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Post by mlehman on Feb 9, 2014 6:24:09 GMT -8
I received an order with more Richmond Controls/Ulrich Models SMD LEDs this week, so have a chance to install some outdoor lighting badly needed around the service area at the Durango roundhouse.  Thanks to the wonders of Photoshop, my single B-52 turned into a four-ship formation, going somewhere to do something important.  |
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Post by riogrande on Feb 9, 2014 7:42:32 GMT -8
That's kind a cool. The airplanes pictured on the wall remind me more of the B-47 Stratojet because of the overall shape. which flew during my dad's tenure in the Air Force. It was a sister of the B-52, which was a bigger and had longer winds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-47_StratojetAs wiki says, it was designed only as a nuclear bomber, and my dad told me stories on how they originally wanted to be able to drop the bomb, and then pull up and over up-side-down to clear the blast, but the wings couldn't take the negative G forces, so that idea had to be scrapped. He told me of another story of two B-47's flying in formation. When it came time to land, one of them couldn't get their gear down, so the other plane flew up underneath to look at the landing gear. That plane got sucked into the one above and they collided, downing both plans. The cockpits of the B-47 had a canopy style window vs. the more standard windshield of the B-52, pictured on you wall. According to wiki, the B-52 began flying in 1952. |
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Post by rockisland652 on Feb 9, 2014 8:16:41 GMT -8
What a difference a coat of paint makes! Last week, I painted those pesky diamonds at Joliet and rather like the result. After cleaning the rail heads and wiping with CRC 2-26, a slew of test runs were a must. Here a commuter train arrives at Joliet and will hold the main at the platforms west of the crossing...  Not long after, a WB freight bounces over the GM&O...er ICG...  Another perspective from between the AT&SF tracks...  |
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Post by dti406 on Feb 9, 2014 8:25:08 GMT -8
No models finished this week but some pictures and a video of my new Bowser C-430's with a Flexivan Train at the Strongsville, OH Club Layout!    This is the video!  Thanks for looking! Rick J |
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Post by mrsocal on Feb 9, 2014 8:29:42 GMT -8
Great pictures all. Here is my contribution for today, this is two units of a four unit powder consist. I have been working on it off and on for about six month now.  |
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Post by Canadian Atlantic on Feb 9, 2014 10:16:15 GMT -8
No models finished this week but some pictures and a video of my new Bowser C-430's with a Flexivan Train at the Strongsville, OH Club Layout! Thanks for looking! Rick J Nice to see the C430's in action  |
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Post by mlehman on Feb 9, 2014 10:39:52 GMT -8
That's kind a cool. The airplanes pictured on the wall remind me more of the B-47 Stratojet because of the overall shape. which flew during my dad's tenure in the Air Force. It was a sister of the B-52, which was a bigger and had longer winds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-47_StratojetAs wiki says, it was designed only as a nuclear bomber, and my dad told me stories on how they originally wanted to be able to drop the bomb, and then pull up and over up-side-down to clear the blast, but the wings couldn't take the negative G forces, so that idea had to be scrapped. SNIP Jim, I suspect the resemblance is due to the constraints of model materials versus the prototype. The two designs came off the drawing baord one after the other, but in close enough proximity there's a family resemblance despite the 6 versus 8 engines and the considerably greater bulk of the Buff. I suspect the greatest part of what you're seeing as a resemblance has to do with the wings. The B--47 did have a lot of flex, too, but the B-52 was know for it's extraordinary wing flex. The model depicts a landed bomber, where the angles of the two aircraft's wings share a close relationship. A flying Buff's wings would ordinarily be flexed upward towards the tips enough so that the angle would lose some of that resemblance. And the angle I took the pic from really emphasizes this resemblance. The B-47 and its variants left service fairly early on, with the bomber versions mostly gone soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis as the 52 fleet filled out. The 47 was relatively short-legged and required a lot of refueling to reach its targets, while the Buff had a longer range. However, electronic reconnaissance and fallout sampling continued on this airframe until later in the 1960s. The samplers are of some interest to my research -- I'm a Cold War historian. This use was very hush-hush and a lot of it done out of Alaska, because that's where the winds went. I helped one vet get his claim about radiation exposure recognized by the VA by sending him proof that his work involved direct contact with radiation. They kept denying his claim, as he knew very little about what the planes he worked on did, just barely knew it had something to do with fallout. He was in what was called a weather recon unit and well, nothing dangerous about the weather, right? Well sampling is one thing they did that had nothing to do with the weather, as that was just a cover story  ...He was a fuel system tech for 47s and many of the issues it had were with the fuel lines running along the top of the bomb bay. Problem is that the sampler 47s had the sampling pod system in the bomb bay, which had to be removed to get to the fuel lines. He indicated there was often a lot of "dust" that would come down in that process. They also told him not to eat any leftover food he found on the aircraft. But it's cold and hungry trying to keep those things going out on the line in Alaska and, well, sometimes he ate the sandwiches. SOP when entering a fallout plume was to not eat, smoke or drink, because of the possibility of ingesting fallout...Aircrews get hungry, too, on long missions, so I suspected there's only one reason those sandwiches were "leftovers." I was able to send him that info, plus background on his unit's mission including sampling from Alaska. He was pretty happy about finally proving his case and get whatever percentage of disability they did grant him. Meanwhile to bring this back on topic, I'd like to find a B-47 model in something close to the 1/320 that the Buff is in or a KC-135 tanker to refuel it. So long as the aircraft is in a smaller scale, it will generally work credibly above a layout. To put a plane on the ground requires a close to scale plane. I do have a nice DHC Beaver that is in HO from Osborn Models in Canada. Modded mine to wheels, but it comes as an amphibian with floats....  |
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Post by tankcarsrule on Feb 9, 2014 10:51:46 GMT -8
Great pictures all. Here is my contribution for today, this is two units of a four unit powder consist. I have been working on it off and on for about six month now. Man, those engines look GREAT!!! Regards, Bobby |
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Post by tankcarsrule on Feb 9, 2014 11:24:54 GMT -8
A fun shot of the 100T Southern cement I kit bashed.  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Feb 9, 2014 11:31:30 GMT -8
I gotta have a Major Kong moment.......  Here's an N.P. flat.  A couple of my GP-35s, just Kato with rebuilt sills, they're lowered a little too.  |
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Post by fr8kar on Feb 9, 2014 11:41:27 GMT -8
Nice work, all. Love those diamonds and the Rock power, Tom! For me it was back to cabooses this week... I've been wanting to model one of the Frisco EV cabooses with express trucks for awhile now. I got started this past week when this showed up at my doorstep:  For Frisco 1275-1292, there aren't too many changes that need to be made other than window placement and size, but for the earlier cabooses with the express trucks, there is a lot to do. I'm about halfway done now. I just need to finish building the axle generator, the interior and finish it off with paint and decals. Here's what it looks like today:   |
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Post by theengineshed on Feb 9, 2014 14:56:15 GMT -8
Someone was operating a nice ABBA set of Athearn Genesis F7s at the club the other day. When you lay my cell phone on its side, the lens is an HO scale 5'5" off the ground, that's about the height of a cameraman...  D&RGW 5594 CB&W Feb 2014 by Pete Piszczek, on Flickr |
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Post by TBird1958 on Feb 9, 2014 15:01:22 GMT -8
That looks great! I'm currently working on all my Genesis Rio Grande F's ( detail parts and weathering) hope to have them looking this good.
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Post by peoriaman on Feb 9, 2014 15:11:07 GMT -8
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Post by onequiknova on Feb 9, 2014 18:39:08 GMT -8
A meet between commuter trains.  |
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Post by riogrande on Feb 9, 2014 19:46:53 GMT -8
Mike,
I wasn't ever a cold war historian per se, but when I was in kindergarten, we did exercises where we hid under the desks in case the Russians bombed us, like that would do any good if a nuke hit the Air Force Base where we lived. My father was a navigator aboard KC97's and KC135's during the cold war era and refueled B52's while they were flying in the "fail safe" orbits outside of Soviet space, also B58 hustlers. He took 8mm home movies refueling a B58 out of the boom operators window. So anyway, having grown up a cold war era Air Force brat, I've learned a thing or to and listened to a lot of stories from my Dad growing up. All pretty fascinating stuff.
Those Genesis D&RGW F7's look great. The only 4 stripe I have are Stewarts, which run like Swiss watches. I plan on doing some 1965 operating sessions which during that year there was a mix of 4 and single stripe paint on the D&RGW still. Most my single stripe units are Genesis (5 F3's, 5 F9's) and a P2K ABBA set of F7's.
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Post by 12bridge on Feb 9, 2014 20:09:23 GMT -8
More progress on my plow..  The front Coupler pocket is not 100% correct, but I wanted a working coupler, so its close enough.. The nose flanger is roughed in, still need a few more parts, and alot of NBW's. Lower wing extensions were modified, and have yet to be sanded.  I laminated a piece of styrene over the back to fill in all the imperfections, easier to do this then spend an hour sanding. New scale coupler pocket also added. |
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Post by rockisland652 on Feb 9, 2014 20:30:28 GMT -8
A meet between commuter trains. O M G !  |
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Post by mlehman on Feb 9, 2014 21:15:00 GMT -8
Mike, I wasn't ever a cold war historian per se, but when I was in kindergarten, we did exercises where we hid under the desks in case the Russians bombed us, like that would do any good if a nuke hit the Air Force Base where we lived. My father was a navigator aboard KC97's and KC135's during the cold war era and refueled B52's while they were flying in the "fail safe" orbits outside of Soviet space, also B58 hustlers. He took 8mm home movies refueling a B58 out of the boom operators window. So anyway, having grown up a cold war era Air Force brat, I've learned a thing or to and listened to a lot of stories from my Dad growing up. All pretty fascinating stuff. Being a historian is a second career choice that still makes me wonder about my sanity Fortunately, I came up with a great research topic and have managed to get just enough declassified about it to go with less direct ways of approaching the subject that provide a lot of background to make it work. I'm interested in fallout because it was a big part of the US nuclear intelligence program and, umm, the biggest impediment to actually using these weapons, although that took some convincing with the Air Force. We might have chatted about this before, but also am an AF brat. Dad was in this unit, only dad doesn't talk about this stuff out of habit, even though they did get word back in '97 that they were finally declassifying the basic history and they could finally own up to being in the unit. So this is sort of a family project, but I'm on my own as far as digging up stuff. Those Genesis D&RGW F7's look great. The only 4 stripe I have are Stewarts, which run like Swiss watches. I plan on doing some 1965 operating sessions which during that year there was a mix of 4 and single stripe paint on the D&RGW still. Most my single stripe units are Genesis (5 F3's, 5 F9's) and a P2K ABBA set of F7's. Yeah, the owner did a really nice job weathering them. I'm in awe. |
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Post by slowfreight on Feb 10, 2014 5:23:42 GMT -8
onequicknova, that's just bragging...but the GOOD kind!
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Post by Donnell Wells on Feb 10, 2014 11:13:35 GMT -8
onequicknova, that's just bragging...but the GOOD kind!
Yeah...I was just going to tell him that he sucked! =-O
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Post by onequiknova on Feb 10, 2014 12:32:25 GMT -8
onequicknova, that's just bragging...but the GOOD kind!
Yeah...I was just going to tell him that he sucked! =-O
Donnell lol. |
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Post by riogrande on Feb 10, 2014 13:11:09 GMT -8
A couple of my GP-35s, just Kato with rebuilt sills, they're lowered a little too. Re-numbered KATO's? Factory numbers were 3029 and 3044 IIRC, got both but un-modified. The biggest trick is the nose light which I am not good at. Slim Pickens riding the H bomb down? |
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Post by buffalobill on Feb 10, 2014 14:07:32 GMT -8
John: love that uniquely Rock Island meet,those cars are incredible. The E-6AB is no slouch either.
Tom, the trackwork is amazing. It is going to be an impressive layout. I don't know if my eyes catch the diamonds first, or the Rock relics passing over them.
Bird, like the job on the KATO GP-35's. They look great.
Bill
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Post by TBird1958 on Feb 10, 2014 15:18:19 GMT -8
A couple of my GP-35s, just Kato with rebuilt sills, they're lowered a little too. Re-numbered KATO's? Factory numbers were 3029 and 3044 IIRC, got both but un-modified. The biggest trick is the nose light which I am not good at. Slim Pickens riding the H bomb down? Kato's font on the road numbers was a little off, plus I had 5 to do, so I renumbered them all, the number boards were probably a bigger pain in the you know what! I spent way more time grinding away a lot of the sills so I could simulate the channel stock underframe and create room for details like air filters and conduit. All of Mike's B52's got me thinking of Dr. Strangelove............. |
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Post by dti406 on Feb 11, 2014 5:09:26 GMT -8
All of Mike's B52's got me thinking of Dr. Strangelove............. The shots of the low level flying across the wastes of Russia were actually shot from a B-17! Rick J |
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...He was a fuel system tech for 47s and many of the issues it had were with the fuel lines running along the top of the bomb bay. Problem is that the sampler 47s had the sampling pod system in the bomb bay, which had to be removed to get to the fuel lines. He indicated there was often a lot of "dust" that would come down in that process. They also told him not to eat any leftover food he found on the aircraft. But it's cold and hungry trying to keep those things going out on the line in Alaska and, well, sometimes he ate the sandwiches. SOP when entering a fallout plume was to not eat, smoke or drink, because of the possibility of ingesting fallout...Aircrews get hungry, too, on long missions, so I suspected there's only one reason those sandwiches were "leftovers." I was able to send him that info, plus background on his unit's mission including sampling from Alaska. He was pretty happy about finally proving his case and get whatever percentage of disability they did grant him.
