I've been busy...
Before:
After:
The next step is waiting for the water (I sprayed the scenery with water to dissolve the glue so I could remove it) to dry, then I'll paint everything.
This will be the new town of Dooley. Industries will include the current interchange plus a new paper mill, and perhaps a team track. There will be a section of street running too. I'll keep you posted...
Kitbashed Burlington "Economy Baggage Cars"
In 1950 and 1951, Burlington's car shop in Havlock, Nebraska built sixty lightweight, welded steel baggage cars. The cars were not stainless steel as were other cars acquired by Burlington in that era. 20 of the cars were painted silver color and had shadow stripes in an effort to match fluted stainless steel cars. In only a few years, the silver cars were painted solid silver color. The other 40 cars were painted conventional heavyweight green. It seem a bit odd that they did that when one considers that Burlington was re-apinting some of its heacyweight cars a silver color at the same time.
Below are two photos of an eastbound train on mye layout with two Burlington economy baggage cars. Number 1045 is one I made a few months ago and is painted heavyweight green. Number 1004 is one I made in the past few days and is solid silver color with no shadow stripes.
Both cars started as Rivarossi baggage cars. These cars are a scale 5 feet shorter than the prototype, but that is not very noticable. I added roof vents, and changed one door on each side from a six foot door to an eight foot door. I installed long shank Kadee couplers directly on the carbodies. Car 1045 has Tenshodo trucks, and car 1004 has Central Valley trucks. I did not bother to change the underbody details. Sometimes "close enough' is good enough.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Driline - you're so crewl!!!
Packers#1 Tim, I seriosuly thought that was a live steam turnout or maybe even a prototype. Great work!!! OK, started building a switching layout as well. Yes, I know thge leads for the run-around are only long enough for a loco. To explain the blurry pics, A) camera was dying, and B) shelf right below the top in this photo: this sorta shows the track alyout: Alco rs-1 pauses in front of the local switching shack (black building), an abandoned industrial building (large brick building), and a 40' boxcar for storage:
Tim, I seriosuly thought that was a live steam turnout or maybe even a prototype. Great work!!!
OK, started building a switching layout as well. Yes, I know thge leads for the run-around are only long enough for a loco. To explain the blurry pics, A) camera was dying, and B) shelf right below the top in this photo:
this sorta shows the track alyout:
Alco rs-1 pauses in front of the local switching shack (black building), an abandoned industrial building (large brick building), and a 40' boxcar for storage:
I want that room vacumed, the toys picked up and that shelf straigtened now mister before our friends come over, or they'll be no dessert for dinner!
Wow!!! The pics are really rolling in this weekend
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Some very nice photographs. Here is my entry for the week.
Photographed the locomotive outdoors on one of my modules and added the backdrop in Photoshop. You can almost hear the rumble of the engine as it switches the siding.
Great start for this WPF.....Very nice Mikado....Almost like Jarrell was an HO railfan stopped along the 2 lane High-Way with his 35mm camera!
Here is some shots from my first section of my hollow-core door point-to-point shelf layout.
Another great week of outstanding Photos Jarrel , Grampy , Selector and Mr B
are all tough acts to follow
Heres a photo of my H-8 passing the Thurmond Depot on my friend Arts Layout
I've been begging him to weather my loco like his seen here crossing over to the
west bound main just before Thurmond
TerryinTexas
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I had worked on a boxcar this week, here's the finished result:
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.
Got my bridge in from Russellville to the main yard.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
Great shots as usual.
I haven't done to much to the layout, but I did get to weather a N scale steam engine. Well Rob (cederstand), gave me a chance to do it. Took me a few days to do. I faded it, rusted it up, and lots of dust/grime. I think it turned out pretty good.
I might model HO, but N was pretty neat to do.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Thank you for the nice comments on my photo. Mr. Beasley, in his remarks, mentioned this weekly thread has become an inspiration. I'd like to second that because I always see something that I'd like to try and immulate, though I never seem to come up to the standards you fellas set. I see some of the best scenery, including trackwork, great model weathering , not to mention unique structures etc. in this thread, and I'd like to thank everyone that participates.
Jarrell
I'll just squeeze one in here. We're off skiing for the weekend, so I won't get anything else done.
I finished up the ground cover around the Clampett place. It took a while, because these lazy jug band guys just stood around and played music while I did all the work.
Really nice work, everyone. WPF has become a real inspiration. Keep 'em coming.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Jarrell, awesome photo...how do you get the lighting to look so realistic. I can't come close to that.
Grampy, stunning depth of focus as always...great 1000 yard stare.
Tim, this is exceptional work...congratulations. I hope people take a good close look at the gaps around the frog...oh, don't see them? That is because Tim uses a jeweler's file with a hair-like filamental blade. On his advice, I bought one from an etailer (wont' say how much it cost to get it up to Canada) and am very pleased with the results.
Anyway, here is my much more modest image for the week. This image is actually my entry in a photo contest on another forum where the theme is 'small businesses', but I also wanted to reveal my weathered N&W caboose...just a peek.
This is just flat out beautiful! At first glance I thought you'd posted a shot of the real thing. I want to know, so bad 'cause I'm having so much trouble with it, how did you weather the rails, they're simply great!
FastTracks Hi all, Eye level view of an HO scale code 70 stub turnout I built earlier this week. CNJ Bronx Terminal
Hi all,
Eye level view of an HO scale code 70 stub turnout I built earlier this week.
CNJ Bronx Terminal
Hi: Jarrell, beautiful scene, very nice work.
Nice trackwork and rocks.
West bound local preparing to get underway.
Fasttracks - if you had not mentioned it was HO, I would have thought it was real. I also really love the ground cover. VERY nice work!
I've been experimenting with tall rock faces (N-scale):
Jarrell .......... That's a great photo!
Let's get it underway, 'cause I've got to go get some work done!
Southern Railways train 106 leaving the yard..
Ho scale BLI light Mikado