Jonnie, I'm right there with you man! I love to keep my engine and passenger car project lots in show boxes... I have a bunch of them. I need to update my project thread. I think if You, me and Dave worked on and finished all our projects this forum would be stuffed with posts for months!
yeah but it would use up too much bandwidth and we couldn't have that......
and SOME of us have more projects than the rest of us......
Dennis Holler posted:
WOW !! If all those boxes are projects, you have me beat for sure. It seems that my new addiction to standard gauge is causing my head to spin. I have tried to stop collecting projects for a while but you guys know all to well while looking for a part for one project there's another to be had at the next table. I have three or four more 500 series cars to work on, a few signals, adding new light sockets and new wiring to a few houses, and some Ives street lamps to get to. Plus I have a trolley and a rail bus sitting in boxes just waiting to be worked on again. I think I can do it as long as I check off more than I add to the list. LOL!!
Lets see some of your projects.
Probably 60% projects, there are three boxes of ho stuff that I'll never use, a bunch of TycoPro sets in the last picture, and I think another couple of those big water boxes has empty Lionel boxes and another has a pile of 2454 style box cars cause I love those things.. I've got some standard gauge projects up in the attic, three automobile projects, and a Partridge in a pear tree.. It's out of hand. A buddy and I parted out a 63 Ford Falcon earlier this year and I'm glad we did the dirty work at his house, my wife would have killed me! That was worth while though as we doubled our money and I got a perfect grill for my Falcon hardtop. I'm gonna try not to buy any more projects Jan 1. not sure how far I'll make it but it's worth a shot. No new projects and finish old projects...
Dave, I know where you can get some more projects
you have my attention sir....
Here's an older project that I posted a year or so ago. I think I have 5 513 cattle cars so I decided to turn one of them into a lighted poultry car. My 390E freight train was pretty dark running it in the dark. A light on the engine and a light on the caboose and a whole lot of nothing in between. This is also before my 520 search light car project. I got the idea from my set of 12 or more 0 gauge poultry train on my buddies layout. I have all but 4 of them. So now there are two lighted cars mixed in the consist, a poultry car and my search light car. I have also added an extra two lights to my cabooses. A light on each end and one inside.
Well here's another project to check off the list. After building my MU cars and running them at my shop I thought something was missing, a tail light ! I bought the tail light at last years YORK show and I finally got around to installing it. I will be looking forward to seeing it run all lit up. After this I have my 515 tank car to work on, a 512 gondola car to customize and a 517 caboose that needs a light. That's not all, that's just the easy stuff before hitting the other project boxes that I have . Sorry the photos are in the wrong order.
JohnnieWalker posted:This is my latest project, its a Pride Lines reproduction of a Lionel#2 Trolley with a McCoy truck and an Ira Keeler drop in open frame motor. This is its first run ever and my puppy's first intro to trains. Now I will have to add a head light and a tail light, passengers,engineer, maybe a pantagraph or trolley pole, and some paint. If I add the pantagraph I can run it on my shop layout which has a live standard gauge catenary wire(rail). If I make a trolley pole I will make a trolley wire system like I saw at York in the orange hall. Either way it will be nice seeing it run from the over head wire/rail .
My other projects include: finding a pair of silver 512 badges for my gondola car, a silver center dome for my 515 tank car and a silver handrail for my 520 search light car. I also still have to find a photo of a drover to put in my lighted 513 poultry car that I made. Then maybe I can move onto the next standard gauge project! LOL
Pets are so funny and cute when they interact with trains. I think they think trains in motion are animals, maybe a snake. Your puppy, however, was not afraid of, but amused by, your tinplate train.
Arnold D. Cribari posted:JohnnieWalker posted:This is my latest project, its a Pride Lines reproduction of a Lionel#2 Trolley with a McCoy truck and an Ira Keeler drop in open frame motor. This is its first run ever and my puppy's first intro to trains. Now I will have to add a head light and a tail light, passengers,engineer, maybe a pantagraph or trolley pole, and some paint. If I add the pantagraph I can run it on my shop layout which has a live standard gauge catenary wire(rail). If I make a trolley pole I will make a trolley wire system like I saw at York in the orange hall. Either way it will be nice seeing it run from the over head wire/rail .
My other projects include: finding a pair of silver 512 badges for my gondola car, a silver center dome for my 515 tank car and a silver handrail for my 520 search light car. I also still have to find a photo of a drover to put in my lighted 513 poultry car that I made. Then maybe I can move onto the next standard gauge project! LOL
Pets are so funny and cute when they interact with trains. I think they think trains in motion are animals, maybe a snake. Your puppy, however, was not afraid of, but amused by, your tinplate train.
Thanks for the comment. Little Jagger is not so little now,62 lbs. and almost 8 months old. I have been running a few trains on the floor to prep him for the Christmas floor layout I set up at my brothers home. Happy to report he did awesome !
Took my MU cars to my shop this afternoon and ran them to see how the tail light looked. I give it a thumbs up. Next project is ?
This wasn't in the queue but managed to get done sooner than later. Not quite finished, I need to pick up the Lionel name plate for it at the next show. I got all these parts for $25.00 !!
JohnnieWalker posted:Here's an older project that I posted a year or so ago. I think I have 5 513 cattle cars so I decided to turn one of them into a lighted poultry car. My 390E freight train was pretty dark running it in the dark. A light on the engine and a light on the caboose and a whole lot of nothing in between. This is also before my 520 search light car project. I got the idea from my set of 12 or more 0 gauge poultry train on my buddies layout. I have all but 4 of them. So now there are two lighted cars mixed in the consist, a poultry car and my search light car. I have also added an extra two lights to my cabooses. A light on each end and one inside.
I love this idea,i want to make one with a 200 car,just need to find a cheap one,thanks for the super idea
Thanks Terry Hudon I hope you find one soon. It was a fun project that added some new interest to the train. I have a few other cars that I'm customizing that I'll post as I get to them. Only requirement is you show us what you did. Good luck.
JohnnieWalker posted:Thanks Terry Hudon I hope you find one soon. It was a fun project that added some new interest to the train. I have a few other cars that I'm customizing that I'll post as I get to them. Only requirement is you show us what you did. Good luck.
will do ,I found a donor,,,where did you get the chicken panels from?
I took one out of one of my 14 O gauge poultry dispatch cars and photo copied it. I then cut each row of chickens and spaced them accordingly to the openings on the car. once I did that I again photo copied it and created a new chicken panel. I also taped the photo copy to a piece of plexiglass and then mounted it in place.
Checking them off the list one by one . Here is my latest project, a covered 512 gondola car. I found a 500 series box car roof and decided to cover one of my six 512s with it.
Finally DONE !! I have been slowly working on this 515 tank car for over a year and a half. The last items to go on were the nickel name plates. 
Here is a project that I worked on not that long ago. While in my shop looking at my shop layout I thought it would be nice to see a few garages next to the villas and bungalows. I cut a 4x4 down to 2x3 blocks with a 90 degree roof. I added brick paint I bought at York , corrugated paper from a hobby store for the roof and I drew the windows and doors and made copies of them to glue on. Then I did the artwork of plants and vines. They may not be to scale with the houses but they do have a slight tinplate look to them . I think that’s why I like Standard Gauge so much.
Something else that I’ve slowly been working on. It’s a 392 tender that I’m pairing up with my Lionel green 390 steamer. The last thing to do to it is to add a Dallee bell and whistle sound system. And that includes adding two roller pickups . I’m looking forward to finishing this project soon. I had the tender paint made at a local auto body paint store. I took the green 390 boiler in and had them match the color. I also added another hole for the drawbar to move the tender a little closer. The painting process was clean and scuff up the gun metal paint, add two coats of green then 3 coats of clear gloss.? Next step is to cut the soup can down to make a speaker box and to glue and wire it up. An up date hopefully soon.
G'luck with the tender. Did you ever make a "chicken clucking" sound Mp3 module for those poltry cars?
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