A small project this week, making a log car from a caboose. Don’t tell anyone it has the wrong trucks, I’ll maybe change them out later. Right now I want to give my logs a smoooooth ride. The logs are Crepe Myrtle.
Jarrell
**Jarrell…**Neat looking logs.
I will post a video of a Cotton Belt doing some switching. Its about 1 minute long.
Thanks Robby, I saw examples of Crepe Myrtle logs on a friends layout and liked them better than the plastic ones I’d seen.
J.
Great looking logs, Jarrell.
Cool video, Robby.
New Paragon SW7 spotting a caboose on the service track.
Very nice Logs Jarrell, so once you have swapped out the trucks and then replaced the flatbed, will this really be a log car made from a caboose? [:)]
Robby, a very nice video, thanks for posting the link.
Here is a Nashville road box getting switched in the evening sun. I have been trying to play around with lighting to warm my images a bit.
Great stuff already.
Jarrel… Thanks for starting wpf. I, too, like the logs and the scenery is terrific.
Rob … Great video. I thinking serving industries is the “fun” of model railroading.
DJ … WOW! I fell like I am in PA right now but turn back the clock by maybe 50 years. Good scene!
Simon … I like you CB&Q VO 1000. Nice weathering on it and the boxcar. I’m not familiar with the Nashville Road. Feel free to tell about it.
Here is my project of the week. I built “Silver Orchid” from a kit by NKP Car Company. It has plated brass sides. It is now in service and in the photo is in the westbound “Twilight Zephyr”. (Photo gives the illusion it is off the rails, but actually there are 2 tracks and it is on the farthest track.) Trucks are Central Valley trucks, long out of production.
Nice work every one
Nothing new here maybe later this weekend
but i did a new slide show of my layout and you can see it by clicking the link in my Sig line
{ Thanks to Tom’s help}
Thanks for the cooments. Its a old video and thought I would post something different [swg]
It is a friends free lanced line. One of his box cars is visiting on an interchange this month. His is a fantastic layout in development and can be seen at
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/3019
Got my decals Wednesday, unfortunately my paint either was damaged itself or the box it was in was, but hopefully that’ll be here today, then I can paint my locos handrails and finally have them all painted up. But that’s another story. I’ve gotten that NW caboose decaled and weathered, 5 of my locos decaled, and my CSX boxcar weathered. pics:
Before pic of caboose:
After (red decal trim film and Gothick Block White numbers used):
(this side got messed up early, but it still looks ok):
pic of my rs-1:
here’s the album w/ all the loco pics:
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/Packers_1/weathering%20pictures/
Good work so far. I’ve been busy watching the Tour de France, so not much modelling has gotten done. So, some older shots. No, I didn’t paint these for Team Astana and Lance Armstrong, but it worked out that way this year:
Need to add trees, bushes, grass, rocks etc.
Darn cow loose on the tracks again!
Great start to the weekend once again!
Steamage, looks like that train crew might have steak tonight…[:-^]
DJ,… WOW as always!
Jarrell nice logs. Nothing looks like the real thing more than… ah, the real thing!
There were a couple others like Robby, Sawyer, Mister Beasley, and … ??? that I also wanted to mention as their work is great! (But my mind has gone blank…)
I haven’t had a lot of time this week to get a lot done. I have started to take photos of each area of the layout to help me critique each section for what I need to adjust and finish before getting this part of the layout judged for Merit Points for the NMRA Scenery Certificate.
This is the area at Cooley’s Blue Ice:
Moving counter clockwise you see the farm behind Hopewell junction just to the left of the Ice House property:
Then the Farmhouse and a field of grapes behind Hopewell Junction:
73
Some superb work on here!
I made a small rock outcrop with water putty
Mike
Keep up the photos guys!
Just some progress shots:
Nige.
Mike,
Let me pass on congratulations in getting a photo into Trackside photos in the September Model Railroader. A very nice photo of 801. Keep up the good work.
Bob
Love the look of everyone’s work this week… Good job one and all.
I’ve been laying roadbed this week on my inner and outer mains:
and started laying track:
Other projects this week included sketching several buildings and finishing the technical drawings for my roundhouse. If I get a chance to scan them I will along with taking photos of some garage sale finds-A Pennsylvania railroad Rule Book, a Track Maintenance manual, and some track date nails…
The rest of myweekend was spent visiting my inlaws and taking the kids to the Children’s Zoo in Fort Wayne, Indiana… Not all was lost there:
Also here are some photos from the tracks near the grain elevator in Woodburn, Indiana:
Thanks Bob. You sure got an early look at it! I haven’t seen August’s yet.
Mike
A Hudson Highlands camelback is caught in the process of spotting a couple of milk cars at the local Bordens Dairy.
(Those long in the hobby might recognize that butterdish Bordens car as an old Cannonball Car Shops product.)
Almost there now…
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