middleman "44" beneath the cab window? Mike
"44" beneath the cab window?
Mike
You got it, I still have to put that number on the locomotive, but the other side has it.
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!
middleman Rick: Couldn't you screw up a freight car once in a while? Can't speak for anyone else,but it would help me feel a bit less inadequate... Mike
Rick: Couldn't you screw up a freight car once in a while? Can't speak for anyone else,but it would help me feel a bit less inadequate...
Not a freight car, but there is something missing on this model, that I missed entirely!
Guess?
Heartland Division CB&QMike SE WI .... The SD45 is looking good ... Did you say your birth year was 1900 ? LOL
118 this June The actual road number is 1949. A little more believable?
Mike.
My You Tube
Wow !... This was a great Weekend Photo Fun .... Thanks to everybody who participated.... Each of you deserves a lot of kudos.
I commented on a couple of posts early in this thread, and I'll try to include everyone now.
Jimmy .... Have fun with your bridge project. Looks like a good plan.
Mike Middleman ... Thanks for commenting on my photos. The phto with 462 looks real. Nice Turntable.
Mike SE WI .... The SD45 is looking good ... Did you say your birth year was 1900 ? LOL ... I like your quonset hut.
George ... You have 4 interesting photos. Waterfalls, Ball signal, wellcar with load, and paint factory. Each is outstanding.
Kevin ... Thanks for commenting on my photos and the complement. You've been busy I see. I like the caboose, and the freight cars.
Don ... Your Turtle Creek Central boxcar looks great.
Ed ... Thanks for the kind remark. Your roundhouse interior is fabulous. The kit bashed switch tower looks great.
Terry TX .... Your buildings look great. As I said, I like your caboose lighting project.
Allan .... Thanks for commenting on my photos. .... The NYC with local freight train looks good. Short trains like that can be fun for serving industries on the layout.
Peter ... The chain link fence is very well made.
Robert ... The Coors Beer plant in Golden, CO has shipped a lot of feight by rail over many years. You did a good job modeling it.
Mike L .... It's good to hear your family trip went well. Your SV coach will be a great model.
Rick ... Again, thanks for starting this thread. I appreciate your kind remarks about my photos .
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I will look forward to next weekend's photo fun.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
BRVRR Kevin, Based on the looks, lines and simplicity, I was thinking that your caboose had its origins with the PRR. Just a guess.
Kevin,
Based on the looks, lines and simplicity, I was thinking that your caboose had its origins with the PRR.
Just a guess.
Not a PRR Cabin Car, the closest thing to what Kevin has is the N5, N5a cabin cars but the cupola is offset on the PRR Cabin Car and the steps are wrong as well. Closest thing I can tell is the NH NE-6 and its clones that found their way over a number of roads.
By the way thanks for all the nice comments on my cars.
Gary, like you steel mill, looks like a real revenue producer.
Awesome work here, everybody!
Must have been another long week down at the w*%kcave in Beartown. Have a sip and put you feet up, Bear, and rest a moment here before it's back to the grindstones.
Coming back from Easter dinner with my kin in southern Indiana last weekend, I found Amtrak's Texas Eagle in Villa Grove, IL way off its usual track and wrote up a short post on it over in the Trains forum: http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/743/t/269263.aspx
I've been busy, as it was train show weekend here in Urbana, organized for many years now by the hardworking crew of the Midwest Central Railroad Club. The MCRC provides the NMRA with a table to use, which is much appreciated. Rob Brown, who does some marketing work for the NMRA, happened to be at the show as a vendor, brought along the super-slick NMRA traveling convention banner, which we displayed on Sunday.
That's Allen Byrne, the Illinois Terminal Division's chief clerk and paymaster, populating the booth. Sharp-eyed observors will note the panels of the dispay are in non-standard formation. Well, it was the first time I ever helped put it up... Then I thought it's a great piece of marketing to get people to notice what looks a little like a scrolling letter display board. And, this being Urbana, the slightly postmodern rendering of the title fits right in. I promise we'll get it "correct" the next time we get a chance to use it.
So I'd planned to do some modeling while staffing the table but never really able to get going on the Sumpter Valley coach I was building. In part, this was due to falling and landing on my wrist Friday noght when I was out and about on another project. Thought I might have broke it, but it didn't feel as bad as the left wrist I broke about 3 decades back, so I figure I;m good to go. Ths is as far as I got with my next SV coach side today underneath the one I bult last week.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
middlemanIs this going downtown,or along the waterfront?
Thanks Mike, will be at the end of town opposite a cannery and planned fishing boat harbor. Regards, Peter
BRVRRBased on the looks, lines and simplicity, I was thinking that your caboose had its origins with the PRR.
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That's hilarious, I thought you were referring to the PRR I posted in my reponse.
I hope it is a PRR cabin car. I have "enlisted" lots of PRR prototypes to the STRATTON & GILLETTE Railroad. I use H31 covered hoppers, an N-6 caboose, and a couple of GS gondola cars.
Since the Mighty PENNSYLVANIA does not exist in the same reality as the SGRR, I have no problems with this.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
middlemanKevin. Your Turtle Creek(last week) and Tankertoad's boxcar(this week) take me back. When I first subscribed to MRR,Jim Kelly was building the Turtle Creek layout.
Mike,
Thanks!
Just in case you missed them, here are the rest of my TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL freight cars:
See you next weekend!
Terry: Very nice work on the cabooses and the buildings!
Garry: Another great scene(you have a lot of them).
Jimmy: That's quite a project - looking forward to your progress.
Mike: The SD45 has always been a favorite of mine. 'Hard to believe it's a piece of the past. I like the wood trim along the edge of your layout.
All nice work,George,but I especially like that paint factory.
Nice job on the caboose,Kevin. Your Turtle Creek(last week) and Tankertoad's boxcar(this week) take me back. When I first subscribed to MRR,Jim Kelly was building the Turtle Creek layout.
Allan: Nice shot of the Grafton turn,and all that detail in the background.
Well detailed scene,Peter! Is this going downtown,or along the waterfront?
Robert,what I've seen of your layout,including the pic's you posted in the "Straight Track" thread,looks terrific.
Ed:The roundhouse is spectacular! I'm currently waiting on a 7 stall kit from Kitwood Hill - same gent who made the turntable. It has to make it's way across the Atlantic,so I'm not holding my breath,but the results you've achieved have me anxious to get started.
Thanks,all,for your contributions!
The link to the decoder should be in the article
but its a TCS KAT16
https://www.litchfieldstation.com/product/1463-6-function-harnassed-decoder-with-built-in-ka1-keep-alive/
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Terry,
Thanks for the "How To" on the caboose lighting. I appreciate it. Just out of curiosity what decoder did/do you use?
I'm going to make up and order and try this soon.
Thanks again.
C&O Fan Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx
Thanks ED ~!
Hope that helps,
Ed
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gmpullman C&O Fan Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx Hope that helps, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Weekend Update
gmpullmanI'm going to put some Minuteman laser cut shingles on the roof.
So, tonight I put a Titanic documentary DVD on the Victrola and set to applying shingles:
CP_union4-a by Edmund, on Flickr
Then I remembered I had some copper peel-n-stick flashing (after I had experimented with styrene )
CP_union4-8 by Edmund, on Flickr
Laser shingles are the cat's pyjamas! I'll be using them often Now I have to see what I have to do to get the verdigris copper look on that shiny-new copper.
Apparently it involves vinegar and salt. At least I won't have to wash my hands while eating French fries
C&O FanSorry couldn't make it a clickable link
https://tinyurl.com/ydgznaf4
Take your pick—
Sorry couldn't make it a clickable link
BRVRRTerry - Love the marker lights. Any chance of a materials list and wiring diagram?
Working on it will send you a link when i get it done
Here ya go
Nice Robert, now you got me thirsty!
I jump back in for a couple more pictures. A bash I did using the quonset hut, you know the one, we all have one somewhere!
I added the side addition using left over Walthers parts.
It sits on the very edge of the layout, so I was trying to hold up that blue panel as I took the picture, to avoid including the rest of the basement.
In thirty days, the barley in these hoppers will become Coors beer on grocery shelves.
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
Rick, Thanks for the WPF start-up view of your latest rolling stock gems.
George, I like your paint factory, the Sherwin Williams Cover the Earth animated sign, iconic for sure, as a kid it was always a treat to view the one that could be seen from the eastshore freeway at Emeryville on the way to grandma's house in Oakland.
Thanks to all the contributors, regards, Peter
BRVRRKevin - PRR?
I was complimenting Rick on his Pennsylvania Boxcar. Isn't PRR the reporting initials of the Pennsylvania?
BRVRRAn unusual signal for sure. Don't think I have ever seen one like it.
I modeled it after an actual ball signal in Vermont. There was an article in Classic Trains a few years ago,'The Ball Signals of Vermont'.
Ball signals were a common control and safety system before standardized block signals came into use. There is one in New Hampshire that was used into the 1980s
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Thanks for starting off WPF this week Rick.
Terry - Love the marker lights. Any chance of a materials list and wiring diagram?
Gary - Great looking steel mill. Wish I had the room for one.
Jimmy - That bridge is going to some building project.
Mike - Nice little steamer!
George - An unusual signal for sure. Don't think I have ever seen one like it.
Kevin - PRR?
Don - A good looking boxcar in a great color.
Ed - The roundhouse details are overwhelming. Keep it up!
Not much new on the BRVRR. Too much interference around here lately. Here is one photo from a recent short operating session:
The Grafton Turn eastbound.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
2 of the models I built for my friend Art Bormans C&O layout
made it to the Hawks Nest Modelers meet this weekend courtesy of Andy Cummings who is attending
on the layout
Thanks for opening the WPF, Rick.
Cold, indeed! We have about an inch of snow here in Chardon! Good train weather, though. Nice work on the details and decals, as always
Lights really make your scene come alive, Terry!
Steel mills are probably my favorite industry, Garry. Hot, dirty and heavy stuff.
A four-foot bridge, Jimmy! Pretty ambitious, take lots of photos
That's a great Rio Grande scene, Mike. I'm sure glad my dad took me out to Durango back in '66. I have a real appreciation for the narrow-gauge operations.
SD45s are real workhorses, Mike. Glad you're enjoying your sentimental engine.
Good looking work from you as well, George. I'm trying to recall if the ball signal was in place when I was in Palmer, Mass back in the late 1960s? I think it was. Nice detail!
Your caboose sure has a straight-forward safety slogan, Kevin. Keep Alive!
Good looking Turtle Creek car, Tankertoad!
Well... to the roundhouse! I feel like I'm building a ship-in-a-bottle right now. All the details have to be put in place with long tweezers. I'm almost done with them.
This photo shows the steam-heat pipes along the walls.
RH_detail1 by Edmund, on Flickr
In the foreground is a vice and a few tools and material. The railing represents where a wheel-drop pit is located.
RH_detail2 by Edmund, on Flickr
...another view of benches, carts and material.
RH_detail3 by Edmund, on Flickr
I decided that an additional door was needed at the back so I made this air-lock type of enclosure from Evergreen styrene. Of course it needs to be "smudged-up" a bit.
RH_door2 by Edmund, on Flickr
As a little side job I began a tower-splice kitbash for my Union Station area. Had a pair of these Walthers kits and just decided that a bigger tower was needed for the place I have in mind.
CP_union by Edmund, on Flickr
I'm going to put some Minuteman laser cut shingles on the roof.
Great Stuff, Everybody! Carry On...
Thank you, Ed
Great items again and the steel mill brings back memories of a class tour of CF&I steel in Pueblo, CO back in 1969.
Here is my Turtle Creek Cental boxcar:
Rick: Thank you for starting the Weekend Photo Fun thread for the week. As always, those are great looking freight cars.Your knowledge of things like the details of PRR lettering is amazing.
Terry: Great work with the LEDs in the marker lights.
Garry: The steel mill buildings are very impressive. You, Dean Freytag, and Rod Stewart make me quite jealous.
Jimmy: Your bridge is going to be impressive.
Mike: The water tower scene is very pleasing.
Other Mike: The EMD SD45 has alwyas been one of my favorite looking locomotives. It just exudes power in its appearance. Your custom one is special for sure.
George: Funaro & Camerlengo kits are among my favorites. Yours looks great. Good job on the construction.
I finished this brass caboose this week. I don't know the prototype or manufacturer. I bought it at a train show without a box. I believe it is a New Haven prototype, but I am not certain.
I think it sits a little high on the trucks, but the coupler height came out perfect and there is not an easy way to lower the car body.
Please keep the photos and commentary coming.
HAPPY WEEKEND!