Good morning everyone from cloudy, rainy and warm Northeast Ohio! I managed to get a couple of cars done this week: IMRC 10,000 Gal Tank Car Kit, substitured metal sill steps from Yarmouth Model works for the plastic ones, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Champ Decals. This is representative of 90% of the tank cars of the 1940's and 50's, basic black tank car originally built in 1940. Red Caboose 1937 AAR Boxcar kit, substituted Yarmouth Model Works metal sill steps for the plastic ones that came with the kit. Painted with Scalecoat II Black and Boxcar Red and lettered with Speedwitch Media decals. Car was built in 1940 for general use and lasted into the 1970's with the P&LE. It was lot 682B on the NYC which controlled the P&LE at that time. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
It's that time of year again! The NFL train was happy to get out of the box...but sadly, the Oakland Raiders car didn't make it too far....So, Here's hoping for a YELLOW Super Bowl LI. Anyone but the Patsies. I would like the Steelers Packers bowl. That would be a blast from the past. It happened just 6 years ago with the Steelers winning.
Thanks; I think I might have posted the above picture before, so here's a different angle of the same locomotive. It's a P2K, analog DC that I made the numberboards (on ordinary paper with a laser printer and Paint, since the factory ones didn't allow for light to show through), and replaced all the bulbs with 1.5v incandescent bulbs. John
I have a couple of refinery pictures that I have not posted before. #1 is the back side of the Ewing oil refinery showing the Ewing Pipeline Terminal. The 24" crude line terminates here and you can see the pig trap for removing pigs (scrapers). The two crude tanks are to the right. #2 picture is the two floating roof crude tanks. Fortunately this refinery runs on 42* API gravity sweet crude so only two tanks are required, one for feed to the still (left tank) and one for pipeline pump up (right tank). The roof on the left tank looks to be just about on its legs and pipeliner will soon be switching the pipeline pump up to it and open the other tank, which he/she would have done first, to feed the stills. You can also see, by the ladder on the right tank, that it is about time to make the switch. Part of processing units from front....... Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking, Carl
An old photo from a dismantled layout I tripped over while sorting old files. The Concor GS4 is beginning a descent down from summit while a F3 AB heads out of town with its consist destined for the yard. The rail on the bridge is about 59" from the floor and the lower line is about 56".
Steam - Diesel and Electric Traction Some pics taken during this weekend visiting the FREMO meet in Gross Brunsrode - Northern Germany. Modules era 3b = 1965 to 1968 Bye Harald Brosch
Nice work Carl, Now if we had electricity out there we would be good! I love that area and great work. Mike
Thanks to all of you for the encouraging comments. That refinery was and is my pride and joy. Not finished as yet as I am building a coker unit to add in. Carl
Painted clouds on the backdrop, as well as ground cover placement and planted some trees. Sent from my LG-UK495 using Tapatalk
