Hats off please ffolkes in memory of those who lost their lives 14 years ago.
Well the progress made on the modelling front was not matched by the computer/camera interface, [sigh] so another train show archive photo, Santa Fe on the AMG.
Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Thanks, Bear, for kicking off another showcase of fine and wonderful work by our fellow modelers.
There’s two events in my life that will be indelibly etched in my memory — one occurred on November 22nd, 1963 and the other one fourteen years ago. It is indeed sad that it takes a tragedy to make us pause and reflect, and wouldn’t it be nice if we could learn from these tragedies and never have to witness another one…
On to the Good Stuff!
I spent a few hours to “populate” my Athearn F89-F Bi-level auto rack.
Here’s the “before”…
And here’s the after… It took some time, and a whole tube of Super Glue Gel to keep the wheels from turning and to cement 20 chrome mirrors on all those F-100s!
I glued the wheels to the deck with Aleen’s clear tacky glue. Never mind about simulating tie downs! It was tricky enough getting that first truck centered on the bottom deck without getting glue all over the car!
I primarily model the mid 1950s but I just had to have one of these! [8D] The detail on the Athearn model is superb.
A few years ago I did a tri-level auto rack from Accurail and loaded it up with Classic Metal Works 1962 Chevys. Fifteen of 'em! That thing weighed 1.3 pounds! Fortunately, these F-150s are plastic and the total car weight is pretty close to NMRA specs.
Now, on to more Good Stuff… Ed
Just Finished Installing a Econami 100 Steam in my 1960s era brass 2 truck shay
The smaller size decoder made it all posible
I removed the boiler weight to make room for a current keeper and a speaker
I cut a slot in the bottom of the boiler to alow the Sugar cube speaker to fire out the bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZHDA2Z-RA
Heres a video of it Running
Sorry for the extra sounds
their are lots of other steamers running in the background
I will never forget where I was 14 years ago today [:'(].
Anyway, Bear, cool shot from the archives.
Ed, your auto rack turned out very nicely.
Terry, your shay looks terrific, hope the performance matches.
This week, I took delivery of Bachmann’s new N Scale K4 pacific.
Good morning everyone from Northeast Ohio!
Bear, thanks for starting and a day of remembrence.
Ed, nice auto rack, I have four Accurails that I need to populate, I read where the bottom deck was to close to the upper deck, did you have any problems loading your trucks.
Terry, good work on that install, glad I am going to go strictly DC.
GP9 Man, have a few of those K4’s but they are all in brass and need to be painted.
Here are some cars I finished this week:
Working on filling out a fleet of NKP cars, this is a Branchline 1944 AAR Boxcar kit with a 7’ Door, the NKP was one a few railroads that ordered a 7’ door on these cars. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Black Paint then lettered with Microscale Decals.
Second Rock Island 60’ PS Box Car (Fisher Body Car) that I have done that is in Ternstad Service for General Motors. Car is painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Floquil Platinum Mist, then was lettered with Mask Island Decals.
Per Bear’s request I took some pictures of the apron and car float on the Stongsville Railroad Club Layout:
Hope these help with your modeling, if you need anything else let me know, but forewarn, the car float is in a nearly inacessable area on the layout and getting pictures is near impossible.
I think it was Ted that asked about the gravel road, it was made with ballast placed, th
Bear, Thanks.
A tough day to remember…I had lecture in one of the biggest halls on campus. Usually listened to my radio before class, but that day I just kept listening. I knew the prof a bit, he knew something was going on, just not clear yet, so when I kept the earphones in and kept listening instead of stashing the radio and headphones when lecture started, he knew things would be of interest to the whole class. So as the end of the hour neared, he called on me to give a full report! So I got to stand up and fill in the latest, grim news to about 700 folks. Good thing I’m not shy about a little impromptu public speaking[:$]
Nice work everyone. Those full autoracks can turn into expensive projects, but Ed’s looks well worth the investment. Cool stuff, Terry GP-9_Man, and Rick!
Not much modeling as I’m in the middle of a two-week run with 4 ops sessions here. There’s always room for more if you’re in the area and want to join the fun, drop me a PM.
Grabbed some pics when I was up finetuning things on the Cascade Branch. A brace of NW2Ms climbs out of the quarry at Crater Lake.
They then climbed up to Camp 13 for some clearance testing.
Returning to Crater Lake Junction, where spurs to Camp 13, the Crater Lake Quarry and the Outlaw Mine originate.
Finally, I caught these locos drifting downgrade at Summit.
Here’s my submission for this week; my USRA light 2-10-2 hauling some passenger cars around…
Looks like WPF is off to a fast start…
Bear: Those F units are truly “living on the edge”!
It’s been nothing but yard work for me this week,so here’s an old shot of my other yard:
Have a good weekend,
Mike
Hi, Rick
With a long pair of big tweezers I was able to work the trucks in there. I had a few inches to spare but not much. I remember many of the 2 deck auto racks being loaded with Econoline Vans and frequently I saw them with Post Office delivery trucks on them but you know it is very difficult to find just the right vehicle when you need it. Even these 1960 trucks may be a bit early for this car!
Thanks for asking, Ed
Good stuff from all on this day of remebrance. K4s 1361 on the down grade at Stoney Creek…
Great stuff, everybody.
My wife and I were in Halifax, NS Canada on 9/11 where we watched the horrors on the TV in our hotel room.
Several days later we began our trip home… We rode Via Rail’s Ocean to Montreal. Next we rode a Via train to Toronto. We spent two nights in Toronto… We rode Amtrak’s “International” to Flint, MI where we rented a car to drive to the Nashville TN airport where our car had been parked for a long time.
I took this photo from the Budd Dome Observation car of the Ocean.
I’ll get back to showing model trains next week.
Thanks Ed, those 1960 trucks don’t look any different from the 1965 Ford F-100 I drove when I worked for the Highway Department back in the 60’s so they look good on the bi-level. They seem to sit low enough I have read where the Econlines and such will not fit on the car.
Rick
Yesterday was our work session on the Boothbay Railway Village layout. I took a minute off to catch a photo of one of out Henchel locomotives passing by the giant pumpkin patch.
The museum is partnering with the Damariscotts Pumpkinfest next month and growing a couple of pumpkins. These probably will be medium sized, in the 500 pound range. They will be in the pumpkin carving event. The record pumpkin last year was around 1,459 pounds; they make boats out of the largest ones and race them in the river
http://damariscottapumpkinfest.com/
I weathered one of my boxcars. Here’s a before shot…
Threw a diorama together for outside shots, and afterward…
Thanks
Well, there’s my OCS car finished up until I decide to populate it and put a lighting kit in it.
9/11/01. A day I will never forget, much like when I heard NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr was dead after the Daytona 500 that year.
I was 9 years old, and sitting in elementary school. Our teacher had it on her portable TV set and we watched it happen. A lot of it. Well at one point I looked out a window in the classroom- I saw a jet plane. It was flying lower than most jet planes, even being along the flight path of PITT international airport. It was the only plane I saw all day, and didn’t think much of it until years later when I saw the flight plan of a certain flight. I saw united 93 pass over my town! I may have been one of the only kids that day so far away from shanksville who can say they saw it. I live 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, and its something g I will never forget.
May collection od Swiss narrow gauge electrics is slowly growing:
It´s about time I get started on the layout for those beauties!
More great photos since i was here earlier.
I took a picture this afternoon of a rural grain elevator I have built in recent weeks. . … It is my own design based on numerous photos of different grain elevators. I drew my own plans for it and built it from Evergreen styrene and miscellanous styrene pieces from my scrap box. … This model will be placed in a back corner of the layout, and therefore, it is not highly detailed. Decals were left over from a Walthers kit. … It needs weathering prior to placing on the layout.
Still doesn’t have stairs (haven’t decided what kind), the shingle ridge cap, or windows (waiting for proper conditions to take it outside and dullcote), but I’m rather pleased with how this little house turned out.
Its intended for a module I’m starting work on. Five years ago, I thought “I should join a module club.” Finally getting around to that.
Bear, Thanks for opening WPF on this solemn day, another “that will live in infamy.”
A big thanks to all the contributors for making this such a fun, interesting and inspiring thread.
Regards, Peter
Good looking load there Ed but I’m wondering how you unload them in a loads in, empties out situation? [:-^]
Terry, you appear to becoming a Maestro of fitting sound decoders to small engines.
GP-9 Man, I would presume that new K4 runs as well as it looks.
Thanks very much for those car float approach photos Rick, I’ve got to really put my thinking cap on to suss out how I’m going to set up a compressed yet plausible working yard on modules.
Mike, I first heard the news on the way to work and wondered if someone was trying to pull an Orson Wells War of the Worlds stunt, sadly no. I’m afraid your mention of Ops Ses