Feb. 1st 1972 we catch a short SD40 led freight, but sitting in and around the engine facility is an E8A #9942 which is waiting for it’s repair to damaged piston, it’s gotta wait for some cars which are receiving some interior details and axle replacements as for the Scale test car it’s just sorta there. on the other side of these cars is a former SP&S RS1 which is being used to move cars around the facility, #50 and the business car #99 will be given to an SP&S historical society on a couple months. Newly painted BN executive business car “Kootenai River” awaits Robert Downing’s approval to go for a tour. 
Thanks Mike. I lost everything I owned. But since have rebuilt totally and in the process created a dedicated train room! I changed scales to On30 and my new layout is about 50-75% complete! Great video! Thanks
Thanks,guys! 49 + caboose is what I count,too. My sidings (and the main beween crossovers) will handle more, but I think this is plenty to create the illusion of a really long train.
Here are the pictures I was hoping to post. This came today:
It’s an On3 (you’re right,Mike,Sn3 really is the dark side…) MMI hybrid with a Tsunami decoder. For now I think I’ll mess around with a small switching layout beneath the HO layout,and at some point move it to another room,or takeover this space when my current layout has run it’s course…
BTW: I’m using LED rope lighting.Very easy install,and very low wattage.
Have a great weekend,
Mike
I’ve been putting off this project for a long time. It’s a solid alignment solution for my lift out section. Although the room is climate controlled, I live in a small valley on a stream that produces much humidity. I’ve waited for more than a year to see how humidity might cause expansion and then in dry months shrinkage. Now that I have that accounted for and understood I went ahead with the tricky joint. I needed to fashion custom brass components and then carefully align everything. The one joint on a curve is something to avoid if possible but in this case I had no choice. It seems to work well! All will be painted and ballasted so not much will show at all. I’m very, very glad to have finally accomplished this tricky project!!!
Mike,
How much does that that sucker weigh?[;)]
You’re going to enjoy that new puppy if your yard is big enough, so to speak.
So far, things are holding together welll enough I hope to not be tempted to move up to the really big stuff in general. I do have a 1:20.3 Bachmann Shay with the upgraded trucks, some rolling stock and enough LGB track to move things outside. Should be more than big enough even if the hands aren’t steady and the sight gets dim. I just need to work on RC and battery for the Shay, but waiting has made that more affordable last time I checked.
You gotta have a backup plan…[:-^]
LNEFAN,
Nice work there. Sometimes I think if the angle is just right, it actually helps align things.
A good start to WPF guys! Keep the photos and ideas coming.
I have been working this week on converting an AB set of Proto2000 E8s in ACL livery into Pennsylvania passenger locomotives:
Here are the shells after stripping and coating with a light aircraft grey primer:
Here are the same shells after two coats of Floquil Tuscan (red).
Still a long way to go, but at least I’m making progress.
Keep up the good work guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
I just finished another Rail Box.
Before:
After:
Gidday Mike, if I’m ever going to run a train that length I’d better just keep on building…[swg]
Great Stuff as per usual Everyone. [tup]
Cheers, the Bear.
I love it but now I have the song in my head “c’mon get happy”
Speaking of getting happy a hapless merrymaker has found himself at the mercy of teh local constabulary who are having a bit of fun as well…
Dang you Jeffrey, I had just about gotten Susan Dey out of my head, and you had to remind me! [swg]
Anyhow, here goes
I’m not a fast worker, and the results may not be up to the standards of other posters, but here are a couple of scenes that I weathered some trucks and equipment.
I love the other posted work.
Lee
Ah… The weekend finally! Some great work being shown as always folks.
I finally had a few minutes on a couple days to spend down in the train room and managed to get the Water Tower for the Power Station almost ready to put in place. In fact all I have left to install on it is the ladder to the trap door on the roof and that can be put in place after I install it on the building. So… Here is what I have been doing:
I built the “steel” structure to hold the tank and added “rivets/bolts” at the proper places.
Checked to make sure the water tower will fit properly where it is supposed to be and measure to cut the tube housing all the piping to fit:
Finally painted, assembled, and weathered the structure:
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Shifting Hoppers
Bob
Another great WPF!
Caught this freight from the US53 overpass:
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Got a bit of time to install the Water Tower on the roof of the Power House last night. It sits directly above the Boilers on the second floor of the building. A few more shots for you folks:
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Hi All,
Couple of pics of some layouts from the show in Timonium MD yesterday.
Trolley layout that belongs to the East Penn Traction Club.
Small station and a truckload of vegetables on an On30 layout.
An HO scale 1/2 roundhouse and turntable…later in the day there was a for sale sign…2,500 dollars he wanted for this.
Small N scale Japanese layout.
HO scale layout in a box.
Opps…theres a fire here.
Small diesel locomotive facility on this HO scale modular layout belonging to the Four County Society of Model Engineers.
I installed anticlimbers to my pair of BLI C30-7s. I notched the rear of the anticlimbers to go around the handrails. The only issue is the green I sprayed the anti-climber with didn’t stick too well. It’ll recieve touch up soon.
I still need to add beacons, antennae, plate over the class lights, and find a correct set of sideframes for one of the units. For some reason, BLI put different sideframes on the C30-7 depending on which cab it had. 4 windows had ones with outside brake cylinders, 2 with inside. The BN ones have inside ones.
I also experimented with automotive striping tape on some MDC thrall gons.
I figured doing this would be easier than masking off all but one end and painting it white (and of course adding decals. Everytime I’ve masked a factory-painted MDC car, the lettering has came off. The tape is about the right width to represent the stirpe used to mark the rotary end on similar cars. I haven’t found a photo of an Thrall Gondola with the stripe (much less a picture of the thrall gons dated from the 70s or 80s)
Do you guys think I should just paint the rotary end white (I could touch up the lettering and such), or keep on with the tape?
Good stuff everyone. [bow]
Here is my grain elevator that is used for a view block on my pier.
My contribution is a bit more basic. I have at long last secured a proper basement with a suitable covering on top. The unpacking has begun and the first steps are being taken to prepare for the great model railroad empire. The most important part is the work room and staging yard, right?
On the left side is a wall of built-in book shelves suitable for storing boxes of cars. To the rear is the the electronics / programming desk. In the center is an N & HO scale test track resting on a set of storage shelves. The right side wall is the future staging yard with more storage underneath. Not seen to the extreme right is my workbench made from an old computer desk. Let the good times roll!