Looks like I am first this week!
Mamaged to finish one car this week!
Branchline Models 40' AAR Boxcar kit, added A-line Sill Steps, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. I needed more N&W Cars, and this was an Ex-Wabash car which made it perfect for me.
Finished with the main decaling on the M&StL RS-1, have to add the window glass and decal the number boards, along with some work on the frame and this puppy will soon be done.
Athearn 5344CF Boxcar kit that I have finished building and will be painting this weekend. As I can't find any more of the Exactrail kits, this will have to do although too wide compared to the prototype.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Rule 2: I make the rules.
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That NW car looks sweet. Although, IMO, it could use a light weathering lol.
Here's my last project on the club layout before open house starts next week (This sunday for NMRA members!!!!)
I lit up the Shire Oaks roundhouse I built. Let me tell you, the light sure exposes any open cracks, although by the end, the prototype probably had a ton as well. It was a string of Christmas tree LEDs, possibly temporary, but I think they work well here. I do need to eventually go back and touch up the cracks with styrene eventually.
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Rick,
That RS-1 is looking good!
Jimmy,
Yeah, lighting things up will expose all those places where light leaks through. If apperance doesn't matter on the inside, I've found that using the black liquid electric tape stuff is great for fixing them quickly and easily. Just control the stuff, as it gets everywhere if you're not careful enough.
Had a great ops session last weekend, starting with a review of my required items to satisfy the checklist for the Golden Spike Award, Need to get my paperwork in, but felt good to do that after ~25 years of work.
Things went well and my new scheme of assigning yardmaster/local crews resulted in some gratifying outcomes. One was a whole yard full of freight ready to go, with two complete trains (one for Silverton on Track 1 and another for the Cascade Extension on Track 3). We have another session tomorrow (Sat) where this will dovetail into a good start for it.
We did have a mishap on the turntable when a Withrottle was fat-fingered while the turn was still going on. Put the loco on the ground, easily enough fixed, but tweaked the rail ends on the bridge, requiring some repair work. This change the location/alignment of the end just enough to require a full reprogramming, not just reindexing, so here you see the bridge spinning.
#28 on the table successfully...
And off without a hitch.
Called it a night at that point as I was entertained by news and info from Bearland, ummm, better known as Radio New Zealand, on my new (used) shortwave via this antenna I built to catch the signals fro 8,000+ miles away. They even gave the weather, so I can now know if it's sunny skies or not quite flying weather down there. It's the wire that terminates in the middle of this antenna farm at the small vertically standing white PVC tube in the center of the pic.
Shortwave and model railroading, bringing us all a little closer together
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Long-time lurker, first-time poster here! Spent the last few days turning this very plastic-like Conrail SW9 into a well-used and now-leased unit. Still trying to get better at weathering my rolling stock (i like everything to look old, beat up, and rusty!). :)
-Jon
LakeErieExpress Still trying to get better at weathering my rolling stock
Looks good to me!!
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LakeErieExpressLong-time lurker, first-time poster here!
That's some fine, gritty-looking motive power you have.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Bear,
Those are tasty looking. Some sort of harbor launch, too small for a tug I'd guess? Makes a heck of an interesting load, if I may so, much superior to Irv Athearn's old tub.
mlehmanSome sort of harbor launch.......
mlehman .......much superior to Irv Athearn's old tub.
Thanks for the kick-off, Rick!
Nice work this week. I love the bell on the M & St. L RS-1. I've seen some early EMDs, even E-3s on the Santa Fe with steam-type bells mounted on them! Neat detail (I see Lake Erie's SW9 has an open-yoke bell, too) I also have a fondness for ACI labels, I guess 'cause they were from "our" era, even though I model an earlier period, I have a few newer cars with them applied. Another neat detail!
The shadows on the wall from your lighting of the roundhouse is neat, Jimmy. Lights give a structure a warm and inviting look! Very nice!
Good to see your progress, Mike. We "old timers" with turntables find them to be a necessary evil. Glad you got yours aligned again. Mine seems to have acquired a bit of slop in the mechanicals and I'll have to address that soon. I have a NYRS stepper motor and I see they have redesigned the software so individual tracks can be adjusted, a real plus since otherwise you have to reprogram ALL tracks
I like the beat-up look, Lake Erie! My railfanning days were late NYC, PRR and into Penn Central. Almost everything was in rough shape! Nice work... hope to see more!
Bear, that makes a pretty neat amphibious load! Maybe you should have some girlie boats to keep company with the buoy boats? I just happened to see that Uncle Wally (Walthers) is producing an HO DUKW.
https://www.walthers.com/gmc-dukw-duck-amphibious-6x6-truck-kit
A couple of these would make for a neat flatcar load, but sure would break the bank!
Some of you may remember my latest focus of the past few weeks. Tonight I was hitting the grass and making some progress!
For a refresher, here is a "before" shot from a couple of weeks ago.
My goal was to try to conceal that plywood helix in the corner.
Mission accomplished, I hope. That's my caboose track that the NYC U-2 is backing into. I'm searching for just the right structure, and I think I've found one, to act as a yard office, crew shanty.
I made a road through the yard to access the office.
My nerves are shot for now, though! I use a home-made static grass applicator and I don't know how many times tonight I allowed the mesh screen to contact the grounding pin but everytime I do, POW! Then I jump and fling grass everywhere!
Scares the SP daylights out of me! POW!
Next will be some weeds and brush and a little airbrushing of the R-of-W to tone down some of that new ballast...
Great work, everybody! Thanks for sharing.
Ed
Really good stuff from everyone. Here's a meet at Blue Mtn. tower.
Rick, Thanks for the WPF start-up and the views of your fine rolling stock modeling.
Jimmy, I commiserate with you, chasing light leaks is not the most fun part of structure modeling. Been using gaffers tape to seal light leaks, makes for nice roofing material too, not to mention great for temporarily holding parts together without leaving sticky residue.
Bear, Considering the big shaker in NZ extra good to see your post. Looks like you had a boat-load of fun with your flat car, nice.
LakeErieEx, Your locomotive is grime after my own heart and an inspiration to re-post the GN boxcar that my son weathered for me last year. Keep up the dirty work!
Thanks to all the contributors and regards, Peter
HO-VeloBear, Considering the big shaker in NZ extra good to see your post.
I agree with Peter, the more I hear about the NZ quake, the more concerned I was. One I read today was saying there was radical changes in the topography in the quake zone.
Good stuff again this week guys. Thanks for sharing.
Bear, glad to see your post(s). I was thinking of you when I saw the news about the quake in NZ. Hope you and yours are all well. My best to your countrymen.
I picked up five 4-bay hoppers at a train show in Medina earlier this month to add to my coal train. I installed body-mounted couplers, weighted them with pennys and made loads for them with foam board and Woodland Scenics lump coal. Next are some metal wheels which I will probably have to order on line as none of the local shows have featured any.
CB&Q 800747 is representative of the group.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Bear wrote...
there has been massive rearrangements of the geography, 10 ft changes in levels which have closed both State Highway 1 and the South Island Main Trunk Line.
Depending on the surrounding terrain, 10' difference on a road is something that a bulldozer and some dump trucks of gravel can solve temporarily.
For a rail line, 10' is a bunch...not good at all
Been looking at those buoy boats, tough little things looks like.
Nice work, everyone.
gmpullmanGood to see your progress, Mike. We "old timers" with turntables find them to be a necessary evil. Glad you got yours aligned again. Mine seems to have acquired a bit of slop in the mechanicals and I'll have to address that soon. I have a NYRS stepper motor and I see they have redesigned the software so individual tracks can be adjusted, a real plus since otherwise you have to reprogram ALL tracks
Ed,
Mine's a Diamond Scale TT, with a 12-position rotary switch control NYRS drive. Works great and the reindexing is usually all it needs, but the fix shifted the rail ends enough on the bridge to require a full reprogram this time.
Late to the party...Taking water at Hetch Hetchy Junction.
Have fun,
Guy
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