Weekend Update 10/9/22

[up1950s]

https://www.prrths.org/

https://stewartstownrailroadco.com/

https://railiron.com/

https://upjoke.com/railway-jokes

https://ppaccone.medium.com/the-story-of-the-railroad-chinese-and-the-donner-pass-tunnels-45dc99b6a566

https://www.pinterest.com/egbegb/railroad-pictures/

https://railyards.com/blog/10-women-who-transformed-railroad-history

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[nkalanaga]

It looks like I'm going to be the first to post, and I don't have much either.  So, here's a very simple small business, no rail service, just scenery.  I have no idea where the Quonset hut came from, it's a solid resin casting.  The large truck is Wiking, the pickup CMW.  The doors are MT spare parts, with an Evergreen styrene track.  The sign is soldered brass rod with a paper sign.  Very basic, typical of a lot of small shops in rural western US.  It sits in an empty space between the Jefferson industrial branch and the main line, with no room for a rail-served industry.

[eric220]

'Twouldn't be a surprise.  Raymond Lowey designed cars for Buick too.

Side note, thanks for the gorgeous shot of the most beautiful locomotive ever to lead off this week's Weekend Update!

[John]

Took out a portion of the layout .. 
Before



After

[TrainCat2]

That was a nice looking scene with the viaduct.

[John]

That was a nice looking scene with the viaduct.

Thanks -- but I was very unstable - and too high .. early on some of the  ran some very expensive steamers on the bridge, and I held my breath that they wouldn't derail and fall off the front .. that's one of the areas on the layout I'm not overly happy with .. so we will try something a little less awesome and try to do it sort of right   - I'm also going to build a frame around the window so that I can hide the insulation ..

[altohorn25]

I drove to Eau Claire yesterday morning for a small model railroad show.  One vendor had some Micro Trains cars for very reasonable prices that fit the era of my layout, so I picked up a few.  I changed out the plastic wheels with Eastern Seaboard Models metal wheels (33" on most of them and 36" on the two express box cars - the GN and C&EI cars).  I also put a laser-cut wood deck on the SP flat car to make it look better.  I gave them all a quick shot of weathering with my airbrush this morning and they're good to go for the layout.

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[nickelplate759]

Amtrak circa-1995 talgo got out to play yesterday on a friend's layout.


Electrotren cars (imported by E-R models), Kato F40PH.  A pretty good approximation of the trains Amtrak ran between Seattle & Vancouver BC

[Bill H]

I drove to Eau Claire yesterday morning for a small model railroad show.  One vendor had some Micro Trains cars for very reasonable prices that fit the era of my layout, so I picked up a few. 

Have to agree with John - about the only place I can find MT or other manufacturers' cars that fit my transition era for the last several years is at shows. Especially slightly different transition era cars as John found. I rather prefer some of those because in operations, asking operators to pick out a particular Pennsy or B&O boxcar from ten others with different but tiny umbers is a bit of stretch - while those cars John purchased are easily differentiated while not shouting out that they are glaringly different.

Just a thought...

Kind regards,
Bill

[BCR 570]

Layout progress continues with repairs and alterations to the Tremblay sections.  When the layout was dismantled I had to cut two LED lighting leads; these were reconnected this week:




I also ran a LED lighting return back along the underside of Tremblay and through the rear stringer; this will power the LED lights for the new benchwork at Septimus:




On the Highway 97 section, trackbed has been laid around the curve and through the backdrop onto the rear shelf:






Tracklaying and wiring today.


Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadian RW members!

Tim

[Cajonpassfan]

Not exactly modeling, just trying to come up with an effective way to keep track, pun intended, of all those darn trains, especially in staging. More on my ATSF LA Division thread.
Otto K.

[Bendtracker1]

I got the #323 finished up, just waiting on some chips so I can get the headlight tied in.
I'm putting the finishing touches on the #307 this weekend.

[TrainCat2]

Making progress on the Canyon Diablo bridge. I got all of the X-Bracing from Post 2 through Post 7 vertically and the Lower Sway Bracing out to Post 7. More than half of the bridge has the floor beams soldered into the main trusses. And the stairs that run down the center of the bridge attached to the Sway braces has been installed to the post which will have the bridge shoes.

[Cajonpassfan]

Bob, that is stunning! Wow...
Otto K.

[ednadolski]

Finished up a handy little Sunday project:   a three-gauge ESU decoder programming track, for handling N, HO, and P:48.   Build using some spare Code 83 rail and 'O' scale PCB ties, on top of a nice sturdy 1x4 to avoid the hassles (and short circuits) of loose wires and floppy flextrack.

 

Cheers,
Ed