Welcome to a US holiday version of WPF.
I COMPLETELY redid my main and my passing siding(down to the sub roadbed even). I was able to double the lengty of the siding, and both are no longer hanging in the air.
My 3D sheetz gas station is SLOWLY coming along as well.
Looks Awesome Jimmy!
Keep up the good work and good luck with the 3D Sheetz gas station!
On the way back from hospital I called into my local model shop.
Purchased two 0.6.0 locomotives. Lovely runners as the owner showed me on his test track.
Photographs to be taken, then into the workshops for a repaint. Names to be chosen and nameplates to be purchased. One will be definitely named ‘Lady Victoria’. The other will possibly named Lady Adelaide or Lady Caroline. (My little locomotives are named after members of my family) Decisions. Decisions.
Jimmy, Thanks for starting up the WPF with lots-o layout construction, like the interior weathering on those hoppers.
Hi David, which model shop is your local one, please?
I am might be venturing into Newcastle-upon-Tyne when I have my car serviced.
Paul.
Thanks for starting another WPF, Jimmy.
A while back I put in a short streetcar line that runs automatically back and forth from one end of the layout to the other. On one end, I had finished the stop, but this week I finished the stop at the other end:
South end of line with dead Big Foot in the road:
North end of line:
Lots of things to add to scenes, but it will eventually be all finished.
The two new locomotives purchased today
A London, Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive. It is similar to a Barton Class locomotive of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. It runs beautifully. Now in the workshops for a repaint and named
Second locomotive is a Midland Railway 3F Class. Often seen around Leeds. Another lovely runner.
David, Those look amazing!
Thank you, Gabe.
One will be named Lady Victoria and the other Lady Adelaide. Family names of our family at the turn of the century (1900 that is).
Pooley’s Puffers on Team Valley Trading Estate. He is open Thursday, Friday & Saturday only.
I’ve been there a few of times, when I used to model British Railways.
Dave always sold used Peco Streamline at good prices and they are usually at MR Exhibitions.
Pooleys Puffers, got me my first two Walthers Cornerstone kits.
They are a bit off my beaten track, but we like seeing the ‘Angel of the North’, as well.
Mostly I use J&J Models in Morpeth for my modeling bits and pieces.
The added attraction is JD Weatherspoon, which is ‘on the way there’.
Paul.
I shifted the era on the layout yesterday, so it’s now 1976. This is what you might find on the railroads during the years leading up to the U.S. bicentennial:
DFF
Another pic from some eunning time on the club layout. This is my first DCC install. I installed a Tsunami2 sound decoder. It has turn out to be a beautiful runner and creeper.
I had another week where I did not get anything done, but a couple of weeks ago I took some Autoparts boxcars to the club and ran the Ford FAST with a pair of Wabash FA-2’s on the lead.
Rick Jesionowski
Thanks for setting up this episode of WPF, Jimmy! Lots of great contributions and photos here!
I’m taking advantage of the extra day by posting Monday morning of the Holiday…
I’ve made progress on the platform project and I believe the last of the six sections is finished so I can retire the five-foot plank that I had spread across my workbench to support them!
Union Station Platform Last Two by Edmund, on Flickr
These two sections cover the longest of the four tracks at Union Station. I made a modification that I’m really pleased with the outcome and that is making the 180° radius at one end which so well represents the New York Central ‘style’.
Union station Platform Rounded End by Edmund, on Flickr
Like this:
In fact I was inspired to recreate a bit of a ‘moment’ as used to happen just about every night in Buffalo, N.Y. as the ‘Centuries’ passed in the middle of the night:
Union Station Platform Century Steam by Edmund, on Flickr
Union Station Platform Century 4025 by Edmund, on Flickr
All in great fun!
Cheers, Ed
