Branchline Models 40’ AAR Boxcar kit, added A-line Sill Steps, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. I needed more N&W Cars, and this was an Ex-Wabash car which made it perfect for me.
Finished with the main decaling on the M&StL RS-1, have to add the window glass and decal the number boards, along with some work on the frame and this puppy will soon be done.
Athearn 5344CF Boxcar kit that I have finished building and will be painting this weekend. As I can’t find any more of the Exactrail kits, this will have to do although too wide compared to the prototype.
That NW car looks sweet. Although, IMO, it could use a light weathering lol.
Here’s my last project on the club layout before open house starts next week (This sunday for NMRA members!!!)
I lit up the Shire Oaks roundhouse I built. Let me tell you, the light sure exposes any open cracks, although by the end, the prototype probably had a ton as well. It was a string of Christmas tree LEDs, possibly temporary, but I think they work well here. I do need to eventually go back and touch up the cracks with styrene eventually.
Yeah, lighting things up will expose all those places where light leaks through. If apperance doesn’t matter on the inside, I’ve found that using the black liquid electric tape stuff is great for fixing them quickly and easily. Just control the stuff, as it gets everywhere if you’re not careful enough.
Had a great ops session last weekend, starting with a review of my required items to satisfy the checklist for the Golden Spike Award, Need to get my paperwork in, but felt good to do that after ~25 years of work.
Things went well and my new scheme of assigning yardmaster/local crews resulted in some gratifying outcomes. One was a whole yard full of freight ready to go, with two complete trains (one for Silverton on Track 1 and another for the Cascade Extension on Track 3). We have another session tomorrow (Sat) where this will dovetail into a good start for it.
We did have a mishap on the turntable when a Withrottle was fat-fingered while the turn was still going on. Put the loco on the ground, easily enough fixed, but tweaked the rail ends on the bridge, requiring some repair work. This change the location/alignment of the end just enough to require a full reprogramming, not just reindexing, so here you see the bridge spinning.
#28 on the table successfully…
And off without a hitch.
Called it a night at that point as I was entertained by news and info from Bearland, ummm, better known as Radio New Zealand, on my new (used) shortwave via this antenna I built to catch the signals fro 8,000+ miles away. They even gave the weather, so I
Long-time lurker, first-time poster here! Spent the last few days turning this very plastic-like Conrail SW9 into a well-used and now-leased unit. Still trying to get better at weathering my rolling stock (i like everything to look old, beat up, and rusty!).
Rick thanks for the start. You obviously research your builds so would you consider adding in your car description the dates in service for the particular decals, especially for a Bear in need of further education?
Light leaks and all, I’d be very proud if that was my work, Jimmy. Hope the Open House goes well.
Those are tasty looking. Some sort of harbor launch, too small for a tug I’d guess? Makes a heck of an interesting load, if I may so, much superior to Irv Athearn’s old tub.
Nice work this week. I love the bell on the M & St. L RS-1. I’ve seen some early EMDs, even E-3s on the Santa Fe with steam-type bells mounted on them! Neat detail [Y] (I see Lake Erie’s SW9 has an open-yoke bell, too) I also have a fondness for ACI labels, I guess 'cause they were from “our” era, even though I model an earlier period, I have a few newer cars with them applied. Another neat detail!
The shadows on the wall from your lighting of the roundhouse is neat, Jimmy. Lights give a structure a warm and inviting look! Very nice!
Good to see your progress, Mike. We “old timers” with turntables find them to be a necessary evil. Glad you got yours aligned again. Mine seems to have acquired a bit of slop in the mechanicals and I’ll have to address that soon. I have a NYRS stepper motor and I see they have redesigned the software so individual tracks can be adjusted, a real plus since otherwise you have to reprogram ALL tracks [:'(]
I like the beat-up look, Lake Erie! My railfanning days were late NYC, PRR and into Penn Central. Almost everything was in rough shape! Nice work… hope to see more!
Bear, that makes a pretty neat amphibious load! Maybe you should have some girlie boats to keep company with the buoy boats? I just happened to see that Uncle Wally (Walthers) is producing an HO DUKW.
Rick, Thanks for the WPF start-up and the views of your fine rolling stock modeling.
Jimmy, I commiserate with you, chasing light leaks is not the most fun part of structure modeling. Been using gaffers tape to seal light leaks, makes for nice roofing material too, not to mention great for temporarily holding parts together without leaving sticky residue.
Bear, Considering the big shaker in NZ extra good to see your post. Looks like you had a boat-load of fun with your flat car, nice.
LakeErieEx, Your locomotive is grime after my own heart and an inspiration to re-post the GN boxcar that my son weathered for me last year. Keep up the dirty work!
I agree with Peter, the more I hear about the NZ quake, the more concerned I was. One I read today was saying there was radical changes in the topography in the quake zone.
Good stuff again this week guys. Thanks for sharing.
Bear, glad to see your post(s). I was thinking of you when I saw the news about the quake in NZ. Hope you and yours are all well. My best to your countrymen.
I picked up five 4-bay hoppers at a train show in Medina earlier this month to add to my coal train. I installed body-mounted couplers, weighted them with pennys and made loads for them with foam board and Woodland Scenics lump coal. Next are some metal wheels which I will probably have to order on line as none of the local shows have featured any.
CB&Q 800747 is representative of the group.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Thanks for the thoughts Guys, it was a big quake and there have been around 4000 aftershocks in the last seven days. Luckily, though not for the families concerned, there were only two fatalities, however there has been massive rearrangements of the geography, 10 ft changes in levels which have closed both State Highway 1 and the South Island Main Trunk Line. In the capital, Wellington, there are 60, and counting, quake damaged buildings. All in all, it’s nothing that Lots of money can’t fix; it’s the disruption in the lives of those directly affected that require our thoughts.
The quake was felt up to 400 miles from the epicentre, but the Bear, who lives 325 miles away , slept right
Depending on the surrounding terrain, 10’ difference on a road is something that a bulldozer and some dump trucks of gravel can solve temporarily.
For a rail line, 10’ is a bunch…not good at all[%-)]
Been looking at those buoy boats, tough little things looks like.
Nice work, everyone.[:D]
Ed,
Mine’s a Diamond Scale TT, with a 12-position rotary switch control NYRS drive. Works great and the reindexing is usually all it needs, but the fix shifted the rail ends enough on the bridge to require a full reprogram this time.
