I hear echos around here, should I dare start WPF? Sure enough, here goes. The Giro D' Italia is underway.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and a Happy Mothers Day. Regards, Peter
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Good to see a couple of regulars here! Thanks for getting right on the WPF this weekend, Peter! Good to see something from the archive, Bear. (Aren't we all from the archive by now?)
I made a little more progress with my depot scene. I fired up the old homemade static grass shooter and put a base coat of greenery down plus planted this possible cabin/shed in place. It will be the quarters for the cook in the nearby Diner:
Depot Site 5-11 overall by Edmund, on Flickr
Depot Site asof 5-11 by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's the night Pullman that has just been set-off by the local switcher. The sleeping passengers will be permitted to occupy the car until 9 am.
Pullman Night Occupancy by Edmund, on Flickr
The marker lights haven't even been taken down yet.
Pullman Early Occupancy by Edmund, on Flickr
All is quiet again.
Cheers, Ed
Peter, thanks for starting us out with a great picture and everyone else that has contributed this weekend.
Well, I managed to finish a couple of cars including the 40' Southern Brick Boxcar. First is the Resin Kit for a 40' Southern Brick Boxcar, the Southern Railway saw the need for a boxcar that they could load two layers of brick on rather than only one on a flatcar, it would also keep the bricks out of the weather. These cars had cushioned underframes and DF loaders so the bricks would not be damaged. They built several hundered cars for both the Southern Railway and the Central of Georgia. Cars also had strengthened underframes and better springing to haul heavy loads of brick along with 16' plug doors for easier forklift loading. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red with some Roof Brown added to get the brownish finish that the Southern cars had, then decaled with Mask Island Decals. I also finished an Atlas 23,500 gal standard tank car painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Nelson Brothers was a producer of emulsified blasting products that were used in coal mining and quarries. So the painting of these cars red would warn the railroaders of the nature of the product carried by these tank cars. Their factories were located in Kentucky and Alabama and served most states east of the Mississippi. Here are my new Athearn RTR SD38's with the Malinta turn which delivered XLI and RBL boxcars to the Campbell's Soup Plant in Napoleon, OH via the Tecumseh Branch which was the old main line before the Malinta cutoff was built in the 1920's while Henry Ford controlled the railroad. This is on the Strongsville Club layout. Rick Jesionowski
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It's always inspiring to see the great work posted here every week.
For most of the early spring I've been building the FSM Roadside Delights and incorporating it into the town of Maplewood on my layout.
The kit consists of a gas station:
Diner:
And news stand, which due to space found it's way to the opposite side of the station:
The kit also included a couple billboards - I regretfully scrimped on some of the bracing, resulting in some serious warpage. Fortunately I was able to add some inconspicuous bracing to mostly rectify the issue. I used different graphics from what came in the kit:
A great number of unique detail castings came with this kit - 98% of them made it onto the layout. Probably be next fall/winter before I tackle another one of these, most likely the Brownsville depot kit which will go on the other side of the layout.
Beautiful photos everyone. Here's a shot taken at our local club:
IMG_20240409_195607 on Flickr
Simon
Made it back onto the forum, at least for now. Glad to see the contributions.
Hey Bear, I recall having that same station bench on a previous 80s layout.
Rick, Interesting stuff about the Southern brick hauling. Now, that's a red tank car.
PennsyLou, Mighty fine work there, really liking the Esso station, 'Happy Motoring'.
Nice club shot Simon, bet that passenger train is really movin'
pike-62, good to see the brew is back
Thanks to all and have a good week. Regards, Peter
Thanks Peter, and thanks for hosting this edition of the WPF.