I will start off this week. This is a addition for a engine servicing yard. The TT arrives today.
Curt, looks like you’re off to a great start on your yard.
An EB GP7 heading back to the yard. DJ.
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Curt … You are doing fast, great work… DJ … Beautiful shot of the GP7.
Here is WORK IN PROGRESS.
I just completed “Mittlemann Wholsale Food & Beverage” which is a new destination for refrigerator cars. It is next to my downtown which is also work in progress. Details and more scenery are to be added.
Nothing new this week, but I posted my favorites of the past on the Atlas Forum and here are the pictures that I chose.
One of my favorite cars, the Kitabsh in a Box and Eastern Car Works 3500 CF Dryflow Cars.
Two of the four ExactRail 4427 Kits I built, one for the Andersons and one for the CB&Q.
A Branchline Kit lettered for the Peoria and Eastern with the extended PC logo.
Athearn 86’ Hi-Cube for the Ann Arbor, I am currently decaling a second car.
A Kato SD45 that I detailed for the PC (Ex-PRR).
A picture of my Athearn Wabash F7’s on the Strongsville Society of Model Railroad Engineers club layout in Strongsville, OH.
Farewell to the Atlas Forum!
Rick J [2c]
Norfolk Southerns #2699 leads a train past Hudson Coal Mining just before the sun breaks over the mountains.
The locomotive is an Athearn Genesis SD 70m2 HO scale.
Jarrell
Garry, nice picture! I use to live in Onalaska WI so I was surprised to see your reefer.
A good start guys!
Here is one from the BRVRR:
NYC S-3 #874 readies a freshly painted diner for service. The loco is a Proto2000 and the diner a Walthers.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
I spent some time this week finishing my coal loader for the tyco dump cars on my layout
see this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OlKKVIoDI&feature=youtu.be
the loader uses 2 ball point pen springs glued together that lay inside a straw with the top cut off to form a trough turned by a small 3000rmp motor this makes an auger
and i had to install a vibrator on the chute to make the coal slide down the ramp to the augger
now i can run live loads from the mine to the coaling tower in Thurmond where i have a dump
site inside the shed of the coaling tower
seen here
Sorry Tried to make the video link clickable but it didn’t work
Thanks, Corey. … The reefer is a Walthers kit about 10-15 years old I think.
Got the link fixed for you [:)]
THANKS !
D.J.- That looks like real life[bow].
Terry- All I can say is WOW.
This scene will soon be going the way of the dodo as I’m preparing to rip it out.
This week I finished laying the staging and runaround tracks on the Silicon Valley Free-moN Staging Yard module:
I had gotten only the main and three other tracks done by the show a couple weeks ago, but now all 7 are installed, wired & ready to rock & roll.
Given that we just use butt joints & clamps (no alignment pins, dowels or bolts), and the fact that I had built the three sections in less than a week, I’m pretty amazed that all seven tracks line up pretty much spot-on both straight-section-to-straight-section as well as on both sides of the 2’ insert.
So here’s the staging yard in all it’s partially-completed glory:
Also made a video on how to make beautiful butt joints:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1H0URvKX
[I resisted having a Sir Mix-a-lot soundtrack]
“Beautiful butt joints” is almost as fun to say as “flush butt”.
Next week will be fun: assembling 20 Bullfrog turnout controls to replace the temp groundthrows and installing them with control rods to each side of the module.
Hope I don’t croak.
Another great week of some fab modeling!
Thanks for sharing: it’s always inspirational.
MC,
That is an excellent Video!
They quality & effort you put into that really shows!
I appreciate the tips & sharing it with us!
Good looking stuff folks… Been a while since I posted anything, but here’s a few trees along the Mill Creek I did today.
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Rick.
Hi,
Not a lot of time to work whith models trains in the last weeks; however I am still working on the Nscale Architect “Marble Co” modified to my use.
I have added scratchbuild details and parts and a Branchline kit to expand the factory.
I will be a good switching factory in my Aegiahills village on my Nscale Maclau River but now as a tools manufactory.
Marc
Hi…here are a few pics of some foam rock walls I just glued into place on my layout about a half hour ago.
Tonight I finished painting and decaling a new pair of Telescoping Boom Forklifts. 
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