Gidday All, well I got busy again, besides I’ve only been making some more detail parts for the ferry.
So from the latest show archives here’s a TTn3.5 model of the first train I travelled on, “The Southerner” which was hauled by the Mitsubishi Dj class locomotive. Two of us were going in front of the Air Force selection board and as we were travelling on an Air Force travel warrant decided to try our luck at the bar,[B] we did get served but only softdrinks.[sigh]
While going through the last of my “old junk”, I came across a Details West boxcar and a Front Range covered hopper. I decide to rebuild and weather them. Here they are in the middle of “restoration”. Whats in your ‘old’ stash?
Good morning from cloudy, cold an snowy Northeast, Ohio
Bear, thanks for operning up, sorry to see work has interfered with your modeling again, you must make priorities!
Eastern Car Works Enterprise Covered Hopper Kit, added all brake gear piping and substituted A-Line Sill Steps for the Cast on sill steps, also substituted a Plano Etched Metal Roffwalk for the kit supplied plastic roofwalk. Painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Aberdeen Car Shops Decals. The Canada Southern was an NYC Subsidiary that operated in Ontario from Windsor to Bufallo, the NYC sent three cars from Lot 747H to supplement the converted USRA coal hopper cars. They lasted until the mid 70’s.
Intermountain PS 4750CF Covered Hopper kit painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. To be used in general grain service.
As an added plus my new GP38-2’s with an auto parts train on the Strongsville Club Layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Thank you Bear for opening the show one again.
Two weeks ago I have got a Proto 1000 F3A in early CNR livery for 25$us. After doing some paint tuchups, replacing three axles which were not from Proto, replacing the couplers with Kadees #148, installing a TCS T1 decoder and changing the 3v bulb for a Led, here is #9000 with her sister #9003 and a F3B. Nice addition to my small fleet of 1948 CNR diesel locomotives.
For this week I again have a some model and a some real.
Lehigh Valley N-3 with added smoke.
And some Amtrak Keystone line action including the last time I saw an AEM-7 in service, though I didn’t think the sun would be as much of a presence in the shot. (last clip)
Bear,
Great pic, I love any narrowgauge diesel, even ones like the Dj with a nose that only a mother could love. Looks like it was made be committee, with half saying full height and half saying a chop nose, so they compromised on halfway in between? [(-D]
Tony,
Nice work with the weathering.
Rick,
That CASO car is an eye-catcher.
Guy,
The CN sure knew how to do up a classic paint scheme.
RDG Casey,
That’s a fine plume of smoke you conjured up.
This week is a little of this, a little of that…
The new Sunnyside boarding house got its fire escape, by Tichy.
The Miner’s Union seems to have picked up a new addition to their air force, an A-37B, the only aircraft I ever “flew” – in a Link trainer for my Boy Scout merit badge. My Scoutmaster maintained the scads of T-37 trainers around at the time and our assistant scoutmaster was in flight school. It was all analog. Somewhere along in this era, I figured out my eyes would keep me from actual flight school…and I soon turned from models of various airframes to model railroading[swg]
I whipped together a MOW rail and track flat with the help of a Tichy jib crane that I cut down to fit better.
Finally, a pic of one of my narrowgauge Alcos leading a train of mostly gons uphill leaving Purgatory.
Bear … Intersting about that being your first train ride.
Tony … Your wethering of the frieght cars is very well done.
Rick … The CASO hopper, the Iowa grain hopper, and the DT&I GP38-2’1 look great.
Guy … The CNR F3’s look good.
Casy … Your photo of the LV N3 is outstanding.
Mike L … That is a great assortment of photos of your layout. … I hope the T-37 pilot does not hit the mountain. [:P]
Below is a branch line train.
What’s in my old stash? Lots of stuff that has no business being on my layout, either because the era is wrong and/or it is low end toylike junk. When I got back into model railroading back in the late 1970s, I had no eye for quality and no firm concept of what my layout was going to be about. I did have a fondness for the UP and I bought up just about everything that was UP regardless of quality or era. Lots of Tyco, Life-Like, Model Power, etc. I’m getting ready to box up a lot of that stuff and take it to my LHS that does buy and sell second hand equipment. Don’t expect to get much from it, but something is better than nothing and it will clear up lots of shelf and storage space. I do have some poor running locos that look decent and fit my era which I will park on dummy outdoor tracks in my engine terminal.
It has been a busy winter at Boothbay Railway Village. Our winter projects are nearing completion, and museum opening is approching fast. We are about 6 weeks our from the first tour busses and 8 weeks to opening to the general public.
Bob Holland has spent most to the winter “in his office” under the layout wiring the signals system. He just completed some dwarf signals for turnouts in the yard. Signals are connected to Tortoise machines and show the turnout alignments. Dwarfs are LEDs, two in the foreground and one at upper right rear.
Also a new crossing gate near the backdrop
Bob Holland and Bob Bennett have been working on the arrangement of the buildings and roads in Monson; a farming community on the HOn30 narrow gauge. Still a lot of work to do on the town. The depot, gas station, fire station and some other buidings have been located.
A few of us have been working on a waterfall scene. Here are some rock castings that are almost comlplete and ready for color. The upper double track main line is on the left; and the narrow gauge is on the upper right. The lower main line is out of the picture to the lower right.
Here I am test fitting an apartment building I am kitbashing which hides the main line tracks. This is the first of a line of buildings that will fill a 20 foot long, 1-1/2% grade on the right side of the layout.
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Good old T-37’s, the reason for my hearing loss.
With Earplugs and muffs on, they still would hurt your ears when they taxied in.
Very high schrill pitched engines.
Garry,
No sweat, these guys are used to nap-of-the-earth flying[;)]
All too true with the T-37. We lived practically under the flightline approach at Randolph during the 60s. They could be annoying even several hundred feet away in the air. And there were lots of them…
Fortunately for my often already hearing-impaired miners, the A-37 featured an upgrade to a pair of GE turbofans, like those used in the also ever present T-38, except no afterburner. Never heard one of them – good place to stay away from if you did [:O] – but they were said to be much easier than the Tweet was on the ears. One more pic:
BTW, the kit was an old Hasegawa/Minicraft kit in 1:72, which works pretty well over HO scale. If you’re looking down to the ground, the aircraft will naturally appear to be a bit larger, because your eyes are up at their level.
I got away from my road and street project to do a little landscaping detail around the Heritage Furniture factory. Maybe some secondary work will give me some new found inspiriation to improve on my road and street projects.
Rich
Bear, Thanks for the WPF start-up and the opportunity to see the “Southerner” and learn about it. With your car-ferry sitting “on the ways” good to hear of progress made.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
A great start to WPF everyone. Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t had time to do much with the railroad lately other than a few minor repairs and coupler replacements.
Here is a photo taken during a short op session the other day.
NYC #874 spots a reefer on the team track for the local produce dealer.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
I bought this Atlas/Roco ALCO S-4 as a winter project around three winters ago. I am now focusing my effort in getting this long over due and almost forgotten project started and finish. This will be SCR 100.
It will be brush painted flat black with a yellow frame and yellow lettering.
Here are a few items I repainted from the Mt Hood’s club RR:
This first puppy is an MDC 50’ plug door painted with Floquil’s Old Silver. The decals are custom made from Rail Graphics. I was sorta messing around seeing what sorta scheme I could come up with. She came out purty nice but is a one of a kind, for now- - - - -
Next up is a 40’ foot DD boxcar from McKean. Remember those guys?? She is painted Floquil’s Soo Line red which is a very nice color and done up with the club decals. She is parked in front of the Mills Lbr planer where freshly planed lumber is loaded one stick at a time like it was back in the days of my Dad’s lumber mills.
Finally, a shot of a nicely scratch built 50’ wood chip hopper. I repainted it Floquil Signal Red during my repaint campaign to update club rolling stock and make it a bit brighter. My attempts at this have been very positively received by the older members. 
BTW - I shall get a better shot of the hopper next to it. It is a kitbashed Tyco 50’ plug door rebuilt into a wood chip hopper. Purty neat conversion.
I had fun building this is a Crane Relief Tender from styrene sheet this winter. The flat car is an old Varney metal model with the bed of the styrene held down to it with several .25 dia. tiny magnets. This was on the project list for a longtime.
Peter, I keep coming back to your downtown scene. There is so much here, and it is a simple scene. The lone man walking away with his hands in his pockets sets the mood. I imagine I can see into the lit rooms. Seeing a man in his boxers reading the paper. Maybe a group playing poker. Someone watching tv drinking a beer. How about a man sitting in the back seat of the Lincoln with another man leaning on the side of the car, while two other goons enter the building. Or a pimp talking to a couple of his girls. Well done.
Peter:
I will second Don’s comments about your Downtown Deco scene. It looks very real. Excellent lighting effects.
Can I ask what scale it is?
Dave
I did some modeling outside this weekend. Someday I may find another crossing light. [swg]
