This is a Tangent G31 Gondola, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Color and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was originally built in 1951 by ACF and produced in the thousands, this is a 1967 rebuild now in Class G31k.
This is an Exactrail Evans 4780CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II BN Cascade Green paint and lettered with Oddballs decals. Car was built in 1979 by Evans and leased to the Garvey Grain Corp. One of a number of Midwest lettered covered hoppers I have in the fleet, I did make one mistake in lettering the car that I noticed after I took the picture, I will correct and repost later this weekend.
Thanks for all the kind comments last week, and for the beautiful modeling done my both Mike’s, Garry, Peter, Ed and Terry. You are all an inspiration for greater modeling.
Rick … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. Also, thnaks for your kind remarks at the bottom of your post… The like the freight cars this week. I’m thinking by now, you have a very long freight train. LOL.
Casey … Glad to see your locomotive shop is busy. It’s interesting t osee how you sacrifice locomotives of Thomas trains.
I am continuing to work on my 1900-era scene. When I began tehe project , I knew there was not enough room for it. I was correct. It is a challenge crowding things in a small area.
In recent days I added trees and details. Most of the trees are around the grist mill.
I’m very impressed with your work! Do you have your own site or blog so that we (I) could view more of your great scenery? The super photos on the WPF posts are far superior than my capabilities.
Garry are your structures scratch built? Great grist mill and overall 1900s scene are great!!
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
Rick, Those Tangent cars are great, as is your paint scheme.
RDG Casey, The kids (of any age) are looking forward to those builds.
GARRY, That scene is coming together with all that detail. Looks great!
GP-9_Man, Interesting builds with lots of eye candy. That substation is really nice!
Well, I’ve been building a goTenna Mesh network here (see this for some potentially interesting RR operations uses: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/267411.aspx, so got very little done on the layout except adding more light strip over Red Mountain. I’ll try to grab a shot of that and add it later.
Here’s a couple of pics of my lost in the Rockies DSS&A train with it’s new caboose.
Mel … Thanks much for the comments. You have penty of talent yourself. I could not do what you do with Rivarossi Cab Forwards. … I don’t have a blog, but I suppose I shuld try that. My 1900-era buildings and structures are mostly kit built. Exceptions are the coal tower and the sanding facility which are scratch built. I once had a 1900 era layout, but it was dismantled because of moving. I decided it was dumb to have my 1900 era trains buildings and trains in storage and added this section to my current layout just for fun.
GP 9 … Thanks for commenting. … Your paper mill looks great
Mike L … The water falls are impressive. I like the DSS&A Alcos and caboose. Thank you for your remarks about my photos.
Working on a my fictitious Wheeling & Lake Erie EMD GP38-2. Just added working ditch lights and grab irons; though I still need to add a better horn and A/C roof unit.
Rick: Another great job on the kits.Along with the actual building,it looks like you put quite a bit of time in on research,too.
Casey: I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes…
Garry: That scene looks terrific! I really like the mill,and your scratch-built coal and sand facilities are impressive.
GP-9_Man: Nice work on the factory and substation(in N scale,no less)!
Mike: I like that DSS&A color scheme - and it fits right in with the scenery!
RR_Mel: I enjoy the pictures of your,lighting,scratchbuilding,and loco rebuilds. 'Hope you’ll keep us posted on your latest cab forward project.
Robert: Neat looking train. I like your use of flat and shallow depth buildings along the backdrop.
LakeErieEx…: I love that Wheeling and Lake Erie paint scheme. That’s what the Rio Grande’s engines would have looked like if they’d ever washed them!
Wow,Allan,that’s gonna be an attention getter.
K-36 #480 drifts through the yard.In the background,prep work goes on for a seven stall roundhouse. I also need to do bit of work to cover my lift-out section seam.
Thanks for the kickoff, Rick! Great looking rolling stock. Was the G-31 built from a kit? I’ve looked at all the tiny parts and pieces in those Tangent kits and they sure aren’t for the faint-of-heart! I don’t mind tackling an intermountain or Proto 2000 but the Tangents sure looked challenging!
I’m impressed with everyone’s contributions this weekend [Y] and thanks to all for the encouraging, positive comments last week in regards to my Hulett Machine Shop!
I had a little more time to add some equipment, still — just staging things, getting ready for doing the lighting.
The Huletts had some pretty big electric motors in them for the winches. I think the largest was 100 HP. Here’s one that just came back from re-wind. I added the parts-storage mezzanine along the back wall plus some printed wall textures.
Off to the right is a hydraulic press that I scratched. It is patterned from one we had at GE. The big sheaves constantly needed machine work on the Huletts.
Another outside view showing the crane-way I’m kit-bashing. I wanted a “lighter” look to it so it would not obstruct too much of the line-of-sight into the building.
For the second year, Boothbay Railway Village brought the Eadyville 2 ft gauge Porter locomotive to the Amhurst Model RR Show at the Eastern States Expo. It runs on about 150 ft of panel track
Rick, A hearty thanks for opening the WPF. Seeing your fascinating models and the whole of WPF makes for a great start to the weekend.
Garry, Gotta be a good feeling to have your wonderful models back on display and providing joy, particularly the grand and indelible ol’ station.
Mike L., Always enjoy your photos and posts. Your clever “fins” caption last week inspired a retake with a 57’ Chrysler Imperial. Recalling my grandfather’s 57’ Plymouth Fury I’m all in with the fins.
Work in-progress. I think the fade and patch out turned out OK, still have some more weathering and blending that needs to be done. A little to breezy today to get the diorama out in the open and take pics, so the patio will do…
Thanks for all the interesting examples above. Always inspiring.
I believe videos are ok as “photo” fun as they are included sometimes, so I will add one below on my recent Athearn HO Veranda conversion to DCC. The photo below I posted when in progress a few weeks back, regarding the speaker setup to go inside, with a LokSound Select 6Aux and LED loco lighting.
Here’s a video, just for fun. I decided to change from the semi-discontinued Microsoft Movie maker to another video editor, and after looking around I downloaded free VSDC, which was not too hard to adjust to after looking over tutorials. Apologies for the focus, as my Canon G12 will not adjust focus during shooting. This link will get you there:
