Weekend Update 4/17/16

[Iain]

Is that a bush or sapling growing on the end of the car, or simply some branches from passing through overgrown vegetation?

It looked like it was reallly growing there.

[nkalanaga]

Chuck:  If I remember the story right, they had protests, but the Wenatchee Indians decided it could stay, but I can't remember their reasoning.  Probably they and Skookum had some relationship.

The only thing I could find on Google was this:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=20000524&id=YgkfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H8sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3799,4923198&hl=en

There are quite a few stories from the Wenatchee paper, but one has to be a subscriber to read them.  I used to read their website, but when they decided to restrict it to print subscibers only, I never went back.  No online-only option at all, and if I get the print edition, why would I want the online?

[Spades]

I have seen cut outs for trucks, never a skirt for the the trucks.  Is the skirting structural for the bolster?

I am referring to the bulkhead flat. the picture got cut.

[jmlaboda]

I have seen cut outs for trucks, never a skirt for the the trucks.  Is the skirting structural for the bolster?

I am referring to the bulkhead flat. the picture got cut.

I don't know... 

[ChristianJDavis1]

A little late, but I figured since I actually did something this weekend, I would post it. Also, yes, they are "Horribly-Oversized," but I will make up for it this weekend at the Atlantic City N-Scale Gathering. Anyway, my meager contributions:





I managed to finally get around to painting two of my JNR Steam engines, which I had been dreading due to all of the preparation involved in painting steam engines that I have heard from others. Fortunately, these where not too bad. The 2-8-2 is a JNR D51 class, which aside from still needing its drivers painted, also needs some number boards. Still looking into my various options for that, but I am not too worried at the moment.

The second engine is a JNR class C58 2-6-2. This one fortunately already had the driver faces painted and number boards mounted. I am not satisfied with my painting of the number boards, so I will likely go back over those when I get a chance. Overall, I am glad that they are almost finished and look forward to acquiring and painting more obscure foreign locomotives in a scale that I though I had given up years ago...

[unittrain]

An East bound Conrail passes beneath the abandoned bridge of the NYC subsidiary LE&P in 1978. The bridge scratchbuild is getting to the home stretch still need to add some more stuff to it then build the deck plate part of the span.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1447/25970674314_8db9afe228_k.jpg

[davefoxx]

@unittrain,

That's a really nice looking bridge.  Beautiful work.  But, is that its final elevation?  Maybe it's the photo angle, but that clearance over the Conrail track looks tight.

DFF

[unittrain]

Thanks, yeah that bridge will be higher off the tracks still need to attach the bridge pedastals, need to ad another set of web members and add other details and finally paint and weather