Weekend update - July 1, 2007

[3rdrail]

What have y'all got to contribute this week? Seems every time I planned to get to work on the railroad this week, something else came up. Hope to get upstairs this afternoon.

As usual, photos are more than welcome. 

[TrainCat2]

Well, I have been a busy beaver trying to finish off some new items for the NTS. Gregg, you will REAL interested in some as I am expanding the tankcar loading platform into most of the facility. Pics next weekend if I can get some time. For this weekend, I have the single track girder bridge I started working on a couple of months ago.

[skytop35]

This RPO is made from JnJ brass sides on a Bachmann shorty coach. I like the results but it's a pain to build. Hopefully someone will do heavyweights before I get the urge to do another one of these conversions.

[up1950s]

I am working on a UP DC-2 Detector Car which was made from UP motor Car M-66 in 1951 ish and lasted through the 50's .
I still have many things to do but its coming along . Roof walkway at nose , pilot sheet metal , sun shades , magnetic carriages , air lines in res's on roof , and blanked out windows are items I will address . The Z wheels that were regauged with WD-40 straws roll like crap at best . The rear truck is a Atlas GP-7 which is a close match , and in fact Teleweld who makes these for the UP , later used GP-7 trucks on later models .

This was the starting point , UP M-32 which is all wrong window wise . I plan on also making a 70 seat and 74 seat UP version of UP Motor Cars bu splicing Lima coach sides to the Bachmann Doodlebug , as well as a stock one for my W&LG . An infestation of them .







Here is the proto as shown in the Streamliner UPHS mag , God I hope they don't sue me , as these DC-2's are rare to find in photos .



Here is another shot of the prototype .

[wcfn100]

I only got a couple hours in this week, but enough time to work on a couple of engines on the work bench.


My second attempt at making a beacon for a Kato NW-2



And a LL switcher getting the MN&S treatment (horn for display purposes only).








edit:

OK, after looking at the photos for a while, I decided that the beacon is too small which gave me a couple of new options to make it.



Jason

[atsf_arizona]

Bill Denton, that is a great RPO.


Here's my project this week, in progress:

[wm3798]

Not much for me.  Wrote a few waybills, ran a couple trains, that sort of thing.  Actual work will continue when I have a better handle on what the future holds.

Lee

[nscalesteve]

another job which was sitting for a long time on my workbench...

two NW SD45 engines, #1728 and #1786, for the low nose #1728 I did use an Atlas GP30 nose with nose light and handbrake...
...for #1786 I did use a Mark4Design high hood and Atlas SD35 truck side frames

some self bendt cut levers, a lot of BLMA and GMM detail parts, a digitrax DZ123 under the hood and this is the result...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Those are gorgeous.

I've been doing little things on the layout: painting a bridge, adding some ballast to the sidings, but nothing really photo worthy yet.

[SecretWeapon]

Beautiful N&W units Steve !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wlal13again]

Beautiful N&W units Steve !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto Steve, pretty sharp. Running them "hammerhead style"?

[Chris333]

Ed,

What happened to a tree a day?

[kiwi_al]

Just tinkering   ;D

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ed,

What happened to a tree a day?

Summer stuff

Actually, I started  working on more groundcover. I Finished roughing in the scenery, now it's all dirt covered, but I can't finish that before I finish the bridge (which is what I'm working on now).

I do need to get back to trees every night though, since I still have some space that needs them, but the good news is that I am making fairly regular progress.

[trainforfun]

Nice stuff everyone ! Thanks for sharing .