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I am thrilled to once again be starting Weekend Photo Fun this week. I do love this thread and the way it brings people together for sharing Model Railroading fun. I believe it is the best thread every week.
I have another boxcar for my Fleet Of Nonsense again this week. I did not weather this one very much at all. I might come back to it with some more weathering in the future.
This boxcar is lettered for the GRAND OLD LAMPASAS RAILROAD which is an imaginary short line in the Lone Star State o
Thanks for the great startup of another great WPF, Kevin. That resin kit looks daunting. I applaud you for your excellent results [bow].
Bravo!
As a quick follow-up to last week’s report on the lousy current pick-up on the new Broadway K4 I did recieve several of their recent “Go Pack” capicitor add ons.
Installing it in the most recent (rev. H) P3 boards is a simple (tiny) plug in. I installed one other in a slightly older Paragon 3 board that required soldering the leads to the board but it was relatively simple to perform.
Results were excellent and the locomotive will now glide through any track work uninhibited. I believe there is some kind of coating on the wheel treads that inhibits electron flow. I poked my meter all around the engine and tender and can find no open circuits.
Nice work all around! New cat has slowed progress on the layout as he hates when hes not the center of attention. But I was able to finish the crossing scene ( or at least partly ) and also starded playing around with field grass
Another great start to the best thread on the forum.
Thanks for starting the weekend off right with the boxcar. You do great work. I’ve never worked with resin before. My picture has a car from your railroad passing by the grain elevator. I don’t know where it is headed.
Ed, it’s good to hear you solved the stopping problem. Your soldering skills are much better than mine. I would probably melt the board.
Jimmy, nice work on the crumpled trailer roof. It looks exactly like the ones in that video.
Garry, nice layout photo. Hope your medical tests all work out OK.
Ringo, that crossing looks great. I don’t have any yet for my layout, but I hope mine turn out looking like yours. A while back, we had a forum thread about unusual things on the layout. Most of us get plastic animals or monsters. I see you’ve got the real live one, posing for the camera.
My picture is of the grain elevator. I normally scratchbuild the buildings, but a family member gave me this kit for Christmas. I really don’t have a place for it, so right now it’s sitting on an empty space. I guess this means the layout will have to be expanded.
This week, I was inspired by a thread on the forum and worked on a few narrow gauge projects. I finished this HOn30 critter, which is meant to represent a gas Plymouth engine on short quarry line. I got the parts from an N scale 0-6-0 (sidearms and broken motor removed) and an HO scale roadgrader that came from my very first train set I got some 40 years ago… The motor is actually hidden in the gondola, and is adapted from a super-smooth japanese mechanism…
Kevin - Thanks for starting off WPF. A great job on the boxcar. Love the detail!
Ed - Glad you solved your problem. I have several BLI locos. Never ran into the stop-start thing although my most recent purchase, a SF F ran a little rough at first.
Jimmy - The peeled top on the trailer looks just like the real thing.
Garry - Incredible layout. Great photo.
Ringo58 - The crossing looks good to me. The monster is frightening.
York1 John - The elevator makes a good excuse for expanding the layout.
Simon - I like your “critter”. Good job.
Not much new to show on the BRVRR, unless you want to see me under the layout fighting with the lighting. Just to keep things moving here is one from my website:
NYC E8 #4040 rounds the curve at the west end of the inner main line on the Black River Valley RR with a short 'Mail and Express train in tow.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Thank you to everyone that has commented on my resin kit outside braced boxcar I shared this week. I get a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction from assembling resin kits, and I get some unique freight cars along the way.
Ed: It sound like you solved your problem with that beautiful streamilined Pacific. I love those pinstripes on the tender. I hope you can enjoy it without issue now.
Jimmy: Oh no! Someone should be watching those clearance postings! Looks like another trailer load got to see the daylight. I might just have to build a T-Track module one day.
Garry: Another beautiful photograph from your breathtaking layout. These are always appreciated. The two level scenery in that section looks very good.
Ringo: The grade crossing came out nicely done… great work. That is one terrifying monster! I hope your minature citizens are safe.
John: I see that SGRR boxcar in the background! The grain elevator should look right at home on your expanded layout. Growth is exciting.
Simon: The critter is magnificent. I enlarged the phgotograph and looked for the driveshaft going from the gondola to the locomotive, but I could not see it. Then I saw the gondola wass actually the power truck… very nice!
Allan: The NEW YORK CENTRAL E unit is gray lightning stripes is quite handsome.
Bear: Thank you for the weekly BearToon, I appreciate the humor.
Coming in a little later than usual but really enjoying all the excellent work shared this week!
Finally feeling a bit like autumn on my layout. I have been working on filling in the scrub with dead and almost-dead sagebrush (mostly made from lightweight furnace filter material spread like polyfill, sprayed with flat tan and a light misting of flat sage green, but also a few made from 3M grey scrubbing pads):
Also started making trees from scratch for the first time. After getting the hang of it with a few practice ones, I planted a long-dead tree at the river’s edge, made from real sagebrush:
And a late-season cottonwood that’s lost most of its leaves:
Looking forward to more this weekend. Thanks for sharing, everyone!
Sorry, I’m kinda late to the party here… ( I have been up on the goat barn roof finishing the shingles …)
( My wife MADE me … no, really … )
Anyway’s, I only managed to finish the flatcar with the steel girder load.
Keep the picture’s/project’s coming, we still have a few more hour’s left before the weekend is over … Ugggg !!! Monday… why can’t I just bring glue to work ???
