Welcome to this exciting edition of the APRIL 8, 9 and 10, 2022, Weekend Photo Fun.
Please use this thread to post any photos of your recent projects or a favorite scene on your layout. Everyone is welcome and all contributions appreciated.
This week I managed to lay the ties for the “abandoned” siding that once served the feed mill:
I also soldered together a guard rail out of surplus rail. Looking at old photos I found that there really weren’t very many guard rails in place to begin with and those few out there were made of whatever was on hand.
Another Gateshead based Class 47 47404 with a Leeds to Birmingham Parcels Train. In real life 47404 spent a lot of time around Birmingham. I think the crews there liked the locomotive.
Good morning from sunny and cold Northeast Ohio! We may get snow later in the day/evening.
Ed, thanks for starting us out with some great shots, I especially like the abandoned railroad siding.
David, like you photographs also, great passenger train action, don’t always see that.
Did not get any modeling done this week due to a bowling tournament over last weekend and staying at my son’s house while some major plumbing work was being done at our house. So you are going to get an old photograph I took at the club.
Rapido New Haven FL9’s with a mixed milk and passenger train leaving the station on the Strongsville, OH Club layout.
Thanks, Ed for getting this week’s WPF going, it is a weekend staple that I enjoy.
2861 was a West Coast Hudson that found its way to Calgary in 1939 to help the Royal Train with its first big climb into the Rockies toward Banff. Here it is coming past to hook up for the big pull.
“Thank You” to Ed for opening the Weekend Photo Fun thread this week. I did not get much sleep Wednesday night, and fell asleep super-early last night and slept through the start time.
Another “Thank You” to everyone that has contributed so far.
Ed: I like the look of the abandon siding. This is a great feature to include to set the mood of a scene. There used to be lots of guard rail in the Florida Keys made from old railroad rail from when they took up the rails and “roadified” the railroad bridges.
David: Thank you for more great photographs. I really like the way the scenery comes close to the railroad in the pictures this week.
Rick: You deserve a break! I hope you enjoyed your time with your son. The NEW HAVEN locomotives are beautiful.
Brent: Nice Hudsons.
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In keeping with Ed’s “abandoned trackage” theme I am sharing these old pictures… when I built my layout test segment, I included an abandon line that had once been double-tracked, but reduced to a single track.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I should have put the abandon trackage close to the aisle because it made it hard to photograph as I built it.
-Photographs by Kevin Parson
This was the kind of picture I was able to take when all was said and done.
Thanks for all the activity already [:D] Great Stuff!
I have a spot where a passing siding ends to join the single track main. Rather than make a conventional-looking switch I decided it would look neat to give the impression that the siding was once part of a double-track main which had since been reduced to one track.
Ed, thanks for starting this out. That’s a neat idea about using old rail for guard rails.
David, another good set of scenes from you RR. I again notice your use of lots of plants to fill in the scenery. Very nice.
Rick, I like the fueling station that is on your club layout. That’s another thing I don’t have on my layout.
Brent, those are beautiful locomotives.
Kevin, that’s a pretty neat progression of pictures to show your work towards a finished scene.
I also have a picture of part of the layout that is no longer there. This bridge was a single track Atlas bridge that I converted to double track. Unfortunately, I did this when I began my first layout, and I glued everything together and glued the entire thing to the surface.
I tried my best to remove the bridge intact, but ended up basically destroying it. I’m beginning the process of building some new bridges from scratch. Maybe by next week’s WPF, I will have some early bridge building photos:
I started a new project this week - a CNW waycar (caboose). I don’t have one on the layout, so my CNW trains have been pulling (horrors!) NP and GN cabooses.
I do have a couple of the Walthers 4-window waycars in CNW that they produced years ago. I just hadn’t gotten around to building them.
I want my waycars to stand out a bit, so I’m adding Tomar’s Adlake markers to them, driving the LEDs with NCE Light It boards. These Light It boards are great - they’re like a lobotomized mobile decoder that only does lighting funtions - and they’re not overly expensive (about six bucks each in a six pack). Power comes from Kadee electrical pickup trucks.
Enough blather - photos
Testing the first installation a couple days ago:
And amazingly (because I did it) the markers work great!
So now I’m on to painting and installing all the grab irons. These tiny little things require drilling #80 holes to install them.
Here’s two of the end grabs, with eyelets at the corners, painted and installed. Only a thousand more grabs to go! Just below the roof on each side of the door, you can see the drilled holes for the grabs that go there.
And here’s those grabs in my tiny little alligator clamps waiting for the paint to dry.
Lots of great modeling already. I have a few modest projects.
My Austrian diesel has been running around for years without a proper pilot.
Too much open space, so I finally dug out a couple of the plows I use on my NW2M conversions and fitted them to the boxcab. They ended up looking pretty good.
After some confusion about where the Current Keeper leads go and a mangled decoder, I managed to get sound in another NW2M.
Just getting started on this Wheels of Time kit for a mid-60s Chevy semi tractor.
Seems a little pricey, but the castings are exquisite and the prototype is otherwise not available. Almost lost one wheel in the drain when cleaning it up, but managed to get it before it went in.
John: Thank you for the comments on my photo-progression of that scene.
I had some unforseen problems with the painting of the wooden tunnel portal. The main portal is a resin casting by AIM, but the wooden retaining walls are plaster castings by Woodland Scenics.
I thought that if I primed everything with a thick coat of black, the paint would take into the details evenly…
NOPE!
The plaster parts took paint and washes differently than the resin part. I tried all kinds of different techniques to balance out the colours, but in the end, I was still not satisflied with the final result.
It looks OK, but it could have been better with a lot less effort.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I learned from that… in the future all parts of a scenic element should be the same material.
Even when you have a scene that’s gone to the dogs, it’s a great one, Peter.
Thanks and here’s the mostly finished Chevy hoisting a container.
Needs some more daubing at the “lighting,” some windshield wipers, maybe an exhaust. I wasn’t too sure about the windshield, but after the canopy glue dried, it’s acceptable, just needs some more glue to build up the “gasket” some.
Ed: That siding from a crossover does look great. Nice work with all the details and weathering. I saw lots of abandon railroad tunnels when I was out West. Unfortunately I could not find ways to get close for good pictures.
John: Too bad about the customized double track bridge. I have a similar story about the N scale double-tracked Intercontinental Bridge on my Dream House layout. It was destroyed during removal also.
Bear: Thank you for the Toon this week. Always needed and appreciated.
Mark: That looks like a fantastic caboose project. Those Tomar signal lanterns really add a lot to the model. Great work.
Mike: That snowplow really adds something to the Australian diesel. I wish Wheels Of Time made more stuff. Those boxy-cab Chevrolets look great, but too new for me. In the later picture it looks like the body color of tan is appropriate for these trucks. Nice job.
Peter: Wonderful scene with the “Junkyard Dog” keeping watch.
Kevin looks great but a little nit to pick, most railroads would center the track in tunnel to get the additional clearance for the larger cars that were comming into service.
Thanks, Kevin. It was a 60’s shade of brown,which I’m not a big fan of, but it was right for this era truck. BTW, it’s an Austrian diesel, so different hemisphere. [swg] I do have an Australian-produced model of another type, so perhaps accounts for the confusion?
It will allow a great place to assemble and repair models, and a nice place to paint. The extension cord is temporary until the electric gets wired in.
Feed_Mill_Siding-J by Edmund, on Flickr
Feed_Mill_Siding-H by Edmund, on Flickr
Feed_Mill_Siding-G by Edmund, on Flickr
Feed_Mill_Siding-F by Edmund, on Flickr
