Weekend Photo Fun - June 21st through June 23rd

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun

JUNE 21 - 23, 2019

All Are Welcome!

Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project, layout progress, or just a great photo of your model trains…

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, completed or in progress.

New for this week I have some additional freight cars for my series of models to pay tribute to Jim Hediger’s OHIO SOUTHERN layout. I previously posted pictures of my version of an OHIO SOUTHERN boxcar. This week, I am adding a set of cars for the HURON STEEL manufacturing plant.

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The set of cars consists

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Thanks for opening up Kevin, and some very nice models, I agree I think the beam needs to be longer also, just did not look right. It would fit in a 65’ gon easily.

I managed to get a couple of cars done this week!

First is an Atlas ACF 3560CF Covered Hopper Car, removed the cast on roofwalk and crossover platform and replaced with Plano Model parts. Painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. The DMIR used these cars to deliver Bentonite to the mines in order to make the Taconite Pellots that were delivered to the steel mills. As the steel industry waned, the cars were sold to the Detroit and Mackinac Railroad.

Next a Walthers NACC 50’ RBL, removed the cast on sill steps and replaced them with A-Line Sill steps and added grab next to the door and over the walkover platform. Painted with Scalecoat II Aluminum and Reefer Yellow and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Cars were assigned to the Pillsbury Mill in Bufallo NY and delived the bagged flour throughout the US.

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Kevin … Thanks for starting this thread. Your flat car models with I-beam are impressive.

Rick … I like the covered hopper. The DMIR arrowhead logo is a classic. The D&H RBL car looks great. The SP EMD’s are nice looking.

Below is my rural scene which includes my scratch built grain elevator.

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Rick: I love the DM&IR hopper. That is a great lettering scheme. The arrowhead is really a stand-out.

Garry: Your grain elevator is very handsome.

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Here is a reminder of the OHIO SOUTHERN boxcar I posted a few weeks ago. This is the rest of my Jim Hediger tribute.

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I am in Orlando at the Disney Springs Hilton with my wife for the weekend. We are going to see Bowling For Soup perform at the House Of Blues in Disney Springs tonight, then into the theme parks tomorrow.

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Please keep the weekend photo fun coming along. I will be checking back.

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-Kevin

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Ride the Disney trains, all the trains!!

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Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with your finely crafted steel service cars.

Thanks to all the contributors and happy summer kick-off. Regards, Peter

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George: We just got back to the hotel. You can bet I did ride the trains. The Disney trains are actually live steam narrow gauge and quite nice.

Peter: Great scene, as always.

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This has been a slow weekend for Weekend Photo Fun. But… the weekend is not over, so I hope to see more people contributing.

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It is the first weekend of Summer.

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-Kevin

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Dave V … WOW ! … Your video is amazing ! … Thanks for sharing.

Peter … your scene looks real…

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I’ve managed to get the sceney finished on the rest of my layout:

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Dave: I loved the video.

Danny: Thank you for sharing more pictures. Your scenery looks very good, and so does the overall layout. Nicely done!

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It was a slow weekend, but there were several top-notch contribultions.

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Thank you to everyone who contributed.

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-Kevin

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