Weekend Update 5/10/20

[jpwisc]

I finished off a Clinchfield caboose. It was fun detailing this one.
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[Cajonpassfan]

That's a scratch-bash  I did of one of the two 1949 Budd Tavern-Lounge cars, built for DL&W's
 new streamliner, The Phoebe Snow.

Greg O.

Very nice, thank you.
Otto

[nkalanaga]

NtheBasement:  As Jane said, I can't see them either.  I have seen the Sioux City bridge, in person and in BNSF calendars, so have a good idea of what you're describing.  And I agree, unless you want to spend the next decade building a bridge, best to avoid the lattice work!

[PiperguyUMD]

I finished off a Clinchfield caboose. It was fun detailing this one.
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Nice! I have a soft spot for the Clinchfield. I drive under this bridge when we go to town.

[Missaberoad]

He wants to build a module with a bit of the Fallout video game 50's alternate time line reference. Still deciding on how to do the Red Rocket diner.

"N-trak... N-Trak never changes"

Excited to see how this progresses.. There's alot of really cool material to work off off...
Need a bunch of wagon top boxcars

[Missaberoad]

I finished off a Clinchfield caboose. It was fun detailing this one.

Very nice work Karl! What model was your starting point?

[JanesCustomTrain]

At the risk of causing someone to miss out on another good forum...

Thanks   

Jane

[jpwisc]

Very nice work Karl! What model was your starting point?

Thank you! It was an old Atlas caboose. A CRR modeler made the resin cast steps and the modified car floor. It moved the trucks closer together. I added the grabs and the end railings. I had to make the windows from spare plastic. It was a pretty simple build.

[dem34]

"N-trak... N-Trak never changes"

Excited to see how this progresses.. There's alot of really cool material to work off off...
Need a bunch of wagon top boxcars

And a couple multistory locomotives.

Side requirement is a couple of 11ft 8 overpasses across Red, Yellow, and Blue

[delamaize]

On the caboose thing, I did get something done worth showing off this week.
I took one of the Kato Cabooses that was a ATSF Foob and mad a NP Foob out of it, after a quick paint job, and cherry picking decals from several sheets.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, It's not perfect, but it's the first time I have been able to get decals to work right, and look good.
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Here is a compairson to one of Atlas' cabooses
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And finally my other Caboose project on the right of the atlas caboose.
It started life as a offset cupola caboose, Can't remember which manufacture, Which I cut down, and painted up. This is what I think NP would have done, if they started making their short cabooses out of metal instead of wood.
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[Mark W]

Pics from 2011:

@NtheBasement AWESOME Build! I might have to adopt that technique for the 2013 bridge.  For the 1903 bridge, I am going to do the lattice box beams...  wish me luck! 

[craigolio1]

@Dave V you've been counted among us for quite a long time now. Even in your N Scale PRR HCD days, you were genuinely an a$$hat. So there!

Can't deal with blood, and needles make me faint...

Actually, @VonRyan planted the seed--after I finished animating two box fans for a hardware store window display, he suggested I make a desk fan that oscillates. But he was being facetious, not expecting me to actually do it. I immediately began sketching a mechanism on the back of an envelope, which is not far from what I actually built. (And it's a virtual clone of one I built to make a windmill spin and oscillate back in the late '90s.)

Well, you're in luck, because I just completed the drive system, so now it runs all on its own.

When it's installed (most likely in the Foxx and Vollmer law offices), it'll be accompanied by a green banker's desk lamp... something I've wanted to model for a while, which will help illuminate the fan.

I think this might be the coolest project I’ve ever seen.

Craig.

[NtheBasement]

@NtheBasement AWESOME Build! I might have to adopt that technique for the 2013 bridge.  For the 1903 bridge, I am going to do the lattice box beams...  wish me luck! 

Please update us as you go.  Will be interested to see how you do the lattice work.

Google Earth is worth installing just for it's measuring tool.

[C855B]

... Google Earth is worth installing just for its measuring tool.

https://www.google.com/maps has the same tool, no need to load the app. Just right-click and select from the pop-up.

[OldEastRR]

It was considered a safety precaution between the 20s and 60s. Theory was running short hood forward would put the engineer at great risk from a collision at a grade crossing. While running long hood would put an entire Diesel Prime mover between the crew and the danger.

Apparently the engineers on diesel or electric  passenger locos were expendable since the '30s, since Es, GG1s, DL109s, EP-4s, Sharknoses, C-liners and PAs all had front end cabs?