There's already so much good stuff going on here!
Jimmy, I love the crawl-- looking good.
Ed, the tank dock looks fabulous. I'm adding piping to my oil distributor and find a lot of inspiration in your attention to detail.
Rick, solid cars. Props on the covered hopper-- I don't think I'd have the patience to drill all those holes!
Michael, the track is looking great-- I like the effect the dark green in your paint mix adds to it.
John, I bet that Starbucks is a tough place to get any work done-- either you're staring at the trains going by all day, or trying desperately to drown out the noise!
Garry, great shots. I especially like those NP passenger cars, always thought that was a striking paint scheme.
Last elevator photo, I promise. Center Grain Co. is officially in business.
Looking forward to more this weekend!
Phil
Jimmy .... I like your video of the slow moving train.
Ed ... The oil loading platform is outstanding. Also, I like the unique NYC locomotive.
Rick .... The TOFC flat car is remarkable. I also like the Rock Island covered hopper and the AA FA2's. Thanks for commening on my picture last week of the NCL. I also wonder why Walthers has not made a model of that train. Some of their cars are painted so they can be used. I often thought they could paint the GN observation car in NP colors, and it would be close enough.
Michael .... Good to see you layout progress photos and the SP loco. .
John York 1 ..... I like the UP train and the starbucks restaurant.
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Here are some Walthers cars I use in my version of the North Coast Limited.
Below is a photo I took a few days ago when I was operating on a branch line with an SD9 to serve industries. I already showed this picture in the Diner thread.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thanks for starting the end of July WPF, Jimmy. You have some nice houses on the layout.
Nice work on the tank loading dock, Ed. I have tried to do something similar, but mine is not nearly as detailed or as good-looking as yours. It's a lot of work, and your results show it.
Rick, I love the last photo of the F 's pulling the boxcars on the layout. Great job of layout building.
Michael, the layout is coming along. Nothing is more encouraging than finally getting some trains to run after all the work on tracks.
I have been slowly adding some detail to parts of the layout. I got some more N Scale cars, so business has picked up at the Starbucks next to the station. City of Los Angeles passengers have time to get off and get a coffee.
Next step is to start adding some people. This will be a real challenge -- trying to paint some N Scale people with my shaky hands.
York1 John
Still focusing on laying track. I'm trying to get the two mainlines in the yard finished, so I can finally run some trains.
Started painting the track. I used floquil, with a brush manually. I mixed brown, black, and dark green to get the color I wanted.
Here is a new MTH Dash 9 I just got.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio! Down to the 80's for the next week after a bunch of 90 degree days.
Jimmy, thanks for starting us out with that great video.
Ed, sure is a lot of detail work on oil platform and good looking oil electric engine.
Bear, are you ever going to finish that car ferry so you can send it to me for all my Wabash cars.
Got some stuff done this week.
Finished another Southern Railway converted 50' boxcar into a TOFC flat, but this time I finished it in the Norfollk Southern paint scheme. Built car from McKeen kit, substituting wire grabs and A-Line sill steps for the plastic ones provided. Painted the car with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red paint and lettered with Oddballs decals. Trailer is also an old Front Range/McKeen 45' Trailer, painted with Scalecoat II Silver paint and lettered with Microscale Decals.
Proto 2000 4427 Hi-Side PS Covered Hopper Kit, substituted a Plano etched metal roofwalk for the plastic one in the kit, you have to drill 64 #80 holes for all the roofwalk supports. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Car was one of 1,000 acquired by the Rock Island, and this is the 4th and final car of this type as I am now out of these decals.
Wabash motive power again this week on the Strongsville Club Layout; when the Ann Arbor was sold to the DT&I the DT&I took 10 of the 14 Ann Arbor FA-2's for trade-ins on new GP35's using the FA-2's for trade-in fodder and the GP35's were delivered with AAR Type B trucks from the FA-2's. The Wabash kept 4 of the FA-2's and just changed the ANN ARBOR on the car sides to WABASH. Later the FA-2's were painted in the solid blue paint scheme.
Thanks to all who posted last week, but want to thank Garry for the NP passenger train, why Walthers won't due the North Coast Limited is a real mysteryt to many modelers.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Thanks for starting WPF Jimmy.
The layout is coming along nicely, obviously you keep your track clean. The Rio Grande runs like a creepy crawler. I was counting the ties slowly as it progressed. I more appreciate a slow-moving train.
Hello Bear. I bet you're looking forward to Winter ending as ours will begin.
The tank car loading dock is looking Impressive Ed. Lots of detail, ...Nice!
Keep em coming
TF
Thanks for starting off the last of July and First of August WPF, Jimmy! Great progress on your layout!
Good to see you, too, Bear
I spent a little time adding a few lights and details to the tank car loading dock I began some months ago:
Tank-Dock by Edmund, on Flickr
I'll straighten those lamp shades out after it is finally in place
Tank-Dock1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I finally got the old NYC tri-power battery/diesel/electric running:
NYC_DES-3_529 by Edmund, on Flickr
A few more details and lettering need to be added but otherwise it is a nice addition to the roster
On to more great WPF contributions! Regards, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Hi all, Im back. For new posters,Wpf is where we show what we're working on. All I have is this video on my layout of walking speed restriction through Rook yard
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