Thanks for starting out the weekend with that tank car Kevin! It looks great! I love the look of older freight cars.
Ed- The cat walk looks fantastic, I like the rust. The exactrail cars look great too! Hopefully santa was able to find the Exact rail WC boxcar I asked for ;)
Rick- Love the cars as always. The cotton belt car looks amazing. Im a sucker for 50' boxcars. Like the WABASH units too.
David- I like the father son scene. Me and my dad used to ride our bikes up to the train station in my town at 6pm some nights. That time had a inbound commuter from Chicago, an outbound to chicago and a CN freight shortly after the last METRA left. Those were the good days.
Garry- I like the GP7. Thats a nice RPO car. Say, what does RPO stand for? I'm not big into passenger stuff
This weekend I got some more work done on the river scene and as it comes together, I get more motivation to finish.!
The rocks are woodland scenics Talus. With WS deadfall and creek rocks. Looking at the deadfall I realized it's literally just sticks. I could have went out and found some. Oh well it was only $3.
The SOO gp38-2 also saw some weathering. I am unhappy with it and am going to spend more time on it one day.
I found this P2K gp30 which I have been looking for since my second engine purchase last year. I finally found one with the paint damage on the handrails for $30 from a gentelman who was local. Very happy with it and added the hiawatha logo on the nose. I don't think they had them but it looks better with it IMO.
Not model related but driving home I saw these two CN Geeps ideling on the CN main with a short cut of cars ( 4 hoppers 3 boxcars ). Was in a hurry to take the picture as I have never seen Geeps on this CN line. It was at the crossing with WSOR so maybe they were dropping off cars? or simply waiting for a intermodal to pass.
Thank you for looking! I hope you all have a safe and fun holiday!
gmpullman dti406 not entralled with the latter coil cars, prefer the old style Evans and W&K ones. I agree, Rick, but I guess I'm building a collection of various covered coil gons and I always liked that truss design. I don't care much for the later, NS aluminum ones, though. Do you know of any source for the G41 coil flats? That sure would be a neat car to have. http://www.trainweb.org/phillynrhs/RPOTW061022.html Regards, Ed
dti406 not entralled with the latter coil cars, prefer the old style Evans and W&K ones.
I agree, Rick, but I guess I'm building a collection of various covered coil gons and I always liked that truss design. I don't care much for the later, NS aluminum ones, though.
Do you know of any source for the G41 coil flats? That sure would be a neat car to have.
http://www.trainweb.org/phillynrhs/RPOTW061022.html
Regards, Ed
The only model was a resin kit by Railyard Models years ago, I managed to snag one a couple of years ago on E-Bay but it did not come with the covers. I have yet to build it. Maybe Rapido will do them with its latest attention to PRR models. Also I have an article from Model Railroading or Rail Model Journal on kit bashing and scratchbuilding them from evergreen plastic and Athearn underframes.
David, nice pictures again from Britain, it is amazing how much modeling you guys get in a small space.
Garry, like you passenger car servicing pictures, many modelers do not know how much operation can be had with head end and other traffic using passenger trains.
Rick Jesionowski
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Kevin .... Thank you for starting Weekend Photo FUn. You did a great job of painting and lettering the brass tank car.
Rick .... The AA cement hopper and SSW boxcar look great. It is good of you to provide background information about the prototype cars. Your Wabash locomotives look sharp.
Ed ..... The highline details look great. I like the PC boxcar and the CR coil gon.
David ..... Father and son have a close view for train watching.
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December was a busy time for railroads hauling mail and express.
Here is the modernized heavyweight baggage/RPO car I built. The prototype, CB&Q 1941, was used on Burlington's Kansas City Zephyr.
Below is a picture of a GP7 switching mail and express cars at Union Station.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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dti406not entralled with the latter coil cars, prefer the old style Evans and W&K ones.
Father and son watching the trains.
They are watching a Class 26 26016 with a train bound for Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Barnbow.
David
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Thans Kevin for starting WPF.
A lovely tanker.
Ed. Stunning pictures.
Rick. Excellent boxcars.
Good morning from mostly cloudy, snowy and cold Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, good looking tank car!
Ed, nice layout addition, also like the PC car (I have one too), not entralled with the latter coil cars, prefer the old style Evans and W&K ones.
Managed to get a couple of cars done this week.
Kadee PS 2003CF Covered Hopper, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray and lettered with decals (DT&I Style) from the Ann Arbor Historical Society. Car was originally purchased for hauling cement out of the Dundee Cement Plant in Dundee, MI. After the Interstate Highway Program slowed down it was transferred to hauling sand from the pit in Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brookpark, OH.
IMRC FMC 5283CF Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Tuscan Red, Silver and Black paints then lettered with Herald King Decals. The SP & SSW purchased hundreds of these cars in various classes with and without cushioned underframes for hauling lumber out of the Pacific Northwest. The only other users were the Milwaukee Road whose cars were eventually transferred to the BAR after the Milwaukee pulled out of the Pacific Extension.
A picture I took awhile back but never published of my detailed and painted Kato GP35 and Stewart (Kato) U25B in Wabash livery followed by a general freight of mixed Wabash and other cars.
Thanks for looking!
Thanks for your effort to get the last WPF before Christmas and the Holidays on track, Kevin. Your Overland tank car looks excellent. Overland brass is well worth the investment. Your lettering looks spot-on and accurate. The T-P Line?
Last week someone asked about the "high-line" of the Walthers blast furnace and that got me looking at my dumping area behind the blast furnace. The supplied "cat-walk" was sorely lacking in detail:
Ore_Dump-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I decided to fix it up with some Tichy open-grate walkway. I only had four kits on-hand so had to order some more. This stuff is a "staple" and I always try to keep a good stock in the drawer.
Stock_Track-B4 by Edmund, on Flickr
and here it is after painting and a little sprucing up. I'll have to come up with a plan for lighting as this is a 24-7 operation. Perhaps a girder gantry overhead with some lights hanging down?
Stock_Track by Edmund, on Flickr
Two cars added to the rolling-stock roster this week from Exact-Rail. A Penn Central X77 Appliance box car. This is my first "excess-height" car. It was often found at the GE plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
P-C_X77 by Edmund, on Flickr
— and I have always wanted one of these ConRail coil gondolas:
CR_Coil_G52U by Edmund, on Flickr
I missed out on the first go-around and they have recently been reissued. Look at the lettering on the truck side-frame
On to more great contributions, folks!
Cheers, Ed
Welcome to the last Weekend Photo Fun before Christmas!
I hope everyone will have some holiday goodies to share next weekend. I have something really neat on the way for myself.
This week I managed to complete a tank car I started a long time ago.
This is a brass model of an 11,000 gallon insulated and pressurized tank car. It was imported by Overland Models. I tried to make it look typical of a private owner tank car of the mid-1950s, so basic black and sparse lettering.
I don't know where I came up with the name TEXAS PORT TRANSPORTATION, but I like the way it sounds.
It took me almost an hour of trying to get this thread started, but it was worth it.
Let me see some fun photos! Be safe.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
See second post.