Weekend Update 6/2/24

[jpwisc]

Working on some trucks. Three I just painted and assembled for Baldylox, he’ll decal and weather them. The other is for a friend’s BN Havre layout (it’ll be green when I finish it)
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[samusi01]

An overhead of the Chicago layout, from April:

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[wazzou]

Im reminded how bad the kerning or spacing is between the H and E in the word Northern on these.
I can’t unsee it on my own example.

[bbussey]

The first EP4 body has been painted. Progress is moving ahead of the expected schedule.

[Mike Madonna]

The first EP4 body has been painted. Progress is moving ahead of the expected schedule.

Bryan,
Have a strong feeling we'll see this in Bethlehem 

[bbussey]

Bryan,
Have a strong feeling we'll see this in Bethlehem 

In the model contest.  Aiming to bring some hardware home. 
If the rail gaps are not grand canyon sized between modules on the convention layout/layouts, it may run some laps after the model contest ends.  I didn't run the EP3 in Chicago five years ago because the rail gaps were too wide.

[nkalanaga]

I haven't been in Seattle for decades, and then it was just for a family reunion.  What is that tall, dark gray, building?

[wazzou]

I haven't been in Seattle for decades, and then it was just for a family reunion.  What is that tall, dark gray, building?

Columbia Tower (Center)

[eja]

Having already worked the box plant, CWRS GP38-2, an ex-SP unit, has pulled the transloading area and is preparing to assemble its outbound train and re-spot the transloader with the TTX boxcar and MTNW boxcar.

No SP unit was ever that clean, certainly not an Ex-SP unit.

[packers#1]

No SP unit was ever that clean, certainly not an Ex-SP unit.

Baby steps 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

In addition to getting 7657 dirtied up on Friday, I also finished assembling the sand tower for my Pavonia engine terminal module.

There's only one problem...






Apparently Walthers and Kato didn't talk about track spacing.

[VonRyan]

Recently bought a sizeable On30 collection for fun and profit. Been working on double checking a lot of it so I can sell it this coming weekend at the Harrisburg Narrow O Meet. But, I also found some time to play around with one of the things I’m keeping for myself.

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A brass model of Sandy River & Rangley Lakes railcar No.2 made by Brasswork in China and sold by Train & Trooper of Maine.

Mechanically it’s a dead-simple model. Direct drive from the motor to the rear axle with wipers handling the pickups on all 4 wheels. Only real room for DCC is likely going to be on the underframe. Probably between the chassis and the front axle. The only “hard” part will be getting the headlights working without messing up the whole thing.

[vermonter_railfan]

You're more than welcome to run on the Free-MoN layout!

In the model contest.  Aiming to bring some hardware home. 
If the rail gaps are not grand canyon sized between modules on the convention layout/layouts, it may run some laps after the model contest ends.  I didn't run the EP3 in Chicago five years ago because the rail gaps were too wide.

[vermonter_railfan]

This weekends update was getting some progress on my Free-MoN modules for the upcoming N Scale convention and then E24 soon after that.

Also featuring a WIP of @samusi01 3400 Tower segment load.

[spr1955]

Looks great now. Hopefully no  cracks will develop after couple of years of  the hardboard aging.

Most of this will get a printed backdrop covering around 1/2 the way up, it was also prebent reducing tension in the piece from moving and is solo mounted. But we shall see, have had good results in the past.