Let’s resuscitate a time-honored tradition, shall we?
Weekend photo fun is a thread where anyone can post photos of progress on a recent project or whatever you may want to chare with the Model Railroader community.
One project I completed recently was to modify an Atlas (Branchline) single window coach into a New YOrk Central Crew rider car, primarily used on fast mail trains in the late '60s.
I sanded the window pillars flush and cemented a .010 styrene filler in place plus modified the car bolsters to accept Walthers four-wheel passenger trucks.
I recently made a Rapido Locomotive family photo of my Rapido Locomotives. I may do the same for some of the other brands I have. I must have too much time on my hands. LOL.
Thanks for getting this up and running Ed, it has always been a favourite.
An unusual find this past week: A couple of NYC Lot 504-B boxcars with plate ends.
Incorrectly labeled as an X-29 boxcar by Red Caboose but similar to its PRR cousin, these were manufactured by the NYC in 1926 at their East Rochester car shop and used in revenue service until 1964. According to the CASO NYC Freight Car Roster webpage, this rendition is labeled as a “reasonably accurate model”.
This, and its brother 128036, will make a nice addition to my respectful NYC rolling stock roster.
Here is a City Classics Company House that I converted into a tavern. The structure is in honor of my father in law who left these earthly bounds in 2020. I cut out the front and made a stone veneer front with recessed entry. His favorite beer was Busch, hence all of the signs. The window coverings are also in his honor. One window has a flag in it for his time in the Navy. One window has the logo from the St Louis Cardinals as that was his favorite team. One window has a tie dye covering as he had an old hippie side to him. Finally all the curtains on the second floor are blue which was his favorite color.
Here are a couple shots from my latest “Run Some Trains” weekend from a couple of weeks ago. This is one of my new New York Ontario & Western GE 44 Tonner from Rapido.
Oxford just continues to release some very nicely-detailed vintage cars for - I think - a reasonable price.
And I have to say, posting photos on the new forum is a real treat now. No more photohosting and links. And the file name displays very nicely at the bottom of each pic when you hover over it.
Just when I thought I had all the vehicles I could possibly use you show that neat, must-have, REA van, Tom! I agree Oxfords are the best value out there for HO modelers. They even include licence plates!
I have that same '42 Town & Country (in navy blue) and red '48 Chevy pickup. Oxford’s '50 [Correction: Oldsmobile] Rocket 88 is another nice-looking vehicle.
Gidday Ed, thanks for kicking off a rejuvenated WPF.
While not a model railroad photo, P51s photo of the two GMC 6 x 6 trucks, reminded me of this one exhibited at the Putaruru Timber Museum. A lot of these were “liberated” from the Pacific Islands after WW2 and put into a variety of good uses. GMC deuce and half. by Bear, on Flickr
Thanks to everyone else for sharing your really Good Stuff.
Now to lower the tone, sometime back this British prototype flatcar shell was saved from the rubbish bin, while tidying up at the local clubs closure of the clubrooms. Potential by Bear, on Flickr
I have noticed that differences between the US and UK railroad loading gauges actually means that OO scale British/European protypes are dimensionally close to the US HO scale prototypes, and being a freelancer, with “Good enough/ 3 foot tendencies, I’ll give anything a “bash.” Besides the PRR generally had a prototype that is close enough!
Have got as far as cutting off the buffers, making a very rudimentary underframe, trial fitting Kadee couplers at their correct height also Bettendorf trucks, and casting lead weights. Underbelly by Bear, on Flickr
Have a Great One ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.
Tom: I believe you’ll find the Rocket 88 was an Oldsmobile. They had both 88 and 98 series through several years in the 1950s. (I was in grade school and then high school back then, graduating from HS in 1959.) Look at the hood symbol above the front grill.
Chuck
Couldn’t get the photo of a 1950 Olds to post. But look up 1950 Olds photos and look at the front of the hood and you’ll see the Olds symbol which should match the front of your. model.
Mail Train Crew Change by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC Rider Car Window by Edmund, on Flickr
NYC Rider Car Bolster2 by Edmund, on Flickr
