Weekend Photo Fun - October 8th through October 10th 2021

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
21

Thank you to everyone that has contributed already this weekend.

Chuck: That little 0-4-4-0 tank engine is wonderful. I wish you success with the remotoring project.

David: Glad to hear your condition is improving. The 0-4-2 is a great looking little locomotive. I hope the couplers are an easy fix.

Rick: How much work did you need to put into the ECW airslide kit? Does it have re-fitted grab irons, or is that box-stock? It looks great. I was hoping to eventually get one of the Overland brass models, but yours looks very good indeed.

Garry: Great picture of your 2-10-2 pulling the freight train. I count 5 freight cars all in defferent shades of boxcar red. It looks fantastic. Your converted diner/parlor/observation tail car also looks great.

Simon: I do not know how well the IHC 2-10-2 will pull. Since I doubt I will be able to fit more than 11 cars behind it, I am not too concerned. If it does not pull well I will just assign it to one of the shorter staging tracks!

Bear: Your Proto/Heritage 2-10-2 is sure a handsome machine.

Ed: I always liked the white letterboards across the NKP cabooses. I kind of copied the look with beige letterboards on several of my SGRR cabooses. Your new model looks right at home on your layout.

Flying Scotsman: Your blinds look great in white or gray. Either colour looks a lot better than the blinds I never installed in any of my passenger cars! Good work on the details.

Dan: I don’t think I can buy a new locomotive EVERY time I have an upset stomach. However… I did eat way too much Chinese food last night. This morning I ordered another new lens for my camera. Hmmm… maybe there is a pattern here.

Peter: Page’s place looks like it might be best avoided, the crowd appears a little rough! Is that an Oldsmobile Toronado in the s

22

Wow, very diverse set of subjects this week. Wish that I had enought room for a 2-10-2. Great models and pictures everyone.

Doing some work on passenger cars this week. Put together a couple of Palace Car Company interior kits to put into my old Rivarossi streamlined cars.

Best part of the kit is the weight that forms the floor of the car.

The second photo is a section of one of the C&NW 400 streamliners where streamlined cars were pulled by hand-fired steam locomotives as late as 1956.

Gives me a prototypeto to have a couple of streamlined cars transfered from one location to another using small steam.

Great stuff as always everyone.

Scott Sonntag

23

Kevin - Thanks for the start to WPF. The 2-10-2 is a beauty. Glad you managed to get the components you needed for your layout.

Trwroute - Thats a cool looking little loco. The layout appears to be coming along.

David - Interesting 0-4-2. I like the looks of the stone houses. Hope you get well soon.

Rick - The 2-10-2 looks good. Nice cars as usual. The trailers look good too! Labels on the mud flaps! Cool! the ore train is impressive.

Garry - The 2-10-2 looks good. Your passenger ars are works of art.

Bear - Good photo. Are you a member ot the group.

Ed - A couple of great finds.

Flying Scotsman - The additions to the cars look good.

Southgate/Dan - Another good looking 2-10-2.

HO-Velo - Great street scene.

Douglas - New cover?

Yourk1/John - Great photo. Love the train.

Michael - Interesting stuff.

Bear - Thanks for the follow-up, photo and info.

The two new locos I was expecting arrived: Both are Amtrak EMD F40PH Walthers Mainline models.

Number 401 is ESU sound equipped.

Number 404 is a standard DC model I equipped with a Digitrax DH126MT decoder.

I’m having trouble changing the loco address number on the ESU decoderi in #401, with my Digitrax Express. Not sure what the proble is. More research is needed. The digitrax decoder readily took the new address but runs backwards. Another problem to research.

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

24

Kevin,

Everything on that Eastern Car Works model is stock except for the airline I hung under one side of the car and the lines going from the air reservoir to the ABD valve. If you can find an undecorated E&B Valley car it would be better as many of the Eastern Car Works cars have warped side sheets that are a bear to get looking good on the finished model.

Regarding the NKP caboose, the stripe is not white, it is aluminum it just faded so badly and film at the time suggested it was white. Also look closely at Ed’s picture the word Service is all messed up. When our shop got the first undecorated models of this car we wanted to paint up some, but found all the decal sets available at the time (and there are no new ones) the word Service would not fit between the little window at the top of the car and the end of the car. We then purchased a painted Overland Models car like the one Ed got and they sort of merged the r and the v in order to get it to fit.

Rick Jesionowski

25

Sunday Update:

In keeping with the 2-10-2 theme. I just finished installing a Tsunami2 decoder and better speakers in this, the twin to Bear’s ERIE 4212:

ERIE_4212-tt by Edmund, on Flickr

Here’s a similar Bessemer D2a. The Bessemer had 26 of these Baldwin locomotives.

BLE_524_2-10-2-D2 by Edmund, on Flickr

BLE_524_2-10-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Some serious weathering is in the cards for these workhorses.

Speaking of “White walls”, here’s an Erie Pacific all dolled up with painted tires:

ERIE_2925 by Edmund, on Flickr

Here’s another look at those classy NKP cabooses to illustrate what Rick was pointing out about the lettering. The descender on the G in High sure looks funky, too!

NKP_445_caboose by Edmund, on Flickr

Seen better days:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/qTyXDZ]Nickel Plate Railroad

26

Thanks Kevin, A 69’ Buick Riv’. Regards, Peter

27

So many great posts this weekend!

Kevin, glad you found that 2-10-2! I forgot about IHC making those and they are sharp!

Chuck, that 2-4-4-2 looks great! Always a fan of brass.

David, love the stone houses and wishing you a good recovery.

Rich, that PRR N1s 2-10-2, those freight cars and trailers are excellent work!

Garry, your CB&Q trains running through your scenes is always great to see. Excellent modeling work!

Bear, always liked the look of diesel running with steam. Thanks to for the prototype photo!

FlyingScotsman, those Santa Fe cars look great!

Dan, nice finish work on your 2-10-2!

Peter, like the bikers parked by bar.

Doug, nice cover work!

John, nice UP train going through scenery

Michael, nice work on the tanks and that British 2-8-0 looks great! Real wartime feel.

Scott, dig the passenger car work, and that steamer pulling streamlined cars.

Allan, sound is always a great addition to our models.

Ed, digging the locomotives and caboose pics. You’re having a great time on that NKP caboose! I dig that Erie 4-6-2 with white walls and definitely want to do that with at least one of my locos.

Alvie

28

It was my birthday last month, I saw this Westside NYC J3a “Super Hudson” thought want it and it’s one of my favorite engines. I’d never owned a Westside Hudson and out of the box, it ran better than other brass steamers I’ve owned, and looks sharp! I didn’t think a model from the late '70s would be as well done as it is. I look forward to when I can do some upgrades, such as DCC and sound.

A scene on my very much under construction shelf layout. The buildings are from a South River Model Works kit, still much to do, but wanted to put those in place to fill up empty spaces. I’m posting a thread in the layout building forum on here about progress made to the shelf layout. I’m planning for it to have an upstate New York theme with B&M and NYC power, but all of my locos for that railroad are DC and my PRR and Reading power has DCC and sound, so it’ll be located in Pennsylvania for now.

Alvie

29

Thank you for all for the comments on my pictures. Much appreciated.

I have enjoyed everyones contribution. Thanks for showing.

The thread of the week I look forward to.

David

30

Thank you to everyone for making this a great edition of Weekend Photo Fun.

Scott: The passenger car interior looks great. One of the things I have stashed away are a good supply of Walthers interiors for passenger cars. Maybe someday…

Allan: It looks like Walthers did a good job on the F40PH models. I do not remember ever seeing a model before in that phase of the Amtrak paint scheme.

Rick: Thank you for the information on the E&B Valley kit. I will be keeping an eye out for one. I had no idea the letterboard was actually silver on the NKP cabooses. The decal problem was completely unnoticed by my eye.

Ed: The pictures of your 2-10-2s are beautiful. Yes, that “g” over the window has a look to it. I did not notice it either.

Peter: Rivieras and Toronados were both great looking cars that just beg to be customized. For a long time I wanted a “boat tail” version, but that never happened. Now I have no desire for old cars anymore.

Alvie: I have heard stories about how well Westside brass steam locomotives run. I am glad yours is one of those. I do not own any myself, and now the only one I wanted is no longer on my list. Your 4-6-4 sure is a beauty. I really appreciate the in-progress layout pictures. Thanks for sharing those.

I will see you all again next week. I am looking forward to it again.

Stay safe.

-Kevin

31

Wait, the weekend is over already?? But I’m off from school today?! Here’s my latest layout video:

https://youtu.be/s07WIyB2yaI

32

Harrison: Nice video. As I said before, I love to see layouts under construction. The weathering on D&H Covered Hopper number 2932 looks really good.

By the way… you DO NOT NEED A HAIRCUT!

[(-D]

-Kevin