Weekend Update 11/19/17

[bman]

Somehow between driving 500 miles this weekend I managed to finally start my Atlas 90 ton hopper re-numbering project.  Now for the little decals on the ends......

[Philip H]

The More W&LE I see the more I want an excuse for interchange with KCS in Baton Rouge.

[nkalanaga]

Ron:  I wouldn't be surprised if you could find a real BN loco with the stripes reversed, if you looked long enough.  I once saw a speeder with the BN logo mirror-imaged...

[glakedylan]

Starting from left to right:  the first, second, fourth, and fifth cars are brass from Railway Classics I believe.  The third car is the new car from Kato.  The sixth car is the FVM car and the seventh car is the old brass model (can't remember the manufacturer off the top of my head - it was in a 5 car set).  I could be wrong.

7th car looks to be: NJ International / Kumata Brass Milwaukee Road

sincerely
Gary

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Went to two open houses today and got to see dueling coal dumpers!


Rick Spano (N)

So... back in 1993 Rick had his layout open during the NMRA Valley Forge convention. I remember trekking up there with my dad and Jim Fitzgerald to help him run it for the layout tours. Little 11 year old me got to run the rotary dumper during the tours, amusing lots of visitors.
That was a fun summer.

[Roger Holmes]

7th car looks to be: NJ International / Kumata Brass Milwaukee Road

sincerely
Gary

You are all correct.  Funny how the Railway Classics  Skytops looked pretty good until the Kato set came out.  I paid significantly less for the whole Kato set than for just one brass Skytop when new.

[coosvalley]

Another great week around here!

I'm a little late, but, my weeks progress is this SW1 and this caboose, more in my layout thread!

Have a great week!

[wm3798]

Lots of good stuff this week!

Last week I showed you the foam dummy of a building I need to build to fill an odd shaped lot on my switching layout.


I spent some time this week drawing up a plan that makes sense for the site, which has changes of elevations on both sides.  I'm planning to make it a commercial printer.  I'm not going to have a rail siding to it, but I've got an old loading door on the track side as if at one time it did get served by the CH&FP.



This is the same view represented by the foam building.  The load out door on the back faces the tracks.



This is the view of the street side, note how the road slopes down from left to right.  In order to make sure the building makes sense as real estate venture, I laid out a logical floor plan demonstrating how the work would flow from the receiving dock, through the press room, on to a bindery and off to the shipping door on the side.  I also mad space for a passenger and freight elevator shaft, which is under the head house on the roof.



Street side looking up the hill.  The chimney rises from the boiler room on the first floor.  I havent' rummaged through my junk boxes yet to see if I have enough windows of the appropriate size in stock, but I'm probably going to use some Tichy castings that are close to what's shown here.  I may also just print them to size on acetate and use some strip styrene to give them some depth.



Here's a look down at the roof with the boiler chimney and the elevator head house.  I've also put a stairway up to the roof to add some interest.  These are details that a lot of modelers overlook, but I've always been a building nerd, and actually worked running an elevator in the Candler Building in Baltimore back when such work was available to a teenager... so understanding the guts of a building is important to me when I'm doing a scratch build or detailing a kit.  I've even made sure there's room for rest rooms on each floor, and a corner office upstairs for the boss!



This is the second floor, the main production floor.  The big bay door is the receiving area, so paper and other supplies are warehoused in the area with the wood floors.  The main press room is the area shown in tile.  The elevator shafts are in the middle next to the steps, so supplies can go down to a secondary press room and the bindery, then out through the shipping door which is under the roof at left.

With the big windows, and the prominent location at the front edge of the layout, I will probably detail the interiors and light the building to make it a nice crowd pleaser.  If I put half as much time into the construction as I've put in worrying about where the bathrooms go, I'll have a nice little scratchbuild!  On to the next thing...

[unittrain]

I'm starting some deck plate bridge scratch builds, I'll have pictures soon.

[trainforfun]

Lots of good stuff this week!

Last week I showed you the foam dummy of a building I need to build to fill an odd shaped lot on my switching layout.


I spent some time this week drawing up a plan that makes sense for the site, which has changes of elevations on both sides.  I'm planning to make it a commercial printer.  I'm not going to have a rail siding to it, but I've got an old loading door on the track side as if at one time it did get served by the CH&FP.



This is the same view represented by the foam building.  The load out door on the back faces the tracks.



This is the view of the street side, note how the road slopes down from left to right.  In order to make sure the building makes sense as real estate venture, I laid out a logical floor plan demonstrating how the work would flow from the receiving dock, through the press room, on to a bindery and off to the shipping door on the side.  I also mad space for a passenger and freight elevator shaft, which is under the head house on the roof.



Street side looking up the hill.  The chimney rises from the boiler room on the first floor.  I havent' rummaged through my junk boxes yet to see if I have enough windows of the appropriate size in stock, but I'm probably going to use some Tichy castings that are close to what's shown here.  I may also just print them to size on acetate and use some strip styrene to give them some depth.



Here's a look down at the roof with the boiler chimney and the elevator head house.  I've also put a stairway up to the roof to add some interest.  These are details that a lot of modelers overlook, but I've always been a building nerd, and actually worked running an elevator in the Candler Building in Baltimore back when such work was available to a teenager... so understanding the guts of a building is important to me when I'm doing a scratch build or detailing a kit.  I've even made sure there's room for rest rooms on each floor, and a corner office upstairs for the boss!



This is the second floor, the main production floor.  The big bay door is the receiving area, so paper and other supplies are warehoused in the area with the wood floors.  The main press room is the area shown in tile.  The elevator shafts are in the middle next to the steps, so supplies can go down to a secondary press room and the bindery, then out through the shipping door which is under the roof at left.

With the big windows, and the prominent location at the front edge of the layout, I will probably detail the interiors and light the building to make it a nice crowd pleaser.  If I put half as much time into the construction as I've put in worrying about where the bathrooms go, I'll have a nice little scratchbuild!  On to the next thing...

Amazing work !!! Looks like you did that all your life ....   

[trainforfun]

Another week...another "nearly done" set of photos of Nelson station.

Completed the roof and weathering...











Have a great weekend!

md

Mark never saw anything as nice as this !!!! You are a master sir !!!!!!

[jpwisc]

I’m hoping to finish off a pair of UB SD50s this weekend. I got the new ESU 73100 and it fits really well. The shell fit a over it and I have a ton of room left for the speaker. I still have to add the nose light LED and the rear light, but I’m optimistic it will go smoothly.

[Philip H]

I’m hoping to finish off a pair of UB SD50s this weekend. I got the new ESU 73100 and it fits really well. The shell fit a over it and I have a ton of room left for the speaker. I still have to add the nose light LED and the rear light, but I’m optimistic it will go smoothly.

I would like to hear more about this, especially the paint you chose and where you got decals. I want to do some UB units for interchange.

[ryan_wilkerson]

While the train is nice in this image, what jumped out to me is the two greenhouses.  Very nice, are they yours?

They were built by my friend Robert from a kit (he did all the scenery on Binney Junction). I think they are from a German company.

[SP-Wolf]

They were built by my friend Robert from a kit (he did all the scenery on Binney Junction). I think they are from a German company.

More than likely the Faller kit:

http://fiferhobbysu770.corecommerce.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=15624

Regards,
Wolf