Weekend Photo Fun. 11- 13 June 2021.

["JaBear"]

 

Gidday All, from a cold damp Friday night, but the fire is burning well so therefore the Bears cave is comfy.

 

My offering this week is in the Work in Progress category, with the addition of a large dose of doctorwaynes “slippery slope syndrome” thrown in!!

 

Now I really admire those of you who go the extra mile and add all the underframe details, i.e., brake plumbing and activating rods, but the Bear is a lazy modeller and so I wasn’t really phased when the kit bashing article described the bottom doors as “Although they’re not exact copies of the prototype outlets, they look convincing”.

 

Great, a quick mod so I’ll be able to get on to the roofs and hatches which really matter because that’s what everyone can see! However, while carrying out the instructions, I was becoming not convinced and decided that I needed to do some research, and that’s where the “slippery slope” slide in!!!

 

What I found was that due to the discovery that the bulk cement, and other dry materials, wasn’t flowing out the bottom outlets; after the first 4 conversions, steeper slope sheets were added to the next 130 conversions, which of course changed the look of the outlets completely!!

 

As most of these cars were still in service until the late 60s, I felt that I had to make the effort, and that’s where I’m at now.

 

chop by Bear, on Flickr

 

Moral of the story “Do your research first!!!”

 

Well, now I’m looking forward to see some actual really Good Stuff,

 

Have a Great One ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[NorthBrit]

Thanks Bear for starting WPF.

The trials and tribulations of modeling.   You will get there, Bear.

 

I know the feeling.

 

I wanted to have some 'Challenger' Tanks  and I managed to buy a sort of representation.

 

 

I model a timeframe of late 1960s/early 1970s.   Then I was reminded Challenger Tanks did not appear until after 1984.

As Bear says  'Do your research first'

 

Here are the tanks repainted and in the guise of 'Chieftain' Tanks in their first coat of paint on their first trip around the layout ensuring they clear the loading gauge etc.

 

 

David

[dti406]

Good morning from cloudy, warm and rainy Northeast Ohio!

Bear, thanks for starting us out, doing your research first is a good idea,  I thought I had done enough on one of the cars I did last week, but I misread the information.

David, thanks for you contribution, I have not kept up on tanks and wouldn't know a Challenger from a Chieftan, but there are those modelers who would.

IMRC 40' PS1 Boxcar w/8' Door, A-Line sill steps, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. One of several hundred of these cars built, some with Superior and some with YSD Doors in general service on the N&W.

Athearn PS 2893CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray paint and lettered with Microscale Decals. Car was in Soda Ash Service on the P&LE and this is a repaint of a 1957 built car in the times of the PC.

Eastern Car Works Depressed Center Flat where I finally got around to putting a load on. Load is an old Kibri Transformer that fits pretty well on the small deck that was designed to load small transformers from a GE plant on the New Haven who had 10 cars built for this work.

Started work on another Anderson's covered hopper using the Tichy USRA Hopper kit with Panel sides as the starting paint. Will install the end and then add all the grab irons next.

I am kitbashing a Plastic's Plant and Plastic Pellet Unloading facility to go on the club layout in our new industrial area. Pellet Facility was from Walthers and I used Rix building sections to build the plant, need to finish the roofs and roof detail and it should be done.

Athearn SD39's ex Illinois Terminal that the N&W acquired with the IT hauling a general freight on the Strongsville Club layout. The actual SD39's spent most of their time hauling coal out the mines in Southeast Ohio replacing the ex-NKP SD9's and RSD-12's.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Bear .... Thank you for starting Weekend Photo Fun ..... Your hopper car project looks like fun. Nice work. 

David NorthBrit. ......... Those tanks make interesting loads. 

Rick .... The N&W boxcar and P&LE hopper look great. I like the flat car with transformer load. Nice work on your next covered hopper and the plastics plant . The SD39's look good. ........... You have been busy !

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#6303 (2-10-2) is continuing westward after picking up cars at the head end of the train. Here it is on the Mrs. Hippy River Bridge.

[Harrison]

I have a video to share this week, featuring an O scale layout that I recently visited. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/XKooOJRU_qk

[gmpullman]

Hello, Folks

Glad to see another great WPF! Thanks for starting things off with your covered hopper project, Bear. Any time a "minor modification" requires a hack saw you're in pretty deep! I know you'll see your way through 

Tanks are neat, David. I hope they cleared everything OK on their maiden voyage.

I see Rick has proper slope sheets on the P&LE 1768  Excellend work as usual!

Your bridge piers are a perfect shape and color, Garry. Very nice scene.

I like your Video, Harrison. Good Job!

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I'm trying to finish up a few little projects before I move on to bigger things. I've had this Rivarossi RPO car kicking around for a while. I decided I needed one for the Nickel Plate Road. It is pretty close to three (830-832) that they inherited from the L.E. & W..

NKP_RPO_832 by Edmund, on Flickr

The only decals I had were from Microscale and they are a hideous lemon yellow and the lettering is too tall for the letterboard  If that don't beat all, there wasn't a single numeral "8" on the whole sheet! The numbers came from a different set and those were a nice Dulux Gold color.

NKP_RPO_832b by Edmund, on Flickr

If I run fast enough no one will notice.

I find these Treadwell hot metal cars to be pretty neat. I just HAD to get one for the blast furnace 

Hot_Metal-a by Edmund, on Flickr

Hot_Metal by Edmund, on Flickr

This eighty-ton model looks like it does not have a mechanism for turning the vessel. I presume a hoist was used to lift the opposite side of the pour. I like the end trunion mountings.

Thanks for all the great contributions, Fellas'

Cheers, Ed

[Jimmy_Braum]

[SeeYou190]

Bear: Thank you for starting us out this week. I gave up accurately modeling brake system underfloor components a couple of years ago, and went to a simplified system that looks good from the side and is easier to install. Your modifications on the hopper car look good. I hope you can press through and complete the models.

David: I know of the modern "Challenger I" and "Challenger II" tanks, but was there an earlier tank also named Challenger?

Rick: I did not know the Eastern Car Work depressed center flat car was based on a design that was intended to haul a specific load. Thanks for that information. Your transformer load looks like it fits the model quite well.

Garry: I love the picture of the steam locomotive on the beautiful bridge.

Harrison: Thank you for sharing the layout visit you had. There sure is a lot of action going on! Did you make the video?

Ed: The brass model of the hot metal car certainly is a beauty.

Jimmy: Thank you for sgharing the short video on your Frog Juicer installation. I am glad it was a success.

I am travelling and have nothing new, but I can share an older picture from the files (just to join in the fun).

-Kevin

[HO-Velo]

Bear,  Thanks for rolling out the WPF and a view of your chop shop, but I gotta' ask, "do you have a permit for that saw?"

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and a Happy National Automotive Service Professionals Day, Regards, Peter

[BRVRR]

Bear - thanks for the start to WPF. Looks like the hopper project is growing.

David - The Chieftain tanks look good to me. Love the scenery.

Rick - Nice looking cars. Really like the depressed center flat and its load. Buildings are always hard to get right. Good photo of the SD39s.

Garry - Love the bridge photo.

Harrison - Lots of sound and fury. Big stuff!

Ed - Been there done that with decals. The RPO still looks good. The hot metal care looks great. Are you going to paint and weather it?

Jimmy - well done.

Kevin - Great photo.

Peter - Great interior photo. A lot of work went into that.

Nothing new on the BRVRR although I did get to run a few trains during this week.

Two rivals passing at the west end.

Santa Fe #5941 under the Route 32 overpass bridge.

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

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Ed, Allan, and Kevin ...... Thank you for the kind remarks about my photo. 

Ed .... Nice RPO car. I recall seeing the mail workers sorting mail in RPO's. Long time ago. .... The hot metal car looks like a winner. 

Harrison .... That is a lively Lionel layout.

Kevin .... That is a great photo of the train emerging from a tunnel .

Peter .... Your gargage scene is amazing and well detailed. 

Allan .... Your big diesels are impressive. 

Jimmy .... The frog juicer is remarkable. 

[Harrison]

Kevin and everyone- Thanks for the comments, I did indeed make that video. Today we went south to the Capitol Region of NY and visited a live steam club there as well as got a couple of things at a hobby shop... I will share later this weekend if I have time.

["JaBear"]

David, as long as you’re not trying to pass those tanks off as Mk IV s, I don’t mind though what I think really has no bearing on the subject! A bit of paint goes a long way, they look good. It’s a in different era, but my dad mentioned the trains of new built tanks, Bren Gun carriers, and military equipment on the GWR line that ran through Acocks Green, Birmingham when he was a school boy.

 

I actually can’t imagine your research would come up short, Rick. I suspect that you’re the only person who I “know” that wouldn’t have a foobie freight car in his roster. Nice work as per usual.

 

Speaking of nice work, another great scene from the Heartland Division.

 

Harrison, an interesting video of another aspect of model railroading.

 

“If I run fast enough no one will notice.” I’m not sure Ed, why some of us can be our own harshest critic??  That steel works car is an interesting bit of kit.

 

Glad that frog juicer has worked for you, Jimmy.

 

Kevin, good to see you’ve dropped in; good to read that your road trip is going well. I hope you get some quality family time with your daughter.

 

Peter, I was going to say that your garage work shop looks far too tidy for the Bear, but leaving a trolley jack in the middle of an access way is just the sort of thing that the Bear would do!!

 

Always good to see the action on the Black River, Allan.

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HO-Velo

...but I gotta' ask, "do you have a permit for that saw?"

 

The Bear don’t need no stinkin’ permit!!! 

 

That said, the Bear should not be allowed to have contact with any sharp instruments, blunt objects, solvents, adhesives, actually anything that one would normally find on any reputable modellers work bench!!

 

I had been following the “instructions” in the kit bash article, (yes, the Bear reading instructions is normally a minor miracle!!) and had taken the step to bond the weights to the bodies, when I discovered that the slope sheet angles had been changed on the prototype, necessitating a change to the outlets.

The Bear does own a Dremel type tool but could visualise melted plastic whilst cutting the bonded steel weight, so opted for the much slower, and safer option of using a small hacksaw and large file.

Patience is something that the Bear does not have in any great quantity, either, but I pleased to say that I’m now at the stage of working out the patterns for the new outlets.

Pattern by Bear, on Flickr

Thanks to all those you have shared your really Good Stuff; so far.

Cheers, the Bear.  

[NorthBrit]

Excellent  pictures (again) this week.   Thanks for the comments on my tanks.   I'll stick to calling them 'Chieftains' 

 

A family member was having a 'clear out'  and amongst some of the things destined for the trash was his old collection of model railway items.   He asked me if I wanted them.    

I got them home and began sorting thru the collection.   There was a lot of old, rusty track and the like.   A few pieces of good track which I put to one side.   I came across a few battered and broken trucks.   In fact I thought there wasn't going to be anything worth while.

Then;  at the bottom, wrapped in paper there was three 'blood and custard' color carriages.   They were in immaculate condition.  Why they were in such good condition and the rest not so?   I asked the family member why?   Apparently they belonged to his brother and his brother took a 'Flying Scotsman' locomotive in exchange.

The carriages.

 

 

David

[SeeYou190]

NorthBrit

The carriages.

David, I think you are The "master" of building charming scenes in small spaces. I am amazed at how much scenic goodness you put in your scenes.

-Kevin

[NorthBrit]

SeeYou190

 

David, I think you are The "master" of building charming scenes in small spaces. I am amazed at how much scenic goodness you put in your scenes.

-Kevin

 

 

 

Kevin.  Thank you for your kind comment.   I am taken aback at being called the 'master'.

 

I do not do anything 'special'.   I have the main things on the layout that interest me.  Wyndham Farm, canal, railroad scrap yard,  timber merchants  etc..    The little people all have a reason to be where they are.   Just look at life.  There are a million scenes of people going about their lives.

 

How many times do you follow someone out of a store and they stop in the doorway?   The child looking in the toy store window?  Is someone fumbling for change at a car parking payment area?  I could go on and on.   Just little scenes that I think would look good on the layout.

 

Where there is no scene, nature takes over.  Fifty shades of green in the trees, bushes and grass.   Nobody is looking after the grass, so it grows and is long or  short, maybe in between.

 

Oh!  Somewhere there is a train.  Here in the UK most times we can hear it and not see it, or catch a glimpse somewhere.

 

 

 

Nothing special.   Just see things  as they are  and not how I think they are.

 

 

David

[dti406]

 

I actually can’t imagine your research would come up short, Rick. I suspect that you’re the only person who I “know” that wouldn’t have a foobie freight car in his roster. Nice work as per usual.

 

Actually Bear I used the incorrect car for that SP car last week, but I will still use it in any SP consists that I run at the club.

And I do make an infrequent foobie!

I did this one some time ago to remember my time in Alaska, the Tananna Valley Model Railroad club had some decals make up for the Usibelli Coal Mine. The coal mine actually used cars from the Alaska Railroad and Alaska Basic Industries to haul their coal.

Garry, thanks for the picture that is a great looking bridge, I never tire looking at it and it looks better with steam.

Peter, I am with Bear, have never seen a clean looking garage like that one, nice modeling work.

Alan, thanks for dropping by I like the look of those big FP45's.

Ed, good job on the NKP RPO, I need to make up some NKP passenger cars to go with my Topedo Tube GP9, wish Rapido would do one of the RS-36's that were equipped for passenger service.

Rick Jesionowski

[cats think well of me]

Loving everyone's work! Great photos as always. I've been busy working on things but not taking a lot of photos. I'll have to take photos and post some soon. I don't think I posted these pics of the truck models I worked on. The windows are clear tape and Microscale Kristal Klear. 

Here's a disassembled gearbox for a Precision Scale B&M T1b 2-8-4 I got last month. I've since cleaned out all the old grease, put in new Labelle gear oil and grease, and still working on getting it running well. I replaced the rubber tube between the motor and gearbox with silicone tubing, and have new thrust-washers on order to reduce play with the worm gear and I hope reduce the gear noise. Additional pickups, LED lighting, sound and DCC, installed in the boiler are on the agenda for the model as well. 

[gmpullman]

Somehow I wound up with a double post   

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[gmpullman]

BRVRR

Ed - Been there done that with decals. The RPO still looks good. The hot metal care looks great. Are you going to paint and weather it?

Thank you, Allan and thanks to everyone for contributing and the positive comments on my RPO and "torpedo" car 

She's soaking in the bath to remove the lacquer as I type, Alan  Yes, I plan to give it a well-used look.

Here's a last-minute update on an F&C resin kit I finally finished up last night after being on the waiting list over a year!

prr_FM1 by Edmund, on Flickr

It was a fussy kit to build, not as bad as some resin kits but challenging just the same.

PRR_FM_container-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

prr_FM_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

I made an offer on a brass one a while back but $300 is just a bit more than I wanted to part with. I got the resin kit for about $35.

dti406

I need to make up some NKP passenger cars to go with my Topedo Tube GP9, wish Rapido would do one of the RS-36's that were equipped for passenger service.

I agree, Rick. The Nickel Plate "Don't get no respect" it seems. I painted a "close-enough" diner about a year ago:

NKP_DL131 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Looking forward to next weekend  Regards, Ed

 

["JaBear"]

Rick, you have shattered my illusions!!!

 

I like those trucks CTWOM; are they Sylvan products?

 

One of these days I must have a crack at a resin kit, Ed. An interesting car and load.

 

Thanks again to all those who have shared your really Good Stuff.

Have a happy week,

Cheers, the Bear.

[cats think well of me]

JaBear,

The trucks are Walthers models that came with the deluxe versions of the Team Track and Golden Flame Fuel Company kits. The paint schemes I kind of freelanced as I had left over decals that fit and added those to the trucks. 

Alvie

["JaBear"]

Thanks, Alvie.