WPF Sept 5/7

[Anonymous]

How'd you create the blowing/flying snow Alex? I'm almost afraid to come collect my unit, you seem to be having so much fun with it! I'm sending you an email...

[Guilford Guy]

I had a spare piece of styrene tubing. I set up the camera with a two second timer, and a good sized amount of snow just before the plow of the loco. I hit the shutter, and blew on the snow bank, which sent baking powder flying through the air, giving the blizzardy look, and the idea of speed, with the snow flung off to the sides. I'd really like to try this with a russel plow sometime, and a good camera that you can adjust the shutter speed on...

[twhite]

Aggro--

I can almost SMELL the bark on those logs.  Fabulous! 

Tom

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[rs2mike]

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.

[Anonymous]

I'd really like to try this with a russel plow sometime

Hmmm...

[railroadyoshi]

Tyler, how 'bout you bring that lugger up to the QNE sometime, eh?

 

[Dave Vollmer]

A very lightly weathered CR GP38-2...

[C&O Fan]

Great snow scene Alex !

I spent this last week working on the C&O station at Cotton Hill

Using some photos from the C&O Historical Society

as a guide

Proto type front

My version front

 

Proto type rear

My version rear

 

You can see the construction photos here

http://cs.trains.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1527772

[russstraw]

I really like to build water towers. More shots of NTRAK modules set up in the great outdoors.

 

 

[twhite]

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. 

Tom

[SecretWeapon]

[O_Kamoto]

Here's some from the club:

Bridgeport

 

 

 

C.T. Tower

 

 

 

long bridge

 

 

 

Night shot of Bridgeport

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,

-Dave

[Tjsingle]

 

Here my layout

finsihsed the corner today.

 

Tjsingle

[Margaritaman]

More folks showed up at Engineer Fred's funeral, including his widow who seems to have been consoling herself with the cookie jar.


#794 grinding its way across the bridge for a late evening pickup at the brewery

[Guilford Guy]

Yep! On a lighter note I scratchbuilt a caboose!

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

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.

http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u171/dgbseh/?action=view&current=DSCN2804.flv

http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u171/dgbseh/?action=view&current=DSCN2805.flv

http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u171/dgbseh/?action=view&current=DSCN2807.flv

http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u171/dgbseh/?action=view&current=DSCN2809.flv

 

[Milepost 266.2]

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? 

[russstraw]

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. 

[Wikious]

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!

[Tjsingle]

Wikious, never Sell it

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[Renegade1c]

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.

[Wikious]

Wikious, never Sell it

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Don't plan on it- just a bit of sarcasm about the cost of brass models.

[Anonymous]

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.

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This week's photos are the best I've seen in a long time!

 

[twhite]

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

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Anybody see anything out of the ordinary on this locomotive? Look close.

[MisterBeasley]

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:

 

[SD60M]

Anybody see anything out of the ordinary on this locomotive? Look close.

Its a bachmann shell on an athearn frame.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Its a bachmann shell on an athearn frame.

We have a winner!

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.

[Packers#1]

Hey jeff, what kind of geep is the bachmann shell?