Weekend? What weekend? I went to bed friday night, woke up monday morning and went back to work...........what I miss?
Rich
PS Looking good folks!!
Heartland Division CB&QKevin .... The yellow boxcar looks very good. So do other S&G boxcars other forum memebrs posted.
Thank you Garry. That model is a Broadway Limited undecorated NYC/USRA steel boxcar. The decals were from an enthusiast. The DEVILS GULCH AND HELENGON was a narrow gauge line on John Allen's layout. Of coarse, my freight car is standard gauge, but I could not resist the chance to add this legendary roadname to my collection.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
G Paine Renegade1c I also need to find decals for it. I have 15 cars to do. For that many cars, it makes sense to go to a custom printer. Highball Graphics does custom work as well as standard decals; I have bought from them and like their work https://highballgraphics.com/
Renegade1c I also need to find decals for it. I have 15 cars to do.
For that many cars, it makes sense to go to a custom printer. Highball Graphics does custom work as well as standard decals; I have bought from them and like their work
https://highballgraphics.com/
Thanks for the Tip!. I have printed some at home but they seem to much more fragile than professionally printed ones. I mostly just need the actual reporting marks and road numbers. I would rather it be one or two decals instead of piecemealing letters together. If it were one car that would be ok but not for 15. There are plenty of datasheets out there for tank cars. Looks like it will be about $90 to get them custom printed but for 15+ cars, that is worth it to me.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
What an outstanding Weekend Photo Fun with many great contibutions!
I alraedy commented on Ed's, Rick's, and Kevin's posts early in WPF.
Bear........ Thanks for you humor.
Thanks to John (York 1) , Allen, Kevin, and Mel for commenting on my post.
John ... Nice chemical plant and S&G boxcar.
Harrison .... I like your scenes and how you brought them to life.
Kevin .... The yellow boxcar looks very good. So do other S&G boxcars other forum memebrs posted.
Allan ........ FP45's are impressive.
TB Danny ....... Your 2-4-0 is very impressive. Great work !
Little Timmy. ...... Your tank car project looks fun.
Mel .... I'm impressed with your headlights.
Mike Middleman ....... Nice scenery with the passenger train. The combine should be a fun project for you.
Robert ..... Nice layout shot with your S&G boxcar.
Peter ........ Your industrial scene looks real.
Tanke Toad ..... I like your boxcars.
L Zhou ..... Looks like you have a fun layout.
Paul ..... Your ballast looks great. That's a lot of track to balalst all at once.
Renegade ..... Your tank car project looks great.
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Everybody .... Stay home and stay well.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I have recently been going through my car roster and realized I was missing a significant car for the railroad. I was missing beer concentrate tank cars for the Coors Brewery.
They do make them commercially but they are about $25 dolllars a piece.
At a recent train show I found a bunch of MDC tank car shells for $1 each. I have 3D printed a bunch of parts for those that were missing. I looked on athearn's/MDC's website for the parts but apparently out of production.
I'm not superdetailing them but making them a pretty close approximation. For example the actual cars are 62'. The ones I'm making are only 52'. The big spotting feature on them is that the loading and unloading connections are insulated.
Here is the real life example.
Here is my example. I have yet to paint it. I also need to find decals for it. I have 15 cars to do. I'm finished construction on 8 of 15 cars. Once I get them all constructed they will go to paint shop.
SeeYou190 Robert: Thank you for sharing the picture of the SGRR Boxcar in service on your layout. These are my favorite pictures to see, and I got two in one week! How cool is that? -Kevin
Robert: Thank you for sharing the picture of the SGRR Boxcar in service on your layout. These are my favorite pictures to see, and I got two in one week! How cool is that?
Hey Kevin -
It's way cool. It appears that SGRR is a freight transport company that offers prompt and dependable service coast-to-coast and worldwide.
I'm proud to have a limited-edition boxcar on my layout. Thanks.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Paul, that looks like a good job with the ballast. You also did a good job with the street crossings on the tracks.
York1 John
Interesting examples of fine modeling above, as always. Thanks to all for sharing as it stimulates my work and ideas.
After getting my yards ballasted, I completed about 2/3 of mainline ballasting (not a large layout) this week. Still learning as I go, illustrated by too much variability of the ties appearance, which I hope to improve somehow (with a wash, perhaps?).
Mainline Ballast by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
RR_MelI knew you couldn’t resist that one BEAR....
Mel, the trouble is that the Bear is easily LED.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
The ones I pictured were actually 1.8 mm. The 1 mm leds don't have lenses (that I have found).
I'm sure you have already seen this site. I order most of my lights from them:
https://evandesigns.com/collections/hobby-leds
https://evandesigns.com/products/universal-solid-leds-for-transformers
Little TimmyYea, I don't like them either. Their too blue-ish to my eye. The older bulb's have that warm yellow-ish tone to them
I just bought a bunch of 1mm warm white LEDs. I really think they about as close to old regular bulbs that you can get. Warm on the left, cool white on the right.
RR_MelGreat builds Timmy, check your Forum Mail
I did.
RR_MelI really don’t like LEDs for vehicle headlights but I guess they have stopped making the 1½ volt 1mm micro bulbs.
Yea, I don't like them either. Their too blue-ish to my eye. The older bulb's have that warm yellow-ish tone to them
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Wolf359 Nice photos everyone. Kevin, it's nice to see the progress you've made on your layout. I'm happy for you. That Gorre & Daphetid drover's caboose reminds me of a Colorado Midland caboose. tbdanny, that outside-frame 2-4-0 is beautiful! Is it a scratch-build, or a kit-bash? Either way you do great work! tbdanny I've finished off the build of my new no. 3, an outside-frame 2-4-0. The original no. 3 became no. 7.
Nice photos everyone. Kevin, it's nice to see the progress you've made on your layout. I'm happy for you. That Gorre & Daphetid drover's caboose reminds me of a Colorado Midland caboose. tbdanny, that outside-frame 2-4-0 is beautiful! Is it a scratch-build, or a kit-bash? Either way you do great work!
tbdanny I've finished off the build of my new no. 3, an outside-frame 2-4-0. The original no. 3 became no. 7.
I've finished off the build of my new no. 3, an outside-frame 2-4-0. The original no. 3 became no. 7.
It's a scratchbuild, mostly. I bought an outside-frame Forney chassis from the Bachmann spare parts department, and used it under the locomotive itself. The rest was scratchbuilt, with spare parts and some 3D-printed details.
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tankertoad135Say L'il Timmy, per Ed's message, Bill Brillenger did decals for that Mt Hood lokey I showed last week, and he did a very nice job on it.
I am looking into this .
I responded to your friend request...... no I didn't weatherize it.... L O L
SeeYou190Timmy: Have fun with the decals. I used to hate "one-letter-at-a-time" jobs, but now I find them quite relaxing.
Yea, I usually find it to be "calming" ... no, really...... but then I did this .
Woops.
Of all the prosseses we go through painting, gluing cutting, kit-bashing,weatherizing, ect ,.... I like decaling the best ! ( even when I stick my big- ol - thumb into the decal's before they set ...)
York1Allan, your photo is a good example of what I want to do with a background. Your models fade into the backdrop. Good work!
I believe that is one of the Walthers Instant Horizons backdrops. A lot of people do not like these. I have used them on every layout I have built, including Randy's NORFOLK SOUTHERN, and two layouts for Scale Rails of Southwest Florida.
I love them, but it is a matter of taste. Many people are prefering the newer large format photo-realistic backdrops.
I've been inactive for a while now due to life, but I finally got the time to take a picture of a crossover on my layout and stage a short train. A ol' Bachmann Santa Fe switcher crossing over the mainline with two boxcars.
And that's my contribution for the weekend, folks. (Steel Alloy Ez-Trak isn't the best to work with, but if it gets the trains runnin', I'm all for it )
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." -Lin Yutang
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Thank you to everyone for the positive comments on my scenery progress. I will be posting another update on the layout segment project over in the layout construction forums this afternoon.
Ed: The dusted off EMD Demo unit sure is an eye-catcher. Your link for those custom decals has been bookmarked, and might come in handy.
Rick: Two more Great Looking freight cars as usual.
Garry: I will never get tired of seeing the scenes on your layout.
John: Nice to see even more progress on the layout. I love seeing the latest N scale STRATTON AND GILLETTE boxcar working for a living.
Harrison: Awesome to have another contribution from your layout. Just be careful, I hear there are bears about.
Allan: Those FP45s sure are handsome. When the STRATTON AND GILLETTE was N scale and set in 1968 I was really hoping Kato would release those models for me. Then I switched to HO before they did.
Danny: That small locomotive is gorgeous. It looks right at home on the turntable. Great picture and modeling work.
Timmy: Have fun with the decals. I used to hate "one-letter-at-a-time" jobs, but now I find them quite relaxing.
Bear: As always, I love the toons. Weekend Photo Fun always seems incomplete if they are absent. Thank you.
Mel: I agree about the LED lighting in your duece and a half. The micro bulbs look more pleasing in the photographs.
Mike: The repairs on the Brass Combination Car should not be too difficult. I have been resurecting a few older brass models with good results.
Wolf: The GORRE AND DAPHETID caboose is a box-stock model from Roundhouse way back in the day/ It is one of my favorites for certain.
Peter: Your alley scene looks like it has a thousand stories to tell.
Toad: I have to agree, that READING boxcar is 100% sharp.
I think I got everybody. There is plenty of weekend left... hop on the WPF train!
Say L'il Timmy, per Ed's message, Bill Brillenger did decals for that Mt Hood lokey I showed last week, and he did a very nice job on it.
Again, lots of top notch items and I love those "Q" greybacks and that Hartford and Slocum IPD boxcar surely is bright! I loved standing trackside during the IPD era. Many colorful schemes rolled by.
Here is my contribution for the week; a Front Range boxcar (sure do miss that company) done up with Champ decals. When I saw this decal set, I hadda order one as it was so well done!
And here is a second one done back during the Bicentenneal celebration in '76.
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
Kevin, Thanks for the WPF start-up and views of the action taking place upon your stage.
Nowadays I'm even more appreciative of the delightful diversion that WPF always provides. Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, wishing everyone a safe and happy weekend, regards, Peter
As it has done every day for the past forty years, a sturdy FMC boxcar earns revenue for the Stratton & Gillette Railroad by hauling 50-pound bags of sugar from the beet processing plant in Lovell, Wyoming to the Craft Candy Company in Billings, Montana. Dentists in five states have put their kids through college thanks to the efforts of Craft and S&G. Keep up the good work fellas.
Thanks for starting WPF,Kevin,and nice work on your layout segment!
Terrific contributions + humor provided by the Bear = another great WPF.
With my passenger fleet now at a whopping two coaches,it's time to find a head end car or two.
This combine from PSC was a steal,but it's filthy,and needs a few pieces replaced.
I gave it a good soak in acetone,with no effect at all.If any of you have any suggestions,I'd love to hear 'em.
Have a great weekend,
Mike
Thanks for the BearToons JaBear!
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
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