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[CSX_road_slug]

Lotsa great stuff on here so far!  Since I have to leave for work in a few minutes, I don't have time to comment on the individual submissions [sorry about that].

Here's my contribution for the week.  Been assembling structures for a Main Street-type business block across from my steel mill, a freelance of something that could have existed on the outskirts of Cleveland. These are the latest additions, a drug store (Merchants Row III) and a former White Tower hamburger joint under new ownership (also a reworked Walthers kit). The white cardboard platform I set them on was warped, which unfortunately caused some stray light to be visible from the inside. Their permanent locations will be on a perfectly-flat, dark gray surface.

First, the drug store - which shares the building with a union hall (this is a steel town, remember!). I edited the prices downward on some of the window ads, to make them look more like the target year 1992:

...and the Burger Shack. The short wall toward the left is the 'front' [1st pic], which faces the street. The 2nd pic shows the drive-in window, the 3rd one is a rear view:

 

 

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Very impressive, John.  I will enjoy seeing it all painted up with the details I am sure you intend to add.  Wow!!!

-Crandell

[onequiknova]

  These are a few pictures of a CB&Q T2 2-6-6-2 I've been scratchbuilding over the last couple years.  Unlike the scratchbuilt Mikado I posted a couple months ago, this one has a scratchbuilt chassis instead of building on an existing brass import chassis. I hadn't touched it for a few month as I contimplated what to do about the valve gear. I decided to start with a Precision scale valve gear kit meant for a MDC 0-6-0. Every part used from the kit had to be modifed in some way, and I scratchbuilt numberous parts including the main rod. The valve gear is in the last pic. I still have to build the remaining 3 valve gear assembly's and add numberous more details to the boiler.

 

 

 John.

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DingySP

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Was that picture taken outdoors? Looks great.

Hi, DingySP.  Thanks for your compliment.    No, it was on the layout, under two 50 watt halogen GU10's.  I played with the exposure time and the iris aperture until I got a nice contrasty image. Unfortunately, the two lights yielded two shadow as you see to the right of the ore cars.

-Crandell

[tattooguy67]

Nice work so far all! this week submitted for your approval, i have a mystery on my hands, i bought an older Faller kit that was supposed to be N scale but am not really sure or if it's HO, pics first then text to follow.

Now the stats; in N it would be 32' wide x 29' long and 35' tall to top of roof, the main floor window in the front is 5' off the ground and is 6 ' tall and 5' wide, and the door is 9' tall and 5' wide, it all seems odd, if you roughly half the above measures for HO it still makes no sense to me, did i get some odd hybrid here or were they just not as worried about scale size back in the day? and last one, can anyone tell me the age of this kit? or at least close? sorry for the long post here, and thanks for reading any help or thoughts would be good, enjoy!

Chuck & Heather.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Wikious

 Here's one of my projects that I actually finished. I built a ballast hopper out of two old ore hoppers I had. I can still make 2 more ballast hoppers from the ore cars I have left.

That's an interesting model. I may do that with some Canadian ore cars I have lying around.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Thanks to Mike for the early start at Weekend Photo Fun and to thosewho have joined him with some other great pictures!

[georgev]

This is my latest completed project.  This is an old P2K undec caboose kit I found at a train show some years back.  The interior came detailed - so I painted it and put a guy in the cupola.  Not sure it was worth it the effort. The caboose has an interior light - but I run DC  and the light becomes effective about 9 volts which makes a really really fast freight!

 

George V.

[DingySP]

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Was that picture taken outdoors? Looks great.

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Well, now that the cat's out of the bag..

 

[Wikious]

 Here's one of my projects that I actually finished. I built a ballast hopper out of two old ore hoppers I had. I can still make 2 more ballast hoppers from the ore cars I have left.

[reklein]

WPF starts on Thursday?I love long weekends.BILL

[mononguy63]

So Phil, how much did you have to pay your employer to get that loading duty?

[Flashwave]

My only project in a long while. Piture is hyperlinked to my thread on it' construction, but this is the only lightened picture

[shayfan84325]

I've been looking forward to this thread.

My job took an unexpected turn this week - Usually I do human resources for a window manufacturing plant, but we can't afford to use hourly people for special jobs, so salaried folks get the call when we have to do something extra.  This week it was loading a lumber car with 30 units of rough stock (we're shipping it to our millwork plant in Wisconsin).  One of our forklift drivers and I loaded the whole thing in 4 hours:  Here's a picture of yours truly after the job was done:

This is the third car I've helped load.  As a model railroading HR dude, this was pretty good duty.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Just a couple of shots of part of the small town of Sundown.

[rs2mike]

I am jumping the gun I know this week.. I am going to be out of town until next wed so I thought I would post this.

My progress on my shelf scene I am building.  This is where I was at.

Here is what I got done this week.  Still working on my carved pine trees. I got 3 done today, they will end up on the upper level of the rock work.

I am also working on a background and a way to make the scene extend down the tracks into the backgrounds.  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Have a great weekend.

Mike