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Here a prisoner on a work detail takes a short break on the front of an SD40 that's parked on a rip track. Or maybe he's waiting for a chance to make a break for it.
John, great interior and I love those pipes!
It's a holiday... Jeffery gets to sleep in sometimes.
I was getting tired of trying to remember what trains were on what track and where they were going so I made up a train board.
Still have to put the proper lettering on it but it does the trick!
Grampy, you have to stop posting proto photos and claiming they are models!!! Awesome work! Looks like PA to me.
John, as always nice! Very nice!
Jeffrey well done scene. I thought that guy on the front of the diseasal was there to chase away critters on the track............
I have been finishing some scenery and taking photos to enter in the competition at my Regions NMRA Conference next week. Here are a couple "also rans".
The newspaper mountain was begining to grate on me so having a day to play trains I decided it had to change
Step 1 plaster it
then I decided I needed a backscene, its still a work in progress when dry I plan to wash over it with white to tone it down and make it look a bit more distant, the 3D hill will then be grassed and fir trees planted in front of the painted band of trees
and because it is planned to be dual scale just for test purposes
Both the curtain sider and pipe car use the same principle this picture may help
It is all 60thou plasticard solvent welded together
Start with the the flat base upside down and add the 2 inner 10mm ribs along the length, the outer ribs are only 5mm and added next, then add the cross ribs between and finish off with the two end ribs. the truck mounts are made from double thickness plasticard glued onto the top of the ribs (bottom when right way up) the holes are drilled ready for the trucks to be fixed on with self tapping screws.
A flat would be easier than the pipe wagon, due to its length (20") the frame is made in 3 pieces, the two wider ends and the centre spar, strength for the joints comes from the fact they are welded to the Pipe Load !
If you need more help PM and I can answer specifi questions no problem!
I recently replaced a pair of the old " Cox manual Gantry cranes " with a pair of the new " Heljan digital cranes in my Container handling yard. Still have some track ballast to finish and roads to pave. I also devised a method to add steel pins in the tank containers of Walthers, enabling the cranes to lift them as well as the box containers. Having a blast operating them.
At least, after having figured out how to get the water looking halfways decent, I can replicate it on another layout. Right now this is on a hinged shelf about 14" wide. You can see the blue foam at the left with some of the epoxy smeared down it. Good thing the tape dam held.
Thanks, Jim. My wife made both of the stained glass windows some years back. She gave up the hobby as people didn't want to pay a fair price ( $ 2 )for labor or material so she might as least make a small profit. Any way we are both retired now, ergo the two cranes - - - ! Found the 2nd one at a price to hard to ignore from an internet/ E-bay dealer called " Scaled Structures ". It was on sale ---- $410 shipped UPS with Insurance ! After working 42 years in construction outside every winter in Northwestern Ind. , I feel I deserve to enjoy my retired years truly enjoying my favorite hobby of model railroading ! My wife is totally supportive of my great hobby ! She also found me the caboose light hanging above my old container transfer yard !
ST, I've had several friends that make stained glass windows and they all say the same thing - it's tough to make a profit. She certainly does some beautiful work. The caboose marker and all your trains on the wall are pretty impressive too.
Jeffrey, I have plenty of junk I can send you. Those brick walls came out really good.
Awesome work! Looks like PA to me.
