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General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: up1950s on January 12, 2024, 07:26:07 PM
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-03-10/matt-johnson-sculpture-desert-x-2023-coachella-valley
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-interview/
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/03/25/train-blamed-deaths-hundreds-crows-michigan/82255998/
https://facts.net/train-facts/
https://brokensecrets.com/2011/04/08/the-incident-why-buses-open-their-door-at-railroads/
https://steamgiants.com/news/steam-locomotives-in-ukraine-war-zone/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-67454247
https://nysteamengineassociation.com/events/2024-pageant-of-steam-construction-equipment/
https://www.american-rails.com/va-trnrdes.html
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Moving west out of Lincoln Yard, laying out the area around Zarfoss Rd in West York. Just a rough sketch before bed, some cars for place holders. Will obviously need stretched a little more after placing turnouts.
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Google Maps view of the area
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9412311,-76.7964922,873a,35y,151.87h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
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Started experimenting with the AnyCubic tough flexible black resin. I’ve had three passenger diaphragm designs on Shapeways for years and decided to test print them. They are based on the ALM design but printed as one component instead of three. One design is for MTL heavyweights, one for Kato Budd cars, and one for Kato P-S/ACF cars. I tested some yesterday. They could use some minor tweaking but still are useable. This is a pair of the P-S/ACF diaphragms on two Kato 20CL cars.
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Those look good Bryan!
A little more progress on my CN C-424 this week.
Front pilot cleaned off and filled in preparation for installation of Min by Eric plow:
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Rear pilot cleaned off and filled in preparation for installation of Briggs Models footboard:
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Tim
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I built a log load out for my Algoma Central inspired layout.
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I think I need to modify some bulkhead flat cars with those side posts, and I have been kinda keeping my eye out for a log truck.
I will revisit the back drop, I think I can do a better job of editing the photos together, and print it on photo paper.
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I want to give a shout out to up1950s for the thoughtful collection of links included in the opening post every week. Always interesting and a great read with that Saturday morning cup of coffee.
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I built a log load out for my Algoma Central inspired layout.
Another Canadian layout, and a prototype I have not seen modelled before! Nice scene. Tell me about the Algoma Central gondola - I need one of those.
Tim
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I want to give a shout out to up1950s for the thoughtful collection of links included in the opening post every week. Always interesting and a great read with that Saturday morning cup of coffee.
Thank you Sir .
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Another Canadian layout, and a prototype I have not seen modelled before! Nice scene. Tell me about the Algoma Central gondola - I need one of those.
Tim
MTL #46250, released twice. And I’m a fan of those loads, too @dangerboy81
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A little scratch build from the files here in the forum.
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Foundation, lighting and details to be added. And a bit more weathering.
Fun!
Lee
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I have been adding to my Conrail freight car roster by removing existing road numbers (and renumbering) or painting out predecessor reporting marks (and renumbering) on some equipment that has been released in recent years. All cars are based on actual prototype photos. Decals have just been applied, and the cars will need washed and dull-coated this Spring or Summer. I have two renumbered Eastern Seaboard Models Evans 50' SD boxcars (Conrail class X72), two renumbered Scale Trains early PS 4785 covered hoppers (Conrail class 138H), one painted out (New York Central) Scale Trains early PS 4785 covered hopper (Conrail class 138H) and one painted out (Pennsylvania) Athearn ACF 4600 three bay center floor hopper (Conrail class H45). These are all exquisite models and I am grateful to the manufacturers for producing them and making them available for purchase. Thank you.
Jeff
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Another Canadian layout, and a prototype I have not seen modelled before! Nice scene. Tell me about the Algoma Central gondola - I need one of those.
Tim
Oh ya, I check in here almost every day, but rarely post. As mentioned, those gon's are Micro trains. I think they only released 1 road number. I buy them when I find them. Not sure how accurate they are, but if no one tells me, I'm blissful in my ignorance!
MTL #46250, released twice. And I’m a fan of those loads, too @dangerboy81
Those loads are twigs I find dried out in my back yard. I'm not even sure what plant they are from, but they are solid in the center. I cut a piece of foam to fit in the gon, dip them in watered down Matt Medium and stick them to the foam.
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I built a log load out for my Algoma Central inspired layout.
I think I need to modify some bulkhead flat cars with those side posts, and I have been kinda keeping my eye out for a log truck.
Royale Models has some very nice 3d printed trucks. Also specifically loggers.
I’ve used a few of them and they are very nice and reasonably priced.
https://www.royalemodels.com/Shop?spage=8&scpp=16#wbs1
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SP 6001 got out to play on a friend's layout. First run!
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As mentioned, those gon's are Micro trains. I think they only released 1 road number. I buy them when I find them. Not sure how accurate they are, but if no one tells me, I'm blissful in my ignorance!
OK I won't tell . . . . . thanks for the info. I think that the Algoma shipped a lot of pulpwood so your loads are appropriate.
I built a mock-up for the diesel shop at Prince George today, which I need for planning the staging yard in my closet:
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I built a log load out for my Algoma Central inspired layout.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53431450022_72543636a3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ppy9yW)IMG_5529 (https://flic.kr/p/2ppy9yW) by Leon Richard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/leon_richard/), on Flickr
I love the idea of stacking the logs vertically in the end of the gons. Super good modeling idea in my mind ...
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I love the idea of stacking the logs vertically in the end of the gons. Super good modeling idea in my mind ...
Well, that’s the way it’s generally done.
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Well, that’s the way it’s generally done.
I live in Southern California. Do not have the opportunity to see many logging cars
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The GN, NP, MILW, etc in the upper Midwest and Northwest loaded pulpwood that way, including the vertical log "bulkheads". Most "saw logs" in the Northwest were longer, and loaded lengthwise.
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I received a new 3D printed coal tower for New Lisbon in the mail this past week from China.
I cut it out of the supports, fixed a few things, and washed it this morning. Waiting for it to dry so I can paint and weather it.
Thanks Mike Skibbe for finding this one; much better size compared to the Walthers kit I was going to use (that one was too big).
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I finished up the coal tower for now......needs more weathering.......
I took a few photos of it on one of my modules; the lighting is better than my layout room currently.....
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Not sure how accurate they are, but if no one tells me, I'm blissful in my ignorance!
I've been a model railroader since I was 10. The older I get (72), the more I agree with your statement. I look at a lot of Milwaukee Road prototype material and incorporate some of it into my railroad but I have friends who are in modelling paralysis for fear of getting something wrong. I have trains I can run and enjoy and they don't. YMMV
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I've been a model railroader since I was 10. The older I get (72), the more I agree with your statement. I look at a lot of Milwaukee Road prototype material and incorporate some of it into my railroad but I have friends who are in modelling paralysis for fear of getting something wrong. I have trains I can run and enjoy and they don't. YMMV
That is the point, isn't it?
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I finished up the basic scenery on the WP&Y Fraser, BC side; I may add some kind of company vehicle in the lot, although in modern times it was used for tour bus parking. And maybe a moose or two, or a bear. I need to do some test running to make sure the track power is still ok, it seems like about a year since anything ran on this. Hopefully no broken feeds or joints.
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Also need to finish up a DL535E to run. I tested my idea to provide lighting on this little guy, which basically puts a pre-wired 0201 LED inside a headlight housing, that is then painted black and pressed into the cab. It will get a resistor added to keep the brightness down as well.
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I finished up the coal tower for now......needs more weathering.......
I took a few photos of it on one of my modules; the lighting is better than my layout room currently.....
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Nate -- that turned out very nice - Just out of curiosity, what did the China shop charge for that?
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My I1 is pretty much 'done' now, see the main thread for more photos, other than adding the coal load, when I get the sound decoder in the tender
Video of this running will be next.....
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Link: http://www.randgust.com/PRRL1025.JPG
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Nate -- that turned out very nice - Just out of curiosity, what did the China shop charge for that?
$22.14 (that includes tax and free shipping.....only took about 2 weeks to get here, and that was over the holidays....).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/393544839472
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I've been working on a BTS Elliot & Sons kit. Still a long ways to go.
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I finished up the basic scenery on the WP&Y Fraser, BC side;
Nicely done!
I spent some time today getting the layout back up and running after a lengthy hiatus. To mark our first snow of the year this past week I ran my first plow extra after completing the snow plow and flanger models last year. The plow kit was a gift from Puddington after I saw his CPR one on an older forum.
Plow Extra 574 crossing the Pine River (likely one of the last trains to do so before replacing the bridge):
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and passing through Groundbirch after the climb up the helix:
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Tim
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And so the scenery begins. Pink foam ziggurats filled in with lightweight spackling, and then some tinted sculptamold in areas where I’m hoping to have some exposed clay. It is rather shockingly orange, but at the same time, that’s how the clay looks around here, as you can see in the linked proto photo. Worst case, if it needs to get toned down I can add some washed or repaint it, but for an underlying color it should work well. And it’ll be covered by a lot of kudzu as well.
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http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3529522
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One of the things I did this week was design a new top for my tamiya turntable, hopefully this will allow easier car painting.
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One of the things I did this week was design a new top for my tamiya turntable, hopefully this will allow easier car painting.
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Who makes the 89' flatcar you have there?
Joe
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We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.
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The GN, NP, MILW, etc in the upper Midwest and Northwest loaded pulpwood that way, including the vertical log "bulkheads". Most "saw logs" in the Northwest were longer, and loaded lengthwise.
I could have sworn I saw a picture of gondolas loaded this way on Chris Vanderheide's blog. It has been an awesome resource, but I just went looking again and can't find the picture.
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/tag/pulpwood/
Royale Models has some very nice 3d printed trucks. Also specifically loggers.
I’ve used a few of them and they are very nice and reasonably priced.
https://www.royalemodels.com/Shop?spage=8&scpp=16#wbs1
Thanks, I thought I saw some somewhere, thats them!
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I've decided to build the iconic snow shed at Lizard Head Pass for my HOn3 Rio Grande Southern. Right now I have nothing to show for it but piles upon piles of stripwood...some stained and some still raw. When construction commences, I may do a separate build thread. I do know I've purchased all the 1/8" basswood dowel to be found in Colorado Springs and still probably need more!
In the meantime, we had a toasty -10°F at the house this morning and the daytime barely broke into the positive, so I tinkered a bit in the warm basement.
Learned today that retired USAF Lt Col and famed railroad author Mallory Hope Ferrell passed away on Christmas Day. His book Silver San Juan is what captured my interest in the Rio Grande Southern in the first place when I read it concurrent with a 1988 visit to southwest Colorado and a ride on the Durango and Silverton. Silver San Juan starts with a treatment of the three narrow gauge shortlines that ran north out of Silverton. Here are just a few of my pieces that represent the Silverton roads (SG&N stands for Silverton, Gladstone & Northerly). Not enough tribute for an author who fundamentally changed my railroad fandom, but it's something.
Two of the three men most responsible for my love of Colorado narow gauge passed on in 2023... Malcolm Furlow and now Mal Ferrell. By the grace of God, the third--my father--is still with us.
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Sounds like an awesome project Dave!! Look forward to the start of it.
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Shay #2, station switcher at Short Creek Junction,, with two idler flat cars (also called "handles" or "reachers")..........
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We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.
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Is that how much we got? I feel like I shoveled more than I have in a long time.
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I was up to my knees in water this weekend...
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The Potomac finally got filled in from end to end, at least the first coat...
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And Wills Creek got a similar treatment on my new set of TTrak modules depicting the west end of the Narrows.
Lee
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Who makes the 89' flatcar you have there?
Joe
Joe,
That particular model, a 141000 series JSH90, is equipped as (or rather, has the alignment holes to be) a PTTX variant. My design.
Sam
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Added number boards class lights and other touch-ups to the M420s. Adding road numbers one digit at a time is a PITA!
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Also painted a Bedarail CN SD40
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Made some new axles to replace the steamrollers Bachmann use, but it didn't quite go to plan. More in the Ashuelot Branch layout thread.
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We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.
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Jim--Love your photo. It makes my Milwaukee Road heart happy.
My son is a Professor at UNI and he and the family were going to travel from Waterloo, Iowa to see us in Springfield, IL last weekend. He also got 20+ inches there so, obviously the trip got cancelled. We only got 1 inch on our end but had actual air temperature of -12 with wind chill in the -30 range. A balmy 24 degrees today.
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Jim--Love your photo. It makes my Milwaukee Road heart happy.
My son is a Professor at UNI and he and the family were going to travel from Waterloo, Iowa to see us in Springfield, IL last weekend. He also got 20+ inches there so, obviously the trip got cancelled. We only got 1 inch on our end but had actual air temperature of -12 with wind chill in the -30 range. A balmy 24 degrees today.
Roger,
Glad your family is safe. Good call on canceling the trip. They would have gone through the worst part of the storm.
Here’s a short video of the donkeys.
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I could have sworn I saw a picture of gondolas loaded this way on Chris Vanderheide's blog. It has been an awesome resource, but I just went looking again and can't find the picture.
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/tag/pulpwood/
Various prototype shots:
Not with the vertical logs, but various bulkhead flatcar and gondola cars with cross-wise ~8' logs:
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/11/13/pulpwood-and-log-traffic-on-the-acr/
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wc63241_2&o=wc
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ac1129&o=ac
Various gons with makeshift vertical-log retainers as being discussed:
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=soo8061&o=soo
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wc65035&o=wc
SOO Line gon with metal brackets for pulpwood (loaded with fresh ties here):
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=soo7827&o=soo
My model loads:
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/2020/01/21/pulpwood-loadsjigs/
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Speaking of pulpwood
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photo:therailwire.net
Amazingly, the crew survived.
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WOW, If I had been in that cab, I think I would get a PTSD attack just from seeing a toothpick for the rest of my life. I guess they ducked behind the low nose in the nick of time?
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Log truck collision?
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Yes, a log truck collision. It happened in Northern Ontario on the transcontinental mainline sometime in the 90s. The Hogger and the Brakie hid behind the nose. I have a few more pictures if interested.
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It wouldn't have helped here, but that's why there are restrictions on where to put open loads in a train!