Trailer Park

Here's a picture of my "Trailer Trash" trailer park. Who doesn't like an old VW microbus?

Nice!

Is that one of the Brekina VW's?

On the way to Mt. Union

Busy Little Village

A lot of traffic for such a small place.

Wind and Weathering

For any fans of 70's progressive rock, my subject title is a play on words of an old Genesis album.

After weathering a lot of new rolling stock over the past two years, I've been busy this past week turning my attention to older stuff that was forgotten in the name of expediency. Many of these are brighter coloured non-CP paper and lumber cars, added in the first years of our club to get trains 911/912 (Montreal-Sudbury-S.S.Marie-Chicago) rolling during our early operating sessions. Here is what has been done over the past few days, and I plan on more over the weekend.

MEC 8658 - Sunglasses used to be required when viewing this MEC paper-service boxcar, not any more.

BAR 6017 - Bright cars like this really, really need weathering.

NYC 167337 - Somehow I re-patched the reweigh data on this boxcar years ago and it escaped weathering, well that's been fixed.

MD&W 7003 - I find dark green cars are tough to weather, my cruddy photos doesn't do the intricacies here any justice.

USLX 11713 - This is a great car for us as Sudbury has an Evan lumber warehouse, but this car soooo needed weathering to tone it down. Mission accomplished.

RBOX 36089 - My assault on yellow freight cars continues...

D&H 19202 - Just finished this one!

And to finish, I went out of my way to weather the last few refrigerated CP boxcars in our fleet. This included masking off the reefer unit louvers by the ends of these cars, and spraying them with thinned black paint. Weathering powders, and airbrushed grime/grunge finished them off.

Unfortunately no accurate models of these cars exist, but we need these mechanical reefers and the old Athearn model is the closest representative. I am particularly proud of how grungy these turned out. These silver reefers were disgusting dirt magnets, and got quite filthy even only after a few years under their belts.

For comparison, here is the real thing...

I'll post whatever extra victims enter the spraybooth over the weekend later in this thread.

what the hobby is all about,

what the hobby is all about, having fun!

Flint Hills Northern Train #2

Here's a shot (if it posts correctly) of the FHN's train #2, with Pacific #301 on the point, leaving West Tate, Neb., for Kansas and points south...

Gary

More Trailer Trash

Since we started out with Trailers.....

Work in progress

Still working on the modules so no finished scene to show, but maybe this one has some potential. I'll have to fix the roof of the freight house which has been damaged sometime ago. I was laying out some track to see if it would all fit.

What's This?

What's a turn of the century general store doing on a modern era layout? The building serves as the Historical Center for the town of Clive, Iowa and features great information about Clive's railroad history.

James

Your weathering

Alcoted, love your weathering!  You should be very proud of those cars.  Show us more when you can.  Tom

Tragedy on the evening commute

The demise of Sir Topham Hatt  

Too much fun!

This weekly thread is just too good not to join in. I took this picture some time ago to document a box car that I repainted and weathered.

Keepin' it cool...

Lots of nice work and photos already folks! 

A trio of Accurail reefers..

Big tree

Motive Power Line up at Fort Nelson

Big and small power lined up at Fort Nelson awaiting their next assignments

+1 For more Trailer Trash

Since we started out with Trailers.....

Couple of tank cars done.

A couple of tanks cars finally done. Heat faded one for asphalt service, and a Phosphoric Acid for the soda industry.

Thomas G.

Morning Light

As usual, excellent stuff in here from weathering to ultra realistic VW busses...... and I really love that tree DJ.......

My shots for this week are again my On30 efforts Mini Layout (with my photo backdrops and Diorama taken outdoors on my rear deck.

The fog has lifted and the air is getting humid. Here we see porter #3 with a string of low side shorty hoppers in tow heading back to the loader.

Old Spruce Mine switcher #1 sits on the small shop track ready to depart on this early morning.

Trusty, but aging Shay #5 is assigned to work train duty today. The crew just loaded an old saw filers shack onto a creepy flatcar and our engineer waits for the conductor to board before heading back downhill to town. (shot on a diorama on my back deck)

Crossing County Road 800 North

A former Conrail C420 crosses County Road 800 North just north of Lucerne, IN.  Tom Johnson

N&W J Class roars up Seneca Hill

A J Class 4-8-4 takes late afternoon commuters up Seneca Hill for destinations east.

Monster Attack! A  Bee on my

Monster Attack! A  Bee on my Z scale Layout.

Hellagon Crazy With Helicon

Built some shacks out of styrene for the Company Town on our Wye Knot Free-moN module:







The outhouse does "double doody" as the knob for the slide switch turnout control (there's a cross-support directly under the throwbar so no Bullfrog).

Also made a video on how to scratchbuild with styrene to try to help take the mystery out of it and get people to populate their layouts with unique structures instead of the Walthers catalogue.

Here's the Abridged 5-minute version:

And the two-part step-by-tippy-toe-step tutorials are on my website in the "Tips & Tutorials" section.

Also started fleshing out the mine tipple scene with an office, tufts, and more trees:



Also made 30 more pines while watching the US win a World Cup qualifier in a blizzard.

Also just got Helicon focus stacking software, thus the going crazy with the photos

More photos on the Layout Construction thread.

Thanks for looking, and thanks for sharing all your nifty work.
This thread is always inspiring!

New On30 stock cars completed