No one has started off this weekend, so I will start it off with cars that were finished this week.This is an IMRC 50' PS1 Boxcar, substituted a DW 10' Plug Door for the kit doors, added extended couplers for a cushion car. Lettered the car with Herald King Decals.This is an IMRC 1937 40' 10' Inside Height AAR Boxcar, lettered with Highball Graphics decals.This is a Branchline 50' Berwick Boxcar, substituted a Diagonal Panel Roof for the X Panel that came with the kit. Lettered with Highball Graphics decals. (Did two cars as each decal set has the decals to do two cars).Thanks for looking!
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Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
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19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Port Able Railway SW1200 #39 pulling Corinth & Counce box car # 6207.
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Mike Kieran
Port Able Railway
I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.
We are off to a good start, I hope everyone is looking forward to a good Memorial Day weekend. The cool foggy drizzle on the Maine coast seems to have finally broken and we are looking forward to a sunny warm weekend!!
This week I completed a garage for a scene on the Boothaby Railway Village HO scale layout. The garage is a Branchline kit and the car is a 1948 Ford by Alloy Forms
The Yellow House scene still needs some work - more scenery, bushes and maybe someone mowing the lawn. The house was scratch built by Fred Overkamp, another volunteer at the museum. He has left us for a second (or third??) retirement in southern Utah; I have been working on the scenery
The museum opens tomorrow for weekends only until mid-june, then daily for the summerhttp://www.railwayvillage.org/
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Nice work everyone!
Nothing new from me, so I'll post an older shot:
Get a grip! The Pennsy brakeman seems to be defying gravity here. I posed him with a waxy substance called "Mini Hold" designed to temporarily set people in various areas. After taking the pics and downloading them into the computer, I realized he was not holding onto the grab iron. The main subject of the pic was the old Athearn blue box 40' boxcar that I chose to repaint and decal for the PRR. I've been digging through my decal box, and found this set of Microscale decals to work with.-Stan
The Super Chief heads East led by F7 #38.
Here's something from me. Just a "worked" ACL.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
This week I put together this Frankenstein project using parts from Life-Like (FA frame, motor, shafts), Athearn (trucks) and Bachmann (FT body).
I had a problem with the wheels shorting out against some raised ridges on the frame so those ridges had to be ground down so the wheels would clear.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Excellent work, all!
Here, The head brakeman on PL&M GP 204 signals the engineer to stop short of the tie, so he can align the couplers before pulling a boxcar from the depot track at Willa, WV.
Crew change for 2 csx trains
Santa Fe Servicing
Crandell
Here is one of my two times a year contribution! This HOn3 flat started life as a wooden LaBelle gondola kit that I changed into a flat, added misc Grandt Line details, Kadee #178 scale whisker couplers and a couple of Athearn tractors. I painted it for my Rock Creek & Western.
Got some work done. This is Stevenson, AL. Here's what we got done.
Looking at all of it.
Looking at the end of Double Track, Southern to the Left, NC&SL to the right.
Closer view, You can see were the road will cross the tracks, The Southern local yard starts just past the road.
Shot of were the 3 track yard starts.
Looking back South.
This is a new caboose I got last week from Rapido Trains. It's a CPR prototype that a local short line, NB Southern has. Rapido made two different versions of the caboose. All I did was paint the wheels and couplers a rust color, and add some weathering to the underframe and ends.
It has track powered LED lighting for the full interior, and fibre optic marker lights. You can choose which end the markers are lighted with the supplied magnetic wand.
This was a time exposure so the lighting would show up in a darkened room, and the overall lighting was with a diffuser equipped flash on my DSLR.
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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This C&O 2-10-4 prepares to blow by an eleven coach passenger train stopped at the station.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I've been making steady progress on my HO scale Central Massachusetts Railway, but haven't posted anything since March. I've laid all the track and have started testing operations. To avoid clogging the thread with my photos (which aren't that great) I'll just post a link to the post on my blog.
http://centralmassrail.blogspot.com/2011/05/update-long-delayed.html
One of my favorite places to eat along US 395 is the Ranch House Cafe in Olancha, CA. The sign came out too bright and lots of detail to go, but here is the initial setup. Did some interior work with figures but they are hard to see. If anyone has been there, sound off!
And the Crystal Geyser Bottling Plant just up the road in Cartego in a much condensed form on the layout.
Yep, that's the pond where the water comes from... nearby cows on order from LHS.
Rob
This silver mine got destroyed in a move. I finally got the corragated roofing material by Cambles the other day to finish it.
I have been working on hanging some lights and adding some bracing to the layout. I have most all the cork glued down and once I finish cleaning up plan on starting track work soon. I am also waiting on Micro Engineering to have their #6 RH turnouts availble again.
More photos on the website SP&S Oregon Trunk
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Borrowed a VHS to digital gizmo, so I started to dust off some old video...
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The footage was shot by this young punk...
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Great work all! I spent most of yesterday afternoon workin on this. My dad cut the boards and did some sanding, showed me how to drive a screw and then I took over and wound up with this:
I only have one upright support that's crooked so I'm happy. The base and supports are made of 2x4, while the top (layout base) is 2x3. I have the cross grid to support the foam (a double layer of Lowe's 3/4" extruded foam). This is looking like a solid base. And it's 4 feet long by 2'2" wide, which means it can definitely fit through my doorway and probably into the back of my Honda Civic for shows.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof!
All I've had time to do this week was to change the sign on one of the buildings (was Wicked Wanda's) and make a Blog video about Sweethome Chicago at an exhibition last weekend - subtitles not available.
http://youtu.be/M82F3X8Gk6g
Jon
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wm3798 Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof!
Well, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I'd rather make it sturdy and not prone to get smacked around weird than just what would be adequate.
mountaingoatgreg More photos on the website SP&S Oregon Trunk
GORGEOUS work on that backdrop! Major jealous attack!
Packers#1 wm3798: Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof! Well, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I'd rather make it sturdy and not prone to get smacked around weird than just what would be adequate.
wm3798: Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof!
Plus, it's nice to know you CAN park a car on top of it if you have to...
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!
stebbycentral Packers#1: wm3798: Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof! Well, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I'd rather make it sturdy and not prone to get smacked around weird than just what would be adequate. Plus, it's nice to know you CAN park a car on top of it if you have to...
Packers#1: wm3798: Jeebus! Are you going park the car on top of that? Voof! Well, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I'd rather make it sturdy and not prone to get smacked around weird than just what would be adequate.
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If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
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