Gidday All, its that time again, Hoorah!!! [:D]
A bit more track laying on the Clubs corner modules…
…nothing earth shattering or new , but our method of securing the track at the butt joins, track soldered to 1/8 x inch brass screws, by the way we are reusing the recycled track from the old layout.
Looking forward as usual to the really Good Stuff.
Have A Great One Folks,
Cheers, the Bear.
That time of week already? Whew! Time flies when you’re retired.
Here’s one of my recent fixer uppers.A Athearn SW7…I started this project by modernizing it by removing the footboards and then I painted the pilots engine black. I added Detail Associates spark arrestors and added Atlas Alco horns.
The decals are Champ’s from their “private road name” selection…I really miss Champ decals.
My latest project is a SOO LINE boxcar.
Before:
After:
A good start to WPF guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
My latest projects:
Pennsy E8 #5713 started out in ACL livery. I stripped and painted it. The decals are from Microscale. The radio antenna was fabricated from the handrail stanchions from an Athearn BB kit and music wire. MU hoses from Details West and the weathering via Bragdon Enterprises adhesive powders. I installed a MRC sound decoder and a 3/4-inch speaker under the hood. It runs and sounds great.
Pennsy #4121 also started in ACL livery. I followed the same general pattern with this unit as with #5713. I’m aware that the Pennsylvania RR only had E7Bs, but you work with what you have. The loco has a Lenz decoder installed and is matched to the A-unit. They run very well together.
Here are #5713 and #4121 posed on a siding on the BRVRR for their portrait. I am quite pleased with
Allan- As a Pennsy modeler myself, that is very nice work.
Very nice work on the E-units. Soo box car is well done, too.
I bought a Pensy 0-6-0 switcher at the train show last Sat and spent some time painting and decaling it
Pretty sure the C&O had no red top tenders so i painted it black
and did the same with the cab roof
After some research on the Historical Society site i found that the C&O road numbers ran from 5 thru 128 with later additions from other roads like the PM that used numbers in the 400s
so rather than re number it all i just removed the outer 2 numbers leaving the middle 2
giving it a number of 64
The tender decal is a little far back but there was a double row of rivets just ahead of the C
I’m happy with the way it came out but still waiting for my credit card to heal to add a Tsunami Sound decoder
Allen,Your E8s brings back a lot of my childhood memories…I recall PRR E8s on the pasenger trains that stopped at the Columbus Union Station…
Thanks guys for the kind words about my E-units.
George Elwood’s Fallen Flags site is my primary source for information and his Pennsy listing does not have an E-8 B-unit so I settled for one of two E7Bs on the list.
I probably should have gone farther afield. Too late now.
Keep up the good work everyone.
That’s a really good idea securing the track. I like that so much, that when I build the drop down bridge for a section on my layout, I will use this method.
Thanks for the great tip Bear!
I just managed to get a quick shot of this train as it moved past me.
Crandell
Bear … Track work looks good…
Larry … Good work on teh SW7. Looks like it is ready to go to work.
Robby … Soo boxcar looks great
Allan … Wow… The Pennsy E8’s look great. Reminds me of some I saw in CHicagi Union Staion many years ago.
Crandell … Great scene… Just in time with the photo. The locomotive was not going to wait.
Here is a scene from my downtown area of my City of Heartland. I have several more photos, and I might start a thread just for it later today.
Great stuff, guys. GARRY the city’s coming along nice.
A video of our newest “Toy” No more “Duck-unders”
As usual the offerings this week are great. That lift is incredible. I finished my coal mine and hill today so here are the photos of the new install. Please excuse the number of photos:
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This week I finished a scale house kit by Builders in Scale that I had for a long time. I had intended it to go on the Dragon Products cement plant that I am presently rebuilding; it did not fit the old one. I built it on the workbench on a piece if Masonite.
And here it is test fit on the layout, I needed to get it done before I laid any track
Robbie,
Your work is superb!!!
Today I took the day off to finish a project that lingered for too long. I put the LEDs in the signal bridge and hooked all the wires and switches. Every thing went right at the first time. No wonder, I thought about it for so long. [:$]
Robby,
I not a big fan of the rust, but that is just such amazing work on that Soo Line boxcar.[Y]
Curt,
I really like that mountain. It looks way bigger than it probably is, which is exactly what you’re looking for in my book. [B]
Coincidentally, my pics are of a loco that’s been on the deadline for a few years [read: since the big DCC conversion [:)] ], my Rio Grande H 10-44, #123. I dropped a NCE N14 SR into, along with a couple of Miniatronic YeloGlo LEDs. No machining required, just insulate and wedge the decoder into the top weight. Instructions on how to chop the circuit board and connect up the wiring at the very helpful TCS website. This is one of the original runs from Walthers, not really run much, so I broke it in for a couple of hours each way on the layout main.
Then I offer up a somewhat arty shot that I call ‘Durango, after the storm’ as if this was shot in late afternoon with the sun peeking through the thunderclouds [and of course, as if this would ever happen [;)] ]
Finally, down at the Freight Depot, it looks like maybe it’s time for that afternoon ciggie break…
Great job everyone!
This is the building I’m working on. Still some details to add.
Wayne
Second that. Nice work.