Here's a tender, converted for water service in work trains...
Show me a freight car with a load, please.
Wayne
doctorwayneShow me a freight car with a load, please.
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Wayne, that is a very neat car. Great picture.
Here is a nifty DIAMONDBACK AND WESTERN horizontal ribbed hopper car loaded with coal. This was built from a resin Funaro & Camerlengo kit.
By the way, the covered hopper is loaded also, but you cannot tell in the picture!
Show me another freight car built from a kit.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
2 Sandy River & Rangly Lake RR (SRRL) narrow gauge boxcars (HOn30) also built from Funaro & Camerlengo resin kits at Whitefield on Boothbay Railway Village layout.
Show me some more kit built rolling stock
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Here's a flatcar, built from a Tichy kit...
...and the same car with a load of pipe (still needs some wedges to hold the pipes in place)...
Show me another car built from a kit, please.
doctorwayneShow me another car built from a kit, please.
A Funaro kit-built resin car:
IMG_9796_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Another kit-built car please.
gmpullmanAnother kit-built car please.
This 6,000 gallon three-compartment tank car was built from an undecorated Tangent kit....
More rolling stock (or locomotives) built from kits, please.
doctorwayneMore rolling stock (or locomotives) built from kits, please.
This CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN boxcar was built from a CB&T shops kit. I added a completely different AB brake system to it from the scrap box, and a bunch of better details.
Please show me another kit you built of any type.
SeeYou190Please show me another kit you built of any type. .
Here's a LaserKit New York Central wood caboose:
IMG_7223_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_7251 by Edmund, on Flickr
caboose track2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Laser-cut wood kits are a pleasure to build
Show me another wood kit, rolling stock, structure or other, please.
Last year I added a small scene on my current layout to include buildings, structures, and rolling stock from my previous layout which was 1900 era. The depot is made from a FSM kit. There are some Campbell kits buildings as well as others. Wood rolling stock includes passenger cars made from LaBelle kits. I scratch built the coaling tower and other structures.
Please show more scratch built models or show models made from wood kits.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Very nice Garry. More of the same please, scratch or wood kit models. Regards, Peter
Built from a Bowser kit for a NYC K-11...
I added a can motor and NWSL gearbox, and scratchbult the vestibule cab over the original Bowser cab. The tender is from Tyco/Mantua.
I'll eventually tear it down and re-do it as TH&B's #15 or #16.
Show me something kitbashed, kit- or scratch-built please.
doctorwayneShow me something kitbashed, kit- or scratch-built please.
I built this LITTLE ROCK AND SOUTHERN boxcar from a bunch of stuff in the scrap bin. One of your shared projects was actually the inspiration for this one.
The underframe is from an Intermountain Rerigerated Boxcar, the ends are leftover from Tichy USRA boxcar kits, and the roof is from a Red Caboose boxcar. I added a scap-box roofwalk and some AB brake details. The sides are completely built up from styrene.
Show me something else you built that is unique.
Here are a couple of diesel fuel storage tanks........
How about some more unique kit bash / scratch structures?
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
SeeYou190....I built this LITTLE ROCK AND SOUTHERN boxcar from a bunch of stuff in the scrap bin. One of your shared projects was actually the inspiration for this one. . The underframe is from an Intermountain Rerigerated Boxcar, the ends are leftover from Tichy USRA boxcar kits, and the roof is from a Red Caboose boxcar. I added a scap-box roofwalk and some AB brake details. The sides are completely built up from styrene....
That's a good-looking car, Kevin, and you've really done a nice job on it.
mobilman44....How about some more unique kit bash / scratch structures?
GERN Industries is the largest customer on my railroad (click-on photos for enlargement)...
It's a kitbash of Walthers ADM grain elevator, with add-on silos, plus their Red Wing Milling structure, along with a sizeable scratchbuilt addition made from .060" sheet styrene (which I buy in 4'x8' sheets).
The warehouse for shipping bagged product in boxcars is also scratchbuilt, using the same material, plus Evergreen corrugated siding and Campbell aluminum roofing...
The tanks for liquid products are all scratchbuilt, with the horizontal ones built using the pastic rolls from office paper, while the vertical ones are heavy cardboard tubes with a wrapper of thin styrene. The rivets were added using a dress-maker's pounce wheel...
I elevated the silos using legs built-up from .060" sheet styrene, and deliberately made them too short to allow a locomotive to fit under - this sometimes necessitates use of an idler car/cars, enhancing operations - there are several such conditions on the layout, all deliberate and all for the same reasons....
GERN was built as a traffic generator, and has proven very useful in that role. There are also about 50 GERN modellers/modelers world-wide. GERN is based on a fantasy character derived by my brother when we were kids, playing table hockey, and he supplies GERN advertising and other novelties on a "as-it-strikes-him" basis. Here are a couple of examples...
Please show me some more kit-built/kitbashed/scratchbuilt stuff. It's great to see both the creativity and the skills which you all exhibit.
Assembled from whatever I could find ... ( this is why you should never throw anything away.)
More scratch/ bash or kit built plese.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Here is a model of my Grandmothers home as it was in the 1950s. It is located in Anna Illinois, with the Illinois Central "racetrack" (back then anyway) right across the side road. My fondest childhood memories were here, and this is where my love of trains really hit.
The model is a kitbash of two "Barb's Bungalows", with scratchwork done on the base and porches. The water pump and outhouse (2 holes!) were kits.
How about some more scratch/kitbash/kit items..........
mobileman: "How about some more scratch/kit bash/kit items....."
Shocker's Electric, still a work in progress, started life as Walther's Redwing Milling Company.
More scratch/bashed/or kits, please.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Yes, more scratched, bashed or kits. Regards, Peter
This Lackawanna concrete signal tower was built from a laser-cut kit:
DLnW_tower by Edmund, on Flickr
Show me another signal tower or signal device of any kind.
HO-Velo
Great-looking scene, Peter! I'm pretty-sure I've seen that place somewhere nearby.
gmpullmanShow me another signal tower or signal device of any kind.
Bob the signals man at work near the yard on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
Show me a signals bridge
G PaineShow me a signals bridge
A set of helpers coasts downgrade on the left while another train, also with EMD power, digs in up the grade on the right. Both position-light signals are absolute stop, for opposing traffic, with red lenses instead of the usual yellow. Far to the upper-right the B&O has a clear indication for an eastbound.
PRR_EF-15_2_tone by Edmund, on Flickr
Show me any other signal, please — classification or marker light, traffic signal, flag or semaphore, even a radio tower beacon.
Here is a simple 3 track signal bridge, made by kitbashing two Bachmann double track bridges. It is not wired, but maybe some day...........
Any more signals out there?
D&H 7312 sits near the south yard signal. I had an operational one on the north end, but the wiring would keep getting messed up.
Show me scene with static grass.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
I used static grass in this scene.
Please show any type of grass.
Thanks Doc Wayne. More grass. Regards, Peter
That's a great scene, Peter, but I wish you wouldn't post photos of my front yard.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
A base of a diorama i did a while back...
Let's see some " Old Timer" stuff..... anything pre WW II .
Little TimmyLet's see some " Old Timer" stuff..... anything pre WW II .
Built in September of 1912, this Dominion/Fowler boxcar was last re-weighed in September, 1936....
An Accurail model (one of ten similar cars) I re-did the original plank roof as a metal-sheathed type, a common upgrade to the cars' prototypes. Custom lettering is from Rail Graphics
Please show me some more pre-WWII stuff please.
doctorwaynePlease show me some more pre-WWII stuff please.
This USRA single sheathed boxcar pre-dates World War 2 by quite a few years.
Show me something built between 1945 and 1965.