Weekend Photo Fun, 18-19-20 August 06

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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OK, it’s a bit early, but I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow, so this is my last chance. We have tickets to ride an old 4-4-0 steamer in Hawaii. Even better, it was my wife’s idea. I’ll bring back pics.

For now, though, it’s a shot of my newly-painted reefer. Car decal art is by Fritz Milhaupt. The car is a generic Athearn Blue-Box reefer. The restaurant in the foreground is DPM’s Other Corner Cafe.

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Hi There;

A pair of Hustlers backing onto the coal unloading trestle.

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Tom - are you actually unloading coal? I’ve got a bunch of old Mantua clamshell hoppers, and I’m building a dumping trestle, too. I’ve actually tried it, and it works.

I’ve painted my old Hustler body the same color as that Haggis-infested reefer. It will be much more heavily weathered, though. Fortunately, it was black to start with, so the single coat of spray paint didn’t cover well and I ended up with the result I wanted.

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Hi everybody. I went railfanning in Worcester, MA today, and should have pics for you soon, and eventually the videos. I went with a friend, and met a few other railfans as well. If any of you are on this forum, I extend my hello.

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Since my layout is new; this is my first response to this thread. One week ago; the layout was track on painted plywood. Scenery is progressing and is an on-going process. This is one section as it looks today:

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In case you all have wondered, some people will do anything for a beer. Enjoy, Mike

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Okay. I haven’t posted anything in WPF for a LONG time, so i’m going to put in a lion’s share,

First a few selects of the pictures I uploaded to my site from yesterday’s Worcester, MA railfanning.

There’s more on the Worcester section of my railfanning site:

http://yfcorp.googlepages.com

Again, see more at http://yfcorp.googlepages.com

Here’s a shot I snapped of one of the towers of Worcester Station, and I think it had a pretty cool effect:

Here is a pretty old picture of my layout progress, but also the most recent. Since taking this picture, the sides of the modules have been painted, and foam as well as backdrops have been added for the inset shelf portion.

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Great pics everyone, some good progress being made all around.
TommyR was there a forrest fire next to your coal mine??? that sucker could have burned forever…

I decided recently to try once again to complete some of the half done projects I have lying around everywhere, progress has been good, the structures are all either complete or just awaiting glazing… except for one or two exceptions. Once these are complete I will ‘allow’ [:)] myself to start building some of the 15-20 other structures I have in the closet, I figure I have enough to do for the next 6mo to 1yr without buying another kit… although there is a Sierra West kit…

I am also still trying out various tree methods to find one I like… by the time I find the method or two I will probaby have enough trees anyway, I’m upto around 300 now… 150 Nandine based, 75 Furnace filter based… 10 Caspia based around 40 WS … 10 ‘bottlebrush’ failures and an assortment of around 30 other trials…

I’ve also been working on some of the terrain for the river/trestle corner section. Need to go get some more glue sticks.

Have fun & be safe
Karl.

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Currently at the DFSRR:

Front view of completed hopper

Side view of hopper

And some random shot takein near Monticello,IL

Enjoy!

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MR. B are you going to Maui?? If you are is it the Suger Cane train? I rode it in 04 Its narrow gauge. Great pics guys. Tim

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I just recently got to a point in building my layout where pictures are actually worth taking. Here is one looking out of my engine servicing facility tracks towards town:

Here is one showing my service tracks and diesel fuel unloading rack:

Here is one showing the diesel fueling platform and sanding tower:

More to come…

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I went to Oelwein RR days yesterday

Since this is the MR forum, I’ll only post these prototype pics

I got 2 yellow-box Atlas GP7s with the Kato drives yesterday at the show. Very good runners [tup]

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Well I realised today that it has been 12 months since I ran a train, so I hunted out some track, grabbed a loco and set it off. Nothing spectacular… remember the days of track on the floor and lying on your belly watching it come towards you…

Ahhhh the good ole days…

Have fun & be safe
Karl.

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One of my new Athearn 30K Ethanol tankers…I have 2…

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Well this weekend, after more than three years, I finally got to start on phase 2 of my layout, which will complete the whole layout. This weekend benchwork began. As with phase 1, it is on wheels and the entire layout can be moved. It is also strong enough for me (weight withheld to protect the guilty) to climb on it.

[img[http://www.thebinks.com/trains/images/DSCN18002684.jpg[/img]

I still have some holes to drill and some additional veritcal bracing but it is starting to take shape.

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Recent kitbash in, the works ,,,.

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Hay Mike, (great name by the way) I like your lumber shed in the second pic. It is hard to see, could you get a bigger pic and post? Thanks Mike

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Hey Mike, do I recognize an influence, or at least an inspiration, by way of Artz Lumber (a creation of “The Master”, Art Curren) from the MR&T town of Mukwonago? I like the nice touch of structure re-arrangement and addition of the 2 1/2-story building to one end. Very nice work.

CNJ831

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Great progress Jeff !!! wish I was at that point… and very nice kitbash Mike, but ditto to the other Mike on the larger pics please.

Karl.

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try these.