It’s that time of the Week again. Weekend Photo fun. For those new here, this thread is posted by a member at the end of the week, so we can exhibit what we have been working on.
Bruceton station, that stood on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, until mid 2015. Originally built by the P&WV railway. Started with styrene sheets and detail parts. Looks like a building with the weathering huh?
Okay, now let’s see what everyone else has been working on.
Hey Jimmy!
Thanks for starting WPF.
The weathering is really good!
I’m working on a tiny HOn30 electric ‘tow motor’ (for lack of a better word). It will haul two small carts and a gondola between the machine shop, wheel shop and the roundhouse. I have decided to go DCC and I will use a Tam Valley Depot Train Shuttle module to run it back and forth automatically every few minutes.
Here is the size compared to an HO scale SW-9:
There are two parts to it. The front (gray) is the tow motor itself with the drive wheels. The second part (red and white) is where the actual motor resides. It will look like a gondola with a load when complete.
I cannibalized an N scale Bachmann 4-4-0 for the drive parts. The tow motor body is made out of 1/16" lead sheet and the gondola it the original 4-4-0 tender with the sides sanded down.
Here is the donor locomotive:
Here is all that’s left of the locomotive. Unfortunately the side rods won’t fit inside the shell so they have to go:
Power pickup has been added to the chassis. The original locomotive got power only through the tender. I have removed the original rubber tires from the drivers. The train is so short that they won’t be needed:
I have an ESU LokPilot Nano decoder on order. They are tiny! 8.0mm x 7.0mm x 2.8mm. The gondola is 14.0mm wide. The decoder will sit on the top of the gondola and be disguised as a crate or a locomotive part. I have figured out how to hide the wires so the only wiring that wi
Jimmy … You did nice work with the station.
Dave … You are creative with your tow motor project.
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Here is some main line action in front of the flour mill. A GN passenger train has F3 AB freight diesels and a steam generator car. It is overtaking a Burlington freight train with FT’s.
Jimmy, Nice work on the station!
Dave, Tiny stuff looks good[:D]
GARRY, A prosaic shot of spring as the weather warms up.
Nothing new in pics this week, as have been operating two days this week already, plus getting ready for the annual Lincoln Square Train Show in downtown Urbana, IL (Sat, 10am-6pm and Sun, 11am-4pm). The NMRA will have a table there. After the show on Sat. from 6:30-8:30pm, two local layouts will be open for tours if you stop by the table, introduce yourself, and pickup an invite. One is my D&RGW Four Corners Division and the other is Bill Navigato’s recently relocated Chicago, Peroria & Southern.
Here’s a few vintage pics from the Four Corners Division. An overall shot of part of the layout, looking past Chattanooga towards Silverton, with Durango in the left background.
Tefft, at the junction with the Cascade Extension.
The Wilde Mine on the Silverton Northern.
The bridge over Lime Creek Gulch on the Cascade Extension.
Camp 13.
Hope you are able to make the big show. Stop in and say hi.[#welcome]
Jimmy, thanks for starting WPF, nice looking station, looks similar to the one by Glenwillow, here in Ohio.
Garry, always liked the paint schemes of the Burlington and GN, nicely framed picture.
Dave, that tow motor project looks daunting, would probably work for the ore dock shunters like at Whiskey Island here in Cleveland.
Work on modeling has been slow this week, so I took a picture out of the archives from the Strongsville Model Railroad club.
NYC GP40’s with a mixed freight, passing a coal drag hauled by a pair of GP9’s.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
I made a Video of Some of the features on my layout
Thanks to all for sharing again your interesting projects and scenes.
I’ll add yesterday’s easy and fun project, assembling a BB heavy duty flat car (I like those 4-truck cars) with an American Model Buliders LaserKit load with 7 rather large motors. I added Kadees and Intermountain wheelsets.
I paid a heavy price for the flat car kit, 257% of the $3.50 MSRP even though the axles were rusting, and the box was abused!
As always, this is the best thread of the week and always interesting to see other people’s work.
Catching some rays…
Hello, again, Folks!
Last day of March! Wow… where does the time Go?? OK, don’t try to answer that!
Thanks for setting up the WPF this week, Jimmy. That old derelect depot looks great. It certainly captures the “down-side” of railroading and that’s the era I remember. Still it was a part of reality. How about some “NO Tresspassing” signs on the walls?
Dave, you are sure living up to your moniker of being the “Critter Meister”! That looks like a fun project. Kind of reminds me of one of those mining mules that haul the mine cars in and out of the shafts. I wonder how those guys worked around the overhead wire on the electric ones? It looks like it is only six feet over the rail!
Garry, You and I share a passion for BIG buildings! I love the massiveness of that mill! How did you do the great looking distressed concrete retaining wall in the lower part of the photo? Very nice job [Y]
Mike, Thanks for the archive view. Good luck on your show and layout tour!
Rick, That scene sure is reminiscent of the era of this area’s locomotives… Dark Green and black. Nice shot.
Terry, I can’t seem to get to your video from that link. It takes me to MY YouTube page? Can you try again? If you use the “Insert Video” link to the right of the photo link in the edit menu it will imbed the video right into the frame.
Paul, I also love to have lots of flat cars on my layout. Those AMB loads are great [Y]. Good Job!
Nice work on the tank car, too, P-C! That ballast work is sure sharp, as well!
Continuing on my Post Office Annex saga, this week I fitted in the connecting overhead roadway between the existing warehouse and the PO. I had to wait for more RIX bridge parts to arrive.
I will have t
Really great stuff from everyone, this week.
Terry, I had the same issue a week ago when I inserted a video link.
My problem was that at my YouTube site I went to my video and copied the address shown in the browser address bar. I subsequently determined that I needed to copy the “Video URL” (in the box on the right when on that video in Video Manager). Then in your forum post, from the menu line select Insert / Insert Video /General tab…and just paste the URL into the “source” box.
I hope that is your solution.
Let me see if this works:
For some reason, Terry, your link above has the words “edit?” in it. I have noticed that the word “watch” has to be part of the YouTube link to make it work. This is the extent of my html experience [:-^]
Ed
Mike L., Rick, and Ed … Thanks for commenting on my photo.
Ed … The retaining wall is made from strips of plastic “for Sale” signs from the hardware store. I sprayed it with fleck paint, and I weathered with acrylic paints. … Your city scene is looking great.
Mike L … I like your mine scene as well as the rest of your photos.
Gramp … I like your switcher photo.
Everybody … Great work so far in this WPF.
Wow, I took a slow scroll through all post so far, excellent stuff!
I finially got a start on a year old idea of scratch building/kit bash of a transfer caboose.
This is only about a mile from me, in the car barn of the East Troy Electric Railroad and Museum. It was MILW transfer caboose 1738. When the ETERR aquired it, it still had the ladders and running board. I’ve been given permission to photo and take some measurements, as long as some of their people are their.
I started at the bottom, with the trucks. I’ve been looking for a year now, and found some from Precision Scale. Can’t find anybody with them in stock, and have not heard back from PS as of yet, so Istarted messing around with some trucks from my parts box, that looked close.
The original is on the right, my attempt at altering it on the left. I tried to remove some bulk, milled out the coil springs with my Dremel, and fashioned the leaf springs.
The other side:
Hopefully, this week when the guys from the ETERR are there working, I can get some pics and measurements.
I plan on scratch building the frame, as I have no old caboose fram that will work without heavy altering. The prototype used L3 tender frames and trucks.
Thats it for this week, Keep up the great work guys!
Mike.
Dave. I cannot wait to see this project finished.
I just got a new project! I stopped in Trainmaster in Buford, Georgia last week. They had a used Bowser 16" turntable in PERFECT condition! I bought it immediately.
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This actually changes a lot of plans. I intended to buy a Cornerstone 90’ (12") turntable. I never thought I would find the Bowser turntable. My whole track plan was designed around the 12" turntable. The extra 4" does not sound like much, but it eats up the real estate intended for the lead to the industrial district.
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As they say… back to the drawing board… literally this time!
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-Kevin
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Kevin —
That 16" turntable makes a lot of sense. It scales out to approximately 116 scale feet. It should turn just about any steam engine short of a Big Boy (not sure about the DM&IR 2-8-8-4 that is soon to be released). B&O and C&O normally used 115’ tables to turn EM-1 2-8-8-4’s and H-8 2-6-6-6’s. A 2-unit set of F’s will fit easily, too. The 12" table wouldn’t be able to do all that.
Congrats on the find!
Tom
I really think you captured the “look” of that station, Jimmy. So sad that it could not be saved.
http://www.west2k.com/papix/bruceton.jpg
Regards, Ed
I agree Ed, Jimmy did a great job! Jimmy, arent you guy that did the scratch build of the ugly looking loco at a ADM facility? A thread in here, just recenty, had a few pics of the prototype.
Mike.
Yes, I’m eager to see how well it turns out, and more importantly, how well it operates. We will both have to be patient because the decoder won’t be here for a month or so. I could order one from the US (I’m in Canada) but the shipping cost is more than double, and I’m getting a decent exchange rate through my Canadian source. I order through Action Hobbies in Kingsville, Ontario. I beat the duty and the shipping is cheap and fast. Besides, if I order from the States it will take close to three weeks to arrive anyhow. The only reason it will take four weeks from Action Hobbies is that they only order from ESU once per month.
There, that was a bunch of useless information![zzz][swg][(-D]
Dave