Weekend Photo FUN 21 -24 October 2016.

["JaBear"]

Gidday All, well I was hoping that I was going to be able to say it’s a fine clear Friday evening but the build up of cloud over the Eastern Ridge has finally ended up as rain which isn’t a good start to our 3 day Labour Weekend.

 

As the Club seems to have been occupying too much of my time of late, here’s another Club photo, Prez Mike ran a small MOW train.

 

 

Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[mlehman]

Great pic, Bear, and that's a fine little MOW train your Prez has

Happy Labour Day, one that is always well-earned every year.

Good news, the 480 is back up on her drivers. I gave her another 3 hours of work this evening and finally got the chip picked out of her driver insulation. I'm still doing minor adjustments, but she should be back in service soon.

Speaking of MOW trains, I took the wrecker train out for the annual clearance check. Here's a pic on the Rio de las Animas bridge.

Downtown Red Mountain at high noon.

Finally, a pic of the station at Tefft, where the next adventure takes place.

Next adventure? Yes, my first significant video is here, done to illustrate operations in the thread on helper service. Usually I wouldn't repost, but it's just another comment and I wanted my friends here to see it.

Tefft Helper Action from Mike Lehman on Vimeo.

[gmpullman]

Good Day, gentlemen (and Ladies if you please) 

Thanks for kick-starting another WPF, Bear! In the Great Lakes area of North America it is beginning to look like some good Model Railroad weather is here. Cool and rainy. Quite a contrast to last weekends sunny and 82°F!

I have always admired the work trains of the unsung heros, the gandy dancers, with all the tools-of-the-trade on board. Sometimes those M-of-W trains would go out for months on end to the farthest reaches of the line. Interesting stuff!

Your scenes are superb, as usual, Mike! I see a new detail every time I look at the photos. Excellent video, as well

A good deal of my progress this week does not lend itself too well to photos. WIRING work  But I'm getting near the end of the project and I can hang up the soldering iron for a few weeks!

I am pretty thrilled to be able to have the Presidential car U.S. No.1 on my roster:

Not a very good photo, but you can see Clementine and Winston Churchill on the left. The Pullman Porter, and seated, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. President seems more interested in the action on the adjacent track 

The Churchills visited the U.S. in December of '41 and rode the Ferdinand Magellan to Hyde Park for a little R&R. 

Thanks again for a great sendoff, Bear!

Now, on to more great photos!

Regards, Ed

[RDG Casey]

During the last build the labor force was getting rather tired of upper management's constant visits. Being the 25th locomotive to bet put in the current roster from the Locomotive Works they felt the need to try an micromanage the landmark project, even though the team on the erecting floor was well experienced for the job. Here is a higher up taking a photo op of the nearly complete engine.

[dti406]

Bear, again thanks for starting WPF, nice looking work train.

Mike, so more great pictures of your layout and inventive modeling.

Ed, I remember seeing a documentary on that period, and have read a lot on that initial conferenance that I did not know had taken place until recently.

Casey, I don't know how you have the imagination to concoct the various steam engines of the Reading!

I did not get anything done this week, so I guess I will thow in an old picture from the wayback machine!

Pair of DT&I GP38-2's with a steel train heading for the stamping plants!

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Bear ... Thanks for starting weekend Photo Fun with an interesting MOW train.

Ed ... That is very interesting about the Presidential Car. 

Mike L ... I like the wrecker train. .. A Sinclair gas sation! I recall that brand of gasoline. .. Teft looks like an interesting station. I'll watch the video shortly. ... Edit. Mike I just watched the video, and it was very worthwhile. I would be interested if you told us more about disel #82.  

Casey... I like you creative story about happenings in the Locomotive Works. Looks like another prize winner is nearing completion.

Rick .... I like your DT&I locomotives. 

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Hey ... It's October here !

 

 

 

 

 

[C&O Fan]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qPF8Nso9zc

 

Just getting started on my Hobo Camp Scene

 

[Grampys Trains]

Good stuff from everyone, esp. Garry's pumpkin scene.

A work train preparing to leave the yard.

Cleaning up a rock slide at Stoney Creek.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

TX Terry ... Interesting video with setting up hobo amp

Gramp ... Thanks you for the complement. .... I like your scenery and your work train. Looks like the GP9 turned around along the line. 

[jecorbett]

Heartland Division CB&Q

Mike L ... I like the wrecker train. .. A Sinclair gas sation! I recall that brand of gasoline.

I included a Sinclair station on my layout just to help set the era (1956). Sinclair merged with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1969. I loved the dinosaur logo.

I also put an Esso station elsewhere on the layout.

One of these days I'm going to fix or replace my digital camera so I can post some pictures.

 

[Tony73]

Really, Really awesome stuff this week everyone!  Since I see MOW trains and pumpkins, I thought I would share my Great Pumpkin track cleaning train as it does it's thing after some re ballasting.

 

And a hazy hot summer shot in the distance  

 

[HO-Velo]

Bear,  Thanks for the WPF start.  Nice MOW shot and befitting Labour Day, trains wouldn't be rolling for long without the work of the maintenace crew.

Garry,  The pumpkin patch shot is especially charming and makes for a pleasant fall mood.

Grampys Trains,  Superb modeling and shot progression in the MOW groove.

"Up on the roof."

Thanks to all of WPF's esteemed contributors,  regards,  Peter

[mlehman]

Ed,

Thanks for the comments and keeping the campaign clean Nice historical vignette.

RDG Casey,

Another interesting build. Did the Reading have any tank engines that were camelback-ish, although a tank engine tends to be that way already? The thought just occurred to me to ask.

Rick,

Thank you, too. I like that DT&I Bi-Cent, it's a bit different than most graphically.

Terry,

Dang, not getting youtube video right now, but can hear the sound. That's not Johnny Cash, though, it's Roger Miller, one of Cash's buddies nearly equally talented and legendary. I need to get active back onlist and razz Scoop about that one unless there's something I can't see in the video to account for that.

Grampys Trains,

Nice thematic selection and beautiful pics as always.

jecorbett,

I'm partial to the Dino because we lived out West in the 60s, I was sorry to see it go as I was big into dinosaurs as a kid, before it got to be really cool.

Tony and Peter,

Great pics!

Heartland Division CB&Q

Mike L ... I like the wrecker train. .. A Sinclair gas sation! I recall that brand of gasoline. .. Teft looks like an interesting station. I'll watch the video shortly. ... Edit. Mike I just watched the video, and it was very worthwhile. I would be interested if you told us more about disel #82.

Garry,

Nice Pumpkins! Thanks for the kind comments.

#82 is a Liliput model of the Austrian Gemeinder D75 (520 kw) diesel used on the Zillerthalbahn and perhaps other 760mm (30") lines. Here's a proto pic:

http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/ind/d15.html

I got mine here, although there are other dealers.

http://www.reynaulds.com/products/Liliput/142101.aspx

To convert to HOn3, buy the 12mm/HOm conversion kit (about $25) and narrow the wheelsets. If you get another one of those, you could then have a loco that runs on three different gauges (HOn30, HOn3, and HOm) by simply changing out the wheelsets. I've got a writeup around on this I'll try to dig up a link to.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/215880/2433941.aspx#2433941

The paint is mine. It's a powerful little loco and the lighting is nice. I hope to eventually add sound, but it has a very nice Lenz decoder for now.

The video starts with a still pic of #82's new "auto-uncouple" coupler, really simply a modified dummy off of Sunset K-36 #480 (my other adventure of the week) that I converted to a working front coupler. I mounted it on a drawbar, then on the front of #82 after grinding off part of the coupler jaw so it could push, but not lock into another coupler.

 

It's due for paint now that it's been tested and proven. The video was actually the first run with it up the hill, so seems to work OK. Here she is in tourist season, when the work is a little more glorious.

 

[pike-62]

Here are a few cars I have copleted recently. First up, Funaro & Camerlengo hopper. followed by three Railyard moels X79 boxcars

 

 

 

 

[mlehman]

Neatly done, pike-62.

[cats think well of me]

Love the photos everyone, thank you for posting them.

Alvie