Friday already. I've spent precious little time around the layout this past week or so, so I'll just post up a bit of an assortment of views here. Some might have been posted before. Sorry if they're redundant.
Good ol' workhorse 815 in it's grey colour pulling a pair of similarly coloured tank cars around the first curve on the JSSXThis TBOX was in the process of being lifted when I noticed this view. I've since put a bit of of Rust Texture paint on the switch machine. It can wear off after a while and then the black plastic looks too shiny so periodically those things need a touch-up.
Ex-DT&I SD40 moving auto-parts cars around on the GTW. Those two DT&I boxcars aren't here any more as I've sold them to another modeler.
There's the GTW parts train again, albeit on a different day. And a pair of beaten up SOO boxcars at Tri-State Paper.
SD40 leaser engine on South Industrial Blvd. Two years in a row I looked at this Kato engine when it was for sale at the Woodstock Train Show, before I finally bought it the 3rd year when I saw it. I did the weathering and patching, and had someone else put the LED's and ditch lights on it for me.
Light weathering on this covered hopper done for another modeler. I put a dab of flat chrome paint on the tip of the coupler's trip pins to try to help simulate it being an air line connection glad hand. Sometimes I add a really light touch of brown to help it appear a bit weather-worn.
That's going to have to do for now. Have a good week everybody.
SD40 leaser engine on South Industrial Blvd. Two years in a row I looked at this Kato engine when it was for sale at the Woodstock Train Show, before I finally bought it the 3rd year when I saw it. I did the weathering and patching, and had someone else put the LED's and ditch lights on it for me.