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Weekend Photo Fun July 25, 26, 27

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Weekend Photo Fun July 25, 26, 27
Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, July 25, 2008 7:35 AM
This weeks main project was to create an abandoned baggage car. My inspiration was such a car in Leesville.

This was the inspiration:



I started with a donated Rivarossi SP baggage car:



and reworked it into this:





Here's a photo of it on the layout:


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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, July 25, 2008 8:12 AM

Heres a few engines I have done. 

The one is for a guy that wanted his just all beat up.  Use to be a BRIGHT green. I think it turned out real good.

The next one is a beat up CSX with a old turbo fire.  I sold my SP engine (I showed some pictures of it on here) on eBay awhile back, and was flooded with emails on when I am doing another engine.  People liked the SP look...........So I gave this one a really good used look. 

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Posted by loathar on Friday, July 25, 2008 9:25 AM
RobbyP-What is that first engine? I don't recognise the model.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, July 25, 2008 9:29 AM
Looks like a GP35.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 AM

 loathar wrote:
RobbyP-What is that first engine? I don't recognise the model.

Looks like a GP20 to me... no idea on the railroad. You can make out some sort of maple leaf logo on the last photo...

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, July 25, 2008 9:59 AM
Hi all: Here's what I've been working on this week.     
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Posted by WCfan on Friday, July 25, 2008 10:17 AM
 TrainManTy wrote:

 loathar wrote:
RobbyP-What is that first engine? I don't recognise the model.

Looks like a GP20 to me... no idea on the railroad. You can make out some sort of maple leaf logo on the last photo...

Yep, looks like a GP20. A GP35 would have 2 large fans, and a small one in the middle, O o O, over the radiator.

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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, July 25, 2008 10:27 AM
 TrainManTy wrote:

 loathar wrote:
RobbyP-What is that first engine? I don't recognise the model.

Looks like a GP20 to me... no idea on the railroad. You can make out some sort of maple leaf logo on the last photo...

Roadname is HBR, possibly Hudson Bay railway Co., or a freelance

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Posted by Brian M on Friday, July 25, 2008 10:36 AM

I've spent the last couple of days assembling and painting two Tichy water columns and an oil column to add a bit more realism to my SP 1950s-themed layout:

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:10 AM

Hello looking good so far. This is my forgotten steamer. It is setting on some old trucks and missing a lot of parts. The tree growing form the window is my first try at making one it's ok I need more practice on those. Have a nice weekend Frank

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:18 AM
 0-6-0 wrote:

Hello looking good so far. This is my forgotten steamer. It is setting on some old trucks and missing a lot of parts. The tree growing form the window is my first try at making one it's ok I need more practice on those. Have a nice weekend Frank

It needs some rust. Here's mine.

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:25 AM
 Flashwave wrote:
 TrainManTy wrote:

 loathar wrote:
RobbyP-What is that first engine? I don't recognise the model.

Looks like a GP20 to me... no idea on the railroad. You can make out some sort of maple leaf logo on the last photo...

Roadname is HBR, possibly Hudson Bay railway Co., or a freelance

We have a winner!!! It's a Hudson Bay, and its a GP20.  Sorry for not responding.  Had to make a trip to the hobby store.  Ran out of cars to do. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:29 AM
 Robby P. wrote:

Ran out of cars to do. 

Laugh [(-D]

Just a suggestion: You might want to make the numbers and reporting marks look "cleaned" by the shop crew, as the FRA would probably bad-order such a grimy unit. Great job though! Puts my rust buckets to shame! This is about as dirty as they get for me...

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:32 AM
 0-6-0 wrote:

Hello looking good so far. This is my forgotten steamer. It is setting on some old trucks and missing a lot of parts. The tree growing form the window is my first try at making one it's ok I need more practice on those. Have a nice weekend Frank

Looks liike a heisler or one of those steam park trains with trucks.

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:41 AM

Hello yea it needs a lot of rust. Jeff you did a great job on those projects. I got my idea from the first time you posted that loco. Thank you. But I did not it to look just like yours. So I will give a light coat so it looks like it's not been there to long. It is a Roundhouse 0-6-0 . Thanks Frank

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, July 25, 2008 12:48 PM

Great work so far, everyone. I'll have some pictures later. For now, enjoy this one:

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Friday, July 25, 2008 8:16 PM

 Here is my MDC/Roundhouse 2-6-2:

 

 B.T.W, The loco isn't finished in the pic, but it is 98% finished. Just need to put the motor in.

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Posted by MRH044 on Friday, July 25, 2008 8:34 PM

  I wanted to share my latest summer project with you. This spreader has been sitting on my friends workbench for years and I am going to finish it up for him. He is an avid Santa Fe fan, so this spreader will be based off of the prototype. Here is a brief history from the Santa Fe Railways' Work Equipment Cars reference book by W. W. Childers:

"A ballast spreader is a car equipped with blades and/ or wings used for spreading or trimming ballast. Besides ballast work, the spreader can clean out ditches, widen embankments, uproot vegetation, track flanging, go head-to-head with snowdrifts and a host of other functions. The Santa Fe purchased thier first spreader in November 1907 from the MannMcCann Company. Since 1918, the O. F. Jordan Company has been the exclusive supplier of spreaders for the Santa Fe."

Here is a picture of the prototype 166241.

And here is the progress so far. There is a lot of work left to be done, but it is coming along.

http://www.haworthengineering.com/

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Posted by Wikious on Friday, July 25, 2008 10:03 PM

My contribution this weekend is my first shot at painting HO scale people. Here are twin conductors/switchmen.

And getting ready to jump off WSOR 3802:

 

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Posted by NYCentral1 on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:03 PM

Here's a few pictures of my progress.  This is my first ever layout.  So far it's been a learning experience!

This one I attempted a digital sky... It's not bad for a first try I think.

I still have a lot of details and things to do.

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Posted by loathar on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:16 PM
NYCentral1-That's some really nice work for a 1st attempt!Thumbs Up [tup] I really like your ground cover colors and the gravel lot looks great!
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Posted by cwclark on Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:36 AM

Here's my latest project a yard locomotive service center and a tunnel exiting the lower level...chuck

 

 

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Posted by Dallas Model Works on Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:15 AM
 NYCentral1 wrote:

Here's a few pictures of my progress.  This is my first ever layout.  So far it's been a learning experience!

 

I really like the "lay of the land" so to speak. Very natural in appearance!

You've avoided the look of the flat board world so common to so many first time layouts.

Well done!

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:26 AM

Nice work Chuck!

Great job NYC for a first attempt !

I started weathering some locos and am using my old DC locos for practice

unlike some I tend to keep them on the clean side till my skills improve

before

after just a simple ink wash and painting the trucks and couplers

I used this photo from the Chessie archives as a sample

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Posted by CSXDixieLine on Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:42 AM

 NYCentral1 wrote:
Here's a few pictures of my progress.  This is my first ever layout.  So far it's been a learning experience!

I am also just starting benchwork for my first layout. Oh please please please pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease let mine look just a little bit as good as yours does! Jamie

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:34 AM
 CO Fan wrote:

unlike some I tend to keep them on the clean side till my skills improve

Definetely on the clean side...Wink [;)]

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:44 AM
 TrainManTy wrote:

 

Nice job Ty if you put a little rust on the trucks i'd say you've got a copy of the orignal

 

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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:59 AM
Looks good everyone.

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:54 AM

Great work every one!

 cwclark wrote:

 

cwclark, that locomotive in the center of the shot, is that a SDP45? I was going to say it was a SD45X, but they had 4 radiator fans.

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Posted by RRCanuck on Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:47 PM

Nice work everyone - thanks for contributing.  NewYorkCentral that's a great job - all the more so for a first effort.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned here that I had made the switch to steam, at least for a while.  Here are a few pics of that...a combination of Spectrum and Proto this time, plus a beautiful 2-6-6-2 in brass... United / PFM Sierra RR, bought by my Dad - late 60s is my guess - and she runs like a charm. Interesting dark patina that I don't see on any of my other brass.

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