Since nobody has started this yet I guess I will. Couple projects I just finished this week.
The gp-38 is an undecorated atlas model. Disassembled the whole thing, cleaned, lubed and tested. Then I added a NCE decoder and added front and rear led lights. On the outside I added the long hood bell, plow and ditch lights. I was missing the one end railing so I bent new ones from brass rod. Decals were from shell scale that I found on ebay. Then I drybushed the rust and silver colors for contrast.
Drybrushed the weathering on the trucks and fuel tank and finished off this rs-3
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Great work, Mike. I love your "subtle" touch. Those locos look used but not abused.
Building an old Roundhouse 2-8-0 kit but not far enough along to photograph. Still cleaning up the castings.
However, a buddy did give me a nice Roadway rig for the layout. Had to "dirty" it just a bit.
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
They look very nice Mike, I too like the light weathering touch. Very nicely done.
As a follow on to last week, I've put together a short video of the same Atlas S-2 (Tsunami equipped) on YouTube. If you have some time to kill, check it out (it's even HD).
1000 pardons if you've already seen this!
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
Excellent work so far!
I don't have real progress to show. In fact, my layout has gone backwards:
I've torn down the old layout in preparation for a new one. I'm hoping to begin on benchwork soon.
For more of the old layout, see the entire album
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Mike, nice job on those locos..
GRAMRR, great looking truck.
Scarpia, cool video.
Switching CD Smoker and a couple of older guys playing with trains. DJ.
I don't have anything from my home layout this week, but I do have a couple of pictures I took last November at the Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Ga. The modular club I'm a member of set up it's large HO scale layout, plus the smaller N scale. The event was titled 'Planes and Trains'.
In the photo below you can see the very small O scale setup which we hope to, at least, triple in size this year. Also, the area most popular with visiting toddlers (and parents) is the 'ride-able' setup near the bottom of this picture.
Jarrell
Grampy, is that you in the red shirt in your photo?
Mike, nice work on those locos..
GRAMRR, good looking R Car
Scarpia, Nice video.
Who's leaning on the layout Grampy ?
Jarrell what a great looking place for a show
I'm working on the Handley Yard office for my friend Arts layout
using COHS photos
I did the interior and used coffee straws for conduit for the lights
TerryinTexas
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Jarrell and C&O fan, that would be my buddy, Cork, who is an O and O27 scale collector, and Al, who has a smaller HO scale layout. I'm taking the photo and enjoying watching them having some fun. DJ.
Grampy love the overview shot of the layout. You always have great pics but it is nice to see this side of the layout as well. Very nice. Everyone else you guys have some great stuff as well. I hope to have some more pics up by the end of the weekend of a weathered covered hopper and weathered rsd-4
I installed some lighting for night ops in West Canaan last week, and filmed this video of train CDWJ crossing Main Street at grade. Since I had no sound clips of trains at night, plus it's the dead of winter here so I can't record the peepers and frogs, the video is set very early in the morning on a rainy day...the birds are already up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFSvsCvCv1w
Enjoy!
Progress pics of my 12DupSR-5Bd COSF car with lowered floor. Ready to letter as soon as I find out how the COSF letters were spaced amongst the upper duplex windows.
DC
http://uphonation.com
Here is a Stewart U25 that I Detailed, Painted and Decaled for the Wabash Railroad!
Details include Cut Levers, Replacing cast on Lift Rings with Utah Pacific Castings etc. Decals are a combination of Walthers and Microscale.
Regards
Rick
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Summer of 1953.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Mike, I think you are doing very nice, very natural, weathering on those motors. Well done!
What a nicely detailed image you have there, Lee.
Terry, I think your building is coming along well, but what strikes me most is the near perfect tone of the inside wood...nicely aged, it seems.
DJ, you have a very nice layout, obviously, but I do agree that it is very nice to get this stand-off view for a change. It helps to put things into perspective.
I photographed my trusty Pennsy J1 trailing a few hundred tons of coal and hoppers coming across the interchange bridge over Seneca River.
-Crandell
I was going to comment on how I liked one of the models. Then I realized it wouldn't be fair to the others. Everyone's work is just FANTASTIC!!! This is going to be another great WPF I can tell.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Great work again this week guys.Mike that is wonderful weathering,so many of us have too heavy a hand but that sir is a great job. Crandell love that bridge scene,makes me want to sit down on the embankment and see what I might catch under the bridge.
So this week I thought I would give the club shots a rest and show som preliminaries form my home layout.
As I said very early progress so far as I have been otherwise engaged,but I'm very much and Alcophile as eveidenced by the power at the terminal
One of the problems is I have too many hobbies. I like for a distraction to paint 15mm ( roughly HO scale ) militarty miniatures as well,alas too many hobbies too little time.
Rob
Rob, I find your hardware out front of the very nicely assembled shops to be quite the impressive collection. Very nice!
Tyler, you have a nice video there...are you sure it is a model? You're not trying to pull a fast one or anything...
Thanks Crandell. I have to say we have been lucky the last ten years or so with all the Canadian prototype locmotives that have come out,the RS10 and 18 in front of the shops are the Plastic Proto ones that Hobby Craft now Trueline trains had made up.Hard to believe proper RS10's and 18's are ready built from a major manufacturer. I can remembering having to kitbash the old Atlas RS11's and try to manhandle and grind and file the Miniatures by Eric heavy cast brass corners and details on.Man I can't believe what we used to have to go through.
Here is my contribution for the weekend....
I got some more done this weekend....
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Its not much to show compared to the rest of everything here, but here we go anyhow.
A year or so ago, I posted this picture of the full scale trackplanning I prefer to do. Coincidentally, it was taken on January 25th:
A few months back, I posted the "true" mockups of scanned wall sections on the clamped together benchwork:
And now, the actual wall sections are propped up and waiting completion:
Like I said, its not a whole lot. Hopefully the weather cooperates tomorrow so I can paint the rest of those walls.
selector Mike, I think you are doing very nice, very natural, weathering on those motors. Well done! What a nicely detailed image you have there, Lee. Terry, I think your building is coming along well, but what strikes me most is the near perfect tone of the inside wood...nicely aged, it seems. DJ, you have a very nice layout, obviously, but I do agree that it is very nice to get this stand-off view for a change. It helps to put things into perspective. I photographed my trusty Pennsy J1 trailing a few hundred tons of coal and hoppers coming across the interchange bridge over Seneca River. -Crandell
Thanks
I used a stain pen to get the wood color on the buildings interior
Nice Photo of the J1 but that small cut of cars isn't even testing it's power 50 more would be good
Thanks, Terry. The engine is nearing Seneca Sub yard where it will hook up to another 8 hoppers and then horse them up the 3% grades out of Seneca. The larger tonnage on the 3% grades leaving Seneca will test the J1 mightily.
Nice work everybody. The scenes look very real !!!!! Nice models, too!
I have completed my FT ABBA I made from Stewart FT models. My FT's are built to look close to how they appeared upon delivery from EMD in 1944. Each connection on the prototype between the A unit and the B unit was with a solid draw bar instead of couplers. Spacing was only two feet. The other end of the B units had normal couplers and spacing was three feet. The model can not handle curves less than 24" because of the scale two foot spacing.
Here is my very old EMD poster which was an inspiration. The next two photos are of my FT ABBA in Prairie View.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Just picked this one up yesterday. A quick run around the layout before surgery to swap out the DCS for a Tsunami.
Springfield PA
Some of you may remember that back in December I posted that I was beginning the process of dismantling my old N scale layout.
You may be interested in seeing what has happened since. I installed cabinets, a formica countertop, and some shelving. Which has become the new home of my On30 modules.
The new shelving is slightly lower than the shelving where the modules used to set, giving me better access and a eye-level view. I also gained a few feet of space on the old location. Allowing me to add a new module, which will feature a scratchbuilt water tank, and some other sort of lineside structure.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Hey guys, Great work.
No photo from me this week. Instead I have a video to share. The video I wanted to share had some computer difficulties, so in its place I filmed this short clip. It features the new road system that I paved last weekend, the new grade crossing, a new patch of finished scenery, and my Athearn F45.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzy5MPxekWc
Enjoy,
Jamie
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
HO scale Horseshoe Curve in 5’x10’
My YouTube
Almost finished my C&O scale House
You can buy this as a kit
http://cgi.ebay.com/HO-SCALE-SCALE-HOUSE-LASER-CUT-KIT_W0QQitemZ190363028420QQcmdZViewItemQQptZModel_RR_Trains?hash=item2c52854bc4
but it doesn't have studded walls or a floor
I save the 16 dollars and made mine out of scraps
Hamltnblue Just picked this one up yesterday. A quick run around the layout before surgery to swap out the DCS for a Tsunami.
Reminds me of his campaign train in 1992. It went right by our golf course on the west side of Columbus, OH. We got a wave from the Prez as we stood on the 5th tee.
Here's a video of the prototype
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK9k_HW7ArU
I do SO much enjoy seeing all your fine work in this thread every week. Sure makes the weekend special!
I have been SLOWly getting more done on the Bridge To Nowhere, NY. Track is now laid and these photos are ones I am using to see what I still need to do there. Hope you enjoy!
My newest Loco a Connie #217 pulls a freight with my newest car on the layout, through the newest scenery I have done and under the newest bridge.......
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!