This and That to Close Out July

A few looks around the layout this week to start.  Here's a view of the far side of my JSSX maintenance building.A Pikestuff kit painted grey with a hardware store spray paint, plus a few odds and ends added.  I figure Brian must be around here someplace, 'cuz that's his motorcycle.

Old storage trailers out behind the maintenance building

Work train stashed out of the way in front of the long closed REA building.  The track is often used for transloading of covered hoppers.  I've got a short ramp that I'd like to put here to facilitate boxcar unloading.

This is old Athearn blue box car is weathered and patched for the Pee Dee River RailroadSay what you will about these old Athearn cars and their lesser quality details.  They were easily affordable and with this at least the doors can be opened, which give a nice opportunity to model the interior as well.

I'll close out with a couple of recently weathered freight cars, starting with this Tangent covered hopperLight weathering on this freight car

And also this Rapido SP boxcar

These two freight cars are weathered for Don Janes

And just one more thing.  I found this interesting photo taken by Jeffrey Bordner on facebook last week.

No indication was given of where or when this occurred, but yikes !