Happy Easter (and Good Friday) to everyone.
I guess the weather has been getting warmer for us in the Northern climate, as WPF seems to be getting a later start these days. [swg]
Here’s a shot of a local crossing the pond trestle.
Backdrop was photo-shopped in. Scale is N.
Freight Depot and Steamer service --Transition Era
RS3 going past
Lines need to be strung on the power poles
Did a great job in Photoshop
I can’t tell where it begins and ends
Good morning everyone, my Photobucket Account seems to be up and working this week so here are the latest freight cars I finished recently.
This is the second CGW Airslide I did, the first had yellow lettering and this one is painted aluminum with black lettering. Eastern Car Works Airslide Kit lettered with Oddballs Decals.
This is a NYC Enterprise Covered Hopper, built from an Eastern Car Works Kit, painted gray and lettered with Champ Decals.
This is a GN Plug Door Boxcar, built using a 50’ Front Range ACF Single Door Riveted Side Box Car Kit, substituting an 8’ Plug Door from the Scrap Box and painted Glacier Green and lettered with Microscale Decals.
Thanks for looking! [C):-)]
Rick
Great work MA Bruce, UncBob, and DTI 406!!!
Below is a GN tractor-trailer. The 1948 Ford COE is a resin kit I assembled and painted this week. The trailer is an old metal Ulrich kit Iassembled and painted a few month ago.
Next is a Burlington Budd sleeper named “Silver Orchid” I made from an NKP Car Company kit
Some good looking shots. Here’s one from me.
Didn’t we just have Earth Day? In that case, I’m into recycling. No new photos to complement the nice ones that have been posted so far, so this one will have to do.
Crandell
Nothing special to post here, yet, just the humble beginnings of a N scale modular layout, consisting of mini-modules similar to the T-Trak modular system.
It´ll grow - that´s a promise!
No photos this week, but I have a video. The layout is still under construction, which is why the parking lot is unpaved and the track is unballasted. There is no backdrop because my parents aren’t thrilled with the idea of one, so there probably never will be one, so please excuse the windows and yellow walls. Also, please excuse the lack of decals on the loco and cars. I need to custom order those when I have the money. The GP50-3 is an Athearn Blue Box (sans handrails, because they need paint and the loco needs decals) and all the rolling stock is various Walthers cars.
Anyways, here’s Tri State Rail local BY1-20, out of Byram Yard, switching industries along the Lackawanna Cutoff. GP50-3 4300 is on yesterday’s train, switching cars at Magic Pan Bakeries and Kuiken Brothers Lumber, before heading West to pick up cars from the far end of the line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw43q7SjqZE
Please take a moment to rate the video (Like or Dislike) and leave a comment, because I honestly do value your feedback. Thanks, and enjoy!
Look, a real live caboose.
I am sure it is used as a switching platform as it appears it has not left the year since at least 2003
After a 3 week hiatus from modeling due to work and family I have been back at it in the basement working on the backrop.
Good looking pictures - you guys set the bar high - I’ll bring it down a little again 
Finally got couple of vacation days for Easter and finished my “honey do” list, so I took the small 10.5" x 8 foot portable two section layout out on the porch and got the wiring done, so I could get started on doing a little switching, even though no ballast or scenery has been done yet.
32nd street yard. Team track at left, Ser Bakery at far left, Land of Lakes spur at right:
A GN RS3 shoving cars into the Land of Lakes spur - Hawkins chemical tank track at left, Soo interchange at right.
Smile,
Stein
Narrow-gauge boxcar, Gunlock, Colorado. 1953.
!(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o85/Breeze61/Model Trains/Platte Valley And Western/CIMG4324.jpg)
Backdrop
coming along really well
Something doesn’t look right, did you start over on the benchwork. Didn’t you have track and scenery there?
Zack,
Yeah this a new layout, but I was able to save the backdrop.
For the whole story you can check out my website: SP&S Oregon Trunk
I have been reading and looking and admiring all of your posts for a long time since I last posted.
The last two years I got no new engines, but it seems like I got 20 new ones because I decided to repaint many of my older engines into different roads.
The latest are SDP40s into GN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLwi-4IvIc
Great Northern Empire Builder type passenger train, ~1966 with 2 SDP40 Great Northern engines.
I had got these Athearn SDP40s many years ago, in B&O, but never used them much as B&O never had them anyway, so now I finally repainted them in a railroad that actually used them for passenger trains, the Great Northern, at least in 1966, as I found prototype photo.
I did get some new Milwaukee Road passenger cars and made my own Milwaukee Road version of RPO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNtrEEKnJY
My Youtube Channel with lots more http://www.youtube.com/user/lakesuperiorvideos
Rebuilding layouts and starting modules seems to be a common theme this week. With ski season over, I put down some grass seed on Monday and now I’m watching as Mother Nature waters it, as she’s been doing quite frequently this week. But, looking ahead at the forecast, I planned today for the big Gypsolite job on the swamp.
I mixed the Gypsolite quite thin, and added a few squirts of cheap brown acrylic paint for color. Then I did a skim coat over the foam and plaster-cloth land forms. I’ve highlighted the deepest parts of the water basin with black paint. Once this dries, I’ll start adding more greens and browns, and then the ground foam and sand base.