Good morning from cloudy and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Not much done this week so here are a couple of old pictures at the club that I took!
PC SD40 and SD45 with a general freight!
NYC C430’s with a Flexivan Train!
Thanks for looking, and some new cars that will be finished next week!
Rick Jesionowski
Brrr… Rick, Those mountains are giving me chills to go along with the weather lately. Good modeling weather.
A pic or two from where the last ops session left off in Eureka as the Animas Forks turn finishes it’s work.
Back in Silverton, the yard crew’s C-25 #375 waits patiently for the next shift, trailing a leased Gorre & Daphetid cabboose.
Rick … Thanks for opening the thread. Your EMD SD’s and Alco C430’s look good.
Mike L … Nice shots of 375 getting a workout.
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I am continueing to restore buildings and structures from my previeous layout which was 1900 era.
These are a rectangular water tank from a Campbell kit, a scratch built coaling tower, and a scratch built sanding facility.
Garry
Love these buildings
Great work
Another McHugh boxcar painted this week, part of the growing roster. The decals were a bit crumbly and was able to salvage by a shot of clear coat, which was the first I have tried that and was happy with the results. The Atlas Trainman car got a brake wheel door opener and a piece of styrene for the logo on the door.
My favorite thread of the week. I hope we get a lot of participation from everyone.
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Rick: Thank you for starting us off.
Garry: Thise buildings are definitely worth restoring.
Casey: Love the green switchers and boxcars. In 1954 most everything in reddish brown.
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The Turtle Creek Central finally showed up in STRATTON & GILLETTE territory:
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Keep the pictures coming! Happy Weekend!
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-Kevin
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Rick, Thanks for the start-up and views of some really neat mountain railroading.
Garry, Structures like yours are timeless, though the prototypes are disappearing fast in the real world it’s great that they can live on thru model railroads.
Forgot how much fun it is to weather a freight car. Not confident in my skills I chose an older less detailed Athearn model to practice on. Pretty much followed Gary Christensen’s methods and color choices with brushed on acrylic craft paint washes, pastel chalks and artist oil paints. Only used my airbrush to apply Dullcote and that could be accomplished with a spray bomb.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
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That is what I would call a darned good job of weathering. It looks very much like the real thing.
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-Kevin
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Great Contributions, Everyone!
Thanks for the startup of another fine WPF, Rick!
I decided to get away from the workbench and make some progress on the layout itself. One of the features you first see when visiting the layout is this boat dock (Great Lakes ships are called “boats”) and the four Hulett ore unloaders.
IMG_7442_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Well, none of the track under these Huletts has been painted or ballasted, nor has the single-track main running behind them.
That was my target for this weekend!
IMG_0235_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_0237_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Perhaps I’ll get a preliminary coat of grimy black on the Huletts themselves. Then I need to figure out how to string some LED lighting on them. [%-)]
IMG_7465_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Then, maybe when the snow flies I’ll make some progress on the ore boat [:-^]
On to more Great Stuff, Folks!
Regards, Ed
Terry, Kevin, Peter … Thanks very much for your comments about my structures.
Casey … Your boxcars and switchers look great.
Kevin … I like your TCC boxcars.
Peter … Your weathered boxcar looks real.
Ed … Those Hulett machines are massive. I’m impressed!
A great start to WPF again this week guys. Keep them coming.
Terry-the old buildings are works of art. Hope you will be able to “recycle” them on your current layout.
Ed-the Hulett machines are imposing. Great work on their construction.
From the BRVRR. An old photo from an operating session:
Santa Fe E-8A/B at the head of our 9-car passenger consist, west bound on the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Watching a video of the Hullett unloaders working at night is one of the most awesome sights ever
Good luck with the lighting.
Bob
Cool stuff everybody!!
Here’s a short video of a freight passing my newly planted cornfield:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkrqlj_uQ1k
Terry
I agree… and the sounds they made! Like a dinosaur with asthma!
Skip to the last few minutes for night scenes.
Thanks, Ed
Those things are SO massive, it is had to relate to the size. One thing areund 7:30 where they are lowering a Payloader into the hold, shows how big the jaws are. The Payloader looks almost toy like
Everybodys projects are awesome.
This is the first train that I have ran on the new track at Neelyton.
This is a work in progess.
Kevin and Garry, Thanks for the nice words about the S.P. Hy-cube.
Ed, The movie about those gargantuan Hulett loaders was great. Now I know why you’ve got skip-loaders on the ore boat deck.
Thanks and regards, Peter
Finally got a little bit of scenery on the layout.
well at least got the backdrop painted here.
rip track now completed.
The guests at my open house seemed to enjoy the animations the most
Heres a Video of the top two
Great stuff Terry. My hat’s off to you.