Not much from me this weekend just a couple of shots sorry for the quality just could take a good picture for some reason
As Always I am sure we will see some excelent stuff this weekend
Here are my accomplishments for the week.
I have no modeling photos to share, but I have a few research photos. I was in my hometown for an interview last month and brought my camera. Here are a few major items I’m including in my new layout. Thanks for humoring me.
The depot will be my centerpiece for the whole layout. I am kit bashing two Walthers kits to try to copy as close as I can.
This is looking from the depot parking lot. The grain terminal will be scaled down a bit.
Here’s a photo of the front of the terminal. It has changed a little since the 50’s. I’m still looking for a dated photo from this angle.
Here is a photo of the trestle that will go on the other side of the layout. I couldn’t get far enough away to capture the whole thing.
Here is my contribution,I used Walthers Modular kit to create the terminal,all decals were made by me,enjoy.This will eventually land on my layout.
I installed the Walthers detail kit on my Athern F7 A and B. I didn’t take pics of the B unit though.
I also made some grafitti for my EL boxcar, kind of hard to see in the pic but it says “Bapou”
I hope you like it!
Hello this is a Mdc/Roundhouse 2-6-0 I found at a show in March. It was my first roundhouse kit. This was a nice and easy kit to build It would be great for a beginner it came factory painted so all I had to do was clean all the flash and assemble. Have a good weekend Frank
One real, one model.
Went railfanning in PA last weekend; here’s the eastbound Amtrak Pennsylvanian pulling into the restored 1850s station at Lewistown, PA on 3 May 2008.
And here’s an N scale Atlas 50’ boxcar I weathered this week:
Dave: You did it! Conrail (or at least PennCentral) has STRUCK! Sweet job on the weathering, really nice.
Okay, Before and After:
I posted my Basket Case Yellowstone last week after I assembled and test ran it, then this week I ran it through the paint shop (haven’t run it through the Weathering Shop yet, though)
Before:
After:
And a larger view of the loco facility. No, that strange thing behind the coaling tower isn’t the Cloverfield Creature, it’s a bottle of WS Scenic Cement that I didn’t realize was there[:I]
Tom
Heres a few shots of my shelf layout. I see a few people ask how is it going to be a 4ft by 12ft by 4ft. Well maybe the one shot will help. The blue foam will be DC. It will have it on controls. Its going to be about 4in higher than the lower part. I tried to show that in the one picture with the cars. The lower part will be DCC. Now, I will have another 4ft section on the other end, just haven’t made it that far yet. I still need to work on some of the compound and some of the blue foam you see won’t be used. Also the track plan probably won’t be the same either.
I cut down the photos some. I just don’t like the duct work and stuff exposed. Heres a few shots.
I’ve been experimenting with wooden fence construction this week, among other things. I’m using wooden coffee stirrers and, in the photos below, using alcohol/india ink to stain them.
On the next section, the fence will be shorter and I’ll try using a grey’ish wash of acrylics.
Also this week I had my Class A NW 2-6-6-4 sitting on a siding while I operated a little Consolidated on the far side of the layout. The Consolidated ran foul of a turnout and created a short, which the Class A picked up… shooting backward at warp speed… taking down anything in its path.
It’s amazing how much a heavy BLI engine can demolish in a short time. I now have CV29 set to analog off on that engine. Thought I’d done it before, but evidently not.
And last is a photo of my 0-8-0 switcher in the days last light
Jarrell
Jacon 12- nice pics!
here’s my contribution, an older pic.
Jarrel; that looked like a really nasty wreck!
I’ve finally gotten my crossing signal for Dooley wired up, all I need to do is install it on the layout and take a video of it.
The only video/photos I have to post is this playlist of both Part 1 and Part 2 of railfanning the New Poland Turn on my HO scale layout. Guilford Guy was operating the train. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F770B58ABB40831A
Thats a good thing to wake up to in the morning. Forget looking up at the sun. The home owner gets to look at a reffer and a hopper. Then some of us might not complain about it. I don’t know if thats good or bad.
Yep, the only thing that saved the engine from an almost 4 foot drop to the tile floor was the hillside. At the least it would’ve been bye bye tender… hello BLI repair dept.
Jarrell
Hello everybody!
These pictures are of my new depot in “Valley Heights”. My new branch line meets the main line at this location. Being the most narrow section on the layout, it was a challenge to construct plausible scenery.
Also, I just completeted the blue 1957 Thunderbird from a kit with clear plastic pieces.
HAPPY MODEL RAILORADING!
Great pix this week!
Not much from me, I built a P2k timesaver hopper, which is being used by Midland New England’s Maintenance of Way department as a ballast car, due to the relaying of the mainline through Clarksville.
I also scratchbuilt a station as part of a school project…
So that’s what an old athearn F-unit will look like with one of those, looks pretty good. I’ll be looking for an old BN one in P-cola next month, and a few of those packs.
How does yours run? the local MR club has a BB SD40-2 but it’s noisy, was wondering if it’s possible to make them quiet.
All the contribotors have started off the thread very nicely. Well done, everyone.
Here is my image for the week. Pressed into temporary road service, an SW8 trundles along aloft to get a small local to the next town.
How about some steamy encounters?
Lee
Lee–
Wow! I especially like the job you did on the 2-8-0. REALLY nice.
Tom [:)]