Weekend Update 2/27/22

[up1950s]

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/01/27/navys-new-train-car-has-all-firepower-and-tech-you-need-nuclear-security.html

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/10/f80/2020_10_ATLAS_Fact-Sheet_FINAL.pdf

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39654/wait-this-mysterious-heavily-armored-blue-train-caboose-belongs-to-the-navy

https://www.flickriver.com/groups/3386660@N25/pool/interesting/

Whoopsie , I posted early by accident .

[Lemosteam]

Introducing PRR H3a #931.

Been a while since I did any real locomotive modeling, so I finally finished her up this week.

More here: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=53651.0

[bbussey]

Finished four RBB&B Mt Vernon flatcars.

[garethashenden]

The past couple of weeks I've been working on a LNWR 2-4-0 "Jumbo". Need to make a driveshaft and it should run.

[peteski]

This is some good stuff John, Bryan, and Gareth!

I see you are using the 6-pole motor. Those perform amazingly well.  Were you able to find one designed for 12V,  or is this one of the lower voltage motors?

[davefoxx]

Going fantasy here.  You may recall the Seaboard Central (“SC”) project layout by Model Railroader magazine in the 1980s.  Well, I had some decals made up a few years ago and patched a Burlington Northern GP9 for the SC, which I was modeling as a connecting road on my Seaboard System (“SBD”) layout.

A year or so ago, I decided to go in a more prototypical manner, and I changed that SC line to the correct road, i.e., it’s an original Norfolk Southern Ry. line that is now owned by the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western.  I retired SC No. 1700 at that time.  This week, I decided to bring No. 1700 out of storage, and I weathered the SC patches and then patched it further for the SBD.  In other words, the SC is now a fallen flag and was absorbed by the SBD.

SBD No. 1700 is a dirty girl, but you can still see the “SC” lettering under the cab window and the “gull” logo on the long hood.  The blue paint on the cab side and the sill were patches by the SC to hide the BN lettering.



DFF

[garethashenden]

This is some good stuff John, Bryan, and Gareth!

I see you are using the 6-pole motor. Those perform amazingly well.  Were you able to find one designed for 12V,  or is this one of the lower voltage motors?

Its a 6V motor. Well, the listing said 6V-7.2V, but not 12V in any case. I'll limit it with a decoder. Probably a LokPilot Nano, getting a sound decoder and speaker in here would be a challenge...

[Roger Holmes]

Many months after I started, the Art Institute of Chicago is finally on the layout.  I wound up being a volunteer choir director at church after our choir director took another job.  I was determined that we wouldn't have another Christmas without music and I put together a number of well-known songs, my wife and I wrote a script, I begged for singers, assembled a small orchestra, scored a guest soloist and we put on a 35 minute cantata.  That accounts for 2 1/2 months of the delay.

First, a few pictures of the actual Art Institute on Michigan Avenue.  The second photos shows a white rectangular tower which was built as the Standard Oil Building at about the same time as Sears Tower and the Hancock Building.  It is now the Aon Tower and is about half finished on my workbench.





Here are some in progress photos.  The steps were reworked several times after the photo was taken.  The main structure is a kitbash of two Custom Model Railroading Union Station flats.  Lots of Evergreen styrene sheets ad strips and some Plastruct block.





Here is the finished structure on the workbench.







A few photos as installed on the layout.  The only place it fit was inside a part of the Loop El tracks that I built 20 years ago. A bit of modeler's license and selective compression has the El tracks in front of the Art Institute when they are actually one block west on Wabash Ave which runs parallel to Michigan Ave.





The north end of the Art Institute shows an El train. 



The El tracks on the South end show another train.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Oh man Roger, I love it. It's a fantastic museum and you've definitely done it justice.

[wazzou]

Terrific Roger!  I was sure I saw Ferris Bueller on the steps. 

[skytop35]

Nice work Roger !

[altohorn25]

Finished up two head end cars for my L&N "Pan American"

These are MT heavyweight cars that I stripped, painted, and decaled (have I mentioned how much I HATE applying stripe decals......).  Modelflex paint (B&O Royal Blue and Wabash Grey).  Decals I found on Ebay (the company is escaping me at the moment....sorry).  I added Fox Valley Models 36" metal wheels and MT Z scale 905 couplers (they mount right in the factory holes on the RPO, but need to be moved in slightly for better spacing on the Baggage car).

I have a bunch more cars to do as well as working on and E7 and another E8 for power to go with the E6 and E8 I've already completed.

It will be a nice train when finished and paired with Lowell Smith's cars.

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[btrain]

Outstanding work Roger, well done!

[fcnrwy23]

Finished up two head end cars for my L&N "Pan American"

These are MT heavyweight cars that I stripped, painted, and decaled (have I mentioned how much I HATE applying stripe decals......).  Modelflex paint (B&O Royal Blue and Wabash Grey).  Decals I found on Ebay (the company is escaping me at the moment....sorry).  I added Fox Valley Models 36" metal wheels and MT Z scale 905 couplers (they mount right in the factory holes on the RPO, but need to be moved in slightly for better spacing on the Baggage car).

I have a bunch more cars to do as well as working on and E7 and another E8 for power to go with the E6 and E8 I've already completed.

It will be a nice train when finished and paired with Lowell Smith's cars.

Amazing Work !!! 

Jerry G.

[svedblen]

Finally, all track has been laid and weathered.



Some more pictures in the build thread. https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=52780.msg736000#msg736000