Weekend Update 3/28/21

[PiperguyUMD]

It's been 40 years since I did a B&O custom build, this week marked finishing up an ABA set of Life-Like FA's with paint and detail.

Wow, B&O sure played around a lot with these in a short period of time with paint details...pick a year.

They looked so out of place on my Santa Fe layout I dug out the Trunkeyville T-trak module....ahh, that's better.   And, out they go.

Nice work!! I’m working on a WM FA2 using the Life Like models. What did you do for the diaphragms? The lack of a gap makes a huge difference!!

[OldEastRR]

If this is Swamp Week on TRW ... I began to lay in the swamp on my layout by making the general depression and coloring the bottom. I also laid in the dirt alley next to it. Still needs lots of vegetation, cattails, weeds, etc. Not decided on what to use as water.  But the dead-end access road in the foreground will be brick pavement, and brick driveway for the cold storage building it serves. I'm varying the composition of the layout road types with poured concrete, laid brick, or asphalt to represent the current method of paving when they were installed.



The small station on the former ROW is now used as a defacto freight house, since the passenger station was re-located to the new main. I'm debating on whether to board up the passenger section windows and remove the benches.

[Kentuckian]

Found a fun modeling project in Eastern Kentucky.  Looks like an old camp car converted to pizza service!
Lee

So did you try a Gypivanni’s? Greasest pizza ever. I have one a few times a year when I visit my sainted mother in eastern KY. Gypivanni’s, Snyder’s (of Berlin) potato chips, and a huge Pepsi. Man, that’s livin’!

[Kentuckian]

Cool!  Now they can ship it to the Delmarva peninsula!

DFF

You can have it! I’ll take a LaRosa’s anytime!

[bbussey]

Nice work!! I’m working on a WM FA2 using the Life Like models. What did you do for the diaphragms? The lack of a gap makes a huge difference!!

If you install MTL True Scale couplers in between the units, you won't need diaphragms or worry about unscheduled uncouplings.

[randgust]

Nice work!! I’m working on a WM FA2 using the Life Like models. What did you do for the diaphragms? The lack of a gap makes a huge difference!!

The diaphragms are AMI models ones that are 'sprung'.  Both A units are equipped with stock MT coupler conversion kits (which you don't really need, 1015's will work fine if its a body mount on the nose).  The B unit was converted over to 'Unimate' (Red Caboose, now Fox Valley) medium shank couplers drilled out .045 on the shank and thinned lower so they fit right on the 'peg'.   That also eliminates any chance of false uncoupling as the buyer wanted the ABA as a dedicated set.

The acid test on these was running them through my 11" hidden track, no snags, and even worse, a #4 crossover in my yard, no snags, no hangs.

[PiperguyUMD]

If you install MTL True Scale couplers in between the units, you won't need diaphragms or worry about unscheduled uncouplings.
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That’s how I roll  . I haven’t had a chance to put them together yet to make that observation though!

[davefoxx]

A little bit of this (roadwork), a little bit of that (powering a frog), and a lot more JFRTM in the form of the post-Seaboard Coast Line merger in 1967.



DFF

[Frank Amato]

I started the weathering process for a pair of Fox Valley boxcars.  First step was to mask the reweigh data and work some fading using white oil paint (factory paint on the Cotton Belt car).  Washes and rust/dust will follow after sealing this with a matte clear coat:



  Frank

[davefoxx]

You can have it! I’ll take a LaRosa’s anytime!

Actually, I haven’t heard of either.  But, that’s okay.  Once you’ve had Original Ray’s in Manhatten, no other pizza seems as heavenly. 

DFF

[freedj]

I finished up a weathering a set of five boxcars this week.  I used mostly oil washes and effects. Next up is a set that is less rusted. One is going to end up being a grounded boxcar.  I still have to do some detail work on the trucks, body mount some couplers and swap out the wheels.

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[ncbqguy]

Actually, I haven’t heard of either.  But, that’s okay.  Once you’ve had Original Ray’s in Manhatten, no other pizza seems as heavenly. 

DFF

You poor, misguided unfortunates.....
What passes for pizza outside of Chicago is about the same as Pizza Hut....
We lived in New Jersey for two years and missed two things....Chicago pizza and hot dogs.   But one thing you do have is Hot Pastrami that doesn’t taste like sandwich meat!
Charlie Vlk
(Living near Nashville in another area that doesn’t have decent pizza).

[sd45elect2000]

I like Modern Apizza and Frank Pepe in New Haven Connecticut. Of course being so close I had to sample Mystic Pizza.

I used to work in Chicago so I am VERY familiar with Chicago pizza, I prefer New Haven style pizza.

[davefoxx]

You poor, misguided unfortunates.....
What passes for pizza outside of Chicago is about the same as Pizza Hut....
We lived in New Jersey for two years and missed two things....Chicago pizza and hot dogs.   But one thing you do have is Hot Pastrami that doesn’t taste like sandwich meat!
Charlie Vlk
(Living near Nashville in another area that doesn’t have decent pizza).

Nah, I’m not a fan of Chicago-style deep dish pizza.  Even my wife, who is from Illinois, prefers New York style.  I’ll stick with Ray’s.  Thanks!

DFF

[CBQ Fan]

Lol, anything you have to fold up or roll up to eat is not real pizza. Chicago pizza and Italian Beef are the only two things left in Illinois that I miss.