Weekend Update 1/24/16

[up1950s]

[craigolio1]

I think we need more railroad guns. Maybe modern locos could have turret and engineers could fire high velocity paint balls to mark moron drivers serving as a warning to other engineers.

And then we could add that as a DCC function.

I've often thought we should have these on our fire trucks.

Craig

[Puddington]

.... so who's modelling it...? Anybody....Bueller, Bueller...?

With our Kanto Sub almost complete and it soon being time to begin work on the second module this week has been dedicated to "the details....."



The CPR named everything and everywhere; I have added name boards to some of the layout after Sam choose the names, naturally....





I'm beginning to add figures to specific scenes. I like to add them such that they tell a story, like these two fellows yelling for their mate who is late for their fishing expedition.... and the two RCAF Flight Lt.'s who stopped by Millar's for a pint and have cut their time thin to get their baggage checked and make their train to Chatham, N.B and Sabre MkVI update training before going on to 1 Air Div, Two Wing.....



Just for fun I added some tell tails ahead of the highway overpass and tunnel...... Yes; I know that by 73 they'd have been long gone but hey; it's my world...

[ryan_wilkerson]

I was able to get a set of McCloud River SD38s from a friend that I've been looking at for a few months. I added DCC and low profile wheels and they work great! Here they are on my sons' railroad.
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[nkalanaga]

I don't know that the telltales would have been gone by 73.  Unneeded, certainly, with no roofwalks, but they aren't causing any problems, and would cost money to remove, so the company might have left them rather than spend the money, especially on a branchline.

After all, the MILW didn't remove the poles, or the messenger wires/hangers, from their western electrification.  The trolley wire disappeared quickly, as copper was valuable, but the poles, and some of the galvanized wires, were still there when the line was abandoned a few years later.  Many of the poles ended up cut down for firewood, as most weren't creosoted.

We stopped and watched a wreck cleanup west of Missoula in 1977.  A pole was  in the way of the crane boom, so the operator took a swing at it, knocking it into the river, where it joined the load of lumber from the derailed bulkhead flat.

[C855B]

I don't know that the telltales would have been gone by 73.  Unneeded, certainly, with no roofwalks, but they aren't causing any problems, and would cost money to remove, so the company might have left them rather than spend the money, ...

Yes. There was a telltale on the TRRA in St. Louis well into the 1990s, maybe even later.

[nkalanaga]

Mike:  Thank you.  Prototype confirmation is always better than speculation!

[C855B]

Here's a pair from 1988: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=386771

It wasn't even the one I was recalling, so obviously The Terminal didn't see any point in removing 'em.

[central.vermont]

Here's a Tell Tale still standing and doing it's job as of today. This shot was taken back in April but it is still there now on one of Pan Am's branch lines.

Jon

[BobRunty]

Got some paint on a Rock GP7 I've been working on.


Bob

[central.vermont]

Very nice work Bob on that Rock unit!!

Jon

[bnsfdash8]

Working on something from south of the border

[BCR 570]

This was a good week for me; got the struts for the landing gear installed (which were not included with the kits) and the hitch pins:




Next up are the wheels - the hubs and tyres were designed to be painted separately prior to assembly; pictured below is the fret as it comes, with an assembled wheel in centre:




These are now ready for BCR Light Green paint, wood deck and decals. 


I also have a 45' van trailer with curb side door and rear roll-up door ready for paint.




Tim

[Scottl]

Loads of great modelling already.  That NdeM boxcar is looking pretty amazing.

I'm spending my limited modelling time fooling around with photography.  Still exploring the limits of the new lens and better lighting.  Trying to work the east bank scene in absence of a backdrop. 

[wcfn100]

Got some paint on a Rock GP7 I've been working on.


Bob

Is that a particular unit with the white cab front?


Jason