Gidday All, a damp Spring Friday evening, (thoughts though to those of you in Colorado). Finally a very small amount of progress on the scratch building front.
Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff.
Have a Great One Folks,
Cheers, the Bear.
BEAR,
Pretty damp.very early Friday morning,no pic’s to share,for my camera,went South some time ago and I’m working on a replacement… But I am curious,about the Boats,are they life boats,or Whaling boats? If so,what ship are they from? They look really good…
Cheers, [:)]
Frank
Bear,
I agree with Frank: Nice boats!
Reminds me of my wife’s grandfather. He was a ship’s captain in WWII, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat, and spend days adrift in a very similar lifeboat before being rescued.
Got a few shots of projects from this week. I completed an effort to add three sidings to facilitate switching at Rockwood, Durango, and Dove Creek by finishing the last of these. Dove Creek’s turned out especially well. By adding it, I now have a two-track yard, a freight running track/bypass, and a long industrial spur, where I had only three tracks before. Now I can pull freights off the main and leave them a place for their train. They can then take and leave cars from the two-track yard with the help of the local switcher. In turn, these tracks can hold MTs and outgoing loads out of the way. The freight bypass also serves to make possible passenger train meets as it runs past the station on the other side of the platform from the main. I still need to make a “lip” guard here in case of a derailment. You’d be straight on the floor otherwise[:O]
I also turned a black flat used as a view block into a proper warehouse.
Here’s Durango’s similarly useful new track, the one closest to the edge. I’ve got a plastic guard being made to keep any scary plunges at bay.
The third siding was a center siding at Rockwood to also hold loads for P/U and MTs. It’s since been ballasted.
Now I can fully utilize the line for fun stuff like dual-gauge trains[:)]
Great start already guys!
I’ve been up to lots over the summer (modelling-wise), but I just haven’t got around to posting many photos or participating in this thread for ages. So here are a couple of things from recently:
First, here’s my first ever brass paint job. I’ve painted lots of plastic, but this was my first attempt using a brass model, specifically a Van Hobbies HO Hawker-Siddeley caboose. These cabeese (or vans, to use the proper Canadian terminology) were originally built for CN. A small handful of them ended up with the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) Railway, a shortline haauling coal from the mines in Cape Breton Nova Scotia. There they received this striking green, black and yellow paint scheme.
This particular van, #9106, would later be sold to the Ottawa Central Railway as the mines closed and DEVCO wound down operations. Funnily enough, when CN ended up buying the OCR, 9106 ended up back with her original owners! She now still wears the green and black (although looking quite beat-up, and with “CN” crudely stencilled on the side), and is used on runs between Ottawa and Coteau.
Here’s the model, looking somewhat out of place on a friend’s layout. Complete except for window glazing and some light weathering.
My second contribution today is a photo of one of Rapido’s magnificent HO VIA Rail Park-series dome-observation cars, “Kootenay Park”, heading into a tunnel on my friend’s layout, with the markers and drumhead illuminated. This particular layout is actually set as a South African branchline, but with rugged scenery much like that o
Bear … Life boats may be good for those in Colorado. I’m wondering how the railroads in CO are doing in particular the BNSF line from Denver to Cheyenne. … Mike L : Your layout contiues to look great. I like the dual gauge track. … Tim : It’s always good to see Canadian modeling. I have ridden in a VIA Park series observation, and it reminded me of the original California Zephyr. Please post more when you can.
Here is a pair of SD24’s being tested with a dynamometer car.
A great beginning to WPF guys!
Here is one from a recent op session on the BRVRR:
NYC Niagara #6015 at the head of an east bound passenger train passes the General Industries plant on east end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Some turntable action…
Good start to this weekend, looks kike we’ll get a lot of photo’s posted this week.
This is a project I been working on for the past week. Its the " Bar Mills" ( Shipyard Brewing Co.) A background kit. Not done yet, still a few more hours of work to go. This has been a really fun build.
hopefully I can post a photo of this kit fully compleated, before this weekend is over.
Sam
Here’s an old one from me
An H-8 crossing the New River bridge at Thurmond
Here is a Repeat, but an indication of things to come, tis the Grain Train Season here…
Gidday All, I am never disappointed in any of the posts in this thread, Good Stuff as per usual.
Mike, May be Bears’ weird way of looking, but if wifes’ Grandfather not rescued, then perhaps no wife? Seriously though, those that served in the Allied Merchant Navies during WWll have never got the recognition they deserved.
Not really sure what sort of boat they are, Frank, I suspect that “the Bears free-lanced lifeboats” would be the best description.
They will be going on “Bears very free-lanced version” of one of these… http://img50.xooimage.com/views/8/a/5/dsc06426-229b045.jpg/
I started with the lifeboats cos I’m probably going to need saving, (though it may already be far too late!!!) [swg]
Cheers, the Bear
Yep, never know how things will turn out. The 20th century might have been entirely different of we’d just skipped a war or two. BTW, this fellow is 96 and still with us. Those old sailors are tough.
BEAR,
Thanks for the come-back and the info…Ship building,Military modeling,are two other,‘‘tings’’, I delve,into,those boats,got me to thinking for they look similar,to a boat on a 1/87 Scale,44 gun English Man of War I built for a display in a large fish tank,it only had one of those,lashed to the center of the deck,with no tarp,so you could see the oars and seating in it,but I’m sure it was not a lifeboat,they had another name for it,but it eludes me at the moment. Anyway good job,and looking forward to the ship,But try not to take,too long,I’m 70,you know…[(-D] [(-D]
And to All the Others,Great job guy’s [bow]
Cheers,[D]
Frank
Just a young fella then Frank,[swg][(-D] I have virtually completed all my drawings which I have scaled from photographs, and also have set myself a completion date, though I’m not telling when, don’t want to paint myself into a corner…[:-^]
Some scratch built pulley blocks.
Cheers, the Bear.
I posted this picture to describe a railroad story by a retired Southern Pacific, Conductor who is a member of our model railroad club. Early in his railroad career as a brakeman, he and his engineer told to picked up a hopper car of flower deep in Taylor Yard and take it to take it to the Bakery at the top end of the yard (being many miles long).
New to the switching job for both Engineer and Jim they headed up main line. the crew lines for the first switch to an industry lead. Across the road and under a freeway overpass, the switch engine and hopper leading the way. They pass a small modern freight house to the end-of-track inside the Forest Lawn Cemetery grounds, being a mile and a half from the switch.
No luck finding a Bakery along the branch, so the switcher crew with its hopper car reversed direction and stopped back at the Freight Station loading dock and Jim went into the office to talk with the Agent. The Agent confirmed “there is no Bakery here on this line” but questioned?" is your switch engine painted (southern Pacific) Gray?" “Yes.” replied Jim. "Then you are on the wrong railroad, the agent told him, “this is the Union Pacific’s, Glendale Branch line (Los Angeles) and our diesels are Yellow!” Continuing with "But I will tell you how to how to get to the Van de Kamp Bakery spur. Its one switch more West, (north) of Taylor Yard, so the SP crew, the little Gray Diesel and the hopper car of flower pulled out of the UP branch and then pushed the car load onto spot. So if you think the prototype railroad is run without flaws, just ask any railroader.
A flock of Seaboard System GP38-2s.
Good dilapidation, first foray into the world of hydrocal structures via Downtowndeco.
regards, Peter
Bear,
Thanks for getting things off to a great start! Nice photos everyone!
It has been a while since I posted…here is a Southern box car just completed.
Here is an engine I built for FPV (first person view) model railroading. It broadcast a video signal and I view it through some FPV goggles I have. I do a lot of first person view model airplane flying and since the nice weather in the NW will soon be over time to take it to the rails. Now I can sit on my living room and watch the world go by on rails. If anyone is interested on the set up let me know and I will tell where to get the hardware
What Downtown Deco kit is that? I don’t see it on their website.