Weekend Photo Fun - Feb 9th to Feb 11th, 2018

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Good morning from cold and snowy Northeast Ohio!

First of all thanks for all the kind comments on my old picture last week!

Also, good work by Alan, Garry, Ed and any others I missed for their submissions, it’s what makes this weekly thread go!

Managed to get a couple of cars done this week!

Walther’s 40’ Reefer kit, replaced all the cast grabs with Tichy wire grabs and the cast sill steps with A-Line replacements. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red, Reefer Yellow and Aluminum Paints, then lettered with Oddballs Decals. Prototype was built in 1947 and hauled meat products from the midwest to the east coast.

Accurail 40’ RBL kit, replaced the cast grabs and sill steps with wire grabs and A-Line sill steps, added a Fishbelly Underframe to the car, then painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Orange and Pullman Green Paints, and lettered with decals from Tom’s Model Train shop. Car was rebuilt in the 50’s in this configuration by North American and leased to the CNJ for shipping Ballantine’s Beer from New Jersey to locations all across the US, I have modeled this in a later period as noted by the ACI label next to the door. This is the fourth car like this I have done as the decal sheet had enough decals for 4 cars.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

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Rick: Great work as always. I am starting to also add some color to my freight car fleet. Pretty much everything I have done to this point is either reddish brown or black.

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I don’t have anything finished to show off, but for the first time in weeks, there is modelling in process on my workbench.

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Nice lookin cars Rick

I just aquired a C&O H-8 from the estate of Lou Shultz A train buddy from Louisiana

Ive been working on it to make it run better

so i installed a TCS version 4 Wow steam decoder

Now it runs so slow i can take a nap before it goes 2 feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ns-5LFvxMg

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The boxcars are cool.

here is my project.

It is an entirely scratchbuilt model of the old Pittsburgh and West Virginia railway station in Monessen Pa. this station was the victim to arson in 1991, so obviously I used photos Lol. I am modeling it as though it survived into present day, and is in need of a repaint and the roofing material has been changed from shingle to strip. That is actually all weathering powders, and I still need to do the roof, put glass in, and then do a simple interior.

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Rick … Thanks for starting Photo Fun … Your meat reefer and your RBL cat look great.

Kevin … Good to see you are finding time to build freght cars.

Terry … That is a beautiful locomotve.

Jimmy … Your scratchbuilt station is outstanding

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Here is Diner CB&Q 171… I made it from a NKP Car Company kit.

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Breaking in 5 engines at once. They are the black objects in the short train. Three at the front and two in the middle. All the cars in the train are filled with copious amounts of lead. The engines are all Stewart/Kato F units with the shells removed. The engines are new and have been sitting on the shelf for years. Finally got around to getting them to run.

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Thanks for starting of WPF Rick. Some good looking freight cars there.

A great looking steam loco Terry.

Jimmy, without a doubt that is one unique station. Good work.

Garry, a great looking diner.

South Penn a great looking layout.

From the BRVRR:

The Central painted three locomotives in Jade/Century Green as an experiment. E8s #4083, #4053 and E7B 4107. NYC #4053 is the latest addition to the BRVRR locomotive roster. Shown here at the head of a seven car Mail and Express train.

Here again is #4053 meeting E7A #4034 at the head of a 10-car streamlined passenger train.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

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Recently I have been kitbashing another building for Boothbay Railway Village. It is another in the series of buildings to make a “tunnel” of buildings along the right side wall oft the layout. Burgess Forbes & Co was a paint manufactuurer in Portland, ME. Shown here ready for the paint shop.

Someone may look at the foundation, and say the building is crooked. That is because to building sits on a 1-1/2% grade, so the foundation slopes to level it.

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Rick, Thanks for opening another episode of WPF, nice boxcars, I especially like the Morrell ice box.

South Penn, Not only a great city scene, but a doughnut lovers delight as well.

While searching for a way to have reasonable looking manhole covers in my “Sintra” board streets decided to try out a circle template, a couple thin 6" steel rules and a sharp scratch awl. But gotta’ get better at centering the circles, maybe it’s time to up the magnifiers.

Thanks to all the contributors and Regards, Peter

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Hello, Folks —

Another weekend …already!

Thanks for getting the fires lit and the boiler pressure up, Rick! I’ve always admired that “Lady Liberty” Jersey Central emblem. Easily recognizable, and, of course, Bedloe’s Island is actually IN New Jersey!

A clean work bench, Kevin! Looks like I have some housekeeping to do. [:-^]

I admire your BIG H8, Terry. I sure remember seeing the Allegheny when I was just a young tyke at the Henry Ford Museum. Even to a little kid, that thing was huge!

Great work on the depot, Jimmy. If I’m keeping score correctly this is your second?

I’m a passenger nut, too, Garry. I wasn’t aware of the NKP kits. Is this the same NKP Car Co. thad made several brass cars? I have three of their PRR Z78 Business cars. I love the roof detail you have on the car [Y]

Those are some nice, long, graceful curves, South Penn. The curves on that donut look nice, too!

You don’t see many models of the Century Green E units, Allan. Yours looks great! I have some NYC decals with the gold “Cigar Band” I’d like to use on an F-7 someday.

That’s my idea of fun, George. The stage of construction you’re in with your building is my favorite. I enjoy building structure kits but I’ve run out of room on the layout for them all! The sloped foundation is a common sight in reality but seldom modeled. Nice job!

Hand carved man hole covers, Peter! The ultimate in tedious work but they sure look nice! I cheat and use the Walthers ones which actually have a bit too much relief. Yours look like they have been in the roadway for 20 years or more and have been worn down by all the traffic.

Last week I showed the remains of the roundhouse and the preparation for the replacement. While looking at the site my attention was drawn to the two stub tracks that run behind the rear wall. These were originally intended to be for

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Making some progress, Henry has a new boiler.

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Thanks for starting of WPF Rick. Some good looking freight cars there.

A great looking steam loco Terry.

Jimmy, without a doubt that is one unique station. Good work.

Garry, a great looking diner.

South Penn a great looking layout.

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South Penn … Stewart / Kato F-units very good runners.

Allan … Your E8 looks great. Thank you for commenting on my photo.

George … Your kitbash project looks fun.

Peter … Manhole covers are looking good.

Ed … Your roundhouse project looks ambitious. Looking forward to seeing more progress. Thnks for remarking on my diner…

Casey … You have an interesting project. It looks like it will be another engine with a large firebox.

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Rick, I’ll agree Morrell “has the meats!”

Kevin, Looks like progress[:)]

Terry, That’s big steam, alright.

Jimmy, What a wonderful little structure and you’ve captured it nicely! I hope there’s a warm place in heck reserved for the arsonists.

GARRY, I really like the look of modernized heavyweight passenger cars.[tup]

South Penn, So what did the grease in the trucks look like in those when you cleaned them up?

Allan, I like green, but always felt NYC Jade Green was like a sharp stick in the eye. Of course, if that caused people to look, listen, and live.

George, Those sort of foundations are a PITA, but one they are dialed in, they look great!

Peter, The manholes look spiffy. Any plans to do an open one now that you’ve convinced me there are pipes below?

Ed, One of my facvorite pasttimes, squeezing in extra tracks.

RDG Casey, That boiler has the “beef.”

My time was devoted to layout maintenance this week, because of a couple of operating sessions. I intended t grab pics of that yesterday, but got busy and forgot - duh-oh! I have been digging through my pic archive to sort out particularly tasty shots. Some you may have seen before, but it’s been a long time. So here’s a few Golden Oldies…

Looking own from high above Animas Forks, you can see one of the Haymarket Tram’s towers and the Gold Prince Mill across the gulch.

Here’s some switching down by the Haymarket Tram itself.

Last, on the grade back on the Silverton branch.

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Well, as of right now I have four Mather Patent Boxcar models assembled and ready for paint! This has been a good weekend.

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Two of them are pretty much box-stock. I changed the brake wheels to horizontal mount instead of vertical staff. I also added brake platforms.

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One of them received a Creco door and all new brake gear. I had this big old brake wheel laying around for a while just waiting for the right freight car to put it on.

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The last one received a steel door from an older NYC USRA design steel boxcar. It also has a Miner braker gear and wheel for a little variety.

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These wer neat kits. The box said “timesaver” models, which it turns out are just perfect for me. All the fiddly grab irons were installed, but the roofs, doors, and brake end details were left off. I could weight the cars exactly as I wanted and change details as I desired.

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The cars also had AB brakes, which was nice for me.

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Maybe I will get them painted soon

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-Kevin

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miehman: “South Penn, So what did the grease in the trucks look like in those when you cleaned them up?”

To be honest I didn’t take the gearboxes apart (arthritis in my hands). I did flush some alcohol into the worm gear hole and let it run out the opening in the bottom. I let it dry and then put a few drops of light oil inside. The average stall current of the 5 engines is ~260ma.

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You’e probably OK with Bowsers. Be cautious about the older P2K stuff, though, as that grease can really set-up and cause problems after sitting on a shelf. In fact, that’s what prompted my question, as I was wondering how whatever Bowser used stacked up against the P2K stuff.

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I have 9 or 10 old Stewart F units, and I did not disassemble the gear boxes before I put them in service. They all run fine.

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I have never had a problem out of any of my Stewart F units. That is why there are so many F units on the STRATTON & GILLETTE roster.

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-Kevin

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They looked awful once they had a little road grime on them! I’m glad NYC chose gray instead.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1904825

NYC had an advertizing company come up with a “New Modern Image” and several locomotives were painted in “trial” schemes:

4047 in Gray with gold stripe and lettering; all black with no striping 4052, 4055 and 4080 and as noted, the 4053, 4083 and 4108 in Century green.

URHS repainted their 4083 in Century green and posed her next to the Hickory Creek for some great photos!

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?road_number=NYC%204083

Thank You, Ed

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I have a number of on grade buildings to kitbash. I have made a cuttiing jig, so I do not have to measure the 1-1/2% grade every time. Just set it against the styrene sheet on my mini table saw, and run it through.