Weekend Photo Fun - December 20 - December 22

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun

December20 - 22, 2019

All Are Welcome!

Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.

Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.

This week I have another new addition to my “Fleet of Nonsense” I am building for the new layout.

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This freight car was built from a Red Caboose kit and features Kadee wheels and couplers. It was painted with Scalecoat paint and lettered with custom decals by Donald Manlick. A-Line stirrup steps replaced the plastic pieces from the original kit.

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No worries about the “AY”. Just assume the paint job was being finished at 4p on Friday and the shop crew was thinking too much about happy hour. Or maybe they started an hour early on their own when the foreman wasn’t looking.[:)]

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That sounds like what happened!

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It stands out in the portrait photograph, but in a train while under normal operation it probably will never be noticed.

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I am trying hard to become half as good at this as Rick is.

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-Kevin

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It looks like I accidently posted a second thread for Weekend Photo Fun, but it was deleted without being added to this one, so here goes with another one.

Good morning from mostly sunny and cold Northeast Ohio!

Managed to get a couple of projects done this week!

Tangent G43 Gondola Kit, that was built with the addition of a coil trough for hauling steel coils. Kit was built then painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red, then lettered with Dan Kohlbergs IC decals for this car. I am showing both sides of the car as the sublettering is different on each side. Coils were supplied by Tangent for filling the car.

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Kevin … Your boxcar looks great. AY? … What AY? … LOL

Rick … The PRR coil gon and the Santa Fe boxcar are outstanding. I like the NYC RS-32’s.

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Union Station is very busy during the Christmas holidays. Lots of mail and express. Many passengers. Long trains.

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These things have been known to happen [:-^]

PC-220125_X61E 1970 by Edmund, on Flickr

The paint crew didn’t take the time to lay the car on its side in a foam cradle — AND they used too much Solvaset!

Great Stuff everybody, thanks for the WPF startup Kevin (and Rick)

Cheers, Ed

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There is a prototype for everything they say.

My fall has been mostly devoted to work, family stuff and hockey (the boy’s). In the train room, I managed to put some time on a bridge for the HOn3 track, and a sawmill operation that is fed by HOn30 equipment. As you can see, my pike includes a few “what if” items…

Simon

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Well I have something new this week.

Please enjoy the layout tour.

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Lehigh Valley T-1 4-8-4 passes an idle R-1 2-10-2.

Both engine built on Spectrum bases.

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'My photo was downloaded to the desktop with care

in hopes that WPF soon would be there

while images of scale train cars rolled by in my head

I knew that model railroading would never be dead’

Thanks Kevin for getting the WPF started at this special and often hectic time of year. Bet your fun boxcar will tickle the fancy of many a Carolina football fan.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and Merry Christmas, regards, Peter