Weekend Photo fun 9-14-2007->9-16-2007

[Hoople]

Great job everyone!

Some of you bridge-builders are making me want to go build a 4' long trestle on a 32" radius curve that is 2' tall... Man my challenger would look awesome on that! (If of course I could actually build one, LOL.)

[Maurice]

Frank, what everyone doesn't understand is that the pink color is actually camoflauge for blending with the pink styrofoam hills on a lot of layouts out there!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Last night I posted pics of the ballast that was just laid on blocks 4, 4A and 4B of my layout. I said I would post pics of it when the ballast was dry, and here they are. I still have to go through and pick the ballast of the sides of the rails.

 

[wedudler]

I've made two more videos. Alco RSD 15 WT 2048 with a train from International Falls to Westport and the  counterpart train with two GP 35 in FREMO BELT LINE and Westport Terminal RR paint scheme.

Wolfgang 

 

[PA&ERR]

reklein, I think that was someone else, I was asking about Jwar's bridge. BTW the article on the Stoney Creek Bridge is also in Kalmbach's Model Railroad Bridges and Trestles.

Here is what I've been up to this weekend.

The bridge is a Walther's single track truss bridge that I cut two panels out of to shorten it and the abutments are Woodland Senics retaining walls that I "sliced and diced" to fit my needs.

(yeah, I know the photos are a bit blurry and the lighting sucks. I just wanted to get a couple of quick snaps to put up here.)

George

[selector]

John Warren, thanks for your comment. Here's a right back atcha...I have to keep going back to your photos to see more of what the images contain.  The rocks are some of the best I have seen, and you did a very fine job of placing the footings and abutments in place and making it all look engineered and natural.  Well done!

I like bridges.

-Crandell

[Milwhiawatha]

Looking good out there. Some good shots all around.

Milwhiawatha- No I don't have an SDL39. I heard that Kaslo was making one but I would like to wait for the price to drop or if I can find it at a train show for a cheaper price. Right now, $400 is a little more than what I want to spend on a plastic kit. But I do think it is a nice locomotive, not to get you wrong or anything.

Happy railroading

James

James,
   the kaslo one is nice but where did you find out $400.00? is that what he is selling them at now? I got mind for 250.00 with decoder. I got it Wednesday its will be a lot of work but it wil be worth it. I do like your collection of Milwaukee road locomotives.

 

[perry1060]

Thanks Jack,

I'd love to see construction photos --- it's a work of art!

[reklein]

PA&ER, There's a construction article and plans for the Stney Creek Bridge in I think one of the 1992 or 3 MRRS.

CMSTPP,How come you don't have that "Little Joe" mixed in the deisel consist. Don't let the fact there's no catenary stop ya. I love that locy. I'm just too cheap to spring for one. Walthers? Athearn? P2K? A good plastic "Little Joe" would be a really good thing.

[CMSTPP]

I have a few more pics for this week.

Here are three units climbing the 2% hill out of the grain valley.  Leading is an SD10, then a SD7 and a GP38-2. They are handeling a 35 car grain train out of the valley. Not that many cars but all are loaded making the train about 6000 tons. and ther's only about 5600 horsepower. Not even a one HP per ton, so there working pretty hard.

Another shot of it climbing the hill.

There actually wasn't much going on in the yard. Just some locos sitting aside in the terminal. These Two U-boats sleep waiting for the next task.

Happy railroading

James

[Printer]

 Odds & Ends!

OMG!!! I remember buying gas for 17.9¢ a gallon.
And I grew up in Detroit, drinking Stroh's "long necks". Brewed with the finest Detroit River Water.

Beautiful work you're doing.

thanks for this memory jog.

Scoot

[jalajoie]

Thanks Corey, Jeffrey and Perry for the comments on the bridge.

Jack,

That just might be the coolest bridge I've ever seen! Can you tell us more about it --- like where it comes from?

This our reproduction of CPR famous Stoney Creek bridge in BC Canada. Scratchbuilt in styrene and highly modified Central Valley bridge parts. It took a year to built at a cost of $1000.00 fort the parts.

We are presently doing the scenery behind the bridge and had to remove it from its location. As soon as it will be back in place I will post more photos along a bref history of its making off.

Jack W.

 

[PA&ERR]

Gads...been all day and only two bridge abutment's in. OH well,...Im retired and aint no one on this railroad gonna fire me. John

JWAR, is that Keddie Wye? It looks pretty good. I'm putting in bridge abutments on my layout this weekend. I hope to have some pictures up by the end of the day.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Looking good Tyler.

[Anonymous]

Here's a few newer photos:

 

And here's 2 movies:

http://picasaweb.google.com/TrainManTy/TylerSTrainPix04/photo#5110494089780078754 

http://picasaweb.google.com/TrainManTy/TylerSTrainPix04/photo#5110494089780078754 

Enjoy! 

[Dave Vollmer]

Don't know if this counts, because I used my flatbed scanner (which is dying, hence the reduced quality) instead of a camera...

...but this is my latest project.  This is a Fine N Scale Models resin/brass Pennsylvania RR X31a 40' double-door roundroof boxcar kit I finished in the original 1934 PRR circle keystone "Automobiles" scheme.

These are great, easy little kits.  Cheap, too!  Fine N Scale also has great customer service...  one of the kits I bought was missing the steps.  The owner called me at home to confirm where to send them (free of charge, of course) and even sent additional free parts!  We had a very good chat about the N scale freight car market.  I highly recommend them.

In spite of the reduced quality of this image I wanted to share my latest work (I haven't done much model building lately until this project).

The X31a is the current project for the PRRPro Pennsy prototype modeler's Yahoo group.

[NeO6874]

Now if I can only figure out how to get those really cool looking rust spots/stains that so many cars have WITHOUT the use of an airbrush... 

These kind of rust spots .....

//killed the pic

 

 

absolutely! 

[Driline]

Now if I can only figure out how to get those really cool looking rust spots/stains that so many cars have WITHOUT the use of an airbrush... 

These kind of rust spots .....

How do you make those rust spots? Those are too real.

 

[loathar]

EspeeEngineer- Are you guys going to have that layout at the Franklin show in Dec?

[jbinkley60]

 

A couple of shots of a new industry and a football team truck which started around the layout this week, after opening day.

 

[jktrains]

Now if I can only figure out how to get those really cool looking rust spots/stains that so many cars have WITHOUT the use of an airbrush... 

These kind of rust spots .....

 

[jwar]

Selector...I really like that head end shot, the tracks really carry to eye to the back of the picture. Gives the impresson of massave space..Great work...John

[selector]

Really nice images up there, everyone!  Another winner weekend.

Here, NYC Niagara 6001 leaves Seneca Falls pulling the noon special.

[jwar]

Gads...been all day and only two bridge abutment's in. OH well,...Im retired and aint no one on this railroad gonna fire me. John

[steinjr]

  This weekend, I have been playing around with the inside of one of my buildings, trying to learn how to make it not look like an empty shell.

 Found a use for the box the building came in - the cardboard seems to be suitably thick to make floors and dividers, and the grey inside of the box is a pleasant background color.

 Use the roof as a template for making floors:

 

 Then searched google images for "factory interior", "factory machinery", "warehouse interior" and a few other things, downloaded images, cropped and resized until the images fit between the floors (about 570 pixels high in 300 dpi, about 180 pixles high in 96 dpi - ie about 1.9"/4.8cm), printed out the images, cut them out from the sheet and glued to a divider/ background made from the edges of the box.

 My first attempt ended up looking like this:

 

 I then stuck this on one of the "shelves" (ie floors) and closed the back with another piece of cardboard cut from a box a building came in. It looks reasonably okay when viewed from a normal distance on the front side.

 Here is a closeup (where I probably should have played around with focus and exposure time, but my camera is a little too automated to make it easy for me to do that):

 

 Time to go find myself some more pictures and continue playing with this.

 Smile,
 Stein

 

[Anonymous]

good thing they're cheap to replace

Yes, but the inspiration is priceless! 

[claycts]

My Train weekend sort of got deraled if you will. I went to look at a new toy insted.

Well it is not NEW but I had to go look since it is for sale now

1934 RR with a Gurnet-Nutting body. Did you know he wants more for that than a Brass Big Boy

PS the quality of pictures and contents are just outstanding!!! Even that "NEW GUY" Jeffery is doing great.

[NeO6874]

good thing they're cheap to replace

[Anonymous]

I look forward to this thread every week, but the continual right-click/save-as is going to wear out my mouse and hard drive!!

[NeO6874]

Dan, 

That gondola looks terrific!  Very nice job on that!

Dan, did you base your weathering on pictures you took or were able to find on the Internet?  Or, did you just "play with it" till got something that you liked?  Again, very, very, nice.

A litle of all three.  There's a scrap-metal hauling shortline that goes through Bedford (on the tracks that go in fromt of the station) where some of the cars have definitely seen better days. I also had a few pics I found online open as I was painting it so that I had something to approximate.  

 

Now if I can only figure out how to get those really cool looking rust spots/stains that so many cars have WITHOUT the use of an airbrush... 

 

George - thats a great video .  Only problem I had with it was that it was too short!