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The daily run to Adobe Flat leaves town as the local crew finishes some switching.
Tom
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Thanks for the kind comments, chaps.
Here are a couple more with last night's project - a delivery wagon - and one from a different angle.(apologies for handheld wobble)
Jon
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Helpers are a mainstay on the Allegheny & Cumberland. Here at Coal Fork Jct, two helpers are leaving the helper pocket & will tie on to the end of the awaiting coal train for a shove up to Sand Patch Yard ....
Some wonderful modeling here as usual. Makes me feel inadequate.
Art, an incredible mountain. Jaycon12 that is a nice little lumber yard. I'm going to look for space on the BRVRR for one.
My latest project for the BRVRR is this NYC GP-40 #3075. I built it from an Athearn BB kit I had in CSX livery. The idea was to give my new Atlas GP-40 a running mate. After painting and decaling the shell, I added LEDs for lights using Atlas diffusers. The handrails are from Atlas as are the air-line hoses. The MU hoses are from Kato and the grabs from Detail Associates. Not as 'finished' as its Atlas brother, but adequate for my needs.
This is an updated photo of the West end of the BRVRR layout. One of many new photos on my updated website.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
Edit: I changed the photo of the GP-40. First one was the wrong loco.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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I went to the Prince William County Model Raolroaders Club Open House this morning.
The club rents the old Quantico Station and has renovated it to accomodate their layout.
Here are a few pictures I took.
As I was leaving the parking lot A CSX train came by and I got a picture of the lead engine.
Bill
The engine house with the doors glued shut is an oft-told tale. Here's how I solved it with my scratchbuilt shed...
Both doors are functional. I built the hinge using a length of Plastruct rod, which is a steel wire in a plastic sleeve.
I stripped the plastic from about 1/8" at each end, then glued the plastic part to the hinge side of the door. The bare wire extends above and below the door edge.
I built up a foundation, and included pockets at the base of the door openings. The hinge rods nests in the pockets. I then provided similar pockets at the top of the doorway on the inside of the front wall.
I left the roof to be removable to make it easier to assemble. The foundation is permanently attached to the scenery, but the building can be lifted off for track maintenance, or to clear that errant locomotive that falls off the track inside... not likely, but Mr. Murphy spends a lot of time in my layout room!
You can see the hinge operating in this view... and here it is with paint...
I added a door stop at the top of the frame to keep the doors from pushing inward, and a clip that allows both doors to open when a locomotive pushes on one of them. This was a pretty fun, and relatively easy project once I worked out the door hinges.
Lee
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Found the card reader!
The cats were playing with it....that and my diarama!
Anyway, here's my new structures: West Concord Paper and New Poland Cement.
I also added a bit of street running.
Lotsa photos! Sorry about all of them, they're built up over about a week. \
EDIT: Forgot to crop some of those....
Concerning "ENCOUNTERS", you people have the correct geology, but the wrong upthrust. Encounters happen at "Devil's Tower". My mountain is inspired by The Superstition Mountains as seen from Usery Park and on the trail to the Massacre Site. That mystery, of course, has to do with the Lost Dutchman Mine, and my fantasy is that the mine was found and that two competeing claims are now working the vein. That accounts for the railroad and the bridges, yet to be designed. For those familiar with the Massacre site, you will notice that I have compacted the valley by several miles to give more of a canyon that is apparent when hiking there.
I do thank yoiu all for the responses, in that this part of the layout is the culmination of 60 years of dreaming and 10 years of reserch on the site. It may take that long to build it. Here are pics of what it looked like last year at this time and two years ago.
TrainManTy wrote:Very nice Art! Your general layout feel reminds me of John Allen's work! Great job!I have plenty of new stuff I haven't shared, 2 scratchbuilt industries, and a new section of street running, (after the article on street running in TRAINS and the embedded rails in MR this issue, I couldn't resist.)Unfortunetly, I can't find the camera card reader! They're on the camera now.
Very nice Art! Your general layout feel reminds me of John Allen's work! Great job!
I have plenty of new stuff I haven't shared, 2 scratchbuilt industries, and a new section of street running, (after the article on street running in TRAINS and the embedded rails in MR this issue, I couldn't resist.)
Unfortunetly, I can't find the camera card reader! They're on the camera now.
I must be lucky, my card reader is built in to the PC!
Here is a pic from a freinds layout
Art, simply outstanding and very dramatic scenery.
Jon, incredible as always, Sweethome just gets better and better.
Looking good everyone.
Karl.
Eddie_walters wrote:
Ed,
I'd be very careful posting shots like these. You might make Dave Vollmer decide to switch scales!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
My current project is rebuilding the Bachmann PRR D78c diner to a more typical D78R, specifically 7991 for my 1941 "Pennsylvanian" consist (although it will be used on a layout representing 1940 - shhhhhh!). It's satisfying to put together a train with models of the specific cars that were used originally. The consist will be around 9' long when completed. So far the cars I have built are a 6-6 Pullman from BCW sides on a Branchline core, an almost complete 8-1-2 with skirts, full width diaphragms and streamlined roof, a PB70 combine and a 12-1 from a Branchline kit. I still need to build the mid train lounge "Andrew W Mellon" from a Walthers Solarium, with skirts, etc, get a Fleet of Modernism 10-5 from Walthers, and build a P70kR, possibly from the NKP car co kit. The loco will of course be the ubiquitous K4s.
Anyway, on to the Bachmann rebuild. The car as produced by Bachmann represents a very narrow timeframe - 1930 to 1932, and only 3 cars out of a class of 119 cars. To upgrade it to a reasonably accurate model of a D78R, the car needs an air conditioner adding to the underframe, a few of the underbody details rearranging, a vent at the steward's end of the car, a new interior, the kitchen and aisle windows replacing and a few other detail changes. The photos below were taken in the middle of this week - since then I have added stovepipes to the roof and hacked out the hole for the louvered vent at the steward's end of the car. I have also beefed up the center sill of the car as it is far too shallow as supplied by Bachmann. Still quite a way to go, but at least it looks a bit more like it should!
I haven't gotten a lot done lately but I did work on the Atlas (brand) lumber yard and surroundings a little.
Here's a couple of shots of the building as it comes out of the package..
and after some weathering, new roof covering and the use of some ground goop to help blend that base into the surrounds..
To me, it looks a lot better.
Jarrell
Nice work everyone, as always. I don't have much new to look at this weekend but here's something old.
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Jon,
Your work is inspiring as always! Makes me want to do an urban scene, though I'm sure I'll fall short of yours!
Here's my contribution this week:
Train 33 leans into the curve through the cut and flies over US522 behind PRR Class EP-22 #5890 (EMD E8A) en route from New York to St Louis, following a locomotive change at Harrisburg.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
It has been since Jan that I did any real proper work on my RR - see Bill, you have made more real progress than I.
Over the last two weeks or so I decided the procrastination was enough. This is the Walther's Creamery kit - first of 5 buildings with roof just set in place for now. Before I can do anymore in this area I need to drop in some torti behind this building.
I used Rustoleum primer. Lightly applied it did not cover the brick detail. Will still add a light morter wash.
Regards,
Bill. Slow going ? Hey, any progress is good. Don't be discouraged. Many of us go for days, weeks and months without doing anything.
Art, I think you did your mountains carving foam, correct? I like. I've recently been working with a friend who is doing wet casting with plaster. Your examples just show that there is always more than one way to skin a cat.
Jon, your pictures are astounding. I'm modeling 1952 but I feel like your pictures are pulling me back ... back ... back!
Rotorranch wrote: lvanhen wrote: Art, are you having an "Encounter" on top of that hill?!! Great job!I just noticed that...Awesome place for an "Encounter".
lvanhen wrote: Art, are you having an "Encounter" on top of that hill?!! Great job!
Art, are you having an "Encounter" on top of that hill?!! Great job!
Awesome place for an "Encounter".
He modelled it out of mashed potatoes first.
Very ambitious, Art! Careful around that quarry.
selector wrote:I caught this lovely gal laboring lightly ahead of a considerable coal drag.
Uhh, Crandell... that's an Allegheny!
Nice cure for the midwinter blues.
Great shots, all.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
I've been collecting some more 1930s-style vehicles for Sweethome Chicago.
I am now busy with some billboards and posters for the layout
I am enjoying all the real and definitely real images, guys.
For this week, I returned to an old favorite railfanning site of mine, the natural portal in the west of the Seneca Falls Sub. I caught this lovely gal laboring lightly ahead of a considerable coal drag.
I went railfanning for the first time in years today. Unless I'm mistaken, I spotted the last SD20 that the Wisconsin & Southern owns in the Janesville Five Points yard. (Later in the day, I also moved from a great filming spot only to have a train pass it minutes later.)
Mark P.
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lvanhen wrote: Art, are you having an "Encounter" on top of that hill?!! Great job!Terry, Is the farmer in the red suit answering natures call? Great job also!!
Terry, Is the farmer in the red suit answering natures call? Great job also!!
On the other hand , this was intentional:
Back right corner of the building.
Terry
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Good work, everyone!
Here's a couple of railfanning snapshots I took while I was on a business trip a couple of weeks ago. I was touring the Civil War battlefield in Fredericksburg, VA.
This first shot was taken at Hamilton's Crossing, where the extreme right of the Confederate battle line was. During the battle, they off-loaded resupply trains from Richmond near this spot.
This next shot of a CSX southbound freight is not a very good one, but it was also taken from the top of a ridge near the far right of the Confederate battle line.
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
Moving into the final stretch with my engine house project. One of the things that slowed me down a bit was that I had to fabricate my own door hinges. While installing the plastic hinges that came with the kit, I managed to glue one of the doors in a permantly closed position. In the process of trying to free up the door I trashed two of the hinges on it. It's one of the few things I have found about this kit of which I am critical. There are a number of small parts molded in plastic that are far too delicate for regular use and handling.
I wound up replacing all the hinges with my own homemade ones. I made the hinges out of .005 inch sheet brass. I folded the brass like a flag around a standard sewing pin, and soldered it together. Being careful not to solder the pin to the brass as well. The pin is then bent 90 degrees, and inserted into the door jamb. It worked out pretty well.
What's left is interior details, and interior and exterior lighting.