Well everyone, its that tiime of the week again… With this weekend being fathers day in the US. So let’s see what you’ve been working on this week, and bring out the good stuff
My main thing this week was to get a decoder put in my custom done Buffalo and Pittsburgh SD40-2. My week was extremely hectic, so I didn’t get much of anything else done.
Let’s see what else you guys got.
I thought that I would post something that I’ve been working on the last few weeks. Since my layout room has been cleaned out, I am thinking of building an On30 railroad. Above all, I just wanted to have a little fun with it.
This loco is built on a Bachmann 70 tonner mechanism. The hood is built with 2 Athearn Hustler shells spliced together and the cab is a Banta piece. The rest is pretty much styrene.
The boxcar is a wood kit from Mount Blue Models. The trucks are MacLeod Western parts with Kadee wheelsets.
Jimmy. Thanks for starting this week, nice engine!
Chuck, great work on kitbashing that locomotive!
Nothing complete this week, almost done with an engine I have been working on, here is a hint on what is being worked on!
Stewart U25B with added detail, painted and decaled with Microscale Decals.
No hint but a picture of Athearn GP38-2’s with a coil car consist.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
A meet at BM tower.
Jimmy, you did a fine job on your SD40-2.
Chuck, your locomotive and box car are turning out quite nicely. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
Rick, you’re motive power looks awesome as well.
For most of the past month, I;ve spent every spare moment studying for the Comptia A+ and Cisco CCNA certification exams, so the layout has largly been idle. Howver I did manage to pull of two little projects, namely installing these grade crossing signs.
I also acquired these vehicles. Now they look like they’re from te 1940s and the time period I model is 1956. However, I think there would still be plenty of cars from the 40s still on the road, especially in a rural area.
Last week I finished a kitbash of a Walthers bank building to resemble the US Custom House in Commercial St in Portland for Bootbay Railway Village.
I have started to frame up a scatch built G scale covered bridge for that part of the Boothbay layout room, still a lot of work to go on this one
Jimmy, Nice work on that SD.
Chuck, A great example why narrowgauge is wonderfully inspirational.
Rick, Sharp-looking NH there!
Grampys Trains, Looks like a good spot to railfan.
GP-9_Man, Nice work on those crossbucks. I agree that many 40s cars would’ve still been in use in the 50s. The farther south you are, the more you would’ve seen, as there was less chance of rust.
George, Like those buildings, that bridge is going to be massive.
Not much this week modeling-wise, as summer projects call me away from the workbench. I did see this unit of Norfolk Southern rolling stock. I suspect that NS 555250 is a shoving platform. I’ll try to get back over for a side pic or two later today.
A side view pic is here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3168668
It is 22" long, which comes out to about 34 feet @ 1:20.3 scale, and just over 10 wide. The approach tracks are curves, so I had to add extra width for clearances. I still need to design the roof trusses, add X-bracing to the bottom, as well as tension rods using 1/16" styrene rod. Way different from my usual HO scale!!
When I was at Boothbay Railway Village on Thursday, they were running Sandy River & Rangley Lakes #4 railbus for the first time.
If you noticed a different bell sound, the first segment was the bell at the grade crossing, the second was the railbus bell
The railbus, as well as some other restored 2 foot equipmemnt will be running when the Narrow Gauge Convention takes place in Augusta, ME in September
A couple from the yard before tonights op session…
Great photos so far, everybody.
Here are some Northern Pacific RS3’s
Great stuff again this weekend guys. Keep them coming.
A black & white photo from the archives: Rivals meet at Black River (formerly Berea) Station on the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Reading L-7 ready for paint.
Thanks Jimmy for kicking off what turned out to be a rather truncated edition of WPF. Due to family duties (for the good) my contribution was going to be very late for me anyway, and having written a bit of a spiel, you can imagine my annoyance when I found I couldn’t log on!!! [:(!] However my annoyance was partially abated by all the really Good Stuff that had been posted, so thank you all.[tup]
Cheers, the now not so grumpy Bear.