Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
There will be some fireworks. Lots of rain lately, so no issues of wildfires around here.
A much awaited new piece of motive power arrived this week, Rio Grande Southern C-19 #40.
She's from the latest run by Blackstone of these neat little locos and I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel selling unused equipment, picking up pennies off the sidwalk, etc. I paid extra for a weathered version and really like it.
I built a lumber yard from a JV Models kit for the Austin Burg Lumber Co. This required some bashing of the main building, but wasn't a big deal since it was pretty much all sticks.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Work on my engine house commenced, after a break caused by tendonitis in my right wrist, caused by cutting close to 1,000 shingles ...
Mike - that C-19 is a gem!
A couple of quick grab shots of the new Walthers plow posing in front of recently upgraded scenery.
Wings closed.
Wings open. 'not sure when I'd use it this way, but it's neat!
I got a couple of the undecs to paint as the earlier Pere Marquette versions of SP21 and SP22, but am holding off until later this summer to work on them- they each need over 60 holes drilled for grabs and railings.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
Bear ... I like Old #1.
Mike L ... Your #40 and your lumber yard look great.
Ulrich ... The engine house looks great. It took a lot of work.
Fmilhaupt ... The snow plow looks ready for winter to come.
Here are old photos I show each 4th of July.
Have a great day!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Wow, awesome stuff this week. The only thing I've gotten done this weekend is some ballasting at Horseshoe Curve. Worst, ballasting experiance ever! I just couldn't seem to get it neat. Also, I couldn't get it to stick easily. I used wet water and then alcohol but still large chunks came up when I vacuumed up the loose stuff. I swear Woodland Scenics ballast is made of Teflon!
Here's a shot that could well be prototypical some day. N&W 611 is cureently being restored to operating condition, so there's a great chance she'll see the curve. I've also heard NS is seriusly considering reinstalling the fourth track.
One more shot of the curve:
And one more:
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Oh my Goodness,,,this needs weathering!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
A new structure on the club layout. This modified Rix bridge is the work of one member.
New apron and piers were made and graffiti decals were also home made by that member.
Jack W.
Good work everyone, I am still recovering from the infection in my middle finger so no painting for a while yet. Although I can start doing some assembly work.
Here are some old pictures of some of my favorite cars, 60' Auto Parts cars based on the old Robbins Rails/A-Line/Concor Greenville double plug door car.
Removed the rivits, and scribed weld lines in the side to replicate a Thrall version of the car along with changing the wheelbase from 41' to 46', painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Removed the rivits, scribed weld lines, deepened the side sills, and changed to wheelbase to replicate the ACF version of the car, painted with PRR red that I mixed and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Car was stock except for lenghtening the wheelbase, painted with Floquil Jade Green and Black paint and lettered with Walther's Decals. Removed the plug doors and substituted sliding doors from Atlas along with the door tracks, also changed the wheel base from 41' to 46', painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. This car was used for paper service rather than auto parts. Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Removed the rivits, and scribed weld lines in the side to replicate a Thrall version of the car along with changing the wheelbase from 41' to 46', painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals.
Removed the rivits, scribed weld lines, deepened the side sills, and changed to wheelbase to replicate the ACF version of the car, painted with PRR red that I mixed and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Car was stock except for lenghtening the wheelbase, painted with Floquil Jade Green and Black paint and lettered with Walther's Decals. Removed the plug doors and substituted sliding doors from Atlas along with the door tracks, also changed the wheel base from 41' to 46', painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. This car was used for paper service rather than auto parts. Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Removed the rivits, scribed weld lines, deepened the side sills, and changed to wheelbase to replicate the ACF version of the car, painted with PRR red that I mixed and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals.
Car was stock except for lenghtening the wheelbase, painted with Floquil Jade Green and Black paint and lettered with Walther's Decals. Removed the plug doors and substituted sliding doors from Atlas along with the door tracks, also changed the wheel base from 41' to 46', painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. This car was used for paper service rather than auto parts. Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Car was stock except for lenghtening the wheelbase, painted with Floquil Jade Green and Black paint and lettered with Walther's Decals.
Removed the plug doors and substituted sliding doors from Atlas along with the door tracks, also changed the wheel base from 41' to 46', painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. This car was used for paper service rather than auto parts. Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Removed the plug doors and substituted sliding doors from Atlas along with the door tracks, also changed the wheel base from 41' to 46', painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. This car was used for paper service rather than auto parts.
Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals. Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Stock Greenville car, painted with Floquil Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals.
Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals. Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Stock Greenville car painted with Floquil Reading Green and lettered with John Alanaiva's decals.
Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals. Thanks for lookin! Rick J
Car inspired by a Jim Six article in the NMRA Bulletin, new look NW after the Southern merger, an ex-Wabash car with the same modifications as the Wabash car above, lettered with a mix of Herald King and Mark Vaughn's decals.
Thanks for lookin!
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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Happy 4th everyone. I see great modeling here again this week. I have a couple more photos from Johnson Freight House. I like the perspective on these.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
A warehouse I have been working on alot. Just a few odds and ends to go and then to weather it. It was a pain getting close to the end of it
Sir MadogMike - that C-19 is a gem!
Ulrich,
Yes, she's sure sweet. How about another picture of her in Red Mountain?
I've been looking forward to your work at the waterfront each week. It's starting to get really interesting and in such a small space, too, compared to what we frequently have available.
Nice work, everyone!
Heartland Division CB&QMike L ... Your #40 and your lumber yard look great.
Garry,
Thanks! Hardest part was stacking all those little pieces and gluing them together for lumber stock.
Happy holiday weekend, everyone!
I got a new camera. I like the way this one came out. It's an older scene, but I was playing around with room lighting and this caught my eye.
Not exciting, but now that Phase 2 is "complete," it's time start building Phase 3.
I discovered that the square grid pattern on the tile floor in the basement made a nice alignment guide while putting this together. This is built in 2 sections to make it easy to build and stain in the garage and then bring upstairs to the train room. It will also be easier to relocate to our retirement home when the time comes.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Red, white, and a little blue in honor of the holiday.
A great 4th of July weekend and a great Weekend Photo Fun, go together like a hotdog and a bun! And it's Le Tour time again, Allez, Allez!
thanks and regards, Peter
Some great stuff this week guys. Unfortunately, my website is still down with no explanation from the ISP. I may have to find another home for it.
Here is one with a little red, white and blue flair to it:
Keep the ideas and photos coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
I made some chain link fencing this week.
I've been spending time working on some small locos
Heres my 0-6-0 with a slope tender
I converted it to and oil tender the box is the enclosure for a 23mm high base speaker pointing down and the sound exits thru an opening facing the loco at the front of the tender it's a Cab forward conversion I added a deck on the front Side view Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
I converted it to and oil tender the box is the enclosure for a 23mm high base speaker pointing down and the sound exits thru an opening facing the loco at the front of the tender
it's a Cab forward conversion I added a deck on the front Side view Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
it's a Cab forward conversion
I added a deck on the front Side view Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
I added a deck on the front
Side view Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
Side view
Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
Heres my 0-4-0 also a cab forward conversion
All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
All the tenders and locos use TCS 6 pin conector harnesses so they are interchangeable and the wires are routed thru shrink tubing so it looks like pipe
An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
An interior view of the tender With a wow sound decoder and a Keep alive stacked on top
the speaker is mounted face down inside the enclosure box with weights added on top
I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
I used two weight plates for the heat sink for the decoder and put large shot underneath for added weight
The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket of the loco To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
The tenders are conected to the locos via a link attaching to the screw in the front coupler pocket
of the loco
To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
To use the tender with another loco attached to the rear i simply use a bolt as a connector pin for bachmann locos
Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
Here's the same tender hooked to a bachmann 0-6-2 using the bolt connector pin
I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
I bought this old varney docksider on ebay since it had the Kemtron Brass Cab Forward Plate but the body was crumbeling so i made a flat car load out of it and used the cab forward plate on another loco
Heres another 0-4-0 awaiting a Cab Forward conversion attached to a brass mini vandy tender
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Terry,
In teresting cab-forwards. Wanted to do one when I was a kid, but the funds never shaped up to do one.
Lots a fine examples of other work posted this week, too.
Mike, I’ve seen a Blackstone locomotive here in a locked glass cabinet at an LHS, not sure which one as my eyes watered when I saw the price, but if they run as good as they look then they’d be worth every cent. Just don’t hold your breath on me going the narrow gauge way.Smile Cheers, the Bear.
Bear,
They do run sweetly, as well or better than well-tuned brass -- but right out of the box, no further user intervention needed, unlike nearly all brass. One could say they're cheaper than brass, but that depends.
The Blackstone K-27 has hurt the value of brass K-27s, with the market still soft for them. In fact, you can pick up some great deals on brass K-27s. So despite the Blackstone price, it actually has opened the HOn3 market for many by making it more affordable overall.
The C-19 has not had quite so large an impact. It was a smaller class in total numbers and not so well-known. There are a variety of other C-class locos that Blackstone has not done, so the overall HOn3 market for 2-8-0s has not been as impacted as the K-27's was.
For both locos, factory-weathered examples like mine are harder to find. This group of C-19s were delayed for nearly a year when the weathering just wasn't up to par and Blackstone sent them back for a rework. That gave some extra time to get the funds together to afford #40...
But now there are two new groups of locos coming from Blackstone - the K-28 later this year and the K-36 in 2015 if things go as scheduled. They may sound a little pricey, but you can run an entire narrowgauge empire on just one decent loco. Most of the time, people lash-up two or more diesels. With the price of those with sound nowadays, that's gonna cost you more than a Blackstone.
Happy Holidays all,
I hope everyone is having a fun, safe and relaxing weekend. The images here are amazing. Allow me to add a couple. First, some HO scale guys on the farm (does the 1/64 tractor look OK? I believe it passes as a foreground vehicle)
Next, here is a scratch building that is almost complete.
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engineerkyleFirst, some HO scale guys on the farm (does the 1/64 tractor look OK? I believe it passes as a foreground vehicle)
Nice work.
The tractor looks OK to me, probably because I try getting away with the same thing. Lemme guess, it an Ertl? Wish they'd do more stuff closer to HO. I think so long aqs you stick to models of smaller prototype equipment in the next larger scale, it's still believable in the next lower scale. It helps to keep them away from vehicles in the smaller scale, but I've broken that rule too.
Getting something in late for the WPF -- finally have the track down on the CSX Office Branch and tested with temporary wiring. Mainline runs through the middle, the rear will have a brewery and something TBD, the front spur will be a team track. The 2-8-0 doesn't fit the theme of the layout, but it fits the theme in my grandson's mind, so it runs on occasion. (I haven't posted photos in ages - hope this works!)
Overall view
Track Layout
We have power!
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler