sorry I’m early this week , but have a hospital stay for the weekend for some tests so wanted to get this out since i don’t have a chance to do it this weekend.
here’s a SD-9 cadillac in the black widow paint scheme i just finished …(well almost except for one light that’s supposed to be in the mail)…this is my all time favorite locomotive…this locomotive type ran on SP from 1957 to well into the 90’s… that’s a long time! 4 generations from a first generation diesel… chuck
Thats a sweet looking engine. Nice weathering too!
Hey, best of luck with your hosptial stuff man.
CW–best of luck at the hospital, and that’s one SWEET diesel! I always thought that the SP ‘Black Widow’ GP and SD locos were about the most gorgeous infernal combustion machines ever built.
Tom [:D]
CWclark i hope everything goes well .for you Love the loco looks great!
Not much going on for me this weekend ,but, here is some pics of what ive gotten done this week
Ill have more later ,take care guys have a great wekkend!
Carl…
I was playing around with my digital camara tying to get a better depth of field for my photos. Here is the result.
The yardmaster had better get busy and start clearing the yard.
A leased P&S switcher works Allentown yard.
Ok well not alot here this weekend just got my yard done and installed some new lights for the yard also, enjoy
1st Ballast Attempt
Night Ops
The Yard minus one spur
Installing new lights
Thanks
Nick
good stuff by everone.like that forest DMnolan.can’t wait to get my digital camera and start taking pictures.hopefully more people will post pics for the weekend photo fun.im on dialup but it doesn’t take to long for the pics to load up.interesting to see what other modeler’s are doing.terry…
Being an SP person myself I love that Black Widow painted a few myself.
Car shop and industries in background,
Oh boy! The weekend again! Here are my contributions for the week:
The roof is finally on the roundhouse and they are open for business.
More work has been done at the site of the old homestead:
Chuck, I pray all turns out well for you with the tests!
Coolness, I have something to contribute![:D]
I snagged these off of eBay. This is the Scott Squad Railroad’s first work train. The pictures were taken on the table I am using for my trains at the moment. Definitely not permanent.[:p]
And a video for those interested.[:)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9d1zmfsKE0
Chuck, that is one purdy diesel.[:D] I love the high nose SDs.[8D] You did a great job on it. Good luck with the hospital tests.
Best to you chuck.
Hopefully within a month I’ll have some real stuff to contribute.
nharrison i like that night one very cool
cw good luck
Fooling around ,trying to find a project to get into today. I figured …why not take a couple of pics./
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My contribution to the weekend photos is the progress on my staging yard on the Cedar Branch & Western. This staging yard represents the beginning and end of the railroad, depending on the end you are looking at. The town of Danberry Way will rest above the yard.
Lots of good work here, and good pictures too. These are probably my favorite posts in the forum.
I work in two week cycles, in between weekends with my kids. This cycle, I screwed down the control panel faceplate since the wiring is mostly complete, added diagonal braces to the benchwork legs so it will roll better on carpet without stressing the legs, weathered three tank cars with chalk, touched up the seams on some horses and finished one buckboard, added a three inch by eight foot extension to the benchwork and laid two eight foot staging/interchange tracks, finished the grab irons on three locomotives, one left to go, ran in those and one new steamer, leaving me one steamer still needing run-in, ordered some brushes for an old Mantua Pacific, and bought all the stuff we need to make a high volume tree factory, since we need about a thousand pine trees as soon as the plaster’s done and the track ballasted.
Here’s a pic of the tree factory, with 13 new trees that my kids worked on today:
There’s a couple of finished trees to the far right from earlier in the week. We’re going to let the glue dry overnight, trim them into shape with scissors, and then hit them with brown spray paint first thing in the morning. That doesn’t take long to dry, and then we’ll run about three cycles of hairspray and fine ground cover to finish up this round of trees. If we get done and have enough time before they have to go back to their mom’s, I’ll let them place them on the layout.
I added one refinement to the technique that has been posted here in the forum. Each tree trunk was run through a pencil sharpener right from the package. Pointy bottomed trees poke a diameter sized hole in foam, and stand upright and stable while you work on them. Flat ended trunks tear a larger hole in the foam and wobble all over, especially when you’re painting them. It worked very well, and cut a lot of
Great work everyone!
jeffers- SWEET!!! VERY SWEET!!!
Your’s look better, a lot better, but I figure by the time I fini***he millionth or two millionth tree (that’s what it will feel like, I already know it) I might have learned at least something.
Between two kids, my son age 11 and my daughter age 6, the pile of filter disks got a little mixed up, so some of the trees have…original shapes…but a little work with the scissors after the glue dries should bring them into usable shape. The funny thing is, I’ve been looking at old B&W pix of prototype trees by the ROW, and they look terrible, too skinny, more holes than branches and needles, these may not be prototype, but I’m claiming the blight or borer beetles got the one’s in the pictures, and sticking with these.
Worked on my infrastructure today. Got the garage door insulated with a kit from Home Depot. Cut to size and insert. No glue etc. required.
It was 32 degrees outside today and 57 in the garage. Hopefully, this will improve things slightly.
Also worked on one of those backdrops. This is the City scene one. It originally had more modern buildings in the background and the blue sky was not the same as my painted backdrop. So, I cut out the modern stuff and wa la. I’ll leave it tacked up for a week or so and see how I like it.
-Tom
Some very nice work displayed this week, guys! Too many good ones to mention each by name. If I get a chance I will post some pics. of my latest work tomorrow. Till then, keep 'em coming!
In the words from the guy in Mortal Kombat…“It has begun!”
Here is the mess that is my new bench work. A U-Shaped Dog-Bone. The long Dog-Bone is 14 feet long. The center section is 9 feet long, and the short Dog-Bone is 9 and 3/4 feet.
I spent a few hours today laying cork roadbed on the long Dog-Bone, and then installed track on that same roadbed. The track is Atlas HO scale flex track. I haven’t run any trains since I started the demolishion and subsequent rebuild…I’m gettin the shakes guys!!!
Trevor
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