Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, if you prefer is the U.S. Holiday to commemorate fallen Service Men and Women of the Armed Services. I extend our remembrance to all members who have sacrificed in the name of Liberty and Freedom.
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.
I’m glad to place this Pennsylvania Railroad D78c Dining car
Thanks for starting us out Ed, great work on that passenger car!
Managed to get a couple of cars completed this week.
First up is an Intermountain Railway FMC 5283CF Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Aluminum, Black and Tuscan Red Paints, then lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used for transporting lumber out of the Pacific Northwest and could be seen all over the country wherever lumber was used.
This is an Exactrail PS 4427CF Low Hip Version Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray Paint and lettered with Oddball Decals. The Rock Island in the 60’s bought thousands of covered hoppers to replace the 40’ boxcars formally used in grain service.
Wow, I’ve seen so may of your picture of the Boothbay Railway Village layout, but I always though it was a masive club layout. It’s still sizable but a lot smaller than I though! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks everyone else for their contributions too, weekend is young and we’ve already got a bunch of new freight cars and some great layout pics, keep it coming folks!
Ed: You did a magnificent job on the PENNSYLVANIA dining car. It is a great model.
Rick: Thank you for posting the two new freight cars. They are both nice, but the HYDRA-CUSHION lettering on the SOUTHERN PACIFIC boxcar really stands out. You did an A+ job getting the decals to snuggle in around all those vertical ribs.
Allan: The generations shots on the BVRR look good.
George: The arial view of Boothbay is nice. I too thought it would have been very much larger.
Mike: Nice picture of the crew change.
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I finished two cars for the SNOW CREEK RAILROAD. The combination door car is from a CB&T kit. The “normal” boxcar is from an Intermountain kit.
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I like the slightly different heralds and differing paint colors, but still maintaining a family look.
Hello George, great pic. We go to Maine every year and always stop in Boothbay. We drive by the Railway Village but have never stopped. I guess we always thought it was more for little kids, of course still doesn’t explain why we didn’t stop when the kids were little! We will be up the last week of June and will make sure we stop this year!
Ed, Lots of work to make that brass really shine, but worth the effort, looks great!
Rick, That SP car would look right at home on my Rio Grande layout, lots of those in period pics on Tenn. Pass, etc.
Allan, Nice comparisons!
George, Looks more complete, years of work!
Mike, The people really make the scene in O.
I’m outside playing with trains in this week’s pics again. After the initial cleanup and patch-n-fill, I’ve had several derailment-free runs up and down the line. Still planning on adding a bunch of ballast soon, but the basic alignment seems sound. Here’s Shay 269 leaving the turntable.
Crossing Chasm Gulch.
Climbing Graveyard Hill.
The Startled Hare took a run today.
The Hare is being stalked by the cat…
Hmmm, this one doesn’t seem edible like the little fuzzy ones.
It’s Memorial Wekend. Reflecting on those that gave all to keep us free.
And, it’s time for another WPF!
Ed, your passenger equipment is amazing. 2 dozen brass cars! [:O]
Rick, your freight car builds are always a treat.
Allen, great shots of the “generations” !
George, I think this is the first time I’ve seen the complete BB lay out! Excellent!
Middleman Mike, that engineer on the left looks like he’s had enough for one day! The more you enlarge your photo, the better it gets!
Kevin, your box cars for the SCR are unique, as always with your different road names! It will be a treat when we get to see build your lay out.
Mike L. The garden railroad looks like it has recovered from the rath of winter, and kitty cats! Looks like a new building in the backround!
If you will all alow me to indulge one last time on my MILW terminal cab, I have given it a coat of Pledge (used to be Future) and added the decals, then I gave it a shot of DulCoat, and did just a little weathering. “Just a little” is hard for me, as I usually get a little carried away!
The number decals over each door were a special challange! [:|]
Our building was built to resemble an MEC freight station, so our layout room is long and narrow. Not the best for a layout display, but it does the job for us.
We have a double track main line all around the room with a small loop on the center pennsula. There is an HOn30 high line loop to loop run along the left wall, running around the back to Whitefield where the narrow gauge yard, servicing and transload facilities are located. We are almost done installing a signals system.
BTW, our website will be down for mainenance and upgrades next week. Hopfully back on line by next week.
Gidday All, well things have been conspiring against my modelling time but I do appreciate all your really Good Stuff.[tup][tup]
Unfortunately, I’m also Flickred out, so the downside is that the three Beartoons resulting from this WPF will remain unsighted, but the upside is that the Forum members are spared my uncertain sense of humour!
My Flicker is just beginning to Flickr back to life, Bear. Too bad we miss your 'toons [:S] You got us hooked on 'em.
Thanks for all the positive comments, folks[:)]. It dawned on me tonight that I just happen to have FOUR Pennsylvania Decapods (that’s 39 drivers +1 for you folks keeping score at home) So I thought I had better get them scrubbed up for an official PRR publicity photo!
This odd fellow with the red Keystone is going to be sent off to CudaKen as his reward for staying off the coffin nails. The round numberplate was missing from BLI so he requested a keystone which I obliged him with.
This is the carrot dangling in front of Ken’s nose. I challenged him to go 30 days without a smoke (last month’s diner) and as a reward he could pick any Broadway Limited engine he wanted. He chose this [:D]
I’ll send it to him this week so he has it when the 30 days are up.
I’ve been going on and off with this Erie caboose project. I built this JJL Models kit years ago and have been slowly getting it renovated. The painted and lettered the body and that looks okay, but it needs some small paint touch-up. The frame isn’t in that good a shape paint-wise. It’s a bit blobby on the bolsters, so I’ll sand those down loosing the rivit detail and replace the rivits with the decal type. Right now I’m working on the brake cylinder mounting that’s supposed to look like this:
It’s a fussy, small detail that wasn’t included in the kit, but is necessary for the model to be (ahem) “correct”. I have thin, narrow brass strip material that I’m working with and here’s where I’m at with it on the bench.
Have a great holiday weekend, everyone, and thanks for posting the great photos! [tup]
