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WPF 01/13/17 to 01/15/17

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WPF 01/13/17 to 01/15/17
Posted by dti406 on Friday, January 13, 2017 6:07 AM

Looks like I am first this week!

Managed to finish a couple of new cars.

Eastern Car Works 1958CF ACF Covered Hopper Kit built in the late 40's, Added A-Line Sill Steps, Plano Roofwalk, and various brake and air lines.  Painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals. Prototype was used for cement service at the Dundee, MI cement plant and for sand service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland, OH).

Walthers NACC 50' Exterior Post RBL Made in 1964, added A-line Sill Steps and a grab iron to left of door.  Painted with Scalecoat II Yellow and Black, with Floquil Platinum Mist for the roof.  Lettered with Oddballs Decals. Prototype used to transport food stuffs, mostly canned goods from the manufacturer to the grocery store warehouses.

Thanks for looking, and waiting for the good stuff!

Rick Jesionowski

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, January 13, 2017 6:52 AM

Rick, that rolling stock looks terrific.

I've been puttering around my layout quite a bit lately.

First, I give you the "Cassandra Crossing" and no, not the bad movie staring Burt Lancaster and Ingrid Bergman. But rather the PRR's crossing of the Little Conemaugh River at Cassandra, PA.

The water is Mod Podge Gloss Medium.

I also got out the chalks and weathered some rolling stock:

Also threw together this Ticky Train Group Signal Tower kit:

And this Cornerstone Steel Water Tank kit. I added a blinking red LED even though it's not nearly tall enough to require aircraft warning lights.

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

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Posted by RDG Casey on Friday, January 13, 2017 7:00 AM

Reading I-7 on a local.

Plus Delaware and Hudson 4-6-0s in a very early state.

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Friday, January 13, 2017 7:37 AM

Casey, those custom builds you do are AMAZING!

To everyone; I'm bad with remembering names, so if I forget your screen name I'm sorry.

DTI...those kits are coming along nicely.

GP9, I love the PRR engines you got.

 

Here's what I have this week- finished up 107, as well as WE 6982

Ex KCS unit.  The Wheeling only renumbered it, as well as patching out the KCS before it entered service.  Yes, the gray is supposed to be that noticable.,

WE 107 received glass on the doors. Since I'm running my eventual layout in fall, I modeled the 107 with the doors and windows open, to represent one of the last hot days of the year.

Yeah, I guess I'll have to show a photo of my Wheeling roster.

All of those except for 305 are custom decal and paint jobs.

 

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Posted by mlehman on Friday, January 13, 2017 8:58 AM

Rick, The C&NW car/paint scheme looks familiar. Might have seen one being unloaded where I used to work several decades back. Yep, foodstuffs.

GP-9Man, You never know about structure lighting...just pretend you're near the flightpath at a nearby airport and even low buildings, etc may get a light.

RDGCasey, Great action shot!

Jimmy, All those little projects soon add up to a motive power roster. Quite the fleet you have there now.

Well, I'd hoped I would have a nice little video of the RR scenes in the family video collection I've been working on. Three times this week I was within a few clicks of finishing what would be about 12 minutes of mostly narrowgauge (and you wonder why I ended up a narrowgauger?) rides at home and abroad...

All I can say is that the Nero video suite is garbage. Broken down into about 15 different parts, none of which clearly suggest what does what; Save seems to be a optional, erractic feature; the mysterious error mnessages cause more problems than they solve; and even when you figure out where all the parts of your project go when it just decides to stop working, there's no putting them back together if it didn't make it to the finished file; and yes, the cryptic GUI doesn't help one bit...

So I gave up for now. Maybe someday. Sorry.

So that leaves me with the drone project. Started a thread about it if there's any interest, as these little cameras with wings are approaching the status of useful adjuncts to layout photography. Meanwhile, I'm practicing my hovering skills with my training drone and its partially ineffective trim buttons by sending it into the air for virtual journeys to a fair land, far away...

As you can see, still working to achieve good focus. You can keep up with my R&D for drone ops here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/260442.aspx

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, January 13, 2017 10:53 AM

Rick ... Thanks for opening Weekend Photo Fun !.... You set high standards for the rest of us regaridng freight cars. 

(Edit ) ... I meant to complement GP9 Man for his outstanding photos. .... I too use modge podge for water. ... I use acrylics for a bas color under the "water". ... Also  Im ix acrylics in the Modge Podge. 

Casey..... and you set high standards regrding modeling steam locomotivies. You amaze me every week !

Jimmy .... Your W&LE fleet is impressive. 

Mike L ... Good luck with drone photography. That may be too high tech for me, and I'll settle for standing on a ladder if I want overhead shots of the layout. 

Here is Silver Fountain which is a diner/parlor/observtion car that I kitbashed a few years ago from a Walthers Budd observation car. .. ... 

 

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Posted by tbdanny on Friday, January 13, 2017 11:42 AM

I've completed the first stage of scenery on my layout, painting and ballasting the track:

The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon
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Posted by Tony73 on Friday, January 13, 2017 11:49 AM

Excellent pics everyone ! Hope your Friday 13th is smooth without bad luck. 

Here is an early morning shot from Hazard yard on my EK Subdivision. 

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, January 13, 2017 1:16 PM

Thanks Rick for starting off WPF. Those are some good looking cars.

GP9_Man - Good stuff there. Your Cassandra Crossing is great!

Casey - Your little Reading loco is a jewel!

Jimmy - Lots of work there.

Mike L - Drones? Beyond me!

Garry - Great looking Burlington car. Good Work.

tbdanny - Its a start. I think I would have used smaller ballast.

Tony - Nice photo.

From the BRVRR:

NYC F7s #1821 & 1814 with a coal drag, hustling around the curve at the west end of the layout.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Friday, January 13, 2017 1:27 PM

dti406

Walthers NACC 50' Exterior Post RBL

Rick Jesionowski

Photo is X where I am now so I'll have to check it later but is that NACC the same car Athearn produced?  The Athearn version had a much more finely tooled body.  I had the Walthers D&RGW NACC 50' box car and the roof was very crude and thick.  I sold it and replaced it with the Athearn version which had nice fine grab irons and roof.

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Posted by tbdanny on Friday, January 13, 2017 1:53 PM

BRVRR

tbdanny - Its a start. I think I would have used smaller ballast.

It's a blend of Woodland Scenics coarse and medium grades.  The layout is in O scale.  Given that it's a backwoods narrow gauge operation, I figured they'd just use the rocks they could find lying around.

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, January 13, 2017 2:38 PM

Jim,

Trying to find an undec Athearn is like trying to find MH-370, nobody knows where one is.  Also have not been made since 2004, so I used one I had in stock.

Rick

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Friday, January 13, 2017 3:09 PM

Undec yeah, I suppose they didn't make many.  But from casual observation, I've seen the painted NACC box cars fairly often on Ebay, sometimes for attractive prices.  I found mine on Ebay about a year ago for about $20 which was a deal considering now nice it is.   I imagine if you keep watch, with some patience you'll find other painted ones for a similar low price as I did.  The Walthers version - mainly due to the roof and ends was not nearly as fine.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, January 13, 2017 3:20 PM

Good stuff from everyone. A pair of SW7s at work.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Friday, January 13, 2017 4:16 PM

Rick, now that I can see the photo, that NACC car turned out pretty nice.  It's really the thick roof thats the most noticable.  I wonder if another roof part would fit?

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Posted by SS Express on Friday, January 13, 2017 7:43 PM

Added some new coal loads to the fleet. This attempt was a little better than the last one I did. I tried a new technique from a video I watched and I am pretty happy with the results so far. Less mess too!!

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Posted by middleman on Saturday, January 14, 2017 12:48 AM

Happy Weekend! Great work from all involved.

Mike: I admire your chutzpah... Me + drone + layout = a series of unfortunate events.

Finished my coal tower and sand house this week:

EDIT: There are several ladders which won't be installed until the landscaping is done.

'Got the LEDs installed,too:

Please keep the good stuff coming(no law against posting more than once!).

Mike

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Posted by SS Express on Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:42 AM

Middleman, I'm diggin' the use of those LED's. Gives some realism to the nightime effect.................

Rich

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:53 AM

tbdanny,

I stand corrected. Can't argue with your logic.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:13 AM

Great work everyone!  Rick, you must have a room full of cars by now Laugh

I have nothing new, but since Photobucket is playing nice today, I dug out this photo.

WC 6677 pulls car from the siding to add to it's train, before moving on.

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Posted by -matthew on Saturday, January 14, 2017 2:00 PM

Everything looks so good, I hesitate to offer my humble attempts.  This morning I put together my first Micro-Trains coupler and body mounted it to a reefer

 

Mike - Can you change your camera's settings?  If you can increase the ISO you can use a faster shutter speed which should help with the blur.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Saturday, January 14, 2017 4:36 PM

Rick,  Thanks for the WPF opening and views of your exemplary rolling stock modeling.

SS Express,  Nice coal loads.  Making freight car loads is such a fun and satisfying part of the hobby.

Still being under the weather has me reaching back into my photo library.

Thanks to all the contributors, regards,  Peter

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Saturday, January 14, 2017 5:53 PM

It's been a while since I've been on the forums.  It's good to see the great work you all have been doing.

My contribution is this brass Shay.  I went to a train show and bought a box of parts.  After a few months, this locomotive emerged.

It runs well and I feel pretty good about how it's turning out, especially for a "backshop" project. 

Phil,
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Posted by "JaBear" on Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:51 PM
Gidday All, well and truly late this WPF, thanks for the kick off Rick, and as I haven’t managed to achieve ANY model railroading this new year, Sad  here’s an old photo.

-matthew
I hesitate to offer my humble attempts

No need to hesitate, you’ve filled at least two of the 3 criteria for WPF, as it is train related and a photo! As for the fun part, I’m not qualified to comment though I will say working that small would severely test my sense of humour.Wink
 
Thanks to everyone for their really Good Stuff.Thumbs Up

Cheers, the Bear.Smile

 

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Posted by mlehman on Sunday, January 15, 2017 5:54 AM

Mike,

Unfortunate events? Yeah, could happen, that's why I'm taking it slow. I think it's a bit crazy, as I suspect some others think I am. Gotta break the eggs if you plan to make an omelett...Chef

-matthew
Mike - Can you change your camera's settings? If you can increase the ISO you can use a faster shutter speed which should help with the blur.

matthew,

Nice work. No matter how modest the project, WPF is here to support you as Bear noted.

As for the camera, it's got auto settings that aren't really user-accessible on a drone that goes in the palm of your hand. I've been advised that more light will increase the shutter speed. But a better camera on my new drone will help when it arrives. One of the main problems I need to solve is this one, though, as drones can be dodgy little critters (even when the trim settings all work, which they don't on this one, making for some challenging training), which is why there's blur in the pic despite my best efforts in training to hold a steady hover. Video works a little better, for instance this one entitled "Drone Flight to New Zealand":

SPOT0030 - Drone Flight to New Zealand from Mike Lehman on Vimeo.

 

 

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Posted by MapGuy42 on Sunday, January 15, 2017 9:29 AM

I've designed the control board for my Stanford, CA, layout.  Just need to buy some toggle switches and I can build it.

And this may not look like much, but it represents showing my son how operation will work when we get actual track laid.

Happy railroading!

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Posted by middleman on Sunday, January 15, 2017 10:06 AM

SS Rich: Thanks. The very small LEDs now available make it so much easier to install them in lamp shades,class lights,etc. It's nice to know that when I do these,I'll(probably) never have to replace them.

Nice work on your coal loads,BTW.I have a lot of gon's that I need to fill with coal,limestone,etc.

Mike: I'm sure you'll get the kinks ironed out of your drone project. I pretty much swore off anything joystick related many years ago,after consistently being destroyed by my very young son when we'd play video games.

Peter: Your buildings,streets,waterfront scene are all terrific.I'd love to see larger photos of them(hint,hint).

Phil: Good to see you back on WPF.Beautiful job on the engine.Any video?

Mike

 

 

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Posted by SS Express on Sunday, January 15, 2017 8:44 PM

Middleman, that's the one aspect of model railroading I have yet to tackle. My dad was pretty good at doing all that lighting and super-detailing and he usually took care of that end of the railroad on our HVBL. He would have loved to see that lighting arrangment in the cab of your steamer. Nice work you got there. Maybe I'll try a building or switch tower for my first attempt. Thanks for sharing those lighting and detail pics.......good stuff.

Rich

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Posted by zstripe on Monday, January 16, 2017 2:05 AM

Middleman,

Really great job! Those tiny SMD's they make now are the cat's meow! I have been using them every where. Looks like You have the NANO one's in the lamp shades. I too have used them until I started with the PICO ones. They are about 1/2 the size of the ones You have in the lamp shades and are just as bright. Warm white looks like incandesants and if You want to channel the light, it will fit deeper in the lamp shade. I have the 8'' lead ones with a resister already wired for 6-12 volts. No need for the rectifier circuit, for I am using straight DC. I have already gone through 40 of them, from Evan Designs. At about 1.90 in bulk. They state that they will last for 2 years, constantly on.

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/smd-chip-leds.html

Take Care! Big Smile

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, January 16, 2017 2:39 AM

SS Express
that's the one aspect of model railroading I have yet to tackle.

You will be very happy with the results once you get into lighting. It is dirt simple. You need an LED (or incandescent bulb if you prefer), a resistor and a power supply. Once you have the basics down, you might want to look at using Arduino mini processors to give you enhanced lighting effects like random off/on lighting in structures, but if you never go there you will still be very happy with what you can do with just LEDs.

Regards,

LED 'nut' Dave

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