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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2008, 08:55:08 PM »
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Good weekend for the train geek of the house.  On Saturday, the wife took the kids to a birthday party up in B'more, so I had the ranch to myself for awhile.
It was great, because there's lots of stuff that I can do... paint shutters, work on the taxes, finish up a foundation plan for a client...  So naturally I spent the day in the train room...


As usually, I sought inspiration by running some trains....

Then I started working on one of the RS-3's that Bufkin sent me in trade for doing brain surgery on some of his locomotives....  I was able to strip, detail, paint and letter it before bed time.

So please, welcome newly christened #191 to the fleet!


I also got some weathering done to a couple of pieces of rolling stock.  I'm using various washes of craft acrylic, thinned with dirty water.





Then today, to cap it off, RockGP40 and I adventured off to Delmar, Delaware to the Delmarva Model Railroad Club open house.  Before we got there, though, we stopped to watch the local NS power get tied down for the night.





There we are getting cozy with an SD-40-2.

Then it was up the street a block or so to the club.

There's a lot more posted on my web gallery, but here's a couple of samples of what we saw...
N Scale -




HO Scale -


and the shot of the day...

I kept a full size file of that one... I'm going to send it in to MR to see if they'll pick it up.

Lee
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2008, 09:12:23 PM »
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Worked on several different areas this weekend.

KB

Started landscaping WSSB's Bill Yard



Landscaped around what will be the Georgia-Pacific plant.





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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2008, 09:27:19 PM »
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Quote from: John on January 20, 2008, 12:08:52 PM
...just a hint, you only need to use the girders on the front side. On the back side, cut some styrene from a House For Sale sign, the same size, and hit them with black paint ;)...

Maybe, but you have to be careful...


Sometimes your N scale railfans will want to trespass into forbidden territory...


and shoot a picture from the back side...  Digital photography has changed a lot of rules when it comes to cheating on scenery... Cheaters never prosper! ;)

Lee
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2008, 09:49:40 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on January 20, 2008, 08:55:08 PM
and the shot of the day...

I kept a full size file of that one... I'm going to send it in to MR to see if they'll pick it up.

Awesome shot Lee!
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2008, 10:42:08 PM »
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Still plugging away on the grain elevator.  I got out and did some railroad exploring as well.  CSX has a terminal at Ravenna, Ky.  The town of Ravenna is actually a town founded by the railroad when the yard and shops were built.  Alot of the coal coming out of eastern Kentucky comes through here on its way North.  The facility used to be a decent sized yard, with a car shop and engine servicing facility.  Since 2003 or so, it has been reduced to about 4 tracks, and the car shops and engine facility are shut down.  Basically a crew change point these days.  Kind of depressing.

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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2008, 11:08:51 PM »
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Quote from: central.vermont on January 20, 2008, 06:09:03 PM
Well I am finally on my way to building my layout!!!!! With lots of help from my friends John Newick (aka Mec_Fan) Peter Speliotis and Carl Vankampen they made it happen. The last nine days my wife has been to Florida to see our new Grandson. This was the perfect opportunity too do most of the loud noises while the misses was out. Hope she wont mind some of the holes in the walls we made. :o ;D This layout has been in the planning stages for eight years, hope I got it right!!!

Below is just a couple of shots but there is a link also to all the shots.
Thanks, Jon

Jon,

Congrats on getting started. Let me know if you need any additional photos of the New London house in the steam late steam era - I see you have the "office" included - back in the 1950s that was actually several stalls of the old New London Northern roundhouse, complete with arched doorways that barely cleared a small Ten-Wheeler.

I've just about got some 2-10-4 detail shots for you rounded up and will try to scan them this week.  Found one great shot of the trailing truck - a nice close-up sidelit shot by Jim Shaughnessey that really shows how the trailing trucks looked.

Marty

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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2008, 02:33:16 AM »
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Hi Guys just updated my thread on ore dock



Cheers Warren
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2008, 07:58:00 AM »
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That ore dock is quite impressive Warren, and that sawmill behind it looks pretty sweet too!

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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2008, 12:09:03 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on January 20, 2008, 09:27:19 PM
Quote from: John on January 20, 2008, 12:08:52 PM
...just a hint, you only need to use the girders on the front side. On the back side, cut some styrene from a House For Sale sign, the same size, and hit them with black paint ;)...

Maybe, but you have to be careful...


Sometimes your N scale railfans will want to trespass into forbidden territory...


and shoot a picture from the back side...  Digital photography has changed a lot of rules when it comes to cheating on scenery... Cheaters never prosper! ;)

Lee

Yes, indeed and get to see that bridge shoe so very very close to the edge of the pier.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2008, 08:32:11 PM »
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No pics, but got one section of roadbed down. The roadbed will be ready for track tomorrow, so I am praying for no college tomorrow! Now, I need to decide what type of bridge I want to use.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #25 on: January 21, 2008, 08:44:53 PM »
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In the midst of converting AZL Z scale Pennsylvania GP7 #8557 into Reading #632. Before...

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and during...

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The "after" phase involves weathering per the reference photo:

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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2008, 10:15:02 PM »
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GO DAVID GO!!!

Where did you get the decals?

No pictures this weekend. My wife "misplaced" the tripod adapter for the camera...

I made some progress on a Tichy water tower, and I have been drawing up a Reading PBm coach in Illustrator. I am thinking it should be a pretty easy build, because I won't add any rivets...to irk the "counters".
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2008, 10:29:58 PM »
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Quote from: RDG_Rich on January 21, 2008, 10:15:02 PM
GO DAVID GO!!!

Where did you get the decals?

TMR Distributing in Canada: http://www.tmrdistributing.com/CDS.htm

The specific set is N-718(a), Reading for Alco switchers. Turns out that the lettering for an N scale switcher is just several inches longer than the lettering for a Z scale GP7. I can live with that, fer sher.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2008, 10:36:07 PM »
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TMR Distributing in Canada: http://www.tmrdistributing.com/CDS.htm

Ahhh. I didn't notice they had Z scale. I just recieved some RDG steam and passenger decals in N from them this week.

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Re: Weekend Update 1/20/2008
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2008, 10:50:04 PM »
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Quote from: RDG_Rich on January 21, 2008, 10:36:07 PM
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TMR Distributing in Canada: http://www.tmrdistributing.com/CDS.htm
Ahhh. I didn't notice they had Z scale. I just recieved some RDG steam and passenger decals in N from them this week.

No, they don't have Z scale. I used an N scale lettering set for a switcher, because it was small enough to work on a Z scale GP7.
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