Well I was uploading some pictures, and thought I would start it. I kept thinking yesterday was Friday [:-^].
I started on my next weathering job. Its a Intermountain “Potash” 4-bay Cyld. Hopper. It still has a ways to go.
Before:
After:
Nice robby.
I haven’t done much lately. I have worked on my roundhouse overland passanger set. I got the bases done, trucks painted, and bent the handrails a couple weeks ago. I also finished cutting the window glass to size and have painted the roofs. I also added a room to the combine car to serve as a kitchen for my excursion train. I got some metal seats in from ebay the other day, cleaned the up and painted them. All I need to do is settle on an exterior color and interior color. Unfortunatley since my wife is now off for the summer(teacher) all work has come to a grinding halt. Not to mention I have been busy flying this month. Out of the last 24 days I will have been away from home for 19 of them.
Great start to the weekend so far lets see more!!!
Hello did not get much done this week but here are a couple night shots first is NKP 941 at the ash pit and then one of the TT and RH
have a good weekend Frank
Great Night Photos Frank !!!
I’ve been working on a proto type steam for my branch line
that the old KGJ&E used to operate on
I bought a Bachman 2-6-2 on ebay and also bought a 0-4-0 for the sloped tender
when I found out the KGJ&E ran both I decided to just swap tenders
to make the look like the proto types
Proto Type
http://www.wvepostcards.com/postcards/?picture=/pimages/p7771.jpg
0-4-0 looked like this
But I painted it to look like this
and also installed tender pick ups in
both
Proto Type
http://www.wvepostcards.com/postcards/?picture=/pimages/p7777.jpg
Still lots of detailing to do and I am installing a decoder in the 2-6-2
you can see the progress here
Excellent night photos, Frank! What were the camera settings? (ISO, aperture, exposure time, manual v.s. autofocus, etc)
I built my staging yard and lift bridge this week. I just need to buy track for it, lay it, connect everything up, and then I can start holding operating sessions again! It’s really solid, with brass door hinges and quality hardwood for the bridge and staging tracks. I added a fence to keep trains from taking the dive, made out of old brass flextrack. I read about that tip somewhere on the TRAINS.Com forums.
The tracks don’t extend as far as I’d wanted, since I didn’t buy enough shelf wood, but it’s easily long enough for two 10 car trains end-to-end.
The bridge is aligned with dowel “teeth” on the bottom of the bridge that fit into holes in the benchwork. I rounded the edges of the teeth with a sanding block so that they would correct for warping and expansion, and force the bridge into alignment. When the bridge is down, they keep it right where I want it, so I have no worries at all about rail alignment.
Questions and comments welcome, as usual!
Well, there goes the neighborhood!
Lee
Robby, nice start on weathering.
Frank, great night shots.
Terry, nice job on that loco.
Tyler, nice progress on your layout.
Lee, great shots.
A NYC Hudson on the Pennsylvania Line.
Hi,
I posted this earlier in another thread, but thought I would drop it in here as well.
Over the last 6 weeks or so I have been working feverishly in an attempt to get my layout running before we take it to the NMRA Train Show in Hartford this July.
This week I finally got all the wiring completed and the layout is now fully operational. Yay!
Below is a bit of HD video of the layout running…
Not really a Weekend Photo Fun, more of a Weekend Video Fun. Too bad we can’t embed video into the forum posts directly. Hint hint…
Clicking on the video above will take you to my site where the video is playable. Be sure to watch it in HD if you can.
Lee,
That’s some of the best looking water I’ve ever seen. What did you use and how did you apply it?
Another great start to another great WPF![tup]
Here is another Preview for TSRy. It includes all three of the modeled Tri-State locos and 557501, the caboose I got last week. Since last week, the caboose has been patched and weathered (hard to tell in the video).
Wow, you guys aren’t fooling around this weekend! [:O]
[bow]
For my contribution, a FA2FB2 set rumbled around Horseshoe Curve.
That is some amazing trackwork!!
Fast Tracks! Geeze la freaking Marie! Amazing track work. Some of those compound turnouts look as of they were designed by the Marines at Gitmo as a torture project for the inmates. I mean “motivation incentive”. Anyway, great job.
All it did was glue dense foam together to begin shaping the mountain for one end of the layout…
There was another thread on weathering, so I lined up some rolling stock this morning while the coffee brewed. I have seen some incredible weathering at modeltrainsweathered.com but as my layout is outside, I choose to mainly convey a sense that the cars and locomotives being viewed have been at work. For the most part, I start with pastel chalks, dullcote fix, and then air brushed with a wash of dirt, dust, grimy black, whatever fits the car/locomotiv’s back story.
While I was waiting for my wife to leave for her office, I got out some of the bicentennial units for a lap or three around the track, as it were.
I don’t have them all, but still looking for a Milwaukee bicentennial to go with the ATSF, BN, SSW, and NW.
Sweet pics everyone! Fasttracks, amazing trackwork!!! [bow]
This weekend I’ll be working on the scenery on my river diorama. I poured the river about a week ago, and worked on the scenery for a while too. Track has been down and ballasted for a couple months now.
First, an overall pic:
What will probably become my new finished car shot:
looking across the river:
Hi,
Here is some of the wiring under my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout. It takes all this to make it go…
This is one half…
and this is the other…
All 30 turnouts are controlled with DS-64 stationary decoders to allow me to operate the layout completely from a hand held unit. No centralized control panel necessary. They are all programmed with 32 different routes.
Based on a prototype rail terminal built in New York in 1906, the trackwork is extremely complex, and so is the wiring required to make it run!
Very Nice Tim!
And Lee, what the…??? A kitty? Have you had your head checked? [:D]
[edited for content by selector]
It’s a rental… Just thought I’d throw that out there to see if everyone was paying attention!
Lee
Apparently I have passed your first test.
What do I win?