Christmas Loot

This week I'm just posting my Christmas Loot.

Here's a Walthers American Crane in HO scale. Data Only and the new non-powered version. I plan on weathering it and decaling it for the DRI&NW railroad.

And lastly I received an oversized HO caboose. It's pretty large and I'm not sure how its gonna fit under my bridge.

Bringing up the rear

One more to wrap up 2012...

A load of dimensional lumber tiptoes thru the trees at the tail end of DMSW-29 with its EOT flag drooping from the coupler.

Thanks Frank for administering this thread. It's become one of my favorites each week. See you in 2013!

James

Taking on Water

Two Mu'd 3T Shays, Ghost River Rwy. #26 & #27 take on water at Camp 1 before tackling the 6% grade to Camp 2.

Roy

The State of the Layout

What the Kansas Pacific looks like as we end 2012. 

  Last pics for 2012. A

Last pics for 2012. A string of weathered 40" boxcar pulled by CN MLW S-3 switcher at Ste-Rosalie.

Ste-Rosalie is the beginning of the Drummond Sub and the end of the St-Hyacinthe sub. It is also where scenery stop on the layout since I am re-doing Bois D'Arcy area.  I'll post pics of my work in progress as I am starting scenery there soon

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W&W hopper

Thanks for starting this off this week Frank.  Nothing new from me.  How about an older pic of a W&W hopper grab shot from the layout:

Sceneces from the layout takedown

layout takedown.  This area was supposed to be freelanced Great lakes tributary

looking left to right after bridge is removed.  First time photo.  Section will be at springfield show

Have a good weekend.

Bill D

fisherman?

Whatever he's doing, that's an astonishingly realistic figure, Bill.

David

Road crossing

A caddy and corvette waiting at the crossing. DJ.

the basket car

Back in them days, when the mills didn't have a use for every last grain of sawdust, pieces of slabwood, cutoffs, ends, and whatnot were tossed in the basket car and shipped off for use as firewood.

Based on a NorWest flatcar kit.

David

Oliver Iron Mining #904

Just finished an Atlas HH660, painted and lettered for OIM's HH1000 (longer frame) number 904, caught as it pulls a load of rock rejects from the Rouchleau Crusher, using the DM&IR tracks at Largo to get to the tailings dump.  A couple of 'Peg RS11s wait at Largo Tower.

What a fantastic little

What a fantastic little diesel!! I really like the weathering and the warmth of the picture!!

IAIS GP16

IAIS GP16 495 is finally done. I started this model in about 2004, then set it aside for several years, finally returning to it a month or so ago.

Prototype pic, 2/15/2004 at Bluffs Yard:

Model at the same location on my layout:

Prototype pic, 2/15/2004 at Bluffs Yard:

Model view looking NW toward the enginehouse:

495

Joe - VERY nice!  My favorite loco of yours so far.  Such an interesting prototype and well executed on the model, particularly the heralds on the long hood.

-Kevin

Thank you!

Thanks Kevin!  The junkiest IAIS units have always been my favorites to model.  So much more personality than their shiny new(er) brethren.

Apologies for the overexposed prototype pics.  They were the only shots I had of the 495 in front of the enginehouse.

Frank, nice haul from Christmas.  You might want to check the coupler height on that caboose, though.  Can't put my finger on it, but something's just not right there. 

James, great photo as always.  It's been great to see your layout come to life this year.

Bill, that's a great looking scene, and I, too, would like to know more about that fisherman figure.  VERY realistic. HO figures are kind of like vehicles to me.  I don't want many on the layout, so I'd be willing to pay more for the few high-quality pieces I eventually add.  Unfortunately, our selection of HO figures is even worse than the HO vehicle market.  The one in your photo is one of the most realistic I've seen.

Milt, I really like your switcher as well, not to mention the scene in which it's photographed.

Andy, nice to see you making so much progress.  I really enjoy your updates.

Wow...

Woodchip Hopper

Another recent edition to the freight car fleet.

Tom Patterson

Great shot Joe. I always like

Great shot Joe. I always like your pictures, work in progress, layout, rolling stock, motive power and weathering.

Great layout you have. Well done indeed.

Syl

Quick update for Bois D'Arcy

Quick update for Bois D'Arcy section of the layout. I did manage to get some work done after all.

Gave a base coat of paint to the "ground" and installed the roadbed for....the road.

Also did more work on the highway overpass well.

The fascia is in place (glue is curing hence the screws). I "pulled" this section of the layout so I can work on it

from all side which makes a lot easier.

Nicely done on the wood chip

Nicely done on the wood chip hopper Tom. Nice shot and subtle weathering.

Weathering and re-stenciling

I pulled a covered hopper of mine off our club layout this weekend that's been bothering me for a while. The car itself wasn't the problem; it's a True-Line Trains slabside covered hopper (older 6-rectangular hatch version) painted in the as-delivered 1950's CPR simplified gothic lettering scheme. The problem was it had been pressed into service on our club layout during a covered hopper shortage, and has been running around for three years now in totally fresh and shiny 1950's paint. Even though it wears black paint, it was still an eye-sore whenever coupled to properly weathered cars.

Well this weekend it finished being an eye-sore...

The car was weathered first with various weathering powders, plus chalks to simulate the cement spills and streaks. Then I airbrushed extra 'grunge' along the underbody to age the trucks, hopper bottoms and car ends. I then added the paint-patching, weight data re-stenciling, ACI labels and COTS stencil to finally give this hopper a proper 1970's appearance.

Still lots of un-weathered equipment on our layout, but there's at least one less obvious culprit now.

These sharks won't bite....

I managed to get the road to

I managed to get the road to the depot done. The place in front of the team track will follow.

In the foreground of the picture I will place a hardware dealer, that's why I added a sidewalk.

Trains through the woods

A shot of part of the CNW Peninsula Div.