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Post by Christian on May 15, 2016 0:55:12 GMT -8
This week some thing that is new - just finished. This is a kit and built pretty much as designed. It is a Heljan kit sold by Walthers. It was marketed as a synagogue but is actually a close model of Seven Seventy Eastern Parkway which is the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement located in Brooklyn. A Jewish denomination to use an incorrect but descriptive phrase. Copies of this building can be found an several cities worldwide. The Seven Seventy is now an historical landmark and still in use. The kit was $19.95 for a large building which caught my frugal eye. Now out of stock. What my eye saw was a very common looking building which often housed hospitals and schools. Gothic Revival or Tudor Revival - choose your label. I'll use it as the admin building of my college. It's a style rarely modeled, but there are lots of prototypes around. Little in the way of changes to the kit. I used photos of the prototype to add some details. And a satellite view from Google to make an attempt at the roof although that is still largely guesswork. Biggest time consumer were the blinds and draperies on all those windows. Well, biggest time consumer next to painting all those bricks. And I really simplified that brickwork from the prototype. Base coat with dabs of dark Tombow marker colors and dabs of Prisma Color pencil - the yellow. Just two photos. Once you have seen one wall of brick you've pretty much seen a bunch of walls of brick.   |
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Post by fr8kar on May 15, 2016 3:32:41 GMT -8
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Post by dti406 on May 15, 2016 4:28:46 GMT -8
Managed to finsish a couple of models this week!  Second KCS 50' PS1 Boxcar I have done, (decal sheet has enough decals for two cars, so I did two). Robbins Rails 50' PS1 Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar red and lettered with Mask Island Decals.  Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar Kit, with Moloco FMC Draftgear added, car was painted with Floquil Platinum Mist and Reefer Orange Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car is in as delivered lettering, later the SSI lettering was removed as it was in non-conformance with ICC rules on lessor lettering on cars.  Picture of Athearn DT&I GP38-2's with a coil car train on the Strongsville, OH railroad club layout, which is open today for the NMRA Division 4 layout visit tour. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by drolsen on May 15, 2016 8:01:47 GMT -8
Wow, awesome stuff! Christian, it's great to see a structure like that to add some variety to SPF, and yours looks fantastic. Definitely an interesting and relatively common style for older sections of Eastern cities.
Ryan, that caboose is awesome! I love how the Molco draft gear and Sergent coupler look when painted and integrated into the (almost) finished model. I always liked that paint scheme too.
Rick, love the Atlas FMC 5077. You must have a huge collection of decals at your disposal!
Dave
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Post by valenciajim on May 15, 2016 11:09:14 GMT -8
Christian--I purchased that model when it first came out and it is sitting somewhere in my inventory of unbuilt kits. You did an absolutely fabulous job. I am undecided as to whether I will build it as it is somewhat eastern for my western railroad.
fr8tkar--I am truly amazed by your cabooses.
Rick--every week you "manage" to get several cars completed. I need your management skills (and modelling skills too)!
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Post by tony45324 on May 15, 2016 11:25:06 GMT -8
Just finished putting ditch lights on this one..  |
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Post by gmpullman on May 15, 2016 14:06:21 GMT -8
Hello, The Broadway Limited Pennsy S2 turbine has hit the streets. Mine arrived Friday and I got a chance to put it on the rails last night. One thing that stands out as a bit of a disappointment is the fact that BLI seems to have gone the wrong direction in formulating, or choosing as it were, too light of a shade for dark green locomotive enamel (again)! I'll bet they are going to get a lot of negative feedback on this one issue alone, in my opinion. I'm sure the folks on the committees at PRRT&HS working with BLI have stressed the necessity of keeping the paint on the darker side. SO many models have come down the pike with too-light, washed out or faded looking dark green or "Brunswick" green paint that it has been more the rule than the exception.  Those markers are not lit, the jewels are so "sparkly" that they appear way too bright. Shouldn't see them going forward, anyway.  This photo really shows the difference in the DGLE between the S2 and the I1s in the background! You can see there's yellow jewels in the sides of the marker as well.   Here's a traditional builder's photo. There's two markers built into the rear of the tender that are WAY too bright and, as far as I can tell, they're on along with the headlight. They are as bright as modern day FRA markers! Overall, it is a decent model but, as usual, a few oddities creep in that tend to spoil things. The bell sounds like Quasimodo should be ringing it! The turbine exhaust sounds seem to be OK as such. I ran the engine for over an hour last night without any derailing or operating hangups... we shall see. Regards, Ed |
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Post by dtinut on May 15, 2016 17:34:17 GMT -8
Here's my new Tangent cars.    Brian |
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Post by ddatrainman on May 15, 2016 18:09:29 GMT -8
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Post by mlehman on May 16, 2016 8:03:25 GMT -8
I'm late this week, but looks like I'm not the only one. Lots of interesting stuff, too. My excuse was graduation, which kept me busy and limited modeling time...but I did get a bunch of ballast laid. So here's some pics of my too neat ballast, which awaits further work but looks pretty good vs looking at cork. I touched things up in Purgatory after running short of buff when I did it recently.  Crater Lake Junction looks good even without weeds sprouting here and there.s  Some may remember how crooked the track was when initially laid through this 10" high area, but the crews have been hard ta work lining things up.  Snowden looks pretty good, too, now.  There's one more stretch between Camp 10 and Black Cat Junction without ballast, but its level and setback mean you can't see it's still undone from most angles. Still debating doing it before the NMRA convention, as I'm shifting towards maintenance and updating my ops materials for the sessions scheduled before and after the July NMRA National in Indianapolis. Rick Schroeder's Danville & Western and my Silverton Union RR are both hosting 3 sessions before and after the convention in the Champaign-Urbana area, about two hours west of Infy. There's still room to sign up right now, plus more info on ops at the National here: www.nmra2016.org/#!opsig/c1ygl |
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Post by rapidotrains on May 16, 2016 13:10:50 GMT -8
This week some thing that is new - just finished. This is a kit and built pretty much as designed. It is a Heljan kit sold by Walthers. It was marketed as a synagogue but is actually a close model of Seven Seventy Eastern Parkway which is the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement located in Brooklyn. A Jewish denomination to use an incorrect but descriptive phrase. Copies of this building can be found an several cities worldwide. The Seven Seventy is now an historical landmark and still in use. The kit was $19.95 for a large building which caught my frugal eye. Now out of stock. What my eye saw was a very common looking building which often housed hospitals and schools. Gothic Revival or Tudor Revival - choose your label. I'll use it as the admin building of my college. It's a style rarely modeled, but there are lots of prototypes around. Nice work! Now you have to add an HO scale Lubavitcher Rebbe passing out $1 bills to the people lined up outside. The kit was commissioned from Heljan by a Jewish modeller who now lives in Israel. The Jewish presence on my layout will be much more subtle. All the restaurants will be kosher... :-) -Jason |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on May 16, 2016 14:57:59 GMT -8
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on May 16, 2016 15:20:32 GMT -8
Hello, The Broadway Limited Pennsy S2 turbine has hit the streets. There's two markers built into the rear of the tender that are WAY too bright and, as far as I can tell, they're on along with the headlight. They are as bright as modern day FRA markers! Overall, it is a decent model but, as usual, a few oddities creep in that tend to spoil things. The bell sounds like Quasimodo should be ringing it! The turbine exhaust sounds seem to be OK as such. I ran the engine for over an hour last night without any derailing or operating hangups... we shall see. Regards, Ed What did the PRR use Red markers for on the front of a locomotive? Any rule books I've read, admittedly not a Pennsy book, markers would be WHITE for an Extra, GREEN for a section is following, UNLIT for a scheduled train or last section following a train displaying GREEN markers. RED designates the rear of a train. Rules 19, 20, 21 from 1956 New York Central Rules of Operating Department RED markers on the tender would only be appropriate, or any lit markers, if the engine was operating as a light engine movement. Nice engine, too bad the color is so out of whack. |
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Post by Spikre on May 16, 2016 15:38:20 GMT -8
 Rick J, now You need to build the Green Mountain version of those SSI cars. saw them when new at the Chester Vermont Talc Works or Mine,and have a number of pics of them here. ddatrainman, like the North Shore Paint scheme,it sure looks familiar !! maybe the Boss of the line being a standing member of ELHS has something to do with that ? have never seen one of those Late/Better looking Bachman GP38-2s in person,always thought thety were Phantoms ! Spikre 
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Post by gmpullman on May 17, 2016 16:46:22 GMT -8
Hello, The Broadway Limited Pennsy S2 turbine has hit the streets. There's two markers built into the rear of the tender that are WAY too bright and, as far as I can tell, they're on along with the headlight. They are as bright as modern day FRA markers! Overall, it is a decent model but, as usual, a few oddities creep in that tend to spoil things. The bell sounds like Quasimodo should be ringing it! The turbine exhaust sounds seem to be OK as such. I ran the engine for over an hour last night without any derailing or operating hangups... we shall see. Regards, Ed [snip] What did the PRR use Red markers for on the front of a locomotive? Beginning in July 1929 the Pennsy began removing classification lights from all locomotives assigned to yard service and all freight locomotives with the exception of M1s assigned to passenger service. The PRR had fixed red markers on the pilots of locomotives while having classification lights mounted higher up on the smokebox. Then in June of 1940 the PRR initiated an order to remove classification lights from all passenger and freight locomotives assigned to passenger service. [snip] RED markers on the tender would only be appropriate, or any lit markers, if the engine was operating as a light engine movement.
Correct. It would appear the PRR wanted to have its locomotives prepared for a back-up move at any time. The Pennsy favored fixed, cat-eye, red markers after 1946. On the Js they used a unique looking tombstone style fixed red marker. Of course, color photos are rare of the S2 and even if you find one it is pretty difficult to tell what lens arrangement is on those two rather cumbersome-looking boxes on either side of the stacks but given the orders mentioned above I believe that by the time the S2 was built there was no call for classification lights at all and the lenses were fixed red to the front and amber to the side. Regards, Ed |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on May 17, 2016 19:09:23 GMT -8
Thanks for that information, Ed. As I mentioned I am not a student of the practices of the Pennsy, growing up in a NYC town, the Pennsylvania was not a thing seen nor heard of in any positive manner. Never ever did see any Pennsy power in it's native colors. I am sure some furring' power co-mingled with the Central equipment after PC came along.
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