Weekend Photo Fun - August 27th through August 29th 2021

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## August 27, 2021 through August 29, 2021### All Are Welcome!

Happy weekend to everybody.

This is the weekly thread where we share photographs of enjoyable model railroading subjects or scenes.

This week I have another new purchase to share.

This was amazing! I was looking on eBay, and I found a lot of several brass lineside structures. The price seemed reasonable. I checked on Brasstrains Dot Com, and the price was about 30% below estimated value.

The incredible part… in this lot of 10 seperate items… every single one of these was something I wanted. I do not remember purchasing a lot of mixed items like this where every single part of the lot was desirable to me.

There is a two track and four track signal bridge. A water tower and column, oil tower and column, and a beautiful sanding tower. I hope the sanding tower will be just the perfect thing to complete the scene around the Walthers Modern Coaling Tow

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[:P] What a score, Kevin! In brass even. Wow. And thanks for opening the WPF

I’ve been busy working on various RR items, hope to get and post pix, but it’s a quarter after one AM. I got a busy day tomorrow, so off to bed for now… Dan

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I’ve got a busy weekend, heading to Maine today. Since I haven’t published the time-lapse video of my recent yard build, enjoy seeing the first train coming off to the new section.

https://youtu.be/f92xhyjEm-w

Have a good weekend folks!

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Good morning from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out, nice score on the structures, the elevated switchmans tower looks just like the old Revell one!

Harrison, thanks for the video, but I can’t play it for some reason.

This weeks output!

Eastern Car Works N&W H2a coal hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Greg Komar Decals. From 1948 to 1956 the N&W built 13,500 of these cars for use hauling coal, I used the 1948 paint scheme on this car and will do some others in the latter paint scheme.

Intermountain Railway 5283CF FMC Boxcar kit, painted with NP Dark Green and Silver paints and lettered with a mishmash of Herald King and Highball Graphics decals. These cars were originally ordered by the Milwaukee Road and became available to the BAR after the pullback from the West Coast by the Milwaukee. So I used the Milwaukee Decals for the CAPY and Dimensional Data and the Highball Graphics for the BAR and numbers. The BAR used these cars in paper service from the mills in Maine to the rest of the country.

Kato GP35, added detail parts like antenna, lift rings, and hood mounted bell, then painted with Scalecoat II White and Black paints and lettered with Microscale decals.

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Kevin, Thanks for starting the WPF with some nice brass models.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and Happy National Petroleum Day. Regards, Peter

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If you will be in the Midcoast Area, be sure to visit Bootbay Railway Village (recently renamed Railway Village Museum). Ride the 2 foot gauge train and see the HO scale layout where I have been volunteering and posting a lot of pictures

Where History Moves You - Railway Village Museum

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Kevin. Thanks for starting WPF. Lovely work with the brass building etc. Well done.

Harrison. Srry but I cannot see the video.

Rick Great work with the boxcar etc. Love the color and decals.

HO- Velo. A lovely scene that is well done.

Not done anything myself. In fact a lot to catch up on.

An old scene at Clarence Dock.

David

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Rick; Nice clean work on the paint jobs. I’ll never know enough about real freightcar anatomy to go into that detail.

Peter, I like the tank farm and fences, etc. it works together well.

David, you have the rain soaked ground effect down!

It’s time to do something with the chrome plated looking diesel shop that I sided in the Corrugator project.

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I painted it with a really snappy shade of flat gray (primer). The windows are Grandt Line roundhouse windows glued together in 4s. Painted them graphite over flat black primer. I glazed them with The usual clear plastic, cut to size. A NWSL Duplicutter moves that process along. I use Elmers spray adhesive to carefully glue them in. It sprays in a fine mist that does’t blow out in webs like Loc-Tite’s. (Spray it on the windows from the back, not the glazing!

The doors are graphite too. The wires hanging down power slow gearhead-motors that roll them up and down at a nice slow speed. The foundation concrete color is Rustoleum Driftwood. I’ll get more pictures when it’s back up on the layout pretty soon. That my WPF.[:)] Dan

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Harrison: I also cannot see your video this week.

Rick: That BAR boxcar looks great. I appreciate you sharing the significance of the dimensional data harvested from a different decal set. That was interesting. I like the GP35, but then, I like all GP35s. When the SGRR was in N scale set in 1968, I had many of Kato’s GP35s. It is a great looking locomotive. Also, I like the pictures you shared of the project in process at your workbench. That is great stuff.

Peter: I like your storage tank scene. The rust on the furthermost left tank looks perfect.

George: If I make it all the way to Maine, Boothbay is a must-see.

David: You scene this week sure captures the look of a heavy industrial site. Great modeling.

Dan: The gray paint sure made the building look a lot better. I have a NWSL duplicutter, but I have not used it yet. I bought it after I finished the projects it would have been useful for, and then have not needed it since.

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I have a second new purchase to share this week. This one just arrived in the mail. A pair of Hallmark EMC FT diesels (I think the FT diesels dated to EMC).

These were listed on eBay, and bidding had stalled out at $100.00 when I found them. The description did not say whether or not they ran, and these old Hallmark brass diesels are notoriously known as very poor runners. I had a Hallmark GP9 that I traded away because it was a mechanical junk heap.

I saw this note in one of the pictures, and it gave me a touch of hope for these models. I decided to go for it and take a risk on them.

I won the auction for only $130.00 including tax and shipping. That seemed more than reasonable to me.

When they arrived, I looked through t

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Let’s see if this works?

I’ll be back…

busy with the grandkids [:-^]

Thanks for starting us off in this Last Weekend of August WPF, Kevin!

Nice score indeed on all those brass accessories. I paid $80 at a train show for that four-track signal bridge alone! I wonder if that crossing tower is similar to the one Broadway Limited once offered? It has a brighter brass look which their unpainted ones had.

You have some great models there, Rick! I remember seeing those GP35s at Collinwood when they were still brand new!

That’s a nice tank farm, Peter. In honor of National Petroleum day I’ll have some petroleum jelly on my toast this morning [+o(]

You sure do capture the rough-n-tumble look of the coal wagons, David. Very nice modeling!

Your structure is really looking sharp, Dan. Nothing beats the look of individual panels applied as carefully as you have them. Some corrugated buildings used an asbestos product, Transite, that looks similar to the rolled metal but is, of course, much like cement board.

Your FTs are another great score, Kevin. I wonder if you would want to replicate some of the inner workings? Walthers has the plastic EMD 567 and generator that might go into the B unit and maybe you could cut up one to fit the A if the motor is in the way? There were also filters and sheet metal ducting behind the screening.

I’ve been sorting through my roster of New York Central Pacemaker box cars and weeding out the old blue-box examples since I’ve replaced most of them with Intermountain or Trix models.

This is probably a contemptible act

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Ed,

Thanks for fixing Harrison’s video. That was a lot of horn blaring in a 15 second video! First trains running are great milestones.

Good fix on the BLI locomotive. I might have had a harder time tracking that one down myself. I have a couple of those Walhers 567 engines around somewhere.

Everything is “somewhere” right now. I am going to have one hard time sorting everything out when I am able to start unpacking.

-Kevin

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Thank you, Ed. I’ve seen that corrugated board you’re taking about at the Eugene Oregon old ex SP shop. Wasn’t sure what it was but figured asbestos. A local short line is now using that shop.

Hey, if your gonna toss those BB cars, toss em my way!

Edited in, from the Eugene shop:

Its bolted on…or at least sizable screws.

My building represents metal though, with plenty of bent ones to prove it![:(]

Nice pictures of your shop too, by the way! Dan

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Lots of very nice work in this thread this week.

Here is a shot of my brass 4-6-0 kit bash. I used a Spectrum chassis with a Westside Sierra Brass shell. Runs good, looks good.

Here are some brass passenger cars Kevin might enjoy:

They have been painted since this shot was taken

Have fun,

Guy

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Thanks [;)] I really enjoy a success story now and then. Last night I got the decoder “dialed in” and ran that fifteen year-old engine for a good two hours straight. No hiccups and the drive was as smooth as melted butter!

Too bad this Overland 567 is sold out [:-^]

https://www.brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/053590/HO-Brass-Model-Train-OMI-3501-1-EMD-Prime-Mover-Factory-Painted

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We had a cooling tower sheathed in that stuff, Transite . The truss rods and bracing were all loose and sagging, the fan was a little out of balance. In the bright sunlight you could see the airborne dust caused by the overlapping joints blowing into the atmosphere aided by a ten foot diameter fan. Oh boy!

More weathering ideas. I believe Noch makes a clear corrugated sheet and I’ve tinted some with Testors window tint to give it this green-look:

IMG_0930 by Edmund, on Flickr

When I weed out more surplus cars I’ll give you a shout [:)]

Regards, Ed

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I don’t see it being worth that price, but as someone who has actually touched a wrench to one of these, that is a pretty good representation of what is underneath the rocker cover.

-Kevin

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been a little while since I posted but much got donee on this rainy day.

Aquired pieces:

G&D drovers This postwar 4-6-4 which needs cleaning.And these two Herzog 52’ mill gons. the left one is Athearn while the right is Atlas.

Projects:

Slapover ballast car-Atlas

CVi Reading combine from Bethleham car works kit. They are nice kits. This one will be in a new job as a yard office.

Eastern car works which was a bit fiddly because the side were warped. painted for MOW service where it is relegated. Quick built this wall piece that still needs railings. It is an abandonded siding to an abandoned coal dealer.

Finished the paint and decal of this FM. it is a postwar piece. The shell was an ebay find that had been stripped SO I did it up as a Reading unit. Never could figure why they never did a Reading or SF unit when they went for colorful. &

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Too recent for use in an FT anyway [:)]

Cheers, Ed

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I think that’s it. I checked the pictures of the BLI models, and it matches up to mine as far as I can tell.

All the other pieces in the lot are from NJ International, and have the original boxes.

The Tell-Tales are especially nice looking. I am very impressed with those.

I thought the FT diesels used a 567 series engine.

-Kevin

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Yes, correct. 567 and 567-A. I was going by the horizontal exhaust manifold whereas the FT, of course, had four individual stacks. Not sure what the Overland model represents, looks like it has a turbo, maybe a 567-D3a like in a GP-35?

Cheers, Ed