Little Timmy Monday.... why can't I just bring glue to work ???
My retirement anthem:
Monday: I never go to work!
Tuesday: I just stay home!
Wednesday: I'm feeling fine, work is the last thing on my mind!
Thursday: Its like a holiday!
Fridays off are the best!
Saturday: I sleep all day!
Sunday: My day if rest!
The flatcar load looks very good.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Sorry, I'm kinda late to the party here... ( I have been up on the goat barn roof finishing the shingles ..........)
( My wife MADE me ......... no, really ...... )
Anyway's, I only managed to finish the flatcar with the steel girder load.
Keep the picture's/project's coming, we still have a few more hour's left before the weekend is over ....... Ugggg !!! Monday.... why can't I just bring glue to work ???
Rust...... It's a good thing !
We may still have several postings here, but thanks to everyone for making this the best thread on the forum.
I get so many ideas and encouragement each week, even when I don't post anything.
Thanks!
York1 John
Thanks Kevin-- it's in the middle of the San Luis Valley, southern Colorado.
Phil
Phil: What is the location setting of your layout? The furnace filter sagebrush looks good.
https://youtu.be/0arjI8pt-3E
Coming in a little later than usual but really enjoying all the excellent work shared this week!
Finally feeling a bit like autumn on my layout. I have been working on filling in the scrub with dead and almost-dead sagebrush (mostly made from lightweight furnace filter material spread like polyfill, sprayed with flat tan and a light misting of flat sage green, but also a few made from 3M grey scrubbing pads):
Also started making trees from scratch for the first time. After getting the hang of it with a few practice ones, I planted a long-dead tree at the river's edge, made from real sagebrush:
And a late-season cottonwood that's lost most of its leaves:
Looking forward to more this weekend. Thanks for sharing, everyone!
Peter: I really like that painting.
Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with your interesting boxcar and neat tutorial.
Can't beat the heat, but I can at least try to portray cooler times.
A chilly scene my son painted for me some years ago seems to speak a Thomas Wolfe passage; "Brother, have you seen the starlight on the rails?"
Down at the harbor kayakers are paddling into the chop of a cool afternoon breeze.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, stay cool and safe and have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Thank you to everyone that has commented on my resin kit outside braced boxcar I shared this week. I get a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction from assembling resin kits, and I get some unique freight cars along the way.
Ed: It sound like you solved your problem with that beautiful streamilined Pacific. I love those pinstripes on the tender. I hope you can enjoy it without issue now.
Jimmy: Oh no! Someone should be watching those clearance postings! Looks like another trailer load got to see the daylight. I might just have to build a T-Track module one day.
Garry: Another beautiful photograph from your breathtaking layout. These are always appreciated. The two level scenery in that section looks very good.
Ringo: The grade crossing came out nicely done... great work. That is one terrifying monster! I hope your minature citizens are safe.
John: I see that SGRR boxcar in the background! The grain elevator should look right at home on your expanded layout. Growth is exciting.
Simon: The critter is magnificent. I enlarged the phgotograph and looked for the driveshaft going from the gondola to the locomotive, but I could not see it. Then I saw the gondola wass actually the power truck... very nice!
Allan: The NEW YORK CENTRAL E unit is gray lightning stripes is quite handsome.
Bear: Thank you for the weekly BearToon, I appreciate the humor.
Sorry if I missed anybody.
John /York 1 .... Thnks for commenting on my photo. Your grain elevator looks great.
Alan .... Thanks very much for your remark about my picture. I like the NYC E8, and I think that NYC paint scheme is the best one.
Simon ...I like the critter.
Ringo58 .... Your grade crossing scene looks very good.
Bear ...... LOL
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Kool for cats by Bear, on Flickr
Hahaha this is awesome! He is a trouble maker!
Jimmy_BraumI believe I have the "Beartoon" this week.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Kevin - Thanks for starting off WPF. A great job on the boxcar. Love the detail!
Ed - Glad you solved your problem. I have several BLI locos. Never ran into the stop-start thing although my most recent purchase, a SF F ran a little rough at first.
Jimmy - The peeled top on the trailer looks just like the real thing.
Garry - Incredible layout. Great photo.
Ringo58 - The crossing looks good to me. The monster is frightening.
York1 John - The elevator makes a good excuse for expanding the layout.
Simon - I like your "critter". Good job.
Not much new to show on the BRVRR, unless you want to see me under the layout fighting with the lighting. Just to keep things moving here is one from my website:
NYC E8 #4040 rounds the curve at the west end of the inner main line on the Black River Valley RR with a short 'Mail and Express train in tow.
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/
Superb work guys!
This week, I was inspired by a thread on the forum and worked on a few narrow gauge projects. I finished this HOn30 critter, which is meant to represent a gas Plymouth engine on short quarry line. I got the parts from an N scale 0-6-0 (sidearms and broken motor removed) and an HO scale roadgrader that came from my very first train set I got some 40 years ago... The motor is actually hidden in the gondola, and is adapted from a super-smooth japanese mechanism....
Simon
20200810_205736 on Flickr
Another great start to the best thread on the forum.
Thanks for starting the weekend off right with the boxcar. You do great work. I've never worked with resin before. My picture has a car from your railroad passing by the grain elevator. I don't know where it is headed.
Ed, it's good to hear you solved the stopping problem. Your soldering skills are much better than mine. I would probably melt the board.
Jimmy, nice work on the crumpled trailer roof. It looks exactly like the ones in that video.
Garry, nice layout photo. Hope your medical tests all work out OK.
Ringo, that crossing looks great. I don't have any yet for my layout, but I hope mine turn out looking like yours. A while back, we had a forum thread about unusual things on the layout. Most of us get plastic animals or monsters. I see you've got the real live one, posing for the camera.
My picture is of the grain elevator. I normally scratchbuild the buildings, but a family member gave me this kit for Christmas. I really don't have a place for it, so right now it's sitting on an empty space. I guess this means the layout will have to be expanded.
Nice work all around! New cat has slowed progress on the layout as he hates when hes not the center of attention. But I was able to finish the crossing scene ( or at least partly ) and also starded playing around with field grass
Jimmy .... Thanks for starting the week end photo fun. Looks like your progress is continuing.
Ed .... Interesting work with a decoder.
Kevin ... The boxcar project came out very good.
Here is a picture in Blackhawk .
great work as always.
I believe I have the "Beartoon" this week.
I did another T-Trak Module, and well.... I had to
Here's the module
(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).
Thanks for the great startup of another great WPF, Kevin. That resin kit looks daunting. I applaud you for your excellent results .
Bravo!
As a quick follow-up to last week's report on the lousy current pick-up on the new Broadway K4 I did recieve several of their recent "Go Pack" capicitor add ons.
BLI_K4_cap by Edmund, on Flickr
Installing it in the most recent (rev. H) P3 boards is a simple (tiny) plug in. I installed one other in a slightly older Paragon 3 board that required soldering the leads to the board but it was relatively simple to perform.
BLI_K4_cap2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Results were excellent and the locomotive will now glide through any track work uninhibited. I believe there is some kind of coating on the wheel treads that inhibits electron flow. I poked my meter all around the engine and tender and can find no open circuits.
Regards, Ed
Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
August 14, 2020 through August 16, 2020
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
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 am thrilled to once again be starting Weekend Photo Fun this week. I do love this thread and the way it brings people together for sharing Model Railroading fun. I believe it is the best thread every week.
I have another boxcar for my Fleet Of Nonsense again this week. I did not weather this one very much at all. I might come back to it with some more weathering in the future.
This boxcar is lettered for the GRAND OLD LAMPASAS RAILROAD which is an imaginary short line in the Lone Star State of Texas.
This car was built from a beautiful resin kit from The Steam Shack. Judging by the kit contents and the instruction sheet, I think it was made by Funaro and Camelengo. The detail on the castings in this kit is incredible. The wooden sheathing has uneven spots and cracked boards.
The prototype for this car is a single sheathed boxcar for the CENTRAL VERMONT railroad.
Construction was typical for a flat cast resin kit.
I put sheet lead weights on the floor to bring the car up to four ounces. I also added thicker plastic pieces at the ends that were drilled and tapped for 2-56 to give the coupler mounting box screw something to really grab into.
I added four plastic spacers carefully glued in place 0.110" from the sill bottom to give the floor something square to fasten to.
Of course, the underframe received my Fakey Brakie brake rigging set-up. This is a much simplified A/B brake rigging that looks good from the side, but is not nearly as difficult to install as a well-modeled brake system.
The roof was glued in place and the roofwalk added. I chose to install a Detail Associates brake gear instead of the vertical brake staff called for in the instructions. Then lots of added detail, and this model was ready for the paint booth.
Thank you for looking, and please feel encouraged to share a fun photo with the forum this weekend.
Be safe!