Hey all. It;s that time of the week again: WPF. Weekend photo fun is where members show off our projects we are or have been working on during the week…any scale or gauge is welcome. Before I post my project, I just want to say, I hope this is able to give our members in the path of Irma some normalcy. Thoughts and prayers go out obviously
Okay, here’s my project… I just finished up my seventh Ballast hopper…
I think I’m getting the hang of weathering. Note: This involved cutting the roof off, repainting and decaling. Let’s see some good stuff.
Jimmy, nice fleet, I know how you feel I think I have done 8 of my Anderson’s Hoppers building them with Tichy Kits, and I still have 6 more to do, each car is very time consuming with all its parts.
Did a couple of covered hoppers this week!
Bowser 1958 CF ACF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was originally built in 1950 and this is a 1977 Repaint, used for hauling sand from Michigan to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park, Ohio.
Tangent Dry-Flow unlettered car, found some Oddballs decals in Rock Island for it. No pictures to be found, used the decal diagram. Car originally built in 1962. It is very hard to find pictures of any of the Dry-Flow cars, seems people were more interested in taking pictures of engines and leaving the car histories behind.
More work on the scratch build, some details got shifted and air tanks added, but most of the recent work won’t be visible in the power pickups. Making my own on the frame and using the proto tender pickups that was originally on what is now 9, it basicaly has all wheel pick up, excluding the front truck.
Stay safe Kevin, hopefully in a secure shelter on high ground. Thinking of you as well as friends and relatives living in those parts. Also for Digitrax, located in Coral Gables just SW of Miami
Nice work, been very busy here with work (yeah!), but seems many members may be battening down the hatches.
Hosting my monthly Friday night ops session NEXT Friday, Sept 15 6-9pm, so if you’re new in town, drop me a PM and I’ll get you an address to report to[#welcome]
A few random railfan pics around the layout. Tunnelmotors!
The MOW Mercedes-Benz, known more widely as the Unimog
Jimmy, Thanks for firing up the WPF and showing your string of modified hoppers, keep up the dirty work.
Our thoughts and support are with those in harm’s way and recovering from the terrible calamities.
The little Zundapp is reminiscent of a Honda S90 that a friend used to let me ride back in high school during the 60s, for a two-wheel junkie popping for lunch or filling the gas tank did not detract from the exhilarating fun. After all Madison Ave. said, “You meet the nicest people on a Honda.”
