Weekend Photo Fun 10-10-08 to 10-12-08

[selector]

A new crash scene from me.  The gauges of all items now match .  I would like to thank RRCanuck for photoshopping in a sky, deleting shadows up top on the backdrop, and the smoke and red signal light.  I owe Jarrell Conley a load of thanks for all his support and ideas.

[twhite]

Crandell--

Now THERE'S a wreck!  You've inspired me, LOL!  Now all I have to do is find a canyon of mine that DOESN'T extend to the garage floor and try my hand at one. 

Terrific photo!

Tom

[Packers#1]

Well, my Savannah River railroad is owned by a holding company called SBRail Inc. (Sawyer berry Rail incoporated, lol). Think Gennesse & Wyoming. And why do i tell you this on WPF? Because here's some stan Lytle loco drawings w/ paint schemes by me to show you what I will eventually Paint.

Here's the "show-off" scheme. all road locomotives and the business train loco are painted in this.  

 

[Image posted with permission by the author (07/18/08) and MR forum]

And here's the economy scheme. All road switchers and local switchers will be painted in this.

[Image posted w/ permission of author (07/18/08) and MR forum]

I still need to create a yard-switcher scheme, pronbably the economy sheme.

Also, the scenery on my engine terminal screwed up some (of course, lol) so there won't be pics of that.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Careful there Sawyer, UP might have some legal fun with that first one.

[Packers#1]

Careful there Sawyer, UP might have some legal fun with that first one.

Doubt it. Ain't the same colors, and the lettering is a different style and not where UP would put it ()

[jon grant]

Jon Grant

Can I ask what you use for the vegetation?  They look like Noch or Busch but please let me know...

The grass was pulled clump by clump from a Silflor grass mat and I used small amounts of Woodland Scenics foliage, stuck down with clear glue (UHU or Bostick household glue in the UK) before being teased out.

The Silflor mat is available from Scenic Express in the US, I think.

Jon

[selector]

Thank you, Tom!   I have enjoyed the past two photo sessions on the layout with the winter scene and this crash.

-Crandell

[Bill54]

I've been working most week nights a few hours each evening on laying track.  I finally got one main line completed.  Although This layout will be DCC I have been using my DC cab to run trains through each section as I complete one.  So far everything is working.  It's not much to look at but at least I'm making progress on the layout.

Bill

[jacon12]

Jon, is that the siflor material right in the middle of the scene?  It looks great.

Jarrell

[ClinchValleySD40]

Working on widening a section of benchwork.

 Will make it easier to place a town at this location.

 

[GTX765]

Ran some trains at the train show in Council Bluffs, IA.

 

 

 

 

 

[outdoorsfellar]

No work has taken place all summer long on my N scale Allegheny & Cumberland, but here's a pic to add for this weekend ....

[Dave Vollmer]

Time for some late Penn Central and early Conrail love in N scale...

Weathered this MicroTrains PC hopper (added real coal and added ACI label as well):

I love Atlas Trainman because they're so cheap yet well painted.  Here I've weathered a 50' Trainman flat (and added another ACI label along with some debris to the deck):

Up next is an Atlas FGE boxcar as a Penn Central X73, once again weathered (and ACI label added):

By 1980 (the era in which I model Conrail) many of these cars had been restenciled for Conrail rather hastily, often by painting out the PC logos with fresh PC green paint and adding new dimensional data.  That's what I attempted here:

Last is a MicroTrains PRR X29 MOW boxcar...  These were still in service in PRR MOW yellow even in the Conrail era; by 1980 they were rolling rust buckets.  My version is actually less rusty than what the proto photos show:

I used acrylic washes and chalks for the weathering and Microscale decals.

[Anonymous]

Nice photos all!

This week I finished my Pikestuff enginehousem which was in their Kitbasher series, so there were no door or window openings whatsoever. The kit came with blank walls. I cut out door and window openings and installed the doors and windows. I then assembled the walls, added an interior (shop details near the locomotive door, plus a styrene "paved" floor with the rails embedded in the foor) and added the roof. The final step was weathering and signs.

I installed the structure in my White River Junction loconotive service area, and added a lube shed nearby. The facility is located between the yard lead and mainline. Yes, there is a railroad crossing over the mainline.

Looking West. The track on the left is the mainline, and the one on the right is the yard lead. The furthest right track is the New Poland Team track.

 

Straight on. West is to the left, and East to the right.

Looking East.

From above.

 

I also installed Caboose Hobbies Ground Throws on my layout. They are shown here in the yard...

...And worked on my IHC cement plant.  I added weathering and changed the construction. I still need to add footing for the tower legs.

I still probably have some superdetailing to do...

 

 

[RRCanuck]

Jon Grant

 Thanks for the info...I'll have to try and find some Silflor.  Cheers.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Looks like a good job so far Tyler. Reminds me of my big kitbashing days. Now I just do small projects.

[da_kraut]

Hello everybody,

just wanted to thank everyone for the great photos they post of their layouts every weekend.  It sure is inspiring, can not wait till my work in the camp is over and get back to a normal life which includes my model railroad.

Frank

[Milwhiawatha]

Well I finally got something to show. I have been working on this off and on and I finally got the decal set and lights to stay. Hoping to have this on the layout soon but heres a snap shot to show I'm not dead in the hobby lol.

A little note about this building, my late grandfather was a car guy he owned his own automotive shop and loved cars. He always liked hot rods. So I named the building after him..

[Catt]

KP&W grain hopper 28755 trailing Gilbert Grains (NARA 5654) heading to the Gilbert Grains elevator on the GVR.

KP&W 28755 is an Accurail 3 bay ACF hopper,NARA 5654 is a TYCO/Athearn PS2 covered hopper.

[wsdimenna]

Loathar,

Thanks 

Polly scale concrete was airbrushed on wonderboard (concrete backing) used in bathrooms. 

[alfadawg01]

I've been working most week nights a few hours each evening on laying track.  I finally got one main line completed.  Although This layout will be DCC I have been using my DC cab to run trains through each section as I complete one.  So far everything is working.  It's not much to look at but at least I'm making progress on the layout.

Very impressive!  I'm envious of your finished room and that's a mighty impressive lift section you've got.

[Dean-58]

I'm glad you got it started.  I finished this little truck Wednesday night.  You all are the first to see it:

Pretty picture!

[Dean-58]

Great start again this weekend folks!  I haven't been doing anything "photogenic" this week, but I am getting some shots ready for a presentation next weekend at the Lakeshores Division NMRA Meet.  I will be talking about wiring and installing the Tortoise Machine so I have been looking for shots that I have taken of them over the last couple years as I have installed them on my layout.  Some installations were a bit "different" to say the least.  For instance what do you do when you are retrofitting a turnout that is installed right over a 1x4 support beam?  I made a scratch assembly using some left over brass tubing, piano wire, and a length of old code 100 rail to create a "remote" installation.  Here is the "under the table" portion:



And here is what it looks like up above on the layout:



The piano wire throw will be blackened so it should blend in and a Details West switch throw and and target will complete it.  here is another place with a similar installation.  The targets are installed.

Congrats, howmus.  That looks like one of the links I made on my old HO Colorado Western to connect old twin coil switch machines to my handlaid and Shinohara Code 70 turnouts.  It's simple, and the wire gives the linkage a little "spring" to keep the points snug against the stock rails.  It's also nice to see switch stands on goodlooking trackage.  I'm amazed that even the "sharks" and gurus often neglect this bit of superdetailing.

[howmus]

Congrats, howmus.  That looks like one of the links I made on my old HO Colorado Western to connect old twin coil switch machines to my handlaid and Shinohara Code 70 turnouts.  It's simple, and the wire gives the linkage a little "spring" to keep the points snug against the stock rails.  It's also nice to see switch stands on goodlooking trackage.  I'm amazed that even the "sharks" and gurus often neglect this bit of superdetailing.

Thank you Dean!  I am getting this area of the layout ready to be "inspected" for the NMRA Acheivement Program Scenery Certificate.  In doing so I am learning a great deal about trackside details.  I've only just begun....