mlehman More work on the Cascade Branch...Some new stockpens and a fuel dealer at Purgatory.
More work on the Cascade Branch...Some new stockpens and a fuel dealer at Purgatory.
Thanks for starting things off again this week Bear. The ferry is coming along I see. A work of art in progress.
Rick, more great cars. You must have a huge layout.
Mike, like the glider and tow plane. Isn't the tow line in the wrong place on the tug plane?
Grampy, great scene as usual.
Garry, Love the bridge and the scene.
Here are a couple from a recent op session, read running the trains, from the BRVRR:
My grandson, Nathan, running a couple of short freight trains on the BRVRR layout.
NYC #2030, an RS-32 at the head of the Grafton milk-run.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Bear.... I like the detail on the ferry's pilot house.
Rick ... More great looking freight cars from you.
Mike L. ... Lots of interesting details on your layout. Campers. A glider.
PC99 ... Your weathering of a box car looks great.
Mr.B ... Good work on the crossing gate.
DJ ... Ore trin looks good.
GGOOGLER .... Good layou progres.
Below is a westbound train entering the bridge.
GARRY
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ive been working (ballasting) more on the mine interchange tracks, the three up near the wall. and texturing between the int. tracks and the main lines.
since these pics ive ballasted the switches on the mine tracks to the mainline tracks.
also there are updated and more pics on my ghg lines f.b. page
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Good stuff from everyone again this week. A short iron ore train, with real iron ore.
Impressive work already!
I'm off skiing for the weekend, but I managed to get a pre-installation shot of one of my NJ International crossing gates in HO scale. I added a better activation wire by drilling a hole in the counterweight, and glued a styrene base to the metal model to make it easier to attach to the layout.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Over the past few weeks, I have been experimenting with various weathering techniques and materials. Here is an old Tyco/Mantua 40' boxcar that my mom found at a flea market (I think she got 3 different cars for $5). I used rubbing alcohol to fade the paint, then used some black wash, acrylic paints and chalks to give it a "seasoned veteran" look. I also took a crack at re-numbering the car. I painted the doors a different color, wanted them to look they had been replaced recently. I changed out the wheels to metal and weathered the trucks and wheels with spray paint and chalks. It sits in a siding across from a cardstock building. The building is behind a chainlink fence that I scratch built, with springs from pens for barbed wire. The telephone pole is scratch built from wooden dowels, square toothpicks and glass beads.
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Bear,
The public can rest easy when riding that ferry that the captain won't jump ship at the first sign of trouble...he's glued to the bridge
Love those cars, Rick.
At Crater Lake, spring is in the air now that the grass has started to green up.
I decided to locate the fuel dealer's tanks here outside the wye, where I'd origianlly planned a spot for it. It just looks better, less crowded.
Some railfans camped out at Crater Lake Junction to key an eye oin the action for a few days...
And Bear gets an incentive glider ride to encourage him to keep up the good w**k at w**k...
Now if he could just get a little more time off for modeling...
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Bear, thanks for opening and you can send me that ferry since it will look good with all the Wabash Cars I have.
I have also been working on some other kits while building that hot coil car.
ExactRail PS 5344 Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Floquil Platinum Mist (Roof). Car was then lettered with Oddballs Decals.
Intermountain Railway ACF 2980CF Covered Hopper Kit, substituted A-Line Sill Steps for the plastic kit sill steps. Painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Intermountain Railway 50' PS1 Boxcar Kit with Two Plug Doors, substituted A-Line Sill Steps for the cast plastic steps, painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking, and I can't wait for the other contributions I know will be coming.
Rick J
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