Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project, what’s on your workbench or layout progress, or just a favorite photo of your model railroad…
In like a LION and out like a Lamb. End of February (and a leap-day, too) plus the first day of March. Cold and snowy for many of us.
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, completed or in progress.
I decided to play with a “mini-project” this week and build-up these neat looking speed signs, based on a D.L. & W. design: I assembled them using a slightly different practice.
Thanks for starting us out Ed, a neat little detail that is not on most layouts.
Got a couple of cars completed this week!
First is one of a series of Penn Central Boxcars that I a modeling. The prototype was a Lot 136-B off the NYC that was a rebuild and stretch of a 40’ PS1 Boxcar from Lot 842-B by the Beech Grove Shops, as these 400 cars were renumbered during the merger they were repainted even though the rebuild occured in 1967. The letter A means the car was restricted for clean loading items like flour or newsprint. This car was asssigned to Bufallo, NY for flour loading. I started out with a IMRC 50’ Box, removed the side sill and made a new from Evergreen plastic to replicate the picture of the prototype, also lowered all the ladders and removed the roofwalk. Also substituted a 10’ YSD Door for the 9’ Door and in doing so I removed the cast on door guides and made new ones from Evergreen Plastic strips. Car was painted with Floquil Penn Central Green and lettered with Microscale Decals from a couple of different PC and NYC sets.
Next car is a Tangent PS 4740CF Covered Hopper, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was delivered just prior to the BN Merger and stay
Ed … Yur speed signs look great and should add some niocedetail on your layout.
Rick … PC boxcar and the CB&Q hopper are outstanding. I like the SP SD45’s.
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A quick project this week is to make a “close enough” model of CB&Q 483. It is n observation car which ahd been assigned to the NP North Coast Limted. After being withdrand from NCL service, it was painted silver. It was used as a substitute observation car on Zephyrs when regular observation cars were in the shops. It was also used on special trains. You can see part of my kitbashed coach.
Here is the prototype (Placement of windows is not the same, but I do not want to change them on the model.) :
Here it is before repainting while still assigned to the NCL.
Another great start to the best thread on the forum. Thanks, Ed, for starting this with your signs. Be sure to give us some pictures when you get them on the layout.
Rick and Kevin, I am envious of your skill at making boxcars look like the real thing.
Garry, my favorite – passenger cars. From the part I can see, your kit-bashed coach looks great.
Allan, another favorite – Union Pacific. There are some on the forum who don’t like Union Pacific – they just don’t know what they are talking about.
Timmy, Your work looks good. If you decide to spread the letters and make them bigger, be sure to post pictures with “before” and “after”. I’m not an expert, but I think you’re right. However, it looks fine to me as it is.
I finally(!) finished the strip mall building. I still need to add some cars and people, but this has been a frustrating build, and has taken a lot longer than I wanted. I’m not real happy with the signs, but with my age, eyesight, and N Scale, I may have to buy some signs instead. As I said several weeks ago, I made this based on a model I saw, but the model was too expensive for me, so I decided to make it myself.
Ahh, keep the swearing mild Mr. Little Timmy. HEHE.
Nice looking stuff developing here Gents and love the photos. Here is my lone CNW unit, a first run Athearn SD40-2. I spent lots of years up in Rapid City, SD and have many a CNW picture in my archives. This unit is a bit out of the CNW numbering scheme, I don’t know why, but, it’s my RR.
Love the car ! Way back in the day, we had the El Paso & Western running through Douglas. Now that you have given me something to “shoot for” , I’m gonna have to do some research, and come up with a few of my own.
Nonsense!! Along with everyone else’s really Good Stuff, please keep sharing, besides I reckon it’s great to see the process behind the project. I found with my little bit of research into the Railroad Roman font, that it evolved with time.
Speaking of process, I must admit that creating a “Beartoon” is generally a quick process, I see a photo, the dialogue springs from the blancmange between my ears, and any editing I do is while I put everything together. For various reasons, not all make the cut, but the failure rate is generally low.
Amongst others, Peters fine modelling has supplied the picture for a “Beartoon”, on more than a few occasions, BUT his offering this WPF is so thought provoking, more deserving of a small novel, of which is beyond my capabilities. Who is the guy, what has led him to this point in life that his possessions amount to three bags?
Add the very up market coupe, and I would title this picture, “Contrast”.
From an infrequent visitor to WPF, I just want to give a shoutout to Garry for that observation car and overall photo shoot. One of my favorite layouts.
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