WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 12-19-14-??

Since putting together the Cornerstone building and seeing it was an exact duplicate of the office building of B.L. Tabler & Son, who we use to get our fuel supplies from. Heating oil, coal, and Diesel fuel for the farm, and heating for the home. I had some parts laying around and decided to put an interior in as I remember it was, and old man Tabler always seen leaning at the doorway, waiting for customers early Saturday mornings. Probable would be better except for arthritis in fingers, so excuse the not so perfection.

More pics.....a new module:

Peter

An older shot of a couple of favorites - a K-Line Hudson with PS2 and the Legacy AC6000 approach a curve.

I've always liked how the ditch lights illuminate the side of the Hudson in the top photo. It's hard to beat the level of detail of these K-Line steamers..

We tend t think of the later steamers as really large but look how this modern diesel apparently 'towers over' our popular NYC locomotive!

Terrific; looks "perfect" to me!!!

Peter, I have new found respect for anyone who can use snow blankets, non-bonded snow fiber products, and the like as well as you did on that module.  My first Christmas using them for a small, really small, display has been more of a challenge than I thought it would be.

Williams die-cast scale NYC Hudson, "700E-style" detailing added, weathered (not

completely repainted), ERR Cruise Commander/early Sound Commander/Electrocoupler.

Faked the valve stem and guide. Lionel scale-size-wheel Hudson front truck.

Just to see if I could:

D500:

That is SUPER nice!!

Lots of fun pics this week. Thanks all for taking the time to share.

Scott: You're reward in Heaven will be great... you've already got the patience of a Saint!!

Pete, on the Hudson: thank you very much. It was fun and a royal pain, simultaneously. I used as many of 1930's-type attachments (cotter pins, screws, nuts, etc.) as possible, and avoided (mostly) epoxy and CA.

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Something different; while traveling back and forth for jury duty:

Old Louisville and Nashville Foley (Alabama) Branch steam water tower footings. The track was pulled up 10 - 15 years ago. The line ran from Bay Minette AL to Foley; Foley is a few miles north of the Gulf of Mexico beaches (and has a train show in March 2015...).

This area is across the Bay from Mobile. Seems that the bees like the footings. The old right-of-way is in the foreground. US 31 is in background.

And, on the same route, not train-related. It's a '63 or '64 (not '65) Buick Riviera.

Out-of-business used car lot (the Chrysler 300M in front is mine).

Been on that pole in Bay Minette as long as I can remember. Needs work. And an engine.

handyandy -

I like your Hi-rail Tinplate, or Hi-plate tinrail, or Hi-tin plate-rail, or...my head hurts.

Anyway, the mix is neat.

Very Nice, Talented fellows.

John P

Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for exceptional modeling and photography.

Ridin' on the Will Rogers.  Good photo, Mike (and I have a permanent "soft spot in my heart for the Frisco).

Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for exceptional building detailing, scene creation, and 4-crossarm pole line.

Typically, we are stingy with merits.  However this week's photos are outstanding.

Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for attention to detail and subtle (not over-done) weathering.

I see nothing to criticize.  Nothing to apologize for here.  Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for good memory, exceptional structure modeling, as well as modesty.  

Yes. The National Capital Trackers will be at the B&O Museum starting tomorrow. 

Nice job. Did you repaint those F-units yourself? Anyway, instead of complaining that the manufactures don't do a diesel in the roadname you want, repaint them yourself or find someone that will paint then for you. Don't worry about the collector value, unless it is a rare item. By the time most modern items have any real value, most of us will have gone to our final reward.

Absolutely Richard!

Thanks! I don't quite know what to call it either.   lol

Richard, yes, I painted them and modified them.  Did the Burlington in the early '90's and the GM&O and NP in roughly the same time period; Burlington first, then GM&O, and then the NP. 

Nobody was making these roads at the time.  Watched Rich Sherry do these and many others and he showed me how.  I only wish my work was as good as his.  There are a number of very highly skilled members here who frequently show their work--mine is not of their quality although it is plenty good enough for my eye.

As long as the PW F3's can be bought cheap with "straight" bodies, I'll keep painting and modifying them to make-up colorful passenger trains or just colorful F units.

A couple of years ago I had a couple of fictionalized Auto-Train auto carriers custom-painted into a "What if" Phase V paint scheme. However I neglected to specify prototypical road numbers, and that the cars should have AMTK reporting marks:

Two years after the fact I finally corrected my error. Inspired by the thread on making custom decals using vinyl sign-making film, I located an ancient vinyl-cutting machine I'd purchased at an R/C show back in the late 1990's, and powered it up for the first time in almost 15 years since I bought it, in order to make decals to correct the car number and add the missing "Auto Train" logo, left out due to a shortage of custom lettering at the custom painters'. 

Now it wears AMTK 9003, a number held by one of the Amtrak prototypes this model is derived from. It's about time too--this last bit of redecoration was the last thing holding me up from actually running that monster train around my test track (yes, that means I had my only train-running facility out-of-service for almost two years)

--PCJ

Northern Pacific F9A and B, ##6703A and 6703B, formerly LIONEL Santa Fe 2343A and 2343C, and North Coast Limited baggage/dormitory car #257, all freshly shopped 10+ years ago when work was suspended due to shop relocation.  Work recently resumed and parts ordered, e.g. number boards, etc.:

Prototype photos of NP #6703A and 6703B:

I made a few changes to my layout....

After 6 months, a lot of aggravation, and nearly $450 (new TIU, Remote, New track, new wiring, lightbulbs, etc, etc,) in trying to get DCS to work with no success, I said "screw it" and put up this little shelf to hold my transformers and run conventional. With every fix suggested and not a "fix", I have zero interest in getting it to work anymore. I sold the new TIU and Remote and tossed the old TIU in a box and keep the old remote for use at the club where you pretty much are stuck running command. 

I added a small MTH Bump and Go Trolley. 

I cut out one siding and decreased the loop sizes. The outer loop track and ties were literally hanging over the edge of the table in some spots and preferring to not tempt fate, I shrunk the loops a bit. Unfortunately, it meant losing a siding. 

Perhaps the last run of my Christmas boxcars this year. I really like the MTH Christmas cars such as these with scripture passages and paintings on them but the one month per year use isn't enough to get me to buy more. I don't use what I have much so I can't really justify the cost for much more. 

Happy weekend!

Tom,

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your positive comment. Merry Christmas.

Johan

Porvoo Model Railroaders.

https://www.youtube.com/user/P...flow=grid&view=0

It's a few years old but one of my favorite passenger sets.

Jerry

My wife loves this sign:

Scott Smith

Taken tonight 12-21-2014 around 4:00 pm

Scot

What train is that???? I'll be on the SW Chief in Jan going to LA for a while.

Since the photos show different engines on the lead, one has to be the Southwest Chief and the other the California Zephyr.  Both trains have the same motive power and almost identical consists through here.  And they usually come through about an hours apart.

Art

just got this set up

Good for you !!

I am not a master at painting and I've messed up a couple of times myself. In that case, I strip the paint and redo it over ( the paint comes off easier the second time)

O scale decals are getting hard to find.

How many different train items can you find in this picture from church a few weeks back?

Scott Smith

A few older shots: To help with Big Boy fever I took the shot below in Green Bay, WI this summer. Next up a picture from Trainfest in Milwaukee and then a few shots from my phone at the San Diego 3 Railers club.

If you're going to have a free Saturday, come down and harass us.