Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the linking of two great railroads —
and two great Oceans!
In many parts of the world this weekend is also Mother’s Day, a good cause to celebrate!
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 a current project.
We are back to cooler, wet weather here in NE Ohio. The grass is getting taller and I don’t care. You’ll find me somewhere near the layout or workshop [A]
As if I needed yet another PRR rolling stock project [banghead]. I realized my roster of head-end cars was a little heavy with RPO cars so I decided to reassign this one to Maintenance-of-Way service.
I like the sea-foam green interior I painted so I’m going to keep that. I’ll paint the floor an oxide red, not that you’ll actually see it. Maybe I’ll keep one or two of the doors open? Walthers did a great job of catching the details in here [Y]
Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeat Ohio! (Sounds like a broken record)
Thanks for starting us out Ed, good looking postal car, especially like the interior.
Gary, did not get a chance to comment on your fine, that is really an awesome model!
Managed to get a couple of cars done this week and progress on another.
Buffalo Creek Railroad was a joint venture of the Erie and Lehigh Valley to servce the grain elevators and flour milling factories in Buffalo, New York. They had over 1,00 boxcars for shipping flour bags across the country. Car is an Atlas ACF 40’ Boxcar kit with a 7’ Door, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Black Paints, then lettered with Smokebox Graphics decals.
Proto 2000 52’6" Greenville Gondola kit, the DT&I purchased 100 of these cars in 1943 and in the 60’s sent many of them to the Ann Arbor for transporting steel coils, this is one of the cars retained by the DT&I with the change from Boxcar Red to Black paint on the car, Scalecoat II Paint used and lettered with Herald King decals.
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking in the Boothbay Railway Village vehicle parts drawer, and found two old Walthers resin truck kits. I stripped the old paint, repainted and added some home made decals.
A US Mail truck
A Divco van to go with the Country Kitchen bakery I am kitbashing
Yesterday (May 9) the 150th celebrations began with Big Boy #4014 and Living Legend #844 meeting nose to nose in Ogden, ala the two 4-4-0s doing so May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit. Below is a loose HO version of yesterday’s Ogden meeting.
This week was prolific, I made some big steps foward.
Most of the buildings are nerly finished, wheathering is ongoing.
I will share also the first back pictures of the wharf because he is double sided.
The deck of the wharf is also made, I use a base of gator foam covered with North Eastern wood side planking; the surface was thinned with wash of india ink and brown leather with isopropilyc alcohol.
The base is drilled for the pillings, more than 80, but the pilling are not cut to the proper height because I wait for an order of small fishing boat which will determinate the height of the wharf.
While I didn’t get all the way to Ogden for the celebration, I did get some good photos of the BigBoy thru Wyoming. I decided to do some prototype trains instead of model ones last weekend.
Ed, Thanks for opening the WPF, and with a most appropriate title. I just happen to be reading Stephen Ambrose’s ‘Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869’. Oh, and I like your interior color choice, so nicely industrial.
TF, Enjoying your elevator, a lotta’ good going on there, great weathering too. Just a note: Printing a sign on paper and then thinning it and distressing it with sandpapers can work.
Thanks to all the contributors, have a good weekend, regards, Peter
George I like the job you did on the delivery trucks, I especially like the street sweeper. That thing is so full of character, it looks like it could be someone’s pet.
Paul Good job on the meeting point on your layout… NICE!
Renegade I hope you don’t mind I took one of those big boys shots. I’m going to give it to my brother the photographer and have him blow it up and put a frame around it.
Marc Great idea on the wharf. Looking forward to seeing the progression.
Allan Thanks for the compliment, the New York Central and the Santa Fe scene. I like it.
Ho-Velo A compliment from you means quite a bit to me as I have always admired your scenes. Especially your Street Scenes. They look so real they make me feel like going for a walk down them and looking around a little more.
Harrison The layouts coming along nicely and you’re right, fleck paint does look like ballast. If you figure out a way to get the rails and the ties on our track to repel it so it only sticks around the ties, please PM me first[swg]
PRR_BM70M_MoW2 by Edmund, on Flickr
