I’ve been collecting some more 1930s-style vehicles for Sweethome Chicago.
I am now busy with some billboards and posters for the layout
Jon
I’ve been collecting some more 1930s-style vehicles for Sweethome Chicago.
I am now busy with some billboards and posters for the layout
Jon
He modelled it out of mashed potatoes first. [dinner]
Very ambitious, Art! [tup] Careful around that quarry.
I caught this lovely gal laboring lightly ahead of a considerable coal drag.
Uhh, Crandell… that’s an Allegheny! [:O]
Nice cure for the midwinter blues. [;)]
Great shots, all.
Bill. Slow going ? Hey, any progress is good. Don’t be discouraged. Many of us go for days, weeks and months without doing anything.
Art, I think you did your mountains carving foam, correct? I like. I’ve recently been working with a friend who is doing wet casting with plaster. Your examples just show that there is always more than one way to skin a cat.
Jon, your pictures are astounding. I’m modeling 1952 but I feel like your pictures are pulling me back … back … back!
Regards,
It has been since Jan that I did any real proper work on my RR - see Bill, you have made more real progress than I.
Over the last two weeks or so I decided the procrastination was enough. This is the Walther’s Creamery kit - first of 5 buildings with roof just set in place for now. Before I can do anymore in this area I need to drop in some torti behind this building.
I used Rustoleum primer. Lightly applied it did not cover the brick detail. Will still add a light morter wash.
Regards,
Jon,
Your work is inspiring as always! Makes me want to do an urban scene, though I’m sure I’ll fall short of yours!
Here’s my contribution this week:
Train 33 leans into the curve through the cut and flies over US522 behind PRR Class EP-22 #5890 (EMD E8A) en route from New York to St Louis, following a locomotive change at Harrisburg.
Nice work everyone, as always. I don’t have much new to look at this weekend but here’s something old.
Can you say Jealous? One day I will have that much room… Mmmmmmmmmmmmm lots or roooooommmm!!! [bow]
I haven’t gotten a lot done lately but I did work on the Atlas (brand) lumber yard and surroundings a little.
Here’s a couple of shots of the building as it comes out of the package…
and after some weathering, new roof covering and the use of some ground goop to help blend that base into the surrounds…
To me, it looks a lot better.
Jarrell
My current project is rebuilding the Bachmann PRR D78c diner to a more typical D78R, specifically 7991 for my 1941 “Pennsylvanian” consist (although it will be used on a layout representing 1940 - shhhhhh!). It’s satisfying to put together a train with models of the specific cars that were used originally. The consist will be around 9’ long when completed. So far the cars I have built are a 6-6 Pullman from BCW sides on a Branchline core, an almost complete 8-1-2 with skirts, full width diaphragms and streamlined roof, a PB70 combine and a 12-1 from a Branchline kit. I still need to build the mid train lounge “Andrew W Mellon” from a Walthers Solarium, with skirts, etc, get a Fleet of Modernism 10-5 from Walthers, and build a P70kR, possibly from the NKP car co kit. The loco will of course be the ubiquitous K4s.
Anyway, on to the Bachmann rebuild. The car as produced by Bachmann represents a very narrow timeframe - 1930 to 1932, and only 3 cars out of a class of 119 cars. To upgrade it to a reasonably accurate model of a D78R, the car needs an air conditioner adding to the underframe, a few of the underbody details rearranging, a vent at the steward’s end of the car, a new interior, the kitchen and aisle windows replacing and a few other detail changes. The photos below were taken in the middle of this week - since then I have added stovepipes to the roof and hacked out the hole for the louvered vent at the steward’s end of the car. I have also beefed up the center sill of the car as it is far too shallow as supplied by Bachmann. Still quite a way to go, but at least it looks a bit more like it should!
Ed,
I’d be very careful posting shots like these. You might make Dave Vollmer decide to switch scales!
Art, simply outstanding and very dramatic scenery.
Jon, incredible as always, Sweethome just gets better and better.
Looking good everyone.
Karl.
Very nice Art! Your general layout feel reminds me of John Allen’s work! Great job![tup]
I have plenty of new stuff I haven’t shared, 2 scratchbuilt industries, and a new section of street running, (after the article on street running in TRAINS and the embedded rails in MR this issue, I couldn’t resist.)
Unfortunetly, I can’t find the [censored] camera card reader![banghead] They’re on the camera now.
I must be lucky, my card reader is built in to the PC!
Here is a pic from a freinds layout
Concerning “ENCOUNTERS”, you people have the correct geology, but the wrong upthrust. Encounters happen at “Devil’s Tower”. My mountain is inspired by The Superstition Mountains as seen from Usery Park and on the trail to the Massacre Site. That mystery, of course, has to do with the Lost Dutchman Mine, and my fantasy is that the mine was found and that two competeing claims are now working the vein. That accounts for the railroad and the bridges, yet to be designed. For those familiar with the Massacre site, you will notice that I have compacted the valley by several miles to give more of a canyon that is apparent when hiking there.
I do thank yoiu all for the responses, in that this part of the layout is the culmination of 60 years of dreaming and 10 years of reserch on the site. It may take that long to build it. Here are pics of what it looked like last year at this time and two years ago.
Found the card reader!
The cats were playing with it…that and my diarama![:O]
Anyway, here’s my new structures: West Concord Paper and New Poland Cement.
I also added a bit of street running.
Lotsa photos! Sorry about all of them, they’re built up over about a week. \
EDIT: Forgot to crop some of those…[:I]
Jarrel, that guy sitting on the lumber pile must have splinters by now… Hope he isn’t being paid a lot to work there.
The engine house with the doors glued shut is an oft-told tale. Here’s how I solved it with my scratchbuilt shed…
Both doors are functional. I built the hinge using a length of Plastruct rod, which is a steel wire in a plastic sleeve.
I stripped the plastic from about 1/8" at each end, then glued the plastic part to the hinge side of the door. The bare wire extends above and below the door edge.
I built up a foundation, and included pockets at the base of the door openings. The hinge rods nests in the pockets. I then provided similar pockets at the top of the doorway on the inside of the front wall.
I left the roof to be removable to make it easier to assemble. The foundation is permanently attached to the scenery, but the building can be lifted off for track maintenance, or to clear that errant locomotive that falls off the track inside… not likely, but Mr. Murphy spends a lot of time in my layout room!
You can see the hinge operating in this view… and here it is with paint…
I added a door stop at the top of the frame to keep the doors from pushing inward, and a clip that allows both doors to open when a locomotive pushes on one of them. This was a pretty fun, and relatively easy project once I worked out the door hinges.
Lee
I went to the Prince William County Model Raolroaders Club Open House this morning.
The club rents the old Quantico Station and has renovated it to accomodate their layout.
Here are a few pictures I took.
As I was leaving the parking lot A CSX train came by and I got a picture of the lead engine.
Bill
Some wonderful modeling here as usual. Makes me feel inadequate.
Art, an incredible mountain. Jaycon12 that is a nice little lumber yard. I’m going to look for space on the BRVRR for one.
My latest project for the BRVRR is this NYC GP-40 #3075. I built it from an Athearn BB kit I had in CSX livery. The idea was to give my new Atlas GP-40 a running mate. After painting and decaling the shell, I added LEDs for lights using Atlas diffusers. The handrails are from Atlas as are the air-line hoses. The MU hoses are from Kato and the grabs from Detail Associates. Not as ‘finished’ as its Atlas brother, but adequate for my needs.
This is an updated photo of the West end of the BRVRR layout. One of many new photos on my updated website.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
Edit: I changed the photo of the GP-40. First one was the wrong loco.
Well done! We wanna see pics when she is done.
David B
Helpers are a mainstay on the Allegheny & Cumberland. Here at Coal Fork Jct, two helpers are leaving the helper pocket & will tie on to the end of the awaiting coal train for a shove up to Sand Patch Yard …