Lots of outstadning work so far. I've been working on a project I've been thinking about for a long time. The results are mostly from hacking what I had on hand after I got inspired enough to proceed with it.
It's based on a hacked Bachmann GE 70-tonner that I'd converted to HOn3. I detrucked one end, built a frame from hard brass, then built up an old LaBelle FW&D narrowgauge coach to make the carbody.
Much more about it in the build thread:
Building Some THING Different: My New HOn3 Diesel Railcar
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Still chasing the little short local.
Looks like we are in cattle country on the edge of town now.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
trwroute Russ, It is really easy to do. I just cut a chunk off the front of one of the frame halves, I used my Dremel to cut a small channel to run the light wires to the back of the loco, and wired everything to the front light board (just like a Kato N scale loco). I didn't need to do any other cutting on the frame.
Russ, It is really easy to do. I just cut a chunk off the front of one of the frame halves, I used my Dremel to cut a small channel to run the light wires to the back of the loco, and wired everything to the front light board (just like a Kato N scale loco).
I didn't need to do any other cutting on the frame.
Thanks, Chuck. Sounds like the way to go.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Heartland Division CB&QKevin .... Your S&G boxcar and your loco look great !
Garry: Thank you for the compliment. The boxcar was a project I completed months ago using some parts that Rick sent to me. I reposted it because he showed something similar in his post this week.
Your GREAT NORTHERN train leaving Union Station makes a stunning photograph.
I am continuing the Train Chase as it goes through the countryside.
Jimmy .... Thanks for starting Phto Fun. Your layout progrss is very good.
Danny .... Nice On30 loco. I think it is an 0-8-0T.
Chuck ... I like the little building, and your deocder installation in a KAto NW2 looks great.
Rick ... I like the DT&I insulated boxcar, and the 65' LV Gon. Nice phto of the DT&I train.
Kevin .... Your S&G boxcar and your loco look great !
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Currently, I am running a 5-car Great Northern passenger train. It is to represent one of the regional trains GN operated from and to St. Paul, MN. Destinations for those trains were Duluth,MN; Winnepeg, Canada; and Fargo, ND.. My train has a mail car, baggage car, parlor-cafe car, and two coaches.
These pictures show the train departing my Union Station, rolling past Hinteland, and arriving in Prairie View.
The last photo shows one of my forced perspective roads which is wider in the foreground than in the background.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Happy Friday from very rainy and partially flooded Southwest Florida.
Jimmy: Thank you for starting the Weekend Photo Fun thread this week. I love to see the progress updates about your layout worl. The whole thing is coming along quite nicely.
Danny: Nioce job on the narrow aguge HOn30 locomotive.
Chuck: Great work on the Downtown Deco building kit. Your choices for paint on both the stone surtfaces and the wood look perfect. Also, great job on the decoder installation. I don't have to do that to my NW2 because I am a DC Dinsaur.
Rick: The DETROIT TOLEDO AND IRONTOWN boxcar is beautiful. I used the plug door castings yiou sent me on a STRATTON AND GILLETTE boxcar. Thank you very much, it looks very good. Now I wish I would have added that extra door latch rodding.
This week I am going to chase this train I saw leaving the Centerville yard this morning. I did a "Train Chasing on the STRATTON AND GILLETTE" feature a couple of years ago in Weekend Photo Fun, and I have enough pictures to do it agaiin... hang on!
Everyone be safe and enjoy the weekend.
Good morning from partly cloudy and hot Northeast Ohio!
Jimmy, thanks for starting us out, your layout is really coming along nicely.
Danny, great work on building that HOn30 locomotive, not something I would every try.
Chuck, nice looking structure, and great work on that decoder install, there is not any room for a decoder in those NW-2's without some cutting of the metal weight.
I managed to get some stuff done this week.
Red Caboose 1944 AAR Boxcar Kit, added a plug door from the scrap box along with styrene rod for the additional door rods and A-Line sill steps. Painted with Scalecoat II Armour Yellow, Boxcar Red and Silver paints and lettered with Champ Decals. These cars a XLI (Boxcar, Loader Equipped, Insulated) rebuilds of some old GATC and ACF regular boxcars for use in moving Campbell Soup products out of Napoleon, OH.
Eastern Car Works PRR G26 65' Gondola Kit. Painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red and lettered with Champ Decals. The Lehigh Valley (Controlled by the PPR) acquired 50 of the PRR G26 Mill Gons in the late 30's which is why I painted it with PRR Freight Car Color. The Lehigh Valley was one of the railroads that serviced the Bethlehem Steel plants in the Bethlehem and Allentown areas so would need mill gons to transport finished steel products from these areas.
Since I did the DT&I XLI boxcar thought I would show a train with a couple of more XLI boxcars, that is the 8th XLI boxcar I have done for the Campbell's Soup Service that the DT&I handled, they had several hundred XLI and RBL Boxcars in this service.
Gary, thanks for the Alaska Railroad Picture you posted last week, you took that about the time I left Alaska, my office was just up the hill from where you took that picture. My wife's parents rode the RDC's down to Seward for a boat trip on Resurection Bay when they visited us up in Anchorage.
Thanks for looking,
Rick Jesionowski
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Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
trwroute I finished up two Kato NW2 decoder installs...
I finished up two Kato NW2 decoder installs...
Hey, Chuck...I have a Kato NW2 that will need a decoder install. It looks like you did some cutting to make room for yours. What did you do for the install?
Nice work guys! I really like on30.
I finished up my version of the Downtown Deco Fallberg Station kit. I replaced the front wall with wood and added Grandt Line doors. The white paint is chalk paint that my wife used on a project of hers.
Jimmy, that looks fantastic. I especially like the fall colours on the trees.
I've mostly completed my next On30 locomotive project:
This was a test fitting, to see how it looked on the chassis. The chassis is from an IHC Mikado with the lead and trailing trucks swapped out, and the rest I built. Owing to my Shapeways package getting stuck in New York, I had to improvise with what I had on hand.
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