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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Feb 23, 2020 5:52:41 GMT -8
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Post by csxt8400 on Feb 23, 2020 7:41:27 GMT -8
And color there was! Nice lineup, Matt. Continuing on some small painting and decal work. Coil car is now nearing completion, besides weathering there isn't much left to do. A couple weeks back I picked up an old run Athearn FMC 5347. For as picky as I am on WC boxcars, this one was surprisingly great. Athearn has never done a better job, actually, only missing on the dashed striping and an incorrect reporting mark. It was originally marked for WC (straddling the exterior post, also throwing off the look) while the prototype was painted under SSAM marks. Near the turn of the century these started receiving new initials which stood for Wisconsin Central Chicago Link. As a kid I used to love these cars, which varied from builder and even paint, such as the former Detroit & Mackinac cars that continued on in their original garb. So with some exquisite decals from Joe A. I was finally in a position to replicate these cars that have long since disappeared. A simple patch but one that really brings the car into form.
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Post by dti406 on Feb 23, 2020 11:43:53 GMT -8
Built an Athearn ACF 2970CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. The NP purchased several hundred for cement service, but they migrated into Bentonite Clay loading (Drilling Mud & Kitty Litter) and silica sand for glass manufacturing. I don't know how many of this car that I painted over the years. I would finish one and put it on the hobby shop layout, and it would get sold, then I did more and more and the same thing happened. Next is an Intermountain 40'PS1 Boxcar kit with a 7' Door, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and lettered with Decals from the Ann Arbor Historical Society. The Packers Football consists of 3 overlapping decals. The GBW acquired 42 ex New Haven boxcars in 1962 after their 15 year lease expired. A lot of other railroads got some of these cars like the ACY etc. Used for hauling paper products via the Ann Arbor to points east. Pair of Kato SD45's that I painted for the PC and are hauling a mixed consist of Covered Hoppers lettered for the NYC, PRR and PC. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
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Post by fr8kar on Feb 23, 2020 12:38:35 GMT -8
It is a colorful Sunday. Unfortunately, my desk is all black, white and shades of gray lately. A couple weeks ago I showed this Rail Power B23-7 shell that over the years had been a Southern high nose unit with a Hi-Tech cab then a Burlington Northern B30-7AB with the Smokey Valley utility cab. With all the orphaned Atlas B23-7 and B30-7 parts I have laying around I decided to rework it a bit. Once you start doing this to a Rail Power shell there's really no good place to start making changes or for that matter a good place to stop. I would have liked to replace the radiator exhaust grilles for example, but where do you stop cutting before replacing the entire shell? Anyway, I ended up replacing the cab, exhaust, side handrails and end sheets with Atlas B23-7/B30-7 parts. Back when I originally built the model in 2007(?) I left the Athearn U33B drive alone, other than detailing it with the Details West reservoir kit and adding Smokey Valley sideframes. I may end up replacing the steps with some A-line etched parts because they're really distracting. Otherwise, I just need to weather it lightly and install some LED headlights.
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Post by danpik on Feb 23, 2020 13:13:38 GMT -8
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Post by simulatortrain on Feb 23, 2020 14:08:07 GMT -8
Jumping back the better half of a century from my usual, a nearly finished Cumberland Valley FM flat.
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Post by upcsx on Feb 23, 2020 14:26:39 GMT -8
Like the old MDC tank cars.
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Post by sd50f on Feb 23, 2020 16:11:35 GMT -8
Hello all. My contributions for this weekend. Finally got around to adding handrails to Southern Ontario Railways 1755. Lots of work but it went by faster than I thought it would. Maybe it's because I've been away from this kind of modelling for a while and want to get stuff done now. These two units will work the eventual (as soon as I can figure out the Science of money+time+space) Stuart Street yard in Hamilton, Ontario. I still have details to add, handrails need to be painted, and both units are going to be weathered, remotored and have lighting installed very soon. No DCC yet (no point without a layout), but it will come in time. Beautiful work by everyone else this week. Timothy Dineen
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Post by stevewagner on Feb 23, 2020 16:57:15 GMT -8
I enjoyed seeing Danpik's various cars decorated for breweries. How many of them are prototypical? I'm particularly curious about the Genesee cars and the Anheuser Busch corn syrup car. If they are authentic, when were the full-sized cars painted?
I remember seeing a team of white horses pulling a Genesee beer wagon at a Fourth of July paraded in Whitehall, NY in the late 1950's or early 1960's. And I like Genesee's cream ale.
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Post by riogrande on Feb 23, 2020 17:27:51 GMT -8
I lived in Rochester for a couple years and yes had some cold Geni's while there.
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Post by TBird1958 on Feb 23, 2020 17:49:03 GMT -8
Late to the party today, road trip with the band this weekend...… We had a little sun on Thursday so I shot these two SD40T-2s, they need a little more color in the grills.
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Post by packer on Feb 23, 2020 17:56:22 GMT -8
Tried making a load based off the only prototype photo I could find of these particular gondola: I may end up staining or painting these "poles," but some of these bamboo skewers aren't exactly straight (but then i guess impaling meat and potatoes doesn't require a straight stick), so i'm not sure if I'll leave them. I may go open the second pack and make the stacks higher, or use the cut-off pointy ends and glue them pointy end in so the cars aren't too heavy. I do plan to make the loads removable.
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Post by danpik on Feb 23, 2020 17:59:16 GMT -8
I enjoyed seeing Danpik's various cars decorated for breweries. How many of them are prototypical? I'm particularly curious about the Genesee cars and the Anheuser Busch corn syrup car. If they are authentic, when were the full-sized cars painted? I remember seeing a team of white horses pulling a Genesee beer wagon at a Fourth of July paraded in Whitehall, NY in the late 1950's or early 1960's. And I like Genesee's cream ale. The only two I know of that are is the Genesee reefer and the Anheuser busch tank car. The Genny cars were done in 1933 and numbered 101-119. The AB tank car is a stand in tank car modeled after a photo I have of a single dome tank car painted the same way. The rest are fantasy cars. Dan
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Post by 12bridge on Feb 23, 2020 18:18:59 GMT -8
Fresh from the shop.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 0:10:08 GMT -8
Fresh from the shop. That's a very nice looking model!
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Post by stevewagner on Feb 24, 2020 5:17:12 GMT -8
Dan, thanks very much for the information.
Did you decal the Genesee and Anheuser Busch cars yourself? If so, did you use commercial decals or ones you made yourself?
All the beer cars I have are, I think, reasonably prototypical except for two of Atlas's 40' foot wood cars with fantasy schemes for real Pennsylvania breweries that I found particularly attractive and thought my relatives might enjoy seeing. One features the Horseshoe Curve and the other a horse.
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Post by danpik on Feb 24, 2020 13:26:00 GMT -8
Dan, thanks very much for the information. Did you decal the Genesee and Anheuser Busch cars yourself? If so, did you use commercial decals or ones you made yourself? All the beer cars I have are, I think, reasonably prototypical except for two of Atlas's 40' foot wood cars with fantasy schemes for real Pennsylvania breweries that I found particularly attractive and thought my relatives might enjoy seeing. One features the Horseshoe Curve and the other a horse. I did these from decals I made. I have been doing these for several years now. I used to set up at shows around the Buffalo area and these were always popular with the crowds. I would usually sell out of them in the first 2 hours. The AB tank car should be a large single dome car with the AB logo on the white painted dome as well. i may do some Athearns that way in a while.
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Post by stevewagner on Feb 25, 2020 13:29:05 GMT -8
Dan, thanks very much, again. I've finally (on Mardi Gras) read your latest message.
A few minutes ago I noticed that M.B. Klein now has Athearn NACC insulated boxcars announced back in 2018 in stock, among them being three Pearl Brewing Co (reporting marks PBGX) cars as painted in 1967, advertising Country Club. This paint scheme had been used on Athearn's original blue box "modern billboard" boxcars, then on a Genesis series model, which is the ancestor of the new Ready To Roll release. Nice looking, well detailed car, pretty much matching prototype photos. I'm likely to spring for one, partly because the firm's main brewery in San Antonio, TX, had its own electric railway, the Texas Transportation Co., which operated until the brewery closed in 2001. The firm had a complicated history, according to a Wikipedia article. Country Club was a malt liquor originally produced by Goetz in St. Joseph Missouri; that brewery is also mentioned on the cars. I'm a sucker for freight cars lettered for electric traction lines that found their way into interchange service.
In case any Texans are reading this, I'm pretty sure that during one of my visits to the Lone Star state, to the Austin / Fredericksburg / Johnson City / New Braunfels area in 1982 or 1983 and to metropolitan Dallas in 1988, I saw an automobile decorated as an armadillo traveling around advertising "the National Beer of Texas", Lone Star. Did I dream or imagine that or was it real? During the first trip I most certainly saw a lot of young people, probably mostly University of Texas students, swigging Lone Star from "long neck" bottles on a Sunday at a country store in Luckenbach that apparently had been made famous by a song. It was quite a contrast to what I'd experienced in the previous week in Abilene, Kansas, where the laws concerning alcoholic beverages were much stricter.
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