Sunday, uh Weekend Photo Fun

[SpaceMouse]

It's been a while since I had anything.

This is an engine house I built for my club. It's kind of in a dark corner about 8 foot from the edge of the table. I had to crawl on my belly on the passenger yard and under the upper deck to get to the detail work. To get the photos to show at all I had to bump the brightness to 100%. There are two figures that I made into maintenance guys out of news paper boys. Does everyone have about 12 more newspaper boys than they need or is it just me?

[lesterperry]

How about a Shey/Shay not sure, coming down a hefty grade.

MDC noisy not very smooth but gets the job done. A short line on my RR,
J&M short line named after 2 sons.

[AggroJones]

Mouse, love that engine house!


Although I'm a diehard steam enthusiast, me layout isn't 100% steam.


Here, my trusty P1k F3A&B pull a short block of reefers on the lowerline. One of the best $45 I ever spent.


SP Trainmaster #4803 and its train awaiting take off,
while a 'Back to the Future' modern freight thunders by on the high line.

[grandeman]

Wow, it's the weekend again, and we've already got some great pics up!

Here's a few of our latest:

Mountain meet! Railfanning has it's magic moments and this one was worth the long, rugged hike.


Close up of P2K GP7. The "rock work" behind the engine was done with an old toothbrush in wet plaster.


A shot of the Geep and an SD7 in a mountain cut.


GP30's struggle upgrade with a coal train. The dark area over the lead unit is a basement support that's painted to match the backdrop. The differing light made it show in the photo.


30's on standby during a lull in the action at Mine 4.

[SpaceMouse]

Aggro,

I'm going to dirty up that bright shiny Geep just as soon as I get sound in it.

Although the roof racks you see in the engine house is an E7 the other engine, which all you can see is tender, is an M1A Mountain. All my home engines are steamers (except Lil Guy and Sparky.)

We have a very eclectic club.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

This is an engine house I built for my club. It's kind of in a dark corner about 8 foot from the edge of the table.

Hey Space, nice job! You know what that engine in for work brought to mind for the engine house? An "arc welder" lighting circuit board. Not sure who makes it but that would really set your work off!

[SpaceMouse]

I actually have one. But I was saving it for my home layout. I might throw it in there for laughs and giggles, where it is going is a couple years from being built.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

I actually have one. But I was saving it for my home layout. I might throw it in there for laughs and giggles, where it is going is a couple years from being built.

I just thought that would look really cool, especially since you mentioned the building is in a darker section of the layout.

[medic_149]

Spacemouse, I cant believe we worked on the same kit this week. Although mine is not as good as yours and by no means finished. I cant fully detail it until I actually build my layout. But I thought building it would be better than nothing..lol

[TrainFreak409]

Good looking enginehouses! I was again turn to Trainz for my picture, as I do not have a physical layout. So, I did manage to catch an F7 A-B-A set pulling out of the SAB Rail Systems Sykesville engine terminal.



Just wait til I have a layout!

[SpaceMouse]

Medic,

That's not slouch by any means.

Grande,

I thought the lights would do it. Very cheap by the way. Just some wheat grains with a beer can cut for a refelctor. Still, the arc welder would be cool.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Engine Houses are the subject this weekend.

[Anonymous]

Chip, your engine house looks GREAT my friend! The lights and other inside details really make it stand out! [bow] [:D] It never ceases to amaze me how a little more time spent on "the little things" can turn what may have looked like a toy, into an outstanding looking model!! Keep up the good work!

Aggro & Grande Man, what else can I say other than your modeling is/should be an inspiration to all who read this forum!!

[ukguy]

Hey Aggro, great looking shots as usual of your stuff, heres a thought for you, I notice on your F3A that the windows look mighty dirty, would it be posible to clean off the areas where the wipers would wipe, that I think would look pretty cool or is there something in there we shouldnt see.

Another question for you, did you weather it with the glazing in place and thats the result? if so have you thought of cutting out 2 little semicircles out from a sticky label or low adhesive tape and putting them on the windshield to shield those areas, then after the weathering is done remove the stickers and you will have nice clean windows where the wipers would have cleaned.

Just thinking out loud, maybe I'm way off base, appologies if so.

Great shots everyone,

Have fun & be safe.
Karl.

[AggroJones]

One more just because....

[Darth Santa Fe]

My restored Bachmann F9:

The F9's Chassis:

This version of the F9 was only made in the early 70s. It had 8 wheel drive and electrical pickup, a 5 pole can motor, all metal frame, black plastic gears and nickle or steel axle gears and horn-hook couplers with the boxes mounted with screws. It had a few problems when I got it, so I restored by:
Fileing the ripples in the metal fuel tank casting off and painting over with gloss black
Oiling the gears, bearings and motor bearings
Repainting the frame flat black because the paint was chipping off and
Fileing the seams off the horns and repainting them silver.

Now, my highly detailed Genesis SD75M:

Photo with the flash so you can easily see it

Dark photo without the flash so you can see the lights

[jeffshultz]

Mouse... love the paint job on that Geep!

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffshultz

Mouse... love the paint job on that Geep!

[:D]

[twhite]

Great photos, guys, as usual--Aggro, that Trainmaster is drool-inducing!
Chip--neat enginehouse, really great job.
Grande Man--oboy, I wish I could get closeups like you do--
Anyway, here's some 'borrowed' power on the Yuba River sub:

Pennsy 2-10-0 a long way from Horseshoe Curve.


Colorado & Southern 2-10-2 with a caboose hop heading light toward Deer Creek.


Colorado & Southern Mikado #497 with short freight headed down Yuba Pass..

Tom

[ukguy]

Well guys unfortunately I dont have an engine house to show but heres some things till tomorrow.

Some castings I made a couple months ago, along with their originals. I made the mould with WS latex as I couldnt find a local alternative.









And finally some of the details and figures I just painted ready to go into a scene tomorrow. Then I can take some pics of the new stuff I've been working on for a day and half.



Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

[NZRMac]

Continuing the engine house theme, My little house just finished too.



Ken.

[NZRMac]

Went to a train show today, these are from the local Sn3.5 scale club modular layout, it's all my local area trains.





Ken.

[cheese3]

Ok, I have the basic grade built on the layout now. Here are some pics. Sorry about the mess. There are 2 large gaps in the foam, one by the river and the other is crossing another track. There will be two tressells spaning these gaps.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy

Well guys unfortunately I dont have an engine house to show but heres some things till tomorrow.

Some castings I made a couple months ago, along with their originals. I made the mould with WS latex as I couldnt find a local alternative.

Karl, those look fantastic!

[mustanggt]

Here are some random pics

A CSX GP40-2 I saw a few weeks ago
[http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aat?full=1/url]

A Lego Trackmobile I built
[url]http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aaw

My Lego Green Goat switcher in a fictitious Massachusetts Central paintschemehttp://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aax

My new Kato F40PH which I might outfit with a sound decoder
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aav

And finally, an N scale station I built, complete with yellow line on platform
[url][http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aau?full=1/url]

Hope you all like the pics[8D]

[TrainFreak409]

LOOKING GOOD ADAM!

[ARTHILL]

UK Guy, Great autos. It was a week of tall trees for me. I started with Aggro's ideas
Tore out more filter and got better.

Started the small forrest. 95 to go.

Then tried a White Pine



I hope practice improves all this.
Back to rocks next week.

[Anonymous]

Here's what I've been working on over the past few days - a Dapol Presflow kit. The real thing was a covered hopper designed for cement transport and built in the late '50s. The model actually dates from around the same time, as it was originally tooled by Airfix, Dapol obtaining the moulds a few years ago. It's a good kit though the tooling is showing its age now - there's a fair bit of moulding flash. Tricky part is keeping it square as there's no single floor moulding - it has the two "floor" sections either side of the hopper but that's all. The hopper body has a good quantity of lead fishing shot inside, fixed in place with PVA glue before the hatch covers were added - no derailment problems with this one!

[Train 284]

Hey everyone, great pictures! Here some pics of my Shasta Central Railroad. These were taken at about 8:30 this morning and it was already getting close to 100 degrees in my garage. It has been about 100-113 here this past week.



The Central Valley Express stopped by a lazy cow. Luckily, the train was 2 minutes ahead of schedule so the passengers were not late to there destinations.



The new locomotive display at the Juniata depot. It is UP #3179, an 0-4-0



Here is the Athrean Southern Pacific SW1500 #2638 I bought last weekend at Railroad Days 2005 in Dunsmuir, CA. The best $26 I ever spent! It runs great and has a lot of power. As you can see, many of the detail parts have not been added and it does need to be weathered.



#2638 shunting cars at the Stevenson Coal Mine.

[Darth Santa Fe]

My Bowser Challenger with the boiler on the mechanism

The Challenger's Tender

One of the Challenger's modified valve gears