Weekend Photo Fun! - March 13-15, 2020 Edition.

["JaBear"]

Harrison by Bear, on Flickr

[gmpullman]

Little Timmy

Microscale want's you to order 250 sheet's of decal's before they will even talk to you.

I've heard good things about Bill Brillinger's custom work:

https://www.pdc.ca/rr/custom_decals/

Tichy offers custom decals at about $35. for an 8½ x 11 sheet if you provide the artwork. Can be a Word file.

https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Portals/0/Instructions/2018_DECAL_CATALOG_VER_3_HIGH_QUALITY.pdf?ver=2018-09-07-110242-000

Scroll to page 58.

I do not have any experience with either of these. I have heard that the Tichy decals are slightly thicker than most.

I would go the custom-made route before trying to make my own. 

Hope that helps, Ed

[Little Timmy]

That's one pretty boxcar !

Now, onward...

Guess what I will be doing for the next 6 hour's ( besides cursing at little letter's ...)

That's right folk's ... One letter at a time.

I had a chance at getting custom made decal's many, many year's ago...... I should have done it. Now, I can't afford it. Microscale want's you to order 250 sheet's of decal's before they will even talk to you.

I "may" look into getting my own decal printer set-up, but that's down the road a bit.

[tbdanny]

I've finished off the build of my new no. 3, an outside-frame 2-4-0.  The original no. 3 became no. 7.

[York1]

Allan, your photo is a good example of what I want to do with a background.  Your models fade into the backdrop.  Good work!

[BRVRR]

Kevin- Thanks for starting off WPF. The scenery looks really good!

Ed - I like the EMD Demo unit. Catchy livery.

Rick - Good looking cars as usual. DT&I is obviously close to your heart.

Garry - I never tire of your Burlington scenes.

John - The layout is coming along. A good scene.

Harrison - Careful of the BEAR!

Santa Fe FP-45 #5941 is the first (2002-3?) 6-axle loco on the BRVRR. An Athearn BB loco it has been weathered, a decoder installed, LED lighting and lastly sound equipped. I liked it so much I made its running mate from an Athearn loco in Milwaukee Road livery. Number 5945, in trail, was the subject of a brief "How To" on my website.

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

[Harrison]

Although I have not made much progress on the layout, I was downstairs doing some trackwork tuning/wiring/cleaning and took some low level photos of some scenes my friend made.

There has been a bear sighting behind the paper mill:

Some junk in the trash. The door and the container is 3D printed, and the spool of wire is a bobbin that is (half) painted.

The policeman is still walking to his car, he hasn’t moved very far over the past year…

 

 

[York1]

Week after week, I am really impressed with the skills you guys have in modeling (or modelling for some of you).

Each week this thread encourages me to keep working at this hobby.

Several weeks ago, a boxcar showed up in my part of the country from the Stratton & Gillette Railroad.  It is parked on a siding by the chemical plant with some other empty cars, waiting for a factory to be finished.  It is by far the best-looking car on the railroad.

Kevin, Ed, Rick, Garry -- I can see how important a backdrop is to the entire scene.  That is another project in store for me.  Thanks for all your pictures.

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Kevin .... Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun..... Your new layout segment looks very good. I built my layout one small segmnt at a time, and I think that is the best approach to building layouts. 

Ed .... Your LL EMD E8 looks good as new. I actaully have three LL E8's and they just keep on going. 

Rick .... Your IPD boxcar looks great. and so does your DT&I covered hopper. I always like seeing your DT&I GP38's. 

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Below is my CB&Q # 100. It was the first of many Burlington F-units. In 1944, CB&Q purchased 15 FT ABBA locomotive sets. The model started as Stewart undecorated FT's which I painted and lettered. 

 

Below is a three units consist with an Athearn Genesis F3 AB. The third unit was an undecorated Athearn blue box unpowered F7B which I painted and lettered.

 

 

[dti406]

Good morning from cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out. a good start on the layout, I hope to be doing that in the next several months.

Ed, good find in the attic, since I am not into sound and DCC I am glad yours is doing well.  I have a couple of NYC's I need to work on.

Moving into more a more modern era,

 

Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Silver and Black, and Floquil SP Daylight Red paints, they lettered with Herald King Decals for the Hartford and Slocum Railroad.  One of the early IPD Boxcars, which were free runners and brought in small railroads substantial revenue until the Staggers Railroad Act killed the Incentive Per Diem rate structure.

 

 

Athearn ACF 4600CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. The DT&I had a hundred of these cars that replaced leased PS 4427CF Covered Hoppers and were used to service the grain elevators on the south end of the railroad. This is the fourth car I have completed and have 3 more to do.

 

 

My favorite pair of engines, Athearn GP38-2's with a train of coil steel flats heading to the stamping plant. Picture taken on the Strongsville Club layout.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Rick Jesionowski

 

 

[gmpullman]

Thanks for starting off WPF this Friday the 13th, and sharing your milestone, Kevin !

I sure like the combination of open rock-work, the trees and shrubs. 

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I had occasion to dust off what is my first Life-Like locomotive. Was it back in 1993? Well this old EMD E8 Demonstrator is still running smooth as silk and it has been given new life with a sound decoder:

EMD_Demo by Edmund, on Flickr

This was one of those deals where all the other road names of the first run were sold out so I settled on the demonstrator. Glad I did at the time 

On to more great stuff, folks!

Regards, Ed

[SeeYou190]

Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun

 

March 13, 2020 through March 15, 2020

 

All Are Welcome! 

 

Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress. 

 

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Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.

 

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This week I have something kind of exciting to share. A bit of a milestone actually. Over a year ago I started a project building a segment of my future layout to test the idea I had for building the benchwork.

Over the past few days, progress has made it to the point that I can take pictures on the layout segment.

So, I can present some of my train cars in scenery that I built myself, and not on the 30 inch square prop photo board.

Please share pictures of whatever you are working on, have completed, or are just proud of. I love this thread, and it is open for you to share in.

-Kevin