk. It is easy for a model railroader to make things messy, we do it without even trying. When I stop by PWRS to pick up my CMX track cleaning car and all the other presents Santa is bringing me, I'll grab some cinders.
Well, that was a lot of work, but it looks good to me.
Wayne will need to be the final judge, but I think it captures the feel of Gern Industries.
I am glad to see Weekend Photo Fun running well this weekend.
Another brief update from me. After taking the photo of no. 7 in my previous post, I realised something was bothering me about it. All of the other BVLC locos have 'graphite' smokeboxes, and most of them have white lining along the running boards.
So I gave no. 7 a slight repaint, to bring it in line with the others:
Great contributions, folks!
Here's two night shots of the new pole-lights I put up around the chemical plant:
Chem_lights by Edmund, on Flickr
I wired up ten of them. When I get the buildings lit up I'll post an overall view (probably next WPF).
Tank_Farm_night by Edmund, on Flickr
Thank You for all the wonderful photos
Is that the load of Chargers to be destroyed in one week of filming the TV show "The Dukes Of Hazzard."
Very nice job on the unique load.