Weekend Update 8/23/20

[Nick Lorusso]

Just finished a BNSF re-re-patch. Unit started out as a FVM Santa Fe GP60 that i redetailed patched and weathered with paint and chalks.

[davefoxx]

I finally finished my backdrop.



More on the Seaboard Central 3.0 thread in the Layout Engineering forum.

DFF

[JanesCustomTrain]

Just finished a BNSF re-re-patch. Unit started out as a FVM Santa Fe GP60 that i redetailed patched and weathered with paint and chalks.

Very nice, are the ditch lights working ?

Jane

[CRL]

Just finished a BNSF re-re-patch. Unit started out as a FVM Santa Fe GP60 that i redetailed patched and weathered with paint and chalks.

Nicely done, bit but it’s amazing how adding 2 letters (BN) can f-up a perfectly good Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme. 

[Mike Madonna]

I have completed all of my 3D printed tank trucks and should wrap up my Key 4-6-6-4 project this weekend. So, it is time to move on to my next project. I am going to re-produce this well, I hope...................................


To help with details on the doghouse mounted on the vandy tender, I found this..........


This tender is attached to a 2-10-2 but is the same type as shown with #702 above.

I have a B'man J class mechanism milled down to accept a Jason (superturbine) boiler casting. I have already tweaked his tender casting and am ready to add the doghouse. Some great reference material above. I hope I can find the white decals for this build. Actually was the lettering in white or gray? ?

Should be fun and rewarding as well. Stay tuned. After this, on to a second AC-9.

Stay safe, stay well,
Carl

Carl,
Looking forward to your updates/progress on this project!!
As an aside, the tender on that SP "Deck" is a 120-C class tender (12K gal). The tender behind the GS is a 160-C class (16K gal). The Bachmann large Vandy (older version) tender is basically identical to the 160-C. I believe B-mann used this tender on their later 4-8-4 when lettered for Southern Pacific. Be well....

[dem34]

Being on Call for work this weekend has made me strangely productive.



Pssst Anybody in Jersey got some Conrail decals

[nkalanaga]

sd45elect2000:  What railroad owns that shop?  I can't quite read the herald.

Dawn is the go-to cleaner for a lot of things, including highways after oil spills.  I wonder if the maker sells it by the tank truck or tankcar load?

[sd45elect2000]

sd45elect2000:  What railroad owns that shop?  I can't quite read the herald.

Dawn is the go-to cleaner for a lot of things, including highways after oil spills.  I wonder if the maker sells it by the tank truck or tankcar load?

Grafton and Upton RR in N Grafton Ma

[Cameron_Talley]

I actually have something to share for once!  I've been working on a set of T-Track modules and have actually started scenery for the first time in my model railroading career.  This week I finished putting together a Walther's Vintage Dairy Queen kit for one of my modules. 




I also got a N&W Y3 (Life-Like's) in the mail and did some running to break it in.  It seems a little finicky so far but not too bad.  It's apparently New Old Stock from the first run and has never been run, so I would expect some break in.



Next week I hope to lay out the parking lot/roads for the Dairy Queen. 

[peteski]

While the N scale stuff in your photos is nice, the coolest thing in those photos is that vintage Mac with a 3.5" floppy slot on the front!  That is a museum piece!

I remember (sometime in the mid-'90s?) I had a chance to play with one of those.  While it had a monochrome display, the GUI was light-years ahead of the contemporary MS Windows (3.0?), with the 16 color EGA display I was using at that time.  Or was it 8 color? Hmm . . . . I also seem to recall the Flying Toasters screen saver.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Finished kitbashing a brass U33B phase 1 for SLC/CSX.
Sandblasted, ready for painting.
(looks like I still need to adjust the sideframes a bit).

Nice... I just picked this up for $55

Not happy with the decal job. I may try and repaint it. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[bdennis]

Installed 20 signals this weekend.

And updated the loco facility.

[central.vermont]

Sandblasted, ready for painting.

Ron what do you use for sandblasting, such as gun and media used?
I want to purchase a setup so I can sand blast some brass I have and would prefer this method over a chemical removal method.

TIA, Jon

[carlso]

Mike Madonna,

Thanks for the tender info. I am using the tender casting that Jason sent with the boiler. It doesn't look long enough to me but try to find a B'mann vandy today. I'll just have to super detail it. here is an image of my first test fit and with the doghouse just sitting on top of tender.


After looking at this image again I guess it is long enough.

Stay well,
Carl

[sd45elect2000]

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