Weekend Update 11/15/20

[GaryHinshaw]

Managed to get one more signal built:



Nothing conceptually new here, but I thought I would take the opportunity to advertise a build thread I started in the W,D,&S board.
-gfh
P.S. Gorgeous scenery @PiperguyUMD !!

[C855B]

Finished this thru plate girder bridge for my Afton Canyon scene, short of tacking down track, guard rails and walkway ties. Printed the ribs and bridge shoes on the Photon, the panels are Micro Engineering.

[Bryn]

Bryn--Excellent work on the Milwaukee Road caboose.  That's the first time I have seen the thermal generators modeled.

Thanks Roger, I've not seen them in N scale before. Lines West Products have recently released them in HO which they supply with their cabooses.

[BCRail_FSJ]

Revisiting this project that has been languishing on the work bench for an embarrassing 18 months.    Two RS-18s using Briggs parts on modified Atlas RS-11 chassis.

The mechanisms are pretty dated at this point so may need to be upgraded to more modern ones.  I have spent a week of evenings trying to get them to run smoothly and the best solution seems to be to hard wire the units together as a permanent pair.  They run great like that - 16 wheels worth of pickup!.







Proposed road numbers are BCR 606 and PGE 610

[craigolio1]

I finally finished my VIA Rail RDCs that I've been building for quite some time.





Build thread here (well the DCC stuff anyway, but lots of model pics too.)
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=50657.msg687517#msg687517

Craig

[BCR 570]

Might as well make it three Canadian projects in a row . . .

This project has some sentimental value as the source kit was a gift from our late friend Mike McGrattan.  Years ago, possibly on the old Atlas or SRO forum, Mike posted a photograph of a CPR plow he had modelled.  I expressed my interest in his project as it was similar to two plows which the British Columbia Railway purchased in the early 1970s.  A few weeks later one of the plow kits turned up in my mailbox; it was a gift from Mike.  I have finally gotten around to building it.

The kit is or was a cast resin offering under the name Train Collection 2000 from a fellow in eastern Canada.  It comprises a body, roof with cab, and wings:




I created some parts to add to the kit, including side personnel doors with oblong windows, brake housing, and rear cable box:




I lowered the body and installed Micro-Trains trucks with Fox Valley wheels, FT and Micro-Trains couplers, BLMA and bent wire grab irons and sill steps, bent wire handrails, Eric headlight, Sinclair antenna and smoke jack, and a BLMA five chime horn:






The model is not 100% accurate but is fairly close, and was a fun build.  it will enable me to run the occasional plow train until something better comes along:






And it was a gift from a good friend who is fondly remembered.  Now off to the paint shop . . .


Tim

[kiwi_al]

Just messing about with a Minitrix mechanism. Yes the weight is on an angle and the wires soldered to the motor will be shortened. Just testing things out after replacing the Minitrix motor.

[nkalanaga]

BCRail_FSJ:  I had a pair of the Atlas/Kato RS-3s, which used the same chassis as the RS-11, back when they were new.  Wiring them together was the best way I found to get them to work.

[DKS]

Sorry for the long absence; had to break away from modeling to deal with some personal issues. Anyway, for a change of pace I've shifted my focus to scenery, specifically the stretch of river from the mill spillway down to the three bridges area.



You can read how I accomplished this here: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49183.msg687553#msg687553

[TimF]

One of my newest aquisitions, I like the older Roundhouse kits a lot since I started with them more than 30 years ago. Shoving is a Atlas-Kato SD9 I painted and decaled for BNSF, some details finished the look, in the background is another SD9 which should also get details and weathering before working some locals for the SOO...have a nice week

[chuck geiger]

I've searched and can't find - Thread on making tiny grass patches with small dabs of white glue and
WS Grass. I think it was a grain elevator or feed supply yard from one of our asshats. ?????

[davefoxx]

Wow, there's some really great modeling this week.  Keep it coming, folks!  This weekend, I starting turning this knoll into a viewblock with the addition of ground covering, trees, and kudzu:

BEFORE:



AFTER:



More on the Seaboard Central 3.0 thread in the Layout Engineering Forum.

DFF

[Cajonpassfan]

Sorry for the long absence; had to break away from modeling to deal with some personal issues. Anyway, for a change of pace I've shifted my focus to scenery, specifically the stretch of river from the mill spillway down to the three bridges area.



You can read how I accomplished this here: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49183.msg687553#msg687553

That’s awesome,  very realistic. Hope you have plans to provide sounds of roaring water to bring it to life? Or not...great modeling, as usual.
Otto K.

[nkalanaga]

DFF:  If you have kudzu, what do you need ground cover for?  The kudzu usually does a good job by itself!

Seriously, your scene does look good.

[davefoxx]

DFF:  If you have kudzu, what do you need ground cover for?  The kudzu usually does a good job by itself!

Seriously, your scene does look good.

Thank you!  The kudzu doesn't provide 100% coverage.  You can see through it in spots, so the ground cover is there to conceal the bare foam.

DFF