Weekend Update 8/6/23

[up1950s]

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/06/19/south-bay-history-how-the-los-angeles-san-pedro-southern-californias-first-rail-line-began/

https://dieselera.com/tennesee-valley-railroad-museum-receives-rare-fairbanks-morse-diesel/

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/09/28/caltrain-plan-to-rebuild-san-francisquito-bridge-may-upend-palo-altos-rail-priorities

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/rr-railroadquips/

http://joyreactor.com/post/4645039

https://twitter.com/workshops_boss/status/1653075093399179265/photo/1

[mu26aeh]

Added more power to my fleet that I didn't need, but did need

CSX SD40-2 Operation RedBlock Baltimore Division. 



SD35/Yard slug set.  Will probably either swap it with a SD20-2 shell or a GP38 that I have a picture on the Hanover Sub with.

[peteski]

Now this is something I can see @mmagliaro scratchbuilding in N scale!   

[BCR 570]

This week saw the addition of 19 new other road freight cars to my fleet as recent acquisitions are cycled through the steps of replacing trucks, wheels, couplers, and weathering.

Four more cylindrical grain hoppers from Intermountain (PWRS special run cars) re-equipped with Micro-Trains trucks and couplers, and BLMA 36" wheels:




Four CN 3800 cu. ft. cylindrical hoppers with round hatches from Prairie Shadows for lime service, re-equipped with Athearn 36" wheels:




Two UNPX (Procor) cylindrical hoppers with round hatches from Prairie Shadows, also for lime service:




Taking the new hopper cars for a test run on the layout:




Nine UTLX (Procor) tank cars from Rapido Trains, re-equipped with Athearn 36" wheels and Microscale safety placard decals:




And a test run for the tank cars too:




All of these cars received fairly light weathering as they date from the early 1970s and I am modelling 1977.


Also, more progress on the diorama, with the first three contour layers now glued down:




More at the build thread: 

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=35129

Tim

[chessie system fan]

Tell me more about that slug.  I need to build one of those one day.  I made an SD20-2 shell a long time ago.  It just needs to be painted.  I'll have to dig it up to share.

[dem34]

Basic Paint and Decals

[mandealco]

Had a bit of a speed bump earlier in the year (guys get a PSA test), but all good now, so back to doing what is fun.
 
My wife Laura has been away for a while helping her elderly parents, so I've started to put together a few things in our dining room.
Once the weather warms up a little (winter here in NZ), this will be moved into the garage.  This is the NJ route 10 crossing of the Morristown & Erie in Whippany.   Still lots to do, but at least I can start to make some progress.
Cheers
Steve

[Kentuckian]

The humidity finally broke here in Northern Kentucky for a few days earlier in the week and I was able to get some rattle can painting done. I completed the restoration of a C&O passenger step stool. Glass bead blast, paint prep, and then sealed the aluminum top with Krylon clear satin. Body was also shot with Krylon. I was going for more of a Pullman green but it is a little light. Replacement rubber feet and a reproduction “builder’s plate” that I pop-riveted on were the final touches. This is not only for show; shorter people will need it to see my hopefully soon to be started layout.

[LIRR]

Progress continues on Sunrise Coal……..

[Jesse6669]

This week I finished up the Williams O scale GP38-2.  Pretty happy with this and it will look good with the CR caboose and some cars going around the tree.  Unless I decide to build an O scale layout (unlikely in my space..)



I did a lot of fettling of T-gauge stuff--couplers, details, decals, etc.  I have a detail kit for the FP9 including windshield and window inserts (clear resin) and this was a challenge.. lots of trial and error.  I had tried using Krystal Klear for windows but KK dries a bit concave, which drove me nuts.  I wanted flat glass.   So, using clear resin I 3D printed them.  The clear resin is a blend of Voxelab transparent and Phrozen Onyx Impact plus.  It's actually a smokey clear.  More about that another time..



The FP9 detail kit also has front coupler pocket inserts, CCE knuckle couplers, a close-to-scale coupler for the front, fuel tank, and Blomberg sideframes.  I'm going to make a few kits and send them off to TGauge.com to sell with the FP9 for the more anal-retentive T-gaugers along with some passenger equipment and the F7B.

I also worked on the N&W Trainmaster decals to refine the clarity and color, and checked the H11 hopper on the new trucks with a lowered coupler.  Those H11s probably rode on solid bearings but those were test trucks.  The TM knuckle is a CCE knuckle that fits in the stock pocket. 

-- Jesse

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Had a bit of a speed bump earlier in the year (guys get a PSA test), but all good now, so back to doing what is fun.
 
My wife Laura has been away for a while helping her elderly parents, so I've started to put together a few things in our dining room.
Once the weather warms up a little (winter here in NZ), this will be moved into the garage.  This is the NJ route 10 crossing of the Morristown & Erie in Whippany.   Still lots to do, but at least I can start to make some progress.
Cheers
Steve

That road scene is fire!

[chuck geiger]

Just need to add floodlights...

[mplsjct]

CB&Q SD24s passing under Washington Avenue…

[mu26aeh]

Paint shop is open again.  Going outside of the comfort zone with this project.  Reading F7 A B A set.

[nickelplate759]

Experimenting with CMR decals:



The blue has a white layer under it.  The printing is a little thick, but the film is nice and thin.  Tomorrow is the real test - the sides are slightly corrugated.

Ignore the speckled silver paint - that's my funky Pixel7 camera.