This is the weekly thread where modelers can show their completed projects, work in progress or pictures of their layouts both old and new.
I have not posted for 4 weeks due to a problem with my photo hosting provider, so I am posting early this week with 4 weeks of modeling I have done.
In addition 3 weeks ago I fell in the parking lot while a downpour was going on and sprained my ankle and twisted my knee. I thought itas getting better until I went bowling and it really hurt so I went to the orthopedic surgeon, who gave me some braces to wear for support. He then called me while I was driving to work and let me know I broke my Tibia but no cast was necessary at this time.
McKeen Models Piggyback Flat modified from a 50' Boxcar that the Southern ile and Norfolk Southern made while waiting for new cars to haul 45' and 48' trailers. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Trailer is an Athearn Model, painted with Floquil BN Green and Silver paints then lettered with Microscale Decals.
Exactrail PS 4427 Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. The Rock Island purchased thousands of the cars for hauling grain to export ports replacing old 40' boxcars in the mid 60's era.
Bowser 1958CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Ann Arbor after the DT&I let it go bankrupt after Conrail and PC mess in 1976 had to replace the 100 DT&I covered hoppers and leased a bunch of cars from Chicago Freight Car to facilitate the 20 cars of sand sent to the Ford Brookpark plant from the Yuma MI sand pit on a daily basis.
McKeen ACF 50' Boxcar Kit, used a IMRC 8' Plug Door for the second door and added the extra rods on the door using Evergreen rod. Also cut out the cast floor and installed a Details West Hydra-Cushion underframe and Moloco Extended Coupler pockets with Plano Walk over platforms over the couplers. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red, Armour Yellow and Silver paints then lettered with Mask Island Decals. Car was used in Campbell's Soup Traffic out of Napoleon OH as indicated by the 1090 over the reporting marks.
Tangent 52'6" Bethlehem Steel Gondola Kit, Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with K4 decals. Car was acquired in the late 50's from the CNJ 1944 Lease of these cars after the lease expired. Car was in general service on the Wabash,IMRC 60' PS Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Silver Paints then lettered with Mask Island Decals. These cars were made for GM Auto Parts service and were known as the Fisher Body Cars. This car was assigned to the B&O in Dayton OH where GM and various factories furnishing parts to the assembly plants around the country.IMRC 40' Boxcar kit with 8' Door, painted with Scalecoat II L&N Blue and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The cars were built in the early 50's and were rebuilt in 1967 for use in the Louisville KY Appliance Park pool, the roofwalks were removed and ladders lowered except for the brake wheel corner. Evans DF loaders were installed to protect the appliances from damage during shipment.This is the Front Range version of the rebult 50' boxcars of the Southern Railroad with the see through decking versus the solid decking of the above car. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Trailer is a Front Range trailer painted with Floquil White and Silver paints and lettered with Microscale Decals.Kato GP35 (Phase 1a), modified to a Phase 2b by adding an elevated Dust Bin part from Cannon & Co and removing the fuel fill flashing and narrowing the flashing above the fuel tank. Installed Details West hood mounted bell and plow along with metal lift rings. Painted the finished model with Floquil RI Maroon and Scalecoat II Reefer yellow and Grimey black paints then lettered with Herald King and Microscale decals.I just received my new Tangent 86' Hi-Cubes so I made up a train of Auto Parts cars using the Tangents and Walter's 86' ers and my Exactrail 60' ers. Train was hauled with Athearn GP38-2 and GP40-2 Engines.
Sorry for the long post, so 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!
dti406Sorry for the long post, so thanks for looking!
Wow, that is impressive... And Welcome Back!
Your contributions here each week have been missed. I am glad your injuries were not worse.
That series of freight car models are all terrific. Those are going to make my submission this week seem very trivial.
All I have to share this week is a new purchase, and it is just an undecorated Athearn flat car. I wanted one of these to haul the heavy casting I bought a few weeks ago. One finally came up on ebay, and I ended up paying more than I wanted to, but it is mine now.
The large bearing block on the right is the load I plan to mount on this flat car.
Weekend Photo Fun is up and running for September 4th through 6th!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks for getting the first WPF of September set up, Rick. Glad to see you back and I'm sorry you had such a trying few weeks.
Great model work as always! That Rock Island geep is entirely too clean I've seen some photos of their later diesels and they were certainly ragged-looking. I was tempted by those Tangent Hi-Cubes but I restrained myself
The B-B heavy-duty flat has always been one of my favorite models, Kevin Just begging for a heavy-duty load to match.
Looks like it's new rolling stock for us so far this week. I took delivery of three Proto Cushioned coil-cars.
Bessemer_Coiled-steel by Edmund, on Flickr
The Bessemer has always been a favorite road of mine.
DTI_coil by Edmund, on Flickr
The DT&I car is neat because of the fiberglas covers. Nicely done by Walthers
P-C_coil-car-F50 by Edmund, on Flickr
And of course, Penn Central was the main railroad in my neighborhood so I had to have one of those, too
The rest of my week was spent still trying to diagnose that Broadway streamlined K4. I was emailing tech support just about every day and they would have me try different scenarios for programming. Well, the decoder is going back to Florida and they are shipping a new one. The engine runs fine after a reset on add=03 but if I program ANY other address it goes haywire. No motor control and the headlights make a slow steady blink. Good thing they have a decent service department.
I also got another new motor and decoder sent from BLI for my third P5a that smoked the decoder due to high current draw
Kevin, I haven't forgotten your bench lamp. Just have to find the right box. In my "working" days I could get boxes of any size, now — not so easy
Cheers, Ed
Thanks for starting my favortite thread of the week rick! I wish you a speedy recovery. Those are some good looking freight cars! Nice to see products painted using scalecoat II as I just ordered 2 cans yesterday to make a milwaukee road SW7. Love those geeps
Kevin that is a good looking flatcar. Reminds me of the one I found in the basement of my grandpas rental property. No other train stuff but 1 NW 6-axle flat car. I'm also guilty of spending more money cause I just really want something. Kind of like how I'm winning an auction on eBay for a Walthers AMerican crane but I found the same crane on buy it now for $40 and I'm tempted to pull the trigger. LOL lets see how this goes with 1d 12h left. So far winning at $16.50
Ed- Really nice cars! That penn central has a nice color to it
As for me this week, it has been slow and I think I have too many projects at once but I like it that way.
More progress made on the SOO sd39, I think I'm getting better at hiding brush strokes and I got the SW7 running nice. Now time for a nice bath before primer.
Also my stream scene is taking longer than expected and the shaper sheets are a fuss, but I think I am going to use Dave's trick from the Diner. Hope I have more updates this weekend.
Kevin same Athearn flat car
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Thr yard foreman overlooks the "new" unit. "I need a tetanus shot just looking at it!"
Yeah the weathering is powders
(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).
Rick that’s a bunch of good looking cars and locomotives!!!!Kevin I’m working on a similar flat with a slightly different load.Ed great looking cars, I like the colors!Ringo nice looking locomotives and the crossing signal.Mike the load looks neat in the depressed flat.Jimmy I think he’s wondering about the paint on the locomotive.I too have too many projects going, this one has been work in progress for a couple of months. Got the Intermountain wheels in a couple of days ago and have one truck wired one to go.It as you can see will have my SQ23 camera on board along with some goodies for powering the camera and LED lighting.
I’ll put some sort of cover over the electronics but the camera will just be a camera. I installed connector pins in the bed of the flat so the DC to DC converter can be removed easily when not needed Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
dti406In addition 3 weeks ago I fell in the parking lot while a downpour was going on and sprained my ankle and twisted my knee. I thought itas getting better until I went bowling and it really hurt so I went to the orthopedic surgeon, who gave me some braces to wear for support. He then called me while I was driving to work and let me know I broke my Tibia but no cast was necessary at this time.
Rick, thanks for the WPF kickoff. You had a busy 4 weeks of productive modelling.
Perhaps this is National Orthopedic Week. I had to go in for a recurring issue, a thumb that did not like golfing at all. Diagnosis arthritis, with a steroid shot that will hopefully have a positive effect. We could have a weekly ache & pains thread, but that might get too lengthy.
I received this Athearn UP intercity bus this week. I did not know there were such things, presuming that only bus companies provided bus service. I think it is a cool model.
20200904_103043 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
peahrens Perhaps this is National Orthopedic Week. I had to go in for a recurring issue, a thumb that did not like golfing at all. Diagnosis arthritis, with a steroid shot that will hopefully have a positive effect. 20200904_103043 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Perhaps this is National Orthopedic Week. I had to go in for a recurring issue, a thumb that did not like golfing at all. Diagnosis arthritis, with a steroid shot that will hopefully have a positive effect.
Paul, I had the same thing a few years ago, the steroid shot did not really help, also did some excercises with the thumb it still hurts at times, luckily it was not the hand I bowl with that one has no problems at all. I saw those buses but did want to get any at this time.
Kevin, That will be a good looking car once you get the load on.
Ed, I wanted to get one of the DT&I cars to go with all my Red Caboose Coil Cars, but the Greenville Hi-Cubes and Finger Rack Flats maxed out my budget for this month.
Ringo, lots of nice work completed so far, I used to use Floquil all the time but moved over to Scalecoat so I did not have to gloss coat before decaling, but have to take the extra drying time for Scalecoat into account before masking and or decaling.
Jimmy, I think I have seen one of the rust bucket GP30's around Cleveland, one of the reasons I have never liked CSX was how they took care of their power.
Mike - Nice flat car load. What is it?
Jimmy - Nice geep. Very nice weathering
Mel - Nice camera car. I want to watch some cab rides now
Paul - I like the bus!
Rick - Thank you for the kind words.
A small update for me, I received my sw1500 dummy chassis from eBay today. I was looking for a powerd one but chouldn't find one so a dummy will do for now. 2 Weeks ago I wanted more switchers, now I have 3 more! Just need to paint them and get them detailed.
Family photo!
Hello everyone!
Rick: Welcome back, thanks for jump-starting WPF for the week. Great work as usual, the locomotive looks quite sharp.
Kevin: A great find, I'm looking forward to see the paint job on the flatcar. Load looks pretty good too.
Ed: Coil cars are always a favorite, they look supurb.
Ringo: Nice going on the layout and the weathering on the locos.
Mike: Great load and flatcars. The weathered wooden deck is awesome!
Jimmy: I like the many paint patches on that one. The locomotive certainly had a hard life.
Mel: Looking forward to watching the footage that the new camera car will capture.
Paul: I especially like the simulated chrome on the bus, it's very nice.
Here's my project. Three years back I bought this reefer at a train show for $2. When I got home and ran it, I realized why it was priced that. The car wobbled and the couplers were low and couldn't be adjusted. The paint job was awful.
So it sat around collecting dust until this week, when I decided to redo it as part of a "Trashbox to Showcase" contest in another community online. Here's my progress so far:
I retrucked it with a screw and a wheelset that I found in my parts bin. Paint was really thick.
I opened the car up, and found that the previous owner had installed a battery as a weight. This D-Cell battery probably has been around longer then I had. There's no leakage, I assume that it has never been used.
I soaked it into 70 percent rubbing alcohol overnight and scrubbed it with a old toothbrush on Wednesday morning. Still needs work.
I gave it another bath but it was shorter, as you can see, the paint still stripping to get to the details. Here's how it looks as of today.
That's all for me folks, have a good weekend!
"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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peahrensI received this Athearn UP intercity bus this week. I did not know there were such things, presuming that only bus companies provided bus service.
Both Maine Central and Bangor & Aroostook RR had bus service. They served as both a feeder service from remote areas to train stations, as well as a cheaper but slower alternative to the train for long distance travel. My wife's dad started on MEC as a bus driver on the Bangor to Boston route before getting qualfied as an F3 engineer
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Lots of good stuff at mid-day on a Friday!
Thanks for the start, Rick. I really like your Rock Island covered hopper. I think some covered hoppers are my next purchase, since I have a grain elevator now. It's good to hear your injuries will not be long-term.
Kevin, I can't wait to see what you do with the flat car. I'm sure it will look as professionally done as all your other work.
Ed, those are all nice coil cars. That's another type of car that I don't have.
Ringo, I think your SOO SD39 looks good. Good luck with the shaper sheets. I've never tried those.
Mike, nice depressed center car. I really like the NYC covered hopper behind the car.
Jimmy, that's a nice scene. I'm sure the railroad is not in a hurry to paint the locomotive as long as it runs.
Mel, that looks like a project that you will do well with. I've mentioned before that you've convinced me to try one of the sq cameras. I have N Scale, but I think it'll fit. Of course, I won't attempt your project getting the camera to pan back and forth. As always, I'm impressed with your skill.
Paul, nice scene with the bus. Hope your arthritis eases. I have a little, but not anything that stops me from doing things.
L. Zhou, that's a nice project you've got going there. I'm very impressed with your skills. For a young person, I think you're doing very well -- well spoken, skilled, and friendly. I hope you continue to show us your work.
I have been working on a house project, so I don't have anything new this week. I have a picture of a Union Pacific locomotive shop I bought from Rix. This was the second model building I got, and it was after this that I decided to try scratch building. The other structures are scratch built. If I finish the house project, hopefully I'll get back to some layout projects.
York1 John
Rick--Nice weathering. Welcome back.
Kevin--congrats on your acquisition.
Ed--hopefully the K4 only needs a new decoder.
Ringo--Model Railroading Rule #37: Everything takes longer than expected.
Jimmy B. --Pastel powders are very useful for a lot of things not the least of which is weathering.
Mel--I bet that will be a kick getting an engineer's eye view of your layout.
Paul--Do you have a spot where the bus is going to go? I'm thinking it's just posing here. Nice find.
L.Zhou-- Good luck with that reefer. That paint seems to be a little stubborn.
John--Rix created a monster scratch builder. (I mean, why would anyone by a kit any more. You can build exactly what you want. )
I've got a livery stable coming, but I still need a couple hours. Sorry to make you wait until tomorrow. Wait, Saturday is still part of the weekend, right?
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Ed: those are very nice new coil cars you have acquired. I do not know much about them, but those fiberglass hoods sure do look different. I am 99% sure these were not around in 1954.
Ringo: Your SOO LINE SD39 is a beautiful locomotive. The application of grime is very reallistic. It will be even better with handrails. I never had an SD39 when I modelled 1968, but I had a lot of SD40s! I have never used shaper sheets. Your undecorated switcher fleet sure came together in a hurry. Good job!
Mike: Your depressed center flat car looks good, but it is different than mine. My model does not have a depressed section. Is that a modification you made to the model?
Jimmy: Your scene looks good. There is a railroad here in Florida that runs a few miles of trackage near the center of the state that has similar looking equipment.
Mel: I am looking forward to the day when my layout is far enough along that I will need a camera car. Your work on the project looks great.
Paul:, Sorry to hear about your arthritis. The scene on your layout is beautiful. I was not aware of that Athearn bus model. It is beautiful.
L. Zhou: That is a great project you are working on. I love taking train set cars and upgrading them to the same level of detail as my Westerfield, Sunshine, and Intermountain freight cars. Your skills are becoming well rounded, which is something was can all applaud you for. Those loads are from a seller on ebay with the name "Multiscale_Digital_LLC". They had a small as in Model Railroader this month.
John: Your lighting in the night scene is great. I have never added much lighting to my models or scenes, but I think I will need to tackle that on my final layout.
Chip: I am looking forward to the next update on your Livery Stable project.
A few months ago I bought a home-built project of the PENNSYLVANIA "Queen Mary" flat car. It had 4 brass 4 axle trucks underneath it.
I think I am going to see if a pair of these will work under the Athearn Heavy Duty flat car when I finally get a workshop in operation again.
Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF, no matter the post size I always enjoy seeing and reading about your beautiful models. Ah, now I know the maker of my partial open deck 50' TOFC. Wishing you a fast and proper mend.
Paul, That is a cool bus, guessing the prototype was a GM product?
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good Labor Day weekend, regards, Peter
Kevin same car I just redid the middle part
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Ringo58 It looks like a boiler for a steam engine it's cast metal not sure where it's from
HO-Velo--What's your guy doing. It looks like he is pulling against his own cleat? Good photo though. Made me want to click on it.
Mike--It looks like that flat car was designed specifically to move whatever that is.
Okay, as promised here is the livery stable.
Peter: Thank you for the amazing waterfront image.
Mike: Your modifications to those Athearn Heavy Duty flat cars is quite good. If I can find a second one, I think it will be converted into a Well Car something like yours. Thank you for sharing.
Chip: I love it! Your work on that building is almost art-like. If you built an entire layout in that style it would be incredible.
Rick - Thanks for starting off WPF. Some good looking cars in that group. I liked the Rock Island loco. The DT&I train is cool.
Kevin - The flat car looks capable.
Ed - Quite an array of steel coil cars.
Ringo 58 - Getting there. Good job on the weathering.
Jimmy - I've seen worse.
Mel - High tech for sure. Looking forward to a cab ride.
Paul - I like your bus.
Ringo - Dummy switchers?
L. Zhou - Good start on the reefer. Have you ever tried 97% alcohol? It works much faster.
York 1 - Nice shot. Good looking layout.
Keven - Thats quite a flat car.
HO-Velo - Good scene.
Chip - Love it.
A little play time for grandpa:
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/
Kevin I did those Athearn flat cars yrs ago I know I still have some just not sure where but they were easy to do if I remember
Here's another one not an Athearn it's an old Gilbert brand all metal
So I put two axle trucks on this was a sd9 so what should it be now ?
Allan: Great picture share this week as usual. Play time sounds great on a weekend.
Mike: Thank you for sharing more flat cars. Your SD on four axle trucks actually looks pretty good. It can't be a GP-9. Maybe an SD-9(G)?
Another great weekend of posts. Nice modeling and photos.
Whats a long Holiday weekend without some sandlot baseball?
Bachmann 44 Tonner 4 by Daves Trains, on Flickr
mikeGTW So I put four axle trucks on this was a sd9 so what should it be now ?
So I put four axle trucks on this was a sd9 so what should it be now ?
So it went from 6-wheel (3 axle) trucks to 4-wheel (2 axle) trucks. It's not a GP9, as it's too big. So it is either a SD9 with 2-axle trucks, or perhaps a SD6 (two-thirds of an SD9). If the latter is correct, if it started as a SD7 it would be a SD4.66666666667.
Howdy ..... It's good to see so many people contributing great photos and having fun. .... I took yesterday off as we celebrated our anniversary.
Here are photos of my county park where people are enjoying Labor Day Weekend.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Dave: Thank you for joining us in Weekend Photo Fun. Your 44 ton locomotive scene looks good.
Garry: Your scene with people enjoying the long weekend looks like a great place to be right now.
See everyone next weekend!
Hey, wait a minute ....
This is "Labor Day " weekend . So we really have until midnight on Monday before it's over.
(I will be posting some progress pictures shortly...)
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Little TimmyHey, wait a minute .... This is "Labor Day " weekend . So we really have until midnight on Monday before it's over.
You will need to bring that up to Rick who started Weekend Photo Fun this week.
He clearly set the dates to September 4th through 6th.
Seriously... looking forward to seeing your photos this week.