It’s a little early, but think of it as a head start on enjoyable content for the weekend…
Saw those trees coming ‘in the white’ last week…
That experiment is a success!
Oh yeah! 
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Brent, that looks fantastic.
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Thanks Rich!
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Those trees are incredible! How did you do those? I’d love to make some.
Here are this weeks finished cars!
Intermountain 40’ PS1 Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White then lettered with Herald King Decals. This is the only known 40’ Boxcar in white other than a LC version with roof hatches and a different lettering scheme. Car was not repeated and they went with a Jade Green version on future rebuilds.
Intermountain 4650CF ACF Covered Hopper kit painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Car belongs to Farmland Industries in General grain service.
Last week I took a pair of Athearn GP38-2’s and an Athearn GP50 to the club to run with a grain train.
Have a great weekend.
Rick Jesionowski
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My son has sent me photographs of my preorders that have arrived.
‘Lady Victoria’ passing the new ponds being built.
‘Yorkshire Rose’ is the blue locomotive. ‘Lady Cornelia’ with ‘Centaur’ behind.
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Evening near the new Crown Point Yard being built. New preorder ‘Achillles’ in the distance. When one arrives more comes.
Two USA locomotives and a North British Railway ‘Glen’ still to arrive.
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Very nice work! I started out using #12 stranded electric wire for my trees. Then I discovered I have a nearly endless supply of trees in front of my house; sedum! Works great although a little fragile.
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Nice job on the hoppers are they airbrushed
Woke_Hoagland, Thanks for the WPF start-up.
It’s National Canoe Day! Though at risk of wearing it out can’t help but re-post this pic. The canoe and paddler a gift from my son, what tickles me most is how he captured the color of my old fishing pole and the memories stirred of many a summer fishing trip shared.
Have a good summer weekend. Regards, Peter
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Here is my last years thread on the subject on growing Seafoam. As far as making tree’s and bushes out of the stuff there are plenty of Youtube “how to” video’s out here that show a variety of methods.
The winter crop in the garage failed as temps dropped. They started off strong but by November it was all over. I didn’t have room in the house to grow them as we had major renovations going on. This winter I may try a small scale grow op to see how that goes.
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That’s a bummer.
Yes, all of them and I used Oddballs decals to letter them.
Rick Jesionowski
This winter I will put a few pots on a table in front of the glass door by the train room bar where they will get lots of light. There is also a heat register on the floor there to help keep them warm. Temp is the big thing with seafoam. 15c and up for success in the day and they can stand down to 12c at night. The trainroom should be at least 20c all the time. The garage got quite cold on some nights.
Plus! Everytime I tell the wife I am watering and checking on my plants, I can sneak a snort! 
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Testing my new Broadway Alton E1A locomotive.
I installed an X2f coupling for the Rivarossi cars.
As far as I’ve researched, I haven’t found evidence that the locomotive is an Alton prototype.
But the Rivarossi cars aren’t either…
In the first test, the long wheelbase is causing the first car to derail.
Typical problem with couplings on the car bogie and the locomotive chassis.