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Post by packer on Aug 6, 2023 12:44:31 GMT -8
Figured I start since I did something: Weathered up two more cars:
Southern ACF is the car that's been posted here before. I decided to glue the kadee doors in place because to get it to fit on the atlas, one has to file one of the cleats on the inside way down and it didn't have much structure left. If I was gonna do it again, I'm fill the holes in it, ad some more styrene behind it then file it down.
I had some rather large straws and some balsa, so I made a load. I was happy with it, so I made it fit the Exactrail gondola. It's removeable, so I could switch the load to another car as needed. I do have a plate load that fits these, so I'm in the process of weathering another one.
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Post by dti406 on Aug 6, 2023 12:51:13 GMT -8
Good afternoon from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio! Here is what I managed to get done the last week! Tichy Panel Side Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's Wabash Decals. The Wabash rebuilt some of their USRA hoppers with panel sides when the original sides deterioted in order to haul more coal in the same size hopper, these cars lasted until the N&W merger. _IMG_0427.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Next, another Red Caboose PRR X29 Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red and lettered with K4 Decals. The Pennsy had several thousand of these cars and rebuilt many of the worn out cars after WWII. _IMG_0426.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) I also built another pair of Bowser H21a hopper cars to add to the fleet, these were factory painted, but I dull coated them to get rid of the shine. The PRR had over 20,000 of these hoppers used in coal and ore service. _IMG_0428.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Here is some of the rest of the fleet of H21, H22 and Gla hoppers behind one of the Pennsy's massive N1s 2-10-2's.  Have a great weekend. Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by 12bridge on Aug 6, 2023 13:04:46 GMT -8
 Not much modeling this week. Did some work on expanding my line of EMD exhaust stacks this morning though.. EMD non-turbo exhausts are another one of those parts that make EMD stand true to the moniker of EMD: Everyone Made Different. Top Row Stock 1st Generation EMD (GP7-18) 1st Gen EMD with Super Non Lifting Spark Arrestor - Minus Screen (a very common modification done by several railroads) Middle Row - (Later GP/SD38-2) Late -2 Welded Late -2 Bolted, Tall Late -2 Botled, Flush Late -2, Circular Bottom Row - (Early GP/SD38AC/38/38-2 into mid production. 2nd Gen, Welded 2nd Gen, Bolted, Tall 2nd Gen, Bolted, Short The welded versions were usually shop modifications when the bolt holes would not line back up (ask me how I know..). Still planning on doing a few other spark arrestor versions, as well as the tapered 1st Generation (early GP7) |
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Post by fr8kar on Aug 6, 2023 13:17:17 GMT -8
Awhile back I bought 18 undecorated containers on ebay from an overseas vendor called Eve Model. They are very similar to Walthers containers but with the door locking rods molded on. The best part is they were really cheap, right at $2.69 each by the time they arrived at my door. There are some nice container decal sets out there but many of them are intended to do one each of different container schemes. I needed a bunch of decals for the same schemes so I drew up my own sets and had them printed by PDC. So here is the first of many more "K" Line, Capital Lease Hamburg and Hapag-Lloyd containers to come.    |
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Post by ncrc5315 on Aug 6, 2023 14:05:43 GMT -8
Ryan, are you using Inkscape for the artwork?
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Post by packer on Aug 6, 2023 14:28:08 GMT -8
Not much modeling this week. Did some work on expanding my line of EMD exhaust stacks this morning though.. EMD non-turbo exhausts are another one of those parts that make EMD stand true to the moniker of EMD: Everyone Made Different. Top Row Stock 1st Generation EMD (GP7-18) 1st Gen EMD with Super Non Lifting Spark Arrestor - Minus Screen (a very common modification done by several railroads) Middle Row - (Later GP/SD38-2) Late -2 Welded Late -2 Bolted, Tall Late -2 Botled, Flush Late -2, Circular Bottom Row - (Early GP/SD38AC/38/38-2 into mid production. 2nd Gen, Welded 2nd Gen, Bolted, Tall 2nd Gen, Bolted, Short The welded versions were usually shop modifications when the bolt holes would not line back up (ask me how I know..). Still planning on doing a few other spark arrestor versions, as well as the tapered 1st Generation (early GP7) Are you going to do the taller 1st gen stack? I bought the CMR part because I couldn't find the DA part, but am not happy with it. |
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Post by cemr5396 on Aug 6, 2023 14:49:18 GMT -8
Not much modeling this week. Did some work on expanding my line of EMD exhaust stacks this morning though.. EMD non-turbo exhausts are another one of those parts that make EMD stand true to the moniker of EMD: Everyone Made Different. Top Row Stock 1st Generation EMD (GP7-18) 1st Gen EMD with Super Non Lifting Spark Arrestor - Minus Screen (a very common modification done by several railroads) Middle Row - (Later GP/SD38-2) Late -2 Welded Late -2 Bolted, Tall Late -2 Botled, Flush Late -2, Circular Bottom Row - (Early GP/SD38AC/38/38-2 into mid production. 2nd Gen, Welded 2nd Gen, Bolted, Tall 2nd Gen, Bolted, Short The welded versions were usually shop modifications when the bolt holes would not line back up (ask me how I know..). Still planning on doing a few other spark arrestor versions, as well as the tapered 1st Generation (early GP7) What about the big triangular looking ones?  CP was a pretty big user of them on their rebuilt GP9s, but I have seen them on other's locomotives as well. I could use several, it seems a good chunk of the CP Geeps I want to eventually built have them. |
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Post by fr8kar on Aug 6, 2023 14:55:48 GMT -8
Ryan, are you using Inkscape for the artwork? That's right. I usually find images on Flickr of sufficient quality to import and trace. Sometimes I have to stretch or distort the image in Photoshop to get it close, but the good thing about drawing in Inkscape is I can distort the vector drawing to fit the prototype so it's often just as easy to trace a perspective image. I got lucky with a really nice straight-on view of a "K" Line container to get the details in the lettering and found another one that helped with the flag. Most of the text on containers uses Alpin Gothic no. 3 (also the font used in hazmat placards), so once the font is set it's easy to just type out the data. I also reuse things I've drawn for the previous sets so it doesn't take much time to generate a new container set now. |
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Post by hudsonyard on Aug 6, 2023 15:09:22 GMT -8
 working through a backlog of CNJ hoppers for the club operations fleet, needed to break a modeling funk so I tore into these old blue box kits, 3 down, about 15 to go.. |
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Post by 12bridge on Aug 6, 2023 15:29:53 GMT -8
Packer - Which Tall stack? Got a prototype photo? This is the stock 1st gen stack height.
Brad - If you can find me some good photos, I can probably add them to the list.
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Post by snootie3257 on Aug 6, 2023 16:12:39 GMT -8
Packer - Which Tall stack? Got a prototype photo? This is the stock 1st gen stack height. Brad - If you can find me some good photos, I can probably add them to the list. There is a picture of a Union Pacific SD7 on page 69 in the book Union Pacific 1977-1980 by George R. Cockle that has a beautiful roof shot showing what are probably the stacks he’s talking about. Steve |
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Post by glenng6 on Aug 6, 2023 20:05:55 GMT -8
Good afternoon from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio! Here is what I managed to get done the last week! Tichy Panel Side Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Mark Vaughn's Wabash Decals. The Wabash rebuilt some of their USRA hoppers with panel sides when the original sides deterioted in order to haul more coal in the same size hopper, these cars lasted until the N&W merger. Next, another Red Caboose PRR X29 Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red and lettered with K4 Decals. The Pennsy had several thousand of these cars and rebuilt many of the worn out cars after WWII. I also built another pair of Bowser H21a hopper cars to add to the fleet, these were factory painted, but I dull coated them to get rid of the shine. The PRR had over 20,000 of these hoppers used in coal and ore service. Here is some of the rest of the fleet of H21, H22 and Gla hoppers behind one of the Pennsy's massive N1s 2-10-2's. Have a great weekend. Rick Jesionowski Rick, Very good modeling and the scene with the coal drag is great. Glenn |
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Post by cemr5396 on Aug 6, 2023 20:20:47 GMT -8
Brad - If you can find me some good photos, I can probably add them to the list. Unfortunately most of the photos I've seen are of the usual 3/4 variety. I'll try and do some digging and see what I find. I know a couple CP retirees as well so I can see what they can tell me. Of course, it doesn't help that most of those locomotives that had them are no longer with us. |
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Post by fishbelly on Aug 7, 2023 3:54:34 GMT -8
Brad - If you can find me some good photos, I can probably add them to the list. Unfortunately most of the photos I've seen are of the usual 3/4 variety. I'll try and do some digging and see what I find. I know a couple CP retirees as well so I can see what they can tell me. Of course, it doesn't help that most of those locomotives that had them are no longer with us. I believe this is a stack Overland models made and sold as a detail part. It is tall and has four gusset supports.. They look like the stacks I have on my GP30/ GP28 rebuild. The package labels them as Union Pacific GP/SD. If it helps at all. The Overland part measures 0.190" from the base of the stack to the top. Not including the base plate. Just the stack. The height of the gusset on the stack measures 0.075". As you can see from the photo, the base of the gusset is out to the edge of the base plate. Centerline from gusset to gusset measures 0.069".  |
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Post by wagnersteve on Aug 7, 2023 6:42:00 GMT -8
August 7, about 10:38 a.m., EDT
In case any readers are unaware of this, the PRR continued to use many X29 boxcars to carry express shipments in passenger trains serving Penn Station in Manhattan for many decades after they were built because they could fit through the tunnels under the Hudson River and taller boxcars couldn't. Another tunnel with highly restrictive clearances was on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western at Oswego, and the tunnel near the Boston & Maine's old castle-like station in Salem, Mass. posed a similar problem, so that "high cars" had to be routed around it.
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Post by surlyknuckle on Aug 7, 2023 7:45:40 GMT -8
I've been slowly chipping away at the "great coal car fleet", and that includes this H47 that I completed a couple of weeks ago using the Bowser 100 ton car. I need a good chunk of coal cars to properly represent loads coming from Grafton to the pier at Curtis Bay in Baltimore, and the empties coming back. The Bowser car is fairly easy to work into a "fleet car", which means getting it closer to a more refined model without getting bogged down replacing every-little thing...times the 100 or 200 cars I would like to eventually model. Modifications include; Removing the mold dimples on the interior of the car, plus paint and weathering. Adding weight to the inside of the center silll. Repositioning and remounting the air reservoir, then plumbing it to the control valve. Replacing the brake cylinder with a better part, adding a "rod" from the handbrake to where it would connect to the brake piston. I also replaced some of the plastic grabs with bronze wire from Tichy. I strategically left the molded high ladders, but replaced the 2-rung ladders and single rung on the ends. Adding Tangent 100 ton trucks, with non-blackened code 88 wheels, Moloco air hoses, bending cut levers. Chopping some meat off the hand brake housing, adding a Kadee brake wheel, and replacing the brake platfom with a Morton platform from Plano. 3D printed couplers from Ian Clasper. I finished the car with some weathering, and decal work to reflect a 1979 reweigh at Newport News, Va. I also added the lube stencil and Kartrak label. I think that's everything. Here are a couple of pictures, plus some with another car fresh out of the box for comparison.  C&O 78245 by Freight Engineer, on Flickr  C&O 78245 by Freight Engineer, on Flickr  C&O 78245 by Freight Engineer, on Flickr |
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Post by valenciajim on Aug 7, 2023 8:12:37 GMT -8
Sorry, but I am a day late with my posting. It has been that kind of week and weekend. I recently purchased an Accurail Milwaukee Racine & Troy hopper from Kalmbach. After I assembled it, I noticed that the paint on one side started flaking off. I have never seen this with a factory painted model before, so I thought "Holy crap!" I did not want to strip the model after assembly, and I wanted to retain the MRT paintjob. So, I matched the paint with a dark rust colored Vallejo paint (which was the closest match to the color the car was originally painted). I then painted the areas where the paint had flaked off. The result certainly was not worthy of being placed on my layout, so I decided to weather it to cover up the imperfections. Here is what I salvaged of the model. The weathering was a combination of acrylic paint, colored pencils and pan pastels. There is no problem with the paint on the other side of the model. I still have to attach the trucks and wheels to the model and weather the remainder of the car.   |
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Post by trainboyy on Aug 7, 2023 8:15:59 GMT -8
 I took delivery of an interesting selection of equipment from an estate auction. Plenty of IPD boxes, an RF&P geep, and an Engelhard tank car. Included in the lot was an RF&P GP40 by Atlas, which I bid $37 on and won. I'm not sure if it runs, but I'm pretty confident it will. The problem with these old Atlas units is they are a ***** to take apart!!!! I spent the better part of two hours trying to get the thing apart, partially taking the cab off and all but it was no good. Nothing could take this apart, not even a drop from the Empire State Building! I spent a grand total of about $157 on the lot, including the $50 shipping. I also want to figure out a way to store all of these, since wrapping them in bubble wrap isn't the most convenient way of storing these pieces of equipment. I looked at the PPW/A-Line boxes, and they're too expensive for what are literally just custom cut pieces of cardboard. I know Ryan Harris used some kind of Harbor Freight box, and I might just pick one of those up. I'll have to dig through the old threads... |
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Post by drsvelte on Aug 7, 2023 8:36:59 GMT -8
Accurail sells empty kit boxes in two different sizes.
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Post by Baikal on Aug 7, 2023 8:51:08 GMT -8
...I also want to figure out a way to store all of these, since wrapping them in bubble wrap isn't the most convenient way of storing these pieces of equipment. I looked at the PPW/A-Line boxes, and they're too expensive for what are literally just custom cut pieces of cardboard. I know Ryan Harris used some kind of Harbor Freight box, and I might just pick one of those up. I'll have to dig through the old threads...
The tried & true Plano #3730 plastic storage box method works great. I haven't bought any boxes in 5-6 years, not sure of current availability. They'd turn up at WMT, big box sporting goods, etc under different names too...
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Post by fr8kar on Aug 7, 2023 13:06:09 GMT -8
I know Ryan Harris used some kind of Harbor Freight box, and I might just pick one of those up. I'll have to dig through the old threads... The tried & true Plano #3730 plastic storage box method works great. I haven't bought any boxes in 5-6 years, not sure of current availability. They'd turn up at WMT, big box sporting goods, etc under different names too...
The Plano 3730 box is what I use for locomotive and passenger car models. I have been buying these for a few years from Academy Sports and Outdoors. Otherwise I use the large shoe box from The Container Store. Here are some photos showing how I use the boxes along with some larger waterproof totes from The Container Store: pbase.com/mecrharris/storageGreat haul, by the way! |
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Post by packer on Aug 7, 2023 13:41:09 GMT -8
Packer - Which Tall stack? Got a prototype photo? This is the stock 1st gen stack height. Brad - If you can find me some good photos, I can probably add them to the list. Something like this: It might be a modification though as another photo shows the same unit with the non-lifting spark arrestors.  |
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Post by cpr4200 on Aug 7, 2023 14:57:51 GMT -8
Not much modeling this week. Did some work on expanding my line of EMD exhaust stacks this morning though.. EMD non-turbo exhausts are another one of those parts that make EMD stand true to the moniker of EMD: Everyone Made Different. Augh. Too bad I've spent the last couple of months chasing down DA stacks and even bought some CMR's.
I could really use some good models of the wire mesh spark arrestors NYC used on their first generation power. There seem to have been two sizes, small for EMD's and large for Alcos. Athearn has a part that is about the right size for an Alco, and I found a 3D printed part for EMD's, but am always looking for something better.
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Post by 12bridge on Aug 7, 2023 15:53:09 GMT -8
Unfortunately most of the photos I've seen are of the usual 3/4 variety. I'll try and do some digging and see what I find. I know a couple CP retirees as well so I can see what they can tell me. Of course, it doesn't help that most of those locomotives that had them are no longer with us. I believe this is a stack Overland models made and sold as a detail part. It is tall and has four gusset supports.. They look like the stacks I have on my GP30/ GP28 rebuild. The package labels them as Union Pacific GP/SD. If it helps at all. The Overland part measures 0.190" from the base of the stack to the top. Not including the base plate. Just the stack. The height of the gusset on the stack measures 0.075". As you can see from the photo, the base of the gusset is out to the edge of the base plate. Centerline from gusset to gusset measures 0.069". I found a good photo of the BN "tall" stack. Its the stock stack profile, just..taller. No extra gussets. The UP ones though look way taller. Still trying to find a better photo though. |
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Post by onequiknova on Aug 8, 2023 13:50:42 GMT -8
Not much modeling this week. Did some work on expanding my line of EMD exhaust stacks this morning though.. EMD non-turbo exhausts are another one of those parts that make EMD stand true to the moniker of EMD: Everyone Made Different. Top Row Stock 1st Generation EMD (GP7-18) 1st Gen EMD with Super Non Lifting Spark Arrestor - Minus Screen (a very common modification done by several railroads) Middle Row - (Later GP/SD38-2) Late -2 Welded Late -2 Bolted, Tall Late -2 Botled, Flush Late -2, Circular Bottom Row - (Early GP/SD38AC/38/38-2 into mid production. 2nd Gen, Welded 2nd Gen, Bolted, Tall 2nd Gen, Bolted, Short The welded versions were usually shop modifications when the bolt holes would not line back up (ask me how I know..). Still planning on doing a few other spark arrestor versions, as well as the tapered 1st Generation (early GP7) If you're looking for more spark arrestors to do, I really need this style.  pbase.com/rocksosalla/image/164734435 |
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Post by 12bridge on Aug 8, 2023 14:01:22 GMT -8
I would really like to find a good shot of how they are attached to the actual stack.
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Post by onequiknova on Aug 8, 2023 14:25:01 GMT -8
I would really like to find a good shot of how they are attached to the actual stack. Let me see if I can come up with anything. |
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Post by nebrzephyr on Aug 9, 2023 7:16:47 GMT -8
Union Pacific "tall" exhaust stacks. I apologize for large image size but wanted to be able to see the detail. Bob   |
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Post by fishbelly on Aug 9, 2023 12:11:40 GMT -8
Those look taller than the Overland detail part. Very cool indeed.
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