Weekend Update 10/8/17

[coldriver]

Kinzua October 2017 by Dean Ferris, on Flickr

Now that my mid-life modeling crisis is at least temporarily over (the one where your last child leaves for college and you realize your house is way too big for two people) I'm amping up efforts on the Oregon Joint Line again.  My original plan was to include a "company town" with the Kinzua mill because there really was a company town at the real Kinzua mill until the mid-70's.  But I decided it was a bit gimmicky (certainly not a common feature) so instead I opted for a truck shop, a sizeable office building, and a big employee parking lot which will eventually be filled with all the Shapeways late 60's pickups I've acquired which are awaiting painting.  The release of the Trainworx Vern Henderson Peterbilt log truck was a definite god-send for me as it's appropriate for my era and was used in the same Eastern Oregon region that I model. 

[bnsfdash8]

A WC SD40-2 I've been working on. I drew the cab, snow shields, and all weather window in CAD and printed them with Shapeways.

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[OldEastRR]

Talk about an uplifting experience

Nahhhh ... they were just trying to couple MTL and KATO couplers together.. takes a bit of force to do.

[nkalanaga]

Coldriver:  It looks like a NW lumber mill.

For those not familiar with the "dry side" forests of the Northwest, many of the mills look much like any other large metal factory building.  The main giveaways are the piles of logs, stacks of lumber, lots of log trucks, and, in earlier periods, the big conical sawdust/bark/slab burner.  Most of them were NOT surrounded by forests, as the trees closest to the mill were the first to be cut.

[OldEastRR]

Felt it was time to do some work on the house ...

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Still need curtains on the first floor, a chimney and TV antenna, maybe a porch light (bug lamp yellow).

Funny thing: these Walthers houses have holes at the ends of the walls, like where maybe downspouts would be glued --- but no downspouts in the kits. Anybody know why that is?

HEATING FACILITIES: Would there be outside propane tanks in use in New England in the mid-50s? I know fuel oil was the usual use. In either case I want to put an outside tank of either kind alongside one of the houses I'm detailing. Or were fuel oil tanks only in the basement?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Oil tanks were frequently outside back then. I think it was only recently (past 15 years or so) that tanks were required to be in the basement.

Propane was never big up here. Go with an oil tank.

[OldEastRR]

Oil tanks were frequently outside back then. I think it was only recently (past 15 years or so) that tanks were required to be in the basement.

Propane was never big up here. Go with an oil tank.

thank you!

[GhengisKong]

My wife has been enamoured with the large drivered locomotives of British Railways and the Big Four predecessor roads for a good while now. This is her Mallard in the middle of getting a Zimo MX649 and the biggest speaker I could and it loaded with youchoos.co.uk Mallard A4 sounds. This is my first sound install so I'm hoping it turns out well.

[badlandnp]

Got the angle braces done up on these four CV bridges and painted them up.

[BCR 570]

It is still the weekend here in Canada, so here is some more progress.

Rivet decals applied to crane idler BCOL 6502:






Trial fit of the boiler to the Donkey engine:




And a trial fit of the new Climax boiler and cab on the chassis:




This will be the last work on models for me for a while now as I want to get started on track-laying for Chetwynd Yard.  Tonight I cleared the benchwork and put the models and tools away.


Tim

[mightypurdue22]

Very nice work by all.  Here's a view of a recently placed coal flood loader from Walther's.  I've sunk the Unitrack siding in a bed of 3/16" thick gatorfoam.  Gravel is a buff sand from Hobby Lobby and landscape is a combo of materials from Woodland Scenics and Scenic Express.



Dave

[up1950s]

Very nice work by all.  Here's a view of a recently placed coal flood loader from Walther's.  I've sunk the Unitrack siding in a bed of 3/16" thick gatorfoam.  Gravel is a buff sand from Hobby Lobby and landscape is a combo of materials from Woodland Scenics and Scenic Express.



Nice effect with that sunken track . Every coal facility I saw had a black track on blackened earth all around the place . Do you have a prototype shot showing otherwise ?

Dave

[mightypurdue22]

I wouldn't say my coal loader scene is complete by any means, but wanted to have it far enough along I wouldn't think about it day and night.  Here are a couple of flood loaders, albeit in a different part of the country.  Pretty tidy for the most part.  Maybe these just have less volume than the big mines out west...





That said, I do have plans to dirty it up.

Dave

[Mark5]

I wouldn't say my coal loader scene is complete by any means, but wanted to have it far enough along I wouldn't think about it day and night.  Here are a couple of flood loaders, albeit in a different part of the country.  Pretty tidy for the most part.  Maybe these just have less volume than the big mines out west...

Digging the Ex-SOUTHERN hi-noser.

[tehachapifan]

I wouldn't say my coal loader scene is complete by any means, but wanted to have it far enough along I wouldn't think about it day and night.  Here are a couple of flood loaders, albeit in a different part of the country.  Pretty tidy for the most part.  Maybe these just have less volume than the big mines out west...





That said, I do have plans to dirty it up.

Dave

With regards to the bottom pic, is that the main track running under/thru the loader? I have some areas on my layout where I could add an industry but don't have quite enough room to add a siding or spur. Didn't think it was realistic to have the main track serve an industry.