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Post by sd40dash2 on Dec 4, 2022 5:07:54 GMT -8
2013-run Intermountain model with improved crossover platforms, grab irons, air lines, trucks and other fine details. At one time there were thousands of these brown cars in the government fleet, by far the most common of all the paint schemes. This is the 1970s-90s version before the cars were sold to CN, CP and others resulting in the disappearance of "CPWX".
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Post by dti406 on Dec 4, 2022 8:14:01 GMT -8
Good morning from Northeast Ohio! This weeks completed cars! First up is the Accurail car where I changed the door and grabs on a painted model and patched the paint saving the original lettering. Also added Moloco End of Car Cushioning Pockets and A-Line Sill steps to the Underframe along with an ACI label. Car was one of 200 used in Auto Parts service on the DT&I. _IMG_0245.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Next, an Athearn 65' Mill Gon kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #2 and lettered with Mask Island Decals (Now Available from Highball Graphics). Also added a Duha pipe load to the car. Used in general service. _IMG_0243.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) For an extra bonus this week, a Tangent 86' Double Door Hi-Cube kit, painted with Floquil GTW Blue, Scalecoat II Silver and White paints and lettered with CMR Decals. Car was one of 4 of this class on the Detroit and Toledo Shoreline Railroad participating in one of the Auto Parts pools as there were no Auto Parts or Assembley plants on the D&TSL. _IMG_0232.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) A pair of Athearn GP40-2's with some coil steel cars and auto parts boxcars running on the Strongsville Railroad Club layout, which will be open this weekend during the Historical Society's Christmas Festival. _IMG_0235.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionoski |
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Post by riogrande on Dec 4, 2022 9:14:25 GMT -8
Rick,
Nice auto parts boxcar! And judging by now Tangent 86' auto parts boxcar sales have slowed to a crawl, it may be quite a while before new road some out.
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 4, 2022 10:51:45 GMT -8
Rick you must be rapidly approaching the point where you've completely modeled the DT&I fleet! On the other end of the spectrum I am proving a little obsession goes a long way to limiting model output. I hope to have a few of these printed in the coming year.   And of course the decals to go with these containers:  What's so special about this container, chassis or even the decals? I'd probably live with the Microscale decals if they were readily available but good luck finding them. The chassis is a Fruehauf with its unique suspension setup and the container - also a Fruehauf - is a standard height container with an earlier ThermoKing reefer unit I can't say I've seen modeled before. When it's all said and done these will probably be the most expensive intermodal loads on my roster. Or at least I can hope I don't come up with anything more expensive. |
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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 4, 2022 12:15:46 GMT -8
Here are a few recently painted cars. The bulk of the decals are from K4. Scaletrains 4785:  Overland tank:  Branchline 40 footers:   The PLE cars came about because I introduced the white ends to a friend, who requested if I build myself one, build him one as well. He wanted one we found with a replacement door. First time I've used a wheel dot decal! I had to print the return stencils myself. From what I can tell, the white ends signify cars for ammonia or sulfate loading, since the rest of the series was for flour. |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Dec 4, 2022 12:17:37 GMT -8
^ Wow. I admire people who have the skills to be able to produce drawings like that. I tried learning it and ended up failing miserably so IMO that will continue to be the main obstacle to 3D printing for most. Anyway, are those 5-hole rims Ryan? Any chance of seeing a closeup photo of just the rim drawing?
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 4, 2022 13:24:08 GMT -8
Those P&LE boxcars... wow! ^ Wow. I admire people who have the skills to be able to produce drawings like that. I tried learning it and ended up failing miserably so IMO that will continue to be the main obstacle to 3D printing for most. Anyway, are those 5-hole rims Ryan? Any chance of seeing a closeup photo of just the rim drawing? Thanks Manny. Here is a screen grab of the suspension area:  Full disclosure, these Dole chassis always have 2-hole steel wheels so the 5-hole version is not correct for this particular prototype, but it's the CAD file I had handy when I "assembled" the model for rendering. What is significant about these wheels and some others I've drawn is the presence of the drop center portion of the rim. This is the part of the rim that would appear arched in a sectional view of the rim. It is a feature that could not be produced with an injection molded part unless there were more than one part. Molding it as a single part would trap it in the mold. That's not an issue with 3D printing though. The wheels have been printed a number of times now, so they are pretty much dialed in at this point. Here is the first attempt at these wheels from last year:  |
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Post by hudsonyard on Dec 4, 2022 13:54:49 GMT -8
Busy week of model railroading for me...
First up was thursday night on Dave Barazzas New York and Atlantic and Long Island Railroad, i was behind the desk in Divide tower for this one. Divide handles all of the traffic on the mainline from Westbury NY to Greenport NY, most of the layouts freight moves and a lot of scheduled LIRR passenger trains are moving about the territory at once. The third deck from Ronkonkoma to Greenport is manual block 251, requiring paper clearances, and for meets or moves outside of the schedule a form-19 train order. Even running this session with a reduced passenger schedule the job keeps you working for 4 hours:
Thankfully the previous shift left me a good turnover and several orders already written, which allowed me to jump right in and get the west end of the territory to start humming out of the gate.
Friday evening brought me out to vist my alma mater, the West Island Model Railroad Club for their annual open house. I spent so much time talking to people I hadn't seen since pre-pandemic times that I didn't snap too many pictures, I did however find two of the oldest pieces of equipment on the layout sitting in Lehighton Yard, the caboose here is still used in ops duty:
This Milwaukee road baltic dressed up for the former West Island RR dates back to the clubs original 1972 layout in Farmingdale, NY
And on Saturday morning I found myself in PA to operate on Jim Hertzogs Reading RR layout, i was assigned to the Tamaqua yard drill. This yard handles a lot of traffic during a session as most trains working between Reading, PA and Newberry Junction on the other side of the layout work here. The LNE has a couple trains, plus a transfer from Arlington yard operating through as well. You stay very busy and don't stop drilling cars all session. Jim has a world class railroad and any opportunity I have to run here I take it.
As for today? I plopped myself on the couch and watched the Giants fight to a tie against Washington. Back at it next week.
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Post by Christian on Dec 4, 2022 15:17:54 GMT -8
Busy week of model railroading for me... WOW! What a week! |
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Post by danpik on Dec 4, 2022 16:28:44 GMT -8
2 more beer reefers. Picking up where I left off last spring.   |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 4, 2022 17:13:29 GMT -8
I’ll drink to that…
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Post by cr9617 on Dec 4, 2022 17:32:34 GMT -8
Nice stuff everyone... liking those P&LE boxcars! Modeling has been pretty slow lately, but I managed to finish up this Atlas AEM-7 that's been lurking around around the workbench. Tried to keep it simple as this was a project that could easily gotten way out of control. Mainly focused on the roof and pilots with the majority of the work on the roof. It's close to the prototype but not exact. Either way it looks better that stock, as the details are pretty sparse on the Atlas model. The unit was factory painted but I redid the number boards to the correct font and added the one stencil number board and the wonky truck stencils as per the prototype. The other small decals are a mix of Microscale, an old Switchline sheet and some custom pieces from PDC.  HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr  HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr  HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr  HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr |
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Post by slowfreight on Dec 4, 2022 17:36:09 GMT -8
Absolutely loving the meatball! Passenger stuff is the hardest to weather, and you've done a great job of adding all the proper paint chipping to an otherwise well-maintained unit.
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Post by tom on Dec 4, 2022 17:59:36 GMT -8
Yes great stuff so far. Like the white overspray on those P&LE boxcars!
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Post by stevef45 on Dec 5, 2022 6:12:06 GMT -8
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Post by cera2254 on Dec 5, 2022 6:28:27 GMT -8
Love the AEM-7! I am not a fan of electric or European trains usually, but I do like the meatballs. The amount of detail is awesome, great job.
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Post by packer on Dec 5, 2022 8:13:34 GMT -8
Those P&LE boxcars... wow! ^ Wow. I admire people who have the skills to be able to produce drawings like that. I tried learning it and ended up failing miserably so IMO that will continue to be the main obstacle to 3D printing for most. Anyway, are those 5-hole rims Ryan? Any chance of seeing a closeup photo of just the rim drawing? Thanks Manny. Here is a screen grab of the suspension area: Full disclosure, these Dole chassis always have 2-hole steel wheels so the 5-hole version is not correct for this particular prototype, but it's the CAD file I had handy when I "assembled" the model for rendering. What is significant about these wheels and some others I've drawn is the presence of the drop center portion of the rim. This is the part of the rim that would appear arched in a sectional view of the rim. It is a feature that could not be produced with an injection molded part unless there were more than one part. Molding it as a single part would trap it in the mold. That's not an issue with 3D printing though. The wheels have been printed a number of times now, so they are pretty much dialed in at this point. Here is the first attempt at these wheels from last year: Curious where one would find drawings for that sorta thing? |
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 5, 2022 10:13:04 GMT -8
Curious where one would find drawings for that sorta thing? Nowhere that I could find. I made field measurements on a bunch of tires, wheels, suspension parts and even whole trailers. Spent a lot of time looking at catalogs, too. For the trailers I couldn't get next to I found truck and trailer auction and sales websites like purplewave.com to be very helpful. |
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Post by mdq on Dec 5, 2022 11:19:05 GMT -8
I wasn't aware of the Atlas AEM-7. In Amtrak use only/
lots of good pictures/modeling here.
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Post by riogrande on Dec 5, 2022 14:15:49 GMT -8
I wasn't aware of the Atlas AEM-7. In Amtrak use only/ lots of good pictures/modeling here. It was released quite a few years ago from memory. |
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Post by mvlandsw on Dec 5, 2022 14:37:48 GMT -8
Adam,
What does the return stencil on the P&LE car say? I have a picture of 32558 at the J&L coke plant in Pittsburgh, Pa. but I can't read the stencil.
Mark
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Post by cr9617 on Dec 5, 2022 16:46:23 GMT -8
I wasn't aware of the Atlas AEM-7. In Amtrak use only/ lots of good pictures/modeling here. It was released quite a few years ago from memory. Yeah this one is from the newest run (2014) with the black box. I also have another AEM-7 and an ALP44 from the early runs with the red box. archive.atlasrr.com/ho-mcloco-archive.html |
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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 6, 2022 11:25:46 GMT -8
Adam, What does the return stencil on the P&LE car say? I have a picture of 32558 at the J&L coke plant in Pittsburgh, Pa. but I can't read the stencil. Mark The original painted out stencils are to return to Buffalo for flour loading. The new stencil, which I'm pretty sure is the reason for the white ends, says "For sulphate or ammonia loading only. When empty return to the P&LE RR." Does 32558 have white or green ends? |
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Post by pboilermaker on Dec 6, 2022 14:48:03 GMT -8
Nice stuff everyone... liking those P&LE boxcars! Modeling has been pretty slow lately, but I managed to finish up this Atlas AEM-7 that's been lurking around around the workbench. Tried to keep it simple as this was a project that could easily gotten way out of control. Mainly focused on the roof and pilots with the majority of the work on the roof. It's close to the prototype but not exact. Either way it looks better that stock, as the details are pretty sparse on the Atlas model. The unit was factory painted but I redid the number boards to the correct font and added the one stencil number board and the wonky truck stencils as per the prototype. The other small decals are a mix of Microscale, an old Switchline sheet and some custom pieces from PDC. HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr HO Scale Atlas Amtrak AEM-7 918 by cr9617, on Flickr Wow...outstanding toaster! |
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Post by mvlandsw on Dec 6, 2022 14:51:09 GMT -8
#32558 has white ends and is with another car with white ends but I can't see it's number. They may have been at the coke plant for by-product loading.
Mark
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 6, 2022 15:23:03 GMT -8
That AEM-7 is another level of spectacular! The fully enlarged photos reveal some incredible weathering. Great job!
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Post by jonklein611 on Dec 7, 2022 8:43:07 GMT -8
That AEM-7 is another level of spectacular! The fully enlarged photos reveal some incredible weathering. Great job! Agreed! Love seeing toasters done to a higher level. |
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Post by loco8107 on Dec 9, 2022 7:20:41 GMT -8
They look great! Love the 45-2’s- my favorite 6 axle unit. |
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Post by sd80mac on Dec 14, 2022 11:39:41 GMT -8
That AEM-7 is stunning!
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