Once Again — Time For Weekend Photo Fun!
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project, what's on your workbench or layout progress, or just a favorite photo of your model railroad..
MAY already!
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, completed or in progress.
I was glad to get the paint booth fired up and shoot a few waiting projects:
First up an Overland PRR X29 box car in "freight car color"
PRR_X29 by Edmund, on Flickr
While I had that color handy I finally got my Pennsy FM container flat painted:
PRR_F30 by Edmund, on Flickr
The Scalecoat was still a bit tacky so I didn't want to push too hard on that second container!
Then on to black for the New York Central H-10b:
NYC_H-10 by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC_H-10gear by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more great photos and contributions!
Happy 49th birthday to AMTRAK —
Cheers, Ed
N scale project. Still working. PWV. Still need the decals
(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).
Good morning from cloudy and cool Northeast Ohio!
Ed, nice start is that the prewar FCC? I found that Scalecoat I stays tackier longer than Scalecoat II.
Jimmy, great looking engine, that is one of the engines that many modelers are wanting to be manufactured.
Got a couple of cars done this week.
40' IMRC 40' PS1 Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and Boxcar Red paint and lettered with Mask Island Decals. This is one of a group of cars the LS&BC actually owned and not involved in the PC car stealing, but the LS&BC actually did not steal the cars, it is a long involved story with many participants.
52'6" Proto 2000 Greenville gon kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Herald King Decals. The DT&I owned a hundred of these cars, transferred them to the AnnArbor and then took them back, mostly used in transporting coiled steel, accounting for the covers I have in the car.
This week I brought back another view of a New Haven passenger train powered by Rapido FL9's, some head end traffic, the Osgood Bradley Coaches and some fluted side chair cars.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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dti406Ed, nice start is that the prewar FCC? I found that Scalecoat I stays tackier longer than Scalecoat II.
Hi, Rick
Yes, I believe the FCC is the earlier, kind of a light brick shade. My LED lighting really plays odd tricks with colors.
I baked the X29 and it is pretty solid now but the F&C resin car will still be tacky for a while. I wait at least 10-12 days before decaling. I had some Microset blister the paint once. Maybe It was too soon?
The New Haven "Limited" looks sharp. I passed on the first Osgood Bradley cars, now I'd probably like a few. Maybe Rapido will re-run them. Looking forward to the combines, soon.
Ed: nice even coating
Rick, great scene as always
Yeah the shell is 3ft shortee than the real, but at N, I doubt 3 scale ft really matters
Ed: Thanks for the kickoff. I really like that steamer...great detail and nice painting.
Jimmy: That's an interesting diesel project. Well done.
Rick: The rolling stock is super. I like your scene. It shows me I have erred in being too uniform with my ground cover.
Last Sunday I completed the upgrade of my small yard by the refinery. You can see that, before ballast & scenery, it had just one loading rack.
20141013_164305_3_resized by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Now it has a triple loading rack, an adjacent truck rack, plus a new pair of twin tank kits added. One kit was PIKO and the other Model Power. The difference was the box it came in, plus German vs. English instructions. And one had white plastic tanks, the other gray. Found these on EBay. I'm pleased with the overall improvement.
IMG_7153 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
IMG_7147 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Yesterday I started to address scenery for the final layout area. I am adding a river section on the corner, ala the example in the 2012 Virginian layout project. I was going to use Woodland Scenics E-Z water, even ordered a new bag of the multiple pellets. But I have scrapped that idea (1) because I hate to go upstairs with a pot of hot, melted plastic that I could manage to spill on the carpet, and (2) reading reviews, I discovered that the E-Z water is solidly at the bottom of the list of preferred products. I am going with gloss medium. My reference is Dave Frary's scenery booklet.
IMG_7154 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Ed .... Your paint shop has some very interesting projects this week. I need a "like" button for your post.
Jimmy ...... Have fun with your N scale locomotive. I did not know you did any N scale.
Rick .... I like the LS&BC boxcar and the DT&I gondola. The FL9's are impressive.
(edit) ..... Paul ...... You posted some great layout shots ! The tracks by the refinery are looking good.
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I am continuing to work on "West End" which is at one end of my around-the-wall layout.
I completed a small passenger station to fit in a corner. I'm still working on scenery next to it, but you can see how it looks.
I took photos from different directions. At one angle, you can see the double door in the background which is the entrance to my layout room.
Looking the other way, you can see across an aisle. My Super Chief running on an upper level with FM locomotives. It is on the main line, and it will follow about 80' to 90' of track before it gets to West End Depot.
This view shows the depot next to the grade crossing I showed last week. I replaced the oversized crossbucks with correct size ones.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Ed: Thank you for the starting the first Weekend Photo Fun of May. Your post made me miss my paint booth. It is buried way back in the garage right now and I do not know when I will be getting it back out again. The Overland boxcar looks like a really nice model.
Jimmy: That is a neat looking diesel locomotive project. I built a few N scale locomotive conversions back in the day. It is a more forgiving scale than HO. It all looks good when looked at from normal distances. Three scale feet will not matter when it is on the layout.
Rick: The rolling stock is great looking as always. The simple lettering on the boxcar looks especially neat and proper. That gondola caer certainly looks black. I don't know what was going on with my color perception last week.
Paul: I always like before-and-after views. Very nice work. Your scene is really becoming an impressive site.
Garry: West End station looks like a great model of a typical railroad depot, and it fits in the corner nicely. That is one more impressive scene on your masterpiece.
All I have to share this week is a new purchase. No modeling work at all. I received this SOUTHERN RAILROAD PS-4 Pacific Steam Locomotive this week. This has been on my "Must Have" list since I switched my era to 1954 twenty years ago.
The STRATTON AND GILLETTE steam locomotive roster is nearly all USRA designs for a uniform family look. This design is very similar to the USRA Heavy Pacific, but with a fancy Elesco Feedwater Heater on the front of the boiler, so it can join in... and... I love it. I think it makes a great addition to the fleet.
Here it is posed on my October, 1950 copy of Trains Magazine with a prototype photo on the cover.
It is going to reside in this display case for the time being. My wife likes this model, so it has living room status granted!
Please keep the photography shares coming. May is here, we finally got rain yesterday, and all is good right now.
Be safe and hug your loved ones you are hunkered down with.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Mel: That automobile is indredible, and that LED is SO SMALL! Your patience is truly a wonder. The gray and black paint scheme is handsome.
Ed, Thanks for kicking off WPF. Great looking paint jobs. The steamer shell looks almost black chrome. I'm not sure if just a lighting affect but sure looks cool.
Jimmy, Great paint job as well on the PMV!
Rick, I love the finished results on the LaSalle & Bureau County boxcar it looks Factory! the DT & I too.
Paul, The finishing touches by your Refinery and on the rest of the layout sure turned out nice. Looking good man!
Garry, Love the passenger station scene. Great job.
Kevin, That's a beautiful brass Southern. Looks spendy, I bet you were excited when that arrived.
Mel, A really nice job on the Rolls!
Well the double tunnel portals are almost done except for one final deluded wash, some darker chalk treatments and a coat of dullcote.
It's kind of silly but the last treatment I did to them was I came home with dirty hands from constructin work and kind of schmoozed my fingers all over them and the results were good
These were just a fun experiment as I wanted to see what it's like to model in a bigger scale. Honestly I enjoy the finer detail of a larger scale better, unfortunately I don't have the room for it.
If any of the regular posters here need a couple double tunnel portals, just PM me and I'll send them off to you. I do need to find them a home.
TF
Track fiddlerKevin, That's a beautiful brass Southern. Looks spendy, I bet you were excited when that arrived
Actually, I finally got one for under $200.00! I have bid on dozens of these on eBay through the decades, and I never was the high bidder. Then, Brasstrain Dot Com had a "stuck at home sale", and this beauty was 40% off! I jumped on it.
Supposedly it is missing one piece of piping, but I don't know which one. Compared to prototype photos it is missing a lot of small piping!
Your tunnel portals look really good. I hope they find a good home on someone's layout.
My layout plan calls for only one double tunnel portal, and I have three of them! Once I decide which to use, I will have two to pass along.
Kevin, Mel, TF .... Thanks for commenting on my photos.
Kevin ....... Your brass locomotive is impressive.
Mel ..... The Rolls Royce looks great. It looks like it was a tedius project.
TF .... The portals looks outstanding.
Everybody ........ The weekend is just beginning. Post some photos of your good stuff, please.
Another great weekend of layout photos.
Ed, thanks for starting this weekend and for the photos. That locomotive looks great. My layout is modern, and I don't have any steam. I get a little jealous seeing the great steam models.
Jimmy, I model N Scale too. Your locomotive is looking good. I'm not sure I want to take on the challenge of that with my eyesight.
Rick, great work on the cars and the neat picture of the New Haven train. I'm a passenger train fan.
Paul, your loading racks and refinery look great. It'll be interesting to see your river section finished. Another Weekend Photo post!
Garry, great work on the passenger station and cars. Like I said, I could have an entire layout of just passenger trains and stations.
Kevin, I can't wait to see your professional paint job on that locomotive. Your wife must be pretty nice -- my train stuff stays in the train room.
TF, the portals look great. I made four myself, but they are plain concrete and N Scale. Nothing as detailed or as good-looking as yours.
Mel, you do great work -- on the paint job and on the lighting! I also use tiny LEDs for my lights, but I buy only ones that have wires already attached. I would make a real mess if I tried to solder the wires myself. The wires are thin enough to break by breathing on them:
What little time I've had this week, I just about finished my log cabin in the woods. I still have to stop some light leaks around the roof, and I want some more trees around the cabin. I make the trees, and I'm out of supplies, so the trees may take a while:
Thanks for all the great photos!
York1 John
Im the co-Chair of the nmra mid central region T-Trak, so I dabble in N scale a bit
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Some great work everyone. I really like the in progress projects you guys have.
I got a new Athearn SD40, and some box cars too. The Lehigh Valley will be for the still mill layout.
Still trying to get new equipment best I can.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Ed, Thanks for launching the WPF with your skillful work at the paint booth. Know what you mean about the camera seeing colors differently than our eyes. Many colors look odd in photos taken under my 4000k florescent lighting especially reds and oranges. Btw, what type of material/freight would be in those FM containers?
Forrest Gump said "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna' get," and the same is sometimes kinda true of applying new weathering techniques to a model.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and regards, Peter
Lots of great stuff as usual guys, I am enjoying seeing what you all have been up to.
I got a couple of new Rapido FP7s this week and they are pretty nice.They were going fast so I decided if I wanted one (or two) I had better get off the pot.
I have been working on my Kanamodels water tower, not finished yet but I am getting there. I plan on changing out the tarpaper roof for shakes.
I built the coal bunkerinside and left the door open. You can see the clean new wood in the new elevator, just wait until I add coal.
Those LEDs can be a pain to solder. I made this holder by screwing a paint edger to a piece of hardwood floor, works great.
Looking forward to what is still to come.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
John York 1 ...... Thanks for the comment on my depot photo.
Michael .... Nice looking SD40, LV boxcar, and GN passenger train in the background.
Brent .... I like your CP locomotives. Your water tower project looks great.
Peter .... The bulkhead flatcar looks very good. I noticed your track is nicely ballasted.
Bear ! ! ! ...... LOL .... I'm still working on scenery next to the depot; so stay tuned. Maybe, an oil spill on the gravel would be a nice touch .
Heartland Division CB&QMaybe, an oil spill on the gravel would be a nice touch
HO-VeloBtw, what type of material/freight would be in those FM containers?
These were an extention and experiment of the LCL business that the railroads were trying to keep their share of the package business from the trucking companies. Any kind of manufactured goods or appliances could be found in these.
Railway Express and the LCL Corporation had their own styles of containers, too.
PRR_container by Edmund, on Flickr
It really gets more complicated than that but the containers were also a way of utilising cubic footage better. Usually a shipper would have to wait until an LCL box car was nearly full before it was moved out. The PRR had around 870 of this style FM flat car in container service and more than 3,000 containers.
The containers could be packed and trans-loaded more efficiently "in theory" rather than handling small shipments in a box car. Years later it led to Flexi-Van and Truc-Train service but even these turned out to be more bother than the railroads wanted to trouble themselves with.
PRR even had hopper-type containers for "high-value" small quantity bulk materials and they even tried a few refrigerated versions.
Excellent contributions Everyone!
John: I like the cabin scene. I hope I have a spot for something similar.
Ed: I appreciate all the information on those containers. I agree that your fog scenes are very nice indeed.
Bear: Thank you for the BearToon. That makes this a good weekend.
Michael: I had a very similar (maybe the same) LEHIGH VALLEY boxcar made by Proto-2000. It was one of my first well detailed kits I assembled.
Peter: The weathering on the bulkhead flat looks very good. What was the new technique?
Brent: Good progress on the water tower kit so far.
Tis a typical NW, low cloudy day as a pair of reefers are loaded at Western Fruit Packing in Clackamas:
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
Nothing new to post so here's a older project
Still haven't found any dry transfer decals I like yet but keeping my eyes open.
John, I like the cabin. It would be great to have one on the top of the world like that.
Michael, Great start on the layout. Love the backdrops and I have the GN Northern 4-8-4 in N scale like that
Peter, That bulk head flat car is so realistic, you sure did a great job on the weathering and wear & tear.
Brent, The water tower project is looking excellent. I'll be looking forward to seeing the new shake roof.
Tankerload, Great cloudy day reefer scene.
I done neglected to state that you gents are providing some superb inspiration!
SeeYou190new technique?
Garry, Kevin and TF, much appreciate the kind words.
Ed, Thanks for the container enlightenment, appears that the Pods' idea has been around awhile.
Kevin, Well, new to me, giving plastic a wooden appearance and paint a chipped look.
Btw, I like the perspective of Tankertoad's misty scene.
Thanks and Regards, Peter
John, like your cabin in the woods....Scratch build?
Did you finish interior too? Nice work.
Brent, shakes will look good on that roof...Agree.