Hello once again to all the model railroaders.
I fell asleep early last night and was not awake at 1:00 AM to start Weekend Photo Fun.
I have nothing new to share this week, but here is one of my favorite pictures I made on my layout test segment.
Weekend Photo Fun is off to a late start! I am hoping this will still be a great edition of our regular fun-fest.
-Kevin
Good Morning from Sunny and Warm Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, will comment when I see what you have done.
Did not complete any models this week, spending a lot of time on end of season bowling records and money distribution along with doing some family tax returns.
Did manage to complete the underframe detailing on the Arrowhead Models PRR H39 Hopper car kit, it will hit the paint shop this week and hopefully be done by next week.
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Last weekend I took my Atlas GP40 and U33C to the club along with 10 PC Scaletrains PS4785CF Covered Hoppers, 2 Tangent PS4750CF Covered Hoppers, 4 NYC Scaletrains PS4785CF Covered Hoppers and 4 Exactrail Magor 4750CF Covered Hoppers. The Orange C in the PC was applied to 17 GP40’s and 1 RS3, supposedly as a sop to the New Haven fans.
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Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
I had nothing new this week.
I posted an old photo that I am fond of.
-Kevin
Kevin … I can see why you are fond of that great photo. Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun.
Rick … Your hopper project looks very good and I like the PC lcomotives.
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Here are pictures of my Stewart F3 (Phase 4) ABBA consist. I installed grab irons on all of the units.
Kevin- Love that picture. The caboose looks fantastic
Rick- Nice looking PC locomotives!
Garry- Nice looking F3s! That reminds me to do the grabs on my bachmann GP38
Sorry I missed last week, hope everyone had a good easter!
2 Weeks ago I picked up this CNW MP15DC that Jack gave me a hand weathering
As the move comes closer and closer, the time has come for the layout to come down. I am going to power my small diorama I made so I can still fiddle with DCC stuff in the meantime as I’m sure it will be close to a year before I have another layout.
Heres one of my favorite pictures of it and the final shot before everything is torn up
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I hope to see more great contributions!
Thanks for starting WPF Kevin. Lovely picture.
Rick & Garry. Love the locomotives.
Ringo. Like the cat. [(-D] How do you keep everything neat and tidy?
Not much from me. I received some items that need painting etc. Hopefully I shall finish them for next week.
Meanwhile a little scene. Policeman on duty. P.C. Henderson keeps a watchful eye.
David
I finally finished the “Union Station” sign for Denver’s Union Station. Now I need to finish up the spotlights for the building. Also I can start on the wing section of the building (this is just the middle part). I do need to finish up the faux interior as well.
Here is the station with the sign.
Here is the sign lit up. Unfortunately the camera exaggerates the ligting a bit. The bright spots don’t show up when viewing it in persion.
After much deliberation (and Peer pressure) I have also decided to make the clock work. I found a micro clock mechanism to run it but it means I have to redo the light board for the clock.
As I posted last week, I got my first section of benchwork built. Here’s the video I just released of it. Thanks for the comment Bear!
Nice progress everyone, and thanks, Kevin for the start off.
in light of my recent determination to make visible progress, I’ve been busy getting on with scenery in the last few weeks. I have scenery experience in some areas, not in others, so I’m having to step out of the comfort zone here.
For a couple years the hardshell remained white and untextured like this. So I did some experimenting with home made latex rock molds on that gray area. Brush painted it unsatisfactorily, seen on the end there.
Moving to the right, Lots more rock mold activity, and better paint results with spray cans. I made molds that I fill with plaster, wait for it to start to set, wet the hardshell and plop it directly on it. Let it harden and peel it off.
Dust, dirt & hairspray…
Since it’s not Mars, a little ground covering and greenery. I made some of the trees a while back, others as I went here.
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Not too much stuff as far as I’m concerned.[:)]
Rick: Thank you for more in-progress pictures of the hopper car. It is looking very good.
Ringo: Thank you for the compliment. That caboose is a brass model of a NEW HAVEN NE-6 I believe. It did not come with a box. That model looks a llittle “off” from the side, but it looks great in most views. Glad to see that Jack is back in WPF! It must be nice to have a helper for weathering projects. I really like the looks of those SOO LINE trailers in your picture.
Garry: Thank you for the compliment on my photograph. Your F3s are quite a handsome bunch. I love all my Stewart/Kato F units. They make up about 50% of my diesel fleet.
David: It looks like Officer Henderson is taking his duties very seriously.
Renegade: The station… WOW! That was really worth the effort you put into it. None of the clocks in my models work. Instead I set all the clocks to exactly 10:04, and a few people get the joke.
Bear: Thanks for the toon and the chuckle. I have an HO scale Tardis that I drop into scenes sometimes when I photograph them.
Harrison: The benchwork looks fine, and plenty strong enough for the foam. Glad it is working for you.
Dan: Your rock scene looks fantastic! I love all the pictures of the project. Thank you for the contribution.
-Kevin
Kevin, Thanks for the starting the WPF with a nice bucolic scene.
Ringo, Sorry to hear your layout is coming down, but glad you’ll be keeping the fire burning until the next build.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Neat stuff from everyone again.
This showing a few different spots on the layout.
The Chippewa on its way south from Green Bay to Plymouth behind E7 #17.
Another picture of passenger train 9 headed east behind fictional CNW 2-6-0 #238
Scott Sonntag
Outstanding progress and photographs, everyone. Great photos from Kevin, Rick, Garry, David (+Bear’s commentary), Peter, and Scott. Always inspired by this weekly thread. 
Ringo, it’s always bittersweet when a layout gets dismantled, but a new move gives you the learning opportunity to do things better or differently the next time around-- looking forward to the next incarnation when it happens!
Harrison, great video! Benchwork is looking solid, and glad to see progress with your new layout.
Renegade, Union Station is looking just fantastic. That was the last building I stepped in in Colorado when I moved last year, as I traveled to California via the Zephyr before landing in NC. Fond memories of meeting my Denver friends there whenever I’d go visit.
Dan, those rock faces are looking really good-- I love dramatic scenery dwarfing the trains. Thanks for sharing your process, too!
Crossposting a few pictures of my newest trees, a big cottonwood and lots of small aspens-- I did a write-up of the process on my layout thread, as well. Nothing permanent yet as I’m still playing with placement before adding ground debris and fixing them in place, but I think each batch keeps improving and getting more specific in color and shape.
Still time in the weekend! Looking forward to more.
Phil
Peter: Thank you for another great picture of your layout. I am consistently amazed by your brick buildings.
Scott: Those look like two nice scenes on your layout. I hope to see more of it.
Phil: Your trees look amazing! You really did a great job.
-Kevin
Kevin - Thanks for the start to WPF. Nice photo.
Rick - Great photo of the PC train.
Garry - Good job of the grabs. Thats alot of touchey feeley work.
Ringo - Nice photo of the kitty. Good luck with the move.
David - Your scenes are always great. Lots of detail and a story!
Renegade - Thats a heck of a sign!
Bear - Good one. The Tandis must be the blue and white car. English?
Harrison - Good video. The benchwork looks good to me.
Dan - Good job with the scenery. Not too much stuff.
HO-Velo - Nice photo.
Scott - Looking good.
Phil - Your trees look good to me!
Nothing new on the BRVRR this week. Here’s a photo of a short NYC freight on the layout. The engineer is my autistic grandson who is fixated on steam engines.
NYC #9519 eastbound with a short local.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Allan. The Tardis is the blue Police telephone box. It used to be a common sight in UK.
When no longer used one became a prop in the ‘Dr Who’ television series.
David
Thanks David. You learn something every day.
Not a whole lot from me. I picked up an NCE USB interface and have been playing with that and JMRI, remapping all the functions of different locomotives to roughly match each other even if they are of different manufacture.
I also snagged my missing link locomotive, a brass UP S-class 0-6-0. This is a PFM/United model - a coffee grinder at that!
It needs some repairs on the pilot but the rest of it seems fine. No wheel wear which is what I was most concerned about. It’ll likely get a Mabuchi 266 motor and NWSL gearbox to replace the original Pittmann and KTM non-idler gearbox, but I want to consult the repower & regear group before moving ahead. It’ll also get a new headlight and mouting bracket on the smokebox cover to match the later configuration, and eventually a TSU-1100 and sugar cube speaker, LEDs, and paint.
I also picked up a PFM catalog to go with it. I thought the cover had a neat east-meets-west vibe and I might eventually frame it.
