Weekend Update 5/14/23

[Frank Amato]

JFRT this weekend; pulling some empties off the team track -



  Frank

[Chris333]

Doing some spring cleaning and I tossed out 7 layouts, still leaves me with 8 more in the basement. 

[hunter_alexander]

Chris, WOW!! Hope the Erie Stayed at least. One of my favorites of yours.

[altohorn25]

I finished up the RBBB advertising car this morning.  Got it painted, decaled, window glass added, and a light coat of weathering.

I had a little trouble with one of the decals on one side with bubbles.....tried all the usual tricks and still couldn't get rid of them.....strange.....

Regardless, I'm happy with the car.  It will look good on the layout and add some operating interest during ops sessions.

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[craigolio1]

Altohorn:  Love to see that kind of scratch-bashing in N Scale - well done.

Today was a big day for my freight car fleet and my layout.  It is not a good day for one's wallet when someone brings out the freight car which defines your prototype in your era, but kudos to PWRS for honouring the 2017 pricing despite the pandemic-related delays.  The NSC 5092 combination door boxcars from NARC are finally here and in my era these were the core of the boxcar fleet, shipping lumber, veneer and plywood from British Columbia across Canada and the United States.  After applying ACI labels and some mild weathering these will enter service:




And this afternoon, the layout section for Kiskatinaw and the top lighting canopy were cut to fit across the new layout room, and then together with the Bond/Sundance section they were raised into place, levelled and secured.  It is a big task to try and fit an existing layout into a new space, but at long last the original layout is structurally complete once again!




Lots of electrical, lighting and track connections yet to be made, but this is a big step towards resumption of operations.  A big thank you to friends John and Doug who helped out today.

Tim

Holy cow you win Tim. I ONLY ordered 19 to add to my 6 Kaslo kits. Looking forward to delivery for sure! 

[u18b]

Added windows this week.  Tough job around the cab!
Hand cut and fitted.

 

I see that I had a little run/drip on the engineer's side window.   I'll probably rip that off and do that window again.



I'll be posting more about this loco soon.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Good looking buildings Ed.  All the colors you've chosen work perfectly together.

Thanks!

The one on the right is actually the color the building it's standing in for has today. Probably was different in the 70s but you do what you can.

If anyone has a source of good color pictures of dumpy small cities in the 70s, I could sure use them.

[craigolio1]

Added windows this week.  Tough job around the cab!
Hand cut and fitted.

 

I see that I had a little run/drip on the engineer's side window.   I'll probably rip that off and do that window again.



I'll be posting more about this loco soon.

Great work on the windows. That’s not easy to do.

Craig

[Iain]

Well, I did my first model railroad related thing in several years and bought a few HOn2 1/2 kits; couple of Sango brass kits and F&C.  My grandmother is from Maine and I've always been into the 2ft gauge.

[lock4244]

Altohorn:  Love to see that kind of scratch-bashing in N Scale - well done.

Today was a big day for my freight car fleet and my layout.  It is not a good day for one's wallet when someone brings out the freight car which defines your prototype in your era, but kudos to PWRS for honouring the 2017 pricing despite the pandemic-related delays.  The NSC 5092 combination door boxcars from NARC are finally here and in my era these were the core of the boxcar fleet, shipping lumber, veneer and plywood from British Columbia across Canada and the United States.  After applying ACI labels and some mild weathering these will enter service:

And seeing your bounty compelled me to place an order of my own... because if there's one thing I need it's more freight cars. I did not, however, order 48!

Actually saw one of the 5092's here in Cedar Rapids a number of months ago. Was along the 380 in the International Paper plant just north of downtown (they make containers iirc). Plant is served exclusively by CN on what is the only intact piece of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern south of Waterloo. It was in the 'BC Rail' scheme with a red door as I recall. Was nice to see, bit of a rarity here.

[OldEastRR]

Thanks!

The one on the right is actually the color the building it's standing in for has today. Probably was different in the 70s but you do what you can.

If anyone has a source of good color pictures of dumpy small cities in the 70s, I could sure use them.

Would these "Pittsburgh" buildings be prototypical for a mid-size town in Connecticut or Rhode Island?

[dem34]

Would these "Pittsburgh" buildings be prototypical for a mid-size town in Connecticut or Rhode Island?

Easily. You do see more Victorian style in New England, but in rural parts West PA and Connecticut are pretty similar architecturally. I've never been to RI so no opinion there.

[TrainCat2]

I finished the bash of the Lunde Studios Bates Hotel from 4 stories to 7 stories.



Gallagher's Warehouse is a scratch bash. The basic construction is done and I need to detail it out. The sign on the south wall was painted on to the brick using a special Oracal mask I cut on my 24in cutter. I was greatly surprised that there was no bleeding on a test piece so I went straight to the model.

[Olivani]

Doing some spring cleaning and I tossed out 7 layouts, still leaves me with 8 more in the basement. 

Where does one toss layouts to, the local recycling station or just the curbs 

Oliver

[nickelplate759]

I've always had a soft spot for the old Roco Helium tank car.  I bought a junker for $2.00, fixed up a couple of broken parts, added a few (but not too many) details and decals:

<edit - added original junker>
Here is the junker:



Here are the repairs:




And here's the finished car:
<edit - I updated the picture to cut the contrast a bit >


Micro-trains roof-walk, trucks, couplers, brake wheel, and corner stirrups (they don't show well in the picture).
ESMC wheels.
Tru-Color Platinum Mist paint on body, Silver on the tanks.
Black Sharpie on the ladders and other hardware.
K4 decals.

The trucks are wrong - they're Micro-Trains 50-ton trucks.  The prototype was heavy and it should have 100T trucks.
The closest I've found appearance-wise are the Bowser Crown 70T trucks - I've got a pair on the way.