Accurail 40’ RBL Kit, added a Fishbelly Underframe to match the prototype, replaced the cast on grabs with Tichy Metal Grabs and the sill steps with A-Line Sill Steps. Car was painted with Floquil Reefer Orange and Scalecoat II Pullman Green, then lettered with Tom’s Model Trains decals. Car was rebuilt into this configuration in 1954 from an older car and leased from North American Car Corp. for hauling Ballantine Beer from Newark, NJ to locations across the nation.
While I only got one car done this week I did work on a GP35 for the Wabash Railroad, not a lot of extra detail parts on this one, but the grabs and lift rings have been installed and the roof of the cab has been painted in Aluminum prior to adding the Wabash Blue paint.
The cars turned out nice, and I can’t wait to see the wabash unit.
Nice action shot
keeping us in suspense Mike?
Heres what I’ve done.
This also was finished
The electrical work was a first for me… I’ve never wired anything before much less LEDs in parallel before. So I’m proud of myself for joining the electrical side. The Sd40-2 is a repainted Scaletrains.com
Casey … I’m impressed with your locomotive models. Nice shot!
Mike L … Uh ?
Jimmy … The lighted building and the SD40 -2 look great .
Some of you may hve noticed I included a covered bridge in the background in some of my photos. It is one of several models left over from my 1900-era layout of many years ago. There are a few other 1900-era models scattered around in my current layout which is approximately 1960-era.
Here is the covered bridge…
A couple of weeks ago I showed a wood truss bridge I recently restored to use on my current layout. It will lead to a corner of my layout which is under construction. I plan to have a small section that is 1900-era.
Presently, I am restoring several structures and buildings I made when I had the old layout. Most are kit built, and many are Campbell models. Some are scratch built. Also, I am fixing up some old 1900-era passenger cars which include cars I amde from LaBelle kits, and several others too.
I just completed fixing up my old depot. It is very special to me. I put it together while recovering from injuries I got as a result from being hit by a drunk driver at 50 mph about 28 years ago. The drunk took a year out of my life, but making this station shows not all of the time was wasted.
The depot was made using a Fine Scale Minatures kit and has numerous details.
This week I finished the Whitefield depot, a Blair Line kit along with a train order signal. The depot stands between the standard gauge and narrow gauge tracks on teh Boothbay Railway Village layout.
Hi there. With fall kicking in, work and the boys’ hockey are getting in the way of model railroading again (!). Worse yet, my portable layout project is officially on hold as I can only work on it in my non-heated garage - that gets pretty darn cold up up here in Canada during winter months. This week, I officially put the layout in storage in my second garage. The picture also shows the stresses that I will be imposing on this portable layout between the shows and expositions I plan to use it for…
The layout is surprisingly strong and meets my expectations so far with respect to strength and durability. Unfortunately, I did not manage to find the time to finish the scenery work (trees and rock painting). It will have to wait until spring. No shortage of projects until then, fortunately.
Gidday All, unfortunately a lack of modelling time has become too much of a regular occurrence, though the mine project is progressing very very slowly!!
But even though I haven’t posted here for a while, it isn’t to say that I haven’t been appreciating all the really Good Stuff here**,** so a BIG thanks to you all.[bow]
Have a Great One, ffolkes,
Yes Dave, it would be hard to cheat on that one for sure. I’ve been looking for one in HO scale to put on the other layout, but have not found the right model yet.
Great looking stuff this week. Thanks to everyone who posted so far.
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Rick, I have never seen a steel plug door car with a fishbelly underframe before… pretty neat.
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Casey, that is a great action shot, the opposit of my post this week, LOL.
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Mike, come on, don’t hoard your projects, let it out!
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Jimmy, My wide really wants me to light the buildings when I build the new layout. I have never done this before. I am impressed with what you have done.
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Garry, I have never attempted a FSM model. I own the John Allen enginehouse and intend to include it on the new layout, but we will see.
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Dave, I have not been able to get into an MGB since I was 12 years old! I am 6’ 7" and weight about 300 pounds.
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Here is what is new this week on the STRATTON & GILLETTE, two “celebrity” freight cars have arrived. A Midland Road boxcar and an Oldensburg & Lake Richelieu Hopper. The hopper is a Tichy kit, and the boxcar is by Fox Valley Models. It is one of only a handful of cars that I have not painted myself. It was ready-to-run, but I had to “re-kit” it to remove the magnetic steel weight and modify the underframe to accept Kadee trucks.
6’ 7" eh! Do you ever get tired of banging your head?[swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]
Just out of curiousity, have you ever tried to get into an MGB? I’m 6’ 2" (in the morning at least) and when my back was still working properly I had absolutely no trouble getting into my ‘B’. In fact, when I was an Officer in the Air Cadet Reserves, I could wear my dress uniform hat while sitting in my MGB with the top up, and the hat didn’t touch the roof! Of course, if you had the top down it didn’t matter how tall you were![swg][(-D] There was also plenty of leg room. In fact I had the seat pulled up a couple of notches despite my long legs. I could write a book with the experiences I had with that car!
Sorry Kevin, but I’m sitting here LMAO at the image of you (or anyone) getting whapped on the head by a ceiling fan. I apologise. I’m sure it’s not a funny experience. On the other hand, that’s the price you giants have to pay for associating with people who don’t have air conditioning![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]
Sorry again, I’ll quit before you buy an airline ticket so you can throttle me to death! Actually, being a rather tall person and being used to looking down to make eye contact with most people, I find it rather disconcerting to meet someone who I have to look up at! [*-)][swg][(-D][(-D]
Back again … Thanks to all who commented on my photos.
George … Your station looks very good .
Simon … Uh, oh … The layout is in storage. Hard to run trains. By the way, nice car. Don’t let Dave razz you too much.
Bear … ? ? ?
Kevin … The freight cars look good. Doggone ceiling fans.
Terry … Your foreground scene looks outstanding. I definately like your cattle sounds. I think I mentioned before I have cattle sounds inside my slaughter house, and they do get attention from visitors. It sounds best when the the sound locomotives are at a distance. Too many sounds close together gets noisy.
I’ll add another photo because it is that time of the year.
Gidday All, well the weather’s been too wet to get any outside chores done, though the grass isn’t getting any shorter, so I did get some modelling done.
Previously I’ve experimented using household foil to make my own corrugated iron but it’s now time to stop wasting time and put it into practise!!
The foil is only 0.001” thick and I’m using two sheets of Evergreen Corrugated Metal styrene sheet to form the foil, and while it’s a little fragile, especially with the Bears paws, (you can see one of my over enthusiastic attempts on the bottom right) being an optimist, I think it will do nicely.
Well with My shoulder taking it’s time to heal there is really not a lot I can do…except…sit at My desk and build trucks…LOL or sorts.
I would also like to say there is alot of fine building going on…many talented people here in this favorite thread…congrats! To You All…
In keeping with the color of the month, I guess I’ll have to post a couple that are nearly finished…don’t what to swell the Bear’s head any…but ''JaBear" construction LTD. is growing and growing…quite a few still being built…
on Flickr
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