Gidday All, Currently 2315 hours and 63 F on a balmy Friday evening. A while back I replied to this thread…http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/207353.aspx, regarding quick disconnect for wiring. Got a bit of assistance at the club this week and a start was made on the corner module wiring.
Looking forward to the really Good Stuff.
Have A Great One Folks.
Cheers, the Bear.
What a great idea Bear
Are those the main power Buss wires ?
Not much here just finished up my decoder install on my 0-6-0
that i renumbered and re lettered from pensy to C&O
I’ll try to shoot some video of it running before Sunday
Finished up my diorama this week. Much better looking than my old one.
Finally finished some cars and managed to get some pictures taken!
This was a project I started a while ago, used a McKeen 12 Panel Triple hopper and cut the middle four sections out and glued the remaining parts together, also cut and spliced the frame and added an airline under the side of the car. Painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals. These twins were of 65 Ton Capacity which was very close to the 70 Ton Capacity of the Triples. The NYC rebuilt several hundered of their old Twin Hoppers into these 65 Ton Cars in two seperate Lots, one for the NYC & TOC and the second #107H for the Perioa & Eastern. Please note the decal shows the incorrect date stenciled on the prototype of 73-3-66.
This Thrall Car is a standin for one of the 10 Greenville cars owned by the DT&I, it does have the same general shape and rib configuration as the Greenville car. I added an Eastern Car Works Gon Cover as the Athearn one is too short for a proper 52’6" Gon. Painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Atlas 3910CF Cylindrical Covered Hopper, painted with lightened EL Gray and lettered with Mark Vaughn Decals. I think this is the best Railroad Owned Covered Hopper Paint Scheme.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
Great work everyone. I completed 2 projects this week. The first is a WM wheel car for my Dad, and second I built work platforms for my private coaling trestle.
Here is a before shot
With platforms
I like the lighting effect uunder the platform on this one
This week I’ve been working on Cheyenne Depot Station with the famous cowboy boots.
Curt: the handrails make it a distinctive dump!
Nice work.
Last weekend our Silicon Valley Free-moN group participated in the World’s Greatest Hobby show in San Mateo, CA. and it was a blast.
I joind the group a year ago when it was 4.5 guys with 5-6 modules.
This weekend we had 11 members and over 24 modules!
Lot’s of fun running long, long trains.
(With a return loop on each end, we had about 300’ of mainline circuit running).
Here’s some photos and a video:
Thanks for looking, and thanks for sharing all your groovy work.
Have a great weekend!
Hey Fellas! I’ve been alternating weekends this year for posts, and it’s been a couple of weeks, so here’s what I’ve got. First, a quick little video of the Erie triplex making a brief appearance with vintage 1920’s cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-rB9m8cPnw4
Here’s another painting completed last week:
And finally, a look at our city scene progress:
The scene is still only partially finished. The backdrop is temporary for now, and the matteboard arches below are just mock ups, and I may go with something different looking.
-Stan
Hello all, been a long long time since I posted anything. But I’ve been working at the Churchill Colliery. Still lots to do, but its coming along slowly.
I’m trying to post a photo from Photobucket but I must be doing something wrong. I’ve been following the instructions provided by hon30critter on another post. As instructed, I select the photo I want to post, then click on Direct Link where I see the word “copied” flash briefly (although I have no idea where it was copied to). I toggle back to MRR, click on the insert image icon and a dialog box appears asking for the url address. The instructions seem to suggest that my “copied” direct link should appear but no such luck. If I try to type in the url from photobucket (holy cow is that a long string), then the text in the post starts doing funny things and still no picture. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
Press Ctrl-V or right click your mouse and click ‘Paste’. The URL will appear.
And please, no swearing or squiggles to disguise such. There’s kids reading this.
Nice stuff guys. Jeff great looking RI F unit. Is tht an F3 Ph4, hard to tell w/o dynamics and can’t make out the side vent grills. always close to the early F7
I don’t know why everyone likes to play with all those pretty buttons MRR put up there.
In Photobucket click on the box labeled “IMG Code” It will copy to the clipboard just like “Direct Link” does. Return to MRR, place your cursor where you want the image to appear and paste. “Control V” works in Internet Explorer, but however you are acustomed to pasting is fine. That’s all there is to it. The image will not show until you click the post button, but it will be there in the thread.
This week’s addition to my Hollywood backlot wildwest town project. The “prototype” for Zertuche General Store existed on paper, according to a criminal case that started in a small Texas county some 30 years ago. A county official who approved county purchases wanted to be able to sell goods to the county, but he could not do it in his own name. Hence an entity was created in name only to make those sales. A false front enterprise, like this structure.
Last week’s structure, the first for the Hollywood backlot, was a hotel.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/hotelfront.JPG
It’s an FP7.
Been doing small projects, so not much to show. I rewired a staging track to work more usefully, swapping power on a single section of flex from one source to another. It’s all in the dark, so no pics, didn’t happen…[(-D]
Next one has a pic, but it’s hardly visible, either, a working coupler on the front of my Sunset K-28.
Finally an in-progress group of pics of a car that will be my contribution to a special HOn3 train that the HON3Chat Yahoo group started doing at the NNGC. It’s an observation, lounge and hot tub car. Still needs a lot of details, like a place to keep the beer cold, etc.
The brand new 1935 Burlington Zephyr is on a tour of the west. Here it stops by Wagon Wheel Gap in the California Sierra. The natives are duly impressed.
So, apparently, is a giant Ladybug that landed on the lead unit just ahead of the exhausts.
Tom
Finally got some life on my layout. Last week I received several figures from Arttista Accesories through Caboose Hobbies of Denver. They are pewter castings that are hand-painted. Their S-scale line is a little limited, but the figures are quite nice.
Okay. Let me try this again. This is a shot of my obviously unfinished scene of the old Santa Fe depot in Santa Ana, California. The building is long gone and I could find only four photos of this structure, all taken from the same angle as in my photo but all during different decades judging by the autos, clothing styles and heights of the palm trees. The north end of the building (behind the police car) showed a different revision in each of the old photos. I chose to model the version of the building that existed during the 1950’s (I hope). I must have gotten the model pretty close because a former mayor of Santa Ana just about messed his pants when he saw it.
Thanks for your help guys. Apparently, I did not have the correct instruction as to how to paste and insert my image. Hopefully I can remember all this stuff the next time. In case anyone is wondering why it says Santa Ana & Newport under the Santa Fe logo, my layout is based on a “what-if” scenario assuming that the SA&N was not absorbed by the Southern Pacific and stayed independent and somewhat solvent into the 1950’s. This short line employs second hand 2-6-2 Prairies purchased from the Santa Fe as seen on the right side of the depot. The EMD F-7 is heading north on the main line between San Diego and Los Angeles.