WPF 8/22- 8/24

[Packers#1]

Great work everyone

Nothing new from me. I'll go back through my locomotive roster, though:

Ex-Norfolk & Western GP35 #1306 

GP30 #127

Ex-Bay Colony GP9 #129

Ex-Kansas City Southern H-15-44 #128 and retired ex-SEC ex-Santa fe #770

[David Woodard]

I have not posted pics in a while, because I have been too busy to make progress.  My son's layout, though, had some progress...  My wife took these pics while I was at a meeting.  These are our niece and nephew.  Enjoy....

[jacon12]

I haven't done much photo shooting this week, been working on a car shop.. but here's a little scene right outside the shop.

Jarrell

[jacon12]

No fair shooting the real thing and trying to pass it off as a model!  Man, that is just TOO cool.

Jarrell

 

 

Siding, with short bridge over Route 22, that serves E.G.Walker Coal in Putney, NY.

CNJ831

[cheese3]

here are some of my pics, i have been working on building new bridges, i have one done so far. I carved it out of a brick of plaster its not exactly even but it adds character i like to say an inebriated N scale worker set the forms for it, lol

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffrey,

I know this is after the fact.  Could you use black shrink to cover the wire bundle?

Tom

It'll eventually be covered by electrical tape.

[tstage]

Here the wires can be seen passing between the two units. Being that they're close-coupled the gap is only a 1/4 of an inch.

Jeffrey,

I know this is after the fact.  Could you use black shrink to cover the wire bundle?

Tom

[Packer]

Jeff, I personally would have tried to run the wires through the bottom. Paint them black and then you have MU hoses.

Well, I got some motive power the last few days. This is only about half of what I got:

On the GP30, I painted the handrails white. On the SD45s I painted the handrails and step edges white. The step edges were a pain, but I think they came out good.

I just got the decoder for SD9 6232 installed. This unit was the first P2K unit I had, and the first one I weathered

My lighting isn't great, but hopefully if I can go to the MR club tommorrow (provided what's left of Fay isn't too bad) and get some pictures there, instead of on a desk.

I'm still waiting on another P2K GP30 and 3 Atlas/Kato C425s. (the later I got for 10 bucks each), They should show up at the door soon.

[nscale1969]

Here my contribution to the WPF for this week..

9215 works the mill...

 

[OzarkBelt]

Jeff- Impresssive, most impressive!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I've completed this weeks project. That was to install one decoder to run two locomotives. Here's an account (with photos) of how it was done.

First, the item on which this is all centered. The decoder to be used.

This is a standard Bachmann two function decoder. There's nothing special about it. Current capacity: 1 amp. Motor output: 1 amp. Function output: 100 mA.



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Next are the chassis to be used. Twin Proto 2000 FA chassis. Since they're both identical we'll focus on one. Here the pickup wires have been linked with their identical twins on the other chassis. Now I know somebody out there is going to notice that a red pickup wire is connected to a gray pickup wire. The answer to that is simple. Life-Like used a red wire for the right rail pickup (hot frame). Now here's where it gets interesting. Life-Like, in it's infinite wisdom, used a red wire on the rear truck for left rail pickup and a gray wire on the front truck for left rail pickup.



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Next, the wires for motor control have been added. Since the decoder will not be powering the headlight (that will be installed later and connected to track power so it's always on) I have elected to install it in the B unit. Here the wires in the A unit have been connected to the wires going to the B unit.



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In the next photo we see that the wires have been passed through the door windows of the shells. I drilled the windows out a little bigger to insure that the wires can move freely.



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For those who know that I have a past history of using masking tape here's a photo showing the wire connections wrapped in ELECTRICAL tape.



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Here we see the decoder taped in place in the rear of the B unit and the red and black wires connected to the pickup wires of both units. This insures good power pickup as the joined units will be collecting power with 16 wheels. The orange and gray wires of the decoder have been connected to the wires linking the motors of both units.



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Here the two chassis are coupled together as they will be in service. The decoder can be seen taped in place at the rear of the B unit chassis.



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The shells have been put back on the chassis and the locos have already made several trips around the layout pulling an Athearn F7-A unit and 15 cars through the entire gambit of a crawling slow start at near full stall all the way up to top speed and the decoder didn't even get warm.



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Here the wires can be seen passing between the two units. Being that they're close-coupled the gap is only a 1/4 of an inch.

[howmus]

Great start again folks!

Hope it's OK to show some 1/1 stuff here this weekend.....

Last night I was at the Rochester Chapter NRHS meeting and photo shoot.  Our largest event of the year is this weekend, Diesel Days.  We were also checking everything out and getting ready for the weekend.  Some photos from last night.

R&GV 80 tonner #1654 (ex US Army) rounds the curve into the yard at the Industry Depot:



#1654 pushes the Conrail Crummy up the grade to the transfer point (To trolley) while one of our younger members brings over the step so we can step down off the Erie Caboose.



The trolley car operator smiles for the camera:



A trolley poses in front of LV RS3 211 for the night photo shoot.



More photos of the meeting can seen here: http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h259/slow_rr/August08Museum/

If you are nearby, come on over to Diesel Days, you will have a great time!
http://www.rgvrrm.org/

[G Paine]

This week I completed an MEC caboose in the pre-1955 paint scheme, boxcar red sides and caboose red ends. It is an old MDC kit in HO.

Also I completed Joe's Barber Shop, a small business on the corner of Main and Exchange St in Greenvale Junction. I did not do a lot of detail in the front because it is viewed from the side near the backdrop.

It is the first building back there; a few more are needed to complete the street. You can see a piece of cardboard marking the footprint of a hardware store across the street. The problem with a town is it takes a lot of buildings; trees are much quicker!

Speaking of which, the CNJ831's fall color scene looks great. A good mix of early fall colors with trees that have not quite turned yet.

[OzarkBelt]

Very Nice Simon! How did you do the weeds!

[tstage]

Siding, with short bridge over Route 22, that serves E.G.Walker Coal in Putney, NY.

CNJ831

Nice work, everyone.   CNJ, I have to say that you've got the "subtle" autumn colors down pat!  And they're not ALL peaking at the SAME time.  Beautiful!!

Tom

[WCfan]

Nice work every one, looks great!

This is where my SDL39 project is up to, a pile of parts....and this isn't even half of them!

I've sent my frames to a relative to be cut down. My goals are to make the templates for the long hood, and start working on the SDL39 trucks.

[CNJ831]

Siding, with short bridge over Route 22, that serves E.G.Walker Coal in Putney, NY.

CNJ831

[georgev]

My photo this week is weathered rotary snowplow I just finished.  It's an older Athearn model with a "train show special" tender.  This was my first attempt at weathering with an airbrush.  I didn't want to experiment on a locomotive!  I'm pretty happy with it but the rust color isn't quite right so I need to work on that next time.  I used Polly Scale Steam Power Black for the base coat but the weathering colors are artist acrylics.   Lettering and logo are decals are from RailGraphics.   

George V.

[Grampys Trains]

Hi all: Great shots so far. Very nice work! I've been adding some foliage to a few areas last week.     

[simon1966]

A nice start to the weekend already with some excellent shots.

 

Here is a box car making its way out of the yard on its way for delivery to the local feed store.

 

 

 

I have also been working on a hobby shop, featured in another thread which I hope to complete this weekend. http://cs.trains.com/forums/1515452/ShowPost.aspx

[C&O Fan]

Really nice work on the Hopper car Robby

And that's a whole lot of good looking motive power

Brian. Did you do the paint jobs ?

Here's a couple of shots of the Mt Hope 2 car Local arriving at the newly completed station

 

 

You can see construction photos here

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1509431/ShowPost.aspx

 

[Brian M]

I took these pictures of my 6 SP tiger-stripe SD7s at the new locomotive facility on the club layout last Saturday -

 

I'm particularly pleased with the single-tank conversions done to 5288 and 5289 - proper "see-through" too.

Brian

 

[OzarkBelt]

Very, very nice RobbyP!

And thanks for your compliments!

[Robby P.]

Good looking shots of the layout.  Real cool. 

Heres what I have.  Its a CSXT/CHESSIE hopper I am doing for a guy.  I have since gave the trucks a black wash.  Kinda over did them with the spillage (white color), but the wash turned out good.  I am working on another one for him, and I will post it next weekend.  Its going to take awhile.

Prototype:

 

Model:

 

[OzarkBelt]

Well, last weekend's photo fun just kept going...

Here's some of mine!

Enjoy!