I will start off this week. This is a addition for a engine servicing yard. The TT arrives today.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Curt, looks like you're off to a great start on your yard.
An EB GP7 heading back to the yard. DJ.
Curt ... You are doing fast, great work........ DJ .... Beautiful shot of the GP7.
Here is WORK IN PROGRESS.
I just completed "Mittlemann Wholsale Food & Beverage" which is a new destination for refrigerator cars. It is next to my downtown which is also work in progress. Details and more scenery are to be added.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Nothing new this week, but I posted my favorites of the past on the Atlas Forum and here are the pictures that I chose.
One of my favorite cars, the Kitabsh in a Box and Eastern Car Works 3500 CF Dryflow Cars.
Two of the four ExactRail 4427 Kits I built, one for the Andersons and one for the CB&Q.
A Branchline Kit lettered for the Peoria and Eastern with the extended PC logo.
Athearn 86' Hi-Cube for the Ann Arbor, I am currently decaling a second car.
A Kato SD45 that I detailed for the PC (Ex-PRR).
A picture of my Athearn Wabash F7's on the Strongsville Society of Model Railroad Engineers club layout in Strongsville, OH.
Farewell to the Atlas Forum!
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
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Norfolk Southerns #2699 leads a train past Hudson Coal Mining just before the sun breaks over the mountains.
The locomotive is an Athearn Genesis SD 70m2 HO scale.
Jarrell
Garry, nice picture! I use to live in Onalaska WI so I was surprised to see your reefer.
A good start guys!
Here is one from the BRVRR:
NYC S-3 #874 readies a freshly painted diner for service. The loco is a Proto2000 and the diner a Walthers.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
I spent some time this week finishing my coal loader for the tyco dump cars on my layout
see this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OlKKVIoDI&feature=youtu.be
the loader uses 2 ball point pen springs glued together that lay inside a straw with the top cut off to form a trough turned by a small 3000rmp motor this makes an auger
and i had to install a vibrator on the chute to make the coal slide down the ramp to the augger
now i can run live loads from the mine to the coaling tower in Thurmond where i have a dump
site inside the shed of the coaling tower
seen here
TerryinTexas
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C&O Fan I spent some time this week finishing my coal loader for the tyco dump cars on my layout see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OlKKVIoDI&feature=youtu.be the loader uses 2 ball point pen springs glued together that lay inside a straw with the top cut off to form a trough turned by a small 3000rmp motor this makes an auger and i had to install a vibrator on the chute to make the coal slide down the ramp to the augger now i can run live loads from the mine to the coaling tower in Thurmond where i have a dump site inside the shed of the coaling tower seen here
Sorry Tried to make the video link clickable but it didn't work
secondhandmodeler Garry, nice picture! I use to live in Onalaska WI so I was surprised to see your reefer.
Thanks, Corey. .... The reefer is a Walthers kit about 10-15 years old I think.
Got the link fixed for you
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine C&O Fan: I spent some time this week finishing my coal loader for the tyco dump cars on my layout see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OlKKVIoDI&feature=youtu.be the loader uses 2 ball point pen springs glued together that lay inside a straw with the top cut off to form a trough turned by a small 3000rmp motor this makes an auger and i had to install a vibrator on the chute to make the coal slide down the ramp to the augger now i can run live loads from the mine to the coaling tower in Thurmond where i have a dump site inside the shed of the coaling tower seen here Got the link fixed for you
C&O Fan: I spent some time this week finishing my coal loader for the tyco dump cars on my layout see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OlKKVIoDI&feature=youtu.be the loader uses 2 ball point pen springs glued together that lay inside a straw with the top cut off to form a trough turned by a small 3000rmp motor this makes an auger and i had to install a vibrator on the chute to make the coal slide down the ramp to the augger now i can run live loads from the mine to the coaling tower in Thurmond where i have a dump site inside the shed of the coaling tower seen here
THANKS !
D.J.- That looks like real life.
Terry- All I can say is WOW.
This scene will soon be going the way of the dodo as I'm preparing to rip it out.
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This week I finished laying the staging and runaround tracks on the Silicon Valley Free-moN Staging Yard module:I had gotten only the main and three other tracks done by the show a couple weeks ago, but now all 7 are installed, wired & ready to rock & roll.Given that we just use butt joints & clamps (no alignment pins, dowels or bolts), and the fact that I had built the three sections in less than a week, I'm pretty amazed that all seven tracks line up pretty much spot-on both straight-section-to-straight-section as well as on both sides of the 2' insert.So here's the staging yard in all it's partially-completed glory:Also made a video on how to make beautiful butt joints:watch?v=wM1H0URvKX8[I resisted having a Sir Mix-a-lot soundtrack]"Beautiful butt joints" is almost as fun to say as "flush butt".Next week will be fun: assembling 20 Bullfrog turnout controls to replace the temp groundthrows and installing them with control rods to each side of the module.Hope I don't croak.Another great week of some fab modeling!Thanks for sharing: it's always inspirational.
M.C. Fujiwara
My YouTube Channel (How-to's, Layout progress videos)
Silicon Valley Free-moN
MC, That is an excellent Video! They quality & effort you put into that really shows!
I appreciate the tips & sharing it with us!
Good looking stuff folks.. Been a while since I posted anything, but here's a few trees along the Mill Creek I did today.
Rick.
Hi,
Not a lot of time to work whith models trains in the last weeks; however I am still working on the Nscale Architect "Marble Co" modified to my use.
I have added scratchbuild details and parts and a Branchline kit to expand the factory.
I will be a good switching factory in my Aegiahills village on my Nscale Maclau River but now as a tools manufactory.
Marc
Hi......here are a few pics of some foam rock walls I just glued into place on my layout about a half hour ago.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Tonight I finished painting and decaling a new pair of Telescoping Boom Forklifts. :)
-Mark
www.MarkWatson3D.com
Excellent contributions this week, Great Work & Talents!!!I just turned my nostrils orange!!!!!Here is an HO Ath CF7 that has been Patched & has the nose logo stripped off. I was glad that it came off without taking all the yellow undercoat off with it, & the solution did try to, but it still looks OK. I patched out the LA Junction (LAJ) logo on the side with Flowquil SF Blue, it is flat & shows nice in the photo. I used Liquid Paint Mask & a toothpic to make the edges jagged to look like a rough tape tear strips & a more true quickie patch job!Also, I painted the the parts for the Ath 20K acid tank car. I painted the tank white & then added all the detail parts, masked it, & shot the ScaleCoat II BNSF Orange. I was almost done & was going to put a nice 'overcoat' on the tank body, but I broke my finger trigger on the Iwata, & could not shoot anymore. It is still colorfast, just not a smooth sheen, & that may actually be a happy accident! I can't think how many models & times I have used that airbrush, 1000-2000 times is pretty fair, I've used it over 17 years!!!
Not the best looking locos but they're all Frankensteins.
Grampys Trains Curt, looks like you're off to a great start on your yard. An EB GP7 heading back to the yard. DJ.
Sorry to be late, but I just had to comment on Grampy's Train's Posting his 1 - 1 Scale pictures again.
All kidding aside, well done Grampy.
Blue Flamer.
Thanks, Blue Flamer, much appreciated. DJ.
It's so hot here in the Valley i asked my wife if she would like to cool off in Grampy's swimming hole.
This is one of my favorites.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up