Weekend Photo Fun - May 21st through May 23rd

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
1

Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## May 21, 2021 through May 23, 2021### All Are Welcome!

We made it to a brand-new weekend.

This is the thread where we gather to share fun photos of our model trains. This is always my favorite thread every week.

Lets get it going with another of my older photographs. This one is a scene I assembled on my 30 inch square photo-prop diorama.

I will do my best to be a good host this week, certainly better than I did last week. I am in a better mood now.

Let’s have some fun!

-Kevin

2

Gidday All, it’s a clear but cool Friday evening, might be a frost in the morning.
It’s been a long time since the Bear has had actually used the modelling workbench but I decided that it was time to do something, so I’ve started on these Bowser covered hopper kits.

CH by Bear, on Flickr

Looking forward to seeing your really Good Stuff.

Have a Great One, Ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.[:)]

3

Thanks for starting WPF, Kevin. A good looking diorama.

Bear. Those covered hoppers look really good. Well done.

Nothing much from me. I just ran trains when I could.

1914/1919 A Southbound Ammunition Train rumbles thru Leeds Sovereign Street Station. A little 0.4.0 locomotive (‘Leefy’) of the former Calder Railway in charge.

David

4

Great start Kevin

I really like your diorama!!! Simply love the Chevy!!!

Bear, you do need to do more on your workbench, slick hoppers.

David very nice scene as always.

Kevin got me hooked on building a diorama and about the only time I can work on mine is when my arthritis lets me. This is what I have so far.

The house and crossing are powered by Arduinos, the house on a Uno random lighting controller and the crossing with a Nano. The vehicle lights are LED the Aeromotor is powered with a 12 volt gear motor running on 5 volts.

Lost of work needed, I also want to go with static grass.

Mel

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

Bakersfield, California

Aging is not for wimps.

5

We’re off to a good start this weekend! Thanks for lighting the fuse, Kevin!

That is a nice, busy scene you have setup there [Y]

Great to see you working on kits, Bear. I really enjoy those Bowser kits. They go together well and have plenty of detail. I loke the PRR G38039 ore cars and I’ve done plenty of the covered hoppers (GE-LAMPS) too.

You have a nice, gritty scene there, David. I can almost smell the coal smoke. Is that overhead, arched device for checking clearances?

With all the juice you have running on that diorama, Mel, you won’t need a static applicator! Just sprinkle on the grass and turn on the lights! Great stuff, everyone!

I still have the signal bug this week and, believe me, this one will cure that for a while! The bridge with the targets is 90% complete — now for the wiring [:|]

One of the masts being tested:

PRR_position-light-test by Edmund, on Flickr

and a check on the fit:

PRR_position-light-test-fit by Edmund, on Flickr

I’m using the Oregon PRR signal head kits. These are really well made and once you get the hang of things go together pretty well.

PRR_position-light by Edmund, on Flickr

As of tonight I have all four masts, eight heads (48 LEDs total!) and got them mounted to the bridge.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kZKyky][img]https://li

6

bright by Bear, on Flickr

bright1 by Bear, on Flickr

7

Some good work so far!

Kevin, I like that caboose. The light weathering looks good.

David, your modeling makes me want to build some of that foreign stuff! Hmmm…

Mel, the diorama is looking fantastic.

Ed, those signals look like an awful lot of work. Beautiful!

Here is my contribution for the week…

I finished an Atlas / Kato GP35 that I painted for the L&N. I also installed a Digitrax decoder in it.

Last week, the Roundhouse G&D cattle car was brought up with the picture of a nice build. Here is mine that I completed about a month ago to go with my other G&D - DG&H cars. I used a shortened Tichy roofwalk, S scale turnbuckles, Precision Scale brake wheel, and Kadee trucks and couplers…

A group shot!

Finally, an HO Kato GP35 project. This will be a Norfolk and Western patchout for my Trinity River & Western. Since I don’t currently have anywhere to run my HO stuff, I’m building a few things here and there to plan for the future when I get tired of the N scale stuff!

8

Good morning from sunny and warm (soon to be hot) Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out, love the caboose, model the period where we have cabooses rather than FRED’s.

Bear, nice to see you back to modeling, should be buiding the Intermountain kit to test your skills!

Mel, good looking diorama, then you get Bear-Tooned!

Ed, more hard work on those signals, the guys that do that at the club sure have patience and skills that I do not have.

David, always appreciate your scenes from across the pond!

TW, nice work on the GP35’s it reminds me that I have to finish the NYC unit that is 95% complete.

First Off, some in progress work on that Intermountain 1958CF Covered Hopper kit. All the underneath details are done, and I have added all the hatches and their hardware to the roof and installed the roofwalk and grabs.

Also completed two cars this week!

Red Caboose, 1937 AAR Boxcar, substituted a Viking Roof (Des Plaines Hobbies), as many of the Van Swearigin Roads used this roof style on their 1937 AAR Boxcars. Yarmounth Models Sill Steps in place of the plastic ones, painted the car with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #3 and lettered with Speedwitch Media Decals.

The completed Intermountain 1958 CF Covered Hopper, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray and lettered wit

9

We are off to a terriffic start this weekend, and really fast.

Bear: The covered hoppers are looking very good. I love covered hoppers. I have about a half-dozen different styles in my collection. It looks like yours are a lot of fun.

I am pleased to hear my foul mood did not creep into view.

Also, thanks for the toon!

David: Thank you for sharing another picture of your modeling and phtography tallents. You really have a skill for making a great photograph that is fun to look at.

Mel: Your diorama is really coming along and looking good. You have more lighting on that project than I had on any of my last three layouts!

That little Chevy truck in my photo was made by Busch. Thank you for the kind comment.

Ed: It is good to see the “Signal Bug” is still giving you inspiration. That new long bridge is really making the scene look beautiful.

Chuck: Thanks for the comment on my caboose. It is a brass model of a PRR prototype that was imported by Trains Incorporated. These are inexpensive and easy to find, so it was going to be the SGRR standard at one point. Then I found the Hallmark GM&O caboose I liked better, so I just have the one of these.

Adding the Tichy roofwalk to the Roundhouse kit is a worthwhile improvement. It looks much better. When you shorten a Tichy roofwalk do you take an even amount off of each end? That is what I do. I tried to take a chunk out of the middle once, and that was not satisfactory.

Your GP35 high hood project brings back memories. My friend Randy and I built an N scale NORFOLK SOUTHERN layout at his house 20-30 years ago. We converted plenty of Kato models with high-hood kits.

Rick: Wow! You have been busy this week. Both the ERIE boxcar and the MINNEAPOLIS AND ST LOUIS covered hopper look amazing. I do not have a favorite this week. Also, the shot of the coal train on the cl

10

Kevin, thanks for the start of the new WPF. I’m always impressed with your work on cars, but I’m more impressed each week with your photography. You have a talent of making the photos look 3-D. This week, the close things are a little blurry, the caboose is in exact focus, and the background is a little blurry. The total effect is that you, the photographer, have gotten us to see the things in the scene exactly how you want them viewed. Hope your mood was not caused by anything I or anyone else said. You seem to be the glue that guides much of the discussion on the forum, and I appreciate it.

Bear, I’ve mentioned to others that I have no covered hopper cars, and yet they are one of my favorites. Looks like a neat project. Enjoy the colder weather.

David, your scene of the ammuntion train during The Great War is very cool. It’s a scene of railroads that I don’t often see modeled over here.

Mel, that’s an impressive scene of your work. You and several others have inspired me to work on Arduino stuff. I did my projects with Nanos because they are only about $3.00 each. I finished some crossing signals. I’m impressed with your houses that have random lighting effects. That is my next project to learn. Good job!

Ed, your signal work is outstanding. As I said to Mel, I just did some signals. My work is not nearly as complicated or as good-looking as yours. You and others keep inspiring me to work harder.

Chuck, you are doing a great job on working on the cars. That is something I have not yet attempted. You do very nice work. I also work on N scale, but I have considered changing. Why are you thinking of changing to HO?

Rick, very nice! Your work on the hopper cars is great! I

11

I just looked at each of the photos here! Great work, everybody !

I posted these photos in my thread about hauling coal. I made loads for my coke cars. This is an improvemnt becasue I had been operating the cars empty for a long time. Here are two pictures. First is at the coke oven, and second is at the blast furance.

12

Although I haven’t taken pictures of videos yet, The first section of my layout has trackwork (mostly) attached and trains running! I’ll post a video of that soon. In the meantime, enjoy this “short” I took of a friend’s layout while visiting a couple weeks ago.

https://youtu.be/khYF9SEF0aE

13

Kevin, that is a nice little scene. You always do a great job with them.

Bear, looks like a fun project!

David, is that a British version of what we would call a “tell tale” hanging above the Murgatroyd car? Interesting.

Mel, any thought of contracting out vehicle lighting work to other forum members? I have a dozen or so that could use your touch!

Ed, envious of your signals. Excellent work.

Chuck, nice looking L&N loco. [Y]

Rick, nice work as always. Is this a business venture for you? You turn out an incredible number of cars.

John, nice little scene you have going there! The boxcar is pretty fantastic too!

Garry, you have such a nice looking layout.

Harrison, nice teaser video! When will we see more?

OK. My contribution for the week is another family based set of stores, my youngest plans on becoming a vet, so a vet clinic was needed of course. Me? I love to grill, so the meat market is mine!

14

Thanks for the good words Mike, I don’t have very much hair left on my head and I lose more with every vehicle so I think not.

While they look good I sometimes wonder if they’re worth the effort. Soldering the tiny wires to the tiny LEDs isn’t an easy task for OLD Shaky hands Mel.

I used 1mm incandescent bulbs for vehicle lighting for years before they became unavailable. I just started using LEDs a few months ago and it took a lot of experimenting before they looked good enough to put on my layout.

I made my own connectors for the vehicles with the bulbs and decided to go with Arduino connectors for the vehicles with LEDs. Having two different connectors in my roads works great to keep from popping the 1½ volt bulbs by accidently plugging them into a 5 volt socket.

I really like your interior lighting!

Mel

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

Bakersfield, California

Aging is not for wimps.

15

Kevin - Thanks for starting WPF. Nice diorama scene. Busy.

JaBear - good to see your back at work. The hoppers look good.

David - Great scene as always.

Mel - Thats going to be quite a diorama.

Ed - Looks like the signals are coming along. Way beyond my skill set.

Bear - Good one. Don’t feel bad, I can’t sing either.

Chuck - The L7N loco looks good. Great job on the G&D cattle car.

Rick - Great work on the ars. I finally figured out the mistakes the paint shop made on the hopper. Your attention to detail is incredible. Good looking RS-11s.

John - A work in progress! We all have some of them.

Garry -Good photos and nice car loads.

Harrison - Short indeed!

Mike - Good ideas and good lighting too.

A quiet week on the BRVRR. I’ve been working on bringing my website up to date. Changing photos and checking the wording on descriptions. Nothing worthy of a photograph unfortunately.

I did get to run some trains though. My coal train w/Pennsy power and my NYC 'Pipeline on Wheels are on the layout for a day or two. These are two of the longest trains I run on the BRVRR. Fifteen cars and a caboose, with double headed power.

Rivals passing at the East End of the layout.

New York Central ‘Pipeline on Wheels’ at the West End.

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

16

Another week of great pictures by everyone. Thanks for showing.

Mike. It is not a tell-tale but a loading gauge. Any open wagon with a load that touched the gauge would be too high and could not travel thru tunnels etc… If a load did touch the gauge some of the load would have to be removed.

When I began reading about the railroads here at the turn of the century to the end of The Great War I came across interesting facts. In 1909 hospitals were ordered to prepare for casualties in case of a war. Ambulance Trains were built. 1912 there were a large number of Military Manouvres on the East Coast of UK in case of an invasion from ‘the East’.

Here are some nurses and ‘wounded soldiers’ on a practice outside Leeds Sovereign Street Station.

As an aside. Other times in history, preparations for a war were made before a war started. In 1936 Britain embarked on a massive rearmament program that would be complete by 1941.

Keep the pictures coming.

David

17

Thanks all for the comments. The video on my friend’s very small but stunningly realistic layout should be out in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, please enjoy the first run on my new layout. I’m making progress, slowly but surely!

https://youtu.be/SVsQcwPACXI

It’s the brother’s b-day tomorrow, hopefully, he will be back into his N scale trains soon. More content for my blog and YouTube… Have a great weekend folks!

18

John: I am glad I am not the only one sharing an older picture this week. Nice little scene, I really like the boxcar!

Garry: Thank you for sharing more photos of the new car loads of coke for the mill.

Harrison: Good job on the short teaser video.

Mike: I am really enjoying your family themed businesses. I showed your photographer studio to my wife last week, and she thought it was wonderful.

Allan: Your longest trains are 20% longer than mine will be. I will only be able to stage a 12 car train with two locomotives and a caboose.

David: I like your pictures from before the Great War.

Harrison: The second video is a good one as well. You did a good job with the narration, and the guitar music was a good touch. Congratulations on the first train run.

-Kevin

19

Kevin, Thanks for starting the WPF with a ‘cupola’ shot, not to be confused with Francis Ford. WPF, always a fun-filled thread loaded with fellowship and modeling goodness.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend and happy National Vanilla Pudding Day, regards, Peter

20

Weekend Photo Fun!

Thanks for getting it going Kevin! Nice little scene too.

Bear - Looking good! Glad to see someone else is crazy enough to have multiple project cars at once… [;)]

NorthBrit (David) - We like running photo too!

Mel - I like the lighting effects. Nicely done. [:)]

Ed - Awesome job on those signal heads!

Chuck - Nice job on the locomotives, and the freight car. And multiple scales too. [8D]

Rick - Nice work on the freight cars. Look forward to seeing the C424. I’ve got one of mine painted at least…

York - Scene looks nice. Lighted buildings always seem to add something that is otherwise missing.

Garry - Nice loads. I like the scenes they run in too.

Harrison - I liked the teaser. Congrats on the inaugural run!

Mike - While I like the scene, especially the reluctant doggo, I must ask - Do we want to know where the fresh meat in the market is from?

Allan - Nice action shots.

Peter - Nice waterfront scene.

I have a few projects going on, and will include two of three custome cars, all fantasy schemes.

While the real railroad does own these types of cars, the are not in this scheme.

Still need to do the reporting marks, but I will custome print those on one sheet, all together, to make it a bit easier to apply them.
The cars started out as Accurail ICG cars, with the hopper getting painted in TruColor NH Red-Orange, and the “patched” sections on the boxcar are TruColor IC Orange. After the reporting marks, they will get sealed with clear gloss, to hide any decal film, followed by flat and light weathering. (There are two covered hoppers done this way, just one boxcar.)

Keep up all the good work and good pics!