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Post by TBird1958 on May 28, 2023 7:46:25 GMT -8
Some recent sunny morning pictures. TPFX 5500 and 5524 are '62 and '65 built cars that have had their roofwalks removed and some or all of the ladders shortened. Both cars were renumbered in 3-73 when they were likely shopped and painted for Triangle Pacific. I added some underframe detail to the Athearn car along with some Tangent Scale Models roofwalk supports. The models were weathered using prototype photos as a guide using chalks, colored pencil and MIG Track Rust wash.   PCA 166653, slightly rebuilt Atlas model with new Tangent trucks - a big improvement!  |
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Post by dti406 on May 28, 2023 8:10:55 GMT -8
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio! Got a couple of models done this week. First, the Moloco RBL that I have been working on the past couple of weeks, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and Black Paints, then lettered with Prime Mover Decals. The EL leased 20 of these PC&F RBL to service a General Foods Facility on the railroad. All markings were from North American Leasing with only a Large EL to show the lessor's name. _IMG_0373.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Next an Intermountain ACF 4650 CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray paint and lettered with Islington Station Products decals. Farmland was a large COOP of elevators in the midwest that purchased their own cars and many companies, but due to debt problems in the 2000's eventually sold everything off. _IMG_0374.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) After painting the DT&I Coal Hopper last week I took it and its brothers to the club and ran them behind a pair of GP40-2's. _IMG_0371.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Have a happy Memorial Day Weekend! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by hudsonyard on May 28, 2023 9:54:34 GMT -8
 The Allegheny and Westerns Wilkes Barre AM drill has come on duty and the first order of business is to hustle these four TOFC flats that were just set off by CB-98 over to the Northhampton Street ramp ASAP, after that a trip to Buttonwood to fetch the PRR interchange |
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Post by simulatortrain on May 28, 2023 10:43:12 GMT -8
Dug out the sides I made 4 years ago for a Santa Fe Bx-98 appliance car, and got it ready for paint.  |
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Post by tom on May 28, 2023 14:36:58 GMT -8
Nice modeling so far! Here is something different....a PRR/PC compressor (inside the cabinet) plus the tank of compressed air. These were used to operate the electro-pneumatic switches. These were a common site at PRR interlockings along with all of the air lines running to the switches, I modeled them following an old article in the PRR Historical Society modeling E-zine. The cabinet is a Details West product.  |
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Post by packer on May 28, 2023 15:11:04 GMT -8
I slapped together this red caboose boxcar. I was intending to use it for my 70s BN stuff, but it wound up being done to use in my steam train as I couldn't find photos:  That kit ended up lending it's smallest tackboards to my southern ACF project. made the gussets for the top ans used a chisel and some sandpaper to remove the old one.  Tried paint matching,but the paint on the bottom ended up being too red when sprayed. Might try the middle one once the old stuff is stripped. I do need to go back and clean up where the old tackboards weres some more too.  |
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Post by danpik on May 28, 2023 15:57:46 GMT -8
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Post by surlyknuckle on May 28, 2023 18:02:19 GMT -8
I've gotten into the basement lately to work on some projects, but the weather turned gloomy and rainy by the time they were completed. I'm holding out for some nice, sunny mornings later in the week to take them outside 'fer pictures. In the meanwhile, lots of the usual slide-scanning continues; Three GPs pause at the eastbound depot at Brunswick MD circa 1975. No other information on the slide mount, scanned from my collection.  Brunswick Eastbound Depot 2 by Freight Engineer, on Flickr |
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Post by hudsonyard on May 28, 2023 18:10:37 GMT -8
 a late addition, i plucked a walthers mainline car off the stack to add weight/couplers and a weathering of the trucks and wheelsets and just couldn't look at the clunky mainline trucks any longer. dug around and found a pair of accurail bettendorfs and swapped them in. I like the look a lot better, this might become SOP going forward with these mainline cars. |
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Post by 12bridge on May 28, 2023 18:37:31 GMT -8
Some more MofE stuff. Changing radiators on a GP9..  Off comes the fan hatch. 6 wires.  Out come the cores.  New ones..  You gotta take the ends off and move those over to the new ones.  Ready to go back in.  All done. That was the last major project on this thing, and it was cleared for service Friday.  Cleaned up an old build. Converted it to an ESU powerpak in place of the TCS keep alive, and added a Scale Sound speaker. Quite honestly, it did not impress me after everything I have been hearing about them. I put it next to another engine with the same file, and could barely hear a noticeable difference. I may use a few more down the road, but I do not see retrofitting past ones, especially for the price.  Finally got my 3d printer to play nice again too! |
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Post by Mr. Trainiac on May 28, 2023 20:57:28 GMT -8
A bit late to the party; I've been working on BNSF 31 Bay View. This is a Walthers car from the BNSF business train set they released last year. I posted some photos a few months back on the Coach Yard BNSF announcement thread showing my underbody work; these photos are about my work on the ends. I designed and 3D printed new end panels for this model. One benefit of the Walthers modular passenger car system is that you can remove and swap wall panels pretty easily. My main goals were to address HEP, marker lights, and tube-style diaphragms. The Walthers model is closer to the as-built steam heat version. Here's a comparison between mine and Walthers. When the Santa Fe rebuilt these cars for the modernized business train in the late 80's, the ends lost their stainless steel finish and instead went to painted metal. This is the case for pretty much all BNSF cars today, even the ex-BN ones that the ATSF didn't touch. The rubber diaphragms are heat-shrink tubing so they stay flexible. Even the striker below the tread plate is articulated. I glued a piece of shrink tubing behind it so that it acts like a little spring. The three vertical posts support a railing that extends to the dome roof.   The lighting is provided by ESU DCC lighting strips. There are two strips in this car, one for the dome and another for the lower level. The DCC decoder in the light strip allows you to program different effects and timers. The lower level of the car as-built had a nurse room. I'm not sure what BNSF uses it for today, but I programmed the light over that room to turn off and on randomly like people were entering and leaving. The ESU strip also provides solder pads for tail lights. They give you some LEDs in the box, but I swapped them for 603 SMD type. The lens is made from another type of LED, a 2mm tower. I cut off the tower part and glued the 603 behind it. For some cars it may be practical to keep the tower LED intact, but they take up a lot of space, especially in vestibules, so cutting them apart and replacing the lighting element with a SMD type reduces the profile by a lot.  |
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Post by Christian on May 29, 2023 1:28:36 GMT -8
Some more MofE stuff. Changing radiators on a GP9. Peco does more than track?!  |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on May 29, 2023 1:40:43 GMT -8
Some more MofE stuff. Changing radiators on a GP9. Peco does more than track?! No, he orders flextrack by the pallet.  |
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Post by 690 on May 29, 2023 14:47:07 GMT -8
That kit ended up lending it's smallest tackboards to my southern ACF project. made the gussets for the top ans used a chisel and some sandpaper to remove the old one. Tried paint matching,but the paint on the bottom ended up being too red when sprayed. Might try the middle one once the old stuff is stripped. I do need to go back and clean up where the old tackboards weres some more too. Is that Kadee Superior door a Plate B or Plate C door? I’ve got a couple projects that need Superior doors, but they’re Plate C boxcars. |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on May 29, 2023 23:00:59 GMT -8
That kit ended up lending it's smallest tackboards to my southern ACF project. made the gussets for the top ans used a chisel and some sandpaper to remove the old one. Tried paint matching,but the paint on the bottom ended up being too red when sprayed. Might try the middle one once the old stuff is stripped. I do need to go back and clean up where the old tackboards weres some more too. Is that Kadee Superior door a Plate B or Plate C door? I’ve got a couple projects that need Superior doors, but they’re Plate C boxcars. Kadee boxcars are all Plate B, sorry. |
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Post by packer on May 30, 2023 7:59:48 GMT -8
That kit ended up lending it's smallest tackboards to my southern ACF project. made the gussets for the top ans used a chisel and some sandpaper to remove the old one. Tried paint matching,but the paint on the bottom ended up being too red when sprayed. Might try the middle one once the old stuff is stripped. I do need to go back and clean up where the old tackboards weres some more too. Is that Kadee Superior door a Plate B or Plate C door? I’ve got a couple projects that need Superior doors, but they’re Plate C boxcars. Pretty sure it’s a B. I need a C or whatever the IM 60’ PS car is. |
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Post by edgecrusher on May 31, 2023 8:06:47 GMT -8
Nice modeling so far! Here is something different....a PRR/PC compressor (inside the cabinet) plus the tank of compressed air. These were used to operate the electro-pneumatic switches. These were a common site at PRR interlockings along with all of the air lines running to the switches, I modeled them following an old article in the PRR Historical Society modeling E-zine. The cabinet is a Details West product. Tom that's a fantastic lineside detail, well done. Were did you get those valves? They look amazing. |
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Post by dti406 on May 31, 2023 8:17:16 GMT -8
Is that Kadee Superior door a Plate B or Plate C door? I’ve got a couple projects that need Superior doors, but they’re Plate C boxcars. Pretty sure it’s a B. I need a C or whatever the IM 60’ PS car is. It’s pretty easy to scratch a Superior Door using some sheet plastic and Evergreen 1”x3” strip plastic. Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by tom on May 31, 2023 15:38:36 GMT -8
Nice modeling so far! Here is something different....a PRR/PC compressor (inside the cabinet) plus the tank of compressed air. These were used to operate the electro-pneumatic switches. These were a common site at PRR interlockings along with all of the air lines running to the switches, I modeled them following an old article in the PRR Historical Society modeling E-zine. The cabinet is a Details West product. Tom that's a fantastic lineside detail, well done. Were did you get those valves? They look amazing. Thanks! Cal-Scale (Bowser) www.walthers.com/globe-valves-valves-drain-cocks |
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