Here are my humble offerings for this week! I needed an EL Caboose to go with my SDP45 and SD45-2, so I did a standin using an Athearn SP style Bay Window caboose, filled all the holes in the roof for the SP stuff and then painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Black Paints then decaled using Herald King Decals. Walthers R50b PRR Express Refrigerator, the PRR rostered 550 of these cars for use in head end passenger service delivering perishables and with the ice holding areas collapsed things like magazines and newspapers. Cars were built in 1929 and carried a number of paint schemes in their lives, this is the end scheme painted with Scalecoat II PRR Red and Loco Black Paints, then lettered with Champ Decals. Major project that required drilling many #79 holes for the various grabs that need to be applied to the car, also replaced the cast on sill steps with those from A-Line. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Some trouble near Rock Port, MO sent a fuselage train on a detour through Roca, Nebraska before connecting up with the normal route through Lincoln.
My version of Oxnard station (Before the fire) - Again, a work in progress. Kind of the story of my modeling life. Thanks, Wolf
I remember more trouble a couple of years ago, the fuselages look similar, nice modeling on your part! https://www.usatoday.com/story/toda...lls-boeing-737-fueslages-into-river/12258639/ Rick Jesionowski
>>>. http://www.flickr.com/photos/airlinerart/4877111857/ <<< Awesome! The teal fuselages remind me of the (now defunct) BRANIFF Air Lines that used to have the pastel colored jets. Especially their 727 fleet back in the 70's. I like it!
I've been displaying an old fuselage car I attempted to scratch build on the Free-moNebraska layout for about the past 6 or 7 shows. After "What scale is this?" the next most frequent comment is "Hey, did you know those derailed once!?" One time I pretended I hadn't, then was trapped in conversation while they pulled up articles and pictures to show me. Meanwhile, I lost track of my train and the dispatcher yelled at me because it derailed too.
Actually the Scenicruiser is behind the camera at the Greyhound depot; it's an angled mirror between the two buildings. I still have a couple of things to do here; one is to re-do the "banner" that hides the top of the mirror, and the other thing is to switch out the ordinary mirror to a "first-surface" mirror which will reduce the visible line sitting on the street. I'm not too worried about an audit; if one occurs it'll be in HO scale so shouldn't be too bad. Thanks for the nice comments! Here's one I just took tonight; the 7-11 now has a customer parked out front! This was taken from Davidsville's park across the street. John
My weekend modeling has been a necessary repair on a switch, a three way Shinohara code 83 HO scale. I'm not sure what happened as I only ran into it after the fact. Long story short, the ties melted under one part of the switch. Obviously a direct short, but cant figure exactly what happened, there was a few people operating here that day, and this is on an industrial branch "Hindsight Industrial RR". You know as they say, stuff happens right? Just gotta deal with it. So, I digs the melted switch ties out then the arduous process of trying to install a new throw bar under the points. Bought a bag of these Shinohara throw bars years ago, never needed one till this weekend, boy I like to never found the bag LOL. After digging out the melted ties I used a cut off wheel to grind the top of that tiny little rivet that holds the throw bar to the points. After much colorful language I managed to use the very tip of a round toothpick glued onto a small flat piece, then managed to get that tiny rivet placed just right and soldered, whew, what a project that was. I then took Basswood ties dipped in Black/Brown (mixed) leather dye, and placed them under the rails, super glued into place. Using a NMRA standards gauge spiked the stock and diverging rails. It works just as good as before, I got lucky, and saved a bit of $$, took a few hours to do it but the repair is done, and ballast re-applied. Should be good to go.
Again, not a photo, but a short video. Here's a Bachmann S-2 on the Livingston Model Railroad club layout. It's running a lot raster than we normally run, but someone got ahead of them self and threw the switch giving me clearance to enter the main line as there were two trains coming in the opposite direction on the same track. Picked up the speed a lot to get to the passing siding at the top of the grade so the other trains could pass. It was a busy night. Had eight trains running at the same time and every Saturday the layout is open to the public. Guess it's what you could call it organized panic.
