Here is a Red, Off White and Blue selection of recently completed cars for Veterans Day! Details West Double Plug Door Blue Island Reefer, A Line Sill Steps, painted with Floquil Signal Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car leased by Kelloggs of Battle Creek and will be used with others of this car and my Rail Yard Models X79 PC Boxcars for cereal movements. Eastern Car Works Enterprise Covered Hopper Kit, these were only used by the NYC and CN so I needed to build a number of these for my NYC freight trains. A-Line Sill Steps added, painted with Floquil Primer and lettered with Champ Decals. Atlas 60' ACF Precision Design Boxcar, painted with CSX Blue and lettered with Microscale Decals. This car will be used in my Auto Parts Trains. Thanks for Looking! Rick J
My projects this last week: Weathered this track cleaning Bachmann tank car. Body mounted Kadee coupler boxes on these cars: Tyco 'Kellogg's' covered hopper: Tyco container flat: Mantua gondola:
Mantua flat car: Tyco gondola: Made a 45' container for the Tyco container flat: Made two 20' containers for this AHM flat car:
Hot & Cold A hard-working PRR J1 pauses for refreshment under the coaling tower at Seneca Falls while on the not-so-ready track a cold USRA 0-6-0 awaits its turn in the backshop.
Street running while switching late 40's n-scale Alameda: And "catapults" guard the entrance to the engine service area along the Columbia River in the early 1900s: Enjoy the long weekend!
I've just finished the next turnout for my staging yard, code 70 #6 with adjacent transition track. Wolfgang
Wolfgang, I don't think I have ever seen a transition section, so it took me a while to understand why the guard rails were needed. That's excellent trackwork.
Wow! That's some track work. All those rails going through the turnout make my eyes feel like they've been flipped inside out. Great work!
Blast from the past- the N scale TBX gon leaving Little River, AR in a MP local bound for Whoknowswhere.
Ops Session Attended an ops session at Kim Saign's house in Austin, Texas. It was a long term, two day affair, but I just stayed for the afternoon. In the photo from left to right is Mike, Caddy58 (TB member) and Kim Saign. We had a big Texas barbeque lunch, too. Probably pretty healthy, I suppose. This layout is about 15 x 15 feet. You can see it is very neat and well thought out. Based on the Northern Pacific. Ship It! operating computer program. Easy DCC. About 10 towns. In the foreground are the two "duckunders" that are removable. They are extruded aluminum and bolt in place with electrical lockouts. Very good idea, very sturdy and easily removable. Kim adds T9000 antennas (about six inches) to his T1300 EasyDCC wireless throttles.Ex cellent layout operation. I'll try to add more or answer any questions.
Worked on switches in the main yard. Might not hand lay anymore switches after these are put in, a real PITA, then again this is my very first hand-laid switch.
some narrow gauge shots from my clubs open house this weekend. D&RGW C-18 #317 switches a reefer at a town on the narrow gauge layout. This town came from the original pikemasters layout, dating back to the 80's. D&RGW K-27 #463 leads an excursion train through the same town. K-27 #464 crosses the high bridge with a short passenger train K-27 #463 glides over the standard gauge crossover bridge. enjoy everyone!
View attachment 40945 View attachment 40946 View attachment 40947 Here is my Scratchbuilt Fuel-Sand depot. The Snyder fuel booms were a bit of a challenge but turned out pretty good. The last photo is not my layout, just a placement example.
Tunnel 26 is getting closer to completion: Here's the flavor I'm trying to capture: More pics on the last couple pages here: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?69036