Wow guys i just came across this thread thanks to a couple folks I fallow. I have to say some really outstanding looking equipment . I wish I would have found it sooner.
@CAPPilot posted:@chris a Really nice work, especially lowering them. I have that MOW cabin and I want to repaint it to gray like yours. What paint did you use? Thanks.
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Looks like I used some Water Based Polly Scale MOW Gray. Number on bottle is tough to read but I think it's 404673.
This cabin car started life as a Yellow CN&W (photo below)... I disassembled it completely used maybe 320 grit sandpaper and scotch brite to knock down the decal and scuff up the surface, then hand painted the wood sides with the MOW gray. Chose to hand paint so I could keep the separately applied grab irons factory yellow. It took two thin coats but the Polly Scale paints are thin and don't alter the wood grain details.
It's since been weathered more with a light black wash to highlight the separation of the wood side boards and the wood grain, I'll try to add an up to date photo later today. Also, removed the running boards and filed, scraped the underside to make them much thinner and filed off the stand offs so the running boards would sit closer to the roof.
Decided not to re-install the roof ladder.
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@chris a posted:Thanks
Looks like I used some Water Based Polly Scale MOW Gray. Number on bottle is tough to read but I think it's 404673.
This cabin car started life as a Yellow CN&W (photo below)... I disassembled it completely used maybe 320 grit sandpaper and scotch brite to knock down the decal and scuff up the surface, then hand painted the wood sides with the MOW gray. Chose to hand paint so I could keep the separately applied grab irons factory yellow. It took two thin coats but the Polly Scale paints are thin and don't alter the wood grain details.
It's since been weathered more with a light black wash to highlight the separation of the wood side boards and the wood grain, I'll try to add an up to date photo later today. Also, removed the running boards and filed, scraped the underside to make them much thinner and filed off the stand offs so the running boards would sit closer to the roof.
Decided not to re-install the roof ladder.
Wow! Talk about attention to detail.
In my original post I forgot three!: Lionels #1523 Seaboards work train set from 1954 which rests on my display wall, contains a MOW 6460 crane car and 6419 tender, my scrap yard is home to a Lionel MOW gantry crane (IMHO-greatest play value of any Lionel accessory made) and a vintage Doepke Model Toy Unit Crane from my preadolescents, is on display in my train room; hope that counts even though it's too big for the layout!!!!
I think that covers it! Have a great Saturday!
Cheers, Dave
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I never noticed this thread before today. I will post photos/videos later.
@coach joe posted:Your weathering effort is a good match for the great job you did on the tender. Did you weather the crane also?
Yes.... Here's a before and after... Might go back at some point and do a little more, but didn't want to bury it with weathering, just knock the "shine" off.
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@chris a posted:Yes.... Here's a before and after... Might go back at some point and do a little more, but didn't want to bury it with weathering, just knock the "shine" off.
Chris you must have been born for model train stuff! Everything you do turns out AMAZING!
Forgot this one....
From an old, old Walthers kit...a Tool and Water car. (???) Not sure if it had a 1:1 inspiration...couldn't find one in my Santa Fe books. But it's one of those woulda-coulda-shoulda creations from the car shop of the mind, at least.
I know, I know...those couplers are horrid!!!
But they were in the kit box. Good enough, apparently, back in the 1930's or so when these kits were abundant. Hardly a principal candidate for a switching layout, anyway. Another upgrade 2-Do for a rainy/snowy day, eh what??
Wish I had some of the 'weathering' skills evident in other posters' pics. This car needs it!!!
FWIW. Thanks for pausing by.
KD
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@chris a posted:So here's an up to date photo of the former CN&W Crane Caboose after final weathering....
Really, really nice! Since I use a gondola for my crane tender, I am adding a tankcar tank body to my MTH crane caboose as part of fire fighting equipment. There is an actual MoW car like that. Hope my finished model looks as good as yours.
Lionel NYC Derrick car # 16709 year 1995
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Well I am sort of done with posting my "model" MOW vehicles how about some "real" ones. This is a track inspection or surface grinding train which was parked over night in one of the BNSF sidings near my home (the siding actually serves a small grain elevator) . I believe this LORAM locomotive has instrumentation in it which inspects the track with the rest of the train able to repair it. (that's just a supposition I am not sure of all the functions such a train can do...OBTW if anyone is more familiar with this type of work, I would love you to post some help).
Oh yes..."Monitors" I personally took this picture as it is Sunday morning and the train is resting on a siding in Crawford, TX which is only about 15 miles from my home.
Best Wishes, Don
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A pair of American Crane railroad cranes and tenders. Both cranes are MTH Rail King models as is the Great Northern Tender. The USACOE tender is a homemade project.
Great Northern X-1724 and X-2507 out of MTH Rail King set 30-7006.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers DODX 158 and DODX 157. DODX 157 is homemade, it started out as the remnant of a Lionel Corporation operating car, not sure if it was a searchlight or something else. Individually stained and applied wood decking, end boards from a K-line flatcar, side boards and tool boxes from LEGO pieces. USACOE logo sized and printed on return address labels and applied.
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Not just a derrick but the Lionel Lines Train Wreck Recovery Set, derrick included.
The Lionel Train Wreck Recovery Set, 6-21775 includes a twelve wheel Bucyrus Erie crane (derrick) car two flats with loads and a combine. It was an unusual gift from my wife, as she was more likely to give me train related items, pewter picture frames, decorative wooden or tin trains the size of G gauge, wall art than give me model trains. But when she did go for O gauge model trains she usually did pretty good. Her hobby shop of choice was our local photo shop/ camera store/ hobby shop. She would ask the owner for "something different" so she wouldn't duplicate something I already had. This set was something different, as were the K-Line NASA rocket flatcars she gave me on another occasion.
Leading up the train is the Maritime Exploration GP7, or at least part of it. I grabbed this from a set breakup at Nassau Trains, more for the frame and signal sounds system it had. The frame was yellow so I swapped it with the frame of an Alaska RR GP7 from an earlier set that I had detail painted. You can see the snow plow I added to the ARR GP7, and I "painted" the trucks silver with a Sharpie marker. I thought I did a nice job. The trucks are a little muted but I figure that's just road grime.
Here's what the ARR GP7 looks like with the yellow frame from the Maritime Exploration GP7. It started out solid blue with the 1802 road number and the Alaska and logo. My second air brush project was adding the yellow to match the ARR paint scheme on most of it's engines at that time and I added the cold weather hatch over the fan. She needs a new snow plow and those trucks need some silver paint.
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