Gidday All, I had a great break even though I was off the interweb, and didn’t get any modelling done.
Must say there was a whole lot of Really Good Stuff in the New Year edition of WPF.
These are the last of the cowl ventilators for the ferry that I finished just before I went away.
Looking forward to the Really Good Stuff,
Have Great one ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Morning, Bear,
Hope Your break was restful…Be’s that way sometimes…Me too!
Before the weekend’s out I will post some new pic’s, that I revised My thinking of the area I’m working on. Got the belt sander out and went to work making sure everything was perfectly flat. Glad my sander has a dust bag on it, Homasote can make a mess. LOL.
Your vents like great! I’ll have You know, everytime You post or talk about Your ferry, You make me want to build one, just to do it…dream layout or not. ''Old wood ship builder".
Talk to You later. [:D]
Frank
Btw: Where’s the ‘‘Bulldog’’?
Bear, nice continued work on the ferry, as your model really once plyed the Detroit River for the Wabash I am very interested.
Frank, nice looking trucks.
I am also a member of the Railroad-Line Forums and have taken their challenge and took a kit off the shelf that has been sitting there for a while unbuilt. I have started on this kit a Rail Yard Models P&LE Hot Coil Car.
Above are the kit contents, the Resin Cast Details in the upper left of the picture with the special Adair Weights on the upper right side of the picture, the ECW 125 Ton Buckeye Trucks in the middle left next to the main frame and brake gear details from Tichy. Decals and etched and Evergreen parts make up the rest of the car. Also included is a mini-CDrom with 54 pages of instructions to build the car, instructions to die for.
This is what the finished model should look like.
Here I have attached a couple of pieces of Evergreen Plastic to the car in a groove that was in the casting to accept them, I left the ends sticking out so you could see them before trimming them even with the frame. Also drilled two ho
Morning Bear
Nice progress on your Ferry Project
Shot another Video With my new Mobius Camera
Called
“The Great Train Chase”
With a couple of Wow Decoder equipped Locos
Enjoy
Cool stuff guys and welcome back Bear!
I didn’t do a lot of newly photogenic stuff this week, spending lots of time getting things ready of the ops session when the NMRA meets here on Saturday. Hosted a visit be another couple os fellows with great layouts who hadn’t been here yet. Their were very pleased that there was virtually no plywood visible and wondered how this had flown below the radar for so long. For me, it’s about getting things “presentable” and that’s only been in the last decade. The word gets around slowly, but I think it’s been worth the wait once you see it in person[;)]
Mostly, I’ve been tuning track and locos for best performance. Something like this little kink can make a big difference in performance when you looking for ultimate limits.
Kink before
Kink after [corrected image]
Now my old Sunset K-28 can handle 15 Blackstone cars on this 2.5% ruling grade. [:D]
In more scenic news, I rearranged things and added tramway trackage at the big Crater Lake Stone mill at Purgatory.
Maybe more pics later. Gotta run.
Always great to see all the detail and progess.
Too bad the EM1 never survived (not a one), to be pictured w/ a newer EMD
Just on more for now, as my computer is having issues with images today. Here’s another angle on the improved stone mill. Basically, it was all about changing angles, too. Before things were parallel and squared up, but angling the buildings (and shortening one) and pushing them back away from the tracks makes it look bigger and more complex.
At least it will if the pic comes up…
Great start to the weekend, everyone!
Here’s my “Scenic Limited” climbing Yuba Pass, with Rio Grande 3-cylinder Mountain #1604 on the business end. The loco is a Key import that I re-balanced and re-motored and runs like a champ.
Tom
A geep passing SC tower.
Another good start to WPF everyone. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
The photo below is of my new InterMountain F7. A really nice little loco and the Tsunami sound is really good.
You can see it in action on the layout via the link below. Part 1 of the BRVRR 2015 on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esMZ_mVBhPI
This PRR 2-10-4 is new to the layout as well.
The link below will lead to Part 2 of the BRVRR 2015 and the 2-10-4 in acton on the BRVRR.
I split the video into two parts to ensure that it would be accepted on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBg5EGinIck
Keep WPF rolling guys. You always make it the best thread of the week.
This started life as a Kato CN SD40-2. I repainted and re decaled it into my second W&LE unit.
I just gotta love a paint scheme like that…[:P]
Hello forum folks,
New to this forum, but I have been in the hobby almost 40 years. I absolutely loved taking pictures of real trains when I was a kid and now have to settle for taking snapshots of my 1949 New River Subdivision C&O in the basement. Thought I’d contribute a pic to introduce myself. I would have loved to have been that guy waving the H-4 into the “roundhouse” as the folks in Thurmond called their 2 stall enginehouse.
Joel
Mine shifter power waiting for service, Thurmond, W. Va., 1949
Lots of nice work everyone!
Rick J:
Interesting coil cars.
Mike:
Your stone mill scene adjustments worked really well. Kinky can be fun but not in trackwork![swg][:$][(-D]
Tom:
Great scene. I love the differences in track elevation. I am considering dumping a track plan that I have been working on for a long time because it is all basically on one level.
Grampy:
Nice rust job on the truck frame.
Jimmy:
That’s a neat paint and decal job!
Joel:
Welcome to the forum! Great scene, but I’m curious about what the guy leaning up against the grey frame building is doing. Either he is having a tough time closing the door or he is reviewing his lunch! Just kidding! I look forward to seeing more of your work.
My fleet of cabeese continues to make progress. Last night I got all the wiring hooked up and much to my suprise all but one of the LEDs worked. (Yes, I had tested them before installation but things happen). The shells are on. All that remains is to install the ladders and adjoining handrails, and touch up the paint. The magnetic reed switches and the keep alive circuits work great!
Here are six of the eight cabooses on the test track. The other two are in the boxes behind:
Here you can see the single interior light for the conductor’s desk. The rest of the interior is in darkness as I believe would have been the case when running at night. If you look carefully you can see the half screens on the side windows:
Screen doors and window glazing too:
This project has been lots of fun!
Dave
Hello Everybody!
There’s some terriffic work shown here!
I’ve had about a dozen pesky projects going the past few weeks and haven’t gotten any of them close to a point where I can get presentable photos to post but I will fall back on a video that I shot about two months ago and finally got around to uploading to Youtube… a bit of a cab ride.
I didn’t particularly get the layout cleaned up for this, it was mostly to demo the camera for a few interested friends. Hope you enjoy the ride!
Ed
Thanks, Dave. It is a sticky door, but I like your second take on the scene much better–too funny! Nice work on the string of cabs. The lit markers really do perk up the rear of a train. I like your assembly line approach to getting a lot of work done efficiently. Wish this slow poke could do that! [:)]
Joel
Thanks Joel:
The assembly line approach has been efficient perhaps, but also often tedious when is comes to things like making the grab irons. I made 224 assorted grab irons over a couple of evenings. Enough said! I originally started with a total of 13 cabooses but I decided to tone it down a bit. The others can wait for a while.
I have to put myself in the same boat as you are re ‘slow’ - I have had the BB cabooses that I used as a base for almost five years!
Dave
Bear, Good to see ya’ back at it. I’ve also got a maritime project going, but nothing as ambitious as yours, nor scratch built.
Frank, I remember helping the driver of one of those International Harvesters unload steel bar stock off the stake bed, “Keep on Truckin’”.
Ed, Man, that was a fantastic ride, what a layout, thanks!
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
Some truly great stuff this week. I had some guys over to run trains on Thursday and on of them shot Horseshoe Curve from an angle I never thought of. I decided to take a whack at it myself. Here are the results:
Here’s a pair of Geeps working hard to pull a heavy train up the grade.
Here’s the Broaway Limited rounding Horseshoe Curve in the evening.
And zipping past Kittanning Point.
Model bench is finished and occupied.
