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Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!!!!
Managed to get a lot of work done this week with not having the Ohio State Bowling Tournament over the Easter Weekend.
Here are the cars I finished.
First, an Atlas 52'6" Evans Gon, Painted with Scalecoat II NP Dark Green and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. Gon was used in General Service.
Next an Exactrail PS 4427CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Car was used to transport feed to the Monfort cattle feed lot that stretched for miles along US34 in Greely, Colorado.
I also did some more work on the Tangent GACX 4550CF Covered Hopper kit. Added the brake lines and grabs to both ends as needed and installed the running board and the hand grabs on the hatch covers.
This week I received my Rapido Wabash E8 that will be used to haul the Bluebird passenger train.
And finally, went to the club last Saturday to run a Penn Central general freight on the Strongsville Club Layout.
Have a great weekend!
Rick Jesionowski
Rick - Thanks for starting this weeks WPF
Great looking cars. Well done.
Myself. Not done much (again). Had the grandchildren visiting.
An old picture of youngest grandson operating trains at Clarence Dock.
IMG_2464 by David Harrison, on Flickr
He was here again this week and he just ran things his way.
Containers at Leeds Sovereign Street Station?
IMG_2642 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Class 58 58001. An unpopular model by others, but I love it. It has only one speed, slow. No matter if it is running light or has wagons behind, slow it goes.
IMG_2664 by David Harrison, on Flickr
David
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Rick, thanks for opening another week of photos. That Monfort car reminds me of their packing plant in Grand Island, NE. At one time, they were a huge employer in the area.
This is the N scale streetcar I got on Ebay. I ran it on a small section of track, but I haven't done any work on it yet. I'll replace the windows, but I'm not sure what I will do in their place. This is DC, and my layout is DCC. I'm going to run a new track through the layout town and it will not be connected to the rest of the layout. Fun!
York1 John
David, I posted just while you were, also, so I didn't see your pictures. That's so great that you can get your grandchildren to run trains.
York1 That's so great that you can get your grandchildren to run trains.
That's so great that you can get your grandchildren to run trains.
Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF with good looking finished models and a skillful build.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and happy Record Store Day. Regards, Peter
I went to a train show.
I got this real nice lumber yard for cheap
This tin boxcar was cheap too
I got this higly detailed GP38-2 and a Fort Worth and Denver boxcar for $30
I got the IC reefer which is very nice.
I got a roundhouse 30 foot flatcar, this will be a fun project.
This resin cab was cheap and it would look nice on a emd locomtive. The interior is from a kato engine and it was free!
I got some signs for the future roads on my layout.Have a good weekend!
Hello!
Thanks for getting the WPF off the ground, Rick! Excellent work on your rolling stock and the background on the cars. I remember a couple of RR friends talking about the 'Monfort Lane' on the freeway. I guess they were known to run their semi-trucks in a speedy fashion? That E8 looks great! Amazing what a railroad the Wabash was.
One of the several projects I tackled this week was an upgrade to a C&NW FP7 from Genesis that I use to power my one and only bi-level commuter train. I added a Scale Sound speaker and a Rapido Bits Cullen Hayes rotary beacon.
CnNW_FP7-Scale-Sound by Edmund, on Flickr
Above is the new speaker and below is the hole for the beacon. I moved it forward a bit even though some of the FP7s had them behind the horns (which doesn't make sense to me?)
CnNW_FP7-Cullen-Hayes-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
You can see the original location Athearn chose. I movwed the antenna and placed the new beacon in its place.
CnNW_FP7-Cullen-Hayes by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's a quick runby showing just how neat the four-lamp beacon looks. I remember seeing these on the C&NW engines and on some of the Burlington ones, too.
Glad to finally get a new video posted even if it is a 'quickie'. I've been lax at making videos and I hope to cure that.
Still lots of weekend left... Let's see some good stuff!
Cheers, Ed