Weekend Photo Fun!!! 8/13 - 8/16

[THayman]

 Great work as always everyone!

 These past few weeks I acquired an old out of production (from the mid 1990s I believe) resin kit from Associated Model Makers, for a Bombardier/MLW LRC locomotive. So far I have built the shell and painted/decalled it. To the basic shell I added the detail for all of the intake screens and the uncoupling lever on the front pilot. It still needs to be dullcoted, then I will need to add a horn, handrails, lights, and windows.

Here is the locomotive almost ready for painting:

 

Now here is the shell painted and decalled as VIA Rail LRC #6907 (which in reality was the last LRC to haul a train in revenue service, in December of 2001):

 

Now the next task is to finish the shell, and continue modifying an Athearn U28B chassis to mount the shell on. The chassis is a close fit, but it needs to be lengthened a bit, and filed down to fit inside (width-wise). Then little things like lighting the head/ditch lights, etc. Hopefully I'll have more progress shots for next weekend.

Have a great weekend, and a great week everyone!

[steamage]

 

There is so much switching going on at the Gravel Plant and Scrap Yard, a switchman's shack was needed.

 

[Anonymous]

I've been working on my once-somewhat neglected town of Enfield. I finished the Agrawal Paper kitbash, then decided to clean up the town and at the same time, prepare for the upcoming commuter rail service. I paved the former gravel crossing and station parking lot, added some more ground cover, and fixed up the platform. At some point in the future the crossing will receive the proper lights, for now a simple crossbuck will suffice.

Although I've visited and photographed the real Enfield, I've allowed my model of the town to deviate from the prototype a bit throughout its construction over a few years.

Besides the modern railroad constructions of the siding and industry tracks, I've added an interchange with a shortline called the Enfield & Rumney (yes, that's a real town, and a believable routing), changed what was probably a shop of some kind into a paper mill (it's brick and in roughly the right place!), and added a couple buildings between the tracks and Main Street - not modeled as it's inside the backdrop.

Agrawal Paper itself is a kitbashed flat built from a Walthers Modulars set, styrene, extruded foam (for the foundation), and parts from my scrap bin. I still have to add the rooftop sign. There are two shadowbox loading docks with wrapped paper rolls and other junk inside, one closed roll-up door, and a dump grate for woodchip hoppers. The building I modeled is the shipping building - the actual mill is not modeled.

[dcfixer]

ukguy

Nice shots everyone.

It may be an old pic Crandell, but it is a great one.

 A current work in progress from me.....

 

 

 

 

Karl.A

 

 Great, fun WPF.  Lots of impressive work and photos, as usual, but  I just can't resist responding to this one in particular.  Karl, that is incredible!.  The 90 pipe fitting, sledge, anchor bolts and nuts, bench, broom...beautiful photos.  Truly outstanding reproduction.  That definitely raises my bar.

Thanks for the enjoyment and inspiration.

DC

[Hamltnblue]

Took some photos of the Valero Refinery in Paulsboro NJ today.  They were taken from the Philadelphia side of the Delaware river behind the airport. 2 of the pics shown here out of 22

Might make a good backdrop someday.

[duckdogger]

Almost too hot to be outdoors, 109 today and 113 forecast for tomorrow.  May have to turn on the house AC.

The inspiration for these cars were stored by the harbor in Bellingham, WA this May.  But the real ones were 95% black with the barest hint of green along the upper edge of the top side plate.

The real versions of the GTW were at the NS yard in Williamson, WV.

[howmus]

First off... I agree with Crandell, the level of craftsmanship shown here in the last year or so consistently shows the progress all of you are making!  Nice, very nice!

I spent today at my NMRA Divisions Summer picnic at the Medina, NY RR Museum.  Housed inside an old NYC Freight house, the museum is more than a football field long and has inside a 104' by 14' HO scale model railroad.  Not only is it large, but the work was done by some of the best modelers in upstate NY and shows some fine scenes.  Here is just a very small portion of what there is to see here:

Like really "Old Time" railroads?

How about the Civil War Railroads?

For you diesel fans, a pair of Fairbanks Morse:

Self explanatory and only half of the ship is in the photo....

This is the main yard.  I am standing about 20' past the halfway point of the layout.  The layout is a solid 1456 square foot! And, the Layout is only one part of all the things they have there.

73

[selector]

 Jarrell and Karl, thanks so much for you kind mention.    It is incongruous, to me, that we have comments about the lack of talent posting to this forum, and then along comes you, Karl, of all people!   What a magnificent model you have constructed there.  Wow!

Ray, I love the first photo.  It's like a post card.  Well done, and you are another example of the improvements I have noticed.   I also like the one showing the water and mud ahead of the bow of the tall ship.  Very convincing.

Cudaken's first image is also amazing for it's angle and lighting.  Well done, Ken.  Another big improvement.

There are others whose improved modeling is evident here today and the past few weeks.

-Crandell

[BRAKIE]

Here we see C&HV GP9 #200 spotting a car at C&HV's distribution center.

 

This picture was taken on my temporary layout..

[cahrn]

Its kind of embarrassing to post a picture of my work here when it has to stand next to the great work everyone else posts, but I felt like I had to post some sort of celebratory picture. I've got a long way to go but I finally finished laying and wiring the track on my layout. It will be a plywood pacific for some time while I relax and run trains. I decided to try to take a couple pics so I could share how I'm getting along. The camera is my brother's and I had pretty much no idea how to use it so the picture turned out incredibly model like and plastic looking.

Heres a pic of two patched Union Pacific geeps on the point of a string of 100 ton hoppers headed into the bend. Sitting idle on the inside track are another geep and a tunnel motor awaiting assignment.

 

 

[ukguy]

Wisconsin Railfan

 Good Day Folks!

Please keep in mind, that this is my first attempt at working on a model RR.  This is just a diorama I am working on, to work on improving my techniques.  I still have a long way to go.  I have been taking good notes, on what I feel I could have done better. I don't have room for a layout at my current home, but we are moving soon.  I figured this is a good way, to be a part of the hobby instead of just thinking about it.

 

 

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Thats exactly where I started from 5 years ago Steven, infact, I still have it sitting on my shelf amongst my later builds. I hope you enjoy your modelling journey as much as I have. Never be afraid to try something new, the worst that can happen is that you have to try again !!!

Most important of all do what makes YOU happy, its your free time, your money and your hobby.

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 Many thanks my friend as always for your continued support and encouragement, although sometimes I feel undeserved.  I really appreciate your comments and kind words.

An earlier shot in the construction, before steamlines, weathering, final placement.....etc, but allowing a diferent view, now obscured.

 

I looked back for the 'negative' that you refered to but didnt see it in this thread. Without seeing the post I would sugest that if   "John" feels that the quality of work shown here is beneath him and he is better 'than this' then there are plenty of places on the 'net' where he can feel justifiably inferior and infinately inadequate.......... 

Karl.A

[cudaken]

  Cahrn Good looking SP you have there. You don't have to have finished layout to post pictures here either. Your picture looked fine and I like where you took the photo as well, more than one thing to look at. Be-sure to post some more pictures.

  Crandell  I will take credit for the angle I took the picture from, but not the lighting!  That's just the way it came out. With the kind words that shot has gotten it has me in the mood to ballast the rails behind the SD 7.

 Far as your Y6 b photo, well you all ready know I am a fan of yours. 

  Karl  When I look at your work all I can do is shake my head and wonder. I wonder HOW THE HECK CAN YOU SEE TO DO ALL THAT SMALL DETAIL WORK? Heck, I broke off half on my first PK 2 E 6 lift rings before I knew they where there?

             Ken

[tomkat-13]

Did some more work on the station. Added a curb, door on the office & test fitting pumps. I still have along way to go & I want to change some of the signage, add main tall Skelly sign.

More at: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/166793.aspx

[C&O Fan]

dcfixer

ukguy

Nice shots everyone.

It may be an old pic Crandell, but it is a great one.

 A current work in progress from me.....

 

 

 

 

Karl.A

 

 Great, fun WPF.  Lots of impressive work and photos, as usual, but  I just can't resist responding to this one in particular.  Karl, that is incredible!.  The 90 pipe fitting, sledge, anchor bolts and nuts, bench, broom...beautiful photos.  Truly outstanding reproduction.  That definitely raises my bar.

Thanks for the enjoyment and inspiration.

DC

Really Great Work !!!

Love seeing stuff like this !!!

[PL&M RR]

PL&M 388, a Z2 class 2-8-8-2, rols though Willa, West Virginia. 

 

[SD60M]

Hello everyone. I found a box of N-scale stuff in my closet from 10 years ago and set them up in my room. I forgot how much you can do with N-scale with little room. Here is a pic of the set up. If anyone wants to know the engines are a Life-Like Frisco E8, Bachmann BN GP50, and a bachmann SF F9 hard to believe they run really well after 10 years of sitting in a box!

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-Kade

[Hamltnblue]

If they've been sitting for 10 years you should give them a drop of plastic safe oil on the gears, even if they are already running good.

 

[SD60M]

Hamltnblue

If they've been sitting for 10 years you should give them a drop of plastic safe oil on the gears, even if they are already running good.

 

I made sure i did that before i put them on the rails. I knew they dying for some grease and oil.

[cudaken]

  Due to a few kind words here at WPF and the Dinner I got of my butt today and worked on the bench today. I really like this photo, but the lack of ballast on the rear spur bugged me.

  So today I did some ballasting. The same spur from a few different angles.

 

 In the last picture is does not look as good as it does in person. When it is dry I will use some chalk to weather it some.

 Then on to part of the main line. I did learn a lot on this part. First lesson was less ballast works better! Much easier to keep the ballast of the ties. Second lesson was put a little white glue on the sides of the roadbed.  Still not great, but this is the first main line section I have done. Oh, third lesson, if you are going to use a plastic bag to pour the ballast from, make sure it does not have any holes in it!

 I do have a few spots to touch, then some weathering. Good shot of some Santa Fe F 9 freight engines as well.

 Hope to see some more pictures before WPF gets shut down!

                     Cuda Ken

[simon1966]

Looking good Ken,,

This past week we had a visiting coal hopper come into town from out East. 

turned out that the Illinois miners were none too pleased to see PA coal being delivered on their patch and before anyone knew it the hopper had been taken from its spot at the tower and hidden.

 

after a long time underground the day shift came off work and determined to get rid of the offending visitor.

As night fell the car was pulled from its hiding place

and quickly switched out onto the main where it was attached to the rear of a passing East bound freight, that had conveniently stopped following a prearranged signal.

before the car left for points east it was given a friendly parting gift.

[cudaken]

  Looks great Simon, good to see you post again on WPF.

         Ken

[jon grant]

Hi all

Over the last week, I added some more scenery to Sweethome Alabama and started work patching an Atlas GP38

I still need to add the nose decal to the GP38-2, when the decal sheet arrives.

Jon

[selector]

Excellent, Jon...truly first class.  I really enjoyed your attention to detail with the pull-blinds and air-conditioners, and the brick weathering is really very good.  The only thing that I would have mentioned if you had asked for feedback would have been the bumper post.  It is very new, or newly painted.  But it is very close and easily spotted.  The tuft grass is nicely arranged, very random and natural, and you got the roadway done really well.

I especially like the trestle and rails atop it.  You captured such a setting exceptionally well. 

-Crandell

[mountaingoatgreg]

Great stuff this weekend guys!!

I have been busy working on some other projects so not been doing to much on the layout. I was able to start on my Tum-A-Lum Lumber dealer. This will be a small rail served customer that will recieve loaded boxcars of lumber.

 

The structures I will be using: 

 

Here is the overview of where things will be:

More photos on my blog SP&S Oregon Trunk

[SD40-2W]

Good job with an AMM product. You are a very good modeler. I look forward to see the final results of your work motorizing this unit with the Athearn U28B.  This is real model railroading craftmanship.

 Thanks for the photos.

Michel D.