MODELING Weekend Photo Fun October 12, 2012

r_i_straw Oct 12, 2012

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    This is an N scale car I built up from M & R etched sides on an American Limited core kit. One of these days I need to put an interior into it. Pullman Standard built these 44 seat chair cars for the Santa Fe after WWII.
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  2. dti406

    dti406 TrainBoard Member

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    Here are the two cars that I finished this week.

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    This is a Robbins Rails/A-Line Greenville 60' Boxcar. The car originally came with plug doors, I carved those off and then glued a pair of Atlas doors from their 60' ACF cars that fit perfectly. I also purchased the door tracks and glued those in place also. I changed the wheelbase from 41' to 46' and attached a Details West Cushion Coupler Pocket along with a walkover platform from the junk box. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Mark Vaughn's decals.

    This was one of two cars the Clinchfield used to service a paper mill in Kingsport, TN.

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    Athearn Chemical Tank car with no modifications, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King decals.

    Thanks for looking!

    Rick J
     
  3. Kenneth L. Anthony

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    I dragged my Lighter than Air Railroad out of storage, dusted it off a little and took it to the Galveston Train Show last weekend at the railroad museum.
    A lot of folks recognized the layout as representing the WWII blimp base at Hitchcock, 10 miles inland from Galveston. That was one of my incentives for wanting to show it there.
    One guy pointed to the administration/ headquarters building and said he used to work there when part of the closed base housed an oil company office.
    Another person said his grandfather worked up on the blimp hanger roof when it was demolished.
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    I don't think any other layout exhibitors allowed visiting kids to run their layouts but mine is only 2x3 feet so I can watch pretty close, even with preschoolers running the little train. Just had to tell them not to reach on nthe layout beause of the almost invisible "EZ Line" strung on the utility poles.
    As the name says, it's lighter than air.
     
  4. paperkite

    paperkite TrainBoard Member

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    Boy, you guys do some awesome work . I am humbled in you presence .... naw , but the models are very good !!! :teeth:
     
  5. GP30

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    Loaded coal train rolls into the yard past the office on this early spring morning in West Virginia. Ravenswood Yard Office is from a GC Laser kit assembled in two evenings in a hotel room last week.
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  6. Mark Dance

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    wow...what a beautiful little office. Nice work!

    More weathering from me this week...

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    thx for looking and have a great weekend!

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  7. BALOU LINE

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    Here's an older pic but one of my favorites.
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    My trains are STILL in storage, I'm settling into a new place to live. But I'm still around here in the shadows, lurking.
     
  8. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yes, it is nice.

    And nice weathering work on yours as well.
     
  9. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Excellent! And hopefully it won't be much longer until you can completely un-lurk!
     
  10. Mark Dance

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    "One more for the road"

    Osprey nest on Kootenay River bridge...

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  11. Flash Blackman

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    Nice engine! Nice bridge, too.
     
  12. SecretWeapon

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  13. paperkite

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    I'd be very afraid to get a motel room to build a model ........ Great looking Yard office , that Ford lookin' good as well !!!
     
  14. paperkite

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    Mark, 'Tis a great shot of the nest ( nice work) , just needs some dropin's around it and a shot of me fall'n in the river at Bonners Ferry Id 'bout 20 yrs ago LOL.
     
  15. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Reminds me of a story a friend of mine who used to work for Conrail told me. At a bridge somewhere in Ohio, the train he normally ran, would get put in the hole on a siding before the river to wait for a higher priority train coming the other way. The two crews were always up to pranks like pitching water balloons in the cab windows of each other's locomotive. One day he took a box of torpedoes out on the bridge and applied them to both rails for a few yards. He went back to his train to look like he was ready for a roll by inspection and wait. When the other train hit all the torpedoes they let out a roar that caused all the pigeons roosting under and around the bridge to take flight. Scared the poop out of them too. Some poor fishermen below the bridge not only soiled their pants but were rained on by all the pigeon poop. He got into big trouble over that one but said it was worth it.
     
  16. Ashley_SD45T-2

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    Thats a funny story. Cant pull that prank no more.
     
  17. Tim Loutzenhiser

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    Is that you lurking in the trees to the right? :wideeyes:
     

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