Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## August 28, 2020 through August 30, 2020## All Are Welcome!
Please feel free to post any of your model railroad related photos here. This is the place to share photos of your layout, equipment, newly acquired goodies, works in progress, or a recently completed project.
Once again, I am happy to be starting the weekly edition of Weekend Photo Fun. I do love this thread and the way it brings the discussion forums back to a fun place for all. I believe it is the best thread every week.
Last week we had another discussion thread going on about Tyco models, and I shared that I have collected about a half-dozen of the iconic Tyco train set cars from my youth. These have been upgraded to be good runners, and are used to bring back memories, and just for fun.
I decided I need to add a locomotive to my Tyco roster. What says Tyco train set better than a Santa Fe F Unit in Warbonnet paint with yellow air hor
Thank you for another great sendoff to the last WPF of August 2020. My how time flies. Somewhere in nearly all of our pasts we have encountered a Tyco train in one form or another. They are a part of our Model RR DNA [:D]
I’ll have to resort to some archive photos. This week I have been debugging that Broadway Limited K4, still! I have been exchanging emails with tech support and we are in the process of trying to determine if there is a problem with the BLI engine or with MY Digitrax DCC system. The tech guy mentioned that there are some rather odd interactions between Digitrax and Paragon decoders. He gave me a battery of tests to run that I will attack this rainy weekend.
Broadway Limited tech support is very helpful and knowledgeable. Great working with those folks.
Meanwhile —
I see there is a recent offering from GHB models of an HO model of the PRR DD1 electric locomotive. I’m on the fence over shelling out $600 for one of these or sticking with my Custom Brass model that performs reasonabbly well?
Happy Friday, looking forward to more awesome photos this weekend!
Kevin, nothing but nostalgia looking at that Tyco Warbonnet F unit. I had one just like it as a kid, and I bet many others who join in here will say the same. Glad to see you turning one of them into a good runner.
Ed, love that Pennsy motive power shot.
Bear, you’ve got me chuckling again. [swg]
I love feeling welcome to share my modeling projects in this thread each week, but the quality of the photos I’ve taken has dissatisfied me for a while now, as what I’ve shared hasn’t always captured the details seen in person. I invested in a phone with a great camera, and I have to say it is really making a difference in enjoyment.
Kevin- Thanks again for starting the best thread of the week. I like that tyco unit. They were pretty much gone when I was a kid, I saw the model power and lifelike stuff come to life. I remember every year I would wait for the Farm & Fleet cataloge to see what train set I would ask for this year for christmas. Had loads of fun with those, all of which were thrown away. I did keep one set and gave it to a coworker to give to his son. He loved it! I do still have a LL Santa Fe f unit in the yellow and blue.
Ed- Best of luck with the k4! I agree $600 is a lot for a model! Ive never spent more than $140 on one. That brass model looks amazing. And it’s custom?! I hope I get to that level one day. Great shot of the PRR electric power
Bear- Always love the beartoon of the week!
Phil- I think you meant to post that picture in the trains forum. This one is for models only! All jokes aside that new phone makes that scene come to life. I can’t wait to see how it progresses! Fantastic work.
Jimmy- I hate having to wait for my shipments so I feel your pain. Why not did into the archives?
As for me this week I recieved a box of stuff from a user on here ( 2 SW7 shells, SW1500 shell, 4 BB kits and a whole lot of detail parts )
I built and weathered the one 40’ SP boxcar and attatched one of the shells to my dummy chassis to see how it looks. Hopefully more updates this weekend! Looking forward to seeing everyone elses photos.
Another good start to the weekend, both on the forum and in real life!
Thanks to Kevin for another start! You really have a wide range of models and interests. Nice F unit. E and F locomotives are from my childhood that represent modern passenger trains.
Ed, that’s a nice DD1 you have. You also have a wide range of models.
Another Bear entry. I never think fast enough to come up with things like you do. I’m not real quick…
Phil, you’re right, a good camera makes a big difference. Nice work!
Ringo, nice work on the Southern Pacific boxcar. Very realistic.
Chip, the jail is very good. You said you didn’t use anything from the kit. What did you use to make the stone walls? It looks great.
I haven’t finished anything this week. In fact I haven’t worked on the layout at all. I’m trying to finish a part of a basement bathroom, but I work about 10 minutes, then sit and think about it for two hours, then another 10 minutes of work. At this rate I’ll be back to the layout by Thanksgiving.
Here’s another shot of the first thing I put on my N Scale layout.
Kevin–It could be a lot worse than a missing coupler–all things considered. New chassis and motor, a little of what you do, and I think it will be a great little engine.
Ed–Sounds to me like you’d rather have a different project.
Bear–funny!
Phil,–although my phone is convenient for a lot of different reasons, the camera I use to take bird photos is right next to me when I’m snapping pictures of my work. I should use a better camera and stop complaining about distortion.
Ringo–Looks like Christmas to me.
John–The first thing I did when I started back up working on my layout was finish the freight house I was working on before. The idea for the freight house came from a Mills Craftsman Kit–I think it is German–anyway, I changed a bunch of things, including using wood instead of stone. The stone is from the Mills kit. That plastic was hard!!! To cut out the windows I had to drill a series of holes because my Xacto knife was just scratching the surface.
I hope you got lights on that tower, because it’s a hazard to real world planes.
I just found this on ebay. I thought hey Tivoli Beer is a Coloardo Beer. This is a Atlas Masterline and I paid $30. Atlas masterline should have good detail right?
But… where’s the door? Do they load the beer in the roof hatches?
Also the coupler box doesn’t have any screws. I will have to cut the coupler box off to install Kadee’s. I found out Atlas agiuired some line of cars like 10 years ago.
This should not be sold as Masterline, and not worth $30.
Ed: Good luck with your K4 problems. That sure sounds like a lot of troubleshooting. Hopefully the root cause can be identified and everything will be OK in the end.
Bear: Thank you for the humor. It is appreciated and needed.
Phil: Your new camera is working well. That is a beautiful picture.
Jimmy: Thank you for checking in. I look forward to an update.
Ringo: The weathering on the boxcar was a success. That box of goodies sure looks like a lot of fun.
Chip: The Tyco unit should run great with that Proto-Power-West chassis under the hood. I want to get the train together now, but all my freight cars are packed away.
I love your buildings. I can’t wait to see them in scenery. Sometimes I do the same thing with kits. By the time I am done, you cannot tell what I started out with.
John: I had a few of those days this week. Work on drywall for 10 minutes, find a bunch of mistakes, think about if for two hours, make repairs for one hour, then do 10 more minutes of work. Not much progress like that.
I do switch between hobby aspects quickly and abrupty. I can go from craftsman resin kit to Tyco train sets without coming to a stop. If my mind had a gearbox it would be completely stripped out by now.
Michael: That car has doors. They open up on hinges with a center locking bar, they are kind of like the rear doors on a semi-trailer. On the model they are not functional. Sliding doors did not seal well enough for refrigerated boxcars, so insulated hinged doors it was. I only have a couple of Altas Master freight cars in my collection. They are hard to convert to Kadee trucks, and the coupler boxes are awful.
[^o)][^o)] I’m sure it was the Atlas HO Masterline 36-foot wooden reefers had opening doors. While I marvelled at how the intricate door opening mechanism worked like the prototype, I also thought it was far too dinky for the Bears paws, gimmicky, and eye wateringly expensive!!!
This is JUST my opinion, and I would not like to put off anyone who appreciates such detail.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Who could not like the Santa Fe Red Warbonnet Scheme, especially restored out of a Tyco[Y] Nice!
I think Tyco was only HO scale unless I may be corrected. N scale as I know was Bachmann back in the day.
I got this set to replace the one that doesn’t work anymore from my dear old Grandad.
Replaced this one that is appx. 45 years old I still have.
And the bowline knot Bear.
Yes, Thanks for the memory. I definitely got a chuckle but it meant more to me than that. It was a man named Leo Neiser that was always old when I knew him. How I loved that man and still do. He taught me how to tie knots on his dock at his Milacs Lake Resort when I was very young still in grade school, among many other things that he taught me.
I do have a memory and will never forget. You make a loop with the rope. The rabbit comes up out of the hole, goes around the tree and back down the hole[:D]
Well, I don’t have any scratch-built marvel or outstanding layout to share. In fact, I just got through purchasing my first HO scale products since I was maybe 12 years old (many years ago). I’ve got plenty of early 60s era O scale equipment, but decided to go slighty more modern when dipping my toes into HO.
Some may laugh at my “Carpet Central”, but I was happy to get a loop setup of 31" radius Kato Unitrack, a Scaletrains ET44AH, 2 sets of Kato Maxi-IV double-stack well cars, an assortment of containers to load them up with, and an ESU CabControl DCC system to run it all.
Ed: You are not the only one experiencing issues with the BLI K4. I finally ran mine at my club yesterday and I observed similar issues. Actually very similar to my BLI L1s locos. Start/stop on turnouts and actually on random sections of track. Admittedly those sections of track might have been a bit dirty as we haven’t run much at the club since Covid. I had hoped your BLI Go Pack add would prove to be a long term solution.
Kevin, Thanks for the WPF opening. No telling how many eager youngsters happily found a Tyco train set under the tree. The train around our tree was always Pop’s O scale Marx, but I do recall my brother and I sharing a Tyco slot car set one Christmas.
Ed, I like seeing brass, and it machines nice too.
Phil, Wonderful scene, pulls together well, especially the vegatation, creek, track and train.
John, Your radio station reminds me of nights in the 60s catching Wolfman Jack on the hop.
Chip, Nice hoosegow, doubt an inmate would agree.
Allez! Allez!
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
What I was reffering to is the lack of door openings, its smooth and there is no way to tell where the door openings are, except for that center bar. Looks kinda cheesy to me.
