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Post by Christian on Jan 10, 2022 3:51:53 GMT -8
Come on guys! Post your work. Here it is Monday already. I don't have an active project worth sharing at this time, so here is a real oldie. The model is circa 2k with my circa 2k digital camera which had no depth of field. Alaska RR GP38. Circa mid nineties. Atlas decorated locomotive with ARR spotting features. Most are in this photo since they are for the most part front end. Ex Conrail locomotive with bug eye markers, electric bell, extra headlights and beacon. Not seen are the four stacks. Paint is Atlas with a bit of MS decal fixing. Weathering is from a photograph. Alaska locomotives were pretty grimmy, but cleaned for the passenger runs. So the grime is usually fresh. In the nineties the paint was kept bright except for the Conrail style rusted cab roofs. The GP38's were/are used for passenger runs and for rock trains. Often on the same day. Sometimes on the same train!  |
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Post by markfj on Jan 10, 2022 5:05:31 GMT -8
Sorry, I have nothing to post, but damn that’s a nice looking model!
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 10, 2022 7:36:47 GMT -8
Work has been kicking my butt since Jan.2, no hobby time and I'm cranky about it. So, oldies. Ph.I 4427 made from a Walthers car, rebuilt ends and a Plano roofwalk.  All the GP30 chit chat reminds me that I have 5 pretty good ones already.  More FarMarCo fun.  Because I enjoy building models.  |
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Post by danpik on Jan 10, 2022 7:42:07 GMT -8
A couple of tank cars I decaled up based off of some images I found a while back   |
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Post by dti406 on Jan 10, 2022 7:59:22 GMT -8
I managed to get some cars done this week even going back to work. First up is a Kadee PS 2003CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Louie had many covered hoppers in cement service out of the Iowa area. _IMG_1545.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Second is an Athearn NACC Ribbed side RBL kit. North American built several thousand ribbed side and smooth side RBL's in the 1960's they were all different as North American used parts from Pullman Standard, Stanray and various other suppliers. I built this car with a PS roof and Wabcopac Truck Mounted brakes. Painted car with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow, Hunter Green and Silver paints then lettered with Herald King Decals. It was leased by the National Fruit Co. to move its apple products around the country. _IMG_1544.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Another view of my Kato GP35 along with a couple of Atlas RS-32's on the Strongsville Club Layout. _IMG_1518.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by fr8kar on Jan 10, 2022 9:19:50 GMT -8
Work has been kicking my butt since Jan.2, no hobby time and I'm cranky about it. I feel that. I didn't even know it was Monday. I woke up looked at the boards and I'm first out standing for a train that's past due. I'm trying to squeeze posting this before I get my call. I just took these photos a moment ago. Nice to see the sun again! So here's another 3D printed pup trailer. I've done several variations on a Trailmobile bullnose style which were heavily used by Pacific-Intermountain-Express (P-I-E) and their successors Ryder/P-I-E and P-I-E Nationwide as well as Transcon Lines. ANR and Garrett also used similar trailers and eventually they were merged with Graves so you could see those trailers mixed and matched. Consolidated Freightways built their own trailers (or had them built) but they used a similar design to the Trailmobile bullnose. It had a couple variations along the way. Here is one that I did with an extra side stake over the kingpin and without the signboards. I've since revised the design to exclude the extra side stake since it was rare compared to those without it and to include the signboards since they really need to be cut from 0.005" or thinner styrene or brass to look good. I used 0.010" styrene here and it doesn't look horrible but it would be better made a part of the model, hence the revision. I used some old Rail Power decals on this trailer. I can't find anymore sets so I'll make my own going forward.     |
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Post by surlyknuckle on Jan 10, 2022 9:27:08 GMT -8
No recent model train stuff, but here's a picture from October 20th of the Fredericksburg local, D793. The train is at the top of the Dahlgren branch near Sealston, Va. The branch was bought by the RF&P from the Navy which operated the line between the RF&P Mainline at Dahlgren Jct and the base at Dahlgren Va. Anyways, my conductor (in the shot) was MA Seymore...who retired 2 weeks ago. He was the last active RF&P trainmen. It was always fun working with Mark, who is a bit of a buff himself. His regular engineer retired a week before, and was also an exRF&P man. With these two now retired, there is only one working RF&P transportation employee left...engineer JD Stone who works the long pool to Philly (UPS train). There is also one current CSX dispatcher in JAX who is exRF&P, Bryant Mills. We've now entered the era in which there are very few prior-rights railroad employees working, at least where I work. When I hired, everyone was either Conrail, B&O, or RF&P hires. Now 99% of the people left working are CSX hires with no other legacy (myself included). Another un-noticed change in the railroad landscape. Since I hired before the consolidation of much of the conductor's rosters, I technically have B&O prior rights seniority even though I hired in 2008. I am on the B&O Conductor roster, which I always thought was pretty neat to see next to my name. CSX finally rolled the rosters together in 2011.  D793 at CMC Steel by Freight Engineer, on Flickr |
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Post by slowfreight on Jan 10, 2022 10:12:47 GMT -8
I managed to get some cars done this week even going back to work. First up is a Kadee PS 2003CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Louie had many covered hoppers in cement service out of the Iowa area. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski Cool! I just picked up that set to do one of those cars, as they made it east to Waukegan for loading out of the old Huron Cement terminal. These cars lasted in this paint scheme until at least 1993 in regular service. |
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Post by fr8kar on Jan 10, 2022 14:25:58 GMT -8
We've now entered the era in which there are very few prior-rights railroad employees working, at least where I work. When I hired, everyone was either Conrail, B&O, or RF&P hires. Now 99% of the people left working are CSX hires with no other legacy (myself included). Another un-noticed change in the railroad landscape. Since I hired before the consolidation of much of the conductor's rosters, I technically have B&O prior rights seniority even though I hired in 2008. I am on the B&O Conductor roster, which I always thought was pretty neat to see next to my name. CSX finally rolled the rosters together in 2011. We have something similar at BNSF. There are the Northern Lines (former GN and NP) that have their own seniority rosters for conductors and engineers and they cover different regions. So a North Dakota engineer would not have rights in Seattle and vice versa. Same with conductors. On the rest of the system conductors have seniority. So if a San Bernardino conductor wanted to work in Birmingham Alabama and had the seniority to do it, he could bump to that terminal. Engineers still have regional rosters and some cover more than one roster, mostly due to merged legacy roads. For example, my rosters cover only a handful of terminals from Amarillo to Tulsa and down to Fort Worth. I showed my brother (a Northern Lines engineer) my seniority one day and he was shocked how many rosters I'm on: NH99 (conductor) C401 Santa Fe Cleburne Engineers G401 Santa Fe Gainesville Engineers EN32 Frisco Fort Worth Engineers EN26 Frisco Tulsa Engineers EN11 Fort Worth & Denver Engineers 221 Santa Fe Plains Div Engineers X401 (dovetailed Fort Worth engineer roster) By comparison he's only on one conductor roster and one engineer roster. I am curious how this will shake out when the prior rights folks are gone. I imagine there's not much reason to have these legacy rosters without the people to protect. |
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Post by jbilbrey on Jan 10, 2022 17:51:32 GMT -8
Keeping with the OP's locomotive as well as being a trainshow find, here is a L&N SD35 that I finished last week.  HO SD35 L&N 1215 by James Bilbrey, on Flickr I think I picked the locomotive up for $40 at a local show almost 3 years ago. I didn't need it, but it was hard to resist getting an Atlas locomotive with DCC for that price. I did renumber it. There was nothing wrong with the number that Atlas gave it except it was for one that had already been assigned to a yard switcher. I replaced the MU hoses and add the MU cable on the pilots and replaced the horn and antenna on the cab with parts in my details bin that better matched the prototype. I also filled in the holes for sunshades. What I didn't do was plate over the handbrake notch on the short hood. All those changes were made within a weekend or two of getting the locomotive when it went back into the box. I then had to wait for KV Models to release their lower pilot plates, eventually decide to order them (around last Christmas, IIRC), and not lose them while I moved, a minor miracle. The stripes on the plates came from a Microscale set; I did a much better job matching the front than the back. |
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Post by simulatortrain on Jan 11, 2022 15:12:46 GMT -8
This didn't look like much as of Sunday:  It's a Central Valley kit, but only as a parts source. I'm building it as a funky skewed truss the WM had over the pre-Magnolia B&O near Jerome, WV. I'm thankful that the National Park Service saw fit to prepare very nice drawings for the majority of bridges that will be on my layout, and for free! |
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Post by stevef45 on Jan 12, 2022 6:01:13 GMT -8
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