Gidday All, in last weeks instalment of WPF, kbkchooch Karlmade this comment regarding an early comment of mine, *“**Bear, be careful those latches don’t get you a rubber room!!!”*Well I sometimes wonder, here I am an advocate of the “Three Foot Rule” doing this sort of crazy thing!![%-)][banghead]
The idea of the kitbash came from an article by Allan.N.Houghton in the November 1995 Model Railroader, titled Maine Central Covered Hoppers, the 10 square hatch hoppers built in 1940-42 catching my eye. Like Mr. Houghton, I also used MDC Roundhouse covered hoppers as the basis, but also incorporated doctorwaynes <
Bear, great looking car, but if you are going to do all the work on the latches replace those god awfull sill steps with A-line or Detail Associates scale sill steps. Also another thing that sets the car off is to hang the airline under the side sill on the airtank side of the car!
Well, two weeks ago it was the Pennsylvania Railroad and last week it was the New York Central so this week it is the Penn Central, hated it back then, but it sort of grows on you!
PC SD40 and SD45 going thru the siding at Thurd on the Stringsville Model Railroad Club Layout.
Atlas GP40, detailed and painted, one of ten GP40’s that were painted with the Orange C, along with one RS-3 only units to receive this paint scheme, some said in recognition of the NH coming into Penn Central.
Now, what’s on the work bench!
Working on an Intermountain Pflauder Milk Car, as you can see I have completed the underbody work with the three air tanks, brake cylinder, brake valve and the associated piping. along w
Off to a great start with some intricate work. For me, this week was mostly about ctaching up with some maintenance chores and doing some adjustments to Tsunami CVs to get that nice chuff when they hit the grades. So not a lot of photogenic stuff, but here’s a pic of #454 coupled to a test train after CV adjustment.
I did finish up a project to add back-up lights to the SURR’s pair of C-19s. While some of it was specific to Blakcstone locos, there’s some general application if you want a back-up light on other steamers. I wrote this up here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/229315.aspx
It’s a little on the bright side, so may add some resistance to tone it down a bit. Sure looks good at night, though…
The big news of the week was that Silverton station was moved…about 1.5" to the southeast. This allows me to fit a C-19 in ahead of the short Red Mountain train when between assignments and keep it out of the way of yard work around the station. Well worth the hour it took to do in terms of operational flexibility. In this pic, #375 is checking for clearance in front of #3.
I can relate to Bear’s fun with small items as the boiler house under construction includes scale lumber down to 2x4s.
This RSC-2 is an addition this week. A bit challenging to add the lifting lugs and grab irons before losing too many in the carpet!
The UP has acquired 5 Santa Fe heavyweight cars for repainting and addition of appropriate couplers and diaphragms. Only 2 have arrived so far, not delivered by rail but by the US Postal Service!
Bowser ended up with the dies for this kit and although now discontinued may still have a few parts that fit it in stock, they were getting rid of the old steam parts a few months ago, but may still have some.
The dies for the boiler etc have all been sent to scrap but the detail parts may still be at Bowser.
Bowser ended up with the dies for this kit and although now discontinued may still have a few parts that fit it in stock, they were getting rid of the old steam parts a few months ago, but may still have some.
The dies for the boiler etc have all been sent to scrap but the detail parts may still be at Bowser.
Go for it!
Rick J
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Thanks Rick Sent them an email to see if they have what i need
Always in awe of the modeling and photograpy presented here each week, both finished and works in progress.
Our models can be a satisfying way to reminisce in 3-D miniature. George, that 51’ Studdy coupe really caught my eye.
Been a long time since I’ve seen them, but beginning to unpack some of my old rolling stock to populate my finished yard. They are out of date for the era of my in progress layout, but can’t part with these old friends.
My train is headed to “Margaritaville” this weekend, Happy Cinco de Mayo, Regards, Peter
Great Stuff as per usual everyone. Rick JIn his article Mr. Houghton used Design Associate Hatches which were available from Bowser, though they don’t appear there any more, though I wasn’t really aware of the A-line product range, so thank you. The problem arises is that my 2 LHS an hours drive in opposite directions do not really stock much in the way of detail parts, one while having a pretty good stock of styrene sheet and shapes deals mainly in Hornby, the only US stuff, when I was last there was two Atlas RTR “modern” covered hoppers and a Bachmann (?) GP 30 something, the other while it has a good selection of US locos and RTR rolling stock, but only 6 or so freight car kits( for the very few like myself because they’re poor sellers) and virtually no detail parts, for the same reason. So needs must that I have to shop on line for the specific locos and rolling stock I want, and because freight from the US seems to be around $60 I usually make sure the order is worth while though I have to be careful in that any goods over $400 attracts a 15% sales tax. I should make it perfectly clear that none of the above is wishing to attract the sympathy vote or a whinge, just a statement of fact.[:)]
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Understand completely, I lived in Alaska for 8 years and although we had a local hobby shop still had to order stuff and you would have thought that we were on another planet even though in the US. We did force everyone to change their shipping rules from “Continental” to “Contiguous” United States when we pointed out that Alaska was part of the North American Continent. It was always great to get to pay UPS or Fed-ex Air for our stuff, but shippping back to the lower 48 they only charged us ground as they did not want to fly empty planes back to the lower 48.
If you need parts, I would consider ordering from High Ball Graphics Decals, he has an extensive parts line for all the major detail parts manufacturers and has reasonable overseas shipping rates, also reasonable US shipping rates.
Oh, by the way modelers have used staples to scratch reasonable looking sill steps!
This tank car platform has been in place for a while, but I’m just getting to the extended piping (coffee stirrers) and structure in the background is finally under construction. It’s been a white cardstock mockup for at least a year, but finally I’ve started putting the real kit together. Branchline Trains calls this the Munnsville Depot, but it will be the Railway Express Agency on my layout.
The REA will have a semi-interior in the office section to the right side. And yes, the tank car platform is floating a bit above the ground. I don’t want to glue it down and then knock it over with an errant elbow while working on the depot scene behind.
