Weekend PHOTO Fun! March 18-20, 2022

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome!

Graphic compliments of Kevin aka SeeYou190

Welcome to this exciting edition of the March, 18 to 20, 2022, Weekend Photo Fun.

Please use this thread to post any photos of your recent projects or a favorite scene on your layout. Everyone is welcome and all contributions appreciated.

I hope that Kevin gets things straightened out with his forum log-in problems. He has been sorely missed this entire month!

I took a break last weekend but I have been keeping busy on developing my roadway ramp to the upper level of the city area. This roadway ramp has been a bit fussy for me to get placed to my liking but I’m making progress.

Piggly-Wiggly_yard-ramp by Edmund, on Flickr

Early stages…

Fabricating bases for the lamp posts to keep them plumb:

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Thanks Ed for starting WPF.

A great set of stunning pictures of your modelling. Loving them.

A couple of scenes from me this week.

Some days the sun shines through the window and I get photographs a little different to what I thought I was taking. Class 27 27037 on a York to Leeds Central local train.

IMG_2126 by David Harrison, on Flickr

Are they arriving or departing?

IMG_2132 by David Harrison, on Flickr

David

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Thanks for kicking off this edition of WPF Ed. Your city is really coming along nicely.

David: Love those scenes - is it spring yet in the UK?

This week, I acquired a LL 0-8-0, which was one of the very few items left on my locos-to-buy list. I added DCC and all-wheel power pickup on the tender. It can really crawl on the multiple switches I have in the yard without stalling. It still needs some weathering and some real coal on the tender…

IMG_20220315_120112b on Flickr

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Thanks for starting us out Ed, too bad Kevin has been MIA, miss all his good posts.

Ed, nice pictures, as an ex-High Voltage Systems employee, we would have never had poles like that on bases, they would have been level with the deck. Also that transformer needs a fence around it since it is not a true pad mount transformer and fully enclosed. By the way still great modeling.

David, another set of great scenes from your railroad, don’t know how you manage to get so much in the space you have.

Got another couple of cars done this week.

Tichy converted hopper to quasi covered hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Silver and Reading Green along with Tamiya tan paints, then lettered with kit supplied decals. The “Andersons” acquired a bunch of ex-Wabash panel side hoppers, add extensions which gave them an extra 300CF of capacity as grain is much lighter than coal. These cars hauled grain from the Maumee elevator to the grain docks in Toledo. This is the 13th kit I have finished in this paint sceme, have a couple of more to do.

Details West FGE RBL Boxcar kit, added Moloco coupler pockets as they are easier for maintenance that the ones that came with the DW underframe, also added Plano walkover platforms replacing the cast ones on the body. The N&W acquired several hundred of these cars from FGE and some were painted in the Pevler Blue paint rather than the Yellow and Boxcar Red of the standard FGE paint scheme. I used Scalecoat II Wabash Blue (As Pevler came from the Wabash) and decaled with a couple of different Microscale sets. In general use hauling canned goods.

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Thanks, Rick —

Yeah, I did mention the fencing above, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Maybe next week.

Well, that pole is supposed to represent a piece of 4-5" conduit where the secondary leads run into the building from underground. I can’t find the photos right now but at my old GE plant we had several transformer pads around the plant as the place was expanded over the years. The original plant was built in 1930. There were places where the conduit was run up between transformers like I represented.

What I should have modeled is a pothead on the top of that conduit and made separate runs from each transformer.

I havent run anything into the primary side yet as you can see it is kind of a cramped area. The small alcove in the structure just needed “something” to see in there. I may not even get around to actually stringing wire as a service feed. It just gets in the way.

Modeler’s licence [:)]

GE_uvw1_0002_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Plus some DANGER High Voltage signs [Y]

Thanks again, Ed

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Ed,

Nice work on that ramp

David,

Impressive work on the clothing of the figures in the last pic, with washes highlighting the styles.

snjroy,

I have no need for an 0-8-0, but have always enjoyed seeing them. Great to hear she’s a reliable performer after your tuneup.

Rick,

I always like your Anderson’s hoppers. You do a great job on the tarp.

From me, first a look under the hood of my latest Tsunami II install using the TSU-KN1, PN 885032 kit made for Kato N scale locos. The cut in the weight is the hard part, but the rest is very easy, since the Kato NW2 uses a chassis design that mimics the typical split frame that N scale locos do. I was pulling it apart to bypass the resistor in the rear headlight mounted in the cab roof, since this decoder has that onboard, making the light dim without the bypass. Obviously, this will work even if your Kato isn’t narrowgauge like mine. The speaker is included with the decoder along with several sizes of speaker enclosures.

Next is the Bob Miller HOn3 module, which I’ve been tuning up to show at our local train show (at Lincoln Square in downtown Urbana, March 26 & 27). I had to juice the four rotary switches that allow 4 DC throttles at a time to operate what is basically a modified Timesaver with contact cleaner because I was getting intermittent opens. All need to be set to circuit 1 which I feed DCC to now. Since it was in storage for two years since I last ran on it, not surprising, along with the need for a little track cleaning. I also installed the structures, etc and checked for clearance, so is now ready to go to the show.

Also laid out more Miller structures and the AHM Rico station I built on my 4x8 HOn3 roundy round.

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Square by Bear, on Flickr

I hope the visit to the plumber has positive results.
Kia Kaha.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]

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About 1/2 way done my merchants row 1. I pretty much duplicated the colors on the box. Any ideas where to find interiors?

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Thanks for the comments on my pictures, gentlemen.

snjroy. Spring has sprung. [:)]

Rick. I just make little scenes of life as I see it. I try to have ‘the little people’ to have a reason to be where they are. A tiny scene can make a bigger picture.

An old picture of when Clarence Dock was ‘Gillingham Pier with puddles and wet ground after the rain’. PS Medway Queen just arriving.

IMG_4230 (2) by David Harrison, on Flickr

Keep the photos coming.

David

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The small details can make a big difference. That is for sure!

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LION would use photographs in the shop windows. Not flush with the window, but folded to give depth to the scene. This will also light the store from the front. In the apartment windows I would use some bits of cloth to make window curtains or blinds. You will also need to put a LION next to the buildings.

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Don,

I often use the City Classics Picture Windows, which consist of a interior view printed on a piece of translucent plastic, a little like a slide. You put some light begind it and it looks great. City Classics owner Jim Sacco reecently passed away and there is a thread showing some of mine . CC remains in business if this looks like it will work for you.

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Ed, Thanks for a nice urban start to WPF, wonder if there’s any good deals on the lot, “Go see Cal.”

Rick, Viewing your work is always a joy. Good thing you were sent over to the pump shop, amazing how many fixes can be made nowadays without a tear-down. I’ve a few lines propped open with stainless mesh tubes

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter

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…looking for a round peg! [(-D][(-D][(-D]

-Douglas #2

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I haven’t done much to the railroad in the last 18 months or so. But I started to replace the DCC decoders in my engines with RailPro decoders.

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Great Stuff this weekend, fellows!

Your misty-morning scenes are superb, David [Y]

Those Proto 0-8-0s are great locos, Roy. I hope you get lots of enjoyment out of it.

That’s interesting about the covered hoppers on a budget, Rick. Good thing they didn’t have to travel far, I don’t know how dry that grain would keep on a longer trip [:-^]

Wabash Blue is always a favorite with me! Fingers crossed on your upcoming heart tests…

Lighted number boards look great, Mike. And step lights, too! Neat!

A Bear Toon has become a tradition here [:D] Always welcome — Always Fun!

Your Merchants Row looks great, Don. As Lion mentions, sometimes a carefully placed photo can work wonders.

Great scene at the wharf, Peter. Nice rust effects [Y]

Glad you’re back in the saddle after a year and a half away from trains, South Penn.

I spent an enjoyable day at a train show today. Hadn’t even planned to go but a friend called Friday night and talked me into it. Two-hour drive but worth it [;)]

Here’s a few of the goodies that followed me home:

NYC_K-5_Samhongsa by Edmund, on Flickr

I’ve always wanted a New York Central K-5b class Pacific. These were the backbone of NYC’s mainline fleet before the arrival of the Hudsons and Mohawks.

GATX_Olin-tank by Edmund, on Flickr

This Olin tank car caught my eye. I just realized it needs placard holders. Another project for another day.

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Finished 3 more reefers this week. One, well known, one regional, but fairly wel known and the Phoenix is an old Buffalo NY brewery.

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Thanks for the start to WPF Ed. The city scenes are coming along. Great stuff![:)]

David - Your scenes are always packed with detail. Love them.

snjroy - Cool little loco.

Rick - Great cars as usual. Loved the WABASH train scene.

Mike - Lots of stuff in as small package on the Rio Grande loco. I found the ‘Time Saver’ interesting since I have a version of it built into the BRVRR layout.

Bear - Good one. And typical.

Don - good job. I usually get interiors from the internet. Photos of window displays and interior views and sized to the scale I need. Apartment and house windows are usually decorated with paper or cloth window shades.

David - Another great scene.

Lion - I agree.

Mike - I never knew of the translucent ‘Picture Windows.’ I’ll look into them now.

HO-Velo - Nice scene.

South Penn - Why?

Ed - Great finds. Haven’t been any train shows here in NE Ohio for years now. I miss them a lot. Good luck with the stripes.

pike-62 - Interesting cars.

Its been slow on the BRVRR lately. Not much time devoted to the layout or rolling stock. Below is a photo of my current headache. This F40PH has an ESU decoder that is driving me nuts. I’m having an awful time programming it with my Digitrax Zephyr and Decoder Pro. There has to be a way, short of replacing the decoder with a Digitrax unit.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

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I lived for 22 years about a 10 minute drive from the Ohio Railway Museum and have driven under their bridge over State Route 161 countless times but have never gotten around to visiting their museum. I can only remember driving by it one time. The road it’s on doesn’t really lead to anywhere that I would be going.

For years, I bowled at lanes that were withing walking distance but our bowling alley is being sold so those days are over. I’m going to put it on my to-do list to visit it this year. They don’t open until May but their website says they still give rides. I’d love to ride that gas electric if it’s still operational.

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This is on part of the cooperage for the 2 foot gauge line. This is also being done as a video which is why this part is well ahaed of the other part of the building. I have one other building to scratch build. These two are wood kits. both from a guy the sells only on ebay and he did a great job of making them simple builds. still lots to go. a foundation, loading dock, details. same as the other building.

These a two old O guage cars I got. they were in bad shape paint wise. decals flaking off, paint worn and such. So I redid them. same road name just all new paint and decaling. these are 1950’s car kits from scale craft. the boxcar is wood core with brass sides and ends. the hopper is just solid metal pieces screwed together.

not much else

SHane