Gidday All, Well a change in w**k now means that I’m doing slightly longer hours plus an extra 1 1/2 hours a day travel, which has certainly put a crimp into my modelling time, not that I’m really complaining., so am going to “cheat” with a couple of prototype photos.
The workshop is at the southern end of the log loading yard at the terminus of the Murupara Branchline and while switching activities usually take place during work hours, i managed to take these near the end of my lunch break.
DFB 7307, DL 9037, DCP 4830…
DC 4070, DCP 4830, DL 9037, DFB 7307 having just dropped a rake of empties, are now running round to pick up the loaded log cars. Double heading is usual on the branch, would have been interested to know what the total on this occasion was.
Somebody really went to a lot of trouble to weather the loco’s just right. Now how can I do that??
BTW, here’s a tiny HO ‘dynamite house’ just finished:
Its modeled after photos and ground-truth measurements taken at a tipple complex that is being built. The foot print for this is just around a real square inch. The cement block walls are a 3D building paper glued to foam core, door is something from my scrap box and the roof is a piece of styrene covered with gesso.
I suppose I will end the month with my selection of New York Central System Cars:
My second P&E Enterprise Covered Hopper one of 30 from Lot 747-H, Eastern Car Works kit with added airlines, painted Scalecoat II MOW Gray and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals.
My second GACX 2600 CF Covered Hopper assigned to the NYC, added the airline under the side of the car, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals, (included with the set above).
Proto 2000 Boxcar, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Champ Decals.
Great photos as usual everyone. My contribution is a newly painted NYC E8A. A Proto 2000 model that has been stripped, painted gray and lettered with Microscale decals. Needed a little decal modification as unit has two headlights.
Nice work guys, and thanks to the Bear for pics of narrowgauge diesels we don’t often see in the Northern Hemisphere.
I’ve been hard at work on ballasting, so may start a thread on that once it’s finished here this weekend… I managed to finish up my Grandt HOn3 23-tonner. It runs surprisingly well, considering it’s puny size and having just 4 wheels on the track.
And, “Honey, I put another hole in the wall”…[;)]
The hole leads into my staging area and is the current end of the Cascade Branch. It handles mostly cut logs down to the mill at Rockwood, plus another mine. All in my head right now, but it will provide me with some elbow room for expansion when I get the itch to build and lay track again.
Previously, the Cascade Branch was a dead end behind a mountain just big enough to hold this short train out of sight. There was access, but you really couldn’t use it to swap loads of logs onto cars. Now everything’s in easy reach. Now that it’s been punched through the wall and with the quickie backdrop, it’s already giving me the itch to extend the end of track again.[}:)][;)]
Happy Friday everyone! I’ve been missing in action this past week, this is the busiest season here at the Salamanca Rail Museum. Bear, you temporarily fooled me! Realism at it’s peak!
I love the gray NYC E8’s, even though they were rather plain as compared to their lightning striped predecessors, they were still very nice looking locos.
Here’s a shot of the Pennsy track gang working with the crane, getting ready to drop ties for some late summer maintenance. Everyone stays in the clear waiting for the eastbound freight to pass.
Lovely images, everyone. Grampy, that’s a very nice scene you have there. VERY nice job on the roadwork and cement trailer pad.
I only have old photos, so here is one from the past. It’s in keeping with the season. I’m pretty sure an RPO with parcels for Christmas is close to the locomotive, but still in the tunnel.
Great photos, everyone–here’s my weekend contribution: The Rio Grande never owned any 2-10-0’s that I know of, however mine does. Here’s mine easing a short stock train down Yuba Pass.
Gidday All, a good variety of Great Stuff as per usual.
Bob, the next time I’ll put the “cheat” and “prototype” in capital letters. [swg] I do like your scene.
mlehmanMike, It might appear strange, but I guess that because I’ve grown up with three foot six gauge as “normal”, when “narrow gauge” is mentioned I tend to think of the North American prototypes. [:)] [:-^]
Some do consider 3’ to be “Colorado standard gauge” but I like to make the distinction by running dual-gauge.[:)]
Funny how that works. Wherever you are is pretty much “normal” but that works especially well when you’re young and don’t know any different. Ah, to be young again[8-|]
And I am planning a trip next year to the land of North American 3’6", Newfoundland, alas, some 35 years too late – something else I shoulda done when I was young and saw it on the railroad map. Live and learn. There’s a bit to see from those I correspond with on theYahoo group, a good bunch who I’m sure will direct me to all the sights left to see of Newfoundland standard gauge.[Y][B]
the layout and this spur are standard gauge (built with a “narrow” point of view)… The cars are just staged here for the photo. I didn’t have quite enough space on this siding to have both…
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