It looks like I will start this weekend off
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Nice Start to the Weekend Curt!
Here are some recently completed cars!
Here is an Eastern Car Works Airslide Covered Hopper painted for American Refridgerator Transit. Co-Owned by the Missouri Pacific and the Wabash. I have shown both sides of the car as the MP & WAB heralds are switched, with the MP Herald closest to the B end of the car. I used Oddballs Decals to finish the car.
Atlas Kaolin Tank car, painted light gray and lettered with Islington Station Products decals.
Atlas 17600 Gal Corn Syrup Tank Car, painted black and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for Looking!
Rick J
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Curt ... Thanks for starting WPF ... Nice scene! ..........
Rick .... You freight cars look real!
Here is some WORK IN PROGRESS. ... Until I install retaining walls, I have surfaces painted gray. Numerous details need to be installed. I would also like to install real trolley wires for my 50' of street car track.
I am building my downtown area, and I have 16 buildings installed. One was ready-built, a bank by WS/DPM. The rest are either kitbashed or kit-built. Size of buildings range from a 13 story building from a Bachmann kit to a single story supermarket from a City Classics kit.
I have ordered more Chooch stone walls and more Rix concrete railings like in this picture of a scene between downtown and Union Station. This will cover my gray painted surfaces.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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ME&O FA2 pulls a short freight past a farm in SE PA
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ME&O
Looks like that is going to be an excellent cityscape, Heartland.
A trio of Alcos crossing hammer Creek. DJ.
Nice mountain scenery and trains
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Wow some really great modeling and photos everyone!
Garry outstanding looking downtown skyscrapers!
The D&RGW still lives. An ES44DC.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
D&H #12313 alone on a siding...
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Wayne
Abandoned Southern Belle baggage car:
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I posted this earlier in the week. My little guy was doing videos for tech at school. He jazzed this one up a bit and asked if he could put it on WPF. So here it is.
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Brent and Aidan
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Nice work everyone, This is a shot looking down Bear Skin Neck, Rockport, Massachusetts.
Sam
Here's a video of my NS and CSX trains running on my layout as well as a few pics.
watch?v=UGPXLAHq7wo
I like that city scene. Here is another city scene starting to take shape..... Gray walls also in place until retaining walls are installed. Note lower left subway platform and top of a P-1000 subway car.
John R.
Great modeling everyone. I have been working on my coal tower siding (ripped out the old and completely reworked it) and I finished it this afternoon so I thought I would share.
Thanks for looking.
Wow, lots of great pictures already!
A few weeks back I posted a shot of a Bowser USRA Pacific I had completed but not yet painted. The painting, weathering and decoder install is done and she's been put to work. Like all Bowsers, it will pull like gangbusters, well going frontwards, at least. I didn't install a front coupler yet!
George V.
Meanwhile in the drafting office, Marsha asks Simon if he really wants to know where he can put his T Square...Yes kids, the Cumberland Station is now fully lit, showing off the murky interiors I spent all week working on.After the first floor was done to my satisfaction, that was covered up to work on the second floor.Likewise, the LED leads were located, and another vertical blind slat was sacrificed to cap the second floor.I used some masking tape to finish pulling in the bowed walls, holding them securely while the glue cured. There's still a bit of an arc to the back wall, but hopefully that will be imperceptible by the time I install the dormers and the roof.The details I put in the interior are now only visible through the windows. All of the LED wiring ended up in the attic, which made it much easier to work on. I again mixed up the colors used, but mostly this one has 3mm warm white, which I think gives a pretty believable color and intensity.Next to build the roof...Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Good evening folks, great work so far.
Lee I enjoy following your blog etc... perhaps an update is in order...
I've been working on a few little things today, here and there. Mainly bridge abutments and piers.
I will probably cover with Chooch cut stone or similiar product. I may still use styrene and make them cement abutments... We'll see what I feel like doing. LOL.
I don't know what possessed me to buy two different style Atlas bridges, but it makes it a PITA to make a pier.
I've cut a little notch to sit the deck truss on and then sit the through truss on top. I'm going to make some little styrene bridge feet to raise the through truss, just a fraction. I used really fine grit sandpaper on the bottom to make a basic concrete pier base. I'm yet to paint it, and it needs a small bit shaven off. I rounded the ends of it with my motor tool.
Overall view of the progress. Tomorrow night will hopefully be mixing a hydrocal batch and coating the foam with bandages and slopping some hydrocal down in the river bed to form a seal for when I get around to pouring the water...
And this is a new toy I got today from our Home depot equivalent Bunnings for $75. A 20L wet dry vacuum cleaner for cleaning up the layout etc... will be perfect for vacuuming the car too...
Cheers!
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
I am currently assembling an N scale kit of the famous Bluenose fishing schooner. It´ll eventually become part of a water front module, depicting a dock scene.
assembled from left overs of my center line caboose project
see this thread
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/203739.aspx
i ended up with this as leftovers
TerryinTexas
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Just a shot I took today:
Great photos as usual.
Michael, good to see Rio Grande alive and well on your layout!!
Curt, I really like that coal-tower scene.
Nothing much new from me. I just adalptld an articulated depressed-center flat car for a Dice camera mount. No big kit-bash deal, but it's nice to see the railroad workers completely befuddled by A: What looks like an old-fashioned Hollywood transition era moviesound camera in a big box, and B: Whatever a big, modern railroad car like that is doing on a railroad set in 1948, LOL!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I'll follow up Tom's DiceCam post with another DiceCam post. :)
Tom and the guys over in the "Video camera for trains" thread sparked an itch and I had to get one of those cheap DiceCam's myself. (Cheap ends up being about $70 bucks after shipping and when you consider other factors like the need for an IR Cut filter for lighting other than fluorescent.. I suggest reading the whole thread before buying).
Nonetheless, I'm totally glad I got one! I cant wait to use it more (once my IR cut filter arrives). :)
watch?v=TIJbPKklfuw
-Mark
www.MarkWatson3D.com
D&H #16 crossing the Old Stone Bridge
Umm Kayy, yet another post about train cameras, yes, I got one too.I modified one of an inexpensive pair of passenger trucks to make a push/pull "Truckee" that should hold the rails pretty well. I'm hoping it will not have the lag on curves & turnouts. I hope it may stay on focus as it goes through them. My problem is, I have been busy building a locomotive & rolling stock collection that will be looking for a permanant home where I can eventually construct a big layout in a nice large room, & I'm not at that point in life yet. So after some glue dries, & I solder & draw file some track joints, I may be able to show some video of a small HO 2' x' 6' #4 swich ladder yard in action!I also found that I have a few, but not many, sound units, & most are all 6 Axle EMD SD's & newer GE's, who complain noisily while negotiating my #4 switches in the switch yard, so I did happen to find a 4 axle Athearn FP7 with a Tsunami as a pusher, & I really like that alternator humm sound that it makes, so I will imagine it is an SD9 or GP of some sort, of the timeline used in my switching yard.
The camera is almost in MILW colors too!
PS: (Edit): This is the only picture I have taken in a while....
With the dynamics whirring and break shoes smoking, a UPRR coal train descends the Gilluly loops after cresting Soldier summit on its way to Provo Utah.
Pic is a couple years old, but the editing was done this weekend finally. Sorry for the watermark, but I've had other photo's of mine stolen in the past and used for marketing.
Sir Madog I am currently assembling an N scale kit of the famous Bluenose fishing schooner. It´ll eventually become part of a water front module, depicting a dock scene.
Sir M.
If you need to get some detail for your model of the Bluenose, get a really strong magnifying glass and check out the back side of our Canadian dime.
By the way, I have been following your modeling with interest.
Blue Flamer.
Thanks, Blue Flamer!
The bottom part of the hull now sports a glossy red paint, but it requires more sanding to get it as smooth as a baby´s butt. Once the boat is finished, I´ll give it a spray coat of glossy clear lacquer, but that´s a long way from now ...
Some more pix I took today:
I definitively have to install a backdrop soon!
It's been a couple of weeks since I posted a progress update on my Central St project. I have been working on a building (or buildings) to go behind the hotel and over the tracks. I got the idea for this odd-looking building from some buildings shown in Chapter 2 of Building City Scenery. It is about 2/3 done. Aside from painting, I need to complete a couple more roofs and another row of building fronts on the back half of it.
This is where it will go, behind the hotel. Maybe the lack of detail on the building front makes a bit more sense when you see that most of the area is blocked by forground buildings. Most of the detail will be on the roofs and some of the top floor windows. ON the left side, you can see the track that will be covered by the building.
There will be another similar building to the left, going down the hill. As of now, this building is making major inroads on my leftover building parts box.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch