Weekend Update 4/19/26

[coosvalley]

The decal works very well, but the body of the model seems to have uniform yellow color (as if the knots were on the painted surface), where on the prototype the raw plywood areas with the knots and blemishes also have distinctly different color.   Maybe that is just not captured well by your model photo?

I like the plywood decal effect (maybe a few too many knots?) but the different color could be done with a very thin fade on those panels; just masking off the ones with fresh paint.

Believe it or not, first I tried pastel yellow chalks, but that disappeared under dullcoat, so next I gave it a thin light yellow paint wash, which worked well. After that, I gave it a brown wash , which really tied it together, but it swallowed up the yellow wash somewhat. In person you can tell they're 2 different shades of yellow, but it got even more washed out by the camera. Next one gets more yellow wash!

[peteski]

Believe it or not, first I tried pastel yellow chalks, but that disappeared under dullcoat, so next I gave it a thin light yellow paint wash, which worked well. After that, I gave it a brown wash , which really tied it together, but it swallowed up the yellow wash somewhat. In person you can tell they're 2 different shades of yellow, but it got even more washed out by the camera. Next one gets more yellow wash!

In the proto photo the painted areas look yellow but the bare plywood looks more like light tan or beige.   I also suspected that the camera did not capture the slight color variations.

[robert3985]

I spent most of this last weekend at Union Station in Ogden while the 4014 was on display, taking photos and measurements of the water bottles as well as interviewing the builder who modified the water tenders.  I found out some very interesting things.  Then, on Monday morning the 4014 surprisingly coupled up eight hoppers to the rear of its shortened passenger train, while the diesel helpers coupled up to the remainder of the passenger cars...and the 4014 pulled out of Riverdale Yard and went up Weber and Echo Canyon all by itself to Evanston!  No diesel helpers!

Luckily, I was able to pace the 4014 in Echo Canyon while being driven on the old Lincoln Highway remnant that's on the north side of the mainline, sometimes so close you can almost shake hands with crew on the fireman's side of the cab!  Here's a link to what I posted on YouTube:

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On the way back, we pulled off of the old highway and took a close look at the mainline roadbed, the cinder piles all along the way from the coal fired engines pre-1954 that are still there, looked at the telegraph poles and some of the still-extant original signal mast foundations that were installed during the Harriman Era, and I found some old steel telegraph wire that I collected and took home...a great prototype and N-scale modeling day since all of us in our group were also avid N-scalers!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[Sokramiketes]

I spent most of this last weekend at Union Station in Ogden while the 4014 was on display, taking photos and measurements of the water bottles as well as interviewing the builder who modified the water tenders.  I found out some very interesting things.  Then, on Monday morning the 4014 surprisingly coupled up eight hoppers to the rear of its shortened passenger train, while the diesel helpers coupled up to the remainder of the passenger cars...and the 4014 pulled out of Riverdale Yard and went up Weber and Echo Canyon all by itself to Evanston!  No diesel helpers!

Luckily, I was able to pace the 4014 in Echo Canyon while being driven on the old Lincoln Highway remnant that's on the north side of the mainline, sometimes so close you can almost shake hands with crew on the fireman's side of the cab!  Here's a link to what I posted on YouTube:

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On the way back, we pulled off of the old highway and took a close look at the mainline roadbed, the cinder piles all along the way from the coal fired engines pre-1954 that are still there, looked at the telegraph poles and some of the still-extant original signal mast foundations that were installed during the Harriman Era, and I found some old steel telegraph wire that I collected and took home...a great prototype and N-scale modeling day since all of us in our group were also avid N-scalers!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

Great video Bob!  Modutrak is setting up in the shadow of 3985 and 5511 next week at the Silvis Shops.  The story from that side of things is that 3985 won't ever be getting her tender back from UP since it has all the electronics on it.  They have the 4014 tender and its pretty rough! 

[cjm413]

Modelers invest normally considerable time in lettering cars. I did the inverse: de-lettering.
I got my hands on a Kato Smooth Side set, painted in UP streamliner yellow and lettered for the Milwaukee Road. Milwaukee well used UP yellow, but had not those cars. I decided to just remove the roadname on most of the cars.
I know it's controversial, but I like the purity of a livery without inscriptions.
Technically, Isopropanol and ear sticks did the job

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