Looks like I’ll start it out this week. I finally have one of the transition ramps completed on my layout:
This will drop the track from my secondary road down to my servicing facility yard:
The feeder wires on the bottom side of the #4.5 FT turnouts are soldered on and the drop holes have been drilled through the base. The track alignment turned out well. I’ll still need to order some Caboose Industries 220S ground throws to complete the wiring though.
Tom
The ramps look good Tom
Have you checked to see if the cars stay coupled thru the transition
it looks like a gentle enough ramp
I finished the last of my 3 Scratch built miners houses and added them to the layout
I placed them on a dirt road close to the mine
Also added a flag stop passenger shed for the small town of Glen Jean
I picked up 2 more NJT Comets on eBay and decaled and added diaphragms to all of the cars I had previously (I had 3, 1 cabs with diaphragms and decals 1 cab with diaphragms and a coach with decals) My full fleet is now partially complete, cab 5104 needs more decals as it didn’t turn out too well. My fleet is now 4 cabs and 1 coach…
Cab 5104
Full train with 5104 leading
5104 and 5122 each lead trains
Enjoy!
No, I haven’t. It’s only a 1% grade so I don’t expect there to be a problem with uncoupling. But, it’s a good suggestion anyhow. Thanks, Terry. [:)]
Tom
P.S. I like those miner houses. [tup]
C&O Fan: Like the Miner houses!
Tstage: Good Start on the switches!
Bapou: Like the Commuter Train.
I’ve got nothinng today. But I will have stuff tomarrow. I’m going on a train layout tour with one of our fellow members.
Luke
Nice work this week. A through freight, while a local waits in the yard.
Great shot Grampy ! Speaking of waiting, here’s an east bound coal train with foreign road power waiting its turn to tackle the single track main up to Sand Patch yard. The V&O is a recent eBay find… thanks Scott !
One of my favorite engines, an Atlas model, heads back to the yard after working a nearby industry…
Jarrell
Hello c&o fan those look great. What did you use for the roofing? I was working on my drop off pit for the sanding house. Little more ground cover and some wheels on the conveyor so it will move left/right and it should be done.
Have a good weekend Frank
Very nice images showing good solid modelling above, Everyone. [tup]
Tom, it looks like you should be okay, but a rolling test in all directions with your poorest coupling items will soon dispel or confirm. For me, the test is the engine. If the rigid driver base of a long steamer doesn’t rock and try to lift either end out of the rails, you are okay. You do painstaking work well. [8D]
DJ continues to set the standard with both imagery and details. [:)]
Tom, your buildings turned out very well. Congratulations!
Jarrell, I don’t know how you do it, but your imagery is stunning. Incredible. But very easy on the eyes. [:)] [tup] Your modelling is also excellent, in my opinion.
Frank’s work, just above is very nice and interesting. Good modelling on the conveyor addtion. [:D]
In my image below, a Y Class Mallet from the N&W is shoving a freight up a steep grade. Another Y6b is on the head end. The caboose is safely towed behind the auxiliary tender. My thanks go to Jarrell for improving my image. [;)]
Jarrell - I really like your scenic treatment here. I have a somewhat similar area on my layout that remains unsceniced. Thanks for some ideas on approaches I could take to adding scenery to thos section.
Thanks for the complement I used plain blue painters masking tape
Great work so far everyone.
I’ve begun the teardown on my 4x8, I need to get the soldering iron to take apart the remaining track.
That might be the best picture of a model I have ever seen!!! (Oh, yeah, everyone else’s looks good too.)
How did you make the transition ramps???
MadSinger
I managed to put non-operating beacons on my SD45s:
I didn’'t drill the hole into the unit; instead I filed the bottom of the beacon off and glues it to the roof since I didn’t have a big enough drill bit for the mouting hole.
Tom, I’m glad it gave you some ideas. That’s one of the things I like about the WPF thread… I’m always thinking “hey, there’s something I haven’t tried!”
Jarrell
WPF seems slow this week.
Slug 138-T
End handrails are on order. I used the frame from an Atlas VO-1000, and cut up the shell of a Bachmann H-16-44. Some Gold Medal brass walkboards make up the sanding platforms, and there’s a Micro Trains brake wheel. I improvised the headlight housing out of a MT bolster and some bits of styrene. MicroScale decals. Not quite finished, but close!
The WM was one of the early experimenters with slugs. They home built two “trailing units” as they called them, to assist switchers in the hump yards at Hagerstown, as early as 1962. At the end of the WM era, 138-T was mated to BL-2 81, and this pair continued to work the yards in Hagerstown until they were downgraded in the early 1980’s. In 1985 or so, they were sent to the B&O museum together to be mothballed for posterity.
My slug is unpowered (the low profile of the hood disallows keeping the drive intact) but it does serve a useful purpose. I hardwired it to 81, to add some additional pick up, which will help avoid a couple of pesky stalls over the ancient turnouts I used in my temporary yard. I added some weight to it to help it track better. So far, I’d say it works pretty well.
I’m hoping to have the body work done by the ops session in two weeks.
Lee
Looks good everyone.
Got some scenery done tonight. Pix of that, progress pix of my F40PH-2CAT rebuild and CII/station constuction, tomorrow.
nice smoke on mallet 
here is a work in progress: small intermodel transfer yard adjacent to factory that is now offices:
