Did some work on my SD27J mounting the air tanks on top of the long hood just back of the cab and adding the section of pipe running back of the tanks to the other side of the hood.
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
Happy Friday 13th. ...JaBear: I like the 4-8-2's; ...Dave: great job with installing headlights; .....Mark: very impressive N scale models. ...Jarrell: Your layout looks terrific in your pictures. .... Rick: very good video......... Ulrich, I like the drawing.
On my layout, I am operating my Rapido Trains heater car. The GN passenger train has 2 GP7's not equipped with their own steam generators. They are substituting for normal passenger locomotives. So, my Rapido steam generator is in the consist. Rapido did a fine job with this model, and it produces its own "steam".
Here is a close up of the car as the train backs into Union Station. Look carefully and see the "steam".
Here is the train shortly after departing Union Station as it passes two CB&Q trains.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Not a photo, but a couple of drawings I made while I had nothing better to do
The drawings were made with Atlas RTS 8.0, using the various graphics functions.
No cars finished this week with the holiday weekend and being sick the week before.
I went to the club and shot a video of one of my trains running on the layout. I am still learning how to use the video on the camera!
You may recognize some cars and engines from previous posts!
Double click on the picture to start the video!
Thanks for looking
Rick J
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!
Three areas I've been working on lately, they're all in the same general area on the layout.
The Iron Works building in the background, a Con Cor kit if I remember right.
Putting in some 'pot topper' grass, foreground in this picture
and the area around the old abandoned shack. in the photo below.
Today I hope to get started on some folding facia shelves like the ones in a recent Model Railroader magazine. My operators need a place to sort card cards..
Jarrell
hon30critter Mark! WOW! The detail is incredible! You are obviously on the leading edge of a new facet in modeling. Scratch building will be taken to a whole new level. Dave
Mark!
WOW! The detail is incredible! You are obviously on the leading edge of a new facet in modeling. Scratch building will be taken to a whole new level.
Dave
It's not really scratch building, it's more like "scratch baking". Or "scratch printing". We are going to need a whole new vocabulary here.
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!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I had a wonderful day playing with my new batch of 3D printed models! :D
I'm hoping to get these all painted on Sunday. I have to try and find some place that still carries Polly Scale paint.
-Mark
www.MarkWatson3D.com
Bear:
I like the sketch.
Here is the Simpsons truck with headlights. This is the one that took 4 attempts to get one of the headlights lined up. As you can see by the picture I still don't have it quite right. The driver's side headlight is still a bit brighter than the passenger side (sorry - NO PASSENGERS ALLOWED! Do you remember those signs on delivery trucks?). Anyhow this is as good as it is going to get re headlight alignment on this truck.
For those of you who might be interested, Simpsons was an iconic retailer in Canada for decades, and joined with Sears Roebuck to form Simpson Sears as a clearance outlet in smaller Canadian communities to get rid of surplus stock. They could hardly deal with their success. Growing up in the 60's Simpsons was THE place to shop. Bit the dust a long time ago but any Canadian long in the tooth will recognize the logo.
Next step will be tail lights. The SMD LED's are on the way! I have some smaller wire on order to so I can hide the wires better before they go down through the layout surface.
Gidday All, As I always look forward to the "GOOD STUFF" in this thread, that's not to say that there's not lots of "good stuff on the rest of the forum, I'm going to once again take advantage of residing on this side of the international dateline and as it is now 1746 hrs on Black Friday lets go for it.
Used all my (good ??) model photos last weekend so here's a drawing of my favourite loco, the New Zealand Government Railways 4-8-2 Ja class, which also just happens to be my avatar.
Have a GOOD ONE folks,
Cheers,the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."