Okay, I know it’s early, but I work tomorrow morning, and I wanted to start the thread this week. All I got this week was progress on one of two SD40-2 units for my freelanced railroad the AVDC
Let’s keep seeing the good stuff/
Still messing with the roadway and applying ballast and scenery as we go. Roadways are not my favorite thing to do so it takes me a few attempts to get the look I want. The pedestrian bridge in the backround is a doubled up plasticville piece that fit right in this space, but was intended for the other end of the layout.
Rich
Gidday Jimmy, thanks for kicking off WPF; as it’s a three day weekend here, Monday being ANZAC Day which is our day of remembrance, we’ll be able to make it an extra long WPF. I like the use of your railroads initials on the front of your locomotive.
Rich, the lighting may be less than ideal but your roading and scenery looks good to me. I know you’ve commented before that roadways are not your favourite thing to do, but you’ve got me wondering that if a hobby isn’t challenging, is it a worthwhile hobby?
Hey Bear!
That is pretty good detail for HO scale! Getting all the radio controls lined up so nicely must have been a bit of a challenge in itself.
I do have to point out that the radio operator has not been doing his/her job. There are no notes on the pad![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]
Cheers!
Dave
It’s nearly impossible to see as it is mostly obscured by the pencil but if you look really closely, I think you may just make out that it reads “Dave’s not here Man!!” [swg]
Good start on the weekend, Jimmy, Rich and Bear. All of you are doing nice work, keep it up the more you do the better you get at it!
Managed to finish a couple of cars this week!!
Robbins Rails PS1 Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals.
Intermountain R70-20 PC&F Reefer Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Armour Yellow and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Pair of U30B Walthers Proto Engines that I acquired last year, very well done and well running engines. They are passing the new bulk unloading area at the Strongsville, OH Club layout, Leon Lavdas scratch built the scale based on real ones he used on his job as a truck driver. He also acquired the trailer seen on the scale from Shapeways and painted it for use on the layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Jimmy … Evidently the early SD40-2 catches the worm. … LOL … Your SD40-2 looks great !
Rich … Your industrial scene looks great … Roads look terrific.
Bear … Fantastic ! … I have never seen a better looking HO scale note pad with pencil … Perhaps, you should post a tutorial on how to make a note pad and pencil. … LOL … The chair, desk, and radio all look outstanding too.
Rick … I like the U30B’s and your recent freight cars look real …
Below is my doodlebug …
A great start to WPF guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
Not much time with the trains the past 10-days or so. Out of state family trip took up most of a week. So, here is one from the BRVRR website:
Remember the MR series on “Pike Sized” passenger trains? This is my Pennsylvania RR version of one. PK2 loco and a short consist of Walther’s passenger cars.
Keep the photos coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
JaBear:
No pictures from me, but I had to say your mention of ANZAC Day reminded me of the wonderful and moving Eric Bogle song, “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, covered by Priscilla Herdman and others. We can celebrate the bravery and sacrifice of those soldiers, but maybe the event itself is too sad to celebrate.
From the other side of the world, our thoughts are with you and your countrymen.
Tom
K4s crossing Hammer Creek.
Switch crew at beans at the local TB.
Looks like another great week here… great job everyone!
Bear… I have always been told I write too small… If I had that pad of paper and pencil I would have fun with those who tell me that…
Here are a few pics from one of my mines…
Ahhhhhhhh… The weekend has arrived with the start of THEE thread! And a great start it is, I might add.
Over the last couple weeks, whenever I have had a few minutes and needed to take a break from the pile of obligations needing to be done I have been working on a Laser Art kit. The Albion House to be exact. Basically an easy kit to do, but I still deidn’t get some things lined up perfectly. Not worried about it as the house will be a background building…
Don’t like the color for the roof, so I will be repainting it to darken it a bit.
73
Nice work everyone.
Grampys Trains,
Great photo. It reminds me some pictures of O. Winston Link in The Last Steam Railroad in America, particularly the one on page 43. [Y]
I’m rather late to the game this WPF, but the finish of the diss unleashed a pent-up demand for my services at the honey-do turnstyle. Me and the computer both were nodding off last night before I could get my pics processed. As it is, it looks a little like one of the home decorating do-over programs, only this one is fortunately (to stay on topic) rail-related, finishing up my new crew lounge.
Last week, things were painted, but now I have the room dividers, etc finished up. Made them from pegboard so they’d be handy for arranging depending on need. I put up my most frequently used tools on the one by the stairs.
The divider on the left serves several purposes. First, it discourages the cats from leaping up to the one part of the layout they can get to which pokes out next to the entrance door. It also serves to hold various ops clipboards, radios, etc. There’s some spots that are handy to leave drinks at for the operators. I’ve got this cool set of coasters that play on the end of the day in the aircraft field. It’s safe to drink when you’re level, at 0 knots, and pointed north. There’s one missing upstairs somewhere that shows 0 altitude[;)] Bear will appreciate these, maybe others. We need a set of these with a RR-related thematic set of gauge readings, right?
The other thing this divider does is help frame the entrance to the layout room. Here’s looking out.
There’s a recycled fold-out table to supplement the side table when a little extra display room is needed.
Gotta have some trains, though…
My uncle owned a Taco Bell in San Fernando valley for it’s 20 year franchise life from 1967-1987 but it, and the one I worked in in Davis CA didn’t reddish brown walls like that; rather they were all very light tan like the color behind the Taco Bell lettering on the top. Never saw one that color.
I never saw a 55/56 Chevy that color combo either! [swg]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Hello Everyone…
Great to see all the terriffic contributions, as always! Thanks for the opening salvo, Jimmy!
My week was pretty much taken up with outdoor chores and w**k but I did manage to get started on a signal bridge…
Here, it is temporarily set in place. It’s an Oregon Rail Supply PRR style bridge with BLMA three color searchlight heads. I’ll wire them to Logic Rail Signal Animators and have them tied to the Tortoise contacts to have proper orientation to the points.
Messing around with 36 ga. magnet wire is not my favorite thing but I’m through with that part of the job!
On to more Good Stuff!
Regards, Ed
I’m certain that the talented ffolkes around here Garry don’t need me to give them a tutorial; even I found it relatively easy. I only lost three pencils, and then managed to glue another to the tweezers instead of the notepad. The only things I really struggled with was sharpening the pencil, and inscribing a legible HB at the other end. [:-^]
Thanks to everyone for their really Good Stuff, [bow]
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Thanks Tom, I hadn’t heard that song for years, it’s pretty evocative, and so is this one, another Australian written song, of a later war that saw US, Oz and Kiwi troops involved in. I saw it performed live at Hyde Park in Sydney 1980(?)