The old Railway Express building sits to the left of the Rosenberg Union Station Depot. The Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe (ATSF) tracks are behind them while the Texas & New Orleans (SP) tracks are in the foreground. Here is a prototype photo taken in the mid 1960s.
Got another batch of cars done this week! Intermountain Railway 40' PS1 Boxcar with and 8' Door, one of a kind paint scheme for the Chicago Great Western. Painted with Flquil Maroon Paint and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Atlas 17,600 Gal Tank Car, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. Atlas 4650CF Covered Hopper, removed trough hatches and replaced with circular hatches (PITA as the trough hatch was glued in, why give you a choice of hatches and then glue in one of the choices). Painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. Thanks for looking! Rick J
Yes, it was called the "Union" depot. However, there were no passenger trains stopping on the ATSF side because all the Santa Fe trains were on the other side using the SP tracks, via track rights, to get from the crossing at Tower 17 into Houston. You can see Tower 17 in the distance to the left of the depot in this photo where the ATSF trains were switched between their home tracks and the SP. In this case it shows an AMTRAK train as it was in more modern times. The REA building has long been abandoned but you can still see where the sign was on the end.
Made a new cleaning car a piece of wood two nails and some lead weights.They work good and are cheap.
Train #718 was captured descending thru Upper South Boulder Canyon yesterday.... From over the top of Tunnel 26, the coal load exits into the wintery scene: Click here to view the original image of 700x500px and 116KB.
I'd kind of like to see at least the CGW car without the sepia tone added to the picture. I think that makes it hard to appreciate the true color and craftsmanship of the car.
The proximity of tracks on both sides had me wondering. Sure do wish when I'm painting I could better duplicate the color of the old siding, with that sun bleached bare wood appearance.
Doesn't look like sepia tone to me. Looks like a picture taken in "warm" incandescent light with daylight film in a film camera, or a digital camera set for daylight color balance.
While rehabilitating an old N scale gas station model to sell it off, since it did not fit on my present layout, I discovered the corner gas company brand sign was missing. It had a distinctive shaped sign and I had a decal for the sign, but did not know if I could neatly scratchbuild the odd shape. However there were other decals for the brand that would fit a round sign, if I could make one neatly. The solution was a craft store clip-on earring blank. I bought a package of a half dozen years ago for another sign project, and had several left over. (shown at left) And it perfectly fit a round oil company sign. Removing the clip and straightening out the stem of the clip gave me a neat metal circle with an integral “handle,” a lollipop shape. I found a piece of brass tubing that the lollipop “stem” fit into, and a piece of copper tubing that fit around the brass tube, and a piece of hard steel wire that fit into the brass tubing. The steel wire would fit into some kind of a fitting I got as the hardware store to use as the base. All assembled with GOO(tm) and superglue and 5-minute epoxy, I had a nice structure for a round sign. I wanted to check the color of the pole so I googled service station pictures from the 1950s. They ALL had the distinctive shaped sign. I redoubled my search through my surplus structure box and found the prototype distinctive-shaped sign. I put my sign structure in my surplus sign parts box. It had been fun and I learned a little something. Shameless plug: Here is the gas station for sale... http://www.ebay.com/itm/290879231071?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
On many cars I use items like weld lines, rivit lines, ladders etc to line up the placement of the decals on both sides of the car. On others where I have a long name to spell out across ribs or the length of the car, I will use a straight edge and cut a line in the paint with a sharp #11 blade that will fill in when I apply the dull coat after the car is done. Also most final placement is done by eye to align with the previous decal. Rick J
Nice model. I sure remember those old stations and their Pegasus sign. I started pumping gas at my local Mobil, summer of 1959. (Age 7.) They even built me a little step, so I could wash windows. I ended up working there for many years.
I got this done on Saturday amidst giving the Mastiff a bath ..... in the shower. Cleaning up her run of the " dog dung " and trying to figure out why my E6 will run but no sounds ...How ever , I still need to do the white water around the rapids and order some guys fishing and a couple out for a picnic and swim in a pond next to the bulge in the river.
