Prayers of rememerbance for those who lost their lives on 9/11/2001
Kevin ... Thanks for starting weekend photo fun.
Paul .... Your before and after photos are interesting.
Rick ... I like the flat car, boxcar, and the NS intermodal train.
TF ... it is good to see progress on your layout.
Chuck ... Your MDC boxcars look very good.
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Below is a series of pictures showing a coal train I operated this week.
First is some switching of loaded cars at the mine.
Second, two SD's lead a train away from the mine and onto a bridge.
Third, the coal train stopped in Blackhawk where a Zephyr is at the station and NP F-units arrived with an ore train.
Fourth, the train continues eastward.
Last, the coal train arrives in the City of Heartland.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Kevin, the gon looks like it has some good possibilities!
Paul, I think your layout, and the room, looks fantastic.
Rick, your churning out cars constantly is amazing. I like the way you do a bit of research for each one. Very nice!
This week I got a few things finished. The first is an old MDC Devil's Gulch & Helengon boxcar, the second is also an old MDC Gorre & Daphetid Ventilated boxcar. Both have Kadee trucks, couplers, and S scale turnbuckles (The HO turnbuckles are too small for me!), and light weathering. On the GD car, I made new door tracks using styrene because the original were much too short, and some quick and easy crates inside using wood and some produce labels printed from the computer.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
Thanks for starting WPF Kevin. I can hardly wait to see the gondola when it's finished.
Love before and after, the layout looks great Paul.
The cars look really good and so does your layout Rick.
Not much to show from me last week but the accomplishment of expanding the end of the layout where my afterthought was too crunched together by the bridge was huge.
I am finally ready to lay my new track and the track I moved over will have room to go in the tunnel as planned now.
Keep the pictures coming, looking great guys!
TF
Good morning from cloudy and warm Northeast Ohio!
Keving, thanks for starting us out, looks like a nice project you have going there.
Paul, the scene looks great compared to the before picture, keep up the good work.
Got some stuff done this last week:
Tichy GSC 52'6" Flatcar kit, Painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The prototype was a PS-4 flatcar, but the only PS-4 car available is a 60' car. It is amazing how many common cars of the 50's and 60's are still not available in model form. The NYC had 200 of these cars in general service.
IMRC 50' PS-1 Boxcar kit, substituting A-Line Sill Steps for the plastic kit ones. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red paint and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Southern Railway had several hundred of these cars built in 1955 and used in general service.
A couple of weeks ago I took my Scaletrains GE C39-8 to the club and ran them with a some trailers on Spine Cars and some of the converted boxcars that I recently finished. Since the C39-8's ran long hood first on the NS these were commonly called the flying nuns due to the large radiator overhang.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Thanks for kicking off WPF, Kevin. It sounds like your gondola will provide lots of cheap entertainment...hours of fun at a moderate cost.
I've NOT been working on the railroad, all the live-long week.
So, I'll post some before and after photos of one section of the eventually completed layout.
IMG_4890 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
20200424_090128 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Once again, I am happy to be starting the weekly edition of Weekend Photo Fun. I do love this thread and the way it brings the discussion forums back to a fun place for all. I believe it is the best thread every week.
I have added a new undecorated model to my projects collection. I was completely unfamiliar with this model until one popped up on eBay last week. I bought it for next to nothing, which was probably a high price. This model looks like it would have been right at home in the $1.00 bin at a train show.
This is an el-cheapo AHM trains set quality composite gondola, but for my modeling, it is perfect. I will rebuild it into a detailed model with all the usual added detail.
This freight car is made the way I wish all plastic models were manufactured. There are no details. No ladders, no grab irons, not even any sill steps.
The molded on detail that is there looks pretty good. The rivets and bracing all look well rendered to me.
This is great because that means none of that cast-on detail needs to be removed like when upgrading a Blue Box model or similar. On the brake wheel end of the car there is the only molded on grab iron on the entire model. I wonder why one was put here.
When I build this model, I will sand the ends smooth and make my own end bracing and details with lots of rivet decals.
The trucks and underframe are ridiuclous for a composite gondola. It has roller bearing trucks and a cushioned underframe. In fact, there is more detail on the underframe than on the rest of the model, right where no one can see it.
OK, I started this edition of Weekend Photo Fun with a cheap undecorated train set model. I am sure everyone can do much better than that.
I can't wait to see all the posts this week.
Last week was one of the best Weekend Photo Funs yet.
-Kevin
Living the dream.