I recently assembled the Walthers "Mission Style Depot/Freight House" and found it to be a easy to assemble and nice looking model. Also it is quite reasonably priced @ less than $50 Here are the results.
Hey sub, Thanks... yes it's motorized. It's all wheel drive really low geared Athern hustler diecast switcher chassis with an all die cast shell... That little thing weighs a ton! ... 14 ounces. Greg
looking good guys I am working on my room going with 2 level layout with lots of street running and double decker bridge and more
not yet room is almost ready I will start posting pictures as i start.I will post threw out the winter as it comes along.it will be point to point with a branch and interchange with 2 major towns.Industry will be coal of course a brewery, stacks and pig trains sugar beet and a big produce factory.Port will be from Philly to buffalo But that is still in the works.I am limited on room main room is15 x 30 but have a spare room for loops and staging.The 2 deck bridge will have top level being a viaduct both side and bottom runnin threw the streets down town.
The latest progress on my ExactRail PS 4427's After adding end sills and ladder supports at the end of the car. After adding ladder grabs and grab irons on the end of the cars. Each car took about an hour to add the grabs, the most tedious and frustrating part of building this car. After adding the Discharge Gates on hopper bays and Airline along the side of the car. Adding the roof and trough hatch to the car. Thanks for looking!!
Here is what I have been working on. Meyer Bros. ICE & COLD Storage is a low relief background building deep enough that a 20 foot trailer can be dropped inside and the outer door shut. I want to weather it a bit more and connect the LED lighting which will light up the inner dock area and then I will consider it done. I model for fun and sometimes get frustrated when my arthritis and slowly failing vision prevent me from building what I can visualize in my mind. This building could be better but is about the limit of my current abilities and especially the limit of my patience. In the past some things that probably were quite usable but passed my frustration level have ended up in the dumpster. :thumbs_down:
Great work on all those projects. I can certainly relate about not being able to see all that small detail like I used to when I was in my 30's. I have trouble seeing stuff up close. I now have to use a magnifier to do a railcar or a locomotive project. My eyesight has really gone south in the past 10 years. I haven't built stuff for awile and had no idea how bad things were getting. Time to go back to the optometrist and get checked out I guess.
I picked up a couple of Roundhouse Harriman passenger car kits (among other things... ) at Railfair 33 in Ottawa, a diner and a coach. After a bit of painting and assembly work, I introduce the Possum Lake R.R.'s tourist excursion train: I body-mounted the couplers after I noted that the truck mounts tended to rub against (and stick to) the underframe details as the trucks rotated. That's a derailment in potentia. Body mounting the couplers also gives the trucks a little more leeway to rotate. One may recognize the RF-16 from an earlier project. For now its sole companion on the PLRR roster is a grungy old RS-2. A small steam loco may come in the medium term.
No pictures, but I just purchased a mess a (technical terms) 28" metal wheels sets to go under my Fuel Foilers and Autoracks. So that plus some couple height adjustments are what's next. I also have some thin metal sheets from the craft store and some small magnets. I will be cutting the sheets and gluing them and a magnet in each of my containers so that I can have a little more confidence and weight in my double stack trains.
No photos--YET--but I just picked up an old HO scale Balboa/KMT model of one of the LIma-built SP 3900 series Lima-built AC-9 2-8-8-4's (yes, the one with the cab in the BACK, LOL!) from the brass case over at my LHS. Raw brass. Tarnish like you wouldn't believe--weighs about 5 pounds--loco alone--and probably hasn't been run in decades. However, on the test track, it started out smooth as silk, if a little noisy. Have to get the tarnish down to some kind of painting surface, oil the gears and motor (whines like a baby, LOL!), clean the treads and then see that this baby is capable of. Even in tarnished brass, this big baby is absolutely gorgeous. I'm getting started on her tonight. Wish me luck. And oh yah, SP has trackage rights on my D&RGW Yuba River Sub. Tom
OK, got 28" wheels under my ATSF Fuel Foiler 5 pack and under all my good autoracks. I have a few more autoracks in various states of incompletion and a set of BN Impack end units that still need wheels, but I'm going to hold off on those till I get an interior set to go with them. The fuel foilers are missing hitches and brake rigging, so I need to figure out what to do about that.
I've been building and painting a plate girder bridge from Central Valley Ho Bridges Painted with Jo Sonja's artist acrylics. I've only done half of it so far. The manufacturer recommends code 75 or 83 rail - but I got away with Atlas code 100, with droplets of 5 minute Araldite on every tie. Mike
