Current Project

[nkp_174]

What is your current project or the one on which you were working most recently?

Mine is a string of passenger cars. Last night I installed half the interior sheathing of a baggage car and scribed the floor. My most current picture is of the windows read to install. 9 windows for the car (1 spare) and 1 window from my pay car for a size perspective.



What else are people working on?

Michael

[Trucklover]

Hi Michael, and glad to see you found us

My current project is working on a bridge expansion on my CAT module

[nachoman]

project, or do you mean projects? I've got a few more hopper cars I am finishing up, and some tenders I am detailing, and...hmm. Maybe I will have to get my camera out tomorrow

[e-paw]

I've got a sand + water bridge in the works , but no new pics . Sorry.

[nkp_174]

project, or do you mean projects?

I limited myself to the one I'd worked on last...to avoid making a list

Are the hoppers wood or steel? I really enjoy wood hopper cars...not the war emergency cars, but real wooden cars such as the Colorado Central, EBT, and many other roads operated before the Pressed Steel Car Co. built their first cars.

A sand and water bridge...sounds like a major mainline operation.

Trucklover, will you be building your bridge out of plastic, brass, or wood?

[Trucklover]

Trucklover, will you be building your bridge out of plastic, brass, or wood?

The bridge as it stands right now is a single section of Rix Products Wrought Iron Overpasses. I will be getting one more like it to "extend" it and make it wider. The bridges are only 2 lanes wide, and when i say 2 lanes wide, there barely 2 lanes lol, 2 of my rigs side by side on the bridge dont have much room to "pass" each other without running into each other LOL

Ill be getting a crane and some more i-beams as well. Im also going to extend the bridge abutments out using styrene. I am getting some scale lumber to make some wood forms for the new parts of the abutments. This will simulate the forms that would be in place to pour the concrete in. I will also lay out some re-bar (piano wire) in the forms. I have not yet decided weather the bridge will actually get completed or re-main a construction scene lol, but i might as well get the other bridge section in case i decide to complete it and take all the construction out lol

Hoping to get some of the materials i need to start the expansion by the new year :mrgreen: so its an ongoing project just like a real construction site :mrgreen:

[nachoman]

They are wooden hopper cars. I am trying to get two more finished to match the one on the right. They are poster board and stripwood. I started them several years ago when I was living in an apartment, and all I had was an old issue of MR with the plans, 20 bucks to go buy some stripwood, a hobby knife, a piece of illustration board and some white glue. You see, I had just moved in, was bored, and all my tools and supplies were in another state

[nkp_174]

They resemble the Hancock and Calumet cars the EBT had. Cool.

[Wiredup]

I'm currently working on kitbashing a collection of locos into Canadian versions of them... in fact, I'm just about to post a thread about them.

[Trucklover]

Im also working on weathering the last 4 sets of Walthers NSC 3-Unit 53' well cars for TTX, so far ive done all 3 of my KATO Maxi-IV TTX wells and 2 of my Walthers NSC 3-Unit 53' well cars for TTX.

[ocalicreek]

I've resumed work on the Shifter (a Mantua 0-4-0 with tender I've been detailing). I have been documenting my progress over at:

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...which is a specific interest Yahoo group for rebuilding, restoring and generally shooting the breeze about old HO steam engines, mostly.

That said, I had been hesitating to add a new thread over at that other blue-ish forum. Now I think I may start one here. I could begin from the beginning, about 4 years ago now, and stretch it out a post a week over a few months and still not be up to where I've progressed now until the spring! Well, okay, maybe not that long, but you get the idea.

Lemme see 'bout adding pictures here...

Galen

[eightyeightfan1]

Just finished last night.
A baywindow for the Southwick and Winsted.

[eightyeightfan1]

Here's my latest.
I resurected this yesterday.
Its a train station I started four years ago, using DPM modual wall system. Its fashioned after the one here in my home town.
The roof didn't come out right when I mocked it up, so I shelved it for the last four years. Yesterday, I made the platforms, placed on the layout and checked clearences.

[eightyeightfan1]

Using the original(nasty...ugly...see previous post) roof components, I did a total design and re-do of the roof.
Looks alot better than the mock up, that I was originally going to use.
The gable will get a small window.

[Puddlejumper]

88fan:

That station looks great!
Keep us posted on progress!

They are wooden hopper cars. I am trying to get two more finished to match the one on the right. They are poster board and stripwood. I started them several years ago when I was living in an apartment, and all I had was an old issue of MR with the plans, 20 bucks to go buy some stripwood, a hobby knife, a piece of illustration board and some white glue. You see, I had just moved in, was bored, and all my tools and supplies were in another state

Those hoppers look great. What month MR (or other source) can I find those plans?

Dave