pt714More tree experiments from me this week... ... I'm open to suggestions, though.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks Kevin for starting off WPF for this week. Thats a handsome box car.
TF - Great looking box cars. Nice photo too.
David - I always enjoy your photos. You crowd alot into your layout space and it always seems natural.
pt714 - The scenery experiment is going well. I particularly like the bridge scene.
Rick - Great cars as usual. I like the scene from the Strongsville Club layout.
Simon - Cool little loco. I know how fussy they can be when converting them to DCC.
Mel - Your work is always inspiring. Good luck with the diner. I'm going to have to get to work on some of my passenger cars.
Garry - I like the observation car. I've experimented with drumheads on a few of my observation cars, but never achieved the clarity you have.
I have finally finished the new lighting buss project on the layout. After nearly 18-years my Digitrax Zephyr finally gave up the ghost. Something went wrong with the key-pad/programmer. Digitrax no longer supported it and parts were not available, so:
Enter my new Digitrax Zephy Express.
On the operational side, a couple of photos:
My version of a Santa Fe named passenger train powered with an A/B/A set of BLI F3s passes the Black River Station and its new exterior lighting.
Since I was playing around with my new Zephyr a put a couple of "modern" trains powered by UP SD70ACe locomotives on the layout. Here they are approaching each other near Grafton tower.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Kevin .... Thanks for starting Photo Fun . ... The S&E boxcar looks sharp.
TF ..... Speaking of nice looking boxcars, the S&G cars look great. I like your trees and rocks.
David North Brit .... The iron company wagons look great. I know what you mean about duplicate numbers on freight cars, and I have changed many of the nembers. Nice scenery, too.
Phil .... Your tress look real.
Rick .... I certainly like your tank car and B&M boxcar. The NS units look great, too.
Simon .... Your 0-6-0 looks like a hard worker. Very nice switcher.
Mel .... Your diner interior project looks challenging. I look forward to seeing the completed car.
Here is my Great Northern heavyweight observation car. It has a lighted drumhead sign and lighted rear marker lights.
A Great Northern 4-8-2 is pulling the heavyweight passenger train.
GARRY
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Good Morning and thanks for getting WPF going Kevin.Kevin another very nicely decaled car.TF, two more very nicely decaled cars.David I like your scenery, a lot of it too.Phil, very nice looking stream and trees, very realistic.I’m still working on my diner, very slow going. The passengers are just dragging their heals.
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I had to redo the lighting board, I had the LEDs placed in the middle of the windows and all I got were shadows on the walking passengers.More pictures Guys.
EDIT:Rick and Simon slipped in on me.
Really nice decal work Rick, I really like the flying A.Simon, very nice 0-6-0, my first HO locomotive was a MDC 0-6-0 back in 1951. It still runs great in fact so good I bought a second one of eBay about 5 years ago, new in the box kit from 1952. The first one cost $6.85 the second one cost $48. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
This WPF Edition is on a good start! This week, I made progress on the DCC installs of my vintage locos. I finally did my MDC 0-6-0. It's been waiting on the shelf for over 5 years... I regret that now because it runs perfectly. Adding power pickups on all the tender wheels makes a huge difference. I did not even bother connecting a power line from the frame on the loco to get power from the drivers. They are all brass, so it would not have made a big difference anyway!
Simon
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Good morning from cloudy, cold and snowy Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out with another of your made up creations, always look good.
TF, good looking picture of some of Keviin's cars, great composition
David, good looking pictures and nice cars, I have a bunch of G39 Ore Jimmies, many with duplicate numbers, it was hard to find all the different sets that Stewart made, but I will renumber them as time permits to get rid of the duplicates. Athearn made many runs of cars with the same car number on them for decades.
Phil, your scenery experiments came out very well, keep up the good work.
I managed to get some work done this week, was a bit rough as the car I wanted to decal, I did not get the decals until last night.
IMRC 10,000 Gal Tank Car kit, substituted Yarmouth Sill Steps for the plastic ones in the kit, and made a metal hand brake staff instead of the kit plastic one. Painted the car with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Tidewater Oil Co. (founded in 1897 in New York)) purchased the Associated Oil Co (found in California in the 1890's) in 1926 and merged their operations. Associated Oil produced the Flying A gasoline for use along the west coast and Hawaii. Tidewater eventually got bought up by Esso and finally in 1966 Phillips took over and rebranded all the Flying A stations to Phillips 66.
IMRC 50' PS1 Boxcar kit, substituting A-Line Sill steps for the kit supplied plastic ones. Also cut down the ladders on the A end of the car as this car represents a rebuilt car from the 70's after the order removing the roofwalks on all boxcars. It was repainted in the new simplified scheme for the B&M and was used for general use mostly hauling paper products.
Scaletrains C39-8's with a pig train on the Strongsville Club Layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Kevin, thanks for starting WPF-- I agree that it's more like the 13th month of 2020, this January. Here's hoping things improve! Another great-looking boxcar.
TF, that's a nice framing. I like the tall trees and the exposed rock face.
David, I wonder if there was just one good prototype photo all the companies used for their designs? In any case, the weathering helps esp. that second photo! I've found a little judicious hobby knife scraping can turn an 8 into a 3 and a 9/6 into a 5, or just get rid of a numeral or two.
More tree experiments from me this week, I have a couple of shades of yellow leaf and flocking, and enough armatures to play with that I'm not committed to these specific trees on the layout yet. Best technique I've found so far for these armatures is dipping the tips in diluted white glue, layering flocking, sealing with hairspray, then adding more flocking, repeat until it looks right... I'm open to suggestions, though. (Right-hand cluster is still bare in the first photo):
Looking forward to more!
Phil
Thanks for starting WPF, Kevin. A lovely boxcar.
TF I see why they are your favorite. Lovely.
The Consett Iron Company wagons have arrived. They are a little out of the area of Leeds, but I have been told of many memories by Dawn when she lived in Consett.
When the Iron Company was open the town was covered in a 'red dust'. Even the dogs had red fur.
A touch of weathering hiding (a little) the fact that the wagons had the same running number. Why model companies couldn't put different numbers on things. Even different model companies put the same number on?
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
I'll start out this Friday Morning with some really appreciated Box Cars
Ain't no better and still on the top of my stack.
My favorite box cars
Carry on
TF
Track fiddlerThank you Kevin for starting Weekend Photo Fun Always been my favorite tread. You're always the Best Host here and I thank you
Thank you for the kind words so early in the morning.
I am glad Imgur started working again so I could open it up.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thank you Kevin for starting Weekend Photo Fun
Always been my favorite tread.
You're always the Best Host here and I thank you
January of 2021 is coming to an end, and to be honest, so far 2021 feels an awful lot like it is still 2020.
I have bought nothing on eBay this week, so I did a quick-finish on a project I had almost complete.
This week I am presenting the newest member of my Fleet Of Nonsense. A 40 foot steel boxcar decorated for the ficticious SUSQUEHANNA AND EASTERN.
These decals actually came from a business relationship. I think the only time I have received a set of custom decals from someone I met through work.
One of the higher-ups for Southeastern Freightways saw me reading through Brasstrains Dot Com over lunch, and we started talking about trains. The next time I saw him he gave me the set of decals for this boxcar. The logo is somewhat similar to SE Freightways logo.
Weekend Photo Fun is underway. I am hoping for a lot of good shares this week.
Everyone stay safe, and lets have some fun.