carsntrains posted:mike g. posted:Jim, what your you getting on the bay?
Oh and just so you know its 32 degrees here now and calling for 8-12" of snow starting tomorrow morning!
Mike I am getting another caboose or two! Its going to turn off cold here after today. Its nearly 80!
Be careful in all that snow. Maybe you should go and shack up in the apartment over the store!!!
Jim
Hey Jim, that's where we are now along with Tank. Both still coughing our heads off. Oh well!
Mayor, your buildings are looking wonderful!
Chris, thanks for sharing! It's nice to see such wonderful done in progress!
Thanks Chris a, no matter what you post it all looks good.
Steve, nice building project you have going. I like the different windows.
I haven't done much except go back and redo one abutment. I didn't like the angle and the position of it had to be moved a bit toward the front of the table. Other then that everything is pretty well falling into place.......Paul
I continued with some ground cover, and started another elevated area. I used Homasote because that’s what I have on hand, but I cut some of the pieces into irregular shapes. If time allows, I’ll get some ground cover on it tomorrow.
Andy
I got through them all and passed out a lot of Likes! 137 emails on this topic alone!
Bob, I’m glad you got the PS1 engine going. I even run into problems like that with PS2 engines. I make the same mistake over and over. LOL
Mike, my wife said when one of them were sick growing up, and her grandma found out, she would go right over and slop Vick’s all over them. After grandma was gone, they would refer to her as the Vick’s Kid!
paul 2 posted:Thanks Chris a, no matter what you post it all looks good.
Steve, nice building project you have going. I like the different windows.
I haven't done much except go back and redo one abutment. I didn't like the angle and the position of it had to be moved a bit toward the front of the table. Other then that everything is pretty well falling into place.......Paul
Paul we need more pictures! I live near Pigeon Forge where there is no gorge but that is a place the mountain splits here we call the gap! : )
Mike I hope youins get rid of that cough! ICK! buckle down for that snow storm!
Andy your ground cover is looking great!
Mitch Marmel I got the caboose and it is perfect! Looks good on the layout! Thank you very much!
I took a little rest when I got home from work. Another hectic day. Now to do some BAYING! lol
Jim
Vincent Massi posted:Chris, those are two nice photos. But can someone explain why that "State of Maine" boxcar keeps popping up on various photos and forums?
It was always a very popular car. Everyond made at least one SOM car it seems; the car is even in Marx 6" tin.
These focuses tend to trend for a while with on again/off again occurances every few years, as folks discover and rediscover them. A nice layout photo with one could whip up a buzz in days; it's all chance.
I always liked the car more than most boxcar/refers. I don't have any (anymore) though. (Pacemakers are colorful-cool too)
Tons of awesome post on here as always. great work all ! Been busy with lots of stuff besides trains. But I managed to paint the grills on this dummy. Also had time to get a 12 minute tour video as well.
LAYOUT TOUR, 12 minutes of action!
Kon, I enjoyed your YouTube video.
I added a speaker to a dummy today.
Another nice video Andy!
Nice sounding engine LoganUP1982!
chris a posted:Looking good Mayor ! We may be miles apart, but we're working on very similar projects.... I decided to take some in progress photos of the brick wall weathering..... All 9 (2-story walls) have been primed red oxide, then 2 different brick colors added, (Lackawanna Maroon, and Rust), then sealed with dullcoat (Krylon Brand).... Now three have the mortar work done, if anyone hasn't tried adding multiple brick colors, I figured it would be worthwhile to show what it looks like between steps.
Unfortunately, I am working on the kitchen island and the overhead lights make it difficult to get a good balanced photo, the mortar lines aren't nearly as prominent as the camera is showing them.
Paul - : The gorge project is looking great !!
Vince, I think it's the unique Red/White/Blue paint scheme on the State of Maine Boxcars, I liked it from the first time I saw one in the 60's.
Brian & Andy, thanks for kind words on the canyon project. Yes I am really glad I built the frame as an independent module that I could move and incorporate in a future layout.
Chris, your brick work looks fantastic! I still have weathering to do on mine but don't think I have the chops to get mine to look as good as yours.
paul 2 posted:Thanks Chris a, no matter what you post it all looks good.
Steve, nice building project you have going. I like the different windows.
I haven't done much except go back and redo one abutment. I didn't like the angle and the position of it had to be moved a bit toward the front of the table. Other then that everything is pretty well falling into place.......Paul
Thanks Paul.
The different windows are not by design, well not originally anyway. I wanted a larger building for a back area and settled on the Ameritowne Barrettsburg Tool & Die kit as the base. Lots of walls in that kit. So I made do with what Ameritowne provided and my own 5 watts of brain power.
Looks like the perfect amount of fun for young and old 
Chris, the brick walls look fantastic! Coloring the single bricks different colors look rather tedious, but the results re well worth it!
It definitely takes some extra time and effort, mark. Ironically it went faster on the Ameritowne kits, because the individual bricks are so SMALL that it's not possible to only color individual bricks, so it's more of a blotch a small area, and don't worry about crossing mortar lines. I used a small #8 artist brush ( about 3/8" ) with the Polly S scale Lackawanna Acrylic water base paint I had laying around for years. For the rust, it was easier as I have a set of the Floquil Enamel Paint Marker pens, I had bought two sets of the 4 model RR weathering color Marker pen sets, it's like Rust, RR tie brown, Rail Brown. With those you can move pretty quickly through a wall section just randomly hitting spots...
I will admit when it was late last night, and I was starting to do the mortar work with the fine, lightweight, spackling, I was thinking: "I'd probably have these 9 walls and 18 inserts assembled by now if I hadn't decided to get into the minutia brick weathering !!!"
chris a posted:Paul, Here's a photo of what we call: "Christopher's Canyon". My son and I originally built this module in 2004 on our layout in Maine. First Photo Below....Seems like a previous life now...
Second Photo shows it where it is installed today.
Awesome work, Chris! What a wonderful way for a father and son to share life.
briansilvermustang posted:
Brian your photography is superb! As a NYC subway rider for many decades, may I suggest you add a lot more grine and the occasional gunshot victim on the platform.
briansilvermustang posted:
Mitch
Brothers, I was getting so many email postings from OGR forums that I couldn't keep up. Apologies if I haven't recognized your accomplishments adequately. You are the best of the best!
Since I don't have room in my condo for a layout, I restore junked postwar rolling stock. Then create train sets to give to grand kids and friends' children.. I just finished overhauling a 671 loco with its funny longitudinal worm gear arrangement, a 2056 loco, a 637 loco, and a 6466WX tender. All will power complete sets to give away.
My most enjoyable project lately has been to create a rail car to give to my brother for his 70th birthday. He has the Lionel train set that my Dad set up around our Christmas tree when we were small kids. It is in my brother's attic unused. So I decided to make a boxcar for his alma mater, Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, to induce him to set up the trains again. I am getting pretty good at making water-slide decals from scratch, and sealing them without running the ink. The car took many hours of work but I think the effort paid off:
very nice looking car Pete !! a great birthday present !
briansilvermustang posted:very nice looking car Pete !! a great birthday present !
Thanks, Brian! It was either this or another necktie.
M. Mitchell Marmel posted:
Mitch
Talk about an impending cat-astrophy...
Gorgeous car Pete. Great job!!! Also, I love the idea of gifting sets to kids
He sees a cat-astrophy... I see a cat-as-trophy 😈
Pete, You've pretty much nailed graphics imo. It would take a while to nitpick, and I might not even find anything. Bravo! 
yard work at sunset...
briansilvermustang posted:
During my Metro-North commuting days, I arrived and left many times from Track 28 (upper level GCT). That looks like some of the old M-2 cars which are being retired (if they’re not gone already). Thanks for the memories, Brian.
I painted and installed the retaining walls that connect the upper and lower levels. To the left of the short wall, I’ll build, paint, and install the remaining retaining wall for the grade sometime in the near future. I was also able to cover the newly created elevated section with some basic ground cover. I only created this area to break up all of the flatness. Plus, I wanted to get rid of the odd pieces of Homasote I had hanging around . Thanks for looking.
Andy
Andy, the ground cover is looking great!
Jim, last night was the worst with the cough! It was so bad the wife and Tank didn't even want to sleep in the same room with me. At one point I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital!
Andy K., Looks wonderful! Nice little video ! Just wondering ho wide is your bench work?
Miggy, what a nice grandpa! I am sure you will be able to fix it!
Chris, a lot of the time late night work usually pays off the next day! No matter how your doing it they sure look GREAT!
Pete, what a great guy to do great work for gifts to those ho don't have! Also what a great brother to give such a wonderful looking car! With the great work you have done on the car it shows it comes from the heart! Well Done!
Brian, Nice yard pictures! One day I will have something like that.
Paul & Jim, I know you both are busy our your layouts! I sure hope things are going good and your having lots of fun!
Added this to the collection 
Andy, I really like the ramp from the upper level! Gives me some ideas! Also I really think your small hill near the tracks turned out great!
FL9TURBO2, Great looking crane! A very nice addition to the layout, but sure looks spendy also! LOL
mike g. posted:Andy, I really like the ramp from the upper level! Gives me some ideas! Also I really think your small hill near the tracks turned out great!
FL9TURBO2, Great looking crane! A very nice addition to the layout, but sure looks spendy also! LOL
It was there were only 210 made I was glad to snag one of them but the cost is about 300.00 us dollars that's why I have to sell some stuff lol
fl9turbo2 posted:mike g. posted:Andy, I really like the ramp from the upper level! Gives me some ideas! Also I really think your small hill near the tracks turned out great!
FL9TURBO2, Great looking crane! A very nice addition to the layout, but sure looks spendy also! LOL
It was there were only 210 made I was glad to snag one of them but the cost is about 300.00 us dollars that's why I have to sell some stuff lol
I understand, but it sure does look great on the layout!
Apples55 posted:M. Mitchell Marmel posted:
Mitch
Talk about an impending cat-astrophy...
Better get a EO (C) D on her butt Mitch. Don't want the 6:17 running her over 
Apples55 posted:Talk about an impending cat-astrophy...
Yes. Yes, it is...
Sylvia and Norma as drawn by a cartoonist chum of mine.
A preview of tomorrow's edition of http://couchkitties.comicgenesis.com/
Mitch
And THAT, FL9 is a crane truck worth paying $300 for!
Vincent Massi posted:And THAT, FL9 is a crane truck worth paying $300 for!
thanks but I still have to string it and that will test my patience
I finally looked up "State of Maine" boxcars on the web. Three different railroads purchased them to ship Maine potatoes, mostly from Maine to Massachusetts. The cars were heated by charcoal burners underneath and were so well-made that they remained in service long enough to become a legend.
Some still exist in storage, with occasional reports of one being used.
Spent the day redoing the front bridge abutments. Pretty much got it done. Glue has to dry before I can screw the last abutment in place. Pics...........Paul
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