Weekend Photo Fun: September 6-7-8, 2019

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

SEPTEMBER 6 – 7 – 8, 2019

All Are Welcome!

Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project, layout progress, or just a great photo of your model trains…

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, completed or in progress.

Hello Everyone.

I’ve been busy this week, in a good sort of way [:D]

I got these Intermountain refrigerator car kits put together [Y]

Needham_a by Edmund, on Flickr

Needham_y by Edmund, on Flickr

The two blue ones were purchased and sent t

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Good morning from partly cloudy, foggy and cool Northeast Ohio!

Ed, thanks for starting us out, one of our club members has those cars, but in the Athearn variety, they certainly stand out on a layout. Nice Iron Ore facility, shure would like like to have some G38’s to go the the G39’s.

Managed to finish up a couple of cars this week!

Athearn 2970CF ACF Covered Hopper used mainly for cement and sand service. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals.

Next is an Atlas ACF 60’ SD Precesion Design Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Silver Paints, then lettered with Oddballs Decals. Car was mainly used in the Autoparts service, mainly with GM and Chrysler as Ford preferred the plug door boxcars.

[IMG]https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/xx292/dti406/2/18ad6058-73e

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Thanks for starting of WPF, Ed. Love the refrigerated cars. Very colorful. The Hulett is still very impressive.

Cool cars as usual, Rick.

Nothing new of the BRVRR lately. Just can’t seem to make time.

Here is one from the archives:

New York Central RDC #53 crosses Division Street in Black River.

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

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Ed: Those refrigerated boxcars look very nice. It is great when forum members help one another out. The Hulett loaders are a great scene, and your boat is looking great. As big freighters go, that one seems bigger than most.

Rick: As always, you craftmanship when building freight cars is magnificent.

Allan: I like the black and white RDC image.

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I don’t have anything new this week. I have been playing with my camera and scene compositions on the 30 by 30 photo set. I am trying to take pictures more in the style of Peter for a change. I don’t have his skill or his eye. This is the best I have done so far:

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Keep the good stuff coming, lets have a weekend full of fun!

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-Kevin

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Excellent work on those cars, Rick. You must have a whole file cabinet full of decals [8D]

Thanks, Allan. Great, moody shot you have of the RDC [Y] Good Stuff!

That’s an excellent photo, Kevin. Nice low angle, good depth of field, lots of details to see! [Y]

I never know what mood may strike when I get into the layout room [:-^]

Tonight I decided to continue on the 5 track grade crossing I mentioned last week:

Crossing_x5b by Edmund, on Flickr

I used the blue tape to give me an alignment guide. Plenty of weights on hand. Good glue and some nice fluid to, um, wash paint brushes out with [8-|]

Crossing_x5a by Edmund, on Flickr

Success! trains clear everything nicely. I have just a quick wash of India ink for now. I think I’ll be rinsing brushes for the rest of the night [D]

Crossing_x5 by Edmund, on Flickr

The left track is the shop-lead that goes into a six-track yard in my work shop. The next two with nice ballast are the main line and the inner two are the yard lead and a run-around for road power to get out of the yard. The main line tracks are super elevated here.

Let’s keep the photos coming, folks [Y] dig up something from the archive if you don’t have anything recent!

Cheers, Ed

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Going to… by Bear, on Flickr

tea by Bear, on Flickr

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Ed, Thanks for opening the WPF. Your in-progress photos are not only fun, but a great source of insight and inspiration. I’m an Edward Hopper fan and his ‘Nighthawks’ work is a fav.

Thanks for all the generous encouragement. It is said that a layout is never really finished, so too taking photos of it.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and regards, Peter

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Ed, Nice work on those ore stockpiles. Bear’s right about caution with the drinks on the layout, though. If it was me, I’d jerk around and knock the darn thing over! [sigh]

Rick, The MP really knew how to put on classy persona with a minimum of paint and stenciling.

Allan, Nostaligic scene, reminds me of reading MR before the mid-60s.

Kevin, Nice pic, the hard part is getting that lens low, but the cameras in the average smartphone really help nowadays.

Peter, Always want to get on the bus when I see a scene like that.

Undid something this week, change can be good, especially when it scratches and itch to improve the view of the layout overall. Here’s the original Blackstripe Brewery in Purgatory.

I’m gonna say I back-dated it by removing a couple of stories…

Given the height of the layout here (around chest high) lowering the brewery profile helps open up the mountain vista I’m trying to capture.

To better utilize the track at Crater Lake Junction I redesignated the main as it passes through. This train is on the new main.

Here’s the retouched station diagram showing the new main along with the old main that was closer to the edge of the layout both shown in day-glo pink.

The close to the edge issue was part of the reason for this move, as it makes working the cars easier when switching.

Last up right now is an improvement I also made in CLJ on the Sinclair spur. The first tank and the tank truck beside it were vulnerable to being knocked o

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Thank you for all the kind comments on my little scene and photography, heck… I even got a Bear-Toon… AWESOME.

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Here is another little bit of fun for the weekend. I bought the 40th Anniversary Model Railroader boxcar at the Atlanta Train Show. Here it is coupled to my 50th Anniversary car.

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-Kevin

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As always beautiful work guys.

I hope I can be a participant at WPF soon. It’s my favorite thread.

I’m almost too shameful to say I’ve been too busy, but I do come and look.

Nice work guys! I hope I can come post here soon.

TF

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OK, no beverages on the layout. I’m a stickler for following instructions, though, and anytime I read about doing scenery the first instruction is to "Soak liberally with alcohol and water (just a spritz of water, of course!) then I get thirsty [:-^]

Tonight’s update: Timbers to line the side of the roadway over the right-of-way.

You can see the saw-tooth look where they pass over the superelevated main tracks. I like that [:)]

Crossing_grade_side by Edmund, on Flickr

Crossing_grade_top by Edmund, on Flickr

I think I’ll use Durhams Water Putty for the road foundation.

We’ll save a spot for 'ya! [Y]

Thanks to all the visitors here this weekend [:D]

Ed

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Thank you.

I like the Sawtooth pass[swg]

TF