Gidday All, Currently on my 12th straight w**king day, but technically it’s the start of the weekend. [:D] Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, [swg] my current model railroading project is proceeding at a [sn] pace, and totally unphotogenic, [sigh] so I will continue on my “and now for something completely different” tack.
British O Gauge, 7mm to the foot.
Have a Great One Folks, [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.
Dang, Bear. All work and no play just ain’t no fun[xx(]
I’ll try to cheer you with some pics. After finishing my coaling tower last week, I decided the Durango sand house would be an easy scratch-build.
I now have a complete service area (except for some diesel fueling gear) and it looks great. I’ll eventually spread around more coal, etc. It looks a little tight right now. I’ve got another water tower kit to build to look like Durango’s. I’ll also relocate the ladder to give some more room, add lighting, etc.
My service area is a classic “in the loop” placement. It is a bit cliched, but works and is relatively compact. It’s narrowgauge only, to avoid dealing with dual gauges in and around the turntable.
Took some nice pics at “night” with the camera on manual (1/60 sec at f 2.8 here).
A little hard to see, I painted the fascia on the Cascade Branch hunter green.
Finally, I cut a cord of wood and stacked it by the boiler for the guys running the steam donkey at Camp 10.
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Hiya gang! back with something photo ready this week! [:D]
Bear, If they had faces on them, I’d say you were taking pics on the Isle of Sodor! Nice stuff!
Mike, your weekly progress amazes me. And after cutting and stacking a cord of wood, doesn’t your back hurt??[swg]
So , without further adieu…The latest creature from the erecting shop. About 2 years ago, my friend Charlie was getting up in age and decided to dispose of his collection. After purchasing a brass C&O 2-8-4 Kanawha from him, he gifted 2 locos to me. A Sakura 0-4-0 and a Mantua 2-8-2 kit… The 0-4-0 was unfinished, but a runner and the Mike chassis was assembled , but nothing else. The 0-4-0 was completed (and appeared in MR) but sadly, Charlie passed this summer before I could complete the Mike . So here it is, just after its 1st “shakedown cruise”. Mantua Mike with a Pacific boiler & steam chest, Bachman tender and a host of detail parts added. Can motor,flywheel and Tsunami round out the upgrades. Runs great!
Thanks again Charlie! [angel]
Karl, nice upgrade on that Mantua Mike, never liked the boiler that came with the engine, the Pacific boiler looks much better!
Nothing finished this week, so I pulled a couple of photos of the club layout.
A Heavily modified Atlas RS-32 leads a couple of F3’s on a hotshot NYC Freight.
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A Railworks PRR L1s leads a coal drag stopped to refill the tender before continueing on.
FM C-liners leading a coal drag thru Thurd on the club layout!
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
Karl,
My back was already hurting[:'(]. That’s why I now stick with 1:87 wood.[(-D]
Bear … Good to see international model railroading. Thanks … Mike L : Your locomotive servicing facilities look outstanding… Rick: I really like the club photos. …Karl: Your 2-8-2 is outstanding and the weiner behind it is truly remarkable.
My project in recent days was to put together 3 old Holgate & Reynolds kits to make Burlington. I also fixed up one “basket case” model of these suburban cars. I still need to add details and to add decals. The cars run very well with the IHC high quality trucks I installed. Commuter train service is now available in the City of Heartland
Here, the commuter train is emerging from Union Station.
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Garry,
That old-school H+R cars came out well! Nice build, along with Karl’s steamer. Both are eye-catching.
Hey everyone!
It’s snowing in western NY this morning which means soon I will be confined to the house with nothing but time to work on the layout and paint RR scenes! Well, lets not jump the gun. The museum is opened until January 1st, and I cover the weekends there. Once again some amazing stuff here, Bear, I love the old British locos! I lived in the UK for two years in the early 80’s and always appreaciated their RR history. Mike, great pictures! you have a beautiful layout. Karl, nice job on the Mantua Mikado, USRA mikes are great. Remember, B&O 4500 still exists at the B&O museum in Baltimore! Rick, nice Pennsy locos, I love the L1. Someday I’ll get one, I was always hoping that BLI would make some, well maybe some day! Garry, great stuff as usual. FYI, two of my paintings will adorn the cover of two books this year, so hold onto the Aeolus painting, it might be worth something when I’m dead![:)]
The rebuilding project has reached Bradford yard on our layout. Bradford Pa was the home to some well known manufacturers in the past The Kendall Oil Refinery (now ARG Refinery) is located in the center of town, The Zippo lighter plant is here as well now merged with Case knives. They have a great museum there. There’s a branch of Owens-Corning there that manufactures boxes and other packaging, Dresser industries, a plastic bottle manufacturer, a scrap yard in the old BR&P RR shops, Superior Well co that uses sand in the oil fields. The town was serviced by three RR’s in the 1950’s, the B&O, Erie, and Pennsy through trackage rights on the B&O. On the layout, Bradford has been our busiest spot over the years with all of the switching involved. Here are a few images of our Pennsy decapod switching some of the Kendall tracks:
Great Job everyone.
Here is an Atlas Trainman train show find.
Derek
MFA on the M&A at Hawk Point, Mo.
Next Saturday is my open house in the tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuED5AL9FFA&feature=em-upload_owner
Here’s my Bachmann Shay pulling a log car I constructed from an Athearn blue box coal hopper car chassis. I also added the engineer. Please excuse the grainy photo.
I’m about to dismantle the boiler to quiet the whine (that accompanied a brand new loco). Will ask this fella to coach me standing on his head.
Good to be back,
Robby
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Here’s my Bachmann Shay pulling a log car I constructed from an Athearn blue box coal hopper car chassis. I also added the engineer. Please excuse the grainy photo.
I’m about to dismantle the boiler to quiet the whine (that accompanied a brand new loco). Will ask this fella to coach me standing on his head.
Good to be back,
Robby
Gidday Robbie, is this what you wanted to show us???
Cheers, the Bear
Gidday Terry, thanks for the tour. Regarding your live coal loads, did you see this post here???
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/t/221853.aspx
He may appreciate some of your advise.[:D]
GOOD STUFF GUYS.
Cheers, the Bear.
Thanks Bear i posted a few more videos to his thread to help explain my loader
Awesome work with everyone’s modeling. I have a “night” picture of the Engine Servicing Facility.
A great beginning to WPF guys. Keep them coming!
Bear - I love the British style locos. We don’t see many of them.
Mike - You seem to be making great progress on your layout.
Karl - That’s a great looking Mike. I have a soft spot for steamers and that is one of the nicest ones I’ve seen in awhile.
Here is one from the BRVRR:
I picked up #1469, an Athearn RTR,at the Lakeland, OH show early this year. The B-unit #1480, an Athearn BB kit, I picked up recently at the Berea show. I added grab-irons and handrails to both models and glazing in the windows of #1480. No. 1469 has a Digitrax DH123 decoder installed. I modified the headlight/gyra-light mountings with styrene tubing to provide better separation. In #1480, a dummy loco, I installed metal wheels, a MRC #0001716 sound decoder, the supplied speaker and a small structure bulb across the motor leads for better programming response.
Both locos are shown in the photo at the head of a short UP passenger train. The locomotives operate very well together and sound great.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of
Bear,
Feel your pain, I well remember doing 28 days straight at the ol’ oil patch, loved the fat paycheck, but dog-tiring it was. Hang in there! BTW, British O gauge looks really neat!
This is a redundant photo as I posted it over on the “Jewel of the Fleet” thread. The star of my switching layout, a 90s Kato NW2, it’s recent conversion to DCC sound has made it even more of a favorite.
regards, Peter
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