This is an exciting week for Weekend Photo Fun. I get to share one of the best gifts I have ever received.
A few weeks ago I asked for suggestion about what would be the best industrial lamp to buy for my workspace. I was retiring my ten year old OTT light, and wanted a traditional swing arm lamp. The more industrial, the better.
My workbench is a 100% industrial piece of steel furniture made by Edsal.
Ed (GMPullman) graciously offered to send me a Dazor model 1104 lamp that he had to fill the need. It arrived this week, and I have mounted it to my workbench.
This lamp is magnificent. It is everything I could ever have wished for in a worklamp for the desk. I put a 150 watt (equivilent, less than 15 watts actual) LED Daylight bulb in it, and it really lights up the work area. It is much better than the OTT lamp was. LED light have progressed so far.
It matches the workbench perfectly.
OK, what is going on in your model railroading world this week? This is the place to share.
Hope to hear from a lot of people, and I hope everyone has a great weekend!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
thanks for invite) I love photography
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Is it really the LAST weekend in September?! How does that happen?
Well the month sure has blown by. Thanks for the photo of the Dazor in its new home, Kevin Sure glad it went to an appreciative adopter! I sure like the way you secured the bracket to the upright, too
Thanks for setting up the new digs for this weekend. Weather has been ideal here in NE Ohio but I'm still finding time for model RR fun.
I have finally persuaded myself to get back out on the layout itself and "fill-in" some of the little patches of bare plywood scattered about. Here's a small scene that has been crying for attention for years:
Tower_grounds_9-24 by Edmund, on Flickr
A week ago it looked like this:
Tower_April by Edmund, on Flickr
Tonight I placed more tufts and static grass. It is truly an art to blend scenery and make it look like it "belongs" but fortunately, it is easy to layer over mistakes until you get the look you're after. Some people have a natural feel for it. I have to really work at it
Thanks Bear now I have Debby Boone whispering in my ear all night
On to more great weekend fun! Cheers, Ed
I finally finished building a locomotive I've wanted to make for years:
I've been wanting to make a 2-6-6-2 saddle tank in On30 for ages. After striking out with a Mantua mechanism, I bought one of the Bachmann HO 2-6-6-2 ones. This is the result. Cab and some of the details are 3D printed, the rest of the body is plastic and PVC pipe, with a bit of wood.
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
Thanks for getting us started, Kevin!
Wow, Ed, you've been busy. The scene looks great! Like you, I also have to work at making scenery look good, but I think you've got it down!
Danny, The saddle tank is awesome. Very imaginative.
I did get most of the Joe Works HOn30 steamer built. I realized I don't have a DC power pack, so I used a 9 volt battery to test. It seems to run pretty well especially in reverse (don't they all?), but I need a power pack before I really start to work on this thing. Lot's of detailing left but that can wait until I get it running the way I want. Here it is next to a Westerfield car for size comparison.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
Good morning from mostly sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, neat lamp, I got one of the swing arm lamps with a maginifiying glass in it for Christmas last year, a real help.
Ed, that fill in scene really looks good!
TBDanny, that is an impressive build, and I always liked any of the small tank articulateds.
Chuck, another nice job on finishing that model, I don't know a lot of people who succesfully built one of those Joe Works kits. Just remember run it in at least an hour per powered axle half in forward and half in reverse.
Got a couple of cars done this week!
IMWX 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit, used Yarmouth Scale Models metal sill steps in place of the plastic ones in the kit. Painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Orange and lettered with Smokebox Graphics Decals. The New Haven ordered thousands of these cars just before WWII and refurbished them in the mid 50's during the McGinnis era although many were sold to other railroads due to the decline of manufacturing traffic post war.
Exactrail PS 4427CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Many grain elevator companies purchased their own new high capacity cars to facilitate the shipment of grain to export centers on the east coast and gulf ports.
Since I finished my Rock Island engines this last month, I took them (GP35 and U25B) to the club and made a train of mostly Rock Island cars I have done in the past. The first two cars are part of the GM pool supplying parts to Assembly Plants.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Kevin ..... Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. The workbench lamp from Ed looks like a good one.
Bear.... LOL.... You are a highlight of this tread.
Ed ..... Your scenery and switch tower look excellent.
Danny ...... Your 2-6-6-2 T is fantastic.
Chuck ...... Your tiny steam locomotive definately looks good.
Rick .... Your freight cars and Rock Island locomotives look great.
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I have accumulated some unbuilt frieght car kits, and this past week I decided to work on some of them .... I started with the easiest one. It is a very, very old Tyco / Mantua kit for a TH&B 40' boxcar. Details are crude. It has a diecast metal floor and underframe. I discarded the trucks with horn hook couplers mounted on them, I installed new trucks and Kadee #5's mounted on the body. I painted the roof black because I saw photos of TH&B boxcars with black roofs.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Bear: Thanks for the quick Bear-Toon. I am honored again. Your contributions are always eagerly awaited.
Ed: The new scene looks great. Your comment about how easy it is to cover mistakes in scenery is so true. There have been areas on some of my layouts where the scenery is three or four attempts deep. Sometimes I wonder about the HO scale archeologists that might did in this area and find evidence of a different terrain that was there before, LOL.
Mounting the bracket vertically worked perfectly for my situation. See below.
Danny: That HOn30 2-6-6-2 Tank Locomotive is a wonder. Great job. I would love to see an in-process photograph if you do not mind sharing.
Chuck: That sure is a diminutive little steam locomotive. You made a lot of progress in the last week. It sure looks good.
Rick: The NEW HAVEN boxcar is beautiful. I really like the large herald on one side with all the data and legal stuff on the other. Do you know what year it was repainted like this? The Rock Island locomotives on the layout look great.
Garry: The boxcar look good. It is amazing how even a relatively simple freight car can look so good when displayed on a beautiful layout. The black roof looks right to me. TH&B freight cars were some of my favorites when I was in N scale.
Mounting The New Lamp
There have been two lamps previously mounted on the workbench, a swing arm lamp, and an OTT lamp. I had left the bracket in place for the swing arm lamp.
I took Ed's advice and played with mounting options for the new lamp. I decided mounting the bracket between the riser upright and the roll-off guard would be best.
There are six mounting holes in the bracket. I only used five of them because one was too close to the work surface, and all my long drill bits are packed away.
The new bracket is held in place by 1/4" by 5/8" screws and ny-lock nuts. This is very secure.
The new lamp is simply wonderful. My wife does not understand why I love it so much, but that is normal.
I sent pictures of it to my wargaming buddies, and the jealousy is real!
Hello everyone. Age makes this column come around more often lately.
Kevin, thanks for your continued efforts each week opening this thread. I'm jealous not only of the new light, but of the workbench. I really need to work on that.
Bear continues to keep things happy here.
Ed, that was a nice transformation from a blank wood section to a nice part of the layout.
TbDanny, that is a nice looking piece of work. How long did it take you? I've been thinking more and more about getting a 3D printer.
Chuck, you also have done a great job in building a locomotive. Nice.
Rick, great looking boxcars and Rock Island locomotives. Your club has a nice section to photograph your work.
Garry, that's a nice looking group of boxcars. You also have dairy cows that don't seem to mind the train passing by.
I finally finished the Tastee Donut shop. This was my first attempt to have clear windows with interior sections. It was more difficult than I thought, and it again reinforced my thoughts that I should probably switch from N Scale to HO. My daughters and I went to Tastee Donuts every Saturday morning when they were growing up. I saw that Tastee Donuts changed their roof colors before Hurricane Katrina. Back then, these bright yellow roofs really stood out.
York1 John
SeeYou190 Rick: The NEW HAVEN boxcar is beautiful. I really like the large herald on one side with all the data and legal stuff on the other. Do you know what year it was repainted like this? The Rock Island locomotives on the layout look great. -Kevin
Kevin it was rebuilt and repainted in June of 1955.
Garry, nice rebuild of an old Tyco kit, I did the same with one of their gondolas but I replaced the metal frame with an Athearn 40' boxcar frame.
York, I am ready for some donuts!
Kevin--Nice lamp. Thanks Ed.
Bear--LOL (I sing like that.)
Ed--That scene looks better everytime I see it.
Danny--That engine is gorgeous.
Chuck--Nice job on the build. I can't wait to see what you do with that little guy.
Rick--Good looking rolling stock.
Garry--Tyco power! time.
John--That doughnut shop came out well for being so itty-bitty.
I'm getting close. I still need to build the office. The redwood came out well.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
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Hi all,
There's some fantastic modeling here so far. Thank-you for all the comments on my loco, too.
Kevin, here are some in-progress photos:
I had to use wood for the rear pilot beam, as none of the plastic I had was wide enough. The seam and the boards that are laid horizontally are covered up by the 3D printed pilot, the same as the one I used on the front deck.
My 3D printed parts are from Shapeways, and were originally ordered for another project. After getting tired of waiting for them to arrive for that build, I finished it off with hand-cut styrene parts instead. So then when they did arrive, I used them for this project.
This can be seen mostly in the cab, where a white plastic plug at the bottom-front of the cab sides fills in where it was originally meant to go over the dip in the running board. It's unnoticable now that it's been filed flat and painted.
The cab, funnel, pilots, water hatch, smokebox door and headlight bracket (under the bell) were designed by me. The other 3D printed parts were ordered from shapeways, but designed by other people. The smokebox door was actually left over from an even earlier project. The smaller boiler I had on the loco for which I originally ordered these parts would have looked too small on this one.
John, the build took me about three weeks, albeit most of that was grabbing spare time when I could. In terms of total time, it took about 3 months or so for the parts to arrive here (in Australia) from the United States. I'm guessing this was due to COVID putting strain on the postal system.
dti406 Rick: The NEW HAVEN boxcar is beautiful. I really like the large herald on one side with all the data and legal stuff on the other. Do you know what year it was repainted like this? The Rock Island locomotives on the layout look great. -Kevin Kevin it was rebuilt and repainted in June of 1955. Rick Jesionowski
Kevin, by the way the ICC did not like this paint scheme as the door when open covered the legal data.
Here're a coupla photos (front view, rear view) showing the Tainter gate in position at the top of the spillway of Boysen Dam in the Wind River Peninsula of my N scale layout.
Everything is laid up dry; that is to say, the pieces and parts are in position but not permanently secured with glue, nails, staples, tape, or screws. The purpose is to check fit and alignment. Still quite a few detail pieces to add, and nothing is painted or sanded or finished or anything like that.
WPF = Weekend Photo Fun WIP = Work in Progress
This is a work in progress (WIP), just something to post on the forum and show the stuff that I see when I walk into the layout room, pretty much as-is. Still a long way to go, but every day I make a little progress.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Lot's of really nice work here guys!
Robert - Looks like a very nice scene will be made there. If anything draws me towards N-scale, the scenery options would be it. (I am too far into HO scale though.)
Kevin - I like the workbench. (shot.)
Ed - Nice tower scene.
TBDanny - Nice scratchbuild loco. Very impressive!
Chuck - Nice narrow steamy. They really do look tiny when alongside a standard gauge.
Rick - Nice cars as always!
Garry - Nice job reworking the old Tyco car. I like how the roof stands out better, and would not have guessed it was an older "toy train set" style car from looking. Neat little farm scene too.
York - Nice city scene, and good job on the donut shop. My question is, does come with authentic smells? If so, you may want to rethink that during operations. Your crew might just stop for a few extra breaks.
Bear - Was that you on that new singing game show "I can see your voice" this week? It pits a contestant against 6 "singers" and they have to correctly guess, without hearing their voice, if the person is a good singer or not. Guess right, you win money. Guess wrong, no money. A few of them did sound like nails on a chalk board.
My contribution - Before I had posted progress pics of an older Walthers Coil car kit. Here is the finished model with the trucks painted my weathered truck base color, and bearing caps highlighted. Just need to brush on the grime powder for the trucks, paint the wheelsets, and weather the car body.
NS Coil car Finished by Richard Woodworth, on Flickr" alt="Coil Car" />
Hve to add in a railfanning pic as well, as I had a blast catching these guys. A local shortline in my area, the Western New York & Pennsylvania, runs almost exclusively Alco/MLW power. (They do have rebuilt GE AC6000 units now, but use them almost exclusively on the east end. I'm on their west end.)
One of my Dad's coworkers texted and asked what was so special about a train today. I asked what he was refering too, and he explained that there was a ton of people waiting at a local feed mill and adjacent grade crossing with camera's. I guessed that WNYP must have their "Big 6's" out today, so went trackside myself. (Guessed correctly.) I did however forget to grab a video camera, or a tripod for my cell phone. (Grabbed my regular camera though!)
I caught them making a westbound run towards Meadville with a very long (Over 120 cars) empty coal drag. The (as always) friendly engineer seen me set up at a rural grade crossing, so kindly gave a horn and smoke show. Here is that picture.
WNYP 637 & 638 Smoke Show by Richard Woodworth, on Flickr" alt="637 Smoke" />
I did have my cell phone propped up near the crossing as well, so will link the video from that in the diner thread later on. (Made due with what I had.)
Keep all the good pics coming guys!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
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Rick: Thank you for the information on that boxcar. I have a set of decals for a private roadname with a very large herald. I think I will put the herald on the right side of the door, and all the legal stuff on the left for that one.
Chip: The stacks of Redwood in the lumber yard look very good to me.
Danny: Thank you for the "In Progress" photographs of your locomotive project. That is some amazing work.
Robert: That entire dam looks like an impressive installation. Beautiful work. It really captures the immense size of real dams.
Ricky: The coil car looks quite good. Your weathering work on the trucks looks especially good.
Kevin, Thanks for the illuminating start to WPF. Grand to see so much modeling energy in motion.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Kevin, John York 1, Rick, Chip, and Ricky ..... Thank you for commenting on my TH&B boxcar.
John York 1. ..... Nice donut shop. I'll have one with powdered sugar, please.
Chip .... Your limber shed lookd great.
Robert .... Thanks for showing your WIP dam. It will be impressive.
Ricky .... The coil car looks excellent.
Peter..... Your canning company certainly looks real.
Ah yes, the usual outstanding work Gents! Love that there saddle back steamer and the work is first class. Long live the New Haven! Here is a shot of a lokey painted by L'il Timmy back when he was a club member. She is a one of a kind on the Mt Hood RR and I have debated adding a second one so it won't be lonely. It was a dummy, and I found a cheap Athearn mechanism to power her up and added NWSL wheels and an A-line motor. She runs very nicely!
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
So good to be back!
All I have to say is all the modeling here looks just as good as it always does every weekend. Some great Craftsmanship here guys!
Curtains for certain
It was dusk when I got home and all I could see was the two double members lining up on the bridge I need to finish against the curtain.
And there's paper under it from a half of a year before so I know what to do
I will be working on this one this week to get it fitted in and removable of course. Hopefully I'll have something done by next weeks WPF
Again, Great looking stuff here Guys
TF
Peter: The cannery looks simply amazing. I do not think I have seen a picture of that structure before.
Toad: I love my Trainmaster too. I detailed the body, but it still has the old Athearn motor and original wheels. These do need to be upgraded. Does yours have plastic sideframes (new style) on the trucks? I have been looking for one, but never found it. Athearn might have never updated the Trainmaster.
Track Fiddler: Looking forward to seeing more updates. Glad you had a good trip.
Ed: Let me say once again: Thank you for the amazing A+ desk lamp. It is perfect.
Everyone: See you next weekend, and be safe this week.
I can't believe I missed this weekend! I was super busy getting everything around the apartment finished up! I know its monday but I thought I could sqeeze in!
As always, great work from everyone. This is my favorite thread. I love how everyone that shows a picture is always modeling or working on somthing different. This week we had lamps, on30 saddle tanks, great custom rollingstock, amazing scenery work and a awesome bridge!
Love seeing what everone is working on and what their intrests are. It's nuce to see everyyone modeling the 1800s to today and getting along and having fun.
Only thing new this week is a Bachmann F7 and a genesis F7. I ordered the bachmann shell from their parts website and the chassis is from a B&O B unit ( shell is avalible if anyone wants it ). The detail difference between the two is amazing.
I mean I know I spent $55 total on the bachmann and $150 on the genesis, but the genesis is simply beautiful. I think I may send this one out to be profesinally weathered and get a nice sound decoder. I love this unit!
York1 I finally finished the Tastee Donut shop. This was my first attempt to have clear windows with interior sections. It was more difficult than I thought, and it again reinforced my thoughts that I should probably switch from N Scale to HO. My daughters and I went to Tastee Donuts every Saturday morning when they were growing up. I saw that Tastee Donuts changed their roof colors before Hurricane Katrina. Back then, these bright yellow roofs really stood out.
Really nice work. The entire scene is impressive. I wouldn't have known that it was N scale.
- Douglas
John: Sorry I skipped over you. It was not intentional. Your donut shop is great.
Ringo: Ah, F units! I love them. 1/2 of the diesel locomotives on my railroad's roster are EMD F units. I am glad you are happy with the new addition.
Kevin, I Do not believe Uncle Irv ever made plastic side frames for the Trainmaster.
tankertoad135 I Do not believe Uncle Irv ever made plastic side frames for the Trainmaster.
I didn't think so.
I will probably re-wheel mine with NWSL nickel steel wheels, install some universal joints and a new motor and see what I can do for it.
It is my favorite diesel locomotive.