Weekend Update 6/19/11

[up1950s]

Pictures up , it is post time .

[up1950s]

Tender 8 wheel pickup done , drawbar and feed to engine done . Now it is time to grind baby gind .

[TrainCat2]

Finished building the protos for the N-6A and the N-9A Transfer Cabooses for the NTS.


Now to get ready for the long drive to/from the National Show in Sacramento. On the way back, I'll be doing some railfanning along the SF main line.

[CBQ Fan]

Richie, how many steamers do you have in your fleet?  Nice work!!!!

[up1950s]

Richie, how many steamers do you have in your fleet?  Nice work!!!!

Thanks , I haven't counted , some are not listed yet , but there will never be enough . 100 ish maybe .

[skytop35]

Finished my trilogy of CB&Q Havelock baggage cars. Here is the shadow lined scheme.



Just to recap. The Burlington dark green scheme.



And the Aluminum scheme.

[CBQ Fan]

Finished my trilogy of CB&Q Havelock baggage cars. Here is the shadow lined scheme.



Just to recap. The Burlington dark green scheme.



And the Aluminum scheme.

Still looking great.  How did you do the shawdow striping?  They look better than the Rapido HO cars!

[Packer]

Weathered a BNFE reefer:






And chopped the nose on the loco that will become BN 1365:

[skytop35]

Still looking great.  How did you do the shawdow striping?  They look better than the Rapido HO cars!

Thanks Brian. A friend of mine made decals for me. (I, of course, have to build him a car in exchange

[nscalesteve]

the QNS&L SD70ACe with the wrong fan section has had to be changed and that's what I did...
(...that was like open heart surgery on an already finished model)




and ready to roll out with the winterization hatch on...

[James Costello]

Another masterpiece Steve - looks amazing.

[BCRail_FSJ]

Finished track laying and wiring at Taylor and did some switching to test it all out. 

For a change I shot in black and white

[mark dance]

Nice B&W shots Andy...they have a lot of atmosphere.

More ground cover work from me this week.  The basic ground cover from Fife to Coryell is now in.  Next up is a lot of detailing work and many hundred trees!  But first I must assure the layout is ready for an ops session this week.  The C&W only has two more sessions to go before the big visiting operator event (Vanrail) in September.

Overview shot of final section to be sceniced on second deck.



FM pusher set X8608 drifting downgrade across Slide creek bridge to pick up a train at Cascade.



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[DKS]

After a quick inspection of the car I'd intended to use for Lee's private car roundup, I determined it wasn't roadworthy. So, I relettered an Athearn 50-foot Overland coach for the occasion.
 


This constitutes the first N scale modeling (if you call it "modeling") I've done in over a decade.

[rochsub]

I've weathered over 100 cars over the past two weeks in order to get the rolling stock close to 100% weathered.  Here are a few shots.  There's also a couple of videos at

http://www.youtube.com/user/Rochsub?feature=mhee