Looking FANTASTIC everyone!

Anyone care to finish up my kitchen remodel so that I can get my LS&W cars done?

Nice modeling by everyone
This boxcar will be used to haul bagged GERN flux from the Pennsylvania plant. It still needs to be weathered and have a load installed in the doorway.

Bruce

That LS&W herald looks good on your modern boxcar, Bruce, although I'm surprised to be seeing it for the first time. My e-mail notifications must've been screwed-up.

I've been busy, too, and finally have a few more LS&W cars to show. I caught these from the wrong side of the tracks in Dunnville, with the local switch crew handling some traffic from the West Dunn Yard.
First up were these empty gondolas on a cut of cars for National Grocers:



After dropping off the loads at the Grocer's warehouse, the loco and empties moved back onto the main, blocking the street traffic as they moved to pick up the rest of their cars:



These covered hoppers are a couple of loads of additives for the GERN plant at Port Maitland, and will be taken to the Riverview Yard (south end staging) to be added to a northbound train:



Next up is a new visitor to Dunnville, a John Galt Lines hopper loaded with Anthracite for Creechan's Fine Fuels:



and two more coal loads for Creechan's, an ANNA Lines hopper...



...and one from the Susquehanna Hudson & Delaware, also part of the ANNA Lines:



More LS&W cars to come...eventually.

Wayne

Very nice job Doc, glad they to see em north "o" the border.

Thanks for your kind words, Steve, and also thanks for both for the decals and the photos of your cars. I still plan to do a boxcar, and I've already done a covered hopper for Mister Nutbar, but he can post photos of it once he comes out here to pick it up.

Wayne

Doc---those cars are beautiful,also brings back fond memories of our shopping spree at English Hobby Supplies---I'm really anxious to see the cars in person,any chance of a sneak preview of that Anna lines covered hopper

Hey, that JGL hopper looks real nice!

Wayne - what make are the gondolas? They resemble Pressed Steel Car Co prototypes, only with rungs instead of ladders on the sides. I'm guessing Accurail?

I finally sat down this morning and resumed work (nearly a month later) on my own pair of gons, both metal-bottom/plastic-bodied Mantuas. Hopefully in a short while I'll have a pair to post on this thread. You seem to have arrived at what I believe is the inevitable conclusion for placing the herald on a ribbed car - cutting away the "su" and the "na". For a while I was considering 'back-dating' the cars, or some such farce, by dropping the Susquehanna altogether and making a 'Lehigh & Western' car so that I wouldn't have to split the susie-q. Ah well, I'll be in good company lettering mine the same way.

Galen

jglfan Wrote:Hey, that JGL hopper looks real nice!

Thanks Gary, and thanks too for the JGL decals. I'm still planning on doing a boxcar, too, but that won't happen immediately.
Oddly enough, the first photo of the hopper which I had planned to used revealed that the "G" in the reporting marks was actually a "C" - not surprising when my home roads include both the GRAND VALLEY and the ELORA GORGE & EASTERN. There usually aren't very many "G"s in an alphabet lettering set, and one learns to make-do using "C"s, then "Q"s, and "O"s. I had finished weathering the car and taken photos, and put them into photobucket, then placed one in my post here. It was only when I previewed the post that I noticed the missing foofarah on the "G"s. A couple of "H"s made the ultimate sacrifice (the lettering is dry transfers) and a quick touch-up of the weathering with a brush got the car camera-ready.

ocalicreek Wrote:Wayne - what make are the gondolas? They resemble Pressed Steel Car Co prototypes, only with rungs instead of ladders on the sides. I'm guessing Accurail?

I finally sat down this morning and resumed work (nearly a month later) on my own pair of gons, both metal-bottom/plastic-bodied Mantuas. Hopefully in a short while I'll have a pair to post on this thread. You seem to have arrived at what I believe is the inevitable conclusion for placing the herald on a ribbed car - cutting away the "su" and the "na". For a while I was considering 'back-dating' the cars, or some such farce, by dropping the Susquehanna altogether and making a 'Lehigh & Western' car so that I wouldn't have to split the susie-q. Ah well, I'll be in good company lettering mine the same way.

Galen

You're right, Galen: the gondolas are from Accurail, and I have another in MoW service which looks very similar and may be from Tyco, although it doesn't have a metal bottom.




I had some doubts about that herald on ribbed cars, too, but I was quite pleased to see that the split word didn't appear all that unusual. If the ribs had been really close and required the curved portions to be split, I would have opted for an applied "sheet metal" lettering board, as on this car:




Straight-line words seem to split okay, although if you have the option, it's adviseable to select the best location(s) to place the split(s). Picture heralds and many word-type ones where the words are arranged in a shape (circle or arch especially) don't split very gracefully.


Wayne

Hello Everyone---Doctor Wayne phoned me this morning to tell me there was a special train rolling through Port Maitland that I wouldn't want to miss---I'm really glad he called

Bil is smiling at your great looking cars.
A great memorial.
Charlie

Looks like I wasn't the only one watching the train today---click on the picture

The special is making good time and is seen rolling through Elfrida.A local has taken the siding allowing the Erie Nothshore Mike to pass ---click on the picture

A LS&W hopper makes an appearance at the Leetown coaling tower

Once the special has passed,the siding switch was thrown to the mainline and the double-headed local continues her journey.Take note of the LS&W hoppers in the trains's consist.(click on the picture)