Weekend Photo Fun 5-7 September 2014

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Bear, the flat car looks great.

Mike, I love the winter scene, looks very realistic.

Other Mike: Your photos loom terrific. You really bring the Colorad narrow gauge to life.

BVRR: Great shot, love the PAs.

A little while ago I sent my Minitrix K4 off to Max Magliaro to be repowered. I got it back yesterday.

On the outside, he blackened the drivers and running gear. I redecaled the tender.

Under the hood, Max replaced the stock motor with a Faulhaber 1319 coreless motor. He traded the stock gears for a new 4:1 gear set. He also fixed a very nasty bind in the drivers and replaced the stock headlight with an LED. I can now creep this engine along at 5 scale miles per hour. The top end speed has been reduced to a very reasonable 80 smph.

Here she is leading the Broadway Limited.

And exchanging salutes with an L1 Mike.

[BRVRR]

Bear nice work on the flat car. I don't have the patience to attempt something like that.

Mike (mikelhh) thats a great scene and scenery.

Mike (mlehman) your work train is a work of art. Thanks for sharing.

I've been stuck on ALCO locomotives lately as has my grandson. Here is a recent photo of my PAs rounding the curve at the East end of the BRVRR leading a heavyweight passenger train:

All three locos are Athearn BB kits. The two A-units are powered while the B-unit is a dummy with a Soundtraxx DSX sound decoder and two 1-inch speakers installed. The lead A-unit and the B-unit are electrically coupled so there is virtually no sound stutter.

Keep up the good work guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.

[mlehman]

Here are the results of five weeks efforts.Sigh

Bear,

Sometimes the Really Good Stuff takes longer. I'd say you and Mike have things off to a bang-up start.

The big project of the week was kitbashing the Silverton RR's combine "Red Mountain" from a LaBelle Rio Grande combine kit. It was really easy, too, so I shouldn't have procrastinated so long in doing it: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/232196.aspx

If it's still too hot where you are, then imagine there's a big icy avalanche that the ditcher is moving here at the head of the work train above Eureka.

Meanwhile, the cook is back in the camp car kitchen at Eureka working on lunch...

And I finally decided, after having the ancient deacls with the kit break up when I tried to use them, I've taken ol' CONX #5 and converted it to hold water for MOW purposes as SURR 0152.

Thanks for looking.

[mikelhh]

Nice work, Bear. One to be proud of.

I doubt I'll ever progress to scratchbuilding rolling stock!

My Atlas Boston and Maine RS3

Mike

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, I was a bit remiss in not responding to Posters in the last WPF. Not only do I enjoy and appreciate the “Regulars” offerings but I am also more than pleased to see “New” contributors. The scope and variety helps me keep my (dubious) sanity especially as I’m not achieving much on the modelling front.

To “Borrow”  BRVRR Allans phrase, “Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. WPF is always the best thread of the week thanks to you.”

When I foresaw that my modelling was going to “stall” due to w**k and family commitments I thought (????) that as I needed some idler flat cars for the ferry, and as I needed practice working with styrene, that a spot of scratch building would fit in just fine.  Whilst looking for plans I came across one in the March 1958 Model Railroader “AN MR one evening project.”

Here are the results of five weeks efforts.

 

DSCF5176 by Bear, on Flickr

 

 

Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff.

Have a Great One,

 

Cheers, the Bear.