Gidday All, Actually 3 day weekend for me, Auckland Anniversary on Monday. Anyhow not much from me, just assembled a “Bowser” Kit.
Looking forward to the really good stuff !!
Have a Great One Folks,
Cheers,the Bear.
I would say you know how to assemble a nice hopper, Bear. Good work.
The evening commuter arrives at Seneca Falls headed by a jackrabbit 4-8-4.
Some of you will have seen this in another thread:
Got the headlights working on my rail truck project, and the basic frame and power pickups done. Headlights are 0402 SMD LEDs mounted in cored out Jordan bus moldings. You will notice that they are not quite the same colour. I messed up tinting the bright white LEDs and didn’t test them before epoxying them in place[D)]. Apparently I only got the tint on one of the two lights so when I first turned them on, one was warm white and the other was a very unrealistic stark bright white. That meant that I had to tint the lense (epoxy) and it didn’t come out exactly the same as the one on the left. My bad.
Here is the basic frame with leads attached. The motor and power pickup wire is 30ga from NWSL but it seems to look huge in this installation. The headlights are wired with magnet wire.
This started out as a Ford Model T railtruck but the resin parts from the original 1960’s kit were in pretty bad shape, so I have used a Jordan bus for the cab and engine hood/fender assembly. I am going to pretend that the unit has a six cylinder engine so I can use a gallopping goose sound decoder.
Dave
Thanks for your kind words Crandell, but I have to bite, while I gather that 3755 was built by Baldwin for Sante Fe in the 1930s, I’m afraid the reference "Jackrabbit" escapes me.[*-)]
Cheers, the Bear.
Here is a dodgy Phone pic of the layout progress.
Now the real planning begins!!
As usual we are off to a great start !!! Great photos so far.
Here’s SOO LINE I just finished. Not only is white hard to weather but to take pictures of also.
Before:
After:
Finally finished some cars this week!
Akron, Canton and Youngstown 40’ PS1 Boxcar w/7’ Superior Door, Door was from Branchline as the IMRC kit came with YSD Doors. Car was originally purchased by the New Haven and sold to Evans who refurbished it and the ACY then purchased it from Evans. Painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and lettered with Champ Decals.
ECW 40’ 2600CF Airslide Covered Hopper, Since Oddballs Decals sometimes have enough data to do two cars, this is the second ART car I did with the set. Added airlines from the air resevoir to the triple valve and under the side sill of the car. Replaced the cast Sill Steps with A-Line Sill Steps.
Front Range 50’ ACF Boxcar, Lehigh Valley had these cars sealed and coating applied to car to keep water out as it was used to transport Charmin Bathroom Tissue. Painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking! No Rust on my Railroad![swg]
Rick J [2c]
I haven’t been here for a while. The part of my layout I call Mooseport has been under construction for over a year, starting in November of 2011 with some cardstock mockups. The canal is the blue-striped paper line running from lower left to upper right:
Last January, I’d gotten this far:
Tuesday, I did the final pour of Envirotex in the mill canal.
Sorry if some of you have seen these before. Here’s a couple of pics of the new '40 20th Century Limited passenger cars that just came in this week:
RPO car with illuminated interior
Observation car
The interior lighting is all LED and nicely done by MTH. A keep-alive cap takes about a minute to fully charge when the car is laid on the track and the same amount of time to discharge, once you remove it from the track. Each car is also “appropriately” illuminated - i.e. the RPO and 17 Roomette sleeping cars are dimmer than the Observation car.
Tom
Here are a few I snapped with phone to show one of my coworkers my layout.
My recently completed scene. The Cheyenne UP Rail Shop.
Been working on some turn-of-the-century and pre-1900s cars that have been sitting in my drawers for awhile, starting with a Fine N Scale 36’ boxcar lettered for the Mt. Coffin Cannery that no longer exists and some CN N Scale ventilated boxcars, all with trucks designed by Panamint:
The 20-ton coal hoppers are a Chris333 designed lazer-cut kit and offered by Republic Locomotive Works (already had those done).
Photographed on the “Alameda-Belt-in-a-Box” layout my daughter & I built last summer: the layout is set in 1946-7, but the cars shot from certain angles rolls back the clock 
Great work again, this week.
Thanks for looking and thanks for sharing!
Great stuff everybody.
M C … You are very talented, and I like seeing your photos.
Here’s an older photo of a branch line train taking a load of coal to the old factory at the end of the line. The scare crow in the cornfield has crows all over him.
wish I had a better camera but my GP9 is very sleek looking, it has BLMA M hoses and BlMA cab sunshades.
Bear, the jackrabbit reference is to the acceleration and speed capabilities of the otherwise unnecessary thoroughbred on the head end. 4-8-4 locomotives were used for freight, but not that often, and not unless the freight had to get to its destination more quickly than a Mikado or Pacific class could take it. It would have been a waste of resources to put a 5011 series 2-10-4 there, fast and immensely powerful though the Santa Fe’s were, when an otherwise idle Northern type would do the job.
73 inch driver fast. Like jackrabbit. [8D]
Crandell
A pair of GP7’s with a WB freight take the siding at Stoney Creek. DJ.
Another good start to the best thread of the week. Keep the photos and ideas coming guys.
Here are a couple from the BRVRR:
I added some figures and props from the Woodland Scenics Farmer’s Market to my roadside tourist scene.
NYC ALCO RS-32 #8038 leads a short mixed local around ‘Pasture Curve’ on the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos coming everyone. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Looks like a great spot to railfan while picnicing.
Just a short video of a diesel hauled freight with a KCS SW1500 and an F unit slug pushing.
Last week i installed a TCS KA2 Keep alive Capacitor in my Rivarossi F-19 Pacific
and i worked so well i Added one to my Rivarossi Allegheny
Why a loco with such a long wheel base has stall problems is beyond me
But for me the 20 bucks is money well spent