Walthers PS 4427 Kit, being used as a stand in for the Bethlehem 4452 CF Covered Hopper Kit, Replaced the plastic Roofwalk with a Plano one and added an airline under the side sill. Painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. Car was leased to the Ann Arbor by Chicago Freight Cars in 1964 and the Cots Label and ACI plate were added later. Car was used for hauling Malt from Michigan to the Schlitz Brewery in Milwaukee via the Car Ferry across Lake Michigan.
Exactrail PS 4427CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with my Floquil Mixture for Anderson’s Blue/Gray Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in 1964 and after coming off lease was sold to the Anderson’s in 1974 and then repainted. Used for hauling grain between Maumee and Toledo, Ohio.
Rick, Thank you for starting the Weekend Photo Fun for the weekend. The covered hopper cars look great. Right now covered hoppers are my favorite freight car.
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I have something a little silly for weekend photo fun this week.
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I ate dinner at the Trulette’s Diner in Griffin, Georgia yesterday, and they had this locomotive on display in front of the waitress station in the dining room:
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I could not believe it was displayed this way. I complained to the manager and said the sight of this locomotive ruined my meal and I insisted he fix it immediately. That is when I found out it was permamnenlty glued to the display track like that.
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I mean really… I am modelling a world of nonsense, and I would not even do this. Shameful. No none else in the restaurant even seemed to notice, or was offended/bothered by the sight.
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I do not think I am allowed in that restaurant any more.
Good looking LOs. The Andersons one may not have run locally, but they have a sizable faciliity on the west side of Champaign.
In another sign I’m getting over my modeling slump, I built a couple of reefers last Sunday that have been sitting in the ready-to-build tray for a couple of years. They were a pair of the old C&BT Santa Fe reefer kits, IIRC one of the kits that prefaced the RTR revolution. Some of the smaller parts tended to crumble, so I lost a few, mostly small enough that few would see them as missing at a casual glance. I can live with that for a layout level model like this. The pair is helping bring up the rear of a westbound freight at Carbon Junction.
Caught approaching RGS Junction…
And leaving Hesperus behnd.
Hoping your modeling week is looking up, no matter what you’re building.
Thanks for another fine kickoff, Rick. I enjoy the “backstory” that you have for your rolling stock. Every car has a purpose and a reason for being! That’s great[Y] and the era, mid to late seventies, was still a fun time to be train-watching!
Somehow that engine struck a nerve, Kevin! Were there other railroad-theme displays in the restaurant? I have my G scale NYC Hudson on display just like that. Of course there’s a little bit less chance of a mishap… but there’s always those darned cats!
Great scenes there, Mike! Brings back memories of my first visit to Colorado back in '66[Y]
By now you fella’s are going to think I have a “thing” for PRR dining cars! Not quite true… I have a bunch of New York Central, B&O, C-Z and a few others! One day I’ll have to count just how many little people I could seat for dinner on my pike[:|]
So I continued on the Alclad2 treatment on these PRR/P-C/Amtrak brass diners and also painted the window band in prep for an Amtrak Phase I paint job:
With the tape removed…
—and while the paint was drying I had time to assemble a Proto 2000 Nickel Plate 50’ box car:
I really do enjoy those old Proto kits [:)] One rainy (or snowy) day I’ll have to get around to some weathering [:-^]
Finally, I slapped together one of the Jordan kits that has been colle
Gidday All, thanks once again for kicking us off Rick, and for more examples of your fine work.
The Bear really should know better and keep his big trap shut, but Kevin, you’ll give yourself indigestion, and stressing out ain’t good for you!!!
Good to see you’re getting over your modelling slump Mike…
… and obviously you’ve not having a slump Ed. An interesting variety of projects.[tup]
I’ve had this collecting dust for over 18months and as the Club is having an Open Day, mid November, have decided to try to finish this small mine building for the Mountain layout.
Ed, Glad the pics remind you of Colorado, although I wish I had room to be less generic Colorado and some place more specific along the standard gauge. Great looking Mack. I’m still wondering what will happen with Jordan, if it will be passed on or if we’ve lost this great source of classic kits forever…
Bear, Looks like a good start on what is shaping up as a very interesting structure and scene. The multi-level construction is one thing I’ve always liked about modeling mines. Is it a kit, scratch or a bit of a bash?
Those are evil, but very talented cats! LOL. Are you sure its the cats? Maybe you have ghosts? My last cat had the amazing ability to dance across the workbench and never touch anything. She was as deft as a ballet dancer.
Just “stirring the pot”. [}:)] Sorry Kevin but this one’s for you!!
Depot of the U.S. Military Railroads, City Point, Va., 1864.
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Mike, it’s “the Bear trying to make a point to other Club members that structures don’t have to be limited to available kits, and neither do they have to be made from expensive materials, scratch build”, the basic materials being 3 mm MDF (1/8”) and card.
The only commercial items I intend to use are Campbell Scale Model Windows, and Plastruct Stairs and Handrails.
The mine is based on a Model Railroader article from July 1955, by Irving M. Neitlich, his main material being Strathmore, which I gather is a “brand name&rdqu
Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF with those nifty covered hoppers.
That’s a mighty nice “slap together” Ed. Those old trucks with solid tires must have been a jolting kidney bustin’ ride. Interesting steering wheel location in this Autocar. Photo circa 1922 at Johnson Gear & Mfg Co., Berkeley, Ca., (company defunct 1974, but was machinist alma mater and past livelihood to my father, uncle and I).
Some things don’t change, I covet Neo cars today same as I did Lesney Matchbox cars as a boy in the 60s.
OK, I know virtually nothing about early age standard steam locomotives.
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I can see that getting the wood to the firebox would have been difficult, but not impossible. Definitely dangerous, but all of railroading was dangerous in the mid 1800s.
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Couplers might not have been an issue. This was in the days of link and pin couplers, so maybe the tender had coupler sockets on both ends. In the picture it looks like the locomotive is pushing something, so maybe the tender coupler is a complete non-issue.
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What about the foot board? I guess there could be enough room to cram into the cab without a foot board.
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What about the water? Surely the tender was not manufactured with a way to tap water into the boiler from either end. I need an explanantion.
Gidday Kevin, there has been a discussion on the positioning of the tender to the locomotive in that photo previously, and no one has been able to come up with a logical explanation, apart that it was a one off wartime expediency.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
I think the answer to this “tender-backwards” USMRR pic is that it increased fuel capacity. Since wood was being used and labor was plenitiful, filling the tender with wood by filling in the last of the space available and carrying it forward to chuck down on the footplate might have been enough to carry it to the frontlines and back.
If proper fueling facilities (a suitable platform of crrect height) weren’t available, loading the wood into the tender from stocks on the ground was also facilitated. Workers could throw their wood down on the deck much easier than over the side.
Just edumicated guesess…
Bear, Good show! If it’s DIY or nuttin’, why settle for zero?[swg]
Who knows what were the circumstances for that tender. Maybe it came from another loco (that faced the other way) and there was no easy way to turn the thing around…
Ed, Interesting link to say the least, thanks. The ability to spark curiosity is one of the things I like best about the MRR forum and WPF. The Fageol heavy duty tractor being gasoline engine/electric drive and the story of the company is facinating, especially to me who hails from Oakland. Also RR related in that some their “Safety Buses” became rail buses.
Something I’ve noticed about a lot of the ‘man on the street’ and industrial photos from the early 1900s thru the 1930s is the seriousness and seemingly lack of humor on people’s faces.
Not in the habit of posting photos to WPF after the weekend is past, but here goes anyway. Caught this gon sitting at the U.P./ Pend Oreille Valley RR interchange this past summer.
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