Hello again! We’re sure burning through 2025! Here it is, the first Weekend Photo Fun of 52 already 
All participants are welcome! Please show any favorite photos, progress updates or recent adventures you have to share. The internet is a visual medium and posting photos is as easy as ever.
Let’s see what you’ve been up to!
Cheers, Ed
Thanks for firing-up the WPF. My ol’ Kato NW2 in need of a new decoder, good thing I like spaghetti.
Thanks and regards, Peter
Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Ry. GP38 No. 3802 tiptoes down the grade into Aberdeen, North Carolina. I just purchased this Rapido HO scale Geep a few days ago, and I’ve remapped it to fleet standards and to run on a ProtoThrottle. Once I’m satisfied that it’s broken in sufficiently, I’ll also speed-match it to fleet standards.
DFF
Hey! I got one of those, too! All the pretty colors 
BLI_BLE_RSD15dcc by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Beautiful photo, DFF.
Rich
I got this on sale several years ago from a hobby shop. The N cars are lighted. It was still expensive, but I couldn’t pass it up.
As a boy in the 1950s, my mother and I rode the City of Portland from Nebraska to Tacoma, Washington, to visit my sick grandfather. If I remember, it was a two day-two night trip on the train.
Since I don’t use Kato track, I’m thinking of building a wall display case using this track to hold cars on display.
This is Gloria’s Diner. It’s an upgraded Ma’s Place kit. I put a brick foundation under it, replaced all doors and windows with Tichy, and made a large outdoor dining area with picnic tables. The checkered table cloths and curtains are made in Excel by alternating the red cells, squaring up the cells, reducing the column and row width/height, and then compressing the printout. It took a few test prints before I was satisfied. The Eat sign was made by layering the printouts. The Gloria’s sign was designed in Publisher. The structure placed third in the Offline Structure popular vote at the Gateway Division NMRA Fall Meet in November 2024.
I did manage to finish some projects this week.
An old AHM 40’ Gon, I removed the cast on grabs and replaced them with wire grabs from Tichy, made new pads and installed Kadee Couplers in their boxes. Painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with some decals I picked up off of E-Bay that were made for a hobby shop by Microscale.
Next, an Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Silver, Reefer Orange, and Black paints then lettered with Microscale Decals. The Green Mountain Railway acquired a number of 50’ Boxcar types during the IPD craze of the late 70’s which rebuilt the depleted boxcar fleet of the nations railroads.
Last week I took a pair of Bowser C-636 Alco Demo Units to haul my 36 car ore train on the Strongsville Club layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Looking good as always here 
Those two Silver Bullet’s comming over that beautiful Trestle Rick!
Found my blood pressure medication, I’m OK now.
TF
Rick, impressive layout work and a great photo!
Regards, Chris
+1
New acquisitions that arrived today in the mail…
Red Caboose IHB 40’ boxcar
The latter I pre-ordered through the NYCSHS and it’s a limited run. Both kits come with a weighted Accurail coal load.
Tom
Good looking boxcars, Tom.
Rich
