I thought I would start the weekend off with a RailBox.
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"
These are a couple of projects I have been working on!
Here is the finished ECW 2600CF Airslide Kit, ready for the paint shop.
End view with brake gear and added airlines from the air reservoir to the triple valve.
Side view with an airline added under the side of the car. I have begun adding these lines on cars that do not come with them, adds a lot to the look of the car when it is finished. Also replaced the cast on sill steps (I broke one off) with A-Line sill steps.
This car has been painted and is awaiting decals!
Further Progress on the NH U25B Unit.
Side view of the front of the unit showing the slanted nose of a Phase IV U25, also the installed signal box, Sinclair antenna and grab irons. Also shows the rear screening that goes over the radiator section of the roof.
Front view showing the split windshield of the Phase IV U25 and the installed cut lever.
Painted the frame stripe with Floquil's Socony Red paint, next is masking and the black paint.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
No Rust on my Railroad!!!
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!
Just Great!! Robby posted first, which will pretty much blow most of us out of the yard.......
Seriously, Robby...your weathering and detailing skills are beyond SUPERIOR
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Great work Robby. I have some weathered cars to show but they are not on the same skill level.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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I built my first laser-cut kit, American Model Builders N scale #622 “Dill’s Market.” However I modified it a bit and scratchbuilt some details to make it resemble a Galveston “alley house.” It is supposed to
The awning provided in the original kit to go across the entire front was cut back to cover only the front door. Because Galveston is subject to hurricane flooding, many buildings are raised above ground level, so I put this on concrete piers representing pier and beam construction.
Framed lattice (made from brass screen mesh and framed in place) between the piers were intended to keep rats and possums from making a home under the house. My screens were not all straight and neat, but that happens on the prototype...
The height of the building floor level above the ground required stairs and landings.
A grain-of-rice bulb is embedded in the wall to the right of the front door to represent a porch light, and at the let of the door, I used a chunk of styrene rod to represent a mailbox and a sliver of thin styrene sheet for the mailbox lid.
It has been almost 3 months since I have had anything on Weekend Photo Fun and I wanted to get this up although it still needs some railing on the side porch. Some flower pots and other tuff might be in order. I need a “classic” corrugated garbage can—need several for a 1950s alley scene. And I have not yet added an electric meter box, fuse box and gas meter I am building for the back side of the building.
Not installed on layout- just set with some other structures on a makeshift diorama- wanted to get something up in WPF.
This model is not intended as a specific prototype house, but as a typical style found in Galveston alleys, like this October 2012 view of the alley behind the 1500 block of Avenue F.
Hi, happy new year for everybody.
This Nscale Branchline Trains Mills was already finished last week, but I don't have the time to share the picture last WPF week end.
The construction and the painting of this Nscale model is the subject of an article about laser kit which will be published in March in "Train Miniature" a belgium trains magazine.
The model is paint whith acrilycs paints, weathered whith pastel chalk and diluted india ink whith alcohol.
Many scratchbuild details were added; the water wheel is not already in place because the model will be fixed on a base detailled at the workbench.
Great photos so far.
Thanks for the comments also.
Robby: Nice Weathering on the boxcar. ----- Rick:.U25B looking grat so far. Looking forward to seeing the complete model. ------ Curt: .Wood reefers look great! .. ----- Leighant ... I like your alley house! ----- Mar_Magnus: .. I like the building!
Here's my picture for Weekend Photo Fun ....
An E8 hauls a local passenger train. The first 2 cars are CB&Q "economy baggage cars" which were made in the railorad's shops in Nebraska. The one coupled to the locomotive is one I just made from a kit made by an on-line seller of Burlington models called Q Connection. The second one is an older model I made by kit-bashing a Rivarossi baggage car.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
A week or so ago, I posted an "aireal" photo on the Greenvale section of my layout and commented that it was a planning tool for a rebuild of this area I was planning. I got a start on it this week.
This is what it used to look like:
An what is looks like this evening:
This is a general idea of what I am looking to have when the work is complete
Next I will get the benchwork modified to support what will be coming as I continue the rebuild.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I really appreciate the WPF as I look through the posts frequently. So thank you for all the great photos you share. I tried an experiment on my layout of video point of view, as if viewing from the engine cab, both front and looking back at the train, and the view from on the first car towards the engine. I did this alone when I did not have guests to try to make it realistic without giant people and cropping video with a mask to avoid the ceiling and lights. etc. It is a Gopro camera I have used outdoors a lot, but I only got this idea now to try it on the layout. he camera has a 170 degree view and good depth of field.
http://youtu.be/MKGk_XOlEUA
Tigerholm @Yahoo.com
Video http://www.youtube.com/user/lakesuperiorvideos#p/p
Tigerholm2:
Nice video. It looks like you have quite a layout too. Perhaps you can post some photos.
Joe
Ah.... The weekend!
Nice work as always folks! Robby you continue to awe me...
I have been finally getting the support hoops done on the water tower for the power station. I ended up using Ernie Ball Extra Fine, 009 Guitar String (High E). It was first annealed (which was touchy to do with that fine a wire) and then cut to length so that it could be fastened through holes drilled in the tower). I overlapped the holes for the hoops to make it look like the hoops are fastened together every one-third way around the tower. The wire is bent over inside and CAed in place. They aren't perfect, but much better than any other method I came by (this was about #6 I tried). The 3' rule will apply.... Even finding the music wire that fine took me several weeks of searching. It was actually one of my old students who now runs the LHS and is also a composer and guitarist on the side who put me on to the 009 strings. They had to work out to around 3/4" in HO. Enjoy!
And with the Roof attached:
Still some work to go, but now i can turn my attention to the support underneath the tower...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Heartland Division CB&Q Robby: Nice Weathering on the boxcar. ----- Rick:.U25B looking grat so far. Looking forward to seeing the complete model. ------ Curt: .Wood reefers look great! .. ----- Leighant ... I like your alley house! ----- Mar_Magnus: .. I like the building! Here's my picture for Weekend Photo Fun .... An E8 hauls a local passenger train. The first 2 cars are CB&Q "economy baggage cars" which were made in the railorad's shops in Nebraska. The one coupled to the locomotive is one I just made from a kit made by an on-line seller of Burlington models called Q Connection. The second one is an older model I made by kit-bashing a Rivarossi baggage car.
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Excellent photos and modeling from everyone.
A rail fan's view of the bridge over Roaring Cr. DJ.
Great start to the New Year everyone. Keep them coming!
Here is one taken while running some trains on the BRVRR with my grandsons:
NYC Mikado #9519 emerges from behind the trees near Berea Tower on the BRVRR layout.
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/
riogrande5761 Heartland Division CB&Q Here's my picture for Weekend Photo Fun .... An E8 hauls a local passenger train. The first 2 cars are CB&Q "economy baggage cars" which were made in the railorad's shops in Nebraska. The one coupled to the locomotive is one I just made from a kit made by an on-line seller of Burlington models called Q Connection. The second one is an older model I made by kit-bashing a Rivarossi baggage car. Are either of those Havlock baggage cars. I'd really love to have one to use in a California Zephyr train as I've seen a number of photo's with the Havlock baggage substituted for the CZ budd baggage.
Heartland Division CB&Q Here's my picture for Weekend Photo Fun .... An E8 hauls a local passenger train. The first 2 cars are CB&Q "economy baggage cars" which were made in the railorad's shops in Nebraska. The one coupled to the locomotive is one I just made from a kit made by an on-line seller of Burlington models called Q Connection. The second one is an older model I made by kit-bashing a Rivarossi baggage car.
Thanks for commenting.
Both are models of Havlock cars. I see Q Connection has a website. It has a new owner since I purchased my 2 baggage car kits. I still have one unbuilt one. The Q connection car (coupled to E8) has correct measurements. It is challenging to glue the acrylic car sides to the styrene floor ends, and roof. It is definately for the experienced modeler.
The Rivarossi car is too short (72' instead of 77'). I kitbashed it by enlarging one door on each side, adding roof vents, changing turcks, and installing Kadee couplers to the car body.
Come on guys. WPF on page two?
Here is an old photo from the BRVRR and a bump!
Keep the ideas and photos coming everyone.
tigerholm2I tried an experiment on my layout of video point of view... http://youtu.be/MKGk_XOlEUA
One of the most ENJOYABLE on-board videos I have ever seen!
Been doing some minor work on that etched metal kit of an On30 critter I am currently building. Body and chassis are finished, next comes cleaning, primer and painting - before final assembly of gearbox, motor, pick-ups and wheels.
Thank you for the comment.
One of the surprises to me was to watch the gondola and following freight cars in the train behind swaying and rocking behind the engine, and another was the glimpse of the engineer in the cab as the engine also swaying around as it rocked on the track. The one drawback was the go pro has poor closeup focus even though the depth is so good. The sound pickup was a surprise since the gopro mic was on the flatcar floor. Since the flatcar had plastic wheels, I was now thinking metal whee;ls may have added sopme sound and maybe the effect of slamming through turnout frogs. As I said the video crop mask needed to take out almost 70% of the video frame to keep the ceiling and lights off of the frame. Another thing that surprise me was how in the point of view, it almost seems like an illusion of 1:1 scale.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJ5aPVzayFeGcORAEvPXlGrjlhj835tC
Once again some great images! Garry, nice looking consist. That's what you'd expect to see on the Burlington back in the day. Robby, great weathering! I like the simple graffiti. It looks like a typical RBOX car I used to "kick" in the B&O yard in Buffalo when I was a conductor there. Curt, those cars are all great. I like to do my wooden reefers in a similar fashion keeping the bright colors while giving them just enough dust and rust for the right look. Grampy, great shot! I really like the depth of the scene. Lee, that's going to be a great water tower.
Here's my contribution for the week. This is the first HD shot I've decided to publish using my new Iphone:
Everyone have a great week!
-Stan
Here is a project I yet have to finish. Hopefully by this spring.
tigerholm2,
Those GoPro cams are really neat. I've been wanting one of the truck for when we hit the trails, but I never thought about using it on the layout. And a very nice video production you've done with it!
This week's big project here was adding lights so the night is more interesting. I did use blue LED rope lighting for general illumination. I don't usually shoot night pics with the blue on, but you do get interesting results.
I installed about 80 LEDs for structure lighting and outside lighting so far, extracted from donor Xmas lighting. Cheap and easy, with the intensity toned down, the light even starts acting like it's from bulbs. Inside lights aren't quite enough to do anything much beyond "look through the window" type shots, but I also added a few outside lights and have plenty of light to work with. The rest of these shots are taken with ambient light and long manual exposure times (up to 15 seconds. Here's the Gold Prince shot from the reverse angle with the blue lights off. The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck. The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well. In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark. This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
I installed about 80 LEDs for structure lighting and outside lighting so far, extracted from donor Xmas lighting. Cheap and easy, with the intensity toned down, the light even starts acting like it's from bulbs. Inside lights aren't quite enough to do anything much beyond "look through the window" type shots, but I also added a few outside lights and have plenty of light to work with. The rest of these shots are taken with ambient light and long manual exposure times (up to 15 seconds. Here's the Gold Prince shot from the reverse angle with the blue lights off.
The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck. The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well. In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark. This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck.
The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well.
In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark.
This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place.
. Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups.
I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I been wanting to post on WPF for some time now.................
Finally finished getting a good coat of soot, gunk etc...on the recovery boiler.
Bryan B.
Whether it's camera angles,or "night" lighting",weathering,or great scenery work,I always pick up ideas from this thread...
I'm working on dwarf signals for the east end of the yard this week.They're wired in series through the bluepoint switch machines,so a signal can't show "green" unless that route's switches are lined all the way to the mainline. I put them on the west end awhile back,and I haven't run a train into a mis-aligned switch since...I mean...not that I've ever done that! 'Still waiting on a few parts,maybe I'll have something to show next week. Here's an older picture from the layout.
Have a good rest of the weekend.
Mike
Layout Extension begun today.
The layout will come back towards the camera on the left of the photo 6 feet.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Great contributions again by everyone.
A PRR K4 Leads the "New Yorker" over shark infested lower tracks.
A quartet of Merchandise Service Boxcars on the head end of the "Gotham Limited"
John R.
Last year i built a working coal tipple loader using 2 ball point pen springs glued end to end laying in a soda straw to form an auger to move the coal from the container bin to the chute for the awaiting hopper
Here's a view of the container bin with the straw and springs laying in the bottom the springs are connected to a low RPM motor on one end and voltage is controlled by the DC variable side of my DC power pack
The container sits inside the Tipple
I added a Cell Phone vibrator to help move the coal down the chute
Using the old Tyco operating coal cars i run live loads from the mine over to the coaling tower
And using the Tyco Trick Track for opening the doors on the bottom of the hopper i dump the coal to a container under the layout
Here's a video of it in operation
It was a big hit at my open house on the layout tour as people were amazed that an idea so simple could work so well
TerryinTexas
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Terry, we'll have to call you McGuyver now!
Here is an old photo I ran into while looking through my archives. I only wish the headlight was on. May be a reason to switch to DCC!