Here We Go!
Welcome to the first edition of the March, 2022, Weekend Photo Fun.
Please use this thread to post any photos of your recent projects or a favorite scene on your layout. Everyone is welcome and all contributions appreciated.
I hope that Kevin gets things straightened out with his forum log-in problems. He has been sorely missed this past week!
I haven't had a chance to capture any photos of the progress made this week so here's a placeholder that will have to suffice:
PRR_7125-Queen Mary-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Ed. Thanks for starting us of with WPF. As you say, hopefully Kevin will get his logging in chalenges sorted out.
A lovely scene of the carriage.
My contribution this week -
Some of the literature etc. I have received on joining The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society.
IMG_2100 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A scene on the last running session.
It is 1914. A Southbound Troop Train passing Leeds Sovereign Street Station. The train has soldiers of The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment.
IMG_2104 by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
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Good morning from mostly sunny and cold Northeast Ohio!
Ed, thanks for starting us out, no matter what "Bear" says I like the Queen Mary and another scene from your layout!
David, thanks for the backdated scene on your layout, I am always amazed at the small size of your freight and passenger cars after seeing all the giants of US railroading.
On to today's contribution:
Another 40' Trailer from a group of 200 leased from a company I never heard of that gave the DT&I 610 trailers for use in Intermodal Service. Modified Athearn Bluebox trailer, painted with Scalecoat II White and Silver paint and lettered with Highball Graphics decals.
Athearn PC&F 50' RBL, painted with Scalecoat II NP Dark Green and Floquil Lark Dark Gray paints, then lettered with Champ Decals. The SP started the Evergreen Freight Car subsidiary to assure that the cars would be returned to their starting point as the eastern railroads would confisicate a lot of RBL's from other railroads and not return them quickly to the originating railroad.
Some things I am working on, a Model Power Sharknose, where I removed the cast on grabs and have installed some of the replacements, also added lift rings and drilled the holes for the inductive radio system of the PRR.
Kato GP35 that will be for the Ann Arbor, added the lift rings and the cutout for the nose mounted bell, need to add the signal lights on the low nose and grab irons.
Another Tichy Panel Side Covered Hopper kit, got most of the brake gear added, still need to add the piping from the air resivoir to the ABD valve and then install the end, then the grabs and rest of the detail parts.
Last saturday, went to the Strongsville Club with my Bowser M-630's and 14 of the Canadian Grain hoppers I have built.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Here's a friend planning his next switching move in completely unscenicked Thermopolis Wyoming during my inaugural (and limited) operating session yesterday.
It was a great success, despite a Mikado and tank car having nose-dived to the floor (neither were seriously damaged).
Mark P.
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Perhaps you've heard of The Portland Rose. Here are a couple views of what I call The Second Hand Rose. Every piece in it is either an ebay, flea market, or estate sale find.
The A-unit is an MRC F-7 with an Athearn BB shell and equipped with a Digitrax decoder. The B unit is an Athearn BB dummy unit. The two are connected with a draw bar at the excellent suggestion of another poster which allows for realistic close coupling. The baggage/express car is an MDC Harriman car. The rest of the consist are all Rivarossi, an RPO, two coaches, and a diner. All were equipped with KD 148 couplers, metal wheels, diaphragms, weights, and passengers where appropriate.
Normally the mainline trains would be on tracks 1 & 2 but I moved The Rose to track 3 for the photo op. Track 3 is normally reserved for the short line trains which connect to the mainline at Bedford Falls.
Ed, Thanks for rolling out the WPF with a royal car.
WPF, always serving up interesting modeling in a thoughful way.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter
'Gone fishing'
Great contributions this weekend, folks — and TWO BearToons!
I think Pullman was running short of North American names for cars so he had to explore off-shore inspiration. One of the other cars in my collection is the Ferdinand Magellan part of a series of global explorers.
You have a great scene there, David. I wonder the reason for the overhead clearance gauge (if that it its intended use?) I have seen them featured on other UK layouts and one was included in a Kibri kit I bought years ago.
I don't envy you drilling those holes in the Sharknose body, Rick. That's one job I don't care for in the hobby. You seem to be back up to speed in your shop now as in so many projects!
A Mike to the floor, Mark! Ouch. Never a good thing but, alas, it has happened to me as well
Good to see you here, John! Is this your first time in the Weekend Photo Fun thread? Nice to see more PRR models. You are right on with your secondhand Rose. The PRR sure knew how to stretch a budget!
I hope a train doesn't come along and scare the fish away, Perer!
Here's a look at this week's advancements. This area has been a bit of a challenge for me with this roadway ramp that leads down from wrapping around the GE building and then it continues over to the Postal Annex building.
Piggly-Wiggly_yard-ramp by Edmund, on Flickr
I finally made up some support columns and put down some EVA foam "pavement" for access into the Piggly-Wiggly food distribution terminal:
Piggly-Wiggly_yard-oh by Edmund, on Flickr
Piggly-Wiggly_yard by Edmund, on Flickr
Tonight I pushed myself to make up a section of chain link fence to separate the railroad right-of-way from the pavement:
Piggly-Wiggly_yard-PRR by Edmund, on Flickr
The Big Boss wants to know when this truck is going to be repaired and on the road! There's that Queen again! All Hail the Queen!
Thanks for all your contributions, fellows!
gmpullman You have a great scene there, David. I wonder the reason for the overhead clearance gauge (if that it its intended use?) I have seen them featured on other UK layouts and one was included in a Kibri kit I bought years ago.
Thank you for your comment, Ed.
It is a loading gauge. A load on an open wagon hasn't to exceed the gauge. A load highrer or wider will not pass under bridges or through tunnels. Simple yet effective.
Now that I've posted in the correct thread, here goes...
Greetings WPFers,
I picked up an undecorated DC Walthers Mainline NW2 switcher last week from Hiawatha Hobbies:
While waiting for the sound decoder & speaker to arrive in the mail, I added the exterior front & rear headlights/lenses and the interior rear headlight housing in the cab. It's made from 5/32" OD styrene tubing bored out to 0.116" ID (#32 drill bit) and the LED press fits into the tubing, which makes installation and removal of the LED easy:
After the decoder & speaker arrived, I removed the 18-pin jumper from the lightboard and installed a Lok 5 micro Next 18 decoder in its place. (This is my first experience using a Next18 decoder.) I then added a Scale Sound Systems speaker designed specifically for the Walthers NW2, which includes a 3D-printed speaker enclosure and a bracket to secure & align the front LED. The speaker is secured to the chassis with 4 screws, which align with 4 threaded holes that are already in the chassis:
Here's the LED press fit into the rear headlight housing, with the LED wires twisted together to keep them manageable. The other end can be easily unplugged from the lightboard:
The grabirons, railings, stacks, bell, horn, gas tank, and truck sides added and the shell & cab snapped onto the chassis. The few remaining railings & grabirons (which attach to the chassis) will be installed once the chassis & shell are painted & detailed:
With the ESU EMD 12-567C sound file properly installed and programmed in the Lok 5 micro, the Scale Sound Systems speaker sounds terrific and the Walthers drivetrain is very smooth. I haven't placed it on the layout to see how slow this NW2 will go but genuinely expected it to crawl @ <1sMPH. It's sisters, the Walthers SW1 & SW7s are sweet li'l runners, too. Yea, I'm a switcher junkie.
Tom
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gmpullman Good to see you here, John! Is this your first time in the Weekend Photo Fun thread? Nice to see more PRR models. You are right on with your secondhand Rose. The PRR sure knew how to stretch a budget!
No, I posted a couple downtown scenes last week, one a Mobil gas station fitted into and irregular shaped lot similar to what you've done.
I used to post regularly until Photobucket required a premium account to allow photo sharing. I found imgur last year but just recently got around to figuring out how to upload photos and create links. I also had to get new batteries for my camera.
tstage Greetings WPFers, I picked up an undecorated DC Walthers Mainline NW2 switcher last week from Hiawatha Hobbies. (...) Here's the LED press fit into the rear headlight housing, with the LED wires twisted together to keep them manageable. The other end can be easily unplugged from the lightboard: Tom
I picked up an undecorated DC Walthers Mainline NW2 switcher last week from Hiawatha Hobbies. (...) Here's the LED press fit into the rear headlight housing, with the LED wires twisted together to keep them manageable. The other end can be easily unplugged from the lightboard:
Simon
Thank you, Simon. The resistors are on the lightboard, which I kept so that I could utilize the Next18 socket. Otherwise, I would add a separate 1K or > resistor for the front & rear headlights.
All LEDs need some type of resistor to work properly with a decoder. The one's advertised as 16V come with a resistor that is already pre-soldered to the LED. I use Miniatronic 3mm "yeloglo" and 0603 "warm-white" LEDs so I prefer to solder in my own resistors. And I shorten the leads to the resistors considerably so that they take up minimal room.
Miniatronics also makes a 2mm yeloglo LED. I should try those out sometime and see if I like the smaller-sized beam...
snjroy I have a question: do you have a resistor for your LED light? Is there such thing as a small LED that works on 16V? Simon
I have a question: do you have a resistor for your LED light? Is there such thing as a small LED that works on 16V?
I realize this is Weekend Photo Fun, but I'll try and keep the information together. Here's another site for LED's. I use the 0805 SMD for ditch lights. An LED, pre-wired with resistor for less than $1 each, hard to beat that!
https://hdamodelworx.com/SMD-Lighting_c_31.html
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A few more fantasy beer cars for the collection.
Thanks to everyone for sharing their really Good Stuff. It’s good for the Bears morale.
Good afternoon
Looking really good as usual gentleman. I'm always interested to see what everyone's doing and would like to compliment ya all on your beautiful work here
TF
I'll 2nd that, TF. I haven't had time to look sideways at my layout, much less take pix. But nice to see all the contributions and varied subjects this weekend. Dan
Thank you to everyone who took the time to make a contribution or reply to this edition of WPF!
It sure isn't the same without Kevin! I sure hope whatever the issue is that he'll be back soon...
Last call from the archives:
Coalmine_17Jan_2000 by Edmund, on Flickr
The very early days (1995!)
HO_early by Edmund, on Flickr
Regards, Ed
Great stuff everyone! Thanks to all who contributed.
Nothing new from the BRVRR this week. Too many things on my plate to get anything done on the railroad.
Keep up the good work guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Beautiful install, Tom. One question. Are you using the LED's as the headlight lens, or are you using Crystal Clear or some other substance to create the lens?
Thanks for the kind words, Tin Can. The Walthers NW2 came with cylindrical acrylic lenses, which I glued inside the external headlight housings. The interior housing that I added only fits the 3mm LED and that shines through the styrene tubing which is aligned with the lens. The brightness of the yeloglo LED is actually much softer than the photo portrays it.