Weekend Photo Fun 11-13 September 2015.

[dti406]

Good morning everyone from Northeast Ohio!

Bear, thanks for starting and a day of remembrence.

Ed, nice auto rack, I have four Accurails that I need to populate, I read where the bottom deck was to close to the upper deck, did you have any problems loading your trucks.

Terry, good work on that install, glad I am going to go strictly DC.

GP9 Man, have a few of those K4's but they are all in brass and need to be painted.

Here are some cars I finished this week:

Working on filling out a fleet of NKP cars, this is a Branchline 1944 AAR Boxcar kit with a 7' Door, the NKP was one a few railroads that ordered a 7' door on these cars. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Black Paint then lettered with Microscale Decals.

Second Rock Island 60' PS Box Car (Fisher Body Car) that I have done that is in Ternstad Service for General Motors.  Car is painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Floquil Platinum Mist, then was lettered with Mask Island Decals.

Per Bear's request I took some pictures of the apron and car float on the Stongsville Railroad Club Layout:

 

 

Hope these help with your modeling, if you need anything else let me know, but forewarn, the car float is in a nearly inacessable area on the layout and getting pictures is near impossible.

I think it was Ted that asked about the gravel road, it was made with ballast placed, then soaked with alchohol, a wetting agent and then white glue.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

[GP-9_Man11786]

I will never forget where I was 14 years ago today .

Anyway, Bear, cool shot from the archives.

Ed, your auto rack turned out very nicely.

Terry, your shay looks terrific, hope the performance matches.

This week, I took delivery of Bachmann's new N Scale K4 pacific.

[C&O Fan]

Just Finished Installing a Econami 100 Steam in my 1960s era brass 2 truck shay

The smaller size decoder made it all posible

 

 

I removed the boiler weight to make room for a current keeper and a speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

I cut a slot in the bottom of the boiler to alow the Sugar cube speaker to fire out the bottom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZHDA2Z-RA

 

Heres a video of it Running

 

 Sorry for the extra sounds

their are lots of other steamers running in the background

 

 

[gmpullman]

Thanks, Bear, for kicking off another showcase of fine and wonderful work by our fellow modelers.

There's two events in my life that will be indelibly etched in my memory — one occurred on November 22nd, 1963 and the other one fourteen years ago. It is indeed sad that it takes a tragedy to make us pause and reflect, and wouldn't it be nice if we could learn from these tragedies and never have to witness another one...

On to the Good Stuff!

I spent a few hours to "populate" my Athearn F89-F Bi-level auto rack.

Here's the "before"...

And here's the after... It took some time, and a whole tube of Super Glue Gel to keep the wheels from turning and to cement 20 chrome mirrors on all those F-100s!

I glued the wheels to the deck with Aleen's clear tacky glue. Never mind about simulating tie downs! It was tricky enough getting that first truck centered on the bottom deck without getting glue all over the car!

I primarily model the mid 1950s but I just had to have one of these!  The detail on the Athearn model is superb.

A few years ago I did a tri-level auto rack from Accurail and loaded it up with Classic Metal Works 1962 Chevys. Fifteen of 'em! That thing weighed 1.3 pounds! Fortunately, these F-150s are plastic and the total car weight is pretty close to NMRA specs.

Now, on to more Good Stuff... Ed

["JaBear"]

Hats off please ffolkes in memory of those who lost their lives 14 years ago.

 

Well the progress made on the modelling front was not matched by the computer/camera interface, so another train show archive photo, Santa Fe on the AMG.

 

Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.