Gidday All, Here we go again! [:D]
Well w**k has interfered with model railroading again,[swg] so have dusted off one from the archives that I don’t think I’ve shown before.
"Gods Wonderful Railway, British O Gauge.
Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One ffolkes,[:)]
Cheers, the Bear.
Well my fleet is completely DCC equipped, I did my E5’s yesterday those KODE-8 decoders were a bit stubborn but I finally got it running and didn’t zap myself in the process.
I’ll be making a foray into Z scale one I order my SP&S GP9 trio but this MTL SP&S wood sheathed boxcar is the first of a small invasion so to say.
Good morning Bear and Gary, nice start to the weekend.
Did not get anything done this week, recovering from spreading 20 cy of mulch this last weekend. So here are some pictures I took a couple of weeks ago at the club layout in Stongsville, OH. We will be open on Thursday night July 17th for the NMRA Convention. I took pictures of my new Athearn GP9’s hauling a PRR coal drag.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
Morning all, I didn’t get much done either, so here is a repeat.
This started out as an undecorated KATO SD40-2 with a standard DC board in it.
Nice work there, Bear and all.[tup][Y]
Had a pretty good ops session last Saturday. There’s always plenty left to do afterwards – we never run out of trains – so I get to enjoy finishing up some runs to help balance out car distribution. Here’s the mixed at Animas Forks, switching the Gold Prince and the Haymarket Tram.
A bear was scared out of the snowshed on the return trip.
Over on the standard gauge, #123 is seen here taking a cut of cars off of Extra 3010 West.
An hour later, here’s the road power for 3010 West picking up a MT reeefer at Hesperus.
Finally, 3010 and its train glide past Cascade Falls.
Good stuff from everyone. GP7’s crossing Hammer Creek.
Mike Lehman, Are those U Drive 'Em Army Jeep Cars going up the hill? When I tell you to put a rock under the tire, I mean a R-O-C-K!
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Nope, no Heeps.[;)] It’s a Land Rover, the mountain rescue team’s 70 series Land Cruiser and way up at the top right, that’s Bob Richardson’s ol’ green '41 Suburban. And they’re all moving, no need for emergency mountain parking brakes, just look hard enough, it’s Low range up there.
I haven’t posted here in a long time. I’ve been busy playing golf. I haven’t worked on my layout in 2 months.
Bear, thanks again for starting us off! Put a face on that engine, and it looks like “Duck” from the Island of Sodor.
Gary, that Z stuff is too tiny for me. I saw a Z scale train once,with drug store “cheaters” and an Optivisor on at the same time! More power to ya!
Mike, I guess a bear does_____ in the woods, especially when a loco scares it out of him! [;)] Gotta be claw marks in them rocks!
Rick,nice Geeps,just need a little dirt. [;)]
Jimmy,nuthin wrong with recycling!
Grampy, now thats the right amount of “dirt” on the Pennsy geeps!
Here’s an oldie (from feb 09) of my brass Baldwin Sharks running loose on the club layout
Strange noises from the erecting shops here, welding, banging, soldering. Rumore has it there is soon to be a rebirth of an old classic from 50 years ago. Maybe next week we will see?[:^)]
Those Sharks look good Karl!
Thank you for the encouragement, “Z” invasion will happen soon.
Mike —
Anybody who pays tribute to “Uncle Bob” Richardson on his layout is O.K. in my book. I was privileged to meet him & have severakl conversations with him in his last years, shortly before he passed away. A grand old gentleman! What’s the story about the “'41 Suburban”?
Tom
Tom,
I saw Bob speak at a couple of conventions and sat next to him once at a presentation on NG in Michigan’s Keewenaw at the Cincy convention back in the mid-late-90s(?). I should have told him “Thanks!” for what he did with his time here with us, but missed the opportunity. Have his books , though.
In several places he mentions his truck, which was some sort of carryall IIRC a '41 Suburban. And also IIRC (my CRS is iffy these days) it was the car the tire company had him doing sales and promotion work out of just before Pearl Harbor. Or maybe it was a later vehicle he used and I’m just cornfused[:o)]? Anyway, it is my tribute to him, in N scale forced perspective.
That’s not very nice. [:'(]
Great Stuff ffolkes, [bow]
Cheers, the Bear.[swg][(-D]
Whoops, sorry 'bout that, Bear! He wasn’t a registered guest, so got the bums rush…We do not, however, discriminate against bears[8)]
Great work everyone. A good beginning to WPF.
Not much new on the BRVRR this week. Hard to show a photo of maintenance or repairs.
Here is one from the recent Past:
Pennsylvania RR K-4 #1361, A Bachmann Spectrum model, rounds the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout with a 4-car consist of Roundhouse Arch-Roof passenger cars. While a bit old fashioned, these little cars look great behind the vintage locomotive.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Because of you, WPF is always the best thread of the week. Thanks!
Bear,
Nice modeling and photo. Not wishing to stereotype British railways, but sure reminds me of the many times my son and I enjoyed watching Shining Time Station on the tube. Marvelous how trains continue to fire the imaginations of both the young and the old.
I’m a week late. My son dug out a posed photo taken of him at the Sacramento Railroad Museum in 1991 to create a fun card for me.
regards, Peter
[#oops]The modelling is not mine; I should have said that photo was taken at a show.[:$]
Thomas & Co were my sons favourite bedtime stories, I almost got to know them off by heart.
A nice thoughful card, clever stuff this Photoshop.
Fair enough Mike you shouldn’t have to put up with freeloading bears.[(-D]
Cheers, the Bear.
Living on the edge:
This woodcutter (a Preiser guy) is doing his chopping at the edge of the layout. It’s the final scene, and Phase 2 is now done, with the exception of some cleanup stuff like grade crossings.
I could take a picture of the Phase 3 benchwork lumber stacked in the garage, but that’s not very interesting…yet.
I had hoped to show some pictures of my new/old Blue Box GP-7 this week, but had one of those moments…
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I am modeling it as Portland Terminal, a MEC subsidiary, in the original maroon and gold stripe scheme. The painting was done, and I had started putting on the decals. I finished the curved stripes on the end of the long and short hoods and the stripes on the short hood, and was looking at the long stripe on the base of the hoods and cab - something looked wrong!. After looking back and forth between the model and the drawing in the Accucal package a couple of times, I realized that I had painted the edge of the raised walkway black like the rest of the walkway edge instead of maroon.
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What to do? Adding to my problems, the Accucal decal set is at least 25 years old. Accuals always had a thin decal film and this set was getting a bit fragile. I lost a couple of days to real life, and took the shell back to the spray booth this afternoon. I masked off the short hood, covering the installed decals with bits of newspaper so that they would not be touched by the masking tape. Then covered the rest of the shell with newspaper and masking tape, and re-sprayed the incorrect parts of the raised walkway with TruColor Maroon. Tomorrow will tell if my paint repair is sucessful. [sigh]