Did this weekend go as fast for you as it did me? Even with my usual Friday to stay home and work on customers custom paint, the weekend still flew by. I was busy but unfortunately I did not get anything done on my modules like I had originally planned. 2-rail O by Jim Wiggin posted Mar 7, 2016 at 5:46 AM Friday morning, I started with these six 2-Rail O scale boxcars, 3 plug door PS-1's and 3 60-foot hi-cube boxcars. All were washed in a warm soapy solution of water in a large, large plastic tub and allowed to air dry. While drying, other smaller projects were completed in the shop such as this customers project, Private Road 1 by Jim Wiggin posted Mar 7, 2016 at 5:51 AM A while ago he painted up these interesting CN looking locomotives and decided he wanted to have some white trim added to them, ah-la Conrail SD80 style. Out came the pattern maker, a lot of Tamiya tape and a good hour of some great podcast playing in the shop. 2-rail O Bloomer by Jim Wiggin posted Mar 7, 2016 at 5:47 AM Once that was done, I was able to spray the three PS-1's Chinese Red and let them dry.... Private Road 2 by Jim Wiggin posted Mar 7, 2016 at 5:52 AM Allowing me to finish this and the second locomotive with a similar scheme as seen in the background. 2-Rail O for Bloomer Line by Jim Wiggin posted Mar 7, 2016 at 5:49 AM Saturday I tackled the 60-foot boxcars. With Led Zepplin's Mother Ship blasting in the shop, I painted the aluminum tops and the white "excess height" area. Sunday I masked it all and shot the Chinese Red. Now all six are ready for the custom decals that I had produced. The light was good Sunday so I don't regret doing these on my "day off" and the customer of these O scale behemoths is very impatient, calling me every other day despite the updates on the Wiggin Locomotive Works Facebook page. Oh well, its my best friend so I'll give him a pass. So how about you? What did you get done this weekend? Bench work, track work or just running trains? Let us know! We'll come back on Friday the 11th to start it all over again. Also, I would be remiss in not taking a moment to remember a truly remarkable woman who passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Nancy Reagan was a very influential First Lady in the United States who loved her husband Ronald Reagan dearly. She was a remarkable woman and will be missed Rest in piece with your beloved Husband Nancy and thanks for all you did. High Greens!
Got a lot done on my bulk oil dealership. Now that the buildings and storage tanks are done.... gonna make a couple small changes. Didn't touch my H12-44's. Wasn't quite in the right frame of mind for them. Thanks, hope ya'll had a great weekend, Wolf
I am gradually making progress on trackwork for my new switching layout. This is taking longer than usual (for me) because I'm trying to be meticulous about it. I did run some trains on my roundy-round, which just hammers home the point about good trackwork (because this layout doesn't have it).
As discussed Friday, basement clean up and new ROW installation continues: Those three table tops are 10ft 6in long and 16 in wide. Salvaged from an HO FreeMo guy who was moving . . . . need to scrap off the roadbed and add an inch of foam . . . and make some other improvements to bring these up to FreeMoN standards. The pile o'crud on the floor has also been picked for wayward screws and disposed of. More to come this week I hope.
Well I'm planning a new layout made of modules that I would set on my existing benchwork and run or work on or set up many of them and have long running on the floor, still in negotiations with my parents, but this would alow me to have different scenes from different regions and also long straight aways lined by a high way and Bulford shops corn fields (just need to find them!!) or the montainous Canadian sheild with rock cuts and a small tunell on the cp Keewatin sub!
Been a while but I've been scratch building another steam dredger. It was one of many that dug the Diversion Channel which drained swamps in southeast Missouri and Frisco's Hoxie Branch went right through this area. This one was photographed along the Cato Slough about a mile south of Greenbrier in about 1917. I still have some details to add but it is basically finished. [/URL
