I noticed no one has started a WPF thread this time around, so I figured I would.
I have taken a long break from my layout after the birth of my daughter in January, so I haven’t accomplished much. I went to a swap meet a couple weeks ago and picked up some traffic lights (non-functional) and a baggage cart for my depot. I know they are nothing compared to the things done by tstage or selector, but as I always say, “everyone has to start somewhere”.
Nice photography! Good modeling, too. Thanks for sharing. (I luv that baggage cart!)
[#ditto] The baggage cart is great.
Sue
Nothing too extrordinary from me this week. uhhhh…just this J1 photo altered and tweeked to look like the vintage Pennsy footage from which it’s weathering came from. [:)]
Oooooohhhh…yeaaaahhhh![:P]
ezielinski-Great pics! How’d you do the sidewalks in the first pic? That’s exactly how I want mine to look.
I used sheet styrene, scored in 3/4 inch squares with a #11 blade. Looking back, I wish I would have scored a curb into them as well.
I used KJ Clipper to cut out this scene then superimpose onto a sky. UK OO scale.
Mike, as always I really enjoy your work. It reminds me a lot of the countryside around the West Somerset Railway near my parents home. http://www.wsr.org.uk/
The closest thing to MRR I will be doing this weekend is this…
This is a freelanced layout based on the Burlington Northern. Since this layout is temporary we have not bothered to ballast or weather the track. The control system has an excellent intelligent sound system. It is fully automatic and does not seem to have any limits to the number of functions. My only real criticism of the sound system is that all the locos sound the same, there is no differentiation between high speed electric trains like the Acela or GP series diesels. Geographic concerns are also of little consideration. A German ICE train can frequently be seen overtaking a CSX freight. There is also some artistic license taken with the scenery. Note the suspension bridge in the background entering a stunning example of cardboard box creativity. This was carefully scratch built from recycled packaging materials and is based on the original prototype made from a shoe box last year. It is amazing what can be accomplished with those precision craft tools, the kitchen scissors!
It may be hard for some of you to believe, but this layout was only started last night. By the end of the weekend it will be impossible to walk in our house without tiptoeing around a substantial freight hauling operation. The track plan took all of 10 seconds to consider. Once the location of the engine shed was set everything else just fell into place.
Operationally the layout runs very smoothly, even with tight radius curves. The only real issues are limited to the occasional strafing and bombing run from a B17 or JU87 as my WW2 plane obsessed 9 year old joins in the operating ses
I have no pictures this time but I can tell you all that I’m building 20 Walthers Rio Grande coal cars this weekend.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-4913
Before I started I was a little scared, 20 cars… But I got a nice idea. I started to build them like Henry Ford with a assembly line. Wow, that speeded up the process and is something I can really recommend!
I now understand why Henry did it…
HO Men at work!
This week I have been working on scratchbuilding a grain elevator complex. It’s not qquite finished yet (the chutes have to be installed and it needs weathering). This pic was taken on the hallway shelf, as there is no layout for it yet.
Click to enlarge!
Here are some “quick-and-easy” kitbashing projects I did this week.
Silver Spoon is an Athearn diner with windows blanked out in the kitchen like the prototype. Remaining windows on the car are consistant with CB&Q’s pre-war Budd dining cars.
Silver Pouch is a baggage/mail car made from Athearn baggage car and an Athearn RPO car. Silver Pouch was built in 1952 and was ordered along with cars for CB&Q’s Kansas City Zephyr.
These cars were reasonably easy to make, and they result in some cars that look more like those operated on the CB&Q. I added a few details including diaphragms, mail catchers, etc. More could have been done. Silver Pouch is close to correct length of scale 73 feet. Siver Spoon is Athearn’s scale 72’ which is too short, but I’ll live with it.
Gotta love Wittle Stop trains.
Here’s my son’s layout, “Pittsburgh”. IF you look real close you can see Thomas at the station.
So, you think you have a collection of unmatched rolling stock. Check out these engines in the former Camas Prairie RR now Bounteous Grain and Craigmont RR.
Also a cool prototype Diesel tank and sanding facility to model.
Nice. it is…
Who wants to see my baggage cart? Its from the same kit. The only thing is I glued the handbars on the wrong spot… and while glueing the wheels, i dropped something so i put the lid back on the cement… and i came back and couldn’t find the last wheel, and i went back to glueing the rest of the details. I found the wheel on the glue brush… halfway disintigrated.
This is my new engine that I got for my birthday. The southern one I painted and decaled myself
-Smoke
The unfinished double drill track from my stub ended yard. The 5 ft.drill tracks merge and are accessable to freight engines from either direction.
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Cheers, Simon. And thanks for the S&D link - much to see there. It’s now been bookmarked[tup]
Mike
These aren’t MY pics - they’re pics my uncle sent me of his locos & yard. It’s the South Chicago & Indian Harbor Railway Company. It was the Chicago Short Line before LTV steel in Cleveland went under a few years ago.
This is the engine house/servicing facility:
A pair of switchers moving a cut of cars:
and here’s a closeup of one of the switchers (yes, all the locomotives are purposely still in the CSL paint scheme):
Maybe I’ll get a chance to drive up there this summer and take some pics of my own[8D][tup]
