Nothing from me this week, lots of good photos though.
Sawyer, IRL, the GP35 had more horsepower than the U23B. (2500 vs 2300, the GP30 has 2250). Uboats are generally longer than their EMD counterparts, so might be why it pulls better.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
The U23B also has 2,250 HP...
Nothing new to post from me, I've been busy all weekend and haven't touched my layout at all. Enjoyed reading everybody's posts though!
OK Who appointed you the all knowing one?
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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A round of applause to the mod who swooped in and got the situation under control before it got out of hand.
railroadyoshiA round of applause to the mod who swooped in and got the situation under control before it got out of hand.
I agree!
shayfan84325 I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches:
I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches:
Phil,
That is great. Where did you get it.?
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Well, how I've spent all of today as follows:
in morning, went to church
Around one, applied first coat of paint (not primer) to my GP35, one of my railbox boxcars, and the pieces for my pikestuff engine house.
for the next several hours, listened to music, read, and watched the Tennessee-New York game (GO JETS, they won!), stopping reading once to apply more paint.
Cleaned off my 4x8, laid the foam on it (still have to secure it), and laid the track out on it (again, not securing it).
A BIG thank you to my sis for letting me borrow her camera!
So here they are, and before you try to dis them, I did them by hand w/o masking:
My AAT boxcar:
Front of the GP35:
Back of GP35:
and here's my plan for the 4x8 (have a pic of the track laid out, but it's bad lighting, so not gonna waste space):
So now I need 4 Atlas code 80 right switches, 15 ground throws, and road bed. When do I think I can get it too the point where everything runs: a week after Christmas, lol.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Another fantastic weekend here folks! I do enjoy seeing all of your work.I did a bit of railfaning today (model type) and caught Ten Wheeler #628 at the head of the morning Milk Train. I caught up to her as she was climbing the grade on her way to Bare Hill just as the morning sun was starting to peek through.She has to pass Cooley's Blue Ice on the way up:Then along Seneca Lake where she has to start climbing again:Then across the bridge and up the hill by the old Arthur Homestead:More to come...
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Nice work ray, love the 2nd pic.
Hey timbob, check your PMs.
Good gosh, folks...
"Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Here I thought I was a super sleuth for figuring that out so quickly.
All good efforts and fun on this weekends Weekend Photo Fun and the point of the thread is to have Weekend Photo Fun. We all enjoy posting pics of our layouts and handing out pats on the back because........its.........Weekend Photo Fun ...........Cant wait till next weekends........
Weekend Photo Fun
wm3798PS: Everything I know about Minnesota I learned by watching Fargo...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad geographic news, Lee, but Fargo is in North Dakota. You betcha.
Other than that, great pics. Sorry I can't join you. My camera has gone to meet its maker. In this case, though, it's under warantee, and the maker is Sony, so I'm hoping to see it again sometime before the New Year. I've got a bunch of stuff ripped up now anyway, so, well, carry on, everyone.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Milk train part 2:If you look in the woods just past the tracks, you can see the foundation of the old barn where the original homestead was:The train crests the summit just before she passes Thompson Tile:Having made the grade she rounds the hill and heads into the cut just before another tunnel:Back down the other side of the grade, brakes still hot she has permission to enter the block before Hopewell Junction Station:
You haven't seen the movie then I take it ya?
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Rsy ... Very nice layout photos. That's neat 10 wheeler. Feel free to tell more about that loco.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Milk run part 3...Old #628 eases around the bend at the head of the yard:With some light braking the engineer slows her for final approach to the station at Hopewell Junction:
Garry it is a Bachmann 4-6-0 that has been decaled and numbered for the SLOW. Runs a NCE decoder (she came DCC Ready). Right now she has been taken to the roundhouse (workbench) to see why all of a sudden she is derailing in some of the curves. The spring under the front truck had slipped out of place and was preventing the truck from turning in the curves. Tried rebending the spring and put it back together. So I have now used a touch of Walthers Goo to keep it in place. By tomorrow she should be back up and running.
Happy belated Birthday Packer. Your post remained me I have a U-Boat SP Bloody Nose, I have not ran it for years. Need to see if I can find it.
MRC 220 is pretty good as well, I remember when I got my first MRC 1400 transformer, it was the first step of upgrading.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle.
I was thinking AtothaA-hole...
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steinjr Not quite up to the stellar standard some of you other guys set, but here is my little project for this weekend - a scratchbuilt Mississippi coal barge for the municipal Barge terminal on my layout. It is 4" wide and 12" long - about 30 x 90 H0 scale feet. I know that a modern coal barge is about 200 feet long and 35 feet wide, but this is supposed to be 1957, and 4x12 inches visually seemed not too horribly compressed. Built from 0.40" sheet styrene, some foam from an old matress to flesh out the piles without adding too much weight, black ballast glued into the bin over the foam to look like coal, and the thingies to fasten ropes to (I know that the shoreside equivalent is called a bollard - but couldn't locate "barge terms for dummies" using google to find out what the boatside equivalent is called) is made from sprue leftovers. It is my first attempt at scratch building any kind of boat, and it still needs a bit of TLC - sanding down the edges a little, painting it black and weathering it. That will have to wait until next week sometime - we are celebrating Thanksgiving her with the extended family on Sunday Nov 23rds (I know it is really Thursdag Nov 27th - but that is not a holiday over here in Norway, so we do it the weekend before or the weekend after). So Sunday will not be part of the model RR weekend for me. Smile, Stein
Not quite up to the stellar standard some of you other guys set, but here is my little project for this weekend - a scratchbuilt Mississippi coal barge for the municipal Barge terminal on my layout.
It is 4" wide and 12" long - about 30 x 90 H0 scale feet. I know that a modern coal barge is about 200 feet long and 35 feet wide, but this is supposed to be 1957, and 4x12 inches visually seemed not too horribly compressed.
Built from 0.40" sheet styrene, some foam from an old matress to flesh out the piles without adding too much weight, black ballast glued into the bin over the foam to look like coal, and the thingies to fasten ropes to (I know that the shoreside equivalent is called a bollard - but couldn't locate "barge terms for dummies" using google to find out what the boatside equivalent is called) is made from sprue leftovers.
It is my first attempt at scratch building any kind of boat, and it still needs a bit of TLC - sanding down the edges a little, painting it black and weathering it.
That will have to wait until next week sometime - we are celebrating Thanksgiving her with the extended family on Sunday Nov 23rds (I know it is really Thursdag Nov 27th - but that is not a holiday over here in Norway, so we do it the weekend before or the weekend after). So Sunday will not be part of the model RR weekend for me.
Smile, Stein
Even though you and I don't see eye to eye on most things, I will say your barge is coming along very nicely.
Thanks for the link to the tow boat. Living along the mississippi, I always wondered if there was an HO scale model available.
frown,
Driline.
The CP Bait Train! I love it!
That aint bait - it's sushi!!
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CS; loved the vid. a rousing chorus for the morning!!
CS--
Where'd the crew find those huge chains?!
Lotsa good stuff this weekend. Thanks to all who posted.
SpaceMouse shayfan84325 I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches: Phil, That is great. Where did you get it.?
Thanks Chip.
It's a Ye Olde Huff 'n Puff kit that I bought on eBay (my favorite hobby store).
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Who is Al MAyo??
tim
timbob Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle. Who is Al MAyo?? tim
A top Ukranian terroist suspect. Do not talk to him. He is very dangerous. Don't even speak his name.