I don’t have anything new from my layout but I will put up a few prototype pics to get it started 
Eric97123 … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. I’m sure the car weathering guys will apreciate seeing the prototype pictures.
I operated a few trains yesterday. Upper level has my “Heartland Zephyr” which is my version of the Kansas City Zephyr. A single E8 is adequate for hauling just 4 or 5 cars.
The lower level has FT’s which are Stewart models. I purchased undecorated models for only $30.00 per AB set ($60.00 total) at a train show. I love good deals like that. I assembled and painted the units. I installed the grab irons and installed DCC.
The latest cars out of the car shops!
50’ Berwick Boxcar, with 13 Panel Diagonal Panel Boxcar Roof in place of the X-Panel Roof. Highball Graphics Decals.
Robbins Rails 50’ PS1 Boxcar Kit, with extended coupler pockets. Oddballs Decals.
CB&T 1944 AAR 40’ Boxcar Kit, Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick[2c]
My 2T Bachmann
Bachmann GP38-2
Some “big” loads.
Keeping the Burlington theme going
Plus a visiting interchange car spotted for unloading
Although the layout is still in progress here are a pair of K4s at a servicing facility.
Billboard Reefer Madness
Nothing got done on the SLOW for the last 2 weeks as I have been up to my armpits in alligators with other pressing issues. One of those was Opening Day for the New York Museum of Transportation and the Rochester and Genesee Valley RR Museum in Rush, NY. It was a cold, dark, rainy, miserable day, but the local PBS Channel showed with some Dinosaurs… We ended up being literally swamped with visitors. The NYMT had over 1,250 people buy tickets (and possibly as many as 500 more who decided not to wait out in the pouring rain to get inside). Running a overfilled Trolley from the NYMT to Midway where they switched to one of our Empire State Express coaches (From 1941) pulled by our Queen of the fleet, LV RS3 #211. A short video showing just how rotten the day was but how nice the accommodations were can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UgseNZHcfA
Oh… BTW, at 1:37 you can even see me in my red very leaky jacket standing by the old Baggage Car…
Enjoy!
73
With my new finished ALAMOSA CAR SHOPS kit I had to take pictures.
Pushing cars:
Wolfgang
The flatcar looks good Wolfgang. Great work.
I weathered some cars recently, but I’ll keep the Q theme running a bit longer [:O]
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Athearn BB CB&Q high-cube box. Stirrups changed to be closer to the prototype
Details West N&W insulated box
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MDC SCL 50’ hi-cube
Atlas BN EV caboose. I was going to make this one that lost it’s roofwalk, but then I found some prototype pictures that showed “modernized” ones that don’t have access to the roof. This was accomplised by removing the “loop grabs” (I lost one, and couldn’t get one bent that looked right) and cutting the top 2 rungs out of the ladders. Weathered very lightl
Hard to tell this is an RTR Athearn GP35…
Looking out towards turntable. SW9 waiting on short storage track.
759 Berkshire waiting to exit turntable.
Here are a couple of new items that were supposed to be done for last week’s WPF. Antonio, the B&M coach was the one I mentioned in the AlClad post a couple of weeks ago.
BM 4806 Coach is an undecorated IHC LW coach that I stripped and repainted with AlClad Chrome with a maroon window stripe. The inside was painted in my version of the green scheme that was used on some of the B&M and MEC LW coaches. The IHC interior was kitbashed to match the prototype floor plan. I need to get a lighting kit to complete the model.
This stake truck is a MiniMetals International cab and chassis with GC Laser stake body. I will get a GCLaser platform kit, and turn the box body that came with the truck into a storage unit.
GPaine, excellent work on the passenger car, stake truck and town scene. Good work on having people in the structures and vehicles. The scene in the 2nd photo brings me back memories of my childhood in the northeast back in the early 70s as trucks and cars from the 40s-60s were still running.
No new modeling from me this week. I took a trip to Manhattan, KS and visited some friends. My hotel was right by the Union Pacific tracks and my hotel room window had a great view of the tracks. The pictures aren’t great, they were taken with my cell phone.
This photo proves that there are different colors of ballast used on mainlines by the same company.
A loaded coal train.
And, the DPU.
There were other trains that went through, but they were mostly at night. I learned that the numberboards on the GEVOs are extremely bright compared to other locos.
J in Sepia
Crandell