Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.
This week I have a picture of a project car that I am excited to share.
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My layout is set on August 3rd, 1954. Unfortunately Oxford Models brought out an exceptional model of a 1955 Buick Century that I just had to have. My solution is to mount these cars on an auto transporter and present them being transported to a dealership for the September 1954 release of the new model yea
Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, nice use for that car that sort of existed on the NYC in the 50’s.
Managed to finish a couple of cars this week!
Atlas FMC 5077CF 50’ Double Door Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red, Black and Aluminum Paints then lettered with Herald King Decals. This was one of 225 Cars ordered by the WP for carrying lumber.
Proto 2000 PS 4427CF Covered Hopper Kit, substituted a Plano Metal Roofwalk for the plastic one in the kit (drilled about 50 No. 79 Holes for the roofwalk supports). Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. One of 1,000 cars in the order to haul grain in the grain growing areas the Rock Island served. They also ordered the earlier version of the 4427 and the speed lettered version after this car. Over time the Rock Island sidelined thousands of 40’ boxcars used in the grain hauling business with these new covered hoppers.
Thank you for swinging the door open on another fine episode of WPF, Kevin!
Great contributions as usual, folks!
I have two shots of the PRR Alcos I featured last weekend, which are now going through their shakedown runs on the layout. It is unfortunate that a coat of Dullcote “fades” the DGLE or “Brunswick Green” so much. Although sometimes PRR locomotives did look like this, for the most part, though, the paint would appear much darker. Hopefully I can tone this down with weathering.
Gidday All, from a warm sunny Autumn, down under morning.
Kevin, I was hoping to see inspiration before I hit the hay last night, but was soooo disappointed. However, that car and its load has more than made up for it.[:)] Date wise, that is why my time frame is early to mid 1950ish.
Good to see you’re back in the swing of things after your move**, Rick.**
Garry, CB&Q!!! Yaaay!![:D][:D]
Terry, am more than happy to wait for one of your tastefully weathered and posed cars.
I know exactly how you feel! I do the same exact thing. I’m pretty busy this weekend, I might not be here for a couple of weeks, have a robotics and history comps.
The robotics sounds very interesting, Harrison, my grandson is into the same, and part of a small group in his school, that builds and competes with other groups.
I’ve been busy working on a scratch build of an old MILW. transfer caboose.
Just thought I’d sneak in a couple of pictures of the progress.
Basic frame, on the trucks, testing frame and coupler height.
Brake piping and gear almost complete. This is a first for me, as far as break gear goes. Never done it before. It took some forum help, research, and piecing the photos I took of the car, to get it reasonably right.
Frame and brake works complete, along with lots of rust. I had to be careful laying under the prototype, so I didn’t knock stuff down on my face. Like when I used lay under one of my old pick ups, and piece the exhaust back together. [(-D]
Good job on the brake rigging, Mike. [tup] It’s a lot easier to install when the frame is open as on your model. I’ve been working on the brake rigging for my Erie steel caboose, but it’s slow going because I just can’t seem to get my bench time scheduling act together. I’ll be at it later on this morning, though. Right now I’m reinstalling the parts using two diagrams and a bunch of on-line photos. The problem is the location of of the tank, valve, etc. on the cabeese in the photos seem to have gone through modifications over time. I guess that I’ll just have to get it close enough. [(-D]
Thanks Russ. What had me stumped is that a caboose, like mine, or a regular service caboose, has a brake wheel on each end, and the photos I took of the prototype were concentrated on the frame, and the brake works was not on my radar. [D)]
PRR 9617 is a Bachmann model with a Tsunami decoder. Number 9600 has a TCS T1 for motor and light control. I discovered the 'reverberation" cv in the Tsunami with mimics the sound of more than one loco.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Lots of great modeling to see here, so that with the lateness I will have to skip specifics except to say it’s good to see the Bear with a gear in play. Gotta love those found objects that make great loads.
It was a busy week, so this is just a slice of it. I got inspired to relocate several buildings on the Cascade Branch after the Purgatory food co-op had a new grocery store built at the old team track location there.
The health inspector wasn’t real happy about the stockyard next door and Summit siding needed an industry (for a lot of reasons), so the stockyard moved to Summit onto a new bumpout I built to hold it.
The storfront block that was formerly downtown Purgatory, having lost its major tenant to the new grocery store, was then moved to become the missing downtown that Crater Lake Junction never had.
The structure displaced was a little too industrial for CLJ, what was intended to be a machine shop and welder. Being an angle-sided building didn’t help matters. However, I found a perfect-shaped spot that it fit better all around at the end of the line.
Been operating a bunch as the last of the busy season of local ops wraps up before the summer is upon us. Here I am working the Grape Creek turn. It’s a long day by the time it’s done but you feel like you earned and enjoyed every moment.
