Weekend Photo Fun November 9 - 11

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun

NOVEMBER 9 - 11, 2018

All Are Welcome!

Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.

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 am happy to be starting Weekend Photo Fun this week.

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Below is a 40 foot boxcar I painted and lettered this week. I was going for a 1950’s teal look for the blue, and I custom mixed the paint. When the paint dried on the door it crackled, and I did not write down the paint mixture, so I was stuck. I sanded down the rough spots and touched it up with some Vallejo paint. It looks bad in the picture, but under normal viewing lighting it looks fine, to me anyways. The photo lighting set-up really contrasted the slight color mismatch.

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Kevin … I like the boxcar… Thanks for starting the Photo Fun thread.

Below is a photo of an SD7 switching a GN express reefer.

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Thanks Kevin for starting off WPF.

A major catastrophe here yesterday. My large loco cabinet detached itself from the wall. Thirty locos, steam and diesel hit the floor in a heap. Its going to take weeks/months to sort every thing out.

In the meantime, a little past action from the BRVRR. NYC ALCO S-3 #874 moves a grain box car on the Farmers Union siding as NYC Hudson #5335 passes a local freight at the west end of the Black River Valley layout.

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

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Kevin, Good looking teal.

GARRY, The little people really make that scene.

Allan, Bummer about your display fail! Look on the bright side. I used to be into model rockets when I was a kid, but I got tired of looking for all the pieces. At least when a train crashes, all the parts are somewhere in the same room… Good luck on finding and piecing it back together!

Except for lettering and glazing (and maybe some interior work) I finished my build of the Westwood HOn3 Sumpter Valley Baggage and RPO.

This week also saw completion of the loop of track that encircles the Tuscola Beltway, a 4x8 being built by my mentee, Thomas. We’ll wire it up next week and run a train.

The tall box sits about where the grain elevator will land. Other industries planned are a lumber yard and a cement plant.

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Good Afternoon! It is a wet-snowy weekend here in NE Ohio, Excellent model RR weather.

Thank you for getting us off the ground here, Kevin! [Y]

The colors are pretty sharp on your PERR box car. It seems like railroads were finally getting away from the basic black or boxcar red after the War. Those colors you chose are a perfect representation of the 'fifties era.

I like your express switching scene, Garry. Lighted numberboards always look sharp on a locomotive, too!

From a fellow NYC fan, your scene is excellent, too, Allan.

Mike, your work is outstanding on the Baggage/RPO. I have an old Cloor Craft B&O kit that looks like a box of toothpicks. I’m not brave enough to start it yet. Your demonstration with the RPO might be just the inspiration I need!

I’m glad you are working on the layout with your protege, Thomas. My nephew, also a Thomas, helped me quite a bit with my layout and today he is getting paid to “play” with the real thing. You are doing a great thing there.

I got a chance to wrap-up the paint, decal and window glazing on the second Erie coach. Glad to be getting some of these ancient projects off my “to-do” list!

Erie_ten-hundred by Edmund, on Flickr

This PRR Z74 business car was on the “bad-order” track for a while, too. The coupler draft gear needed to be re-soldered to the floor.

PRR_Z74_Business Car by Edmund, on Flickr

The Division Superintendant is glad to be back in “Business”.

On to more

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Kevin: Thanks for starting us off. Nice job on the car. Paint is close enough,even in the photo, it wouldn’t bother me.

Neat photo,Garry. I love those Burlington E’s!

Allan,I feel your pain. I’ve dropped an engine or two,but never anything to compare with what happened to you. I’ve seen a lot of good looking engines on the BRVRR over the years - I hope the damage is repairable.

Very nice,Mike! I have nothing but freight cars now - I need to change that.Hats off to you for helping a young mrr’er.

Ed: Terrific job on the coach and business car. 'Like your trackwork and signals,too.

I had a “D’oh!!!” moment when I pulled my first engine into the roundhouse facing the rear wall:

The roof stack was nowhere near the engine’s stack. Not the fault of the kit maker - this kit started out as a small roundhouse.When folks(like me) lobbied for a bigger one,he just added extensions for the roof,walls and floors. Anyway,it didn’t take much to move the stacks back where they should be(glad I didn’t glue anything down!).Much better now:

I"ve also been adding scenery to the aisle side of the roundhouse. The 34 Ford truck is a Berkshire Valley kit I just finished:

Finally - time to get some coal in those drop-bottom gon’s:

Have a good weekend!

Mike

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Kevin, Thanks for getting the WPF rolling. That’s a smart looking boxcar, says 50s, and nice stirrup steps.

Allan, My sympathies, a disaster of the kind that brings a tear to any model railroader’s eye.

Middleman Mike, Grand modeling and photos, so much to see and delight in. And those trees on the banks of the idyllic stream, Wow!

Thanks to all the contributors. Honor and bless our Veterans. Have a good weekend and regards, Peter

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Westwood’s system is less complicated than a box of sticks and may produce more reliable results. Not sure why it wasn’t copied later, maybe long term durability isn’t so good. I expect your Gloor-Craft may be a little more difficult, but like a LaBelle I’d think, so not really anything too discouraging.

Working with Thomas, I’m trying to make more of a mentor-mentee project happen. Our Division is tiny compared to most, so no large classes of new folks, just a trickle and this format works well. There may be others I can help , but perhaps on location at their layout. Thomas is hoping to buy his first home for his family in the next year, so doesn’t have room right now for this, but once we get the track down and wired he can move it to a friend’s garage until spring.

Mike,

Thanks for your comment, too. Your scenery is looking great!

Peter,

My grandpa used to have an old car close to that one - and only a little less rust.

Here’s a short video of some test running with my Sumpter valley pattern cars behind a Gem HOn3 2-6-0 in DC. Sorry about the jerkiness, the loco mostly ran fine. I plan on remotoring it with a Mashima can motor, a Locodoc flywheel and then will try to squeeze in a tiny decoder.

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Peter and Mike,thank you both for the kind words.

Another great scene,Peter. From the cracks in the pavement,to the electric meters,to the building across the street - terrific!

Mike: That’s a really neat looking little train,and a beautiful engine. Can you tell me where you get mashima motors? I bought all of mine from Hollywood Foundries,but the webpage says he’s shut down right now a/c moving. I’ve found a couple of U.S. vendors,but their prices are much higher than Hollywood(even with shipping from Australia).

Thanks,

Mike

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NYC #1855/2425 is back up and running after taking a tumble. This little Athern BB pair is a sentimental favorite as it is the first loco I installed a sound decoder in.

Many more locos to go.

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Mike,

I bought mine from Locodoc in Colorado, so he’s near at hand.

http://www.roundbell.com/MashimaCanMotors.html

Locodoc is a longtime vendor at National Narrow Gauge Conventions, which is where I first ran into him years ago. Good fellow to deal with and very knowledgeable about old brass.

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Hello there. Great stuff everyone! Here is a picture taken at our local club (Quebec-Gatineau making a delivery…) .

Simon

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Garry: I never get bored of seeing pictures of your beautiful layout.

Allan: I am sorry to hear about your catstrophe. When I was having my house re-piped about 15 years ago they were using a saw on the wall in the garage, and my display case in the master bedroom came off of the wall. I feel your pain.

Mike: The combine sure looks good. The four by eight also looks like it is becoming a real layout. Nice.

Ed: I too am about to finish an ancient project. Hopefully I will have pictures for WPF in a couple of weeks.

Mike: Glad that the roundhouse vents were an easy fix.

Peter: That rusty car in the foreground looks perfect. Too many people make rust too orange. Great job!

Simon: I cannot see your picture, but that you for posting.

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I will see you all next weekend… stay safe!

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-Kevin

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I like the rocks,and the stonework,Simon.I also think the Quebec-Gatineau has one of the classiest paint schemes around!

Mike,thanks for the link. I found what I think is a great deal on a brass engine on ebay. It should be here Tuesday,so I hope to have some pictures of it in next week’s WPF.

See everyone next week!

Mike

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Mike, The car is a Jordon Highway Miniatures 1940 Ford. One of my grandpas had a 1950 Chevrolet Fleetline, the other a late 40s DeSoto, my father a 1948 Ford P.U. One thing all those vehicles had in common was the interior smell, not unpleasant, just different. Guess it was the materials of the day, like rubberized horsehair mats.

Thanks and regards, Peter

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Peter,

I was thinking it was a Ford, but my knowledge of pre-1960 cars is pretty vague. When I remember paying attention to it it had already been parked out by the garden for some years. But I do have old footage originally made on 8mm film of that Ford in action in the late 50s. I think it was maybe an immediate postwar car, maybe a 47 or 48 if that makes sense? It started out green, which I really liked, but steadily grew more rust colored like the one in your pic. [%-)]

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Mike, You’re fortunate to have film of Grandpa’s Ford. The 46’, 47’ and 48’ Ford look to be very similar. Post war new car sales were a seller’s market. Phil Silver’s character drove a 47’ in the comedy movie It’s a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World. This junk car Scale Structures metal casting approximates a 46-48’ Ford, been working it over for a junkyard scene.

Regards, Peter