Hi all: Lots of great shots this week. Well done. After I posted this week, having done some cutting and welding myself, I noticed some safety concerns. The shop crew moved that tank car a little farther into the shop and the oxy-acetylene tanks were secured in the bed of a pickup. Safety First!
Everyone, there is some very impressive photos this week. I like all the fall scenes that are popping up.
Here's what I've been working on the past few nights.
Continuing the Green lane Bridge project. I added in the main arches. There is a double layer of styrene with H and I beam styrene in between. They graduate from smaller to wider from center to the edge. I'll show it better in the video once I upload it.
This is the first layer of styrene being glued to the angled piers.
This is when I added in the second layer. I forgot to take pix of the I and H beams that separate the layers.
I'll get the video up soon.
Keep the axels greased and the tender full, we're rollin' now.
Ron
My layout progress posting Named "PRR Schuylkill Division"
Link to my Youtube videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/myowngod2
Not much new to report... been mucking out under the layout in preparation for rearranging a few things... So here's a few oldies but goodies.
Have a great week everyone. Wish me luck, I start a new job on Wednesday! Hooray for Paychecks!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Grampys Trains wrote:Hi Ray: That is a great story. You're "production lab" isn't too shabby, either. Keep up the good work! BTW, where did you find a scale beast like that?
Thank You Grampy! The elephant is a metal item from Selley (a Division of Bowser). I originally wanted the White Rabbit from the movie Harvey, but couldn't find anything that could be used. The still is a Woodland Scenics Kit. The Pink Elephant is well hidden in the woods so it should be seen only when someone is really checking out my scenery. I have several simiar little "scenes" around the layout. Most are more believable like the raccoon up the tree looking at you and the bear waving at you from the mountain behind the Ice House.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Here's my plan, w/ the buildings spelled out. IDK if it's to scale, and that red line ain't planned in, I'm still debating whether to move the line through there (I don't think I will now). I ain't changing it, this is what I want.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Packers1 wrote:Hey jeff, what kind of geep is the bachmann shell?
Hey jeff, what kind of geep is the bachmann shell?
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SD60M wrote:Its a bachmann shell on an athearn frame.
What I thought would be a simple task required quite a bit of filing and cutting. In the end I got the shell to the point that it's a tight pop-fit. It seemed like a good use for a shell from a Bachmann locomotive that had a dead drive and an Athearn chassis that had a GP60 shell that I was not favorably impressed with.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Anybody see anything out of the ordinary on this locomotive? Look close.
Wow, welcome back from summer vacation. It looks like a lot of modelling has gotten done, and everyone has been practicing their photography.
I've spent some time putting in these Walthers traffic lights in downtown Moose Bay. Having subway lines directly below the streets adds complexity for the installation crew, so it took a while to get these up and running.
The red light in the center is a free-hanging 1-sided unit. I built up the support poles out of coffee stirrers, with a small washer for the base and a couple of brad heads at the top. The out-of-focus one on the right side has two faces, mounted on the post as you see it. The post-mounted ones need about an inch and a half below the layout to sink in, so I couldn't use that model over the tracks.
While installing some more of these across town, I noticed some natural light falling on this timber wall. I grabbed the camera to get this shot:
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Renegade:
That's one beautiful McKeen car--I really like what you did with it paint-wise. Always thought the original UP Yellow and brown was a really attractive scheme.
Fine work!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
railroadyoshi wrote:Tyler, how 'bout you bring that lugger up to the QNE sometime, eh?
Tyler, how 'bout you bring that lugger up to the QNE sometime, eh?
Let me know when you're free and I'll see what I can do!
I think I'm going to have to touch up the model, as I built it a while ago when my modeling skill were...well...not so great. The plow is a bit crooked, and the paint a bit thick. I'll probably airbrush it this time, after redoing the plow.
Tjsingle wrote:Wikious, never Sell it(Edited by selector - images removed)
Wikious, never Sell it
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Don't plan on it- just a bit of sarcasm about the cost of brass models.
I want to thank Chris Rand, a fellow model railroader, at the club I belong to for taking pictures of this project of mine. The photos were taken on our club layout located in the basement of Union station
This is a Brass McKeen Car that i painted and decaled. It is made by Overland Models. My dad never got a chance to paint it so I thought I would and I think it came out pretty well.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
More construction updates as usual from me. First off is a mock-up of the yard office I'm building from a Pikestuff kit. I've already managed to lose one roof section- I hope it's still around here somewhere.
Then it's another shot of my progress on my Wisconsin and Southern weed sprayer equipment. I found a picture online of it in use which has helped me greatly.
And a close up of the end I'm working on. To come: lots of black hoses and some more railing. The handrails are brass, which means if I ever sell this, I get to jack the price up by about $30.
Nice pictures as usual this weekend!
CNJ831 wrote:A glimpse of the season that's just around the corner. CNJ831
A glimpse of the season that's just around the corner.
CNJ831
Great shot. I really like the colors. Like you could almost walk out into the scene.
Margaritaman wrote:More folks showed up at Engineer Fred's funeral, including his widow who seems to have been consoling herself with the cookie jar.
Is that Ethel Merman in the flowered dress with the big yellow hat?
I see lots of great work here this weekend. thumbs up everybody !!!!!!!!!!
I tried out the movie capability of the digital camera. These are operations in my steel mill. First two links are the coke oven. Then it's the blast furance. Finally it's the electric furnace and the rolling mill.
Warning. I was operating the camera and at least two locomotives simultaneously while taking these movies. i'm a klutz. You'll see some jackrabit switching. regarldess you'll get an idea about how much fun it is to operate in a steel mill.
In backgorund of first two photos are some general merchandise trains passing through.
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GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Yep! On a lighter note I scratchbuilt a caboose!
Alex
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Here my layout
finsihsed the corner today.
Tjsingle
Here's some from the club:
Bridgeport
C.T. Tower
long bridge
Night shot of Bridgeport
Enjoy,
-Dave
rs2mike wrote:No new images from me this week. Spent the week painting and weathering my rs-2 "t-rex" from last week wpf. I wanted to do a patch job for the numbers using woodland senics rub on numbers, painted over and use masking tape to peel off the numbers but was highly unsuccessful. Those of you who have patch jobs how did you do it or any suggestions on how to do this. I want it to look like the numbers were stuck on by the paint shop and then painted over so the paint from the loco sticks out. Any better ideas are appreciated. Well off to work at 3:30 am this is crap.
Mike--
There's an article in this month's RMC about weathering with salt (of all things!). You might take a look at it, the author said it works better than rubber cement. Looked kind of cool to me, also.
I really like to build water towers. More shots of NTRAK modules set up in the great outdoors.