I picked this up because I thought that it looked ever so very slightly like an Amtrak RTG Turboliner and it would suffice, for the moment at least.
You can certainly see the European influence in the Frontend of a RTG.
Also, the colour is, near enough.
The setting for my future Family themed Pub was inspired by watching ‘Virtual Railfan’ at the ‘Horseshoe Curve’.
I like seeing the Railfans and Families enjoying watching the Trains go by and season 2025 is about to kickoff.
Paul
I’ve been on my ‘long weekend’ since May of 2016 and enjoying every minute of it!
Thanks for starting off our WPF feature, Paul!
Well, I jumped in to another ‘major overhaul’ of a project I’ve been wanting to tackle for a while. I’m making good headway. It is the replacement of all the platforms of Union Station on my layout.
One might ask, why rip out perfectly good platforms to only replace them with nearly identical ones? The originals all had what I considered ‘crude’ lighting. It was OK for the time (pre-LEDs) but today there are better options for scale lighting. It always bugged me to see photos that showed the ‘huge’ bulbs.
So while playing around with options I decided to extend two of the platforms by about 50 scale feet and then I got an inspiration to round off the ends, ala New York Central style!
Hi Ed, That all looks pretty good.
Re the Canopy Column Reinforcements, I think the Hazard Diagonals would be appropriate.
More work for you to do, but you did ask
Paul.
Being a sometimes “contrarian” and downright lazy to boot, I’d suggest that the diagonal “safety” striping is far too modern for your layout, Ed.
My ½ cents worth, Cheers, the Bear.
Ed, If you run a forklift model, or even light Bobcat equipment on those passenger docks, to ease the loading of luggage for your passenger train guests, then yes, by all means, take the tedious time to put the stripes on those yellow pillar gaurds
If not, Go down to the local Drug Store, and get yourself a pack of Fruit Stripe Gum.
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio! Finally back to posting after a 3 week trip to Vancouver, WA and Denver, CO via Amtrak.
Here is what I managed to finish this week.
First another club car as we needed some Airslides for industries on the club layout. A Walthers pre-decorated kit, but I did Dullcoat it after assembly to remove the shine.
A Stewart 14 Panel coal hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with K4 Decals. The NYC purchased a slew of these cars in the late 50’s to replace old 50 Ton cars and augment their fleet of 70 ton cars in industrial service.
Finally, a Kadee 50’ PS1 kit, where I substituted a Downeast Model Works 9’ Youngstown Plug Door for the sliding door, painted with Floquil Socony Red and Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Accucals. These were the last new cars ever received by the New Haven before PC.
Ed, I’m Not sure if it is prototypical for your era (if it matters) but stripes on those pillers sure would look spiffy!
I always admire Rick J’s freight cars, look forward to seeing whats been rolled each week.
After finishing the SRM Spencer’s kit, taking advantage of forward intertia I dove right into another FSM kit, the Jamestown Water Stop. This one came together pretty quickly (a couple of weeks), and rightly lives up to it’s name as part of George Selio’s Jewel series. I had to rework the lead to the local engine house to fit, glad I did.
Oh, my! Lots and lots of (appreciated) advice! I decided to take the ‘middle road’ and apply stripes to only the end columns which would be the most susceptible to an encounter with a baggage truck. The intermediate ones will be a weathered yellow.
I have a stripe image that I can print on thin paper:
I began looking at how I’ll be fitting up the light fixtures (the main reason for the platform rebuild in the first place). I’ll have to notch the center purlin then make up styrene brackets (128 of them!) but the end result will be nice looking lamps!
doctorwayne didn’t so much as teach me but inspired and encouraged me to have a go at scratch building. To be fair a lot of others also helped.
From the archives, the stern of the Makwa and two scratch built idler flats.
TF
