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Weekend Photo Fun begins early.
It's been a rough week around here. Last weekend we got somewhere between 9 and 12 inches of rain. My bedroom and my train room have taken on water. The carpet may or may not be a loss; the trains seem to do pretty well.

So let's talk trains, or in this case a project that began in December.
I bought this Christmas lantern at Lowes.
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Yes, nasty glued on snow, welded roof and parts. This is going to be a tough project.
In January I purchased a second lantern on clearance and decided to combine them.

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I had to remove the roof and the steeple and combine the to lanterns in to one building using JB Weld. Since the roof was welded I had to drill out the welds.

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I am still touching up the paint and need to add windows. This will be going on the Tinplate layout at the Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club.
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Here is a picture I took last night on my home layout.
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Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

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Starting early this week I see...

Having finished a big gap in a long stretch of scenery back on March 29, I’ve tried to focus on finishing some small scenes and details.  Normally, when I say I finish a scene, I finish a scene. But being only human, there are some small details I don’t get to in the rush to try to get the scenery finished. So being home pretty much most of the time over the past few months, I’ve tried to focus on some of those neglected details. Here are three of them.

The first two images show a farm truck at Goodman’s Feed Mill in Port Royal. The truck is by Whitebox (one of my favorite diecast vehicle manufacturers) which I weathered up a bit and filled with a pile of feed sacks. In front of the truck, a figure from Arttista stacks a few more in a pile.

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The next two images show a long planned unloading platform at the Mifflin team track. Here, the figure on the platform (also from Arttista) guides the driver of the truck as he backs the vehicle up to the platform where the crates of new farm equipment parts will be loaded onto the truck. The vehicle merits special attention. It is by SpecCast, a manufacturer primarily of 1/64 Scale vehicles. I came across this by dumb luck while doing a search on the internet and actually found this on Walmart’s website! (Other vendors stock it as well). I looked at their 2020 catalog, and it is their only O scale vehicle (actually 1/50th which is perfect for O scale). It is one of the nicest vehicles I have ever purchased for the layout. I weathered it up, and positioned the front wheels which are moveable to make it look like the driver is carefully backing up to the platform.

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The last three pictures are of a pair of classic cast metal PRR signs found along the railroad right of way. These ones are specifically meant for the ends of major bridges. I scratchbuilt them out of styrene, and they have all of the ribbing on the back and the sign faces are accurate for the Pennsy. I included the third picture of the group simply because it shows other lineside details, but more than anything, the beautiful Path Valley. Here Tuscarora Creek winds its way through the valley just before it empties into the Juniata River at Port Royal. Tuscarora Mountain is in the distance beyond the farm fields.

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Enjoy!

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My we did start early!  I agree with Neal and Sirt, each has outstanding modeling.

Here is my contribution for the week.  Last week you will recall I had finished a stretch inspired by New Brunswick or Elizabeth NJ.  But I needed to tune up the lighting of the buildings. "Tune up" means getting rid of bright spots and dim spots. Generally this requires several lights, placing them behind the near side wall (closest to the viewer) and positioning/aiming the bulbs or LEDs so the light bounces off a piece of white cardstock on the far wall. Aluminum foil between the light and the back of the near wall prevents the light from shining through the wall.  You also have to be careful to eliminate light leaks around windows, doors, joints etc.  I use black gaffers tape, electrical tape,  and even liquid electrical tape.

As you might guess,  its tough to get it right the first time. Hence the tuning.  So here, one week later, is the row of buildings with the illumination properly tuned

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And now a story.... Further down the tracks a photographer was standing on the station platform on a glorious late summer afternoon. He got a nice shot of the Afternoon Congressional leaning into the banked curve and heading into the setting sun

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Six months later, the same photographer, in the same spot, and the same time of day,  again snapped the Afternoon Congressional as it leaned into the superelevated curve at full speed.  But this time it was under the early evening full moon...

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We’ve had a lot of sunny days so we’ve been mostly outdoors biking and biking and biking and then biking some more!! We did get this cool look down at a coal train. For you super detailers it offers a unique view to get some ideas on how to make your coal cars a little more realistic when empty. 

Yes, the engineer did waive to the kids on the bridge making everyone very happy!! And yes, we were on a bike ride...

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I often have a train or two on display in my dining room, and decided to change which ones to display this week.  Both are Lionel.  On the left is the Norfolk & Western J locomotive, and a few cars from the "Warhorse" weathered series train set.  It is numbered 600. On the right is the Postwar Celebration Series Congressional GG1 set and aluminum passenger cars.  

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After Christmas, I kept a couple of the light sets around to accent the trains.  It also allows me to keep the other lights off, and still navigate my way through the house at night.  

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