I guess I’ll start it off this week.
I installed my line/telephone poles around parts of the layout. I know they’re a small detail, but I’m pleased with the elevation of realism they provide for little to no money.
Corey, thanks for starting and those utility poles look good, when you install more remember they will use short poles and then raise them when they have to go across other tracks or streets.
I finally finished my second RS-32 for the NYC. I made a few changes while building this loco, I painted the white frame stripe and masked it before the black paint as I did not like the decaled frame stripe I did on the first unit. Added all the detail parts from Cal-Scale and lettered the loco with Microscale Decals. Also added some other things like the Builder’s Plate and Trust plate on the Frame.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
Rick, thanks for the compliment. As you could tell, I was conflicted when deciding what to call my poles. I know that the line poles around here are quite short. At least outside on Mankato. I think I made my poles in Mankato higher based on this photo of the exact area I’m modeling. They seem to be about the height that I place mine at. Of course, the poles in the old picture are probably just telephone or utility poles.
This is an old shot looking roughly the same way as my modeled portion.
First shot for reference.
Corey … Your layout certainly is looking better all of the time. Your layout photos look real.
Rick … The Alco RS 32 is outstanding.
This photo shows a recent project. This is a LL Proto 2000 E8. (CBQ 9940B) All moving parts have been cleaned and lubricated. A new MRC “drop in” sound decoder was installed. Installation was not as easy as the name, “drop in”, suggests, but I am pleased with the final result. I may add the same decoder to other E-units.
ALos visible is another recent project which was raising the roofs on the passenger shelters making them high enough to clear my dome cars while the platforms are close to the tracks. I made “rain gutter downspouts” from old plastic parts sprues to support the roofs at a higher level. Then I added extensions to the bottoms of the original roof supports.
Corey, in your old picture the really tall poles are Power Poles and maybe at a higher voltage say 37,000 Volts as those were always placed farther away from the ground. The poles with the multiple cross members are probably the signal/telephgraph poles for the railroad. As they were run with multiple lines. Telephone is usually placed in one large cable under the power lines on power poles.
I used to live next to the Wabash/NKP joint main out of Toledo and the signal poles were actually lower than the track due the fill on the railroad line.
Rick J [2c]
Turn-of-the-Century “autorack” delivers everything but the horsepower to Mt. Coffin, while the boxcab brings a string of reefers to chill everyone out on my N scale Mt. Coffin & Columbia River layout:
Keep up the great modeling & photos!
This week has just been weathering work.
Coal mine in the rockies…
Nice work from everyone, this week.
West bound K4s crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
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My latest project. A nasty Railbox.
Before:
After:
Robby your weathering is second to none. Your act is a tough one to follow but here are two of my latest weathering projects. The first is a Southern Pacific Dash 9 that is now showing a ton of miles and sporting the UP patch livery.
Before
After
Here is the other side of the engine
The other project I did is a Canadian cylindrical hopper. I was so excited to get started on this project that I forgot to take a before shot. So all I have are the after shots
Side one - completed with hand painted graffiti
Side two - completed except for the safety striping
Here’s a picture of the two of them together
Will
Good start to the weekend!
I havn’t posted in a very long time. I made a few videos last weekend of my new Genesis SD70M-2 and Intermountain Gevo hauling a unit Sultran train with DP action on my layout. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um2FnAvkXJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbhmXS5IdgM
John
Thanks for the comments Will. I love the SP engine. [;)]
Lotsl of great photos and modeling this week, as usual.
Didn’t do much on the layout this week, I spent most of it re-motoring some of my older brass locos with rare-earth magnets (WOW, talk about a difference!). I did get to run my newer Westside Challenger though, here she is on Bullard’s Bar arch bridge with a westbound freight.
That’s some illegal October fishing going on down there in the lake. But nobody checks.
Tom
Built the Walthers Cornerstone Passenger Car Washer and added it to my new coach yard.
Rich
I have been working on my stock yard and signals… weird combination I know but hey that’s how the projects came up. The signals are all scratchbuilt from castings and resin. They used bipolar (3 wire) LED’s to have the three different aspects. The stock yard is also scratch built.
Aaaahhhhhh! The weekend!
Nice start here as always folks! You all inspire me. I have been involved in the continuing saga of the remake of one of the two rooms my layout is in. Here was last week:
Here is now:
Am slowly starting to move some things back into the room.
73
What’s kept me busy the past several weeks:
Part 2 of Frostbite Falls - The rough scenery and rocks were done a while ago. Recent work is the backdrop and the final scenery coats, putting in the road, placing structures. There are two small streams that don’t show up well. One will be a falls down the rock face. I built a small styrene bridge for the road to span the stream.
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Project #2 is a Bowser USRA Light Pacific. Now that it’s assembled it’s time for the paint shop.
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George V.
Great stuff, all!
The lead unit has a mars light ( ya can’t tell, tho ). The CB&Q F unit is from a Tyco train set I got from my Dad 47 years ago.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Nice to see everyone’s new work.
For me, it’s been busy at work and at home this week, so there isn’t a lot of new work to show off, but I did acquire a sweet new vintage brass loco on eBay:
The motor was locked up solid, so I’m replacing it with a can motor from the Motorman. He took my measurements, found a new skew-wound motor that fits, and he’s even sleeving & extending the shaft so it should practically drop right in. It’s great to have that kind of support in the hobby.