Weekend Update 4/28/24

[up1950s]

https://moreobscuretrainmovies.movie.blog/2021/11/01/webs-of-steel-1926/

https://picryl.com/media/albion-lumber-companys-redwood-logging-railroad-and-their-baldwin-2-4-2t-no-bdcc33

https://www.flickr.com/photos/99819826@N08/22106009978

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https://railroadforums.com/forum/index.php?media/categories/unusual-loads.54/

https://www.customtruck.com/hi-rail-trucks-101-dual-mode-vehicles-keeping-the-railway-industry-on-track/ >>> HiRail is getting less bulky , a pair of extended axle Z scale wheels on a flimsy frame will be good enough to  treat yourself to a beer . Smaller MOW wheels via Shapeways .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OvfsFq7IHSE

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/shell-road-train.html?sortBy=relevant

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/andyram1/unusual-railway-wagons-and-loads/

[chuck geiger]

Experimenting on the team track parking lot with Golden Crackle Paste:

[peteski]

That looks good Chuck!

[chuck geiger]

You were right Pete - Thanks

[mu26aeh]

YorkRail added 2 new GP15 from Atlas this week.  These showed up on the prototype in LTEX paint before getting redone in G&W paint.  They quickly became covered in oil and grease.  Still some work to do on these

[up1950s]

You were right Pete - Thanks

What is this , I had find out .

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Hmmmmm that image of the link looks familiar , perhaps it was posted before and I didn't look at it .

[bbussey]

Finally repaired the damage to the swing bridge center pier caused by shortening the pylons, mainly because I needed to clear the CNC table to prepare for milling the EP4 windows.  But at least that was the needed incentive to get moving on this again.  I'm rebuilding the side-buffer piers rather than attempt to lower them.

[MVW]

To expand on Richie's point in the opener:

A year or so ago I checked into renting a private rail car for our family (my family plus siblings and spouses), for a trip from Minneapolis/St. Paul to New Orleans. Week's rental, plus transportation cost: $40,000.

We're renting a houseboat on the Mississippi instead.

Jim

[altohorn25]

I weathered up some motive power for some passenger train projects that I'm currently working on:

Rock Island DL109's (Life-Like/Walthers):

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B&O E8's (Kato)

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B&O Light Pacific (Broadway Limited Imports)

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[Dave V]

[Jbub]

I weathered up some motive power for some passenger train projects that I'm currently working on:

Rock Island DL109's (Life-Like/Walthers):

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B&O E8's (Kato)

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B&O Light Pacific (Broadway Limited Imports)

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Nate, these look amazing!!!

[ATSF_Ron]

@chuck geiger, idk what Golden Crackle paste is, but I sure like the look of it! 👍🏻

[chuck geiger]

Golden makes art supplies that painters use to give canvas effects when painting. Boomer has shown us how he uses them in all aspects of scenery construction.
Gesso, Crackle Paste, Pumice, Sand, Matte Mediums and more.

https://goldenartistcolors.com/products/golden-artist-acrylics

https://goldenartistcolors.com/resources/crackle-paste

[Lemosteam]

Finished up the lighting on the west side as far as I have lights for. More LED and light towers on the way. I feel I need to light the aggregate area by the waterfront and by the scrapyard (later). Going to add some red lights for the bridge and the corners of the channel entrance.

All of the structures in front of the elevated line are held in place with magnets, and electrically detachable from above, and the background structures are removeable and detachable as well.

I found this great 3.5v power plug to power all of the lighting on the layout except the fire flicker LED in the engine house. It’s from a long Christmas light string of resin coated 0402 LED.

But for now, here’s the night scenes:











Diesel fuel tank for the 44 toner, for outside the engine house between the stalls. Walthers leftover, painted with Rustoleum Galvanized paint. Folded 0.015” wire for the nozzle, TCS black decoder wire insulation for hose, pushed over the wire spout and nozzle end.
 

[vermonter_railfan]

I have been working on some of @samusi01 RSH90 flat cars, in this case the XTTX with windmill tower segment supports. Plus I have been test printing his latest version of the JSH90B which are the ones meant for poles.