Gidday Folks, Its’s that time again.
BRVVRR Alan agree with your sentiments regarding this thread, that’s why I like to go for the early start but can’t keep it up due to lack of material. [:(]
ho30critter Dave & Heartland Garry Thanks for the comments regarding my sketch last week. Here’s one from the opposite end of the locomotive size spectrum. “Fa"250-0-6-2T originally built in 1880 as a 0-6-0ST for the 3’6” gauge New Zealand Government Railways. During her working life had two major rebuilds, ended her working days on the Whakatane Board Mills Matahina Tramway in 1966, currently under long term restoration.
Have a good one folks!!
Cheers,the Bear
1742 hrs Friday 20th.
Stagecoaches heading West!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GgnYam0ZRkA
Train Consist:
Central Pacific “Jupiter” 4-4-0 American
CG N Scale 30’ Flat Car with Stagecoach load.
CG N Scale 30’ Flat Car with Stagecoach load.
Scratch Built 26’ Flat Car with CG N Scale Stagecoach.
CG N Scale Ventilated Boxcar V&T #909
Scratch built boxcar - Nebraska Belt #902
Scratch built boxcar - Virginia and Truckee #1014
CG N Scale Pickle Car
Scratch built Ventilated Boxcar V&T #1005
CG N Scale Ventilated Boxcar
Scratch built boxcar
Scratch built boxcar
Scratch built boxcar
Scratch built boxcar
Scratch built boxcar
Scratch built Supply Caboose
Here’s a beauty pose.
!(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff504/WildMarker/N Scale Model Railroading/161ed9ee.jpg)
Two Two of my old projects from years past,lower is a GE rad cab. Theupper is a scratchbuilt GE prime mover.
A Central of Georgia RS 3 spots a covered hopper at an industry
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Jarrell
Nice photo Jarrell Was it taken out side ?
the lighting is great ! [bow]
I’m still working on a coal loader for my Tyco dump cars
Trying to install it in my mine tipple
using 2 ball point pen springs glued end to end to move the coal thru a straw cut in half like an auger
here’s a short video clip showing the shaft rotating in the container
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4el4SZl9s0
still tweaking for better performance
Bear … Nice sketch of an unuasual locomotive type; … Mark …You’re N Scale old time models are remarkable: … Jerry the GE Loco parts look great : . … Jarrell … I like your C of Ga Alco and your beautiful photo. … Terry … You are on your way to an impressive model of a coal loader.
My photo shows an Eastbound train arriving at Valley Heights. Some of you may recognize the model is the CB&Q Highlands station in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale.
A trio of newly painted Penn Central diesels are my contribution this week. The two GP35s and SD40 started life as undecorated blue box kits. Microscale decal kit #87-84 and a lot of micro sol setting solution to get the PC decals to settle over the doors, handles and hinges. It took over two days, quite a few applications of micro sol and some razor work to get for the decals to finally settle nice and snug. Some school bus yellow for the handrails, two applications of dullcote and the paint shop portion of the project was complete. Mechanically I had to replace all six axle gears in the SD40 and two axle gears in one GP35. All units were thoroughly cleaned, lubed and hardwired.
GP35 #2252 with the red “P”, GP35 #2327 and SD40 # 6282
After lots of tweaking i got my coal loader working pretty good
I found that by only exposing the last inch of the drive shaft
that it ran smoother and clogged less
in the video i’m using a 9 volt battery for power
but didn’t have enough hands to change the camera angle so you could see the coal coming out of the hole on the end of the container
it should load a car in about 30 -40 seconds
the vibrations cause the coal to move forward when the container is on a slight angle
I think if i remake the container out of smooth plastic it will help the coal slide forward even more
and I could also increase the size to hold about 3 car loads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvxAoKkCwk
Great modeling everyone. I just recieved my RS-1 back after having QSI Titan sound installed. This is a short 25 second video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ClB8Kv_eI
That Alco sounds pretty good, Curt.
A pair ofGP7’s take the siding at Stoney Creek. DJ.!(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm237/GrampysTrains/Athearn GP7/P1050825.jpg)
This week my large background building for Central St is structurally complete and the brick colors have been painted. The rear building fronts in primer. The white “windows” on front are interior rooms that have not been painted; the windows have not been installed on some windows, other windows have not yet been painted. The building represents 4-1/2 buildings on the closest row and 4 buildings in the rear (street side) row.
Operations on the Wind River. Train 215 took a siding in Granite and dispatch said it would be a few hours to wait for the arrival of a facing train. During the wait the crew grabbed a camera and walked over the hill to the lumber camp branch. There wasn’t any train action but the aspens are at their peak.
GAPPLEG!
That is a pretty good rendition of a GE prime mover!
Well done!
Dave
GAPPLEG,
Second that! Excellent work!
Please keep contributing in WPF!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiCsBmb2zXM&feature=youtu.be
Here is a test video I took of the layout with my new Samsung F80…
Thanks to all for the kind words, Been out of action for 2 years due to time constraints caused by raising two puppies. Really has taken up most of my time. I really intend sometime to produce an Alco prime mover and and old GE with the rectifiers on top of the generator (ie: before alternators). I worked at GE for 38 years building those Locos.
Built a 16"x10’ staging yard module in 6 days for the Silicon Valley Free-moN setup at the Hiller Aviation Museum show last week.
Got 4 of the 7 future tracks in (LHS had only a few #7 turnouts) and wired so the group could run multiple long trains through the layout.
Fun stuff!
Behind the staging yard is (left to right): Steve Williams’ Lockhart, TX module, my Sonoma Shoofly module, and Dave Falkenburg’s Alviso module.
16-year-old Alvin (operating the staging yard) is currently building a cool runaround & industry module himself (when he’s not distracted by running trains 
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And the video:
Thanks for looking & have a groovy weekend!
The HO Proto 2000 GP18 was introduced to the Milling Machine, to see if I could get 10 pounds of sound in a 5 pound space! Took a little planning & test fitting, but it is looking & working out good.
