Gidday All, only a four day w**king week but feels if 5 1/2 days were crammed in. I’m whacked. A photo from last weeks exposition. Looking forward, as per usual, to the Good Stuff.
Have a Great One Folks,
Cheers, the Bear.
That looks great Bear,
I put together a short video using a usb spy camera I got on ebay. It came out OK in my opinion. I only have a small layout so some stations may look familiar after a while. The loco is a Bachmann 4-4-0 with sound, but the camera adds a bit of noise so you can’t hear it too well. Hope you enjoy it.
Thought I’d put some F for fun in the video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0728mK4J5No
Actually it was an accident.
cheers
Gidday Allan, Nothing like a good [(-D] [(-D][(-D] on a Friday night.
Cheers, the Bear.
Glad you enjoyed it Bear,
I’m a 1 ‘L’ Alan btw.
Some say Alan is a four letter word! 
cheers
Its the weekend!!!
Here’s a RBOX I’ve been working on. I added a few washes of red to give it that RBOX red tint look. I then added some grime to the ribs and rust pits/streaks. I also faded out the “arrows” on the side of the car. The roof was done in layers as well.
Nothing new this week, but here are a couple of old shots to remind me of the time I lived next to the NKP/Wabash joint line in Toledo, OH.
Both pictures were taken on the Strongsville OH Society of Model Railroad Engineers club layout.
Rick J [2c]
Southern Rwys switcher works businesses on a spur…
I hope everyone has a good weekend with nice weather!
Jarrell
Great stuff so far guys.
Bear- I forgot to ask last week about the build difficulty of the ribbed box car. I was looking at the site and would like to build a couple for my layout.
I have a very short video that I shot this week of my new Con-Cor Pennsy FOM passenger cars. Although they are not strictly prototypical I really like the art deco feel to them.
I installed a TCS KA2 capacitor in my H-8 it sure does improve operations
I can almost smell the cutting oil, feel the deep incessant hum of electric motors and hear the cacophony of metal being shaped. The throbbing whir of spinning chucks, tool steel against cast iron singing out. Drive belt slapping to the rhythmic drone of a heavy cut. A vibrating crescendo of squeal and chatter, punctuated by errant shouts and cat-calls. The sharp bang of a hammer and the metallic clatter of wrenches mingle with the pop and hiss of a torch…
regards, Peter
Curt, don’t know about Bear’s cars but I have built two of them and have three more to build.
This is a stock kit, like the metal grabs you get with the kit, also the decals are included. Also trucks from EB Companay (Old Lindberg Sprung Trucks) are included, I changed out the wheels with Intermountain Metal Wheels.
This was a modification I made based on an article I saw in Mainline Modeler, substiturted a 10’ door out of the scrapbox, removed the cast on door quides and installed my own from evergreen strip styrene. lettered with Detail Associaties Decals. The WP purchased 3 of these cars from the Milwaukee Road for use in the Amana Appliance Pool.
Rick J
Peter, you can get part of what you are imagining by adding a sound module to your factory. ITTP has a number of factory and industry sound modules that may work. Look about half way down the page under Specialty Sounds.
How I disguised this hole in the scenery
From this
To this
George,
Thanks for the link, only they left out the shouts and cat-calls, of course a lot of those would not be considered G-rated, Hah!
regards, Peter
I relettered this GS-6 from Western Pacific, to Southern Pacific. So I can now use it with my daylight cars.
Great Photos so far. Keep on posting, everybody!
Has anybody seen DJ (Grampy’s Trains) lately?
Here is my Walthers Heritage USRA 2-10-2. As of yesterday, it has a Sountraxx Tsusami decoder, and it is chuffing up the hill here.
That’s a fine looking GS-6 Michael, that you re-lettered for the espee. Can you tell me who makes it?
Just putting the finishing touches on my winter’s project - the Grays Harbor addition to my Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Will.
Not new model work, but new photo work of models. There was a request in a thread to show one’s layout in ONE (only) photo. I am building a linear around-the-walls that cannot be captured in one shot, so I Photoshopped together a linear view.
Other image: for an online discussion, I needed to scan a snapshot from about 35 years ago. About 1978, I was asked to provide a diorama for a library display on model trains. It had to go in the back of a library case behind a display of railroad and modeling books. The diorama would be limited to 1 foot deep by 6 feet long. I built a vaguely Southwestern desert town scene with a Santa Fe train. I scanned this picture of a part of that diorama to show some early N scale “craftsman” kits. The Southwest mission style depot was a cardstock kit- don’t remember the manufacturer. I wanted a “town” but had no space, so I used a wood and brass kit, may have been Western Railcraft, called “Three Olde Stores.” Used them as flats.
The warehouse in the foreground was a plastic kit, AHM’s “Chemical Plant,” probably from Pola.
Thanks Will. Its an MTH. They were just released 2 weeks ago.
When I stopped imaging on my last layout two years ago, I thought I had done a pretty decent job of the scenery and of imaging some nice shots on it. But two years later, I see that my effort is now dated…most of you have exceeded and excelled while I was standing still. [:S] However, all I have if I want to play is the marbles I brung, so here is yet another older shot.
Crandell