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
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
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.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Reading I-7 on a local.
Plus Delaware and Hudson 4-6-0s in a very early state.
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
Anthracite Modeler - YouTube
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.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
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
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
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. .. ...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I've completed the first stage of scenery on my layout, painting and ballasting the track:
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
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.
Tony
EK Sub in HO Scale
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.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
dti406 Walthers NACC 50' Exterior Post RBL Rick Jesionowski
Walthers NACC 50' Exterior Post RBL
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.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
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.
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
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.
Good stuff from everyone. A pair of SW7s at work.
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?
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!!
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
Middleman, I'm diggin' the use of those LED's. Gives some realism to the nightime effect.................
Rich
tbdanny,
I stand corrected. Can't argue with your logic.
Great work everyone! Rick, you must have a room full of cars by now
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.
Mike.
My You Tube
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.
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
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, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
-matthew I hesitate to offer my humble attempts
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
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...
-matthewMike - 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.
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!
-Donn
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?
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.
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!
Frank
SS Expressthat'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
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!