Gidday All, a Happy Halloween to all of you who celebrate it.
Well a little more progress on the ferry.
Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One fflokes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Really good work Jabear!
Dave
Bear,
That’s positively bearific! And Happy Halloween[:-,]
Here’s hoping everyone gets treats[G]
WPF is great because it’s open to just about anything. Sometimes, like Ja Bear, we show our best work. Other times, we just show our work. I’m kinda proud of this one.
Don’t laugh, that FT runs great now. I do need to get some paint on that baling wire, though[;)]
In projects started, I made a fair start on the hay barn for the Hesperus stockyards. It’s important because they make a lot of hay around there and folks on along the narrowgauge up in the mountains buy it to feed their mules, horses, etc. Straw, too, for bedding and mud control. You can even ship it in stock cars, which are usually underutilized and available. This is how far the crew got by quitting time.
The battens are individually cut and applied, which gives a nice random look. There will be a dock on the rail side. Dingy, peeling white paint and a tin roof is probably next. And we’ll get that foundation leveled up.
Ran a nice doubleheader with C-19s #3 and #4 up to Eureka and Animas Forks earlier in the week.
And we’ll close with an image snapped from the marketing dept’s helicopter, which was getting some pics to promote the 2015 San Juan Zephyr schedule. The Zephyr is sitting in Silverton while everyone gets lunch.
Good morning everyone on All Hallowed Eve!!
Bear, that ferry looks great, still can’t get over the size of those stacks!
Mike, some of the in progress pictures are as informative as the finalized model!
Got some cars done this week, and here they are.
Bowser N5c Cabin Car kit with an added Cal-Scale Trainphone Antenna kit and ECW Caboose Windows. Painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freightcar Red and Black, then lettered with Champ Decals.
The Ann Arbor leased one hundred of these 1958CF Covered Hoppers of various parentage from Chicago Freight Car for use in Casting Sand Service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland), OH. Cars could have the solid or the open sides. This is the 3rd Car I have done and this one has the solid side, added airlines and A-Line Sill Steps to the model, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Walthers giant Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper Kit, installed all the metal grabs, then painted with a mixture of Scalecoat II MofW Gray/Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. (Hard to find a decal for these cars.)
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween everybody!
Bear, Those smoke stacks look great.
Mike, Nice shots of the narrow guage as always.
Rick, love the rolling stock, especially the N5c cabin car.
Well, work continues at Horseshoe Curve. I replaced the cloud paper backdrop, which was splatttered with plaster and what not. I replaced it by painting the backdrop blue.
Also been planting trees and installing rock formations.
Trick or Treat
Bear … Nice work on your ferry project.
Mike L… Bailing wire? … There must be more to the story. … Nice layout photos
again.
Rick … I like the Pennsy cabin car and the AA covered hopper.
Mr. B … Boo !
GP9 … Tha is a scary PRR keystone
I showed this scene last week with a gas electirc car. Here it is with the GE 44T performing hauling a box car on the branch line.
Mr. B,
Love the annual appearance of the Grim Railfan…
Rick, GP9_Man and Garry,
Thanks for the comments[:D]
Garry,
Yeah, there is, in the DCC and Electronics Forum: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/239484.aspx
Very good work Mike. What I would Like to know is how big is your layout. I have seen many photos of it and it must be very large. Thanks
Here is my rock cut that I have been working on for my N scale layout:
Having only been a model railroader for about five years and this being my first layout, this is the first scenery that I have ever attempted. I still have trees, vines, different shrubs, reinstalling the track and then adding ballast to go yet (plus a little more dry brushing on the rocks). But I am pretty happy with my work thus far.
Have a great weekend all and Happy Halloween!
Regards,
Don.
Great rocks, Don[tup]
Nice work from everyone, esp. the Halloween themes. A GP7 doing a little switching.
Bear your ferry is looking good.
Mike great photos as usual.
dti406, Love the little Pennsy cabin car.
GP-9 Man, Great Keystone!
Garry it is still a great scene.
Don your work looks good to me.
Grampy another great photo.
I have been slowly adding to my Amtrak consist for the past few months. Below are a couple of ConCor Superliner cars which are recent additions and a few photos of some of the modifications I made to the cars.
SuperlinerDiner.
SuperlinerSleeper32067.
To both cars, I installed new body mounted Kadee’s with draft gear boxes and replaced the ‘push-pin’ truck mounts with #6 brass screws. I installed wound wire pickups on the axles of each truck. I soldered a power lead to each pick-up and routed the lead through a small hole in the car body.
On the interior of the car I added a few ounces of weight and soldered six split tape type LEDs to the leads. I put the LEDs on the interior roof and fixed them in place with cellophane tape as the original adhesive isn’t very tacky.
Here is a photo of the car with the lights on in the dark. Sorry for the quality of the image.
Both cars received the same treatment and are welcome additions to my Amtrak consist. The youngest grandson loves them.
Still some things to do. Fabricate and install an interior on the upper deck and put in a few passengers but those things will have to wait for awhile.
In addition, I purchased a powered chassis for my dummy AMD-103 loco, but that will have to wait until nex
Allan,
That’s a pretty good pic, as it’s hard to get the exposure right, even with things set to Auto. I try Manual settings sometimes and the camera is usually smarter than me. I know what you mean about needing to fill the interior after things are nicely lit.
On some of my tape light installs, I’ve been able to fix the segment in place so that the center LED shines down, but the two end segments tilt up a little at each end to spread the light out more down the aisle each way.
So much inspirational work presented here…well done all!
A busy day, but I did squeeze in time to finish the new barn, as well as gave it a the first pass of weathering.
Yeah, I know about the posts floating under the dock…
A Repeat of last week
My open house for the Houston TX Area is Nov 15th and 16th
http://sanjac.leoslair.com/styled-5/index.html
Everyone’s invited
for those that can’t make it here’s a peak
Sing It Willie
Mike,
Thanks for the tip about tilting the lights. I’ll give it a try. I’m not happy with the uneven light in the cars which is why I ‘split’ the light strip. Your idea sounds like a good fix.
Thanks again.
The day after Halloweening, unfortunately with leftover candy on the counter. How to solve that??
I’m enjoying the realistic scenes people are showing, an ultimate goal for me. Plus the techniques shown, such as hand built board & batten. I often don’t contemplate scratch options.
Well, I got my first two buildings lit, both these with multiple 3-LED sections. I’m getting the knack of soldering the small wire to the small connection spots, and strengthening with an epoxy blob. These look “cooler” than in the photos. Still experimenting with paint colors, but these with gray/sand color floor and tan interior walls (over primer). I added Peco inspection pits to the engine house and really like the addition.
Thanks Bear, Your project is looking swell, and thanks to your countryman G.V. Hudson many may enjoy an extra hour of model railroading tomorrow.
Mike, “Tanks” for the curved stairway tip. Managed to fumble finger the caged ladder, oh the pain of it, but have another on the way from Tichy.
Thanks to all, Peter
