After spending the last two weekends travelling on business to the cold but friendly environs of central Saskatechewan, I have finally gotten back to working on my O-scale engine-house project. It’s now 95% completed; I still need to lay the track, mount the doors, and apply a little weathering to help disguise some of the defects in the paint.
This structure is part of an old Tyco kit I got back in the late seventies. It looks like it’s been through several really bad storms.
I have the same kit and I believe it is a Revell kit, can someone confirm or deny this?
Jack W.
Yes its a Revell/AHM kit. I believe it come out of the AHM engine sandhouse with fuel tank kit.
Kevin
Ok, whichever one it was, I do know it was one of the lower-end kits.
More nice stuff here.
WM3798 … I like the layout photos with visiting NKP locos. Stebby central … nice engine house! … Dave V… great work on the TOFC flatcars and trailers …I like Jeff’s shed, too.
Happy Model Railroading.
Jeffrey,
You need some “no trespassing” signs, yellow safety tape, a red condemned building sign, and a couple of crows on the roof. That’s a nicely dilapidated building!
I have a lot of switchin’ fun with this little Atlas
Jarrell
Jarrell,
Great photo…you’re an artist with the camera!
Don Z.
Jeff
That old building looks good !!!
JIM
Thanks Don, I appreciate it.
J.
I guess it’s about time I did a little contributing of my own. Below are some photos of my recent background rock work at the Crossroads on my layout. After making the landforms and testing the track, I test fit the buildings and signs. Here’s the progress so far:
In addition, I’ve been test fitting the road and railroad trestle over the highway just east of the Crossroads.
My next project is to start the terra-forming for Tucker Hollow, the next spur up the track from the Crossroads. Tucker Hollow is named after my deceased father-in-law, who gave me the partially finished water tower seen here.
My next month’s work is cut out for me. I’ll be building more mountains, painting the backdrop, and laying some asphalt roads.
The track is down, now it is ready for weathering & ballast.
For earlier photos check post in link below.
Great looking photos as usual. I have nothing this weekend, due to my layout is under redo I guess you can. Yes again. I can’t seem to find a good one I have happy with. I am leaning towards doing a switchers layout. No mainline, but some sidings and some plants, mills, etc. I really like the layout in this months mag “Iron Works”. Now, that is something I would LOVE to do.
I wanted to post a pic that was something other than my usual MOW cars. This is my HO layout that I work on when the weather is too bad to run the G scale layout. The Super Chief makes a stop at the station before departing on its way to Los Angeles. Enjoy, Michael
dragenrider -Love that white house![tup]
Photos are great folks. now time for a laugh. Trying my luck at scenery
Good work, all of you. I always love this thread each week!
I have been using what little time I had to add the beginnings of a scratch built silo to the barn. This is about 30% done and have to put a roof on it finish the staves, paint it, and attach it to the barn (would be much closer to being finished but I ran out of the size wood I was using and am waiting for a package from Kappler to arrive). Ultimately the silo will be painted white as was the old Wood Stave Silo on the dairy farm I grew up on. My Father made farming history with that old silo. Got it written up in several farming magazines and in the local paper. Almost 200 people showed to see him fail the day he had it moved intact from one side of the barn to the other to be next to the Grange concrete stave silo. BTW it was a success and we got about 10 more years out the old girl before Dad didn’t think it was going to hold up any more. She fell down of her own accord about 30 years ago. I figured it would be a good addition to the barn in 1925.
From the other side of the mountain (What the bear saw):
I will have to scratch build the silo chopper/loader as well and an old style canvas belt to run from it to a belt tractor. Then the corn can be brought in to fill the silo. (Hmmmm, of course then it won’t be correct for august around here… We didn’t start harvesting corn for silage until late September…) Oh well, I’m gonna do it anyway!
BTW, since this is supposed to be Plainville Turkey farm as it might have been in 1925 (both a dairy and Turkey farm), does anyone know where domestic 1/87 turkeys can be had???
This was today’s project. Getting this bottle car weathered, lettered, and installing Kadees on it.
Today I made trees for my Allegheny & Cumberland. Since nobody offered to contribute to my tree & shrub fund, I made a trip to Hobby Lobby & paid their outrageous price for foliage clusters… again. Normally I buy this stuff in bulk online, but the end result with what I want to make, was worth the price… compared to buying trees. I’ve been wanting to add pine trees, so I took bits of the foliage & impaled them onto pointed sticks until I got the desired look & height. I used extra thin kish kabob sticks after I painted them. Each tree took perhaps 30 seconds to make, so what I did accomplish today, didn’t take long …
I have quite a few yet to make to fill in the gaps between the trees. There was no need to use any adhesive which helped speed things up.