Weekend Update 2/27/22

[narrowminded]

So far this week's posts are one bit of outstanding after another!  Totally impressed by ALL of it!!!

[nickelplate759]

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).  ...

The decals are likely from Great Decals https://www.greatdecals.com/

[motofavorite]

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

Nice track! I know 1:19 is a little larger than your scale, but I wonder if you have seen Nystrup Gravel?  https://nystrupgravel.blogspot.com/

[Roger Holmes]

Thank you for all of the kind words!

[wm3798]

A little field research for the next TTrak grouping


Good to spend time with some old friends

[up1950s]

Sorry but those tufts by your ears reminded me of

[amato1969]

Not much modeling this week...  just some roof weathering (need to clean up those tide marks):



  Frank

[garethashenden]

It Runs!!! Needs more weight, but it runs smoothly.

[MK]

I see Lee is aiming for Altoona! 

[PiperguyUMD]

A little field research for the next TTrak grouping


Good to spend time with some old friends

Jealous! Hope you're planning on doing a FreemoN module at some point too!

[Super_G]

Not much this week other than "paving" the transload parking lot.


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[Jim Starbuck]

After languishing on my work table for three years, work has resumed on my Milwaukee Road SDL39 build.
This started as the Briggs Models 3d printed kit but I found that to be difficult to work with and I couldn’t get the model to run acceptably as designed so I started replacing parts with Atlas.
All that I’m using from the original kit are the truck sideframes which have been sanded thin to become simple overlays and the chassis which has been highly modified to accept a coreless motor as opposed to the large one from the C630 donor loco.

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[nkalanaga]

Since it seems that there is some interest in my layout, here's a "scenic" view of the crossing into Gerti Gravel.  The "gravel pit" is a not-uncommon "valley fill" deposit in the foothills of the Montana Rockies.  During an extremely dry period, before the Ice Ages, there wasn't enough runoff to wash the eroded rocks away.  Sand and gravel built up in thick layers at the base of  the hills, burying the old stream beds, and in some cases, the hills themselves.  With the return of a wetter climate during the Ice Ages, that layer started to erode, but in many cases, the new streams didn't follow the old beds.  Thus, today, you can find wide valleys, separated by ridges and narrow canyons, where  the new rivers cut down to the old ridge, but couldn't change course to go around.  Gerti Gravel is mining one of the ancient buried stream beds, and only has to screen the gravel for size, or, in many cases, sell it as-is for fill.


The background hills are from a photo, taken in the 80s, and printed as a poster, then cut out.  It was taken a few miles from the "actual" site of Gerti, near the Silver City RR crossing, on the Helena-Lincoln highway.

[svedblen]

Nice track! I know 1:19 is a little larger than your scale, but I wonder if you have seen Nystrup Gravel?  https://nystrupgravel.blogspot.com/

Thanks! No, I have not seen that before. Actually, I don’t think I have ever seen anything in that scale at all. It looks cool though.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Since it seems that there is some interest in my layout, here's a "scenic" view of the crossing into Gerti Gravel.  The "gravel pit" is a not-uncommon "valley fill" deposit in the foothills of the Montana Rockies.  During an extremely dry period, before the Ice Ages, there wasn't enough runoff to wash the eroded rocks away.  Sand and gravel built up in thick layers at the base of  the hills, burying the old stream beds, and in some cases, the hills themselves.  With the return of a wetter climate during the Ice Ages, that layer started to erode, but in many cases, the new streams didn't follow the old beds.  Thus, today, you can find wide valleys, separated by ridges and narrow canyons, where  the new rivers cut down to the old ridge, but couldn't change course to go around.  Gerti Gravel is mining one of the ancient buried stream beds, and only has to screen the gravel for size, or, in many cases, sell it as-is for fill.


The background hills are from a photo, taken in the 80s, and printed as a poster, then cut out.  It was taken a few miles from the "actual" site of Gerti, near the Silver City RR crossing, on the Helena-Lincoln highway.

Beautiful!!!