Follow-Up To Last Week

Went to the train show in Woodstock last Sunday, driving an hour and a half through rain.  The admission price was still $5. But I was pretty surprised to see the first 2 rooms were full of Pokemon cards vendors, so just the main room had model train sale tables.  Oh well, I did come away with these couple of freight cars:

The WC Branchline kit and an ExactRail waffle boxcar both looked like they had never been out of their boxes until now.

Drove through the rain all the way home too.

Now, here's some follow-up views of the MTW boxcar I'd shown last time.

After the fading of the original green colour last week, I masked most of the boxcar and sprayed a primer colour along the bottom area of the door.

So here's that, along with some of the primer freehanded on one of the horizontal seams of the door and a bit on the lower door track.  Can't really see it well here, but the roof has been painted with Rust Texture.

This is actually the other side of the boxcar with some graffiti decals added, as well as rust spots and streaks.  It still needs some finishing up that I've not gotten too yet.

A better look at the roof.  I think I'll be adding some sealant to the panel seams as well

That'll do for this week.

Go Blue Jays !

October This and That

Starting off the post this time with a couple of views from the layout

A couple of SOO boxcars that have spent a little time on the layout.

Here's a view looking south down South Industrial Blvd.

That's GMTX leaser 2001 on the street trackage

Changing to my next project now:  I ran across this photo of a really nicely done model on the internet somewhere quite a while back, and saved it at that time to use as future reference.

Stinger Arthaus model

Well, the time has come as I've pulled this brand new boxcar out of my storage cupboard to weather.

I've only just gotten started on this one, using several light coats of thinned Concrete Gray to fade down the green.

I know it doesn't look like much now, but there'll be more to come on this one.  The intent is not to copy the Stinger Art model, but to do something similar.

Woodstock train Show is this weekend on Sunday.  I had been thinking of getting a table at the show this time, but decided against that, so I'm figuring on just attending as one of the many, many customers hoping to find a bargain.

That's it for this time.  Have a good week.

Switching Auto Parts Cars at the Plant

Haven't really done a whole lot of switching on the layout in recent weeks, so I thought I'd better get going on that.  I knew that 3 boxcars (86 footers) in particular had been in the same spot for at least a couple of months, so I decided I'd better get busy there.

A view of CSXT (former L&N), an old Athearn BlueBox model, on the spur at the parts plant.  I like the view looking underneath the overpass, as I think it helps to frame the boxcar and also kind helps helps add a bit of context to the industrial area.

The next car on the spur...

The Conrail boxcar is a Tangent model.  I weathered it somewhat similar to a prototype photo that I had found online.

I know I said there are 3 boxcars at the parts factory, but I've failed to get a good picture of the GTW car at the far end of the spur.  I meant to show it, but somehow managed to blur the picture, so we won't get a clear view of that one here today.

There's the nose of the SD40 that's doing the switching as the engine creeps in on the boxcars

A good look at GTW 5931 moving in to begin switching the plant

A low angle view with 5931 still in the shadow of the overpass as switching begins.  And there's that 3rd boxcar way down at the far end.  

Next time, I'll see if I can show the replacement cars going in.  What I can tell you now is that these ones being lifted are all 4-door 86 footers, and the ones going in will all be of the 8-door variety.

To everybody in Canada, have a Happy Thanksgiving this weekend.

Engine 812 Warehouse Switching

First, this picture from the top of the blog shows my version of ZVBX 97337 (Ferrous Processing & Trading 97337) gondola after it's been loaded and picked up from the local scrap metals yard.

The gondola's bulged panels are .010 styrene cut to size and laid over top of the original panels.  Painted with a mix of SP Gray and Grimy Black.  And the load was made by Chooch Industries.

And here's a look at the warehouse switching of this weeks' post title:

View down the empty tracks at the Gray Warehouse on the JSSX.  There should be a car or two there in a minute...

A better view of the warehouse

JSSX 812 has arrived and is now shoving a couple of boxcars into position along the warehouse dock.

Another view of 812 switching.  Sorry we can see the edge of the layout.  It is what it is.

Saw this photo below from modeler Martin Kamenicky on facebook the other day.  

I thought to myself that if that engine is 1:1 scale, somebody is going to have to call in the armed forces to take down that monster.

And I thought I'd finish off the post with this: Here in Canada we are over a week into the throes of yet another mail strike, the 2nd one in less than a year.  The owner of Otter Valley Railway in Tillsonburg, Ontario is Lorne James, and he was featured a few days ago in a CBC television interview about the impact of the strike(s) on his business and customers.  

Lorne James Interview

Above is the link to that interview. Click on it and it should open in a separate window for you.  It's a long segment from the news broadcast, so you might prefer to skip forward to about the 17:45 mark for Lorne's actual portion of the story.

Have a good week everybody.