Sunday Photo Fun -- September 27, 2015

[mlehman]

Extra 64 West has just arrived at Silverton with a DL-535E and NW2M as the power. The crew is preparing to break its train down after arriving in Silverton.



Another odd little project. I can't even find my references to it right now, but I call it a deck (or dock) plate rail. With the swinging doors on reefers, some extra space is needed between track centers to accommodate opening and closing them. One reason I added the second track at Webber Wholesale was so that more cars can be loaded during busy periods. Normally the siding next to its dock serves, but if need be, extra cars can be spotted on the lumberyard spur next to it. The rail supports the otherwise long and potentially sagging deck plates when cars are doubled up like this. The rail supports them in what would otherwise be a long span. It's made from 1/8" brass channel supported by 3/32" posts soldered in.



Here's you can see where it's roughly level with the floor height on the cars.



And Camp 10 got its shelter back after some excavation of the adjoining hillside.



Hope everyone is having a productive week as the weather draws us back into the busy model railroad season.

[kentuckysouthernrwy]

I had an enjoyable couple of days running trains at OPS sessions at 2 different well known layouts. Friday I was at Jack Ozanish's Atlantic Great Eastern layout set at the moment for February, 1964. An all day session and managed to get two freight's over the layout with intervening work along the way.

Saturday was a totally different experience, I attended a 2 hour power point presentation by Dr. Bruce Chubb of Grand Rapids MI about his Sunset Valley Oregon System layout. It is a Southern Pacific mainline layout that runs from N. California to Seattle. It is in a 2650 sq foot basement with 1450 feet of mainline. Half a dozen railroads are represented. He has 140 trains scheduled to run in a 24 hour, fast clock, day. The scenery is fantastic and ever evolving.

After the presentation I attended an ops session at his layout. Here are a couple shots I took as I operated a couple of different trains:

[dti406]

Good morning from sunny Northeast Ohio!

Nothing finished this week, the Stongsville Historical Society has their Harvest Festival this weekend, and since our club is located there we will be open for viewing! I will be taking my PRR Ore Train for viewing and here are a couple of pictures of it on the layout.











Power is provided by Stewart C628 & C630 with added details like lift rings, grabs, antenna's and finished with diesel decals from Microscale. the 36 ore cars are all Stewart/Bowser G39/G39A cars with ore loads by Dan Pikulski followed by a Bowser N5 caboose.

Thanks for looking!

Rick J

[TBird1958]

Nice work this week guys!

The Sun is finally up of the West Coast so I could pop out and shoot a bit.....

Here are prototype and model shots of a couple projects, the Atlas Evans 52'car was straight forward, I repainted one of the ends orange to match the pic, added Plano cut bars and crossover walks, very lightly weathered with pencils and a little chalk.
Note the heavy orange overspray on the roof.





Ron Hawkins super shot of GN 138569 was very inspirational to me in finishing this great Cannon & Co. kit.



I airbrushed several coats of very thin white wash over the entire car to fade it, then continued with chalks applied with brushes and stumps.

[buffalobill]

Mark, spectacular job on the Great Northern double plug door box. One of the nicest cars you have done. The weathering really adds to the effect. Super.
Bill

[djh4d]

The latest addition to the fleet got to make its first revenue run today.

CSXT 7307


Another view


Enjoy,
-Dave