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Post by Christian on Dec 12, 2021 9:16:09 GMT -8
Show us your stuff! I've done bupkus since finishing the farmhouse. This photo shows today what my workbench looked like the day after I posted the final farmhouse chapter.  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 12, 2021 10:00:02 GMT -8
The GP40 is about done, just a few small touches and some cleaning of the wheels and it should be ready for some programming and break in time next week.  A Scaletrains F68DH, the factory applied yellow spoils an otherwise very nice model, here I've repainted one ( that's the factory yellow on the F68CH) it's nowhere near correct for a '71 built car. anyway, I'm getting a start one the decals, still have to come up with a correctly sized "TT" logo.  I'm a little late for flatcar Friday, this is a Tangent '60 GSC, one of several of my models on their website.  |
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 12, 2021 11:06:45 GMT -8
That new yellow paint really makes a difference! A few years ago I built one of the old Durango Press RoadRailer Adapter-Railer kits straight out of the box making only one change: replacing the wheels with Intermountain semi-scale wheels. I was happy with how the build turned out given the age of the kit:   After awhile I began to notice the Adapter-Railers were different from the original Mark IV RoadRailers (Mark IV have the rail wheel attached to the trailer, Mark V use a separate detachable bogie). The rail wheelset was not between the highway wheels on an Adapter-Railer but behind the highway wheels against the trailer's door. That's when my real education on RoadRailers began. I've looked at a lot of drawings and photos in the years since! So here's the same model after I've removed the white metal wheels and "suspension" part and replaced it with a new fixed tandem suspension made from styrene channel, strip and rod and some modified Lonestar Models air ride suspension. I've also added some styrene bits to the rear rail wheelset to fill out the empty space where the yoke should be. The front rail wheelset on the Adapter-Railer has a yoke integrated into the journals and in reality all the rail wheelsets on Mark IV RoadRailers should have this detail.    The yoke part of the front wheelset, a modified Moloco coupler pocket and a modified HO3DIM 3D printed dummy Type F coupler (yes the prototypes had Type F couplers):  What the yoke should look like:  In fairness to Durango Press, at the time this model came out nobody expected that kind of detail to be included especially if it would be hidden by the highway suspension. And to give them their due, Durango Press did a fantastic job on the trailer body. The profile of the lower side rail is unique to these trailers and it is just about perfect. The rivet count and arrangement is very close to the prototype. The problem using the Durango Press model for anything other than the Adapter-Railer or the original Bi-Modal Corp. RoadRailer trainset is that when Norfolk Southern/Triple Crown took delivery of RoadRailers they were 48' x 102" wide vans vs. the Adapter-Railer (and Durango Press kit) dimensions of 45' x 96" wide vans. I'm not sure if I will be able to print new bodies for the 48' vans or not, but after having some success with 3D printing pup trailers I hope so since the Bowser RoadRailers are just a little outside my era. |
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Post by slowfreight on Dec 12, 2021 12:17:10 GMT -8
Some fantastic use of vintage kits and modern technology, fr8kar!
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 12, 2021 12:36:03 GMT -8
Yesterday. I just dug 3 of those Roadrailer kits out of my shelving unit, An adapter and two following units. Most likely they'll still be around in my stuff for my estate sale at some, hopefully awhile, day down the road. Nice to see what they could become.
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Post by djh4d on Dec 12, 2021 12:49:07 GMT -8
Hi all, this was in the palnning stage for years and I finally got started on the Southern Transcon. It's a 100'x40' triple deck layout of the ATSF/BNSF from Willows Springs, IL to Vaughn, NM. We may continue west, but that's not for sure yet. The years modeled are 1990 - 2006. Here are a couple of shots showing the most recent progress.
 Road bed for the yard at Willows Springs, IL
Wye at NR Junction. This is where the staging yard access the layout.
Looking at the curve to the staging yard.
Thanks for looking, -Dave
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Post by wmrdgfan on Dec 12, 2021 13:31:20 GMT -8
WOW!!!
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Post by fr8kar on Dec 12, 2021 13:51:21 GMT -8
100' x 40' on three levels? Amazing!
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Post by riogrande on Dec 12, 2021 15:27:47 GMT -8
That's gotta be one of the biggest non-club model railroads in recent years.
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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 12, 2021 19:18:59 GMT -8
This year I bought my wife a Cricut for her birthday. She wanted one for scrapbooking and some other craft ideas, but I can't pretend I didn't also choose it for my own nefarious purposes... So here we have some ghost lettering I did on an Exactrail Magor car. It'll get SCL decals on top and then I'm planning to have someone else do the actual weathering to free up some of my time. I used the Cricut to cut letters out of regular labels, lightly applied some chalk, sealed and removed the labels.  Second is a home road car that I finally weathered the underframe for. The trucks still need to go darker but boy does the red paint improve the way Kadee did it. Perhaps sacrilegiously I'll be adding my usual Sergent couplers.   Lastly, I have those PS boxcar ends up on my site now. |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Dec 12, 2021 20:16:12 GMT -8
^^^^^ The weathering on that WM box is awesome! Nice work!
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Post by Funnelfan on Dec 13, 2021 0:31:37 GMT -8
Adding to my PNW private car fleet. Coast Trading Co was founded in Spokane, WA in 1957, but later based in Portland, OR. The company was successful and rapidly expanding in the early 1970's buying grain companies in Washington, Montana and North Dakota. The company specialized in selling locally grown wheat, peas, beans and lentils to overseas markets. Due to constant railcar shortages, they leased 9 Pullman-Standard 4750cuft grain hoppers built in August of 1974. While the company went bankrupt in 1982 and was sold to Continental Grain the following year. But the cars remained in this paint scheme until they were retired in 2014 I custom painted these two Accurail PS 4750 hoppers using Herald King decals. First time using the Herald King decals, and they are not easy to use. The film is thicker than most and the surface had a flat finish that was difficult to blend into the paint. Had a lot of trouble trying to make sure they didn't leave any air gaps under the film. Resorted to just floating them on a puddle of solvaset and then sucking the excess away with a paper towel to get them to set. Still had to go back after several of the pieces with more solvaset. The decals didn't fit the car very well either, and I modified some of them to fit better. Also there were some omitted pieces that I borrowed from other MicroScale decals. Still need to do some weathering. Tangent Scale Models made models of these cars for the 2015 NMRA convention in Portland, OR. But I haven't been able to buy any of those models.    |
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Post by stevewagner on Dec 13, 2021 2:42:58 GMT -8
Adam, a beautifully Western Maryland car -- heavily weathered, but not too extreme .
Please pardon my ignorance, but I've never heard of a Circuit. What exactly is it?
Funnelfan, thanks for all the interesting info on the real cars and how you modeled them.
All who have posted photos have done really impressive modeling. Thanks!
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Dec 13, 2021 6:10:58 GMT -8
Please pardon my ignorance, but I've never heard of a Circuit. What exactly is it? Not a Circuit, but a Cricut. It's a computer-controlled cutting machine the size of a small printer. Think plotter, but with a knife instead of a pen. |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Dec 13, 2021 6:18:11 GMT -8
I have those PS boxcar ends up on my site now. I'm curious where the differences are on this Monon LC boxcar. The end is taller perhaps? Which body could be used to model this car?  |
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Post by simulatortrain on Dec 13, 2021 6:32:35 GMT -8
I have those PS boxcar ends up on my site now. I'm curious where the differences are on this Monon LC boxcar. The end is taller perhaps? Which body could be used to model this car? Just taller I believe. Not sure if those would be plate C cars had they not had roof hatches, or if they are taller still. At any rate, I'm happy to make the Monon ends if there's a clear path to building those cars, or there are a bunch of people who want to scratchbuild. Thanks everyone for the comments on the WM box! I have a second one to finish, which I only got so far as to fade. I think it will be similar but a bit cleaner. |
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Post by surlyknuckle on Dec 13, 2021 9:14:21 GMT -8
More great stuff this week. Thanks everyone for sharing.
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Post by idgara on Dec 13, 2021 9:30:36 GMT -8
I'm curious where the differences are on this Monon LC boxcar. The end is taller perhaps? Which body could be used to model this car? Just taller I believe. Not sure if those would be plate C cars had they not had roof hatches, or if they are taller still. At any rate, I'm happy to make the Monon ends if there's a clear path to building those cars, or there are a bunch of people who want to scratchbuild. Thanks everyone for the comments on the WM box! I have a second one to finish, which I only got so far as to fade. I think it will be similar but a bit cleaner. Isn’t that a plate c logo on left side of door? |
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Dec 13, 2021 10:02:06 GMT -8
Just taller I believe. Not sure if those would be plate C cars had they not had roof hatches, or if they are taller still. At any rate, I'm happy to make the Monon ends if there's a clear path to building those cars, or there are a bunch of people who want to scratchbuild. Thanks everyone for the comments on the WM box! I have a second one to finish, which I only got so far as to fade. I think it will be similar but a bit cleaner. Isn’t that a plate c logo on left side of door? I read "Exceeds Plate C" -- which it would do with the roof hatches. I found measurements for these cars at www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon-frt.html | Length | Width | Height | | Inside | 50'4" | 9'5" | 11'1" | | Outside | 55'6" | 10'8" | 15'10" |
Doors are 10' wide by 10'3" high. Car is 5308 cu ft. |
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Post by jako on Dec 13, 2021 10:40:51 GMT -8
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Post by tillamook on Dec 13, 2021 12:14:40 GMT -8
Three of eight projects I'm working on every now and then – PNWR 1201, 1501 and 2005 (rear to front). Please don't mind the image quality. We're only days short of moving into our new home and I'll finally be able to have a real workbench again. I'll definitely step up on my photography again.
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