Anyone else using an OLFA hobby knife?  These things are the bomb.  They're Japanese and apparently the blade of choice for Origami. Coworker of mine found out I do a lot of cutting of thin materials and bought me one.  Head and shoulders better than the XACTO I have, and the blades stay sharp a good long time.

       

A friend gave me a Roco Dogdge and Atlas Ford F-150 pickups to weather . They were both CP rail company trucks.



   



The Ford F-150


   




And the dodge

I began with giving both trucks a light spray of vintage white to make the bright yellow look faded. then I masked and sprayed the Dodge's passenger door blue and patch painted the CP Rail logo on the driver's door. The Chrome bumpers and front grills got a light overspray of Grimey black to make them look like tarnished chrome. I then rusted the two out using tube acrylic paint, burnt Umber and Burnt sienna, dabbing on the colors with a very small brush. The last thing I did was to overspray both with Vallejo dirt to tie the weathering elements together.

A triple header of J1 locomotives head a huge stock train on the Widerson Division.     
Charlie

GERN has it's roots here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...nsheim.jpg

From left to right:

- AXXUS logistic centre warehouse, 3% more storage capacity
- Waibel concrete manufacturing, 3% better concrete, also 3% harder
- Malzfabrik Rheinpfalz, 3% better malt which results in 3% better German Beer
- Harbour Gernsheim which has 3% more transhipment capacity
- Ferry Helene which has 3% more payload
- Container storage which has space for 3% more containers
- Big Crane which has 3% more lifting power
- St. Maria Magdalena church, inside you are minimum 3% nearer to the lord
- Wasserschutzpolizei, they have 3% better cops

Also:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernsheim#...stumpf.JPG
Part of a column of Roman origin, 3% more history.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...ten_01.jpg
Remains of the Roman Castellum Gernsheim, even 3% more history.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernsheim#...fen_04.jpg
Gernsheim Marina has 3% more moorage.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernsheim#...NSHEIM.jpg
Merck KGaA, they made 3% better medicine

At least:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...l_pic5.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...ies_12.JPG
MS Calypso, registered in Gernsheim, one of the 3% more ships.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...m_2014.jpg
Rheinisches Fischerfest Gernsheim, a country fair with 3% more fun.


Enjoy

Lutz

I'll start this week off with a Wisconsin pic  ...

Hello,

meanwhile PECO has brought out a new Code 70 track:






Without great words, so the Code 70 flex track looks alike.




And now the chapter American Angst:


UNIFROGS! Her the also new #6 turnouts in Code 70.





The heart of the darkness, the Unifrog which provoked in other forums so much fear.





The turnout from underneath. Clearly visible the wire for making the frog live.
And at least it is just a plain frog like the ones of Atlas, new Walters Track and other. Leave the frog dead or make it alive, it is simply your decision.
But the points are new, now they were of the continous type. This avoids the usual hassle with hinged points in sight of reliable electrical power supply. Here are no interrupted electrical connections, the continous points also have a continous electric power supply.
So no fear necessary to use the new PECO Unifrog turnouts.


Lutz

my youngest son sent me a great present for our 57 anniversary things you could buy in a hobby shop in 65              mint silver streak kits. note the price on the black box including a set of Athearn sprung trucks. those were the days .
Jim

WPMA-61 at Chestnut Neck.

Bruce

   

Hello,

one example found it's way across the Big Pond and i shot a couple of photos:
























This is the first time a model of an ALCo RS-3 was done in high end quality level of details.
And railroad specific details also were respected.


Lutz

Hello,

in March 2019 i ordered ordered two of the then announced ALCo RS-3s from Bowser. In August 2022 one of the reserved units arrived at my dealer.






My first attempt to fit sound into the loco. Zimo has a new speaker type in their assortement. They use the same 13 x 18mm driver, but fit them into a new lower casing, so the whole speaker is of only 8mm height.
Beforehand said, i was not so amused; but listen yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhzPfZZ_SY The translated text: "Flat sound capsules produce flat sound too."

#1861 is the new Bowser loco and #1806 is a old Atlas one.
Both locos have the same sound decoder Tsunami 2 installed.
Both locos have the same adjustments of the decoders; in real i paste the sound configurations of #1807 sounddecoder and copy it into #1861 sounddecoder. So they have the exact same CVs and configuration.
The only difference are the speakers.


This is one speaker of #1807 the Atlas ALCo, later i removed the flywheel and installed a second Zimo speaker of 13 x 18 x13mm size


My conclusion:
"Hubraum ist durch nichts zu ersetzen, ausser durch noch mehr Hubraum." (Old American wisdom)
My translation attempt: Cubic capacity can be replaced by nothing, except by still more cubic capacity.

I am going to put things right.


Lutz