Weekend photo fun!!!! 9/24 - 9/26

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Its that time!!!

Well I will be selling (weathered cars/demonstrations) at the up coming Greenberg Toy and Train Show in November, so I have a lot of cars to get ready!!! I spend most of the day in the basement, and nothing wrong with that!!!

Here’s one that will make the show. Now I only have about 20+ cars to go!!!

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Robby … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun… The PRR 40’ box car should get top dollar at teh show. There are a lot of Pennsy fans.

Here’s a shot of a CB&Q 2-10-2 rolling through Blackhawk with a westbound. The Alco switcher’s crew will return shortly to switch frieght cars on the industrial tracks.

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Robby, very nice looking boxcar, although I may be a bit biased.

Wow, Heartland, that’ a great shot.

PRR Merchandise Service. DJ.

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A great start!

Robby, I like the fading you achieved on those boxcars. Very nice work. I agree that you’ll likely get a lot of $$ for those.

Speaking of old boxcars, here’s an old 40 footer that got converted into a yard shed:

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Robby - love that boxcar.

I’m in a bridge mood today…

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Caboose hop outside San Juan, Colorado

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Mine local

These are on our club layout. The narrow gauge modeling is not my work, though the photography is.

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This week I completed the Luxenberg Jewelers building. It’s a City Classics tile front building that I cut down from 5 to 4 floors. I have a location for it in Sheepscot, but need to do some site prep before I can install it. The building has a detailed interior; the businesses are:
First Floor - Luxenberg Jewelers
Second Floor - Jacob Engineering
Third Floor - Lawyer Title Co.
Fourth Floor - C. Whitaker Lithography

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DJ … Thanks ! … I see your Pennsy team track is busy this morning! …

MA Bruce … Nice photo. Some old box cars never die.

Colorado Mac … Scenery and bridges look real!

George … the building interior looks very good. You must have many hours of time in that project.

… Garry

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Great shots everybody.

Also thanks for the comments. I have a 40’ SOU boxcar I will weather/sell also. Maybe next WPF I can post it up. I model 80’s - 90’s, but that little guy (PRR) is growing on me!!!

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Wow, we’re off to a roaring start today!!! Excellent photos everyone!

I just completed some light weathering on my new 14 car Autorack train.

Here’s the prototype look I was shooting for:

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George,
How do the two parts fit together? I am guessing that the detailed floor section fits into the enterior shell.

How would we do the same?

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It took three weeks to complete the new “Hotel Wawona” (actually a Bar Mills laser “Idaho Hotel” kit), but it is now reopened for business along the Oakhurst Railroad …

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Thanks to fantastic modeler Bob Grech for his help with the roof!

My 14-year old daughter dropped my camera, so this is a loaner without full manual capability.

Thanks,

Marty

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After cutting out the the second floor to make a 4 story building, I assembled the side and back walls. This is before painting. I measured and marked where the 3 upper floors would go and glued an Evergreen 6x6 strip to support the floors. The floors are Evergreen sheet cut to fit, same for the interior walls. After painting, I added doors and other things on the walls with a colored marker. The jewelry store floor was made with a graphics program on my computer, just a series of black & white squares cut and pasted together, printed on photo paper and glued to a piece of styrene cut to fit the base of the building. The building front is the City Classics building front glued to the rest of the building with tacky glue so I can remove it later if I want to add lights. The window treatment is a City Classics window set printed specifically fo rthis building. Each of their buildings has a corresponding window set available separately.

Not a difficult kitbash if you have done some before. The most difficult part was removing the second floor to lower the building height.

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Thanks for all the photos. What a good start to WPF.

Here’s a close-up of a Q2 Duplex with a couple of new GACX wooden reefers behind the tender.

-Crandell

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You all have posted a great bunch of pictures. This will give ideas. Thank you.

Here’s my part, new Blackstone double deck stock cars at my module Salina.

Wolfgang

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Best Photo you’ve ever posted !! Love it

Nice work ! Phone poles look so real

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Love the Massive Steam !!

Nice Shot !!

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Thanks, C&O Fan (Terry)!.. I was following advice in a thread of recent weeks on layout photography. Credit is deserved by those who posted in that thread including “Railphotag” and “CNJ831”. I have a slow learning curve with technology, and I’m still learning how to use some features of the digital camera.

Crandell … You Pennsy Q2 looks great.

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Crandell,

That’s a beautiful shot. What’s the radius of that curve?

John

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John, I hadn’t really thought about it, but what you are viewing close-up is the tight portion well into an eased curve that is 33" at its tightest point…just near the pilot of the steam locomotive. In a way, this makes for good photos because the curvature near the camera forces the engine’s front into a good view, but it also displays the length and beauty of the rest of the consist. Rearward, at the reefers, the curvature is nearer to 50".

-Crandell