Good morning from Sunny and Mild Northeast Ohio!
Ed, great start for the weekend, nice work on those lines, but based on what I know of industry those colors won't stay that bright for long.
Bear, your welcome, I really enjoyed the Wabash films, especially the later ones with a lashup of a C-425, U25B, F7's, Trainmaster and GP7 all on one train, along with some great shots of new 86' Hi-Cubes.
Managed to get some cars done this week to represent some Southeast Railroads.
Branchline 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Champ Decals.
IMRC 40' PS1 Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. This was a repaint done by the Southern Railway after taking over the S&A Railroad.
Also did some more work on my New Haven C-425!
The top picture is the same one I posted a couple of weeks ago, and it was pointed out to me that the exhaust stack was for the dynamic braking and not for the prime mover as I assumed (and you know what that means). So I removed that stack and completed the lift rings, (second picture) now for some cab detailing and then off to the paint shop.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Hey! Where's Bear? Where's Jimmy?
It's 0630 here in the Daylight Savings time zone of the U.S. East Coast. I hope you all survived St. Patrick's Day and had your fill of green tea or green
Last week I posted some photos of the Compressor House for my steel mill complex and this week I have a few more showing additional details that were added. I just finished some of the lighting but I don't have time to get any photos as this weekend is the NMRA Div. 5 Lakeland (Mentor) OH, Railfest train show and I'll be having a few blokes over for an ops session so today will be spent on getting things ready for visitors... and showing Mr. Murphy out the door (hey, he's Irish isn't he... maybe he will be too "under the weather" to visit!
This shows some of the piping and ductwork I added to the building to give it some visual interest. I washed the surfaces with PanPastel powders to give the concrete a little variety.
The paint on the piping is just the first coat so I'll clean it up on the next pass. Yellow is oxygen; green, nitrogen; orange, tower water supply and red, tower water return. I still have to fabricate the truss work to support the pipes across the track, add steam, low pressure and high pressure air and conduits but I wanted to get the piping aligned with the building first, then add the support truss.
I got a little clever with attaching the pipe flanges to the building . The blackish plates are thin pieces of iron I salvaged from a transformer I tore apart. Then I glued tiny 1mm x 2mm super magnets into the pipe flanges. They stick like crazy and if I ever want to remove the building or pipe rack they just click apart
Now, as the Bear would say...
On to the GOOD STUFF Folkkes!
Regards, Ed