I haven’t started this in years. I suppose it’s because I didn’t have anything to post!
You guys are probably thinking that I’m showing the same progress shots each week. I’m starting to feel the same way! I’ve started to add the other embankment to the river. Getting the river bottom, bridge piers, trestle, deck girder, and track to line up has been interesting. It’s one thing to make it line up, it’s another to make it do all of that while looking ‘right’ to me. This is what my wife doesn’t understand.
Oh well, here are few progress shots. I’ve started to actually get the correct height and alignment for the piers. The foam needs a little more shaping before I go at it with plaster cloth and paint. I still have to finish the left side of the trestle. I have the bents, I just have to figure out how steep I want the hillside.
Corey, nice looking bridges!!! I have a very small one on my layout.
Lee, great shot. Looks like one is going, and the other is coming.
Well I’ve got the layout ona back burner. Been spending my time weathering. Trying to make a few bucks. So here’s my latest car.
Its a bulkhead, with a steel load. Still gotta ways to goooooooooooooooooooo. I need to get smaller wood for the spacers, I ran out of “steel”, and I need to buy something for the straps. So the LHS will see me today.
This is what I have so far. NOW remember it was a bright orange!!!
Corey …Your bridge project looks great, and you will have an impressive scene when you are done.
Lee… The CNW units look very nice on your layout.
Robby …The weathered bulkhead flat looks great.
BRANCH LINE BAGGAGE/RPO CAR
I have completed a branch line baggage/mail car I made from a kit produced by NKP Car Company. It is an exact replica of a car the Burlington purchased from AC&F in 1910. The prototype was only 40 feet long. These photos show a local train with a Prairie type (2-6-2) locomotive, the baggage/RPO, and a coach.
Thanks guys!!! I’ve been working on the bottom for at least two hours, and thats just the bottom!!! I am trying to get it done by tomorrow night. [:-^]
Well between wireing the new section for Block detection I started ballasting my Chicago yard tracks. I had to move all equiptment to Cleburne facilty after cleaning an inch of construction dust off each car and engine Whooooooo!!! what a job.
In my latest project I’m kitbashing three structures to make my car repair barn. It consists of the Walther’s engine house (#933-3007), part of the O.L. King coal yard building (#933-3015) and the machine shop from another engine house.
Wow only noon on Friday and a some great posts already! Thanks for starting things off Corey.
The little people at Cooleys Blue Ice no longer need to use a cat hole in the woods behind the Ice Pond… Sometimes the Health Dept. is helpful. Old Man Cooley has installed a one holer out back by the Horse Corral.
Everything looks so groovy! Fab Friday kickoff!
Since its been Spring Break, been able to work a bit on me 1’x4’ n-scale module.
–All track & bridges laid.
–Couple layers of Magic Water poured (will be attempting mossy pacific northwest creek).
–Backdrop somewhat painted (need to scratchbuild & put in coal mine back left and enginehouse midleft). Thinking of installing 1/2 trees into backdrop on right.
–Started tree making since scouring pads were on sale (hoping to post those picts by end of this WPF)
–Finished initial ground cover, getting ready for next layers of groundfoam, rocks & moss.
–coal dump built under siding top left (will funnel down to coal loading platform in front of enginehouse below
Can’t seem to get the camera to focus on the coal cars. hmm. I replaced the plastic filler with scale coal by some canadian company: just put a piece of wood near the top, shot in some acryllic laytex clear caulk and filled the car. Dropped in some diluted glue to hold the top pieces in a mounded form. Looks groovy, now I just need to weather the cars!
Keep up the fab postings, everyone! Very inspirational and keeps the bar high!
–Mark
Nice job everybody. mcfunkymonkey: That looks like a nice module, Is it logging? is it minning? What era is it? and is it meant to be run alone when not at shows? Happy posting
Corey, that completed scene is going to be stellar!
Mark- nice layout
Spring break this week for us folks here in Aiken (for the rest of y’all, it’s Masters week. Played right across the river in Augusta). I’m getitng paid my allowance today (three months worth), so hopefully going to get paint stripper, semi-gloss, and have time to work on both my covered hoppers and my module (get some basic groundowrk down in the back and more detail in front).
mcfunkymonkey: Those two little hoppers are iron ore hoppers, not coal hoppers. Iron ore is heavy, so you hit maximum weight a lot sooner, so cars specifically for carrying iron ore are very small. Coal is by comparison much lighter and the same weight of coal would be 3-4 times that amount of volume, so bigger cars would be used.
Lee
