Managed to finish a couple of cars this week! Eastern Car Works Enterprise Covered Hopper Kit, added all brake gear piping and substituted A-Line Sill Steps for the Cast on sill steps, also substituted a Plano Etched Metal Roffwalk for the kit supplied plastic roofwalk. Painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Aberdeen Car Shops Decals. The Canada Southern was an NYC Subsidiary that operated in Ontario from Windsor to Bufallo, the NYC sent three cars from Lot 747H to supplement the converted USRA coal hopper cars. They lasted until the mid 70's. Intermountain PS 4750CF Covered Hopper kit painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. To be used in general grain service. As an added plus my new GP38-2's with an auto parts train on the Strongsville Club Layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A busy Greyhound bus depot in Hannah Vista one evening in 1964 as roofers work to fix a leaky roof...
If one can't figure out the scale of the scene by looking at it, it's realistic enough to pass as prototype. That is one fantastic modeling and photography job (for a setup like that, lighting and framing are just as important as the model itself).
I had to study it closely ... it was not for the cobweb running from the hand brake to the side, I would still be scratching my head. Great work, Mike!
I also saw that cobweb, and was trying to figure what would have caused it in 1:1 scale. Finally gave up and accepted it as an excellently created model scene.
Okay, It is a model. G Scale I believe. There are many garden railroads here in San Diego. This one belongs to a retired Disney Imagineer. That is not a cob web on the brake wheel, but a tie-off so the wheel does not turn on its own. The fence in the back ground should have been the clue. The car looks real because this owner leaves all his rolling stock out doors year round so they weather naturally. Locos are indoors. I took the photo on an open house tour with my Canon SX260HS which I consider one of the best pocket cameras made. Jim
Utz can get cooking oil delivered now. Here is Procor #75006, in between two MT decorated models, which is in a series that I found is used for vegetable oil most of the time. Still have some decals to finish and shot of dull coat. Wish Microscale would have an enlargement of the decal sheet so you know what you're cutting, especially in white.
I've had the white decal problem before. They're very hard to see on that light blue background. But they are opaque! Try using a backlight (my first experiments were against a sunlit window). The white letters will be quite obvious then.
