Weekly Photo Fun 3/28 - 4/4/14

[yellowlynn]

Wayne, I think you pull stunts like that just to turn us green (like aliens, that is). That workmanship is beyond words.

Lynn :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[Charlie B]

Wayne, I think you pull stunts like that just to turn us green (like aliens, that is). That workmanship is beyond words.

Lynn :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I agree with Lynn, truly beyond words. Please tell us how you did the roof. I really like that.
Charlie

[doctorwayne]

Thanks for the kind words, guys, but I wasn't attempting to make an impression. :oops:
Someone had asked about applying corrugated siding and I took a few photos to illustrate Campbell's sheets and how they could be applied using contact cement. I just thought that it looked interesting with the roof off.
The roof trusses are simply strip styrene, not even especially to scale. I'm not sure why I chose to build it that way when it wouldn't normally be seen, but it's one of those things you do to see if you're capable of doing it. It's probably somehow connected to adding underbody details to rolling stock, then trying to ensure that it's never seen by never having a major derailment when the trains are running.

Wayne

[Steamtrains]

Wayne, I think you pull stunts like that just to turn us green (like aliens, that is). That workmanship is beyond words.

Lynn :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I completely agree...Great job..!!

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Happy Conrail Day! Its been 38 years now.










One of these days, I'll finish this C32-8

[Lester Perry]

Okay GEC your last photo appears to be a ex Conrail now CSX. That reminded me of a locomotive that I painted a few years ago. I live in PRR/CONRAIL country. So for my open house i did this

[doctorwayne]

Okay GEC your last photo appears to be a ex Conrail now CSX. That reminded me of a locomotive that I painted a few years ago. I live in PRR/CONRAIL country. So for my open house i did this

WHAT!!! Les, I was expecting some Conrail steam.

Wayne

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Okay GEC your last photo appears to be a ex Conrail now CSX. That reminded me of a locomotive that I painted a few years ago. I live in PRR/CONRAIL country. So for my open house i did this

Technically speaking... the locomotive is owned by NS, but both the NS and CSX locomotives are being operated by "Conrail Shared Assets Operations". It actually is still technically Conrail... just not so big anymore. Conrail is now half owned NS/CSX, operating in southern New Jersey/Philadelphia, Northern New Jersey, and Detroit.

A friend of mine gave me a detailed book published by the railroads for exactly how the split would work, down to how many locomotives of what type would be stationed where. It was basically a game plan for the transition.

Apparently, this was done to avoid monopolies. Lately though, I've been seeing nothing but Norfolk Southern. I haven't seen any CSX locomotives in a while, but they used to be fairly common.

WHAT!!! Les, I was expecting some Conrail steam.

Wayne

Atleast I posted some Steam-Era electrics!

To be fair though, while no steam locomotives survived to wear Conrail reporting marks, there actually were quite a few steam engine tenders on the Conrail roster modified to fulfill secondary roles. One was an ex-CNJ firefighter car, useful in the fire-prone Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

This one is used to carry water for a steam-powered wreck crane, Now imagine it normal Conrail Blue and White!



Reportedly, that steam engine tender was normally paired with crane 50089

[Lester Perry]

WHAT!!! Les, I was expecting some Conrail steam.

Wayne[/quote]
Why waste a steam with Conrail blue? I don't have any junkers setting around/ I remember when I did that. I went to LHS and asked for a used cheap Conrail locomotive. The owner asked what in the world I wanted a Con-cough-rail for. I told him and he gave me that one under the condition that I bring it back when I was finished with it so he could have some fun with it. Then it would be mine to keep. We both got some #$%& comments about it.

[cn nutbar]

Been there myself. It is an awful feeling, Get a pot of water. Put it on the stove.Turn the fire up and when it starts to boil. in-hail some steam. If this doesn't work call Doctor Wayne or go to an operating tourist steam RR and take a ride. If this all fails you might have to take some drastic measures.( hari-kari ). Any thing is better than dieselitis[/quote]

Lester---your remedy worked wonders.After inhaling the steam,I visited Doctor Wayne and did some real railfanning---I think I'm back to "normal"

[Lester Perry]

Usually that works, I only knew of one guy who had to go beyond that. I sure do miss him.

[jwb]

I did some more work on the Bachmann ex Tyco WM flat that I posted about earlier:

   

I painted the truck sideframes and wheels, replaced the cast stirrups with A-Line, re-weathered the deck, and added a Selley white metal load I had on hand. Now I need to study how this would have been blocked and add blocking and tiedowns. However, the car was light even with a metal weight under the deck -- once I took out that weight but added the heavy Selley transformer, it came out exactly to NMRA weight. I will also replace the awful brake wheel down the road.

On the standard-height flat, the load comes out to 16 feet above the rail. On the current BNSF, anything under 17 feet is not a high-wide load. I assume that a 16 foot load could have been routed on some lines in the 1960s, although WM itself did have low enough clearances that they used 10-foot inside height boxcars.

EDIT: based on some googling, it looks like unloaded, unenclosed tri-level auto racks were a little over 16 feet in height, so this car with its load could presumably go anywhere in the 1960s that tri-level auto racks could go.

[Ralph]

Nice work on the car jwb. Is the load a boiler?

[e-paw]

A few shots from Slateford junction today.    

   

   

   

[jwb]

Nice work on the car jwb. Is the load a boiler?

It's a transformer, although judging from the dings and dents that showed up once I painted it and took a picture, it's a USED transformer. In the John Henderson color freight car book, it looks like a number of similar transformers from the 1960s. The cast metal Selley kit, of course, comes from the 1950s (or even earlier).