Weekend Photo Fun 2-4 May 2014

The staging tracks are nearly completed and I couldn’t help but put some rolling stock on the layout to muck about with:

Jim,

That yard is coming along nicely[Y]

Gidday yet again, still more Good Stuff I see.[bow]
Thanks to all for the comments.
Having been known as the Bear all my working life one could correctly assume that I’m not thinned skinned, and don’t suffer fools lightly, that said I’ve never been adverse to constructive criticism and so…

…having used staples before thought (now that can be a dangerous thing [swg]) this will be easy peasy, but on viewing this prototype photo, though one of a slightly latter series of Maine Central covered hoppers,found this, …http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1461991
…so imagine my initial consternation, however armed with not only staples but my trusty soldering iron…

Bear,

That’s really making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Between those wonderful hatches – which is what you’ll see the most of anyway on the layout – and those steps, she’s Your Fair Lady now.

Nice work everybody.

I just returned from a week in southern Arizona.

Here is a CB&Q Calaifornia Zephyr observation car, the Silver Horizon. (I don’t know why this car was selected to be on display at this location, because the California Zephry operated elsewhere.) It is on display in Maricopa adjacent to the Union Pacific double track main line. Numerous stack trains and other freight trains pass through daily. Also, this is a stop for the daily Amtrak train.

Please excuse the low quality cell phone photos

Great work again this week guys.

Bear, you must have the patience of a saint to spend so much time on a single car. A day or two is my limit. Which probably accounts for the deplorable condition of my rolling stock.

Here are a couple of night-time shots from the BRVRR.

The Baron Oil Company truck loading dock at night.

Downtown Black River at night.

Sorry for the grainy photos. A point and shoot camera and incandescent bulbs.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.

Thanks Mike, I probably appear to contradict myself but I do get a certain satisfaction from trying these things, but also to prove, as young BNGary succinctly put, in a classic piece of masterful understatement, The hobby costs only as much as you want it to cost…”
Alan, Alas unfortunately a combination of a decided lack of patience combined with an excessive degree of “bloody mindedness” is the “character flaw” I referred to earlier which I have to challenge.[sigh] [(-D]
Model Railroading is Fun
, especially because we can enjoy it to our individual tastes.**

Thanks for the kind words Mike. Next is the fun of soldering drops and adding the 14 gauge bus for power.

I know its a little late but this is what I worked on over the weekend. Its a scratchbuilt Rio Grande 1400 Series Caboose.

That’s a nice caboose![Y] Good work!

My railroading adventures for this past week consisted of sitting in the desert for 3 hours waiting. The guy in the green vest had TRAINS and BIG BOY decals on his vehicle and Oregon plates. Never got his name.