Good morning from sunny and mild Northeast Ohio! Well, after a hiatus I finally got some cars done this week, output will be less in the coming weeks as they asked me to come back to work to help with the year end close and starting out the new year accounting wise. First up is a Tangent 86' High Cube Boxcar, painted with a 50/50 mixture of Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Reefer Yellow along with Silver Paint then lettered with Herald King Decals. The Annie acquired the 12 Green Bay & Western cars, three Greenvilles and 9 Thralls, this is the Greenville car and thanks to a post on the MFCL I found out it was equipped with a HydraCushion Underframe and I built the Tangent kit accordingly (they had both the Keystone and HydraCushion parts in the kit). Car was used from the Dearborn Stamping Plant mainly to the Final Assembly Plant in Minneapolis and traveled via Car Ferry over Lake Michigan. Also finished up an Intermountain NSC 4550CF Covered Hopper kit, and substituted a Plano metal roofwalk for the plastic one in the kit. Car was painted with a 75% to 25% mixture of Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and Boxcar Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Cars were acquired by the Canadian Wheat Board as the railroads would no longer supply new cars due to the Crows Nest Pass areement where car rates were frozen at early 20th Century rates which precluded the railroads being able to finance new replacement cars. Many thousands of cars were built and were apportioned to the CP and CN for maintenance. Another picture of my Kato GP35 and Atlas RS-32's with a general mixed freight on the hill of the Strongsville Club Layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Happy New Year! To end the year here are a few shots of the new work around Union Station and the newly placed Northern Light & Power.
Love the camera on my brand NEW iPhone 13. Just got it Friday. In this one, I changed focus to the DQ building. It has a setting called Cinematic mode that allows you to do this type of videos. It's really cool! Canoeist practicing on a tiny pond. Kind of funny it's so small But until I figure out where to put a lake, river, etc... it will have to do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The water must be very concentrated... the kind you need to add water to make water . Your buildings look great! Every time I see a nice model steam loco like that, I always think of my Dad. He loved the Santa Fe. I could sit and watch him for hours while he painted and lettered - and sometimes detailed - locos and rolling stock of all kinds for the Santa Fe. That's on my second layout as a kid, in 1977. Dad always did a photo of any new acquisitions or after working on them. This was one of his "private stock" - when it ran, he was always there to watch. We had loads of fun together. I miss that.
Happy New Year to all ! ! Today we enjoy our freedoms that allow us to be model railroaders and just about anything we want to be without fear of reprisals. In that vain here is a short Y-t video that I did early last year. May we always remember and enjoy these freedoms ! ! Be well, Carl For grins, I found another vid that I did to "test' my GS-4
North Philly? Not unless it is an armored train with a detachment of Marines! I have an Overland brass NP A4 class that really needs a good tender, so this Kato tender is going to migrate to it. Then, the older C-C/Kato 4-8-4 is going to become an older class A. Should be a fun project after I get to some other things........
Slicing and dicing. Love it. I need to get back to my project of converting another of my old Kato Great Northern S2s to a Southern Pacific GS1.
Russell, The weathering looks just about right. Looks like it works for a living, but doesn't look so rough that it can't.
It's a long way down as you cross the gorge, but that's the only way to get to the logging camp (or out of it) at the Sebring (Ohio) Model Railroad Club. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Yes! It looks "Grimy". Can't have too much grime! Great shots here. Also, gotta' have "Frisco". Happy New Year!
