Weekend Photo Fun 3/7/07 to 3/10/08

[pike-62]

Here are a couple of F&C PRR hopper kits I finished up this past week.

Dan Pikulski

www.DansResinCasting.com

[shayfan84325]

I put coreless motors into a couple of brass locos - a forney and an NWSL Shay.  Here's the forney just before I closed the hood:

And after surgery:

Here's the Shay:

What the pictures don't show is how well these engines run.  The Shay creeps along with a top speed of 10 smph, and the Forney can creep so slowley I can count the ties as it passes over them (it still tops out at about 40 smph).  Both are very smooth.

I also took a picture of the Blackwater depot:

And a buzzard's eye view of a couple of the Blackwater insustries:

Hope you all had a great weekend.

[Iain42]

I worked on my Norfolk Southern 2-8-4


The trailing truck still needs some work


I also worked on this:

[Southwest Chief]

I'm working on our 2 USA G scale long cabeese to make them look more D&RGW like.  They started out looking like this.

 

And after working this weekend, here's one with finished plastic work, next up is painting and lettering for 0505.  The other caboose that will receive similar work will be numbered 0540.  I can't wait to paint over that bright red paint with a more realistic boxcar red.

[NSlover92]

Well I might as well post my last of the weekend I weathered this boxcar, and then went to weather another and relized its the same one! So I put the one next to the other for before and after (edited by selector).

 

Mike 

[radar]

Put up some fascia boards today?

[wm3798]

Here's some of the action you missed yesterday. Actually I missed most of it, too. These were some of the the trains I re-staged this morning for some photo run-by's...

First, the grain extra powered by Bobcat's N&W Centuries...

Here it is clearing the crossover at North Junction.

AJ-1 clears Maryland Junction while a coal extra arrives eastbound on the Thomas Sub.

Here we see AJ-1 crossing the Youghiougheny on it's way to Ohiopyle

There were, of course, some "lease units" on the layout yesterday. Here's the pairing that Ed brought to amuse us:

and we had some help switching Westvaco, thanks to Brian's GP-35.

That sucker needs some serious weathering applied to it.

We ran about 20 train movements in the space of 4-1/2 hours, including locals, thru trains that neded to be switched in the yard, and a bunch of coal.  A splendid time was had by all.

It was also nice to have CSX_road_slug (That's Ken there on the right) who I met through this very forum.  Always a pleasure to meet another model railroader! 

Lee

[NSlover92]

NSlover92, attaboy,way to get a good start.Keep your eyes and ears open,and watch for good deals specially at the swap meets. You'll have an empire in no time.

Thanks ya'll for compliments, I'm working on that empire . Mike

[jeffrey-wimberly]

GP50 MGRy 471 and GP38-2 GWWR 4099 in the shop at once.

 

[reklein]

NSlover92, attaboy,way to get a good start.Keep your eyes and ears open,and watch for good deals specially at the swap meets. You'll have an empire in no time.

[Kenfolk]

 

 

 

Is that you?

No--I took the photo. 

[selector]

That sure looks like a nice place to live, Perry.  Nice location, too.

The SD-50 looks like an impressive piece of kit!   Every guy should have one of those in his back yard, along with a nice excavator/backhoe of course.   Two things the well heeled gentleman is not without.

I can't remember if I posted this on WPF (I don't think so), but here is another photo of the H-8 gingerly trying the trestle.  So far, so good.

[dragenrider]

Heres my Weekend Photo Fun, I started to favor this curve alot.

I plan to add plenty more details ofcourse, but for now here is what i have.

That reminds me of the kudzu covered hills of North Carolina along the Southern Railroad.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Tom .... This is my only MKT train. I was inspired when I sw a picture of a KATY PA1. I had an old, Hobbytown PA1. I painted it and lettered it. Masking the nose was a little time cosnuming. The secret to the curved border is to use a curve blade on an Xacto knife and roll the blade over a piece of masking tape. With a little practice you can make curved masking tape that way. The passenger train is a ConCor set I purchased at a train show. It is weighted to NMRA standards and it has body mounted kadee couplers.

My fictional division of CB&Q interchanges with any road I want with the Katy being one.

[perry1060]

Winter shot of the Superstition Mountains from my driveway. The snow layers itself and looks like frosting between layers of a cake. One day I'd like to model this mountain scene.

 

Shot of Weaver's Needle we took from a recent hike on Paralta Trail. Another scene to model someday.

 

Layout shot...

 

 

 

[NSWRDivision80061]

Heres my Weekend Photo Fun, I started to favor this curve alot.

I plan to add plenty more details ofcourse, but for now here is what i have.

[New Haven I-5]

 John, nice video! I really liked the first sound decoder. Is the whistle a EBT whistle?

[WCfan]

I haven't looked over the whole 4 pages, but from what I've seen so far, there is some really nice work! On page four, NSlover-92, that sure looks nice!

El-capitan, your layout is coming along nicely, I like it.

CWclark, those locomotives look nice. I especially like the Ex SP SD50.

Here's my contribution. Or more so a preview of what I'll be doing next weekend.

At a few train shows I picked up 3 Soo Line 7-Post Fon du lac boxcars. One is already built and will be kept in SOO reporting marks. All I need to do is fix the sill, add new Stirrups, and finish painting the roof.

The other 2 kits I still need to assemble. These two will be patched in WC. Here's a picture of the kit.

Here are some proto type shots of the patched SOO ones.

http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p37542028.html

http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p21042661.html

http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p21042660.html

[el-capitan]

I've never minded handlaying the track. The finished product has always given me alot of satisfaction. The one thing that I now HATE is cutting my own ties. For the first 300' of track that I put down, I cut all my own out of basswood planks. I think that works out to be about 7500 ties for O scale. If I had purchased all of those from Kappler it would have cost me only $200, well worth it considering the amount of time I spent on the saw. Never again. Live and learn.

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Garry,

Glad you like them. They are from BLI, one with QSI sound and one without - both very nice IMO.  There is very little released for MKT, so I grab what I can. I will have to learn how to paint loco's eventually.

Regards,

[Driline]

I've been away from the forums for a while but here is one of the areas of the layout that I've been working on lately. This was the last section of benchwork that I needed to build for the layout and is also the end of the line for the Deming sub, Silver City, NM. This weekend I've been putting some of the partially built structures and some rolling stock in the city to see how everything fits. Ties are going down slowly but surely. Nice job everyone on the posted pics.

 

Wow, those are some of the biggest HO engines I've seen! Your layout is very nice. I would not have the patience to handlay track.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Jon, that's an outstanding video!

It brings back memories of when I was 4 and we just moved to Chicago area. My grandparents lived just north of Chicago in Evanston. They took our family to an old family restaurant called Andy's in Evanston, and it was just across the street from C&NW. I called the trains "Andy's trains". All of the dirty old suburban passenger trains had steam power, and some of the cars had open platforms if I remember correctly.

Jon, you certainly have achieved realism. Congrats!

[jon grant]

No photos from me just yet but I did get round to shooting some video clips of some decoder upgrades to a couple of my steam fleet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrF5v2W066k

Will try and post some photos later

Jon

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Tom: I like the MKT E8's. Feel free to tell about them.

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Not much going on in my world. Been putting together torti - not much to look at.

I did take a break from that activity and worked on a new building (Walter's modulars) for that 2" space above the stone wall.

The new one here to the left will be the Taylor mattress company. Have some ground leveling to do, roof, windows ... etc.

 

Shot from the other side.

 

Regards,

[New Haven I-5]

 

 

 

Is that you?

[cwclark]

Here's my latest.

 EMD SD 50 was a D&RGW  then SP, now a UP patch.

Helm Corp. lease unit SD45-2 transverses the bridge.

 New project: The GCC Rio Grande Limestone and Aggregate quarry.

 

 

[el-capitan]

I've been away from the forums for a while but here is one of the areas of the layout that I've been working on lately. This was the last section of benchwork that I needed to build for the layout and is also the end of the line for the Deming sub, Silver City, NM. This weekend I've been putting some of the partially built structures and some rolling stock in the city to see how everything fits. Ties are going down slowly but surely. Nice job everyone on the posted pics.

 

 

[NSlover92]

Here is what i did tonight, my first weathering rolling stock project, I use powders, Sorry about flash, and low light in others my camera is pretty bad, I have a cannon Rebel XTi coming though. Cant wait anyhow here they are,

Mike