Weekend Photo Fun 27, 28, 29

[Packers#1]

myowngod: great scenery.

CNalways: Cool little train. what type of flat car is that? I need a few w/ loads like that.

[myowngod]

Here's some work I did Friday night at the MRR club.

I started to scenic the area around the overpass I've been working on.

One of the guys tossed a piece of 1/4" tubing at my and jokingly said to use it as a pipe running along the wall.  But that got me thinking and I ended up cutting it into some 1/4" long pieces and glued them to the base of the wall.  they look like drains coming out from the wall to relieve the hydro static pressure behind it.

It's coming along slowly.  I only go to the club ever other week.

[Flashwave]

Fun little picture

[CNalways]

Pretty light load for this old timer, but then freight is freight. Roy.

[stebbycentral]

I finally got one marked off of my to-do list. For some time the transformer yard at my power plant has suffered from a serious lack of security. 

A couple of weeks back while in Montana on business travel, I decided to check out the local hobby shops, as is my habit.  In this case, I visited Jim's Junction in Billings.  There I found a set of photo-etched wire fencing by BLMA.  Finally finished installing it tonight and here are the results. 

Because the fence sections are only a scale 6ft high I added a section of "concrete" wall underneath to build up the height.  It also helped in adapting the fence to the uneven terrain.  The gate is not part of the kit, I built it up out of pieces of Plastistruct angle, and a section of fencing material.  I will sleep a lot better tonight knowing the citizenry of my tiny town is finally safe from the dangers of electrocution.

[V&AL]

Pics are up, i'm gonna start a different thread, there's a lot here.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Lots of great stuff posted here before me. The following picute is one I just posted on another thread, but I thought it would be good for WPF, too. Cheers everybody.

[RRTrainman]

Russellville Yard is coming to life!

[V&AL]

no pics yet..

 

ya ya i know gimme a break... the paint's still wet!!

 

but the first Dixie Road locomotive is drying right now.  It will be a while before I get the decals made and applied. (unless someone can whip me up a set of white lettering... anyone got a white-ink printer they can run for a couple of bucks?)

 

I'll post a few pics later when the paint is dry and the loco is re-assembled...

[P & LE RR]

given the high cost of getting an out-of-production walthers plastic pellet transfer kit on ebay, I decided it would be a good opportunity to build the silos for a plastic pellet industry on my layout from scratch (except the walthers caged safety ladders):

[HEdward]

Hi,

 Here is a dual guage turnout I built earlier this week as part of a display I am working on...

 

 

This is one of 8 that was made for a display to be shown at the 2008 NMRA Train Show next month in Anaheim.

I have a few more shots of it on my site below.  I will add some of the other pieces to the blog shortly.

CNJ Bronx Terminal weblog 

Paint me yellow and call me chicken nuggets but that's more of a project than I ever envision myself taking on.  Based on the photos, I'll give you a ten.  You'll have to judge how well it works on your own. 

[Flashwave]

A weekend project.

[Packers#1]

Mike:

At the bottom, that's a local clasification yard, 2 industrial spurs, and the second main.

[MPRR]

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Well, here's the new plan:

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Looks like a puzzle to me. Very confusing at the bottom of plan. Is that your yard, or a very large complex? I can only suggest simplifying that portion of the layout

Mike

[wm3798]

 (excuse the mess!)

 

Your "mess" is a lot cleaner than my "clean"!

 

Tom 

Yeah, Stokesda,

A neat desk is a sign of an idle mind!

Mine's a sign of adult A-D-D!

Lee 

[fiatfan]

 (excuse the mess!)

 

Your "mess" is a lot cleaner than my "clean"!

 

Tom 

[tewahipounamu]

My first WPF posting. It's not much, but at last I put my depot next to the track. Obviously there is still a lot of work to do; but that train won't stop here anyway.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's a shot taken over the fence at the park.

[rolleiman]

Just a re-run of some smoke and mirrors from me this week. Haven't had much time to dedicate to MR..

Wabash O-1 4-8-4 #2907 crossing the (condensed) Rouge River bridge in Detroit outside of Delray.

[wm3798]

Sorry I'm late... I spent the better part of the day getting loaded...

I built this load up with some Evergreen beam and column shapes. I made the sleepers with little tabs so it sits securely on the Atlas N scale flat car, but can easily be removed. I first painted it flat black, then misted some silver aluminum over it to make it look more like steel. I then hit it with a couple of washes of dirt and rust, then brush painted the sleepers and dunnage to look like timbers. Blackened thread is used to represent the cables that secure the load to the deck.

Better weather that car up a bit!

I also finished this...

I used some cut stripwood, stacked on styrene strip dryers, and good old masking tape for the tarp. I blackened some thread with a sharpie marker for the tie-downs. I also built a small weight into the load. 

Good to see those flat cars finally carrying some revenue freight!

Lee 

 

[Steve_F]

Here is CNW RS3 1613 after its RS11 upgrade, my first attempt at a kit bash, a very simple modification that took a little more massaging than I expected to fit properly.

 

 

 

 

 

[stokesda]

I finally got my layout up and running after moving into our new house about 2 months ago. I had to compromise with the wife on layout space, so we have a dual-use spare bedroom. The room is approx. 10 x 11, and one half has our computer desk and the other half has my layout. Because of space limitations, I could only put up the modules to make half of my donut-shaped layout. The unused modules are stashed in the corner. I ended up with a 6 x 10 L-shaped shelf layout.

And now for the pics:

This first one shows the long end of the layout, which is basically a small yard. My benchwork consists of 10" x 13" L-shaped shelf brackets screwed into the wall studs. Each bracket has an 18" long piece of a 1x3 on top of it, which is what the layout sections themselves are sitting on. My workbench is under the layout on in the background. (excuse the mess!)

 

Here's the other end. Can't see the trackwork in this one either, but it's a small industrial switching area. Since I couldn't use the next module down the line, I don't have enough lead track left to do any switching, so I'll have to concoct some sort of removeable staging system. I'm thinking about something similar to Dave Vollmer's setup that I could remove after every operating session.

 

A closeup of my Zephyr mounted on a shelf under the layout. The thing sitting on the layout above it with the phone cord attached to it is a handheld throttle I built for the Zephyr using the plans from http://www.tonystrainexchange.com/technews/zephyr-cab.htm I followed the plans exactly, except I installed a phone jack in the throttle so I could use a coiled phone handset cord that could be unplugged and replaced if necessary. So far, the throttle works like a champ!

 

Here's my trusty P2K SD-45 leading a MOW train, consisting of 2 Tyco reefers that have been fitted with masonite track cleaning sliders.

[howmus]

Some really nice photos again this weekend!

I managed to find a few minutes now and then to work on the hillside below the farm.  Finally beginning to come together for me.  (Please ignore the bits of foam scenery sitting on the tracks.... At least I picked up the tools before taking the photo......)

Decapod #279 pulls a consist of freight cars out of the tunnel upgrade to do some switching up on Bare Hill.



To the left of that is a waterfall cutting through the Finger Lakes Devonian Shale near the lower tracks:

[Packers#1]

Well, here's the new plan:

A U25B:
[copywrited image removed]

See all the locos here: www.isrwypaintscheme.tk
Please vist: I need 25 hits in 90 days.

[mikelhh]

 Steve_F  I love those Alcos of yours

 

 Mike

[gkhazzard]

Hi,

 Here is a dual guage turnout I built earlier this week as part of a display I am working on...

 

 

This is one of 8 that was made for a display to be shown at the 2008 NMRA Train Show next month in Anaheim.

I have a few more shots of it on my site below.  I will add some of the other pieces to the blog shortly.

CNJ Bronx Terminal weblog 

 

That is some amazing trackwork.  Great job! 

[Anonymous]

CNJ; That looks excellent! You should contribute some of your photos to MR's Gallery!

Nothing really new from me, just some photos of my work-in-progress Koester Foods industry, scratchbuilt out of foam core board.

[selector]

It is great to see RRCanuck back posting, and with rather nice images if I do say so.   Lou, nice to see your contribution.  Terry, a nice little setting you have there.  CNJ, as usual, a top notch image from you.

-Crandell

[CNJ831]

A lazy autumnal afternoon in downtown Putney, NY (circa 1941) , on the Hudson Highlands RR.

                (click to enlarge)

CNJ831

 

[C&O Fan]

I picked up an Alexander Model's "Little Hook" crane

it was a fun kit

I wanted to put it inbetween the tracks and use it as a transfere dock but there's not enough room

Wish my camera took better closeups