Good morning from cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio!
This is a place where modelers can show their uncompleted projects, completed projects and layout photos both new and old. Let the weekend begin.
Intermountain 40' 1944 AAR Boxcar kit, substituted an 8' plug door for the slider, just like the DT&I did to there 14000 series boxcars to turn them into Insulated Boxcars for loading canned goods from the Campbells Soup plant in Napoleon, OH. the DT&I had several hundred 40' and 50' cars in this service. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Armour Yellow, Boxcar Red and Aluminum paints and lettered with K4 decals.
Exactrail 4427 Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White Paint and lettered with Oddballs decals. Car was is general grain service in the midwest.
My new Bowser Alco C-636 Demonstrators which I can run with any train I wish, right now they are filling in for power short PC.
Thanks for looking,
Rick Jesionowski
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Rick, I really like the DTI car. What dates would this conversion have taken place, and what parts did you used for the door?
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Thanks!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Rick, the cars look great as per usual.
heres my projects: first up is a Concor GP38-2 redone into the Patch Job of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. the prototype was acquired from Norfolk Southern (along with 5 other GP38-2) in an auction. The Wheeling only patched out the NS logos, and applied their own number and markings. I still need to Dullcote it and weather it.
This coach above is a work of fantasy. This is a What if for the Wheeling, assuming they buy another passenger car for their OCS train, to match their present Theater end 1990.
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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).
SeeYou190 Rick, I really like the DTI car. What dates would this conversion have taken place, and what parts did you used for the door? . Thanks! . -Kevin .
Original Cars were built in 1948 (ACF) and 1950 (Greenville), they were rebuilt in groups from 1956 to 1963.
I used an 8' Plug Door from Front Range Models kits that I had left over as they seemed to supply both a slider and a plug door with each of their kits.
Rick ... Thanks for starting the thread. .... Your fright cars look great, and I like the C-636 locomotives.
Jimmy .... Nice looking GP38. The coach looks good and reminds of of one used for the Ski train in Colorado.
Here is an older photo of F-units and an SD9.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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dti406Original Cars were built in 1948 (ACF) and 1950 (Greenville), they were rebuilt in groups from 1956 to 1963. I used an 8' Plug Door from Front Range Models kits that I had left over
Great news, so converting one in 1954 does not sound like too much of an anchronistic stretch. I need to find one of those Front Range kits and salvage the doors.
Thank you.
Good stuff again this week guys. Thanks.
Pennsylvania FAs at the head of a string of empty gondolas pass the Red Wing Mill at the east end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Rick: Thank you for getting us started. Also, thank you for the offer ofhelp!
Jimmy: I like the beefy look of the high hood GP-38.
Garry: Gray and Red is a color combination that is hard to beat. Those F units are handsome.
Allan: The PENNSYLVANIA units are sharp too.
I finished a couple more of the NMRA Heritage Fleet freight cars this week. No big accomnplishment here. They are really just Accurail box shakers, but my collection of these is growing nicely.
This week I present the SAINT CLAIRE & NORTHERN and the EAST PENN LINES.
Keep the good stuff coming! Happy weekend everybody.
Rick, I like the DT&I plug door conversion, too. My dad worked for Campbells during college making V8 at a plant in Terre Haute, IN in the early 50s.
Jimmy, Black always looks like all-business on locos.
GARRY, Nice pic of some distinguished liveries.
Allan,
Those FAs look sharp.
Been getting ready for the Illinois Terminal Division's monthly meeting and ops session, which is here this month as we get ready for the big Lincoln Square Train Show on March 30 and 31. The Facebook page is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/352890541974185/
A bit of unfibished biz from last week first, as Kevin wanted to see the new boat after it was painted.
I picked up a Hasegawa 1:72 scale US Aircraft Weapons Loading Set sometime ago to study it's components for kitbashing potential. This modestly priced kit will build several different items commonly found on the USAF flightlines during the late 60s to early 90s. There's a Ford tractor that is small in 1:72 and a rather larger machine in 1:87.
There's this hydraulic lift that's used for bomb loading but has potential as the base for trailers of differing lengths
in HO. The drawbar/jack handle is moveable and positionable like the lift arm.
Next is what could be a wide load hay wagon. It's about 10' wide in HO, but could be narrowed.
Been experimenting with some grass mats as sources for turf plugs I cut with my hole punch then apply with a little dot of Tacky Glue.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Heartland Division CB&Q Jimmy .... Nice looking GP38. The coach looks good and reminds of of one used for the Ski train in Colorado.
well, Several board members and quite a few employees of the Wheeling are former Rio Grande employees, so that probably explains how WE has the speed lettering, orange on black Chevron Stripes, and the scheme on the real Theater end car they own. speaking of Theater end cars, work has halted on my Freelanced road OCS Theater car. I'm trying to plan out a floor for the car.
Rick, Thanks for getting the WPF rolling with your fine rolling stock and handsome pair of Alcos. The nearby Campbells soup plant gets real busy during the tomato harvest and appears to be a U.P. customer.
Borrowing from Otis Redding, 'Modelin' the dock of the bay'.
Thanks to all the contributors and happy daylight savings time, Peter
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Another one just for fun. Grandpa got to run his trains today.
Two coal drags. A Pennsy and a NYC. Each with ten cars on the BRVRR layout.
Keep them coming guys.
Here is a photo of the "fun" I have lined up for the rest of the weekend.
I have 30 pairs of Kadee trucks to paint. Oh boy!
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Thanks everyone for contributing to the best thread of the week.
Finished the centerbeam flat/load.....
Thanks, Terry
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Terry: Great job on the lumber load.
I finished painting all those Kadee freight car trucks!
All I need to do is clean a little bit of stray paint off of some of the wheel treads.
Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it! Looks like you got a lot of trucks and wheels done in short order, I don't envy you one bit.
Terry
Fishing 1 by Bear, on Flickr
Much appreciated Bear! This poor fellow thinks the mud puppies are biting.
Thanks and regards, Peter
Thanks for starting us off this weekend, Rick!
Excellent submissions, as always, fellows!
I added a GMC mobile crane to my arsenal of lifting equipment.
Road-crane1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Best hobby ever! Cheers, Ed
This was a great edition of Weekend Photo Fun! Thanks to everyone.
Rick: I sent you a PM.