Weekend photo fun 8/28 - 9/1

[AltoonaRailroader]

I have one like that. It's actually one of my favorite piece of RS. I think it's a Proto 1K.

 

[AltoonaRailroader]

Thanks Altoona, it took four coats to cover it completely!  This layout has to share the room with our home office.  The computer desks are a deep Merlot color.  I figured that the bench work wouldn't stick out as bad if it was the same color.  Now, if I could only get my turnouts in, I'd be cooking with gas! 

I took that from the surrounding room that you weren't in an attic or basement like most of us and that it might have been in a family room or something like that.

Hmmmmmm, now how do convince the wife that if I paint the benchwork and make it look nice, that I need to build an around the walls layout in the living room?????

Yeah right!!!!!  LOL

[Dave Vollmer]

Dave, glad to hear you're recovering. Your last photo brought to mind something about N scale... And I thought the wires I have to solder in a DCC install in HO were small! Getting them in N scale must be a nightmare!

Soldering a 6-wire decoder into the smokebox of an N scale steamer is probably one of the most challenging things I've done, but I'm a better modeler for having mastered it.  So now, DCC installs in a nice roomy tender are no big deal at all.  But nightmare, no...  Challenge, yes.  I've been blessed with a very steady hand.

The outside diameter of the boiler here is about that of a healthy person's finger.

This is a kitbashed model of a PRR H10sb 2-8-0, with a shortened Minitrix K4 boiler on a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 chassis.

[outdoorsfellar]

Operations or pretty much anything else on the Allegheny & Cumberland cease for the summer, but here's a pic of a west bound mix passing through Coal Fork Jct.

 

 

[steemtrayn]

[G Paine]

One thing I tried to replicate was, as evidenced by hundreds of photos of similar ex-Penn Central Conrail locos, that they often slapped what must have been cheap black paint over the Penn Central Scotchlite logos and lettering.  In short order, that lettering showed through on almost every engine as that cheap paint peeled away.  The "CR" stencils were another early Conrail cost-saver; they're the "C" and "R" from the "CENTRAL" portion of the Penn Central roadname stencils.

Dave, glad to hear you are feeling better. I like that almost can't see the Penn Central on those locos. At first I thought it was some light dirt weathering, the I got a closer look.

This is a CR conversion boxcar from an old Walthers HO decal set. Same idea of an old car with a quickie CR paintout.

[jacon12]

 Grampy, every week I look forward to your pictures.  Besides great modeling they're always candy for the eyes.

Jarrell 

 

 

 

 

Hi all: Good start everyone. I'm finally getting caught up with weathering all my locos and freight cars. I also added some more foliage, and tried Paul Dolkos weed seed follicles for tall grass, from Oct. MR. Here's a Reading RR short coal train, for a change.         

[modelalaska]

Good grief ChrisKSDF, now I know why it is so hard to find my road stock... you have them all.  So do you have a track plan together yet?  Please post if you do.

Peter (in Alaska).

In light of the completion of climate control installation in my 3 car Las Vegas garage, meaning that construction can finally begin on the 22x35ft ARR Anchorage Subdivision, here's my first of hopefully many contributions to WPF:

A celebratory photo of the 17 locomotives that'll soon finally have some real mainline track to get out and stretch their legs on!

  

[oleirish]

Jarrell

If I didn't know better,that picture looks like the real thing,you have come an long way!!!!

JIM

[Packer]

Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.

Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too

OK Driline - you can have next Wed, but I wan't the following Tues!!

What happens when it starts on sunday?

[jacon12]

Thanks Jim, it's been a fun and educational experience!

Jarrell 

 

Jarrell

If I didn't know better,that picture looks like the real thing,you have come an long way!!!!

JIM

[Grampys Trains]

Hi Jarrell: Thanks, you've got some great photos, yourself.  Good job!

[AltoonaRailroader]

PAcker!

Enjoy it all you can!

(Oh, to be 19 again! )

I don't think I'd go back that far. Whew!!! It was hard enough the first time.

Happy B-day Packer!!!! Enjoy it while it last, the older you get the fast time goes.

[AggroJones]

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Grampy, the whole thing ties together so well. Colors, tones, textures.  

 

 

[N.H. Matt]

this weeks projects were a house for my home layout and a lawsons store for the club

prototype kims antiques

prototype lawsons

[selector]

Matt, very nice work you have there.   Congratulations.  Must be a few odd hours invested there?

All previous posters, thanks for a great show.  Some outstanding work evident.

Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual.  I had dabbled a bit early in the summer, but got busy and forgot to persist.  Jarrell coached me through playing with the manual settings, and I think I finally am getting a feel for it.  So, here is an improved version of an image I posted a couple of weeks back, maybe three now, where I manipulated and locked shutter speed, saturation, contrast, and such, and had to play with lighting and camera position.  No more glaring, washed out, bright blotches that were overexposed so badly.  Yay!!  Thank-you, Jarrell.

 

 

[C&O Fan]

Very Nice Work Matt !!

 

Good Photo

Selector !!

 

I went in the train room to take a few shots and the little red dead battery

light came on

Oh Well maybe i can pick up some tomorrow and then join the fun

meantime no shortage of good photos here to entertain me

 

[steemtrayn]

Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual. 

 

Can't you read ON the throne?

[Packers#1]

Before finishing reading through these three pages, may I to dave vollmer for that CR SD35. great work on it.

[selector]

Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual. 

 

Can't you read ON the throne?

  I had considered typing, "...get off the pot...", but thought it might be worse.  Oh, well..

[Packers#1]

Berlingo-Great picture of that steam loco.

Corey-great looking benchwork.

jarrel-love that Southern unit, and the trees.

Robby-Great Railbox boxcar, your work is always great.

[G Paine]

Completed 2 tank cars this week; both are Athern HO scale undecorateds that I got cheap at a train show. UTLX 85302 uses a Champ decal set and MEC 715 uses the remnants from an old Walthers decal set with data from the Champ set.

[shayfan84325]

Looks like a great start to the weekend.  Thanks to you all for posting your work.

I've got something a little different from the 1:1 world.

Last weekend I met my brother in Portland, OR and we rode Amtrak up to Seattle to take in the Mariners/A's game.  After Ichiro went 1 for 3 with a sac. bunt and an RBI, and the Mariners won 8 to 4, we borded the train for our return trip.  What could be better than a train/baseball sandwich?!

Anyway, on our way south to Portland we had to stop in the woods.  It seems that a northbound freight had hit a fallen tree and there was debris on the track.  Here are a few pictures I took out the window while we waited to get back underway:

 

 

Have a safe Labor Day weekend, everyone.

[howmus]

Nice work to start off the weekend everyone!  Only Friday and 3 pages already.

I spent almost a full day installing a remote tortoise mount this week.  Would have been a simple job except for some poor planing a couple years ago on my part.  I have a habit of doing those sort of things....  Actually I planned carefully for what I had planed to do at that time.  I decided to get rid of the giant sized Caboose ground throws and use torti in there place.  This one was one to really test my patience.  Glad no one was around to hear me!  The machine could not be mounted directly under the turnout so I decided to use the remote.  Problem was I could either see where it needed to be mounted, or reach the area with my hands to do the job.  Here is the finished project.  I focused on the actuator that throws the points on the turnout as that is what was a monster to install.  The rest went together quite easily.



This is where the actuator had to be installed:



You can see the actuator mount up in back to the right of the toggle switch.  The toggle is temporarily mounted where it is until a fascia board is installed.

[Wikious]

I made some more progress on my WSOR weed sprayer cars.

Prototype can be found here:Weed Sprayer. Photo not mine.

[wsdimenna]

ChrisKSDF

Alaska railroad, you live in Vegas.. Your season will be winter on your layout :)

Backround is UP SD70Ace

[Blue Flamer]

PAcker!

Enjoy it all you can!

(Oh, to be 19 again! )

Yeah Packer, . Remember it while you can. I can't remember my 19th. Of course, I can be excused for not remembering. After all, it WAS a few months more than 50 years ago.

By the way, thanks to everyone for making this a great start to the Labour Day Weekend. Enjoy. 

Blue Flamer. 

[AggroJones]

Rob bro I wanna see you hit a crazy style rustbucket boxcar. 

 

[berlingo]

Happy Birthday to you Packer, hope you will get more and more of those model RRs.

Thank you to Packers#1 for your compliment and kind word, 1st i had a confusion your login between Packer and Packers #1 .LOL

And say thank you to Steemtrayn for putting that beautiful picture that looked quite similar,too.

 

And everyone's works , great jobs.........

[jeffrey-wimberly]