3-29 Social Distancing Sunday Photo Fun

[kentuckysouthernrwy]

A little bit more green to start off the day. A Scaletrains.com SD40T-2 in SP that I tore down, stripped and repainted and then reassembled. Life and a half dozen other projects got in the way, it's been a week or two short of a year since I started. No awards but a challenge.



On another vein our Division 5 of the NCR of the NMRA lost a long member of our crew. He had a tremendous collection of mostly Santa Fe ho scale equipment that members of the group held a several day leading into weeks, estate sale of his things. They even found another model railroader to buy the house so the layout could stay intact.

Among the way too many things I picked up was a Baldwin Switcher that I refinished, from Santa Fe, in a modified Tennesse Central scheme to operate on Andy Keeney's Nashville Line where the TC branch there was using borrowed L&N power. With Alan's name emblazened on the side this is what is now operating on the Nashville Line.

[nebrzephyr]

Karl, nice job. Was it hard to strip it? Did you use 90% alcohol?

Bob

[kentuckysouthernrwy]

Mar 29, 2020 8:05:00 GMT -8 nebrzephyr said:

Karl, nice job. Was it hard to strip it? Did you use 90% alcohol?

Bob

It stripped rather easily with 91% alch., prepping it for stripping was a b----, if you happen to do one, take tons of photographs and document where all the itty bitty stuff goes. There are tons of them.

[dti406]

Got a few cars done the last couple of weeks:



Another of my PC Projects, an ex-PRR X43C 1944 AAR Boxcar, done using a Red Caboose Kit, Painted with Floquil PC Green Paint and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Car was in general service with return to Collinwood Yards in Cleveland to service the many manufacturing plants in the Cleveland area.



Proto 2000 52'6" Greenville Gon kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Champ Decals. The NYC purchased thousands of these cars in the late 40's and early 50's to replace smaller gons that were built pre-WWII. They were in general service hauling various items of completed items like pipe and steel beams along with scrap loads going back to the steel mills.



Since I did that 60' WM car a couple of weeks back, I decided to use some more of that Microscale WM sheet, 50' AAR Branchline Boxcar kit, with new 9' doors painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red paint. The R on the side designated cars with roller bearing trucks. Could not find out where the car went in Hagerstown, MD as there were a number of industries that could use a car with DF2 loader systems.



Keeping with my PC modeling of late, a Tangent G43 kit that started with the PRR and continued with the PC making over 4,000 of these gons on the combined railroad. Car was painted with Floquil PC Green and Rust Paints, then lettered with Dan Kohlbergs decals for this car. Loads were Tangent Coils.



This will be the last new picture from the club layout, as the Strongsville Historical Society has closed the site due to the ongoing crisis. Last week I took my 4 completed DT&I 4600 CF Covered Hopppers with some assorted Landmark Covered Hoppers to the club pulled by my favorite GP38-2's.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[TBird1958]

A little Airslide fun, I took this a couple weeks back.
Be safe!

Mark Hills

[ChessieFan1978]

My Submission this weekend;

SBD/CRR SD40 by Matthew Fisher, on Flickr
CRR SD40 #3024 by Matthew Fisher, on Flickr
Seaboard System SD40 Ex-CRR by Matthew Fisher, on Flickr

[timvanmersbergen]

At the end of Sinsinawa Avenue, the one with all the bars, in East Dubuque, Jordan Avenue goes up the bluff.  This is the backdrop for me so I modeled that using a screen capture from Google street view, printed out, trimmed to size, and applied to the backdrop.  I blended in the edges with some small trees and underbrush.



After doing a few more detail things, I started messing with the camera to see how some of the scene looks so far.  Here the CB&Q wayfreight from Savanna to LaCrosse is about to hit the IC diamonds.



CGW train 192 exits the tunnel eastbound.



Finally CB&Q train 88 from St. Paul passes the depot eastbound.



Tim VanMersbergen

[onequiknova]

I finished up a couple resin station wagons this week. A 73 Caprice Estate and a 66 Chevy II. Decals for both, including the wood grain paneling, were printed on my Alps printer.

[bdhicks]

Still haven't been doing much in the way of physical modeling, but I did design and get 3d printed some modified trucks with exposed bearings for the Walthers scale test car.

[packer]

Chipping away at this F68AH. Don’t really know how I want to go about weathering it. Going to add COTS and ACI stuff later.

I grabbed these when an LHS closed up. Both were DCC ready, but the caboose had factory DCC. Doubt I’ll ever get all this for $140 again. Installed a Tsunami 2 in one (I put a lok in a Genesis BN GP38-2, just stuck the tsunami 2 here) and a non-sound Tsunami in the other. LEDs will come later along with maybe lighting the front UDEs. (Process is probably similar to the Genesis BN GP15-1 that didn’t even have a bulb for it’s gyralight). Don’t really know how they fit with my BN stuff.


Atlas FMC 5077 box. Installed Moloco FMC cushion boxes and hoses, added the U-1 dot and ACI decals. Car could benefit from nicer trucks but it rides a little high with accurail trucks.


Since I caved and got a tangent CB&Q airslide, I picked up some coils and detail parts too. I tried using some junk to make a “thing” that the coils sit in. I don’t know if I did it right:

[thunderhawk]

Mar 29, 2020 11:39:10 GMT -8 onequiknova said:

I finished up a couple resin station wagons this week. A 73 Caprice Estate and a 66 Chevy II. Decals for both, including the wood grain paneling, were printed on my Alps printer.

Those roof racks are insane.

Great modeling. The body color wheels with dog dishes on the Chevy II are a sweet touch.

[tom]

Back in the 1980s it seemed like lots of railfan locations that I frequented were also dump areas since the railroad access roads back then were not gated or patrolled. They also tended to be party areas for the locals. Here is an example of both and you can just see a train in the background.



The stuff dumped over the hill side include Rusty Stump (I think) resin appliances and tires and of course a Gold Medal Models shopping cart.

[riogrande]

The yellow wagon there remind me of the family car we had when I was a kid. It was a 1971 yellow Mercury Marquis Station Wagon. I think ours didn't have the faux wood paneling on the side. However, we also had prior to that a 1964 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon, and that did have wood side trim with a wood decal.

[bobelliott]

John (Onequicknova), where do you get those incredible autos you post about so often?

[mvlandsw]

Mar 30, 2020 6:16:40 GMT -8 tom said:

Back in the 1980s it seemed like lots of railfan locations that I frequented were also dump areas since the railroad access roads back then were not gated or patrolled. They also tended to be party areas for the locals. Here is an example of both and you can just see a train in the background.



The stuff dumped over the hill side include Rusty Stump (I think) resin appliances and tires and of course a Gold Medal Models shopping cart.

I used to scrounge a lot of useful stuff from dumps like this that I spotted while railfanning or working on trains.

 Some of my power tools are on casters from shopping carts that someone put on the tracks.

My wood stove burned a lot of wood dumped by contractors or tree service companies.

Tomato plants grow on old wire fencing.

My wife and I made a coffee table from two wooden pulleys from a belt driven machine that I found along the tracks.

I have a large supply of styrene sheets that came from grocery store aisle signs.

[riogrande]

When I was a grad student at Indiana University, I had to hunt for some sink holes to pour dye down during a dye trace study. Some of the sinkholes had become dumps and looked very similar. Old fridges, stoves, tires etc.

[danpik]

A couple of Atlas tank cars I painted and lettered.