With sunset coming a little earlier each week, why don't we start SNFF a little earlier too? No question about it - last week's SNFF earned more than 8 medals!! This week saw no modeling in the Cowie household, only more (and more.. and more...) unpacking! Today, though, the missus dragged me off to the Georgetown Loop for a different kind of railroading (and foto) fun. They were running two trains today. Guess the word is out they're gone after another 6 weeks or so. Here's the train we were on:
That was the good news. The bad news is we had no idea the other train they were running... was headed up by a.... 3 truck Shay!! Live and in person!
This week’s SNFF takes us to Hutchinson, Kansas, where I had to go with my wife in January, 1998 to “rescue” my mother-in-law Mary Baston who was getting old and confused and could no longer live in her little house where the heating had been condemned due to leaking carbon monoxide. My mother-in-law stayed with other relatives nearby while my wife and I cleaned out her little house… We spent an unheated night or two there in the Kansas January. As much as I did not relish it for comfortable accommodation, I thought it was a slightly interesting little house, with one railroad track half a block one direction and one of Hutchinson’s giant half-mile long grain elevators a block and a half away a different direction. It seemed a mixture of ordinariness and specificity that I thought would make a good little model. I shot pictures of the little house front and back and eventually got around to modeling it. Actually built two models- one for myself and one for Dale Farley of Houston, who had an N-scale ATSF layout with a Hutchinson scene where the model would be appropriate. Fairly straightforward construction with Evergreen scribed clapboard styrene sheet and some kind of styrene roof shingle sheet. I “parts-bashed” part of a Gold Medals photo-etched fire escape to make the grillwork on the front porch. Both my mother-in-law and Mr. Farley have now passed away. A post on another bulletin board inquired about modeling Hutchinson so I thought this would be a good time to photograph my Hutchinson mother-in-law house and post it on SNFF.
Here are the new Atlas pulpwood flatcars. Two ATSF 2-8-8-2's pull a string of ATSF pulpwood flat cars on the JJJ&E. [ 23. August 2004, 17:46: Message edited by: Powersteamguy1790 ]
Well this week I kitbashed the interior of an S-2 and then went to work on the commercial area of my layout. The first shot shows the S2 on the CNR mainline. This represents the east side of Edmonton, where the CNR mainline made use of fill to elevate the track over the Canadian Northern Mainline Second shot is an overview of the commercial district. Nothing to prototypical here other then the names on the buildings. Sort of a Downtown, Eastend merger, but it feels right for the area I am trying to model.
Hi Folks, While I haven't gotten diddley done of the layout of late, I've been slowly progressing with a few N-Trak modules:
Here is a little project from this last week; I have also created a Sub-Album in my RailImages folder with photos of locos used on the RGW, called "Motive Power". Here is one of the shots from that sub-album; Here is the link to the album; http://www.railimages.com/gallery/RGW-Motive-Power
Nice pictures William. It's good you could get away from the unpacking long enough to do something fun. Thanks for sharing the photos folks! I'll recycle my latest photo of progress on the shelf module. It's starting to look like something other than a pink box..
Nice work so far tonight gang! Here's my contribution - I'm starting to scenic some more of my layout. Here are my newly-returned-from-IM Tunnel Motors (and as Jerry D. shared in another post, they are a BIG improvement over the first issue - they look SWEET!) leading a manifest over the Tuolomne River. Lots of work still to go on the scenery. Dave
Well, after about a week and a half of cutting, gluing, painting and lots and lots of decaling and a little hand painting. It is finally done Here is UP3593 "Desert Victory" Thanks for all the good comments earlier in the week. I will have more projects done in the near future. Travis
Nice work guys! Thanks for posting progress photos, Jack - that's my new layout you're laying out for me!! Keep it coming! John, did you build that crane from scratch? And Kenneth, great house!!! What did you use for that pipe on the left of the bottom photo (is that a drain pipe?)
I posted these earlier on the reconditioned motors thread but thought I would repeat them here. I started out with a ROWA Y6b and a Bachmann cylindrical tender. I replaced the trucks on the tender with some Con Cor Hudson trucks to get better electrical pickup. I scratch built the new cab out of styrene with a lot of etched brass parts, wire hand rails and a resin roof. The front truck was a modified passenger car truck. I added a deck with brass handrails under the smoke box. The engine number reflects an AC-6 that received a "modern" rebuild cab to replace the one that was on the engine when built.
Shokenaw Mountain, on my "shuriken" module, reaches what I will expect to be its final shape: Next step is to add grass, then start figuring out what sort of details to add.
Howdy all. Been awhile since I posted here. I have been busy at work, and also working on the new layout. Right now as I type I have a stripped borg SD-40-2 sitting in front of me. It is going to make it's way into a SOO SD-40-2 . Numbered in the 6600 class. Here is my pic for tonight. The crew at the engine facility adjacent to Brewer Yard is trying to work fast and safe as a huge storm is moving in. The clouds are rolling in, making the middle of the day look like the middle of night. Adios fer now, wyatt
Great stuff as is usual with N Scalers here! Love that bridge Dave! Tunnel Motors look great on it! Travis...two thumbs up man! WOW! Russell....awesome job on the cab forward! Every time I see one of these engines, I think of the first time I saw the cab forward at the Railroad museum in Sacramento. It took my breath away. I couldn't believe how huge it was! Dan...love that pavement! William.....you told me you were moving because of your job. THE TRUTH NOW COMES OUT!!! LOL A big thanks to everyone else I haven't mentioned personnally. Hope to post something soon myself. Hopifully I will get some shorter days at work this week!
I'm still working on La Posada......snore.....What??? Huh???? I promise only to put up progress shots when it looks like I did something, this week ain't it, and next week probably isn't much better..... So, here's an old/new shot. Messing around with the camera and tried a new angle. Winslow had (past tense) this funky blue yard tower across from La Posada, and the photos I took at that time usually had the resident yard switcher parked nearby. My favorite local 'goat' is a redone Atlas GP7 with wire handrails, details, micro-scale decals, and weathering: The yard tower was 'guestimated' from photos - it's all strathmore, brass tube, and stripwood. Great stuff out here tonight. Wyatt, those headlight reflections on the railhead are cool...
I am paddling as fast as I can. I will get a good llook at everything tomorrow night. Randgust: Great weathreing and prototypical shot. Nice job!! And my favorite series of engines...GP7/9. Here is a Paducah built GP35. Custom painted a few years ago. One of my early airbrush jobs.
