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Where did the week go?  It's already time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Last week I finally got around to testing my standard gauge track. I have a layout, however I do run trains 2 to 3 times a year at church so that is the reason for the extra track.

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I was having an issue at the VMT with the Frozen window. The cotton batting kept getting caught in the locomotive wheels. So I used some 'bag snow".

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Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

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A 2015 Christmas layout memory

Last week I showed a Lionel bill board that my nephews "enhanced" and gave it to me as a thank you for hosting my annual family train party (thanks back at you Dave and Eric!).  It was "officially" but good-naturedly, labeled as self-promotion by a regular here

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Here's a bit more "self promotion"   This one was given to me by one of those same nephews about 10 years ago as a thank you gift (thanks back at you Dave).  By seeing both, it sorta explains the comment in the newer one above "Rebuilt and better than ever".

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- walt

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scott.smith posted:

Where did the week go?  It's already time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Last week I finally got around to testing my standard gauge track. I have a layout, however I do run trains 2 to 3 times a year at church so that is the reason for the extra track.

IMG_1619IMG_1620

I was having an issue at the VMT with the Frozen window. The cotton batting kept getting caught in the locomotive wheels. So I used some 'bag snow".

IMG_1579IMG_1583IMG_1572

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Hi Scott great pics and thanks for starting this every week.  Love to start out Fridays with your topics. Blessings to you for this.

 

Last week, I posted some photos of some freight cars I had weathered.  There were six altogether, and I promised that this week I would post images of the three boxcars that were in the group....so here they are!

First is an old Intermountain car (dies now owned by Atlas) Burlington boxcar that is only lightly weathered:

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Next is a more heavily weathered double door SP boxcar (Pecos River Brass).  Note the mild chalking of the letters and SP herald and how one door is darker than the other:

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Next is a Lionel PRR round roof boxcar.  These cars were produced in brown rather than the correct boxcar red.  I tried to create more of a reddish hue by weathering it with rust colored chalks, it helped, but unfortunately when I airbrushed it with Dullcote to seal the chalk, the color sort of drifted back to brown.  Note the image of the weathering process in progress showing part of the car untouched and part chalked:

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Thanks SIRT and everyone else who made favorable comments about my efforts last week!

 

 

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I got out my Lionel Centipede to try a fix to one of the fans that is making too much noise.  This is the fan noise Lionel said was in acceptable limits and would not guarantee any repair.  The others are fine, so I'll probably wind up just disconnecting this one.  An absolutely great engine otherwise.  Haven't tried the fix yet, but I did take some pictures.  Its too long to get in one shot from where I took it.

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