Weekend Photo Fun?

A Lionel J1a heads into the roundhouse on my old layout.

 

Sounds good to me.  A Pennsy B6sb 0-6-0 (K-Line) moves loaded hoppers past some cabin car service buildings in Annville Yard.  The coal is destined for the coaling tower and the yard power house.

 

Hmmmmm, VERY nice photos!  Looks like I'm going to have to learn all over again how to post photos, since the new OGR Forum plus our entry into an Apple computer.

Fantastic! I hope his isn't a one time event.  A recent diecast with weathering.

 

Ray Marion

The freight yard:

 

 

Jim

Great stuff guys

 

I think I know what's wrong with my layout, it's too clean/sanitary.  All the photos so far have that well used look on everything.

 

I think after I finish my last project next week I'll start finishing/weathering the layout.

 

Keep em coming!

Well I'll give this a shot. New to an IPad and hoping this works. My layout was covered for a number of weeks and I managed to get 2 B&A caboose built. Used a Lionel NYC woodside as the starting point. Added some grab irons, Kadee's, Tomar lights, and I shortened and braced the smokestack. I used Atlas O caboose trucks. Nowhere near prototypical but they provided a pickup roller and a lower ride height. Lettering is from Clover House. Painted and weathered using Floquil paint with some added chalk.

That's Ernie coming out of the station to pump gasoline.

Here is how the San Francisco trolleys are turned at the end of the line:

 

 

Jim

Nice work Dave, nice to see your stuff on here. I used these San Juan T-section Bettendorfs for my Mullet River caboose, modded for 3 rail wheels. If I were to do it again, I'd just run some 2 rail steel wheelsets (they come with plastic sets) or some 3 rail wheels with less of that awful 'fast angle' profile. I also bought some leaf springs springs from PSC, just never got around to installing them. (I did Kadee-ize this caboose, that 3 rail coupler you see there has been replaced, just never photographed.)

 

Back in the "good old days" they used to let bystanders assist in turning the cable cars.  Nowadays, however, I think that practice has been stopped...probably because some numbskull got injured and sued.  Somewhere around here I have a photo of me helping to turn a car back in the late 80s.

Great photos everybody, especially the shots in urban settings.  Those are some gritty big city railroad scenes!

 

Jim

 

The TCA member in me sees the corner of a Sunset coaling tower in your photo along with USRA and Weaver wood sheathed box cars, PS-1 box cars and PS-2 covered hoppers and an MTH Jordan Spreader.  Is the Hooker tank car a Railking model?

 

Ray

 

Can you show us how you put the Kadees on diecast tank car?

 

Norm!

 

Thanks for showing your work on the trucks.  You just keep raising the bar.  For a flat treaded wheel with three rail flanges you might consider ordering some wheel sets from Northwest Short Line.  Going away from the fast angle wheels will likely add some drag but the three rail flanges will maintain reliable operation through switches and I think you will like the look.

I posted pictures of a little project I have been working on.  I have been building some Walthers North Shore cars I was looking for a way to power them.  for the past week I took what I do for a living and applied it to my hobby, as I needed some motorized trucks for my North Shore Cars.  The power trucks needed to have a 7'6" scale wheel base with 36" dia wheels,  no problem yo say, NOT!!!!, well that was until today.  I placed an order with shape ways for a two part housing from 3-d Cad files I created.  Here are a few pics from earlier today.

 

Not a bad start I would say but when I uploaded the file it said the cheapest material was 35.00 plus shipping for the two housing halfs,  so back to the cad I go, a little shaving a  little tweeking i got the price down to about 25.00 so my order was placed

 

 

 

so in a few weeks when I get the two parts I can put it together and see if it works

Mike,

 

Keep us posted on how that project turns out.

 

I hope these are good enough to post here.  I've been working on a wharf area.

 

 

Dave

David

 

    Good enough? Yes, you are setting standards.

 

Thanks for the photos all.

 

Ray Marion

Around the RR .

 

 

 

 Norm, I remember the build on your NYC caboose. I saw these as few years ago at the O Scale convention. I passed on it. Not sure how it would adapt to a 3 rail environment with all the under body detail. I plan to attend the upcoming one and will check these out again. They offer a B&A one. If nothing else. I may build it as is and simply display it on my caboose track and light it to show off the interior.

 I built this version a few years back with no cuppola. Same Lionel model with the cuppola removed and filled with styrene. Some vents were fabricated from thumbtacks. A Atlas roof walk was added.

 These aren't hard to make and I wonder what everyone's running with the K-Line and Lionel Berkshires.

 

 

Hi Ted,

 

That coaling tower is actually a scratchbuilt one. I do have a Sunset tower at the opposite end of the yard.

 

Good ID on the freight cars, although I think the Hooker may be a Premier line MTH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob,

A hint about city scene photos - knock the color saturation down a couple notches in Photoshop or the like. Gives the same effect as a light spray of gray airbrushed over the whole scene. Oops - just gave away a secret.

 

The same scene on a "sunnier" day!

 

 

Jim

Tried some natural light.

 

Guess I better get on board with the new forum.

 

 

 

NICE! Looks like a 3rd Rail "Super Hudson".

Mike,

 

Yeah keep us posted on the 3d printing stuff.  A "bit" off topic but an old 1/6 scale buddy of mine recently had some 1/6 tank parts made by Shapeways and they look pretty nice:

 

http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/to...and-more-3D-printing

 

Those tank wheels are probably 4"-5" diameter.

 

I predict a whole new O scale detail parts supplier will result from 3D printing, and soon I hope!

That is a 3rd Rail engine.  Runs as good as it looks too!

More great pictures.  Thanks again to everyone who has posted.

 

Dave

 

I love the waterfront scene, especially the sheet piling.

 

Jim

 

Wow, that is a very nice scratch built Coaling tower. 

 

And thanks for the alternate view of the freight yard.  It gives a closer look at that Hooker tank car and I see an MTH stock car in there too.   All the MTH premier tank cars are more modern.  The Hooker tank car is a Railking, the 30-7342 according to the product locator.  The Lionel and Atlas/Intermountain 8000 gallon tank cars have a differently shaped dome.  The Railking tank car adds a different outline to a string of freight cars.  The Railking tank is a steam/transition era gem.  It has nice to see that you and Ray are giving them a chance to shine as scale models. 

 

 

And the Kadee on the front of the Jordan spreader is cool.  Now I can add another project to my list. 

 Drew, so ya DO have a steam engine  LOL 

 

Regards,

GNNPNUT

A 3RS geep. Model is a MTH Railking GP9 which I added detail and Kadees. A nice loco on the cheap.

Ya I have this 2-8-0  I don't run it nearly as often but I do Like it

Dave, nice work on that second B&A caboose. Certainly worthy of a standalone thread. My Mullet caboose never had any issues even with the .100" flanged wheels. Ted H's suggestion would look much nicer. I was pleasantly surprised to find that two rail wheelsets (.030" flanges? - can't remember) could traverse Atlas switches as long as the couplers were body mounted.

 

I hirailed a Lionel NYC caboose too, but should have done Kadees like you. Never got around to it, and my interest in NYC has faded a bit.

 

There is some outstanding modeling going on here...very nice work everyone.

 

Chris

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...layout-update?page=3

 

posted an update to the layout page,this weekend I made headway on the city scene. 

 

I found this by accident. The pictures are outstanding.

 

Alan Graziano