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Post by peoriaman on Mar 23, 2024 21:06:33 GMT -8
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Post by michaele on Mar 24, 2024 4:01:25 GMT -8
Great weathering job on that one.
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Post by michaele on Mar 24, 2024 4:13:37 GMT -8
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Post by tom on Mar 24, 2024 4:18:59 GMT -8
Hope that Amtrak remembers to install couplers on that nice looking CF-7! On Friday I picked up a just released Walthers Phase 1C GP35 at my local hobby shop. Walthers did a great job on this and I really like working on undecorated locomotives. While assembling the locomotive I lost one of this steps so I built one to replace it (the rear white one).  The undec model comes unassembled with lots of parts and options. Side frames still need to have the details added. I am modeling a PRR/PC unit so the grabirons on the short hood end and sides were moved to the other side of the nose since a cab control box will go there. Fans also look good. Not Cannon & Company quality (more like Scale Trains) but pretty good. The grills are photo etched but I have not added them yet.  Locomotive runs very well too. |
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Post by loco8107 on Mar 24, 2024 9:06:11 GMT -8
What a GREAT job on the CF7!!
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Post by cpr4200 on Mar 24, 2024 9:22:56 GMT -8
How many journal options come on the GP35? Square, sloped, and Hyatt I'd expect ... maybe also the modern exposed Timken rollers?
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Post by TBird1958 on Mar 24, 2024 9:46:08 GMT -8
Boxcar follies................. Rapido B70-69 and a Genesis PC&F 6+8, the Rapido car is quite nice.  My Con-Cor '60 car and a new Tangent one........ David. you're killin' me!  |
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Post by peoriaman on Mar 24, 2024 10:56:08 GMT -8
What a GREAT job on the CF7!! Thanks! Here's the real one by the way... (if this works properly) Photographer's name is on the bottom.  |
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Post by cpr4200 on Mar 24, 2024 11:13:59 GMT -8
That's funny, a little while ago the proto photo of the CF7 was visible, now it's a broken link?
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Post by peoriaman on Mar 24, 2024 12:04:17 GMT -8
That's funny, a little while ago the proto photo of the CF7 was visible, now it's a broken link? That's weird.... People post Rail Pictures dot Net photos all the time here. I must be doing something wrong. EDIT: Fixed, I think! |
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Post by tom on Mar 24, 2024 12:52:56 GMT -8
How many journal options come on the GP35? Square, sloped, and Hyatt I'd expect ... maybe also the modern exposed Timken rollers? Options are the normal Hyatt and a square one. There are also a couple of sloped ones but these are molded with a speed recorder or automatic stop inducer? I think that the "speed recorder" parts can be removed since the parts are made out of styrene. |
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Post by nsc39d8 on Mar 24, 2024 13:12:34 GMT -8
Finished the second repaint of a Tangent coal hopper. This one into a NS variant.   Compared to the last one posted a couple weeks ago:  I used a new paint recommended to me by Tony Sissons. This hopper was painted with Citadel paint "Corvus Black" Decals are a mix of Microscale, my PDC design and Shellscale. Citadel is the paint side of the WarHammer figurine gaming outfit. |
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Post by hudsonyard on Mar 24, 2024 14:26:54 GMT -8
Not much workbench time this week, but today I got out and helped a friend with some work on his in-progress Long Island Railroad layout...  The trackage at upper right coming out of the helix is modeling my hometown, I had to stop by and make sure everything was going to be laid out correctly.
A westbound Montauk-Jamaica train meets a shorter eastbound Babylon-Speonk train at MS (Mastic-Shirley) once we begin operating sessions MS will be a manned block office with block operator who will have control of this siding. This entire territory was S251 manual block, in this case, the westbound is made superior to the eastbound by timetable authority.
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Post by wrgmilw on Mar 24, 2024 15:48:43 GMT -8
GREAT Work Everyone !
I just put this train together
4 years in the making
I just bought the engine last weekend
The Med Blue Boxcar & 2bay hopper bought today
The Darker Blue boxcar & caboose I bought pre covid .
 20240324_170655 by William GILE, on Flickr |
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Post by jacksong1218 on Mar 24, 2024 16:33:41 GMT -8
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Post by michaele on Mar 24, 2024 17:07:46 GMT -8
Boxcar follies................. Rapido B70-69 and a Genesis PC&F 6+8, the Rapido car is quite nice. My Con-Cor '60 car and a new Tangent one........ David. you're killin' me! The weathering is simply outstanding on those wagons. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Mar 24, 2024 18:52:39 GMT -8
3/24/2024, about 10:47 p.m.
michaele, I certainly enjoyed seeing some German steam engines with red running gear during my one time in Europe, in the summer of 1966. I know of no recent (20th Century) US or Canadian steam loco with that feature. In 1966 I also enjoyed my only fast mainline passenger train ride powered by steam, a semi-streamlined 4-8-2, I think, from the Czechoslovak border with Austria to Prague. The return trip was in a pre-World War II streamlined train, not steam powered, that earlier had been used on runs to and from Denmark.
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Mar 25, 2024 4:46:32 GMT -8
Another fine day of excellent examples of work and models. Well done all that contributed.
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Post by sd40dash2 on Mar 25, 2024 5:40:34 GMT -8
...detail work on the underside.  That looks great, thanks for showing this part of your project! |
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Post by danpik on Mar 25, 2024 9:49:01 GMT -8
  Dan |
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Post by onequiknova on Mar 25, 2024 19:27:48 GMT -8
Nice stuff guys. That CF7 looks great. I'm a little late to the party this week. I've been busy mastering, molding and casting more autorack loads. To continue with my theme of 1973 GM vehicles, I've been working on mid sized A bodies and compact X bodies. For the X bodies, we have both two and four door Chevy Novas, along with a two door Pontiac Ventura for a bit of variety.  For the A bodies, I have a bunch of variety. Both two and four door Chevelles, a two door Laguna, Monte Carlo, along with an El Camino and station wagon. For the Pontiacs I have two varieties of the Pontiac LeMans coupe and a four door sedan. I have enough A bodies to warrant at least two loads.    I have an excellent STL file for a 73 Grand Prix I'd love to add to the mix, but I need to learn how to use Blender first. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Mar 26, 2024 3:47:29 GMT -8
could use a few of all of those.
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Post by lostinthe619 on Mar 26, 2024 7:59:54 GMT -8
Boxcar follies................. Weathering on the boxes looks fantastic, well done! |
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Post by 12bridge on Mar 26, 2024 8:18:16 GMT -8
Those new Tangent undec 60'ers are something else. And this is only 1 version..  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Mar 28, 2024 2:59:43 GMT -8
In 1973 the Sheriff's Dept I worked for had a batch of those Grand Prix patrol cars....what horrid vehicles...
Your models, however, are magnificent for HO. Well done.
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Post by lvrr325 on Mar 28, 2024 3:39:55 GMT -8
In 1973 the Sheriff's Dept I worked for had a batch of those Grand Prix patrol cars....what horrid vehicles... Your models, however, are magnificent for HO. Well done. LeMans maybe, never heard of a Gran Prix patrol car. |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Mar 28, 2024 5:04:23 GMT -8
Those new Tangent undec 60'ers are something else. And this is only 1 version.. Which version kit did you get? |
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Post by Baikal on Mar 28, 2024 7:06:42 GMT -8
In 1973 the Sheriff's Dept I worked for had a batch of those Grand Prix patrol cars....what horrid vehicles... Your models, however, are magnificent for HO. Well done. LeMans maybe, never heard of a Gran Prix patrol car.
Neither had I, but a search turns up a few. In the early 80s(?) California Highway Patrol had more than a few Mustangs and Firebirds, both 2-door cars.
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Mar 28, 2024 17:17:30 GMT -8
LeMans maybe, never heard of a Gran Prix patrol car. Neither had I, but a search turns up a few. In the early 80s(?) California Highway Patrol had more than a few Mustangs and Firebirds, both 2-door cars.
Suspend my privileges, then, a little research found the cars I remembered so well were the 76-77 model years LeMans, similar front, we had Ford Custom w/460 “power” in ‘73, last quick cars we had until 89/90. Had a Sgt put a BOL out for a bad guy driving a Grand Prick…wearing Black Peckered Pants… Great models, John. Sorry about the distraction,  |
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Post by lvrr325 on Mar 29, 2024 0:42:37 GMT -8
Neither had I, but a search turns up a few. In the early 80s(?) California Highway Patrol had more than a few Mustangs and Firebirds, both 2-door cars.
Suspend my privileges, then, a little research found the cars I remembered so well were the 76-77 model years LeMans, similar front, we had Ford Custom w/460 “power” in ‘73, last quick cars we had until 89/90. Had a Sgt put a BOL out for a bad guy driving a Grand Prick…wearing Black Peckered Pants… Great models, John. Sorry about the distraction, One of my oldest vivid memories actually involves the '75 LeMans my dad had until 1979-80. He had the Rustoleum out touching up rust spots or some kind of paint chips on the nose of it. I was maybe five. It was metallic blue with a white interior and half vinyl top with louvered quarter windows. Nose looked about the same as John's models, tail lights were different. 76-77 cars with the square lights were used in Smokey & The Bandit, so I would imagine a guy could sell a bunch of those. |
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