WPF: 9/12-9/14

[spectratone]

Here's what I worked on last week.  I finaly got tired of using the dining room table for a work bench. Now I'm waiting for the drawer hardware to show up. And a more comfortable chair will be nice.

 

[CNJ831]

I have an old varney ?-6-0 i think it was a 4-6-0 and i am trying to rebuild it. I got it running just need to find some parts for it. But i would like to know if i am correct in thinking its a 4-6-0.

?-6-0

Indeed, it's Varney's so-called 4-6-0 "Casey Jones", which is a complete misnomer since the real 4-6-0 locomotive operated by Jones looked very little like it. Jones engineered for the IC, while the model is most siimilar to an SP Harriman locomotive. Incidentally, the Varney model came in two versions, a standard one with simple valve gear and the "deluxe" version with Walshaert valve gear. This loco has a very long production record, appearing first in 1951 and still available today through Bowser (including replacement parts).

CNJ831

[ngartshore350]

Just some recent progress shots of the platform:

Had to do a few color changes to get the colour to match the original plastic color. Got some Altas fencing I'm assembling, once finished I'll paint it and install it.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's the newest addition to my fleet. an Atlas GP40. According to what I've been able to dig up on it, this model is around 20 years old (perhaps older) and still runs great.

The Rio Grande paint job is about to go away.

[super cheif n]

at some time about 11:30PM I have installed my first DCC decoder in a N scale atlas burlington sd 24. Now I have to wait a few weeks to 2 months to test it at my club due to a lack of a DCC system and no layout at my house.

[eeyore9900]

Holy crap Dave-I remember reading about those PC Kellogg cars on the same website, & maybe the Conrail Cyclo, but I'm not sure (it's late)

They look like primo weathering examples, not to mention the fact they're still existing in their paint jobs in 2008! If you can (without trespassing) get some closeups!!!!

[super cheif n]

I did some ballast work yesterday in the new area on my layout.

 

what engine is this?

[Dave Vollmer]

I was rather startled to find a cut of about 9 or so former Penn Central X79 boxcars all the way out here in Nebraska, alongside I-80 near 96th Street in Omaha.  According to http://pc.smellycat.com/index.html, these were purchased by Kelloggs, which makes sense since this is big grain country.  Pretty neat find for an Eastern boy in Uncle Pete's frontyard.

[twhite]

 I have an old varney ?-6-0 i think it was a 4-6-0 and i am trying to rebuild it. I got it running just need to find some parts for it. But i would like to know if i am correct in thinking its a 4-6-0.

?-6-0

 

 

Cheese--

You are right, it is Varney's 'Casey Jones' 4-6-0.  You might be able to order replacement parts for it from Bowser, they inherited the Varney dies and still make the locomotive.   It was a little sweetheart in its time, and still makes for a nice-running little loco.  Looks to me like you'll need the 4-wheel lead truck, main rods and eccentric gear.  Bowser should have them.  They're good people to deal with. 

Tom

[howmus]

The net result of installing all those tortoise machines and electrical wiring is that the yard area will go from looking like this:



To something like this (first shot is at f8, second is at f29.  Both were taken with a canon 100mm Macro/medium telephoto lens):





Hopefully the little people on the layout can throw the scale ones a bit more easily.........

[mikelhh]

 A very recent addition - Trackmobile from Factory Direct Trains

 

 Mike

[Tjsingle]

Not many people have seen my newest project.

A N11 conrail transfer caboose

tjsingle

[Packers#1]

just a few moments ago i built this from a bachman kit

 

I've got one. Right now it's in the first stage of being covered in ivy to make it looked abandoned. Here's an old pic of it in use as a yard office:

[cheese3]

Awesome pics by everyone this weekend! I hate to ruin it with my pics... Well i got the itch and had to break out the HO. there is even talk between my parents and I about finishing the basement and building an HO layout. Mom is thrilled about it, dad not so much! Mainly because it wouldn't be a lionel layout. But i told him when i move out after im done at school feel free to build it, but you cant have my prewar lol.  I have an old varney ?-6-0 i think it was a 4-6-0 and i am trying to rebuild it. I got it running just need to find some parts for it. But i would like to know if i am correct in thinking its a 4-6-0.

?-6-0

mantua 0-4-0

Small Coal Drag

 

 

[super cheif n]

just a few moments ago i built this from a bachman kit

 

[Jumijo]

Here is a cardstock building project. This is a model of a grain elevator located a few miles from our lake house in New Hampshire. I made a few modifications, and omitted the adjoining building entirely because of space limitations. Still need to add figures, landscaping, and other details.

 


Here is the real structure.

Jess Red Horse should be very familiar with this structure.

Jim

[wsdimenna]

Jarell,

thank you 

this is O scale engine 1/48 from MTH. Model in 1/48 here.  The engine runs very well. Allows for fewer scences but good detail. Stlll a lot of details left, people, telephone poles, and kitbashed pedestrian bridge to ("the other side of tracks") the town that will go just to left.

Bill D 

[jacon12]

 Great exposure on this night shot, well done!  Is that one of the Athearn units?  How well does it run?

Jarrell

 

Just as NS restored some F-7s for the management team, they have also restored an aging switch tower and incorporated it as part of a rural passenger station.

[wsdimenna]

Just as NS restored some F-7s for the management team, they have also restored an aging switch tower and incorporated it as part of a rural passenger station.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I did some ballast work yesterday in the new area on my layout.

[Grampys Trains]

Thanks Tom: I'm very happy to read that your recuperation is coming along well. Here's to a speedy recovery. I'll always have a fondness for steam engines. I still have my pre-war Lionel 0-6-0 that I set up at Christmas. Since I'll turn 64 tomorrow, I'm old enough to remember steam. When I was a kid, the Columbia-Reading branch passed about a mile from my home. We'd ride our bikes to a road overpass and watch the train pass under us. I only ever saw the top of it. And, there is still nothing like the sound of a steam whistle! Today, I was working on my only steam engine, a NYC Hudson, that my wife gave me for Christmas, when they first came out. It actually made it around the layout a few times, and only found 1 spot that it didn't like. I love your bear scene, very realistic.

[RRTrainman]

Finally got things together heres a few fresh shots

[howmus]

I have been replacing all the gross looking over sized Caboose Hobbies ground throws with tortoises and will be placing scale Details West throws with targets later.  Here is one of the mounted torti:



It has a remote throw on it that was made from some leftover material from the commercial remote mounts.  I used a piece code 100 rail to connect the tortoise to the throw lever attached to the switch points.



I have installed a dozen machines in the last couple of weeks 10 of them in the yard.  Here they are with all the wiring and DPDT Toggles attached.





The last photo shows the completed fascia board with the DPDT Toggles in place.  There is one more toggle to be mounted on that board, but I am fresh out of tortoise machine for the moment.  I need 3 more to complete the area.

[twhite]

Still on the mend, though I'm 'hobbling' around okay without the cane.  Plan on going in tomorrow and working on the long (3-week) neglected Yuba River Sub tomorrow--which means some SERIOUS track-cleaning, etc. 

Delved into the file today, thought I'd show my three big brass Akane Yellowstones in the same shot.  If I triple-headed them, I could pull the neighborhood to a totally different location, LOL! 

And Grampys:  I couldn't help this, after seeing that herd of bears in your terrific shots--my own 'mom and kids' on Yuba Pass.  Evidently the one curious little cub is climbing up that Ponderosa to get a view of the trains about 300 feet above him, LOL!   Who says that wildlife doesn't like trains? 

Tom

[MAbruce]

My progress this week - although it may seem like it's in reverse:

 

I started with this:

Same area last week (bridge removed):

Same are now - Demolition complete:

Now it's time to rebuild.  I plan to replace the bridge with 3 Micro Engineering bridge spans so it will look a bit like this bridge:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2005111422422914322.jpg

 

[Blue Flamer]

 Sorry for this duplicate. When I was  origionally trying to put this in earlier this A.M., I kept getting  a none matching quotes indicator error and it would not post, (or so I thought). Obviously it did post.

B.F. 

C&O Fan.

Before you get the full force of IKE, do yourself a favour and make sure that you:

1)    Pull all plugs from the electric outlets.

or better yet:

2)    Turn off all power to the house at the main service panel. 

It is better to just have to reset all those flashing clocks and lights if nothing happens than to have to replace all your electronic apparatus if you don't and something does happen and then have to reset them all anyway.

Good luck to all you folk in the path or fringes of IKE.

Blue Flamer. 

[tstage]

Tom, is that a 4x8?  Good, I'm not alone in this size!!

After the road is tacked down, I'll fill in the voids of the cork with thin layers of vinyl spackle; sanding between layers when dry.  Once the road is smooth and the voids filled, it will be painted Grimy Black and weathered.

PLEASE DON'T SAND IT!!!!  After it dries, use a moist sponge to smooth it over - sanding spackle is guaranteed to make a mess anywhere it is done - and on a layout!!!!

Looks like a great start!

Lou,

Yes, it's a 4 x 8.   My next one will most likely be an around-the-wall.  Being my first, it's still been a fun and learning process (journey).

Warning heeded.  I should have noted "lightly sanding between layers when dry".  (It's more of a "rub" than a sand.)  The sponge recommendation is a good one though.

Tom

[Grampys Trains]

Hi Ray: I thought you might get a kick out of those shots.  The deer are WS. The copperhead is actually one of those curly leaves you have to pick off of super tree armatures, painted brown. Jarrell, another great photo from you, this week. That is Silflor, from Scenic Express sampler pack.

[jacon12]

Hi Grampy,

As usual I love your photos.  I'm really interested in the long grass at the top of the 'copperhead' shot.  What is that 'cause it looks great.

 

 

[jacon12]

In this shot I've tried to represent just how large even the smaller prototype locomotives are.

click on image to enlarge

Jarrell