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My custom numbered and detailed Chicago & North Western GP40 switches cars on the Model Railroader N scale Red Oak project layout. Credit goes to Dale A. DeVene Jr. for the work.
Model Railroader laid out all 1,000 of its issues today, and I had to find the cover (June 2016, bottom center) with my T-Trak module.
An HO-Scale MP36PH-3S #401 in a Rock Island heritage scheme is seen leading a freight at a model railroad show in LaGrange.
In some horribly contrived detour, a pair of custom-painted Soo Line Kato U30Cs rolls through Red Oak, Iowa, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
The DuPage History Museum has, in its basement, a large HO-Scale model railroad. The Chicago Aurora & Elgin is well-represented as Wheaton was its hub. Notice the Bluebird Bus Lines bus. That company provided service in Chicago's western suburbs.
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina #40, "Azalea", is seen at a model railroad show in LaGrange.
Likely this is a parlor Car.
A New York Central freight train is led by an A-B-A set of HO-Scale FA2s. I like the C&O box car sitting on the freight spur.
Working on a college campus, the May graduation season leaves little time for modeling. I have however started construction on two Rix Products highway bridges that will serve as a visual end to my Huron and Eastern Railroad HO shelf layout.
The bridges collectively form the southbound and northbound lanes carrying traffic on I-75 over the HESR’s Wenona Yard. While the prototype does pass below several concrete bridges and Interstate 75, I’ve taken a bit of modeler’s license to move the highway to the Kawkawlin yard scene.
The bridges are structurally complete at this time, but have yet to be weathered and installed on the layout. I plan to finish scenery work beneath them before their final installation. I am still considering the addition of a mirror at the end of the yard tracks to suggest a larger yard.
A new model, an Athearn GP38-2 custom painted in the new Great Lakes Central Livery, pulls a manifest freight out of Wenona Yard on my HO scale Huron & Eastern layout.
I purchased the GP38-2 at the 2018 Lansing Model Railroad Club's annual train show at Michigan State University.
Today's project: weathering an Atlas Master Silver Series GP40-2 in the red and blue Grand Trunk livery.
The process was a straightforward weathering project. I began by disassembling the locomotive and washing it with water and mild dish detergent. The windows and number boards were masked and the shell received a light airbrushing with a wash of dust to dull the bright colors. After masking the trucks they received a light treatment with chalks and powders, as did the fuel tank.
The sill along the side received safety reflective decals.
Weathering on the hoods is simply weathering powders with a few drops of burnt umber artists oils pulled down with a brush to create rust.
Milwaukee Road U30C No. 5656 makes a photo stop on the Burlington at Red Oak, Iowa. This is a custom-painted Kato model.
I've begun construction of a 10' x 13' HO scale layout depicting the Huron and Eastern RR in Bay City, MI
An HO-Scale commuter train is seen at a model railroad show in LaGrange. Burlington Northern E9AM #9915 is on the point. The actual #9915 was built in 1955 as CBQ #9985A and rebuilt as #9915 in 1973. As seen here, this is likely in the RTA era or even early Metra, the adjacent ATSF passenger train notwithstanding.
CBQ and BN referred to its commuter trains as "Dinkies". The nickname has persisted into the Metra/BNSF era.
In January 2015, I attended an open house at the Ohio Valley Lines HO scale model railroad club in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. This layout takes up an entire storefront, and is fully sceniced, with loads of interesting details.
I've made some progress on the HESR's single-stall engine shed at their Wenona Yard in Bay City.
I've sanded the Smooth-It asphalt surface and painted it using the Woodland Scenics street system top coat. After drawing on cracks, I weathered the area with chalks. The diesel sanding tower is from Walthers and the lamp posts are Details West castings.
The background transition was created with a strip if Mirlon steel wool, as described by Lance Mindheim in his blog: www.lancemindheim.com/2013_archives.htm
A new model, an Athearn GP38-2 custom painted in the new Great Lakes Central Livery, pulls a manifest freight out of Wenona Yard on my HO scale Huron & Eastern layout.
Over the Memorial Day weekend I found a few hours to work on the layout. In particular, two projects received attention: modeling the Euclid Ave. grade crossing, and installing a fascia drawer to rotate rolling stock on and off the layout.
The grade crossing project began as a single 3' 6" sheet of styrene. After adding curbs, signage, parking bumpers, etc. I masked and painted parking lines, lane markings, and weathered the surface. It is attached to the layout with DAP adhesive caulk. The Taco Bell parking lot is augmented with crushed lava rock and small shrubs.
Next steps will include adding working grade crossing signals, adding a BLMA rubber grade crossing mat, and circling the Taco Bell parking lot with chain link fence.
Both the Taco Bell and Shell gas station are Summit Custom Cuts models.
Two GTW Geeps sit on the engine service track on my HO scale Huron & Eastern layout.
This end of the layout features a three-track yard, two-track engine service area, and a short team track.
The Milwaukee, Racine & Troy is handling an odd load today: a quarter-scale Baldwin Centipede diesel for an eccentric collector in the area. Here, it poses across the main line from Hansen Storage on Milwaukee's outskirts.
In reality, this Broadway Limited Imports N scale model is posed on the Model Railroader HO scale company layout.
Over the Memorial Day weekend I found a few hours to work on the layout. In particular, two projects received attention: modeling the Euclid Ave. grade crossing, and installing a fascia drawer to rotate rolling stock on and off the layout.
I suspect that I will soon add foam cradles or another means of keeping delicate locomotives and freight cars from rolling about in the drawer.
I guess that to the unaware reader, AMFM would evoke a 60’s transistor radio. It actually stands for Association des Modélistes Ferroviaires de Montréal, which could be translated by Montreal Model Railroaders Association. The group is housed in a 5000 square feet local in the basement of an industrial building situated a few hundred feet south of the Canadian National Railway’s track in the north of Montreal. On the second week-end of March, its members were proudly opening their doors to the public .They do this twice a year as both a fundraising activity and a means to share their passion.
As you can see, this is where I met Roger.
I had showed up partly out of curiosity about their practice but also hoping to connect with people with better mechanical and technological knowledge than myself as I need some help with artistic projects. I didn’t have much success on the technical side of things but I was surprised to see the extent of the association’s activities. After chatting a while with different members, I asked If someone would volunteer for my project. As is often the case in a group, the people I had spoken at that point all declined to be photographed but pointed to Roger describing him as a leader and spokesperson.
He accepted my request without hesitation and proudly took a stance near a section of the railway.
I learned from Roger and the others that the association was founded in 1950 and has moved twice, each time rebuilding its network of track. They are at their current address since 2012. The AMFM has recuperated building models, props, accessories and train cars from the previous network but is in the process of rebuilding a complete a new one that will eventually ride on close to 4000 linear feet of tracks. Everything will be fully automated and remote controlled like a real-life railway.
You can see the plan of this work in process here: www.canadacentral.org/reseau.html
As you can see, thousands of hours will be required to complete the set-up. What makes such a project possible is that a number of the members are retirees that can sometimes contribute, ten, twenty or more work hours some weeks.
There is an interesting video of their fall 2015 open door week-end here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd7bXRanu_M
I’ll likely go back to the next open door week-end October 22nd and 23rd this fall.
I’d like to thank Roger and his friends for sharing their passion.
Je suppose que pour le lecteur non averti, AMFM évoque une radio à transistor des années 60. En fait, c’est le sigle de l'Association des Modélistes Ferroviaires de Montréal. Le groupe est logé dans un local de 5000 pieds carrés au sous-sol d'un bâtiment industriel situé à quelques centaines de pieds au sud de la piste du chemin de fer Canadien National dans la Cité de la mode au nord de Montréal. Le deuxième week-end de Mars, ses membres ont fièrement ouvert leurs portes au public. Ils le font deux fois par année, autant comme une activité de collecte de fonds qu’avec la volonté de partager leur passion.
Comme vous pouvez le voir, c’est dans ce contexte que j'ai rencontré Roger.
Je m’étais rendu à ces portes ouvertes en partie par curiosité au sujet de leur pratique, mais aussi afin de discuter avec des personnes ayant de meilleures connaissances mécaniques et technologiques que moi-même. J’espérais y trouver de l’aide pour des aspects techniques de mes des projets artistiques. Je n'ai pas eu beaucoup de succès de ce côté, mais je fus cependant surpris de voir l'étendue des activités de l'association. Après avoir discuté un moment avec différents membres, j'ai demandé si quelqu'un se porterait volontaire pour mon projet. Comme cela est souvent le cas dans un groupe, les gens à qui j'avais parlé jusqu’à ce point ont tous ont refusé poliment d'être photographié. Ils m’ont plutôt dirigé vers Roger le décrivant comme un chef de file et porte-parole.
Il a accepté ma demande sans hésitation et a pris position avec fierté à le long d'une section du chemin de fer.
J'ai appris de Roger et des autres que l'association a été fondée en 1950 et a déménagé à deux reprises, entreprenant à chaque occasion la reconstruction de son réseau de voies ferrées. Ils sont à leur adresse actuelle depuis 2012. L’AMFM a récupéré des modèles de bâtiments, des accessoires, des éléments de décors et des voitures de train du réseau précédent. Il est en ce moment en voie de réaliser un qui nouveau réseau qui comprendra à terme 4000 pieds linéaires de pistes. Tout sera entièrement automatisé et contrôlé à distance comme un authentique chemin de fer pleine taille.
Vous pouvez voir le plan de ce travail en chantier ici: www.canadacentral.org/reseau.html
Comme vous pouvez le voir, des milliers d'heures seront nécessaires pour compléter l’ensemble. Ce qui rend un tel projet possible est qu'une parties des membres sont des retraités qui peuvent parfois contribuer, dix, vingt heures de travail par semaines, même un peu plus.
Il y a une vidéo intéressante au sujet des portes ouvertes de l’automne 2015 ici:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd7bXRanu_M
Je retournerai probablement aux prochaines activités portes ouvertes de l’AMFM qui aura lieu les 22 et 23 octobre cet automne.
Je remercie Roger et ses amis de partager ainsi leur passion.
This photo is part of my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
My basement proved to be too humid for my previous iteration of the HESR in HO scale. The new layout is a 10' x 13' shelf layout. At this stage the layout's benchwork and track are complete, the wiring is nearing 50% complete, and scenery has yet to be started. This is the short leg of the layout featuring the large General Motors plant and a switching district.
GTW 6418 spots a patched out WCCL box car at the potato chip plant on my HO scale Huron & Eastern railroad.
On this leg of the layout, the Made-Rite Chip plant is the largest industry. Other tracks include a runaround track, scrap metal dealer, and building material dealer.
My custom painted Green Bay & Western Alco appears on the Model Railroader Red Oak project railroad.
This is an overall shot of how my new shelf layout fits into a second story bedroom in my home. My basement proved to be too humid for my previous iteration of the HESR in HO scale. The new layout is a 10' x 13' shelf layout. At this stage the layout's benchwork and track are complete, the wiring is nearing 50% complete, and scenery has yet to be started.
Here's an aerial view of the locomotive shed in Wenona Yard after the concrete pour. I'm very happy with how the the pavement turned out.
This is the Saroulmapoul modula "Bouilliere" made by Roderik Vanderkelen (Be). For all you who are not accustomed with the 'Saroulmapoul'-modules, I'll give a little explaination. The 'Saroulmapoul' are a group of Belgian and French modelrailroaders who have devised a standard to link their modules. It based on the FDEM-standard. The gauge is HOm (HO-metric) and the rolling stock is mostly Belgian Vicinal material. What the individual builder does between his 2 'sides' is only limited by his own imagination. Roderik has chosen to build a smaller version of the old NMVB Vicinal-station of Bouillon. Since he has changed the original track plan and some of the buildings, he also altered the name to Bouillière.
My basement proved to be too humid for my previous iteration of the HESR in HO scale. The new layout is a 10' x 13' shelf layout. At this stage the layout's benchwork and track are complete, the wiring is nearing 50% complete, and scenery has yet to be started.
This is Atlas Code 83 flex track with Micro Engineering Code 83 turnouts.
To achieve the wood grain appearance with the tie painting I first spray painted the track with an off-white primer. After allowing the primer to cure for 24 hours I then brush painted the ties with artist oils (burnt umber and sienna) thinned with mineral spirits.
I first saw this technique used by a modeler named Jeff who is modeling the Grand Trunk's Flint sub. Check out his beautiful layout here: gtwflintsub.blogspot.com/p/trowbridge_17.html
Today's project: weathering an Atlas Master Silver Series GP40-2 in the red and blue Grand Trunk livery.
The process was a straightforward weathering project. I began by disassembling the locomotive and washing it with water and mild dish detergent. The windows and number boards were masked and the shell received a light airbrushing with a wash of dust to dull the bright colors. After masking the trucks they received a light treatment with chalks and powders, as did the fuel tank.
Weathering on the hoods is simply weathering powders with a few drops of burnt umber artists oils pulled down with a brush to create rust.
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Construction continues on my Huron and Eastern Railroad shelf layout. The Rix Products highway overpass has been weathered. A BLMA modern billboard now sits next to the roadway. To compensate for the height difference the billboard was mounted into a 5/16" brass tube. Below the overpass is a strip of steel wool (a technique outlined in Lance Mindheim's books).
Here is the track schematic. It was constructed from the MicroMark dispatcher's control panel kit. The kit is very handy and includes the 24" metal plate, blue tape, and black stickers. The train markers are plastic with magnetic backs. View the track plan here: www.flickr.com/photos/dgaken/13414200563/
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Construction continues on my Huron and Eastern Railroad shelf layout. The Rix Products highway overpass has been weathered. A BLMA modern billboard now sits next to the roadway. To compensate for the height difference the billboard was mounted into a 5/16" brass tube. Below the overpass is a strip of steel wool (a technique outlined in Lance Mindheim's books).
I’ve begun construction on some of the major industries on my HO scale Huron & Eastern layout. This four-foot structure will be loosely based on the General Motors plant in Bay City, MI. The plant is adjacent to the OmniSource Scrap site next to the Saginaw River.
My version is constructed with a wood core. The hollow center houses a hidden staging track. The exterior is comprised of pieces from Walther’s Lakeview Warehouse. Stand off details, roof details, and weathering are needed.
I was able to spend some time this weekend prepping the area that will become the engine facility at the end of my layout. It represents the prototype's facilities in the Kawkawlin / Bay City Wenona Yard.
The final scene will have an engine shed with a single track, a second track for locomotive servicing (with a sanding tower and fuel pad), and an adjacent three track yard. At the yard throat will be a small yard office (the prototype has a concrete block structure, I'll be using BLMA's metal sided office as a stand in).
To begin construction in the area I put a single sheet of HO scale cork beneath the area and laid the track. I then used the Woodland Scenics foam tape to block off the area to be paved. This included the engine shed, the two tracks to the locomotive service area and the shed, and a space between the two areas that will support the engine service equipment. Woodland Scenics Smooth It was then poured into the area. As the material began to set I used a variety of styrene strips to work it into all areas and then to smooth the top surface. By running a strip across the tops of the rails and then inside the web I was able to create a space for wheel flanges to pass.