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WPF 3/5---3/7
Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, March 5, 2010 9:46 AM

To start things off here's a video of my GP-9 with an upgrade chip installed

 I really like the Nathan 5 chime horn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2I1DqcrQQ

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Posted by C & O Steam on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:00 AM

Very nice. What type of chip did you install?

MC

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:16 AM

 I agree, sounds good!!

 Here's a weathered hopper I just finished up.  I forgot to take a before shot, but it was a bright yellow hopper. 

 

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:19 AM

C&O fan, you loco sounds great!

I'm still working on filling in a corner of the BRVRR layout. My new skyline and background building are in place. I've begun detailing the scene a little. Here is an image of my home-made chain-link fence. Not the best rendition of a fence I've ever seen, but not bad for  this amateur. 

 

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:29 AM

Allan .. Your scene looks very good!

Robby ... I like the hopper.

TerryinTexas ... Nice video of the Geeps.

Here are SD24's with a westbound freight.

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:53 AM

 Very nice work, everyone.

 

RS1 crossing Hammer Creek.

 

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:57 AM

Looks like things are off to a good start, lookin' and soundin' great!  Here's a shot of my Southern RS-3, an Athearn RTR, making it's way up a grade with a couple of coal hoppers.

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:00 AM

 Darn, this is good!  Grampy, every time I see your work I get depressed...  Big Smile

How did you do the tall green grass at the bottom right corner of the photo?

Jarrell

Grampys Trains

 Very nice work, everyone.

 

RS1 crossing Hammer Creek.

 

  

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:06 AM

BRVRR
Here is an image of my home-made chain-link fence

 What don't you like about it? I am getting ready to try one my self, I will be using some laces for the chain link.

             Cuda Ken

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:53 AM

C & O Steam

Very nice. What type of chip did you install?

MC

Thanks

The new chip is LLW GP-9 112-03
with the Nathan 5m  5 chime horn
which is correct for the C&O Geeps
And sounds great
the prime mover now ramps up all the way thru
the speed range and also transitions just like the real ones

TerryinTexas

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Posted by MAbruce on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:54 AM

Nice work everyone!  

I've been working on a couple areas of my layout recently:

 

(The second shot has a digital backdrop)

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Posted by Driline on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:55 AM

 So Long Turntable.....

Hello hole in ground... Hmmm...now what to do. Could make a nice swimming pool, or could possibly hold a nice ice cold bucket O' Beer.

 

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, March 5, 2010 12:00 PM

 Thanks, Jarrell, and you gotta love those old Alcos, I do. Very nice! That grass is from the Silflor Summer sampler pack, available at Scenic Express. DJ.

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Posted by CNJ831 on Friday, March 5, 2010 12:02 PM

"Generations"

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Posted by howmus on Friday, March 5, 2010 12:35 PM

Great start already folks!  Grampy, Jarrell, and the rest, fine work you folks are doing.  I always look forward to this thread!

I have been waiting for some windows to arrive at my LHS to work on the main part of the Logging pike engine house I am building, so in the meantime I put together the small workshop that will be a room off the side of the engine house.  Walls are made icluding the 2' x 4' studs on the walls:

Walls have been assembled on the base and painted dark gray, windows and doors (Grandtline) added:

Couple of inside shots from the workbench:

73

 

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, March 5, 2010 1:33 PM

jacon12

 Darn, this is good!  Grampy, every time I see your work I get depressed...  Big Smile

How did you do the tall green grass at the bottom right corner of the photo?

Jarrell

Grampys Trains

 Very nice work, everyone.

RS1 crossing Hammer Creek.

[snip]

Looks like fake fur to me

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, March 5, 2010 3:27 PM

Driline

 So Long Turntable.....

Hello hole in ground... Hmmm...now what to do. Could make a nice swimming pool, or could possibly hold a nice ice cold bucket O' Beer.

 


 

So what are you gonna do with the turntable?  Interested in getting rid of it or are you moving it to another location?

alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, March 5, 2010 3:32 PM

Here is what I have been up to lately between looking for jobs online.

after pics of the ken kidder brass train I restored 




before pics of the ken kidder looks pretty nasty

 

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, March 5, 2010 3:46 PM

And some other project I have worked on.

Atlas amtrack was a complete wreck, all taken apart, no decoder, pieces everywhere.


Atlas rs-1 



Athearn trainmaster dummy turned to power unit and yes I know the trucks are wrong.  This was built for my leasing company like it survived the torch and was upgraded. 


My $40.00 BLI Hudson.  Missing teather and sound decoder and electronics and rear trucks on the tender.  Got the tender on warranty, had a guy make me a theather and added my own decoder.  Saving up for a sound decoder for it.

alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)

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Posted by Driline on Friday, March 5, 2010 4:38 PM

rs2mike
So what are you gonna do with the turntable?  Interested in getting rid of it or are you moving it to another location?

 

I want to get rid of it. I've now got 2  unwanted Heljan 14" turntables. One with a brand new walthers motor. Maybe they would make nice frisbees?

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Posted by Margaritaman on Friday, March 5, 2010 5:02 PM

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Posted by steemtrayn on Friday, March 5, 2010 5:09 PM

Margaritaman

Nice. Can we see the rest of the engine?

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Posted by Driline on Friday, March 5, 2010 5:37 PM

steemtrayn

Margaritaman

Nice. Can we see the rest of the engine?

 

You have to ask him nicely.

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Posted by jalajoie on Friday, March 5, 2010 6:06 PM

A scene on our club's layout. Rolling stock and picture belong to another member of the club.

The gray cylindrical structure was scratch built by another member.

Aside of posting the picture I did lay the track work. 

 

 

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Posted by Margaritaman on Friday, March 5, 2010 8:03 PM

steemtrayn
Nice. Can we see the rest of the engine?

Thanks, but this is one weathering job I can't claim.  My loco for sure but that awesome weather is the work of Michael Couvrette, "Coovi" at MTW as he's known by some.  I love weathering my stuff because it isn't really proto weathering and I can get silly with it but I wanted this one to look exactly like a pic I found online and quite honestly I wasn't comfortable doing it.  I'd say he nailed it.  

Funny thing is I'll have to find a club to run it at or run down to Bob's because it sure won't fit on my layout. Confused

 

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Posted by Margaritaman on Friday, March 5, 2010 8:16 PM

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Posted by cwclark on Friday, March 5, 2010 10:16 PM

         Great pics guys, especially the cab forward. Here's my entry. It's an SPMW tool car that I found a picture of when surfing the net awhile back with the picture description depicting the train heading to the Colton yard in California. How it got sent there from the Englewood yard in Houston is anyone's guess.     

           Anyway, I thought it was a cool looking car so I took an IHC smooth side passenger car and turned it into the tool car. I had to cut 8 ft. off of each end of the orginal pullman standard and then removed sections of the body and then wrapped the frame with a sheet of .005 styrene to cover the original doors and windows. I then used a hobby knife and cut out the different portals that I saw from the  picture as close to scale as I could get it. With some sanding , painting, a few strips of styrene here and there, and grab iron installation, got it finish Thursday night. It took me two weeks of evening work to complete the model.  

....chuck

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Posted by jdobo on Saturday, March 6, 2010 4:26 AM
A meet in Springsteen:
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Posted by IVRW on Saturday, March 6, 2010 5:11 AM
Nothing much this week for me because I am in Orlando Fl. Since it was my birthday recently, I got a gift from a friend here. This was taken in Savannah Georgia, where they got it from a Museum. I believe it may prove instrumental in designing my next yard.

~G4

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 6, 2010 5:17 AM

IVRW
Since it was my birthday recently, I got a gift from a friend here.

 

A belated Happy B-Day to you! I see, that you have updated your signature accordingly Big Smile It was apleasure to observe, how much you have grown in the last year! Keep ´em rolling, those iron wheels!

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