Sunday Scenic Showcase May 30, 2021

I scratch built this one from blueprints that were dared 1889. Now on display at a state park in Maryland.

Good morning all...

844 pulling out of the roundhouse early in the morning...

Donald

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I built Jenkins Valves from an American Flag Company kit by BTS. The kit was of very high quality with excellent details, materials, and laser cutting, including interior floors and walls. The model’s trapezoidal planform makes it unique. It sits beside the small creek and adjacent to the tracks on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad.

Jenkins Valves, a noted manufacturer of plumbing parts dating back to 1864, built a large factory aside a sharp curve in the mainline tracks of the New Haven Railroad in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The curve had (and still has) a ninety-degree change of direction, a thirty mile-per-hour speed limit, and became known as “Jenkins Curve.” It was the site of the wreck of the New Haven Railroad’s Federal Express night train on its way from New York to Boston in 1955. The factory was removed and replaced twenty-three years ago by a baseball stadium that is now being replaced by an open-air concert venue. Is that progress?

MELGAR

This weekend I'm working on adding a mountain, redoing stone retaining walls, and making lots of trees! Below are some scenic stills of more finished areas of the layout.

Alan and all, fantastic projects. Alan I first thought the pen tanks were tanks for the PRR, LOL.  What a neat project. Dennis beautiful house, looks real. Pete and Donald can't get enough of your marvelous layout photos. Jackiejr really nice waterway. MELGAR great job on that building kit and really like your placement on the layout. Chris nice scenic updates. Hope you send more pictures of your scenic work.

Tom

Fantastic stuff this week, everyone!

I have been doing a few "lease-hold" improvements on scenes on the modular layout.

1st.....adding "smoke stains" to the factory with "air rights" over the ROW.....

Before.....

Then, my "weathering dust", a paint brush, some hair spray and a paper cup.....

.....and, brush it on......

Peter

2nd project.......look at the building on the left.....that concrete loading dock looks very plain.....

....a little brick paper and some glue......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Peter, awesome building and nice work on the loading dock. Amazing that the bricks are paper. Any chance you could give more details on that building?

Thanks.

tom

Peter, great looking industrial scene...those buildings have the old industrial "Northeast" written all over them...nice work.

@Tom Q Fan posted:

Peter, awesome building and nice work on the loading dock. Amazing that the bricks are paper. Any chance you could give more details on that building?

Thanks.

tom

Tom

The building is a kit-bash of 2 Lionel kits......the Electrical Substation and the Municipal Building. They share the same footprint and many parts....7 kits did it....I'm not sure how many of each. I wanted the look of a New England late 19th/early 20th century building.

It took a lot of planing, cutting and gluing....it was conceived and built May-July 2017.

I call it MAX FOODS.......I was watching our Golden Doodle Max while my son was doing a summer internship while in Law School. Max was "helping" and suggested the name. Here are a few pics....

Max, sadly, left us in November 2020 ( He had just turned 14) and MAX FOODS is now a memorial to him......

Hopefully, the pics give you a picture of the construction.......it took a long time because before each step, I really tried to think things through.

Peter

Another photo of @Putnam Division Max Foods building taken on May 22 during RC3R Open House in conjunction with the Virginia Train Collectors Association Spring Meet.

Today I weathered my yard tower and finished building and painting my grain elevator. Next day I lightened up the dripping rust last photo.

In the process of building a full sized layout. I wanted to test out some different scenery techniques so I built this 4 foot module. Please feel free to leave some suggestions on ways to improve.

Really nice work Jack. Judging by your test, I'd say your going to have nice looking layout.

Peter, Many thanks for the additional pictures of that amazing building you made. Thank Max for me on his work on that project.

Tom

Jack, those scenery tests are great.  They look real.

Tom

Awesome work Jack.

Jack, that looks fantastic. Coloring of everything is spot on. If your modeling winter you definitely nailed it with the bare trees and yellow grass cover. One of the best sceniced layouts in my opinion is the HO Allagash based in northern Maine. Your scenery has that same look.

@Dave_C posted:

Jack, that looks fantastic. Coloring of everything is spot on. If your modeling winter you definitely nailed it with the bare trees and yellow grass cover. One of the best sceniced layouts in my opinion is the HO Allagash based in northern Maine. Your scenery has that same look.

Thanks Dave. I actually utilized a lot of scenery techniques from Mike Confalone's scenery videos as well as Rich Battista's. This was my first attempt on scenery work and I think it came out pretty good. I definitely learned some things I'll utilize in the future.