Kevin same Athearn flat car
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Thanks for starting my favortite thread of the week rick! I wish you a speedy recovery. Those are some good looking freight cars! Nice to see products painted using scalecoat II as I just ordered 2 cans yesterday to make a milwaukee road SW7. Love those geeps
Kevin that is a good looking flatcar. Reminds me of the one I found in the basement of my grandpas rental property. No other train stuff but 1 NW 6-axle flat car. I'm also guilty of spending more money cause I just really want something. Kind of like how I'm winning an auction on eBay for a Walthers AMerican crane but I found the same crane on buy it now for $40 and I'm tempted to pull the trigger. LOL lets see how this goes with 1d 12h left. So far winning at $16.50
Ed- Really nice cars! That penn central has a nice color to it
As for me this week, it has been slow and I think I have too many projects at once but I like it that way.
More progress made on the SOO sd39, I think I'm getting better at hiding brush strokes and I got the SW7 running nice. Now time for a nice bath before primer.
Also my stream scene is taking longer than expected and the shaper sheets are a fuss, but I think I am going to use Dave's trick from the Diner. Hope I have more updates this weekend.
Thanks for getting the first WPF of September set up, Rick. Glad to see you back and I'm sorry you had such a trying few weeks.
Great model work as always! That Rock Island geep is entirely too clean I've seen some photos of their later diesels and they were certainly ragged-looking. I was tempted by those Tangent Hi-Cubes but I restrained myself
The B-B heavy-duty flat has always been one of my favorite models, Kevin Just begging for a heavy-duty load to match.
Looks like it's new rolling stock for us so far this week. I took delivery of three Proto Cushioned coil-cars.
Bessemer_Coiled-steel by Edmund, on Flickr
The Bessemer has always been a favorite road of mine.
DTI_coil by Edmund, on Flickr
The DT&I car is neat because of the fiberglas covers. Nicely done by Walthers
P-C_coil-car-F50 by Edmund, on Flickr
And of course, Penn Central was the main railroad in my neighborhood so I had to have one of those, too
The rest of my week was spent still trying to diagnose that Broadway streamlined K4. I was emailing tech support just about every day and they would have me try different scenarios for programming. Well, the decoder is going back to Florida and they are shipping a new one. The engine runs fine after a reset on add=03 but if I program ANY other address it goes haywire. No motor control and the headlights make a slow steady blink. Good thing they have a decent service department.
I also got another new motor and decoder sent from BLI for my third P5a that smoked the decoder due to high current draw
Kevin, I haven't forgotten your bench lamp. Just have to find the right box. In my "working" days I could get boxes of any size, now — not so easy
Cheers, Ed
dti406Sorry for the long post, so thanks for looking!
Wow, that is impressive... And Welcome Back!
Your contributions here each week have been missed. I am glad your injuries were not worse.
That series of freight car models are all terrific. Those are going to make my submission this week seem very trivial.
All I have to share this week is a new purchase, and it is just an undecorated Athearn flat car. I wanted one of these to haul the heavy casting I bought a few weeks ago. One finally came up on ebay, and I ended up paying more than I wanted to, but it is mine now.
The large bearing block on the right is the load I plan to mount on this flat car.
Weekend Photo Fun is up and running for September 4th through 6th!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
This is the weekly thread where modelers can show their completed projects, work in progress or pictures of their layouts both old and new.
I have not posted for 4 weeks due to a problem with my photo hosting provider, so I am posting early this week with 4 weeks of modeling I have done.
In addition 3 weeks ago I fell in the parking lot while a downpour was going on and sprained my ankle and twisted my knee. I thought itas getting better until I went bowling and it really hurt so I went to the orthopedic surgeon, who gave me some braces to wear for support. He then called me while I was driving to work and let me know I broke my Tibia but no cast was necessary at this time.
McKeen Models Piggyback Flat modified from a 50' Boxcar that the Southern ile and Norfolk Southern made while waiting for new cars to haul 45' and 48' trailers. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Trailer is an Athearn Model, painted with Floquil BN Green and Silver paints then lettered with Microscale Decals.
Exactrail PS 4427 Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. The Rock Island purchased thousands of the cars for hauling grain to export ports replacing old 40' boxcars in the mid 60's era.
Bowser 1958CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Ann Arbor after the DT&I let it go bankrupt after Conrail and PC mess in 1976 had to replace the 100 DT&I covered hoppers and leased a bunch of cars from Chicago Freight Car to facilitate the 20 cars of sand sent to the Ford Brookpark plant from the Yuma MI sand pit on a daily basis.
McKeen ACF 50' Boxcar Kit, used a IMRC 8' Plug Door for the second door and added the extra rods on the door using Evergreen rod. Also cut out the cast floor and installed a Details West Hydra-Cushion underframe and Moloco Extended Coupler pockets with Plano Walk over platforms over the couplers. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red, Armour Yellow and Silver paints then lettered with Mask Island Decals. Car was used in Campbell's Soup Traffic out of Napoleon OH as indicated by the 1090 over the reporting marks.
Tangent 52'6" Bethlehem Steel Gondola Kit, Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with K4 decals. Car was acquired in the late 50's from the CNJ 1944 Lease of these cars after the lease expired. Car was in general service on the Wabash,IMRC 60' PS Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Silver Paints then lettered with Mask Island Decals. These cars were made for GM Auto Parts service and were known as the Fisher Body Cars. This car was assigned to the B&O in Dayton OH where GM and various factories furnishing parts to the assembly plants around the country.IMRC 40' Boxcar kit with 8' Door, painted with Scalecoat II L&N Blue and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The cars were built in the early 50's and were rebuilt in 1967 for use in the Louisville KY Appliance Park pool, the roofwalks were removed and ladders lowered except for the brake wheel corner. Evans DF loaders were installed to protect the appliances from damage during shipment.This is the Front Range version of the rebult 50' boxcars of the Southern Railroad with the see through decking versus the solid decking of the above car. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Trailer is a Front Range trailer painted with Floquil White and Silver paints and lettered with Microscale Decals.Kato GP35 (Phase 1a), modified to a Phase 2b by adding an elevated Dust Bin part from Cannon & Co and removing the fuel fill flashing and narrowing the flashing above the fuel tank. Installed Details West hood mounted bell and plow along with metal lift rings. Painted the finished model with Floquil RI Maroon and Scalecoat II Reefer yellow and Grimey black paints then lettered with Herald King and Microscale decals.I just received my new Tangent 86' Hi-Cubes so I made up a train of Auto Parts cars using the Tangents and Walter's 86' ers and my Exactrail 60' ers. Train was hauled with Athearn GP38-2 and GP40-2 Engines.
Sorry for the long post, so thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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