I finished the sixth and final house of my Slate Hollow PA (former) patch town. Now I just have to, you know, actually build the module they go on.
My current HO loco project ( meaning the one I am working on now).This is a SD40-3_CATT.She's a bit of a mutt,part Athearn,part ATLAS,plus Rail Power with some detail associates thrown for good measure.
That CATT comes from the fact if she was real the prime mover would be a big CATT diesel motor.My usual modeling scales are N and Z but I like playing with HO too.
Bob, Thanks, much appreciate your comments.
Again, Happy Easter to all, Peter
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. Lots of outstanding work this week
Bear,
Congrats, a beautiful and dare I say robust locomotive!
I love depressed center flats, cause when you need one, nothing else will do.
Our local show is next weekend. Hoping I've got the diss under control by then and can spend a few hours at the NMRA booth.
Made some progress on what will be the boarding house and company store, err, co-op for the Sunnyside in Eureka. The first floor and basement.
Frame up and coal bins spotted
Walls are up, getting ready for a bunch of battens, then paint and mill work.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
NittanyLion I finished the sixth and final house of my Slate Hollow PA (former) patch town. Now I just have to, you know, actually build the module they go on.
Are these from kits? Scratchbuilt?
Rich
Alton Junction
A quick shot taken on my iPhone last night on my Spokane Southern Railroad.
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Regards, Jerry
Regards,
Jerry
JerryZemanA quick shot taken on my iPhone last night on my Spokane Southern Railroad.
Nice action shot, Jerry!
The year is 2003.
In Switzerland, the Furka-Oberalp Railway (FO) and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt Railway (BVZ) have just merged to form the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway.
Locos and rolling stock yet have to receive the new livery of the MGB. On a nice day in August, railfans thus could observe FO locos pulling the famous Glacier Express on BVZ track, heading towards Zermatt.
Here, the train passes through Stalden (VS)-Neubrück, passing the little chapel of St. Michael´s, before reaching Stalden station.
Great stuff again this week everyone! Thanks for sharing.
Here is one from the BRVRR taken this week while my eldest grandson exercised his big Pennsy steamers.
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/
Ulrich,
When you mentioned the Matterhorn it reminded me of one of my favorite blue grass ballads, Matterhorn by the Country Gentlemen. I hope you enjoy.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=The+Original+Country+Gentlemen&&view=detail&mid=32625598CC704C80791432625598CC704C807914&rvsmid=BDAF25BA8DC77B65831DBDAF25BA8DC77B65831D&FORM=VDQVAP&fsscr=0
For the rest on this thread I also hope you will overlook my posting a non railroad related item
EDIT: Sorry about the first wrong link
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
Sorry about the wrong link should have been:
Hee haw, Bob - my kind of music. Thanks for the link!
richhotrain NittanyLion I finished the sixth and final house of my Slate Hollow PA (former) patch town. Now I just have to, you know, actually build the module they go on. Wow, what a great looking block of houses. Are these from kits? Scratchbuilt? Rich
Wow, what a great looking block of houses.
They're the City Classics Company House (http://www.cityclassics.biz/c_house3.html)
None of them were built to spec. They all received GCLaser shingles and I replaced 11 of the 12 steps to the porches and back doors with concrete or brick steps. Only the white house has the kit porch, but it has windows inserted into its foundation to imply a dug out basement. The others have scratchbuilt porches or additions using various amounts of porch parts from the kits, Evergreen materials, Walthers brick sheets, and Tichy windows and doors. Lastly, all have City Classics curtains and shades.
Also this:
https://goo.gl/maps/WXD1qW7m4HM2 Three red houses together, with two of them having additions to the front.
https://goo.gl/maps/HCG9YoTYqWy The brown house. The house on the left lent its porch to one of the red houses. It also became my white and blue house (I had some Conrail blue on hand instead of that jade-ish color the real house has). House on the right has the basement windows that went on the blue and white house and its porch went on the gray house.
https://goo.gl/maps/NYXyjp7iMTn The gray house. Its been extensively added on to and modified, but I think this started its life as a company house.
They're going to end up in a scene like this https://goo.gl/maps/2X8FCkHhsuA2 but along tracks that parallel the road (https://goo.gl/maps/egmzi8Z1MxB2)
So, yeah, a hodgepodge of Western Pennsylvanian-style scenes. If I wanted to pack them closer together, I'd have straight-up made it Vandergrift (http://binged.it/1pEciik), but I wanted to keep it ambigious. Plus I want to run my Amtrak Capitol Limited past it and there's no passenger service on the Conemaugh line.
NittanyLion richhotrain Wow, what a great looking block of houses. Are these from kits? Scratchbuilt? Rich They're the City Classics Company House (http://www.cityclassics.biz/c_house3.html) None of them were built to spec. They all received GCLaser shingles and I replaced 11 of the 12 steps to the porches and back doors with concrete or brick steps.
richhotrain Wow, what a great looking block of houses. Are these from kits? Scratchbuilt? Rich
None of them were built to spec. They all received GCLaser shingles and I replaced 11 of the 12 steps to the porches and back doors with concrete or brick steps.
richhotrain NittanyLion richhotrain Wow, what a great looking block of houses. Are these from kits? Scratchbuilt? Rich They're the City Classics Company House (http://www.cityclassics.biz/c_house3.html) None of them were built to spec. They all received GCLaser shingles and I replaced 11 of the 12 steps to the porches and back doors with concrete or brick steps. Excellent work. The shingle roofs really caught my attention. Rich
Excellent work. The shingle roofs really caught my attention.
Thanks, the brown house was the first time I'd never done anything with paper shingles. I did all six houses just eyeballing them. Got them surprisingly straight.
There's been no time for work on the layout in the last week or two. One weekend was taken up with having to work at our air show.
I know a few of you also enjoy RC planes, so I snapped a photo of the booth run by a local club showing off some of their planes.
Then it was off to LegoLand. "Mini Land" was particularly impressive where they used millions of Legos to create models of New York, DC, San Fran, and lots of other areas (including scenes from the Star Wars movies).
Ulrich!
MGB! I used to drive one of those! Loved it!
Sorry,
I do like your layout.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Bear:
Very nice locomotive!
mlehman,
I like the way those bushes on the photo of the team track look. I am almost finished with covering the layout with ground cover and will have to add some taller vegetation (trees & bushes) pretty soon. I went on Woodland scenics site and identified three products which can be use to make bushes:
Underbrush, Bushes and Clump-foliage
Which one of those products did you use to achieve such great results?
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Sir Madog Hee haw, Bob - my kind of music. Thanks for the link! Thanks for the video.......great scenery and the trains a real plus.... Bob