Feb 22 Week(end) Photo Fun
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Here's a shot of the loco behind the first one.
Jim--
That's a double girder, and I don't think WS makes anything that would work under it. However, I'm thinking that the abutments that Walthers makes for their double-track truss bridge might work with a little cutting and filing. You might have to take some off of the bottom, but I think it would be a good fit as far as the width. Chooch also makes a variety of bridge abutments and piers, you might want to check them out, also. I've used some of their piers under one of my single-track double-truss bridges with good success.
Tom
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I've worked on a couple things this week. The biggest project was wiring this puppy up on the C&O branch of my DT&I Layout:
Lined to go up the interchange track...
All clear!
I've also added 6 new grain hoppers in a maroon DT&I scheme. Here's a couple of videos with two finished products:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U2haIp55xxI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_I9WZWCnm4
Lined to go up the interchange track...
All clear!
I've also added 6 new grain hoppers in a maroon DT&I scheme. Here's a couple of videos with two finished products:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U2haIp55xxI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_I9WZWCnm4
Oh, man, I've come in way too late to be able to comment on all the pictures. If I don't mention yours, it's because of my membership in the Alheimer's Club.
MD, well deserved awards for the work you put into the those two models. Congratulations!
Ray, very professional looking control panel. Mine looks like something you'd add under the dash of a '55 Chevy.
Tom, nice looking bridge and loco. I like the work you did on the abutments too - often overlooked with model bridges.
Jeffrey, clearing some of that ballast from the inside web of those rails might help prevent such disasters in the future. I'm always amazed how one little piece of ballast that has migrated to the wrong place in a switch can start causing derailments.
Mike, nice picture of some real desert railroading. You can tell how much rain they expect by the fact the railroad grade is about 6 inches above the surrounding ground. I wonder how long it has taken to develop those erosion channels in the background?
Carl, nice MNS double plug door boxcar. I like the Athearn RTR line of freight cars also. Nice trucks and wheels and decent couplers compared to a few other companies RTR cars.
Fred, fantastic job on that GE with the turbo fire. Even the scorching on the lettering looks real Did you work from a prototype on that? Is the engine still actually operable after the fire?
John, your intermodal facility is developing very nicely. The container crane looks especially good. Are trucks normally going to drive up the platform to be loaded or will it always be for the side? I saw an interesting one at a small container yard today. The track ended at one end of the loading platform. The platform was made of rollers and there was a winch at both ends. The winch at the track end yanked the containers off the car and then the winch at the other end rolled the containers to the waiting truck at the road end. The loading ramp had an extension on the end that sat on the truck bed. After the containers were on the truck bed, the roller ramp was pulled out by the winch at the track end of the dock and the process started again. No cranes and very little handling. Seemed like a good idea for a light duty container facility. My era doesn't include containers or I'd be tempted to try building one.
The girder bridges look great, Michael. Pit dome though into modeling the abutments since they really help in making bridges look real. As Tom suggested, some Floquil boxcar red, mineral red, or grime, sprayed on very lightly will help bring out the details. I don't know what road you are modeling but the road name or herald looks really cool on a girder bridge to break up that big expanse of black.
Sorry, it's getting late so I have to apologize to those of you I missed but this has been one of the better WPF's so far.
MD, well deserved awards for the work you put into the those two models. Congratulations!
Ray, very professional looking control panel. Mine looks like something you'd add under the dash of a '55 Chevy.
Tom, nice looking bridge and loco. I like the work you did on the abutments too - often overlooked with model bridges.
Jeffrey, clearing some of that ballast from the inside web of those rails might help prevent such disasters in the future. I'm always amazed how one little piece of ballast that has migrated to the wrong place in a switch can start causing derailments.
Mike, nice picture of some real desert railroading. You can tell how much rain they expect by the fact the railroad grade is about 6 inches above the surrounding ground. I wonder how long it has taken to develop those erosion channels in the background?
Carl, nice MNS double plug door boxcar. I like the Athearn RTR line of freight cars also. Nice trucks and wheels and decent couplers compared to a few other companies RTR cars.
Fred, fantastic job on that GE with the turbo fire. Even the scorching on the lettering looks real Did you work from a prototype on that? Is the engine still actually operable after the fire?
John, your intermodal facility is developing very nicely. The container crane looks especially good. Are trucks normally going to drive up the platform to be loaded or will it always be for the side? I saw an interesting one at a small container yard today. The track ended at one end of the loading platform. The platform was made of rollers and there was a winch at both ends. The winch at the track end yanked the containers off the car and then the winch at the other end rolled the containers to the waiting truck at the road end. The loading ramp had an extension on the end that sat on the truck bed. After the containers were on the truck bed, the roller ramp was pulled out by the winch at the track end of the dock and the process started again. No cranes and very little handling. Seemed like a good idea for a light duty container facility. My era doesn't include containers or I'd be tempted to try building one.
The girder bridges look great, Michael. Pit dome though into modeling the abutments since they really help in making bridges look real. As Tom suggested, some Floquil boxcar red, mineral red, or grime, sprayed on very lightly will help bring out the details. I don't know what road you are modeling but the road name or herald looks really cool on a girder bridge to break up that big expanse of black.
Sorry, it's getting late so I have to apologize to those of you I missed but this has been one of the better WPF's so far.
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I thought it might have been because of ballast as well. Turned out it was due to a wheelset being out of gauge and picked the turnout. That's the first derailment in that location in about three months.
Here's a shot of the loco behind the first one.
Jim--
Thanks for the comments on the bridge abutments. Actually, I adapted some Woodland Scenics concrete retaining walls for the abutments, they're easy to work with, and the sheer drop of that canyon needed something relatively tall that I could 'melt' into the scenery. I've got about 10 bridges of various styles on the Yuba River Sub (okay, I admit it, I'm a Bridge Freak, LOL!) and fitting abutments to them can be a real pain sometimes. It's usually easier for me to fabricate something than try and fit in a commercial abutment most of the time.
Glad you liked the loco--it's a PSC brass Rio Grande 2-10-2 (since I model Rio Grande steam, just about ALL of my locos have to be brass) and it runs like a Swiss watch and hauls like a team of oxen. It's a beautiful brute, but it gets a mite Testy on anything under a 30" radius.
Here's another photo of her on the same bridge--ain't that tender a stubby lil' ol' thing, though, LOL?
Tom
Thanks for the comments on the bridge abutments. Actually, I adapted some Woodland Scenics concrete retaining walls for the abutments, they're easy to work with, and the sheer drop of that canyon needed something relatively tall that I could 'melt' into the scenery. I've got about 10 bridges of various styles on the Yuba River Sub (okay, I admit it, I'm a Bridge Freak, LOL!) and fitting abutments to them can be a real pain sometimes. It's usually easier for me to fabricate something than try and fit in a commercial abutment most of the time.
Glad you liked the loco--it's a PSC brass Rio Grande 2-10-2 (since I model Rio Grande steam, just about ALL of my locos have to be brass) and it runs like a Swiss watch and hauls like a team of oxen. It's a beautiful brute, but it gets a mite Testy on anything under a 30" radius.
Here's another photo of her on the same bridge--ain't that tender a stubby lil' ol' thing, though, LOL?
Tom
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Railphotog
Railroad Photographer
On30 models posed on the swamp section of my HO scale modules:
chessie4155
Member
Lots of excellent modeling pics..Well Done Everyone..
Extra 8594 West at Tunnel 1
Extra 8594 West at Tunnel 1
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
There's a bit of trackwork going on in Leesville. The KCS is extending the north end of the passing siding a little over a 1/4 mile.
This is at the north end where the new section of siding merges back into the main.
At this end they haven't quite made it to the existing part of the passing siding. There's about 150' yet to go. The problem, as I see it, is they have to figure out where to divert the street traffic from University Parkway.
The nearest crossing is almost 1/2 a mile away and would have the traffic moving through a residential area.
This is at the north end where the new section of siding merges back into the main.
At this end they haven't quite made it to the existing part of the passing siding. There's about 150' yet to go. The problem, as I see it, is they have to figure out where to divert the street traffic from University Parkway.
The nearest crossing is almost 1/2 a mile away and would have the traffic moving through a residential area.
johntealon30
Member
The fence now has some mesh
The newly painted door back skyline
A spring visitor
Upto date door view
John
RJR
The newly painted door back skyline
A spring visitor
Upto date door view
John
RJR
Michael,
This is a good example of a plate girder bridge fom an abandoned span on the Missouri Pacific.
The typical parts of the abutment are the concrete tower with room for the bridge shoe plates on the ends and support of the track section in the middle. AIM Model products has a wide selection of bridge abutments available but it wouldn't be hard to build such a simple abutment from styrene. What really makes the bridge look realistic is the bridge shoes for attaching the girder bridge to the abutment:
These are available at Walthers (Part # 255-80034) for $4.85 for four shoes. They will make your bridge look much better from the side.
This is a good example of a plate girder bridge fom an abandoned span on the Missouri Pacific.
The typical parts of the abutment are the concrete tower with room for the bridge shoe plates on the ends and support of the track section in the middle. AIM Model products has a wide selection of bridge abutments available but it wouldn't be hard to build such a simple abutment from styrene. What really makes the bridge look realistic is the bridge shoes for attaching the girder bridge to the abutment:
These are available at Walthers (Part # 255-80034) for $4.85 for four shoes. They will make your bridge look much better from the side.
Jim--
That's a double girder, and I don't think WS makes anything that would work under it. However, I'm thinking that the abutments that Walthers makes for their double-track truss bridge might work with a little cutting and filing. You might have to take some off of the bottom, but I think it would be a good fit as far as the width. Chooch also makes a variety of bridge abutments and piers, you might want to check them out, also. I've used some of their piers under one of my single-track double-truss bridges with good success.
Tom
wheeler1963
Wheeler's Trains
Well I have 2 Chessie System wrecks in the works, and 1 CNW wreck started this weekend.
Zephyr
Rocket Red
This weekend I painted and decaled some older rolling stock that is still in the blue/white scheme. These will be finshed (including weathering) later this week.
Athearn blue box GE U33B
IHC "Premier Series" Alco C415
2 Athearn blue box extended-vision cabooses
And a recently weathered Athearn 86' hi-cube boxcar, photographed at the train show today
Athearn blue box GE U33B
IHC "Premier Series" Alco C415
2 Athearn blue box extended-vision cabooses
And a recently weathered Athearn 86' hi-cube boxcar, photographed at the train show today
IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Here is a later shot of my FL covered hopper, under better-quality lighting and after correcting a number of the defects I described in my original post.
firetacoma
Member
Hey there zephyr, I saw that car at the show today!
Also saw a bunch of equipment I'd seen pictures of on here... but didn't know who was who so didn't say hi.
Also saw a bunch of equipment I'd seen pictures of on here... but didn't know who was who so didn't say hi.
suprduc
Member
That means that members should wear name tags with their real name and their screen name.
chessie4155
Member
Jerome, What are dooooing? aaaaaah, dem po po puddy tats! lol
just razzin ya, those are gonna look good all banged up when your done.
just razzin ya, those are gonna look good all banged up when your done.
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