Bad wheather here in Belgium, it’s rainning and the temperature is cold…brrrrr
I am currently working on all the buildings I need for my new yard on my Maclau River RR in Nscale.
The period is 1935-1940 so I need a big icing platform.
Since last monday,I have begun to work on an Nscale Walthers icing platform but I was not happy whith his too “simple look”, so I added an extra scratchbuild platform of 13" lenght and extra details.
I also scratchbuild a small office at the end of the paltform.
I made new handrails, smaller and more to the scale, a scratchbuild detailed chutes system from the ice house to the platform (which is not detailled whith the kit) and a small office shop on the ice house, so it looks smaller against the platform.
I will also use smaller stairways, because I think the ones offered in the kit are HO scale.
I hope to finish it this week end. Everything was made whith Evergreen plastic parts and Grandt Line windows.
Here is one of the six Prairie Great Midland boxcars I’ve recently completed, based on a Tichy kit. It was shot last weekend by Craig Wilson on Jack Ozanich’s Atlantic Great Eastern.
The PGM is a member of the same corporate family as the AGE.
Most of the weathering on this car was done with watercolor pencils.
I’ve got nothing as good as what you folks have posted. Marc - that icing platform is awesome! I did find a kitbash that I had built for my step dad when he was still alive. It’s been bashed from an old lumber yard storage rack - I believe it was an old Suydam kit but not sure anymore.
Marcus … I like the improved Walthers icing station.
Fritz … nice bxcar and yard scene
Scarpia … I bet that S2 sounds as good as it looks.
Chuck … the coal and fuel oil building looks real.
I have assembled and painted a GN piggyback trailer I made from an old Ulrich Models kit. Also, I have completed an FT AB set. This will be half of an ABBA set. The second AB set is under construction now. These are Stewart models, and I made my FT’s to appear like the Burlington’s upon delivery in 1944. The A and B units couple a correct scale 2 feet apart. I installed American Limited diaphragms. It runs very smoothly.
I really like the work done on the icing platform and the boxcar weathered with watercolor pencils. That’s a technique I’ll have to try one day. Below is my Central of Georgia RS-3 under the yards sand tower.
The engine is an HO scale Atlas model, if you couldn’t tell by the handrails… [:D]
Well, I have some Train and Model Train stuff for everyone today:
At a local restaurant, I saw some pictures from a local artist:
I also went Geocaching with my family. This cache led us right next to the UTA commuter line in SL. My sister waved as the train went by.
On the “other side of the tracks” I saw these memorials. Sandy’s first street car.
And Sandy’s first Railroad.
A very long time ago, I had a disaster with a wooden kit. A wall broke. Today, I got it out, repaired it, and made it “abandoned.” I broke a window, crushed the wall, and peeled the roof.
Well, this is all I have today. Great job everyone. Rick, good job on the kits. Jarrel, as always, astounding pictures. Jeffrey, congrats on saving the box car. Garry, wonderful layout. Chuck, good job with Bridgeman and son fuel. Robby, I really lik
Here’s a new video from me, chasing White River Southern local LE-2 over the railroad including local switching. As usual, I dubbed sound into the video.
Great start to the weekend folks! This thread is where I get my inspiration… (Well one of many places actually, but still a great place for ideas!)
I have been gradually working on the scenery and trackage on the logging pike on the middle peninsula on the SLOW. I needed to extend the track for the logging road, and the only place it could go was into mid air. The line goes by trestle from Bare Mountain to a place called Nowhere, NY which is the next ridge over from Bare Mountain… So here is the start of the “Bridge to Nowhere”.
I’ll be working on it this weekend (hopefully) and will try to report progress as it is done… Oh, BTW, the the trestle pole are actually straight up and down… Strange effects from the camera lense.
