Weekend Photo Fun 22-24 August 2014

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, well a photo of the 6 Tichy stake pockets that I managed to find time to affix to the side of my scratch built, (or to be more accurate, should that be scratch building???), flat car is not about to awe or even amaze the Model Railroading world. In fact, quite frankly, it doesn’t even cut the mustard, so from my train show archives, this is where it generally all started in this part of the world, Hornby O gauge clockwork.  

Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One fflokes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[mlehman]

Woah, someone must spend a lot of time polishing brass.

Many may have seen my Rio Grande SDL39 already.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/231838.aspx

Now I'm thinking about a SD30?!!

There was no such thing, but that hasn't stopped me yet After all, they're practically the same length. I'd like it to be a SDL30, but EMD had no lightweight 12 cylinder, turboed engine to drop in  that was suitable...we'll have to see about this.

I finished 3 camp cars for my MOW gang.

Got coal to retailers finally, but it's late and can post more tomorrow.                                                                                                                                                                                               

[GDRMCo]

Mike, a 12cylinder version of the GP30's turbo 16-567D3 engine would produce 1687hp, close to what the SD7/SD9s were making. Might be an idea?

["JaBear"]

Not sure about your time frame or how many horses you want Mike, but the NZR DFT class had V12 turbocharged EMD 12-645E3C prime movers producing 2510 h.p.

Cheers, the Bear.

[Catt]

Mike, EMD had a SD30 on the books,but no buyers so it got no further than the drawing board.In our version of reality however there have been several versions of SD30s including a hi hood Southern unit.If you do your version (NG I assume) please post a lot of pictures.

[Motley]

Cheyenne Depot Station at night.

[GP-9_Man11786]

Bear, Love the tin plate. It's always neat to see our hobby's roots.

Mike, Your locomotives look great.

Michael, The night shot of Cheyenne Depot looks awesome.

Here's what Iv'e been up to this week:

Michael's had a 40% off one item coupon ths week so I took advantage and printed a stack of them and bought some more lichen. I was only able to buy four bags before they caught on. But the mountains have trees all the way up one side of Horseshoe Curve.

I also started building the Gallitzin and New Portage tunnels:

The suppoort columns inside the tunnel box were all cut from a cardboard tube that was rolled inside of an area rug my wife and I bought.

 

[mlehman]

GP9_Man,

Those mountains look great!

Yeah, the SD30 thing sounds familiar now. I wonder if it was going to be on the same frame or on a longer one like the SD24?

On the EMD turbo-ed 12 cylinder, I think that came in with the GP/SD/38/39 series, so a SD30 having one might be a stretch. Then again, maybe the SD30 was HOW they secretly tested it in a mountain hideaway?...

Now, a NG one would be cool, but the bulk factor looms. We shall see...there's always something on the secret drawing boards at the Lookout Mountain Locomotive Laboratory.

Now for some more pics of my work cars...

This one was seen in unfinished form in last week's WPF. Now I wish I'd done a bit more sanding. It's still a little "fuzzy" in hi-rez. It's an outfit car, so basically a rolling office/break room/warm place, very useful on a mountain railroad. It's based on a boxcar the Silverton Northern  had on the roster, a Rio Grande-hand-me-down via the Silverton RR. I presumed it survived into the 1960s by being in MOW service.

Silverton Union RR 0112 is a Tool Car. It was modified from HOn3 Railway Engineering Carter Bros ventilated boxcar kit, which helpfully has end doors in both ends, making it ideal for this transformation. This side has the walk-in door, but the other retains its sliding door for loading large items. Windows from the scarp box. I also added modern safety appliances and rebuilt the underframe so the coupler was part of it, rather than slung underneath. The trucks are brass takeoffs from brass cabooses upgraded to Blackstone trucks.

Camp Car SURR 0123 is another Carter Bros/Railway Engineering model. It provides sleeping facilities, a small kitchen, and -- best of all at the end of a hard day -- a solar heated shower. particulars as with 0112, except walk-in doors on both side. I'm assuming the Carter Bros cars were bought used from a California NG line, but no evidence of them actually being in Silverton...but who's keeping score?

 Carter Bros trucks by Rio Grande Models were supplied with both kits, replaced by the cushy ex-caboose trucks. I plan to use the RGM trucks for a future logging project.

[C&O Fan]

 

Busy morning in the Thurmond yards

 

 

 Here's a video of #5 and #25 leaving the water tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KA6_SXTY2k&feature=youtu.be

 

 

[Hobbez]

Both are Carey cast metal shells.  #49 is on a modified Athearn Genesis sound chassis.  #47 is on a dummy frame for now.  The boxcar is Exactrail.

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

All the photos look great this weekend, everybody. Keep up the good work! 

Here is an ABBBA lash-up of F-units 

 

[Kyle]

Heartland Division CB&Q

All the photos look great this weekend, everybody. Keep up the good work! 

Here is an ABBBA lash-up of F-units 

 

 

 

What is your show me request?  Or would you like to make it show me anything?

[Grampys Trains]

Oops, wrong thread, Kyle. Garry, your  F locos are always impressive. An ES44AC Heritage  on the point entering the yard.

 

[Kyle]

 Sorry about that, I thought I had clicked on the Showme Something thread.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Kyle .. Not to worry. You should see some of the stuff I do with my senior moments. LOL. 

DJ ... Thanks for the remark ... I see you could not resist getting a heritage locomotive. Nice engine 

[Grampys Trains]

Yes, Garry, the devil made me do it!

["JaBear"]

Great stuff as per usual ffolkes.

Kyle, you are allowed to post a photo here.

 

“Woah, someone must spend a lot of time polishing brass”.

Yeah, I’m not sure how much restoration work had been carried out Mike, but a few items in that group were new in the 30s.

GP-9_Man11786

Love the tin plate. It's always neat to see our hobby's roots.

Yeah, I enjoy it too, and I must admit, even if some of the Hornby O chaps can come across as being a little unusual, I get annoyed with my contemporaries who look down their noses  at tin plate as not “proper model railroading. I read an article in older book some thirty years ago which described how Norman Eagles clockwork powered Sherwood Section of the LMS ran time table operations!!! He had worked out; taking into consideration the weight of the trains rolling stock, how many turns of the key it took to get from one station to the next.

I realise that you’re working in N but the size of your “earthworks” is amazing.

Cheers, the Bear.

[BRVRR]

Good stuff again this weekend guys. Thanks.

Bear, I enjoyed seeing the 'tin plate' old timers.

MikeL, great modeling. Very interesting cars.

Motley, the Depot looks great.

GP-9 Man, good work on the mountains. Wish I had room for some.

Terry, great yard scene.

Garry I like the CB&Q lash-up and not just because they resemble my BRVRR house F-unit.

Grampy, great photo as usual.

Here is another of the 'beauty shots' I took for my inventory update.

BRVRR F-7 #1116 rounds the curve at the west end of the layout at the head of a short freight train. The model has a MRC chassis and mechanism with an Athearn shell and is equipped with a TCS T1 decoder. The paint scheme is the first one I attempted years ago.

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

[HO-Velo]

Bear,

Thanks for sparking up the WPF and my interest in Hornby.  Hornby history and their involment in the world's longest model railway is a facinating story.

The Vuelta a Espana begins today, Venga! Venga!

Thanks to all, regards,  Peter

[Jimmy_Braum]

No photo this week, but expect one next week.  The club I belong to is going to do a "ballasting party".

[dti406]

Great pictures and modeling everytone, I am a little late and getting ready for the bowling season got me a little more behind this week so here are the cars are finished up today!

I showed some in progress pictures a while ago on this car, but I procrastinated with the masking of the paint colors, but finally got around to finishing the car this week.  It is a Pfaulder Milk Car, IMRC kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and Floquil Pullman Green paint then lettered with Highball Graphics decals.  Can't see all the work that went into the underbody decals, but I really like the car and have another to build.

IMRC 40' PS1 Boxcar Kit w/7' YSD to match the prototype car. The Buffalo Creek Railroad was an industrial road in Buffalo, NY serving a large flour mill.  All the cars were lined and sprayed to keep out weevils, they had a few hundred of their own cars that could be found on all the railroads serving Buffalo.  Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and then lettered with Dan's Resin Casting Decals.

Branchlne 40' 1944 AAR Boxcar Kit with Panel Roof and 8' YSD.  Car in general services but equipped with a DF Loader for specialized service.  Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals.

Better late then Never!

Rick J

["JaBear"]

Rick, in what years would your Pfauder Milk Car have run in that paint scheme?

Peter, was your layout built primemarily for the bicycles or the trains??

Cheers, the Bear.

[mlehman]

Peter, was your layout built primemarily for the bicycles or the trains??Smile, Wink & Grin

Just wait until the Faller Bicycle System hits the market. Then things will really get crazy...

[dti406]

Rick, in what years would your Pfauder Milk Car have run in that paint scheme?

Cheers, the Bear.

 

I do not know about this scheme directly but the steel sided cars were built in the late 40's and were built for the cremeries rather than the railroads who preferred the wood sided cars. The milk trains started going away in the 60's with the demise of the secondary passenger trains on the railroads as these cars were mostly handed on those trains.  The final run of any of the milk cars were on the B&M Railroad in 1972.

 

Rick J

[GP-9_Man11786]

Bear, Mike & Allen, thank you for the kind words. The moutains ar only about 18" tall in most spots. I find shooting with a wide angle lense can make things look more massive in General.

Rick, your rolling stock looks just fantastic. You make me want to raise the bar on my own work.

[Anonymous]

Again, so many inspirational pictures!

Work on my On30 Keg HArbor layout has come to a grinding halt, as the number of mistakes I made in the process of planning and building the layout have taken a lot of the fun out of it. The layout´s future is not yet decided, but chances are pretty good it will have to make way for something completely different.

.. which could be a small HOn3 layout.

This beauty has been spending 40 (!) years in a box, stowed away in my attic and nearly forgotten. It got a good cleaning job, as the drive was all gunked up. It now runs, but not very good, as the blind middle driver sits a tad to low, so she will hardly pull her weight. The loco needs a new gear box, a new motor, headlight and a DCC decoder, but that´s way beyond my means and skills. Add to that list a new paint and lettering job. I wish our loco doc Darth would live close by!

[mlehman]

Ulrich,

That's a classic. I don't have any 4-6-0s on the roster, but like the looks even though I hear they're nothing like a K- or even C-class in terms of tractive effort.

Darth may weigh in, but I can suggest another locodoc who may be able to help you. I believe you're looking for either the K-3A or K-3B motor/gerabox conversion on this page: http://locodoc.com/SuperGlideDriveHOn3.html

I've got one of these drives in my C-25 and it vastly improved performance over the stock set-up.

[Anonymous]

Mike,

thanks for the info!

I looked at their prices - ouch!

[ALEX WARSHAL]

I did some more work on my passenger car fleet. (Rule 1 cars) Now I have 5/7 done. Just the RPO & OBS to go.     

[Doug from Michigan]

I finally finished this Walthers kit a few weeks ago, and got it weathered this weekend.  It was the first (and probably last) kit I assembled with details this delicate.  As you can see, not too many of the stirrups made it this far.