Sunday Photo Fun 5-07-2023

[cemr5396]

Let's get this started, shall we gentlemen?

My project this week was finishing the last couple touches on this Genesis GP38-2. Built as Milwaukee Road 363, then to SOO LINE, renumbered to 4513, then to CP, keeping its SOO number. It never wore SOO LINE paint, going straight from SOO/MILW patch 'Bandit' paint into CP paint - at least as far as I'm aware. It was repainted in the late 90s or early 2000s into a variation of what was then the current CP scheme, with a small golden Beaver crest and red and white dashed frame stripes. Then in 2012, the unit went into NRE for an overhaul and came out wearing the simplified CP scheme with no Beaver crest and black sills, and this is how I modeled it.

The model came decorated in the 2000-2012 paint scheme, so I removed all of that lettering as well as the sill stripe, and replaced it with new decals. I also replaced the front ditch lights and relocated both front and rear ditchlights onto the anticlimbers where they belong, instead of in the middle of the walkway. I added Cannon treadplate to cover the holes in the walkway, and last but not least, added scratchbuilt PTC antennas to the cab roof.

[jbilbrey]

Going start off this week SPF on a somewhat downbeat note.  This last week, I lost one of my friends/fellow model railroaders to Leukemia.  I first met him around 20 years ago when I had been volunteered to co-host a clinic on modeling a local fallen-flag's freight car fleet.  Throughout the next 15 years, one of my other friends and I would drive down to the town where he was a curator of the local railroad museum, shoot the breeze about the the railroads of the past, cars, local industry, and history, between watching the parade of modern freight trains that passed the depot.  At a train-show yesterday, some of his other friends had several tables of his collection for sale.  After setting up my own stuff, I went over to the table with the intention of buying something as a memorial for him.  After quickly glancing over the items for sale, my eyes fell upon this:

HO A&LM 4-6-0 by James Bilbrey, on Flickr

This little PFM 4-6-0 was likely imported in the late 1960's, making it older than me.  My friend picked it up from another model railroader in NC around the time we first met based on the paperwork in the box.  Being an "old school" model railroader, he had tuned the drive and improved the electrical pick-up.  Despite still having an old open-frame motor and all, my son commented that it runs just as well as anything that one could buy new today.  There is very little gear noise and it will get down and crawl so slow that you can barely tell it is moving.

At this point, I am merely a custodian of this "boomer".  I'll likely repaint the tender since "ACP" was likely the railroad it ran on in NC, but keep let it keep its current number.   The only other changes will include "scale" Kadee's on both ends.

[hudsonyard]

took a ride on the reading on saturday, did my best to move tonnage over the shamokin division.

[danpik]

No Beer Cars this week. Decided to do a little something different. I saw an O scale car done up this way and really liked it. Purely a fantasy paint scheme.









Dan

[12bridge]

Built a set of Railyard Models X58 kits that have been on the shelf...well a long time.  I love these kits, they are just a joy to build.  Unfortunatly, the decals they came with are not the best, so I am going to order some of Dan Kohlbergs for them. 






Painted and decaled an EL trailer using the Herald King set, which I did not realize is so wrong.  Oh well, I will call it a one off.  Anyone have a better suggestion for the Aluminum color that is on the factory Athearn trailers (left)? I like the shade a bit better then the Tru Color one.  


Started work on an EMD 16-567U.  These were the very first 567 engines built in 1938, and predate locomotive use! The duPont building in Miami had a trio of them, my goal is to make a small diorama of the plant.  Still a long way to go, but its roughed in pretty good.  





Once I get through these, I plan to do a 567B.  Lots of 3D printed engines popping up forsale all of a sudden, and quite frankly, they all SUCK! (with the exception of Tomas's!).  So many things to draw, so little hours.  

Our SW1200 has been having an intermittent water leak for months, and we have not been able to fully pinpoint it.  Now that the warm weather is here, and with them getting shut down and temperature cycled, it finally showed itself in a spectacular way.  Rather then just doing the failed head gasket we changed the whole power assembly, as it was just too worn out.  

[dti406]

Hello from Sunny and Warm Northeast Ohio!!!

Got a couple of cars done this week.

First up is a Tangent PS Combo Door Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II NP Dark Green and Silver Paints and lettered with Tichy Decals. The NP used this car in both grain and lumber hauling duties due to the combo door.



Next a Front Range Double Door Boxcar kit, added A-Line Sill Steps then painted with Scalecoat II Black paint, then lettered with Herald King Decals. The Chesapeake Western was a Norfolk and Western Subsidiary and did not own any cars until the late 1970's when the N&W transferred a number of cars including this ex-NKP car from class B-54 on the merged railroads.



Also working on building a Moloco PC&F 50' RBL, shown is the frame with the ends and cushioning return spring attached. The ends are keyed so they are in position to be glued when installed.



Here I have installed the sides and underframe, now have to add the air reservoir, ABD Valve, brake cylinder, levers, airlines, guides and rodding to the underframe. Again the side is keyed so it fits perfectly giving a good solid box to work on.



Wabash GP35, U25b and C-424 hauling a general freight on the Strongsville Society of Model Railroad Engineers layout.



Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[loco8107]

May 7, 2023 13:04:34 GMT -8 cemr5396 said:

Let's get this started, shall we gentlemen?

My project this week was finishing the last couple touches on this Genesis GP38-2. Built as Milwaukee Road 363, then to SOO LINE, renumbered to 4513, then to CP, keeping its SOO number. It never wore SOO LINE paint, going straight from SOO/MILW patch 'Bandit' paint into CP paint - at least as far as I'm aware. It was repainted in the late 90s or early 2000s into a variation of what was then the current CP scheme, with a small golden Beaver crest and red and white dashed frame stripes. Then in 2012, the unit went into NRE for an overhaul and came out wearing the simplified CP scheme with no Beaver crest and black sills, and this is how I modeled it.

The model came decorated in the 2000-2012 paint scheme, so I removed all of that lettering as well as the sill stripe, and replaced it with new decals. I also replaced the front ditch lights and relocated both front and rear ditchlights onto the anticlimbers where they belong, instead of in the middle of the walkway. I added Cannon treadplate to cover the holes in the walkway, and last but not least, added scratchbuilt PTC antennas to the cab roof.

Looks great! Didn’t the real MILW 38-2’s have the small 1000 gal tank? Was that replaced by CP if so?

[wagnersteve]

May 7, 2023, about 9:08 p.m.

As usual, beautiful models, better than any I've made or decorated myself.

danpik, in case you're not aware of it, in downtown Albany there is still -- or at least was the least time I was in that city, about two years ago -- a statue of Victor Talking Machine Company's 'Little Nipper", much larger than any real dog, perched on top of a multistory building used for years by a moving and storage company. It has probably survived because that rooftop now supports a substantial array of rather hi tech electronic gear. In the elementary schools I attended in the 1950's the record players were still big Victrolas in wooden cabinets that rolled on wheels.

In Rick Jesionowski's fine photo I noticed not just the Wabash diesels and the reefers still sporting that line's famous flag herald but also the black tank car with the orange Gulf [Oil] logo from the 1960s. The older herald that once major oil company used into the 1950's, at least, had all four letters of GULF in the same size of capital letters in blue shaded with white on an orange disk. Someone active in the HO model railroad club with a layout in downtown Camden, NJ, which in the Sixties was still home to a big RCA Victor factory as well as Campbell's Soup and the New York Shipbuilding Co. that built the S.S. United States, rearranged the letters of a decals to create a FLUG gas station model!

[cemr5396]

May 7, 2023 17:07:16 GMT -8 loco8107 said:

Looks great! Didn’t the real MILW 38-2’s have the small 1000 gal tank? Was that replaced by CP if so?    

They did have the small tanks as built, but SOO put bigger tanks on them when they acquired them.

[690]

Great model of the 4513, the real one has been hanging around Montreal lately. I keep hoping St Luc will send it over here to use on the former CMQ but they’d rather just keep sending over the same GP20s with the same issues they’ve been written up for multiple times.

[csxt8400]

Nice stuff guys. That 4513 was a Twin Cities native for awhile during my youth, I remember watching it work Humboldt yard in North Minneapolis a few times.

[Gino Damen]

This weekend I worked not on a model, but on the devices you need to control them.

I assembled a batch of wiFred's. A wiFred is a WiFi throttle which can control up to 4 addresses at once.

Building a wifred by G.Damen, on Flickr

More information: github.com/newHeiko/wiFred

[riogrande]

Gino, interesting those wiFreds. What to those set you back per throttle?

[danpik]

May 7, 2023 17:21:29 GMT -8 wagnersteve said:

May 7, 2023, about 9:08 p.m.



danpik, in case you're not aware of it, in downtown Albany there is still -- or at least was the least time I was in that city, about two years ago -- a statue of Victor Talking Machine Company's 'Little Nipper", much larger than any real dog, perched on top of a multistory building used for years by a moving and storage company. It has probably survived because that rooftop now supports a substantial array of rather hi tech electronic gear. In the elementary schools I attended in the 1950's the record players were still big Victrolas in wooden cabinets that rolled on wheels.

As of May 2022 he was still there

[Gino Damen]

May 8, 2023 13:36:54 GMT -8 riogrande said:

Gino, interesting those wiFreds. What to those set you back per throttle?

Just 65 euro (70 dollar). But that is because nobody makes a profit. The price is for the raw materials and all the time and effort is for free. The catch is that you need to be a member of Fremo to buy them.

Gino