Weekend Photo Fun - Feb 7th to Feb 29 - 2020

[dti406]

Good morning from snowy and cold Northeast Ohio!

This is a thread where modelers can show completed projects, in process projects or photos of their layouts both old and new.

I completed a couple of cars this week.

 

Walthers Express Reefer Kit, broke 3 drills drilling all the holes for the grabs on this kit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Hunter Green and lettered with Microscale Decals.  These are the new look lettering that REA Express started in 1961 when they were allowed to integrate trucks into the fleet.  When passenger trains fell off REA ran into problems. Express Reefers ran in passenger trains carrying high value fruit items and or things like magazines and newspapers that required a clean dry car to avoid damage.

 

 

This is a Life-Like Proto 2000 Kit of the PS 4427 Covered Hopper, replaced the Plastic Roofwalk with a Plano one, drilled about 50 #79 holes for the roofwalk supports, on this one I did not break a drill, had much softer plastic than the Walthers kit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals.  The C&EI was controlled by the MP and their cars ran in the same number series as the MP and were delivered in 1971 for grain service.

 

 

The reason for the Southern Caboose I finished last week. A pair of Southern GP38-2's running on the Strongsville Club Layout.  Will be using these in operating sessions on the layout.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Rick Jesionowski

[SeeYou190]

Rick: Thank you starting us out with another selection of your fantastic freight car modeling. I really like the club layout picture you shared.

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I completed my GERN Industries tank car this week. This started out as a brass logging tank car imported by Northwest Short Line.

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I painted the model basic black, and lettered it for GERN using inspiration from models previously posted by Doctor Wayne.

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I posted a little about the painting process in my thread about Delta Ceramcoat thinner. I am quite happy with the finished product.

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Please keep posting more fun with photographs this weekend. I love to see the great stuff that we like to share.

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Be safe!

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-Kevin

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[GMTRacing]

This is the freight terminal I've been doing for the last week. It still needs detail and signage but it is now fit to the space at the back of the yard. 

IMG_1339 by J.R. Mitchell, on Flickr" alt="freight terminal progress" />

Rick and Kevin - those are all great looking cars. I haven't gotten that far as I'm still stumbling along with the scenery and buildings.    J.R.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Rick ..... The express boxcar and the covered hopper ar gret looking models. I like the SOU GP38's. 

Kevin .... The GERN tank car looks great. 

JR ........ I like your freight terminal. 

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Below, I am running the Kansas City Chief in honor of the Super Bowl champs. 

 

 

[gmpullman]

Here we are again — another fine WPF installment!

Thanks for starting things up this snowy, icy weekend, Rick. I like your REA express car. I'm a fan of lots of head-end equipment. I also like to have a caboose for every set of freight locomotives on the layout. Run-through or not, I like the caboose to match the engines 

That GERN Liquid Flux is traveling in style, Kevin! Excellent job on that gutsy-looking tank car.

J.R. Your freight house is excellent. There is a building near me that is nearly identical, called Willoughby Coal & Supply. I'll have to see if I can find a photo.

http://wendycrim.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3313631

Nice scene!

Great passenger action, Garry!

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 Several little projects cropped up for me this week. I picked up an old PRR observation car that represents ones the PRR made from P70 coaches. Anyone who messes with brass knows that the trucks, if provided, can be somewhat troublesome. Fortunately, I was able to build a center sill from styrene and screw it to the floor so Walthers, free rolling 2D-P5 trucks could be applied:

PRR_POC70Rb by Edmund, on Flickr

PRR_POC70R by Edmund, on Flickr

Then, a project came along I hadn't really planned on tackling just yet but in response to a thread about CP Park-series observation cars I was inclined to open my Rapido car up for a look inside. So while I had it open I decided to try to correct the annoying light leakage from around the window gaskets as seen here:

Park_tail by Edmund, on Flickr

This involved prying out the window glazing which was super-glued in 

Park_glazeB4 by Edmund, on Flickr

Then painting the thick edge and subsequently blocking out the errant light:

Park_glaze1 by Edmund, on Flickr

The factory gasket is pad-printed on the surface so I just brought the black paint up to it. Adding some little people will be the next step.

Now for some show-n-tell —

Earlier this week I took delivery of a pair of beautiful Tangent, I-18, B&O/Chessie International Car Co. cabooses.

BnO_I18d by Edmund, on Flickr

These cars are a real work of art.

BnO_I18e by Edmund, on Flickr

BnO_I18c by Edmund, on Flickr

Those little Pyle marker lights are illuminated and each end can be switched on or off using a magnet/reed switch.

BnO_I18b by Edmund, on Flickr

Likewise, the interior lights can be lit or extinguished using a third switch. Amazing stuff!

BnO_I18 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

If that weren't enough excitement, I was honored with a genuine, Stratton & Gillette cushioned underframe, fifty-foot, PS-1 boxcar compliments of our friend, Kevin!

SGRR_31860a by Edmund, on Flickr

Another fine example of expert painting and lettering work 

Carry-on with more fantastic contributions, folks!

Cheers, Ed

 

 

[York1]

Another week of great-looking railroad work!  Lots of time and talent on display.

I finally am close to finishing the walls on a scratch-built n scale strip mall.  I saw a kit that looked like this, but didn't like the price tag.  Thought I could make something similar.  The windows are Tichy and plastic is Evergreen.

 

 

Please keep the pictures coming.  Seeing all of your photos keeps me working to get better.

[tbdanny]

Fantastic stuff this week!

I've finished off another locomotive scratchbuild.  It's running on the chassis of a Bachmann On30 0-4-0 Porter, and has both sound and a keepalive module in it.

[Harrison]

Finally! I'm able to contribute again! I was in the basement cleaning up today, and thought I should take some photos:

https://northcountrytrains.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/railfanning-the-sc-11-more-photography-practice/

On a late summer day in 1978, D&H RS-11 #5001 is idling next to the local hardware store. The pickup is waiting to be filled with gravel.

A little while later #5001 is seen crossing Margaret St. The state police offered to flag the crossing, as they were passing by.

 

The crew connects the air hoses and prepares to pull out as the pickup passes with a load of gravel.

A little while later, the local is headed back to the yard, passing that old car in the woods.

Crossing the Margaret St. again.

And clearing the crossing. That crossing sign keeps falling like that.

 

 

 

[HO-Velo]

Rick,  Thanks for rolling out the WPF, your sharp express reefer took me back to the early 70s when green REA trucks still plied the streets vying for LCL freight.

Kevin, Interesting tanker, nice paint and decals too.

Ed, Brave work on those windows, but I get ya, light leaks bug me too.

Tangent's PS-3 hopper got a thumbs-up in this month's MRR, and same here.  The car doesn't mind an 18"R curve at low speed and the underside affords a little space for hiding some weight if ya like em a bit heavier.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a happy Valentines Day and regards, Peter

  

[York1]

Harrison, nice work.  When I was your age, a layout was just a dream that would not start for 40 more years.  You've done a great job.

[BRVRR]

Thanks for starting off WPF Rick. Great cars as usual. The Southern locos - hood forward. Cool.

Kevin - Great looking tank car. Nicely detailed too!

GMTRacing - The freight terminal looks good.

Garry - Santa Fe all the way! Good looking train.

Ed - Amazing work on the observation car. The cabeese are incredible. Beautiful, actually.

John - The strip mall seems to be coming alone.

tbdanny - What a cool little engine. Great work!

Harrison - 5001 is a good looking loco.

Peter - Good looking BN hopper.

I haven't made much progress on my "pipeline on wheels" project. Only 5 cars have been decaled in two variations. Far from prototypical, but adequate for my intentions. At one letter at a time the process is tedious for me.

All five cars on test run:

The variations. 10,000 and 12,000 gallon tanks.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

[SeeYou190]

Just a quick reply to end the weekend. I need to get up early and get to work.

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Thank you for all the kind comments on my GERN tank car, and a HUGE thank-you for all of the great contributions from everyone for this week's Weekend Photo Fun.

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-Kevin

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[Track fiddler]

Well, ... You know,   The reason I always come and visit WPF every week is because there is always Master Modeler stuff here every week.  Always enjoyed and something is always learned by me here.

And I somewhat know a lot of you guys that keep posting all of this great stuff.

 

I didn't start a new scratch build today.  I wanted to but I was stuck and enthroled with further finishing my acquired A. SAEZ model.  I couldn't leave it alone.

I spent all day putting on the new signage I purchased yesterday after I distressed them and refined added detail to the weathering and all the other small effects that makes a model look better.

A. SAEZ is ready to ship tomorrow but I don't think that's going to happen as this is going to take some thought process and a few days to box it up so it doesn't break as it's traveling across from the North to the South of the US of A.

I put it on the shelf and admireded it every time I walked by it for the rest of the afternoon.

It's going to be hard for me to let A. SAEZ go  but that's what I got it for.

 

 

TF

 

[L. Zhou]

I had not gotten anything done model railroading wise, but I did take some photos of my JF class Mikado steam locomotive.

The locomotive is made by Bachmann China, one of the best in the Chinese model railroading scene. It's lettered for the Shanghai Railway Administration, #2288. One unique feature on the specific locomotive is the addition of a second headlight ((The other JF Class locomotives produced by Bachmann China, lettered for the different railway bereaus only had one headlight and different decorations.))

The locomotive is equipped with a Digisight decoder (yup, you heard that right, a Digisight, does the name remind you of something similar?)). The sound is pretty good, including both the traditional whistle and the air horn that the Chinese steam locomotives used. 

((DCC sound commands, translated by my father.))

((Information card))

[Track fiddler]

Post Hog Post Hog  Sorry,  North to the South it is

Fiddler's gift is going to be packed up tomorrow

I'm like the Santa you wish you never had but always wish you did

 

Just Kidding

 

 

TF

[Track fiddler]

I still need some signage for my grain elevator

Didn't one of you guys tell me you can order some scratch on signage or something like that?

 

That would be nice

 

 

TF

[Track fiddler]

I do remember when I was young in grade school

I had a friend named Chang Gerard

He used to hang out with us at the tracks in St Louis Park

My friend could fold dollar bills to look like almost anything

I wish I could show you some of those

He tried to teach me a few of them but I never quite got it

 

Chang was cool, we all liked him

 

L. Zhou   You didnt leave your name at the end of your post

 

 

TF

 

[mbinsewi]

Track fiddler

Didn't one of you guys tell me you can order some scratch on signage or something like that?

I think your looking for dry transfer signage.  It's not a decal, so to speak, you put the letters, or sign or what, against the structure and rub it, like burnishing, and the signage or letter, whatever, transfers to the building.

I've never done any, I bet Dr. Wayne is an old hand at this, but I think the more or less that you burnish the sign, makes it look more "old timey" and faded.

You'd have to search around to see where you can get them.

Mike.

[tankertoad135]

Lots of superb looking work here Gents.  I like 'em all! 

I need to have my daughter show me how to set up a webpage so that I can share photos with y'all again.