Weekend Update 5/24/20

[CRL]

Finished my N scale Peco turntable motorization project.

I’m guessing you’re only going to be using the turntable to turn your locos and not have it connected to an engine house or service tracks.

[NtheBasement]

Correct, the layout period is after most roundhouses were torn down.  I may put a roundhouse foundation in when I do the scenery.

There are working turntables still out there that are used by non-tourist railroads.  Found this excellent website and used it to find pics of the extant ones.  https://www.steamlocomotive.com/roundhouse/  Some are stubs that don't even have an "oops track".

[Cajonpassfan]

They don't count as Covid19 projects as I started them over a year ago. But, yesterday I finished an A-B-A set of Alco C855s for George Johnson.

Totally bada$$! Love it, even though I’m modeling an older era.
I need to resurrect my old stale Shapeways mutt Baldwin centercab project...if all it takes
is a month’s worth of sanding, filliing and filing...😜
Very impressive work!
Otto K.

[up1950s]

Cab ride through Rochelle, IL circa 2015

Your sky is so believable as is everything else . I know you know guard rails are not shiny bright , and yours wouldn't be if manufactures would make them a mm shorter in height  . I think that would be a selling point what with all this cabcam quality of late . The most realistic cab ride is yours Sir IMO .

[Cajonpassfan]

Filing the metal shell down by hand was a bit of a pain, but we’re there. Replacing a stock stack with another one seemed like a simple  proposition. Almost ready for the paint shop....
OttO K.

[CRL]

Are you going to wrap that chimney stack with a stone or a brick veneer? 

[arbomambo]

Almost done with a couple of Showcase Miniatures trucks, and a couple of Rasputen vehicles.
I’m not too happy with how the cars turned out; for all future ‘chrome-y’ vehicle builds I’m going to go the route of Loren Perry’s technique and pre-chrome the entire vehicle, then hand paint the vehicle color around the chrome.
I’ll place these two in the background between other vehicles.

[peteski]

They look pretty good (even close-up), but desperately could use some "glass".

[Cajonpassfan]

Are you going to wrap that chimney stack with a stone or a brick veneer? 

Well, I would, gladly, had Santa Fe done it that way. But I’m afraid they just used boring smoke weathered black or aluminum paint on their turbos, so I will just have to settle for that...
Otto K.

[wazzou]

Normally aspirated Alcos > Turboed Alcos.