Happy Independence Day to my fellow US members!
A little something to mark the occasion:
Yes - work still needs to be done on the rails despite the holiday.
Please, have a safe one!
Happy 4th everyone!
Nicely used Railbox.
From the olden days, a Southern 4-4-0 ‘American’ type locomotive chuggs up a steep grade on my Appalachian division.
Jarrell
I did not finish any cars this week, but I took some pictures at the club layout of some of my engines and cars!
Pennsy L1s with a coal drag stopping for water before going on.
Pennsy C-Liners passing the station with a coal drag.
Nickle Plate GP30’s passing the tower and branch line.
Thanks for looking!
Rick [2c]
A old one from me.
Hudson coming off the main line heading to the mine.
Ken
Nice pictures so far. Happy Birthday Uncle Sam!
I snapped a couple of quick pics this morning. This corn is a little more than knee high by Forth of July! It’s gonna be a record year.
You guys are off to a fast start! Great photos, MABruce, Michael, Robby, Jarrell, Rick, Ken, and Corey.
Here is an SD7 picking up an empty airslide hopper from the bakery.
HAPPY CANADA DAY to Canada
And Happy 4th of July.
Nice parade Garry! Very festive!
Wow, this week’s starting off with a BANG! Excellent photos from all. Happy birthday, America.
Switching the scrap yard. DJ.
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Sweet pics guys! Happy 4th everyone!
I took advantage of the shadows this morning to snap some pics of my layout. I had to because otherwise, you couldn’t see the different landscape variations etc.
Overview 7/1/11
Town
And here’s where the highway bridge will go on the other side (still need to do foam work etc)
I have started a new building for my layout. This will be a motor and transmission repair shop and will occupy the space between the mainline the lead heading to Brooks Scanlon. This is hte first 100% stick built building I have built. It has been a little bit of a challenge but I am pretty happy how quickly it is coming together.
Another view
I have some more photos on my website Spokane Portland & Seattle Oregon Trunk website
Happy Fourth of July USA.
First photo we catch an SD24 from Tennessee Southern in the consist of a westbound Clinch Valley coal train.
Train lineup at Knoxville waiting to hit the mainline. I’m trying the King Mill flats, they work great.
A red white and blue train runs through Greenvale on the 4th. 2 runbys because it goes a bit fast [;)]
MEC F3 followed by red-white-blue State of Maine NH reefer (this was a real car), red Swift reefer, red Mobilgas 3-dome tank car, white & blue BAR reefer, two blue Bumker Hill & Eastern (freelanced road)boxcars and an MEC caboose.
Have a safe and happy 4th everyone!!
Hello–haven’t been around for a while–been recuperating from severe kidney disease, but I’m off dyalisis now and functioning fairly normally. Normal enough to go out and start resuscitating the Yuba River Sub–it’s been ‘abandoned’ since January.
Anyway, I’ve started a few projects, one of which is filling in the blank corner with some 'mine diggin’s:
And ‘daylighting’ half of the trouble-prone Champion Mine Tunnel. Oh yah, I bought another DISEASEL. But that’s okay it’s an F-3, which is about as ‘modern’ as I plan on getting, LOL!
Anyway, I’ve got my work cut out for me this summer. Back to the FUN!
Happy Fourth, everyone. [(-D]
Hello Tom White …
Glad you are back, but sorry to hear about the kidney problem. Miss your chats in the diner, too. … You layout photos are terrific!
Corey … Thanks for the comment about my parade scene. I like your photos of the rural scene railroading very much.
Everybody else … Great pictures!
Hi Tom!!!
Great stuff as usual here this weekend! I’ll get a couple of photos taken later of my pet project at the moment.
Tom W, nice to see the Yuba Sub again… I have always admired your work. Don’t forget to stop in at the diner. We miss you (and the sound of the grand piano!)! You are in my prayers for your continued recovery.
73
Welcome back Twhite. I’m sure you have a little catching up to do. I’d spend the first weekend just cleaning up and running trains.
Happy Canada Day! & Happy Independence Day!
Fun with a Centerline Track Cleaner
I had fun accessorizing a Centerline friction track cleaner (the Kaydee truck version) with the addition of a scratchbuilt Gon body. It is sheet styrene that indexes onto the Centerline frame. I added the details with strip stock & tops with angle. I also added grabs, cut bars, stirrup steps, brake wheel, & BNSF decals. Then (later) I ran across a few GC Laser cable spools, & threw them in there too, after making brackets. If the unit does not have the friction roller in it & is given just a glance, it almost passes as a grungy gon. Next time I will square my grab holes, & space the platforms so they don’t buckle when placed onto the frame, (yeah those were oopsies!)…
The pushing unit is an InterMountain ES44, that has had its grilles, & springs washed in black.
PS: This will follow somewhere behind my CMX tank in the working HO maint. train consist.
Been working on this Stewart U25B lately.
I had to change out the motor in it among other things. The motor was an Athearn type (seen in foreground). Replaced it with a Proto Power West motor which can be seen in the photo below. Stewart chassis and shell, PPW motor, P2K shafts, flywheels, truck, Athearn gears and wheels, Bachmann 8 pin socket, Digitrax DZ143 decoder.
I also rebuilt this P2K E6. Thought it had a bum motor but it turned out there was piece of wire wrapped around the motor shaft between the motor and front flywheel. I have no idea how it got there as I picked it up second hand a couple of years ago and just got around to tearing it down.