Weekend Photo Fun - April 6th to April 8th, 2018

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Good morning from cold and wet Northeast Ohio!

This is where the forum members can show their completed or in process projects for the last week, or dip into their archives for some older pictures that they like.

I got a couple of cars completed this last week.

Branchline 50’ Tabbed sill Boxcar Kit, added A-Line sill steps, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Color and lettered with Greg Komar Decals. Car was built in 1951 and this was a 1954 Repaint of the Shadow Keystone Paint Scheme. Car was in auto parts service as noted by the 102 over the road same suppying parts to the main assembly plants.

Atlas Pre-71 ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with a decal set I got in a bunch off of E-Bay with no manufacturer listed. One of three cars in this group, built in 1964 used in general grain service. There was no diagram or pictures I could find, so I applied the decals in a manner that most ACF cars were lettered.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

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Mornin Rick Thanks for starting us off

Like the Pensy Box car you did ~!

Working on my last caboose adding lighting Marker Lights and cabin lights

Using SM LEDs

Heres the finished ones

All are Steam era

Currently workintg on a blue early Diesel era

one of 2

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Rick… Great looking frieght cars … I always did like how WM lettered their freight cars.

Terry … Your lighting of marker lights looks real.

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Here are some older photos of the steel mill.

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Morning all. Here’s my FPF.

As you can tell, it’s blueprints to creating a bridge in HO scale. I’m planning to do this completely from scratch using styrene I-Beams. Itll be almost 4ft long when it’s finished.

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'Morning,all.

Time for some coffee…

Have a good weekend,

Mike

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Nice work guys! Jimmy, that bridge is going to be huge!

Another loco conversion just about done. I’m waiting for the all-weather window for the engineer’s side.

Did the usuall, fans, scratch made winterization hatch, grabs, hoses, hooks, plow, window glass, LED ditchlights, head light and rear light, and something a little different, Plano intake grills for the radiator. I didn’t know the Athearn grills just come off, as I thought I would have to cut the opening. I had to do a little fabricating with plastic to prepare the area, but over all, it went good.

Chassie and motor all ready to go and waiting.

The WC didn’t have any SD45’s with a 1900 series number, this was a gift from my wife back in the 90’s, from a hobby shop in Billings MT. The shop owner custom painted and decaled the model with my birth year.

What a woman. [(-D]

Mike.

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Rick: Thank you for starting the Weekend Photo Fun thread for the week. As always, those are great looking freight cars.Your knowledge of things like the details of PRR lettering is amazing.

Terry: Great work with the LEDs in the marker lights.

Garry: The steel mill buildings are very impressive. You, Dean Freytag, and Rod Stewart make me quite jealous.

Jimmy: Your bridge is going to be impressive.

Mike: The water tower scene is very pleasing.

Other Mike: The EMD SD45 has alwyas been one of my favorite looking locomotives. It just exudes power in its appearance. Your custom one is special for sure.

George: Funaro & Camerlengo kits are among my favorites. Yours looks great. Good job on the construction.

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I finished this brass caboose this week. I don’t know the prototype or manufacturer. I bought it at a train show without a box. I believe it is a New Haven prototype, but I am not certain.

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I think it sits a little high on the trucks, but the coupler height came out perfect and there is not an easy way to lower the car body.

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Please keep the photos and commentary coming.

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HAPPY WEEKEND!

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-Kevin

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Great items again and the steel mill brings back memories of a class tour of CF&I steel in Pueblo, CO back in 1969.

Here is my Turtle Creek Cental boxcar: [C):-)]

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Thanks for opening the WPF, Rick.

Cold, indeed! We have about an inch of snow here in Chardon! Good train weather, though. Nice work on the details and decals, as always [Y]

Lights really make your scene come alive, Terry!

Steel mills are probably my favorite industry, Garry. Hot, dirty and heavy stuff.

A four-foot bridge, Jimmy! Pretty ambitious, take lots of photos [8D]

That’s a great Rio Grande scene, Mike. I’m sure glad my dad took me out to Durango back in '66. I have a real appreciation for the narrow-gauge operations.

SD45s are real workhorses, Mike. Glad you’re enjoying your sentimental engine.

Good looking work from you as well, George. I’m trying to recall if the ball signal was in place when I was in Palmer, Mass back in the late 1960s? I think it was. Nice detail!

Your caboose sure has a straight-forward safety slogan, Kevin. Keep Alive!

Good looking Turtle Creek car, Tankertoad!

Well… to the roundhouse! I feel like I’m building a ship-in-a-bottle right now. All the details have to be put in place with long tweezers. I’m almost done with them.

This photo shows the steam-heat pipes along the walls.

RH_detail1 by Edmund, on Flickr

In the foreground is a vice and a few tools and material. The railing represents where a wheel-drop pit is located.

RH_detail2 by Edmund, on Flickr

…another view of benches, carts and material.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/25Uo5Ji][img]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/822/41286885

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2 of the models I built for my friend Art Bormans C&O layout

made it to the Hawks Nest Modelers meet this weekend courtesy of Andy Cummings who is attending

on the layout

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Thanks for starting off WPF this week Rick.

Terry - Love the marker lights. Any chance of a materials list and wiring diagram?

Gary - Great looking steel mill. Wish I had the room for one.

Jimmy - That bridge is going to some building project.

Mike - Nice little steamer!

George - An unusual signal for sure. Don’t think I have ever seen one like it.

Kevin - PRR?

Don - A good looking boxcar in a great color.

Ed - The roundhouse details are overwhelming. Keep it up!

Not much new on the BRVRR. Too much interference around here lately. Here is one photo from a recent short operating session:

The Grafton Turn eastbound.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

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I modeled it after an actual ball signal in Vermont. There was an article in Classic Trains a few years ago,‘The Ball Signals of Vermont’.

Ball signals were a common control and safety system before standardized block signals came into use. There is one in New Hampshire that was used into the 1980s

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I was complimenting Rick on his Pennsylvania Boxcar. Isn’t PRR the reporting initials of the Pennsylvania?

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-Kevin

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Rick, Thanks for the WPF start-up view of your latest rolling stock gems.

George, I like your paint factory, the Sherwin Williams Cover the Earth animated sign, iconic for sure, as a kid it was always a treat to view the one that could be seen from the eastshore freeway at Emeryville on the way to grandma’s house in Oakland.

Thanks to all the contributors, regards, Peter

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In thirty days, the barley in these hoppers will become Coors beer on grocery shelves.

Robert

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Nice Robert, now you got me thirsty! [B]

I jump back in for a couple more pictures. A bash I did using the quonset hut, you know the one, we all have one somewhere!

I added the side addition using left over Walthers parts.

It sits on the very edge of the layout, so I was trying to hold up that blue panel as I took the picture, to avoid including the rest of the basement.

Mike.

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Working on it will send you a link when i get it done

Here ya go

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx

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http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx

Sorry couldn’t make it a clickable link

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Weekend Update

So, tonight I put a Titanic documentary DVD on the Victrola and set to applying shingles:

CP_union4-a by Edmund, on Flickr

Then I remembered I had some copper peel-n-stick flashing (after I had experimented with styrene [N] )

CP_union4-8 by Edmund, on Flickr

Laser shingles are the cat’s pyjamas! I’ll be using them often [:)] Now I have to see what I have to do to get the verdigris copper look on that shiny-new copper.

Apparently it involves vinegar and salt. At least I won’t have to wash my hands while eating French fries [dinner]

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/269388.aspx

https://tinyurl.com/ydgznaf4

Take your pick—

Hope that helps,

Ed