Weekend Photo Fun - May 31st to June 2 - 2019

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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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.

I managed to complete a couple of cars this week, and after 10 weeks of the Ohio State Women’s Bowling Tournament, I got to the club for the first time in awhile.

First up is the 1956 order of PS1 Boxcars (Model by IMRC) by the Ann Arbor, Car is in the as delivered scheme and was in general service on the railroad. Car painted with a 50/50 mixture of Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Oxide Red then lettered with Smokebox Graphics decals.

Next is a Tangent Scale Models PS-3 2750CF Coal Hopper, Assembled, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Cars were purchased in 1958 and hauled coal and coke from Ironton to the McClouth Steel Plant in Detroit. The were sold to the GM&O in 1965 and converted to wood chip hoppers.

IMRC F3’s with a NYC mixed freight at the Stongsville, OH Model Railroad Club layout.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

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Rick … Your freight cars look great. I appreciate your comments explaining what kits and paints you use. Also, it is intesting when you provide a brief histroy of the prototype. … The F3’s look good.

This photo shows my version of the Kansas City Zephyr and a freight train hauled by FT’s.

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Rick and GARRY,

Handsome trains, fellows!

A few color pictures of life on the narrowgauge…

The Ridgway to Silverton Local Passenger lays over briefly on the Silverton wye after turning in anticipation of becoming the Silverton to Ridgeway accomodation on its return trip.

On a storage track near the enginehouse in Silverton the ditcher awaits a call to action.

At the south end of the yard, 463 is at the head of the Cascade Local as the signal goes high green for the diverging route to reach the Cascade Branch.

Later in the day, 463 meets “the shorty” at Black Cat Junction.

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Hello, Folks—

Thanks for starting things off, Rick. Great contributions from your prolific roster of cool cars!

I always admire your modeling of the mighty “Q” Garry [Y]

Your scenes remind me of my days of exploring the Colorado Narrow Gauge with my dad back in '66 and again in '68. There was sure a lot more to see back then.

On my “completed” column I can place this PRR X-42 mail storage car. These were designed to replace the ageing fleet of B-60 baggage cars with the same door spacing.

PRR_X-42fini by Edmund, on Flickr

This is a beautifully detailed P-Company brass car. Scalecoat paint and Mount Vernon Shops decals.

PRR_X-42fini-end by Edmund, on Flickr

On the workbench is a resin kit from Funaro of a PRR FM container flat.

PRR_FM_container-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

The instructions are awful for this kit [:(][:-^] Fortunately I have an issue of the PRRT&HS Keystone that has some detailed photos in it.

PRR_FM_container by Edmund, on Flickr

Another challenge is that the containers are a bit parallelogram shaped and it is making the placement of the guides and sp

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A few more new images from the Boothbay Railway Village layout

The waterfall scene, still needing some more trees and bushes

Switching Delpaire Tap & Die. The main high line on the right and lower road tracks on the left

Some work underway to the Dragon Products quarry rock crusher

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I have been working on my station platform for Denver’s Union Station. They had an underpass to get to the tracks and I really wanted to include that.

Here is my progress so far. Turns out that For Sale/For Rent signs are a super cheap source of Styrene Plastic which is why it is red and white.

Hand railings are Phosphor bronze wire soldered together and the white railings are 3D printed.

I drew up the entire model in CAD and cut parts out on my CNC router. I also pruchased some plastruct brick sheet and cut in out the router. It makes so much better cuts than I can do by hand.

The one thing taht I wasn’t able to do easily was get white brick. The underpass I remember had white subway tile with black grout. I used a little creative license with the red brick.

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Great stuff so far this week guys.

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Rick: The lettering scheme on the Ann Arbor car is really sharp looking. I am just a sucker for a 40 foot boxcar red boxcar. Classic.

Garry: That set of FTs sure look gorgeous on your layout.

Mike: I loved all the narrow gauge pictures of your layout you shared this week.

Ed: I have a set of those same containers from Funaro and Camerlengo. I do not have the flat car kit that goes with them. The containers came with NO instructions. Now I see how the brackets are supposed to look. Thank you.

George: The Boothbay Railroad Layout sure looks good in your pictures.

Renegade: That staircase and railing project look like they were well worth the effort. That is amazing detail work.

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I have a new boxcar this week, this one is for the GRAND FLOE AND NORTHERN.

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The large FLOES LINES lettering is stolen from a SOO LINE decal set. I knew I wanted the right side of the car to say LINES, but could not come up with a good word using only the letters E, F, I, L, N, O, and S for the left side of the car.

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I tried making up a word that sounded like it could be a city, but this turned out to be dangerous. It seemed everything I thought sounded good was actually an obsene term on Urban Dictionary when I googled it.

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I decided to try a real word, and I found the word “Floe” which is a large floating sheet of ice. I decided that was good enough and went for FLOES LINES and made it the “Route Of The Icebreaker”. Good enough. The kit is an Intermointain boxcar.

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Keep all the good stuff coming.

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-Kevin

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Kevin, while I admire, and in fact can’t find a flaw with your thought process regarding the lettering; surely it should have been a reefer car? [:-^] [;)] [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]

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Rick, Thanks for rolling out the WPF with more interesting rolling stock. Your coal load has pizazz.

I’m glad Flickr is fixed, going to drag out a re-run.

Thanks to all the contributors, regards, Peter

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Thanks Rick for starting off WPF. Thats a great photo of the NYC F3s.

Garry - Nice photo. Good looking trains and scenery.

Mike - Great photos as always.

Ed - Some very interesting PRR cars.

Garry - Good start on the waterfall scene.

Renegade - Thats going to be some station platform.

Kevin - Imaginative.!

Peter - Great city scene.

From my website: New York Central GP-40 #3083 passes Black River Station eastbound at the head of a mixed freight while westbound NYC passenger train boards passengers and mail.

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

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Uhh, nice picture, but that’s not a GP40, or even a geep for that matter, that looks more like an ALCo RS32! Just had to point that out, I’m sure it’s just a typo!

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Critik by Bear, on Flickr

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Hi, Kevin

I noticed the containers in your photo of your recent “haul” from your cross-country excursion. I bought mine the very same week!

I have a PRR Keystone Magazine with some photos and drawings. Also the instruction sheet from fhe Funaro & Camerlingo kit that I’d be glad to scan for you if you’d like more info on them.

I bought extra containers well, just because. Sometimes they were loaded into gondolas, and rarely, loaded onto highway trailers.

Here’s a link to the F&C page for the FM container flat cars:

http://www.fandckits.com/HOFreight/8120.html

Cheers, Ed

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Ahhh, yes that would be because it is very uninteresting to look at sectional track on a folding table and a pile of wood in the corner…

I really need to start actually building my layout…

I have been designing track plans for never to exist layouts… Maybe I’ll share those… If I get a Flickr account…

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I’ve worked with a lot of railroaders over the years. Lots of them couldn’t identify an Alco from a Baldwin from a GG1 from a E unit.

To many of them, if it had a open walkway — it was a geep or a hood unit. If it had the engine all covered up inside a housing it was a “covered wagon” or a cab unit. Usually they just refered to the engines as 4000s, or those lousy 1650s. Referring to the engine number class.

I enjoy Allan’s photos for what they are, great scenes that he worked very hard to create.

Cheers, Ed

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I can’t disagree with that. My comment was just taking not of the slight error, that doesn’t make the photo any less valuable. It’s still a great sceme!

Some on you may be aware that I recently downloaded XTrackCAD, and I have been playing with it and have designed a few plans. I don’t intend to build any of these anytime soon, for now I am just enjoying the fun of designing them. Enjoy!

This first plan is inspired by MRs Eagle Mountain Project Railroad (from Jan 1016 MR I believe), but I made it a 2x16 shelf layout, and used wider, more realistic curves (I don’t think any curve is under 36" radius) and bigger turnouts (all number 8s). The idea is traffic comes from the mine (left scene) and from the shops (right scene) and heads into staging on the right (of left)

The second one is designed to Freemo standards, and incorperates an Inglenook switching layout. The idea is that this is a large, active grain elevator with it’s own switcher, and intercanges with the main railroad on the third track from the top. I would likely use a Trackmobile as power to save space if I ever accually build this.

The final plan is a variation on a 4x8 layout, and isn’t quite complete (I still need to add grades) but the idea is it is a logging railroad. Note it lacks continueous run, the main starts on the dotted line (tu

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I managed to spend the whole weekend working on the layout. Managed to get a good start on the scenery on the second half of the layout, where logging camp D is:

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In order to do that, I would have actually needed to have thought ahead and made good plans. I agree, it would have been even a better car if it would have been refrigerated.

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Off the cuff without thinking ahead… that is my modeling plan!

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Love the Bear-Toon too.

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-Kevin

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You are right Isaac. No. 8038 is an RS32. Don’t know how that got past me.

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Ed, I would love to have the scans. Thank you very much for the kind offer.

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-Kevin

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