This is where we show what we have been working on the past week or old pictures which show what have been done in the past.
I did not finish anything this week, although a number of items are in progress, but I did not get any pictures, although looking at half finished car kits is not all that great to look at.
Here is a picture I took at the Strongsville Club of some of my equipment!
One of my favorite pictures, a PRR N1s 2-10-2 hauling a coal drag up the hill. The Pennsy used these large engines to haul ore from the Lake Erie Docks to the steel mills, and return with coal from the coal mines in PA, WV and OH to the trans shipments points on Lake Erie for water transport to the power plants on the upper Great Lakes.
Rick … I also like the photo. I can see why you consider it to be one of your favorites.
Below are more photos of the 1900 era scene I have been working on. I am mostly done with this scene and have cleaned up the messy scenery stuff in my train room. I will add details later.
The locomotive is a Mantua 2-6-6-2 which I recently repaired. It somewhat resembles Burlington 2-6-6-2’s which were built about 1905 and operated in southwestern South Dakota until about 1950.
Edit … Here is a photo of inside the engine house.
Great photo. But I have to ask (and I apologize profusely for doing so), why do the signals indicate green? I read your rules; I understand your rules; I live your rules. But, nevertheless, there they are. Green.
Thanks Robert, signals are green as the engine is entering the area where the wiring has not been complete for operating signals. We are going to work on that in the future, but is was delayed by the partial dismanteling of the layout over a year ago to repair the walls that were caving in, meant a lot of work cutting the layout apart and then cutting all the wiring and resplicing it when it was finished and that is not 100% complete as of yet.
Area where layout was removed and new walls installed!
This is the same area with the layout still in place!
I’m really looking forward to getting a paint job and decoder (possibly sound?) in her so I can put her to work! I just read a great article in the PRR T&HS Keystone (Winter 1992) that covers these engines pretty well.
I hope mine turns out as well as yours [bow]
Your 1900 scene is looking better than ever, Garry — especially that engine house interior. I wonder, have you given any thought to having a line-shaft over the machines? It might make a nice conversation piece. Grandt Line makes sheaves and pillow blocks that could probably be used.
Nice E7, Allan. I have a fondness for NYC, of course [8D]
I only see one photo (and a good one at that) Terry.
I assume those reefers are loaded with cold beverages for the weekend, Casey?
Busy week for me at the layout:
I’ve had these Snyder Fuel Cranes in the package for years! I finally got around to assembling them…
Allan, Ed, Terry (TX)… Thanks for commenting on my photos.
Ed … I could keep adding details such as the belts. However, I have so many other pending projects, I don’t think I will do much more to the enginehouse. … Your roundhouse looks like it will be a big project.
Tear it down! (My railroad is always reinvesting in capital improvements!)
There has been conversations about the Walthers Modern Roundhouse in these forums and it got me thinking that it was about time to build one for my layout.
At the time I did the Heljan, the Walthers one hadn’t been made yet.
If you would like to see all the shafts, pulleys, and belts still in place in a railroad machine shop, visit the East Broad Top railroad in Rockhill Pa. Their machine shop is the same as it was circa 1930.
PLEASE don’t try to do this unless it is on a fully authorized, pre-arranged tour! The property is historically unique and irreplaceable, and the owners of the property take trespassing very seriously!
A change in my w**k environment has meant that I’m now doing the 12/7 routine, and as a consequence, my modelling work bench is clear, the various projects put away or under dust covers, so I’m relying on the contributors really Good Stuff, of which I’m pleased to see there is plenty of!
Thank you all,[bow]
Cheers, the Bear. [:)]
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, Bear [:D]
So, I continued with laying out the foundation of the “new and improved” roundhouse tonight. This animal is going to be a little more of a challenge than the former Heljan model.
With the old one all the radial tracks could be put down, then the building set over them. With the new construction the rail gets set into the floor, then slots have to be milled for the inspection pits to sit in (I’m doing 7 out of the 9) and then the whole thing set in place and the track trimmed and filed to meet the turntable.
Since the pits sit into the milled (routed) slots there will be no fudge room to play with.
After I scraped up all the old roadbed my original 22 year-old center lines were still there but I had a heck of a time getting the new base to align to them.
Now I’m cookin with gas… or to be more accurate “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation” . I thought this thing would come in handy on the layout someday!
Thanks to everyone for their contributions to another great WPF. It’s very late (or very early) so will take a pass on calling everything out specifically. I was having camera problems (new 4K camera needed a better micro SD card) and a crazy busy week so finally only got around to it now. While there is some distortion due to the wide angle lens, some cropping minimizes it. The results are pics that display an impressive view of the layout.
The central penisula where Durango resides.
Looking back across Durango
The ASARCO smelter complex in West Durango
Hesperus and the May Day Mine.
The standard gauge continues west past the falls
Meanwhile, behind and above the standard gauge, the narrow gauge has been climbing through Rockwood (behind Hesperus) to arrive at Tefft, the junction with the Cascade Extension.
AS the RR croass the Rio de las Animas coming into Silverton, an amphibian sizes up landing on it!
Regardless, Silverton is both destinaton and the begnnings of more adventure.
