Let’s get Weekend Photo Fun rolling! Here, a Southern 0-8-0 switch engine pulls into the feed and seed business siding to pull out a Central of Georgia covered hopper. I have much more work to do in this area including weathering sturctures and rolling stock as well as adding much needed ‘stuff’ to the business such as lighting, pallets, people etc.
Jarrell
Looking good so far Jarrell. I like the smoke effect you added and your track work looks great!
I planted a ‘Supertree’ by the pond which gave my N&W SD7 a photo-op:
Thank you sir! BTW, love the super tree but I can’t seem to get mine as thickly leafed as yours, so they don’t look nearly as good.
What’s your secret? What leaf material do you like?
Jarrell
And thank you.
I used the Supertree directions and flocked them with their ‘Flock & Turf’ product. For N-scale, I found it small enough to give a nice leafy appearance, but not so fine so that it wouldn’t fill out the tree. I also used several layers to build it up, and accented the final layer with a little fine WS ground foam (using varying shades of green).
It also helps to pick out the Supertree’s armatures with extensive branch detail so the flocking material has a lot to stick to. Not all my armatures filled out as nicely as this one did.
Hey, hey, hey! It’s the weekend again! Thanks for getting us started with an excellent photo of your work Jarrell! MAbruce, I like both the tree and the whole scene. [bow][bow]
While inputting data into SOFTRACK Inventory, I found one of my PRR Coal Cars came without any car numbers. All the data was there for the Pennsy, but the car wasn’t numbered. So I ordered some car renumbering decals for it from Accurail.
After:
Had to add the numbers to the ends as well:
While I was at it, I removed the “rebuild” date from the sides of the 2 PRR Coal cars I have since I have the exact color with the decal package. Now the 2 cars just show the build dates (1918 & 1919). Hit them both with dullcoat and did some weathering while they were on the bench. Here is the after:
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Checking out one of Texas and Nevader Mountain’s “new” box cars. 
I just planted some JTT Scenery product tree’s on the layout. At about $4 a tree I think they look fantastic. I’ll be buying more…
I see we are off to a good start!!! [tup] [tup]
Here’s a boxcar, a hopper, and a engine I’ve been working on.
Good start to the best thread of the week guys.
I’ve been working on some new background and a back ground building.
The skyline buildings came from Realistic Backgrounds. I cut them out and mounted them on black foam board to give them some depth. The red brick building at the left is part of the Will Hall Building from Illinois Main Street. Again, mounted on foam board. The foreground brick building is Walther’s Fireproof Storage and Transfer, one of their background buildings narrowed a little and mounted on a diagonal. I named it General Industries, INC. after a local business the burned down a couple of years ago.
The sides and rear of the building are made of foam board. The interior is lighted. The roof sign is home made. The water tank came out of the junk box, I’m not sure who made it.
Still a good deal to do. Fences, ballast on the siding, more signs and other details. But I’m pleased with it so far. Better than the painted plywood it replaces.
Keep up the good work guys. I love this thread.
Jarrell … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. I like the 0-8-0 and the building.
MAbruce … I like the N&W SD7 and the scene. Water and trees look good.
Ray … PRR hoppers look great.
jdobo … nice work on the “new” freight car.
driline … Nice SOO Geep and the rees look good.
Robby … Great weathering for the GP30, the boxcar, and the hopper.
Allen … I like the city scene.
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My contribution is the rear end of a secondary passenger train with modernized heavyweight cars. The rear car is CBQ 308 which is a diner/parlor car.
Thanks for the answer, Bruce. I have about 20 of them waiting to be flocked.
Jarrell
Here’s what makes WPF really fun – I’m enjoying, away from home, the best public wifi ever: clocked downloads at 14M on speedtest! The WPF page loads just like that, so I can enjoy those great pic and work right away!
Very nice work, everyone.
Just a yard shot. DJ.
well not just any yard shot! Very nice indeed.
Here’s one of a Guilford SD26 etc outdoors on the diorama
Mike
Mike, congrats on your entry in the MR photo contest, by the way!
I’ll have photos later this weekend or next…depends on how long it takes for my new scenery work to be finished.
Thanks, Tyler. It was a nice surprise!
Mike
I Shot some video of my friend Art’s H-5 running on my
layout
Not a new picture, but one of my layout lost between a fire and subsequent leaks during the remnants of a hurricane. Just trying to get my enthusiasm back as the house gets close enough to completion to contemplate another layout. This is a New Haven PA pulling upgrade past a farm near the top of the nolix that connected the two levels of the layout. The square corner immediately above the coach covered the furnace - a necessary evil and too big to curve the surround around without losing too much space.
It’s about 8 p.m. in August of 1975. The only train left running on the old Western Maryland is the rip train, sent out by the Chessie System to scrap the finest right of way across the Allegheny front. The F-7 carries out its grim task of bringing back the rail and ties that once carried millions of tons of freight for the WM, so it can be stacked in a scrap yard somewhere and forgotten.
Lee