Happy Weekend To All!
This is the weekly thread where we all gather to share our photographs of model railroad subjects. This is consistently one of the best threads on the Model Railroader forums every week.
Sorry for being an absent host for Weekend Photo Fun last weekend. I will try to do a better job this time around.
I have a pleasing little picture of a small scene that I have not shared before.
I hope we all have a great weekend. I am looking forward to some nice shares this week.
Oh... THANK YOU to everyone that contributed last week.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks for starting WPF, Kevin.
A lovely scene well done.
A modeling colleague here in the UK sent me two packs of kits, (free) both the same minus the middle kiosk. (He wanted them. )
I have started on one set of steps
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Does Dapol have other kiosk designs? I have a city station in planning and they would work in it
shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
NVSRR Does Dapol have other kiosk designs? I have a city station in planning and they would work in it shane
Beautiful work Kevin
David: those look like they're solid.
I'm making slow progress on my business car
(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).
Good morning from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio!
Little late this morning, my wife tripped and fell while hiking in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and ended up breaking her thumb, went to the orthopedic office for x-rays and a brace.
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, nice team track picture.
David, looks like and interesting structure can't wait to see the finished product.
Jimmy, slow progress is better than no progress, I have about 5 kits that I have started and have not touched since I moved, need to get to those sometime.
Here is this weeks projects!
Another Athearn Ribbed side hopper turned into a Panel Side Hopper, car was painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. The Wabash in 1941 built 25 of these cars for their Ann Arbor subsidiary, they were all gone by the 70's.
Intermountain 40' Ice Reefer kit, it was molded in the proper colors so I just gave it a gloss coat and decaled it with Champ Decals. PFE had thousands of these reefers shipping California produce to rest of the country.
Athearn NKP GP9's with a general freight running on the Strongsville Club layout.
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!
Kevin, Always appreciate and enjoy your kind efforts opening and hosting WPF, thanks again, liking your photo, especially the woodie wagon.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and Happy International Beer Day, regards, Peter
It looks like there was some good activity in Weekend Photo Fun overnight.
Thank you all for getting us off to a good start.
David: I buy all kinds of English small detail kits as I run across them. Most of them are from Ratio. I do not have any from Dapol, but those look like some interesting details in there.
Jimmy: At least you are making some progress, as Rick said, that is better than no progress, like I am having. I still have one unfinished freight car I left out when I packed up all the train stuff. Once I weather that one, I have nothing to work on until the train room is done.
Rick: Thank you for sharing your freight car projects once again. I do not usually comment on your pictured on the club layout, but your Atearn NKP Geeps look great! They really belong in that scene.
Peter: Thank you for sharing another of your fantastic photographs.
Lovely work everyone. I am doing scenery work these days, so not a whole lot to show from my own layout in terms of really good stuff, to quote the Bear. Thankfully, our local club helps me meet my need to run trains, including these two pride-and-joys.
20210803_201215 on Flickr
Simon
I almost forgot, i also have this video I took of my layout.
Note: Turn off your volume
The steps have been painted and are drying.
What will now become a small Taxi Office has been built and the glue is setting.
Once set it will be painted and a name applied.
Excellent modeling in this thread, as always.
I've managed to make some progess on my On30 boxcar scratchbuilds. Side, end and underside details are complete. Now I've just got to add the roofs.
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
I see outstanding contributions this week.
Kevin ... Thanks for starting the thread, and thanks to all who posted "really good stuff". Where is that Bear, anyhow?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
This is really admirable stuff this week Kids! I like to compliment individually but my phone is not cooperating.
I got dumped off from posting five times and I'm not quite as smart as my phone that I post with.
I don't have anything new but I dug up some old custom bridge shots that needs to be painted.
There it is and still not painted yet
My excuse is I move on to another bridge when I get bored with the last one
They all need to be painted behind me
TF
Thanks for starting us off this week Kevin. Quite diverse in the subject matter this week.
I was inspired by the ore trains last week and decided to pull out my ore train that I finished loads for last year and put it away. Only 22 cars but it looks great on the layout completely filled with loads.
Scott Sonntag
Thanks for setting up the 2nd August WPF, Kevin. You have your hands full and we appreciate your dedication!
Lots of great Stuff as usual. Ore cars seem to be the theme here lately. Nice job, Scott
I persevered a week of scraping, glossing, decaling, Dullcoating and prepping for weathering some of my MTH Bessemer ore cars. MTH only offered THREE car numbers .
B—O—R—I—N—G
IMG_1151a by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's the first half ready for weathering. Those in the foreground have had their shiny, chrome-like wheel centers painted by hand. No thank you...
I have some bamboo skewers that are the perfect size for stacking trucks for a quick blast of Rustoleum Camo Brown:
Trucks-rusty-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Then I add a few flicks of my special "Rust-O-Magic" powder. This is iron oxide that came out of a big heat exchanger tube bundle where I W**ked in days gone by.
I baked, dried and sifted the iron paste into a nice rusty weathering powder
Trucks-rusty by Edmund, on Flickr
While the paint is still a little tacky I dust a little of this stuff on and I get a little rusty appearance that is pretty convincing.
I'll be glad when this repetitious project is done
Shane, Walthers has offered this pair of news stands that might work for you?
https://www.walthers.com/newsstands-kit-pkg-2
I have a couple and they aren't too bad.
On to more great contributions, everyone!
Cheers, Ed
Simon: Thank you ofr sharing the picture of your two pride-and-joy Royal Hudsons on the club layout. They sure are handsome.
Jimmy: I really appreciate layout tours of works-in-progress. It is interesting to see everything coming along.
David: The little taxi stand is certainly going to be another nice detail on your layout.
Danny: The narrow gauge boxcar project is wonderful. Those are going to look amazing. Are they freelanced (I think almost everything On30 is freelanced) or are they based on an actual design.
Garry: Those gray F units with the red stripe are beautiful in your scene.
Fiddler: That great-looking custom bridge needs to be painted!
Scott: 22 ore cars is a lot. I only had 15 when I had an ore train in N scale. The couplers available at the time had them about three times too far apart, but the train looked great snaking through curves. Yours does too. Nice pictures.
Ed: That is a LOT of ore cars! Your custom weathering powder looks perfect. I had some real pulvrised rust I saved from a 1975 Cadillac, but I lost it years ago.
Nice work everyone! Thanks Kevin for opening it up.
I made about 18 trees some time back to expiriment. They're fine but sure didn't go far. This scene for example needs to be filled in way more dense. The front wood strip will be covered by a galvy metal fence.
I went and picked out a bunch of bitterbrush locally and shaped the suitable clusters for trees...
And went out east of town, Bend OR, into no mans land and brought home some more densly clustered dead sage brush. Ya gotta hunt that down. This is a box of leftovers yet to go through if more is needed.
These are ones I weeded out and trimmed to size, ready to add folliage to. (Waiting for an order of Superleaves to arrive)
We'll see how far these batches get me, but ground is getting covered, buildings built, track ballasted, greenery going in. Dan
SeeYou190 Danny: The narrow gauge boxcar project is wonderful. Those are going to look amazing. Are they freelanced (I think almost everything On30 is freelanced) or are they based on an actual design.
They're freelanced, as is most of my rolling stock. The idea is that the Bradford Valley Lumber Co built them themselves, with wood from their own sawmill.
Dan: When I make another trip out West I am going to need to forage for Bitterbrush and Sage Brush. Those look like perfect trucks/armatures for trees. It is amazing how many trees a layout can require.
Danny: Thanks for the information and background on your scratchbuilt boxcars. The story behind them is great. I have built a few completely freelanced boxcar designs and I like them a lot.
The last few days I've been working on converting a Bachmann N scale 2-8-0 Consolidation (Union Pacific) from a coal burner to oil. In N scale there are not that many steam engines readily available that have oil tenders so I decided to modify the Bachmann model so it could pass as an Southern Pacific steam engine:
For insight on the original MR did a review on the Bachmann Consolidation in the February 2019 issue. That link: https://www.trains.com/mrr/videos-photos/videos/news-reviews/reviews/bachmann-n-sound-value-baldwin-280/
For my model I did the following: The coal load was easily removed, which made this alot easier. Evergreen Plastics scrap pieces were used for the top and vertical end piece, and some creative use of a unused gold metal etchings were used for the railings. As the new oil tender top is removable, I was able to paint it separately without having to paint or mask the tender or engine. The Union Pacific decals used on both sides of the original tender were rubbed off the tender, using thinner and a microbrush, then replaced with Southern Pacific Microscale decals.
I haven't had to do much with the engine itself. So far I've only added the awnings over the windows on both sides. I'm trying to figure out a way to add a functioning coupler on the front. There isn't enough room to add a regular coupler so the manufacturer has a small non functioning coupler on it. Another thing I'd like to add at some point is a backward facing light on the tender. The model as made by Bachmann does not have a light.
I still need to weather the engine and tender and hope to get to that this coming week. Once I get that done I'd like to use the engine for switching, small freights and as power for a fire train:
So far a really enjoyable project. I've always wanted to convert a small engine to oil burning.
Thanks,
Jeff B
Kevin - Thanks for starting WPF. That is a nice quiet scene.
David - Platform access steps? A UK product. Interesting.
Jimmy - Any progress is good.
Rick - I particularly liked the PFE reefer.
HO-Velo - Nice scene.
Simon - Great photo of a pair of good looking CP locos.
Jimmy - Interesting video. Not sure if the "jiggle" is from the camera or rought track. Making progress.
David - Cool little office.
tbdanny - Good project. Nice job!
Garry - Great photo as always.
TF - Cool bridges. Really liked the last one. Cantilever?
Scott - Good looking cars and nice photos.
Ed - You have obviously got your hands full of ore hoppers. The lengths you go to for your hobby is astounding.
Southgare2 - Looks like you will be "growing" trees for some time.
Jeff B - Good job. I admire N-scale modelers. Since I can't see the details on the little models.
Nothing new or earth shaking on the BRVRR. I did manage to run a couple of the trains my grandson had on the layout.
Meeting under the Route 32 overpass.
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/
Nice pictures everyone.
I have been working on building an Nn3 turnout this weekend.
This will be a stub turnout, so it looks a bit weird at this point, but the frog seems to have turned out ok.
More scenery work on the unamed building. It will eventually look abandoned.
IN position This came in so I put it togther, andd put metal wheels on it painted. Painting. the FM was a pre stripped shell I pick up off ebay. I often wonder why Lionel never made a Reading version. It has color they looked for. to make colorful models that would attract kids at the time. So that is what I am doing with this one. The yellow is tru scale. The orange pass is MOW serice. Both the orange and grey suffered fractured paint. The primer didnt set right. I can work with the orange and make it part of the weathering. the grey is too fractured.
Shane
the track material came in for the HOe. so I started working on that.
SHane
Great work, everyone! The best thread on the forum.
York1 John