It’s that time again…Weekend photo fun
First time posters: This is where we post photos of our week(end) projects on our model railroad empires, or post archive shots.
Here’s mine- a little update on the scratchbuilt trestle. Note this has been built entirely from styrene.
Let’s see some good stuff this week, as usual.
Good morning from warm, windy and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Jimmy, thanks for starting us out and you are making great progress on that bridge/trestle combination.
I managed to get a couple of cars done despite all the bowling I did last weekend as I was participating in the city tournament for Cleveland.
Branchline 50’ Double Door Boxcar kit, painted with Floquil PC Green and lettered with Microscale Decals. Car was originally built for the NYC as lot 864-B in 1957. Based on what I found it was in auto parts service and assigned to Pontiac Motors delivering axles.
This is the Third MDC 4700 CF FMC Covered Hopper kit I have built and painted in this scheme to service the new grain elevator at our club. Prototype was built in 1980 and changed hands numerous times as leases expired or changed hands.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Hi, Jimmy—
Good to see you here and the bridge is really shaping up well. Thanks for setting up the first WPF for May…
I’ve kept busy on several projects this week. Right now I only have a few photos but hope to get more posted soon.
Last week someone — I won’t mention any names [%-)] — made a rather uncomplimentary comment about (some) PRR electrics being ugly! Well, them’s retaliation words where I come from, so I’ll really show you ugly!
Again, not mentioning any names [:-^]
I had a couple of cabin cars awaiting the paint shop so I got the airbrush fired up since I was doing the PRR electric anyway:
PRR_cabin1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I’m making this N5 into a passenger Railway Express crew car and the little NDA lettered in an early scheme.
PRR_cabin-NDA4 by Edmund, on Flickr
The roof of the NDA is a case of a mistake turning out well! I began to mask around the cupola and decided brush painting would be easier than trying to mask around all those braces. Well, the old bottle of Model Master wasn’t cooperating so I gave a light dusting of rattle-can gray primer over the whole thing, then hit it with a warm air gun. All of a sudden those cracks showed up and they look great for an old crusty roof.
Rick, those cars are looking good. Have you any experience with inter mountain cars?
Ed, that N5 looks great.
Ed, its about time you modeled a real railroad, I did not say that the DD-1’s were ugly but uugly (so ugly that they needed two u’s).
If you need to see some more real railroad cars I sure I have a number of them to share with you like one of these!
Jimmy, I have built a large number of Intermountain kits including the Canadian 4 Bay 4550’s,PS 4750’s, ACF Two and Three Bay’s, 40’ and 50’ PS1’s, 1937 AAR and 1937 AAR Modified Boxcars, and ART & PC&F Refridgerator cars. Most are easy (to me) to build, but each have some hard processes in order to finish.
Rick Jesionowski
Howdy …
DT&I did have several obnoxious colors on its boxcars. They got worse after being in service for many years and rust accumulated.
Rick … Your freight cars look great.
Ed … The caboose looks very good .
Jimmy … Keep up the great work building that bridge.
Here are a couple of older pictures.
I got to ride the DT&I from Toledo to Detroit back in 1974. Many of the concrete catenary arches were still up. Come to think of it, wasn’t DT&I under Pennsy ownership when they electrified? They sure have a colorful history [Y]
I’ll concede to Uugly (capitalized AND with two u’s) when it comes to some of Pennsy’s “one-of-a-kinds” like the L5 shown here:
I loved and grew to admire the GG1s and E44s of course but I was never a big fan of Raymond Loewy’s styling tastes.
Thank you, Everyone! Hope to be back later, Ed
Thanks Jimmy for starting of WPF. The bridge/trestle appears to be progressing.
Rick - Nice cars. I particularly like the Jade Green Penn Central boxcar.
Ed - Good looking cabin cars.
Garry I like the busy background in the second photo.
Finally got around to putting some numbers in the number boards on my NYC E7(s).
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Hi Guys
This is my favorite topic on the Forum, I always check it out.
All of you do such great work it leaves me somewhat intimidated to post my work.
Again GREAT WORK GUYS!!!
I’ve been working on my SP heavy weight passenger cars for the last couple of months and they’re coming along pretty good.
The SP used tables and chairs in their heavy weight diners and I didn’t have anything close so I checked out Shapeways and bought a couple of packages of diner chairs.
I believe the rail line with concrete catenary was part of a Henry Ford railroad.
Great stuff, folks, sorry can’t leave more detail, as I have like 5 minutes to devote to WPF this week. I didn’t get anything inside going in HOn3, but my Fn3 beasts now have a real home to take cover from the elemernts in, the new Tin Cup enginehouse.
Yes, the electrification took place during Ford’s nine-year ownership of the DT&I. I mistakenly thought they electrified under Pennsy ownership after 1929.
The electrified segment was opened in January of 1926 and scrapped shortly after purchase by the PRR in 1929. They only had two, twin-unit, electric boxcab locomotives, I believe.
Ford, like Cornelius Vanderbilt, hated railroads.
Regards, Ed
First test fit of a new bridge.
Great stuff,everybody!..with a couple of hideous exceptions.[;)]
Ed: Isn’t that DTI car painted in the same “Sparkling Pea” as the Griswold’s “Family Truckster”?
497 heads for the roundhouse - a good photographer would have taken the shot before the pilot went behind the pole.[banghead]
Enjoy the weekend!
Mike
Thats where I’ve seen it before! [:D] Don’t we all love those colors of the '70s!
Happy Modeling! Ed
Allan … Thanks for commenting on my photos …
Mel … The chairs look great. Thnks for showing them. I will consider them next time I do an interior in a dining car or a restaurant.
Mike L … The turntable looks great.
South Penn … That is an awesome bridge.
Mike MIddleman … #497 looks fabulous, and the pole is not a problem in the photo.
Yesterday, I installed decoders in my Proto 1000 Santa Fe Fairbanks Morse Erie Builts. … I have owned the engines since before I converted my layout to DCC, and I finally got around to doing this installation.
Jimmy, Thanks for starting WPF and the opportunity to see your bridge progress. Modeling on an absolute flat surface like plate glass is a good idea.
Thanks to all the contributors, regards and Happy Cinco de Mayo, Peter
Peter, is that one of the new Rapido busses?
For your information the match for the green on the DT&I Green Boxcar is BN Cascade Green, so now you are dissing all the BN modelers on the forum now! [:-^]
South Penn, nice bridge for your layout.
Mel, those seats really look good in the car.
Gary, really like the looks of those Erie Builts in the Santa Fe colors.
Middleman Mike, looks like a photograph that I would take with a utility pole in the wrong place.
Rick Jesionowski
Yes, I added a driver and a few passengers, looking forward to weathering it and adding details, like advertisement placards, bus number and route/destination sign.
Regards, Peter
