Weekend Photo Fun! July 9-10-11, 2021

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## July 9, 2021 through July 11, 2021### All Are Welcome!

Welcome to another exciting installment of weekend Photo Fun! The weather has been playing havoc in much of the world but we have calm seas here for showing our model photos.

Don’t be bashful, let’s see what you’ve been working on OR don’t hesitate to dig into the archives and post a photo of your layout or models from days gone by.

This project kind of sneaked up on me. I was looking at some “head-end” equipment recently and was dismayed that none of them had car numbers, many of the cars still had shiny, chrome wheel faces and, yes, I even added some grab irons to a few.

Here are some lined up for their first coat of Dullcote:

Head-End by Edmund, on Flickr

You can see some places where I’ve dabbed some Future Floor Finish to give a glossy surface for the decal to “snuggle” into.

Here are the results after some airbrushed Dullcote and a little “road dust” applied as the first step in weathering.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2m9JrTY][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5129464

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SI by Bear, on Flickr

Watching paint dry on a cold day would be more exciting but I’ve finally got the outlets modified…

S1 by Bear, on Flickr

…and the ends done and weights in, now for the roofs. (Please don’t hold your breaths!!)

S2 by Bear, on Flickr

Thanks for starting us off Ed, a nice start to the weathering.

Looking forward to some really

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Good morning from mostly sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!

Thanks for starting us out Ed, did a lot of work on those cars, I still have a number to build, paint and decal, but after adding the grab irons to one of those PRR baggage cars, I dread doing the next one.

Bear, good toon and some nice work on those covered hoppers, can’t wait to see the finished product.

Two new cars this week!

After getting the load installed, I decided to complete another New Haven Depressed Center Flat, painted with Scalecoat II Black and Tamiya Brown paints then lettered with Champ Decals. I also used A-line Sill steps in place of the plastic ones and added grabs at the end of the car. Used for transporting small to medium size transformers from a GE plant in Connecticut. Now I have to find a load for this car.

Athearn PC&F RBL kit, painted with Scalecoat II Wabash Blue and lettered with Oddball’s decals. ART was founded by the MP & Wabash (Both Jay Gould RR’s) to supply RBL’s and RP’s for the perishable traffic from the growing areas to the cities and competed with PFE, BREX, etc for this traffic.

Pair of Athearn SD45’s with a general freight including some recently finished cars on the Strongsville club layout.

Kevin, to answer your question I added a few drops of NP Scalecoat II Green paint to the silver for that Anderson’s Car. The cars were painted silver, but the Alfalfa dust from that surrounded the Maumee elevator gave the cars a green tinge that I wanted to have, each car was different so what I added each time was dif

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Ed … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. Good work with weathering head end cars. I recall trains in Chicago Union Station in the 1960’s and the PRR head end crs were always very dirty.

Bear … Your hopper project looks good. LOL at the Bear Toon.

Rick … Great looking depressed center flat car, boxcar, and SD45’s.

Currently, I am running the SD24’s with a dynamometer car .

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GMPullman, love the work on those head-end cars, the weathering looks excellent.

JaBear, digging the hoppers and with those weights, I imagine they’ll track well and stay in a train without issues.

dti406, digging the flatcar and MODX boxcar.

Heartland Div. Love the SD24s and the Dynamometer car, the backdrop looks perfect for that scene.

I did some more work on my Wrisley Papers kit, I’ll post pics tonight.

Alvie

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Thanks for this weekend’s photo start, Ed. Great looking weathering on the cars.

Bear, nice looking open hoppers. When you retire, watching paint dry is one of the day’s most exciting events.

Rick, more nice work. I expecially like the Wabash blue ART boxcar.

Garry, nice looking scene. You have almost perfectly blended the layout with the background in that scene. It’s impossible to tell where the background begins.

I have not done much layout work for several weeks. Summer things get in the way. Even when I don’t post photos, I love looking at everyone else’s work.

I have a small problem area near the tracks that has been empty for a long time. I decided to put in a couple of small trackside structures. These have taken a lot longer than necessary, but my heart’s just not in making them. It’s become a chore.

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Well, I have been absent again. I haven’t been doing much on the railroad, but a good friend from “upstate” (read downstate) NY came up to visit and filmed a video “vlog” including my layout.

https://youtu.be/rfVczmX9-UA

Have a great weekend folks!

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A Beartoon right off the bat! Thanks, Bear!

Say, are those melted Hershey’s Kisses in your nice looking hoppers?

I really like the depressed-center flat, Rick. I’ve been reading about the GE transformer loads hauled by the New Haven. I wonder if it is the Pittsfield plant? I made up a sign for a couple of my GE transformer loads:

Harshaw_coal-tar-tank-b by Edmund, on Flickr

I used the Kibri transformer kit. Artitec makes a nice one, too, if you can find it. Both more of a European style but, what’cha gonna do?

I like that shade of Wabash blue on your RBL.

And your Chinese Red, too, Garry [:-^] I have a Nickel Plate dynamometer that I should run more often.

Thanks Alvie [:)]

I hope you find inspiration soon, John. Summer time is not all that conducive to model RR fun when there’s chores to be done.

I’ll watch the video after dinner, Harrison [Y]

Here’s another Paint & Decal job I got done just last night:

Harshaw_coal-tar-tank by Edmund, on Flickr

Harshaw_coal-tar-tank-b by Edmund, on Flickr

Here she is just after the first coat of gloss over the decals,

Harshaw_coal-tar-tank-shiny by [url=https://www.flickr

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Ed: The work you have done on the head-end cars looks like a remarkable improvement. They all looked good before, and now they look even better.

Bear: The hoppers are moving along faster than any model railroading project I have going on right now. I can’t wait to see the final results.

Rick: Thank you for sharing the information on the green tint. I did not know the commodity hauled would tint the silver paint. It looked great. I like the depressed center flat car this week. I need to add some of those corner up-pointing grab irons to mine.

Garry: Your dynamometer car is something I need to add to my SGRR fleet just for pictures like that. Lambert imported a very nice one that I have had an eye out for. The picture is wonderful.

John: Your efforts, though a chore, look good, and I’ll be they will fill that empty spot quite nicely.

Harrison: Glad to see your layout featured in the video. I am sure you will get back to building it. I heard Northern Winters are good for model railroading.

Ed: (again): The J&L 20,000 gallon tank car looks fantastic.

I hope to visit again on Sunday with something appropriate to share this week.

-Kevin

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Thank you, Kevin (and others) [:)]

I did come across a good builder’s photo, finally:

Tank_JnL-1020 by Edmund, on Flickr

Regards, Ed

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In a way, yes, but as of now I don’t have a summer job, and I have a recurring winter job that pays $20/hour. That does come with a cost, though, as it can be very labor-intensive.

Thanks for the kind comments everyone, I do believe I’ll start working on the staging yard today.

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Ed, Thanks for gettin’ the WPF rolling with an array of appealing equipment and the fine results of an airbrush/numbering fest’.

Survey says!

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend, regards, Peter

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John York 1, Alvie, Ed, Kevin, and anyone I missed… Thanks for commenting on my picture. The photo was taken of hte most narrow section of the layout (18") . I had fun blending backdrop into foreground scenery.

Ed … I like the tank car.

Harrison … Thanks for sharing a video.

Peter … I like the surveyor scene.

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Peter: Great picture of the survey crew. One Summer I worked as a teen on a survey crew measuring the distance between the telescope guy and the spear guy. I had to shout the distance back to a guy that took notes. I would suppose lasers or something do the measuring now.

I made it back from the train show in DeLand. What fun for the weekend.

There was a pretty good crowd at the event.

I was mesmerized by this live steam beauty outside. What a gorgeous locomotive.

A real highlight was seeing the Orlando N-Trak club’s N scale sectional layout again. They used the quarantine time to finish and touch-up the entire layout. I compared some pictures of it I took today to pictures I took three years ago. It was a good layout before, now it is incredible.

I will be sharing pictures in Show Me Something as the topic allows.

There was not a lot of HO scale material at the show. It was mostly G Scale, Lionel, and “Railroadania” collectables.

I did get a pretty good haul though.

That is all for me to share this weekend.

-Kevin

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Excellent pictures by everyone. Well done.

Unfortunately I am busy at the moment to name all.

Kevin The real GNR Number 1 is a Stirling Single designed by Patrick Stirling for the Great Northern Railway.

A film of her running.

David

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More great cars and a fine scene, thanks Rick.

Ahhh, my weekly CB&Q fix, thanks Garry!

Whatever you do don’t make a hobby a chore John. I hope you get your mojo back soon.

You young blokes seem to be having far too much fun, Harrison, keep it up!

That’s a fine looking tank car, Ed, is that the F&C kit?

I hope those chaps aren’t surveying for a new shopping mall, Peter.

Those “Singles” are interesting looking beasts,

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I did some more work on Wrisley Papers recently. The large gray wooden building stands on its own now! This is probably the most satisfying building kit I’ve ever done and it’s my first “craftsman” kit. The open window space on the brick building will be covered with a shed. I do have the missing window though and I will add it soon.

This building and fixing up a brass Precision Scale Boston and Maine T1b 2-8-4 are my main model railroading projects right now. One pic from fixing up the 2-8-4 is below. I had taken off drive-rods, main rods, and some valve gear parts to drop the middle two drivers and regauge them (to narrow) using an NWSL Puller.

Alvie

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While I have a few of the F&C kits on the shelf along with a few “Butterdish” milk reefers and B&O baggage cars I cheated and bought a pair of the NWSL brass cars:

NWSL_20K by Edmund, on Flickr

Reasonably well detailed for an early '70s model. I did adapt Kadee Andrews trucks to her, though.

Kadee_509-Andrews by Edmund, on Flickr

I had to counter-bore the bolsters a bit for the shoulder screws to fit properly. All in the name of fun [8D]

Thanks for all the great contributions, folks! Ed

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Great stuff from everyone this week.

Thought I would share a MILW local moving refridgerator cars into the Borden Cheese siding in Plymouth.

Scott Sonntag

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Two ore cars have now been painted a basic paint. Weathering later. and the caboose now has wheels. All I did for the HOe layout.

I did more on the ITLA building by adding the windows after paint and weather. I did build the modular piece (also from ITLA) to add to the building sitting in the background. Still needs weathering to match. Most of the time spend here so I can get it added on to get that finished. Which should be reasonable completed next week

Shane