Gidday All, Well another cold crisp Friday evening with a hint of frost.
The Bears thoughts on what Weekend Photo Fun is about.
I’ve noticed of late that some submitters to WPF have mentioned that perhaps their offerings are not up to scratch (my words) and would like to put to those gentlemen, and any “Lurkers”, or newbies, that all that is actually required is quite simple.
(1) A photo! Generally of some aspect of model railroading but a railroad theme is also perfectly acceptable.
(2) FUN!!! That should be self explanatory.
“So come on in, the waters fine, the more the merrier”.[swg]
Last WPF I mentioned that I had been to a hobby exhibition, so as w**k has once again interfered with my modelling, her
Nice loco, Bear!
The wharf scene on my layout is slowly developing.
Great Pictures so far! I would like to share some Pictures from my CP Engines and Rolling Stock. The Engines are mady by my Friend Rod Walker and the Cars by Gary Christensen.
I like the way you hand painted that old photo Ulrich. [;)][:)]
Excellent point on the “requirements” to appear in WPF, Bear. Prototype or model, just about anything goes…Hey, in back there, no mooning!?!…Gotta keep it clean, but other than the usual rules of the road for any posting in the Forums, please don’t doubt whatever you have to show off is interesting to others.
In fact, what you have may not be scenic, finished, or even particularly polished. That’s surely the case with me this week. I’ve been working on diesels most of the week. Parts arrived from NWSL to repower my K&M Engineering Pty HOn3 chassis. After some sloppiness and shoddy work [+o(] – see? anything goes – I came up with a better performing drive. Then I didn’t take pictures with the shell off…but it still looks like this…
Meanwhile, the build contonues on my PSC DL-535E kit. NWSL parts let me finish the basic driveline after I mangled one u-joint in a fit of stupidity, so I test ran the chassis.
I managed to complete the “front porch” and assembled the basic shell, so it’s starting to look like a locomotive…
Heck, I’ll even throw in pics of a Monon RS-2 working the quarry-to-mill run south of Bloomington in the stone district. We lived just south of the big mill in the first pic at one time, while the road crossing shot is at Rockport Road.
Well after the NMRA Convention last week a niece’s wedding in New Jersey over the weekend, did not get a lot done last week.
I do not think I ever posted pictures of this project I started some time ago, and has stagnated on the workbench for a while as I worked out the latching mechanism I was going to use.
This is a marriage of an old AHM Clamshell Gon originally ordered by the P&LE and B&LE for the transportation of steel coils to cope with the removal of coil covers etc. Concept was brilliant but did not take into effect the vagaries of crane operators who damaged the coil covers so badly that they did not close.
The interior of the AHM car is a joke, so I am wedding the frame and interior of a Walthers coil car to the exterior of the AHM Gon.
Also as bad as the interior of the gon is, the undeframe is a real joke and does not match the prototype drawings that were published in MR years ago. These are side by side comparisons of the AHM Gon and Walther’s Coil Car.
Here are the cars after I have removed the frame and inside of the gon using my trusty Dremel Tool with a cutoff disc. The coil car has been completely disassembled into its component parts of the frame, coil fra
A good beginning to WPF guys.
I have been working on updating my inventory in RRTrains and in DecoderPro. Here is a photo taken during that effort.
NYC F7A #1855 at the head of a mixed freight crossing Route 32 in Black River.
Bear, I would be interested to know if you can see my photos from my new website (brvrr.com). I remember you had some problems with my websites’ previous location that I could never figure out. There is a link in my signature as well.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Great start to the photo session. Here’s a tipple just finished for the C&O Hawks Nest Branch. It was kitbashed from a Heljan Tuscon Silver Mine kit and parts from various Walther’s kits (took about 3 months to get it done).
Thanks!
Charles
Bear love the #7 one cool lookin loco
Ulrich Your Dock Scene is a work of art
Mike i love the old RS2’s
Rick Awesone Coil car
Allan Nice shot of the F unit
Charles A very convincing mine tipple
Still waiting on my decoder to install into my RDC Budd car may have pictures next week
An EB Alco rounds the curve at Stoney Creek.
Bear: The 2-4-4-2 is a loco with character. Nice.
Ulrich: … Looks like a post card with a real photo. Great!
Rick: … You’re building a prize winning model coil car.
Mike L … More impressive work this week with diesels.
DJ . ( Grampy) … Beautiful stone bridge and Alco.
Allan… Nice F7 shot. I can nearly hear the EMD engine growling.
Charles. … That is a great looking mine.
Terry in TX … Looking forward to seeing your RDC.
Below is a GE 44 T working at the scrap yard.
Here’s a D&RGW coal unit train on the Moffat line.
Good work today, I really like the “oddball” narrow gauge equipment.
I have a few photos this week. First off, I started planning my next project (hope to have it mostly finished to show off in November), the Wheeling and Lake Erie business car 1990. I drew out my blueprints to HO scale, and now just to save up for the donor car and all the misc parts.
Second, here’s a photo of my Wheeling unit leading a string of 6 hoppers for the Wheeling I picked up this week,
Third. One final shot of them.
One more.
Have a great weekend all.
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More immulsion fluid would help [:P]
Picture was taken off the RD Moses layout , located at the museum in Jefferson TX.
Hi Allan,
Great photo. I too had problems getting to see your photos hosted on internode. The new site is working just fine from Australia.
cheers
Once again a good variety of Good Stuff everyone**.** [bow]
.“Hey, in back there, no mooning!?!”
Surely this is OK Mike?
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/153052087307006943/
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I am new to this forum. I’ve been posting in the “Show Me” thread, but its nice to see we have a “Photo Fun” thread too.
Here’s one of a concrete batching plant I scratch built in HO scale;
No doubt, looking at model railroad pics is fun! Thanks to all for sharing.
Ended up with an unintented partial selfie for the background, still I think my t-shirt a better background than the table saw. Maybe I should have been wearing a blue t-shirt, but it is the last weekend of Le Tour.
regards, Peter
“JaBear” and Alantrains,
Thanks for the quick reply. I’m glad to hear that you can see the photos here on WPF and on my website. I never could figure out what was wrong with the Intergate storage site.
Keep the good stuff coming from the bottom of the world guys.