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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Sept 3, 2024 17:32:47 GMT
Penn Central E8, NJ DOT Commuter service… Tom They were never that clean! Love the paint scheme though!! Dave Definitely true! They were really beat up too! Penn Central definitely didn’t donate nice locomotives to the NJ DOT… Tom
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Sept 3, 2024 17:34:19 GMT
Not a big PC fan but I got to admit I like this. Also noticed the spacing is real close for the car behind it. NICE! This is a recent release from Atlas, using the MTH molds. Very nice work on their part! Tom
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Post by healey36 on Sept 7, 2024 9:25:29 GMT
While I'd promised to take a break from making any new cardboard faux-tin for awhile, mopac flipped me a web-shot of someone's effort to make a garage to mate with a Lionel 184 bungalow. After a bit of pondering, we decided to take a crack at making one similar using the matt-board/cardstock/paper construction method. Using Paul Race's graphics from his "Tin-Style Cottage" project kit, I mucked around with MS Paint to come up with a version of the garage that would sorta match the look of an original Lionel bungalow (the early version with the vines/shrubbery lithography). I drew a pair of vintage-style garage doors using Paint, similar to the ones the original designer came up with. Print/assembly was the standard process...cut out the windows and doors, paint the matt board edges, than paste a cardstock copy in from behind to add a bit of depth to the otherwise slab-sided graphics. The roof paper I similarly printed from Paul's Tribute to Tinplate site under "Tinplate Textures". The base is a scrap of masonite from the shop, covered in dyed sawdust as manufactured by Life-Like some 20 years ago (fortunately I have a couple boxes of that stuff purchased before Life-Like went away). I recall my grandfather making his own in a bucket in the basement; a bit of sawdust from the shop floor, some water and green RIT dye, and a stirrer "borrowed" from my grandmother's kitchen. A couple weeks later it was dry and ready for use to scenic his under-Christmas tree putz...but I digress. Anyway, here's what we came up with. Upper left is the pic provided by the original designer, upper right is our version, and lower is a two-bungalow plot with one cottage replaced by the garage: The lithography on the original bungalow on the plot looks pretty dark, likely the result of getting a coat of varnish by a previous owner at some point. It should appear quite a bit lighter than that, although probably not as light as the color used on the garage. I have a couple of Lionel prewar tunnels that got a similar varnish coat at some point in their lives, a treatment I think folks thought would preserve the painted finish. Unfortunately, the varnish darkens considerably over time. Here's another pic of an original 184 compared to the garage graphics...still a bit too light and yellow, at least in the photos: The three bungalows I have all are repros of the late version, having just a simple single-color enamel finish (no lithography). I'll have to see if I can find an early one with a less faded and unvarnished lithographed finish so we can try to better match it up. mopac can provide details on his two-bungalow plot. I can't remember if this is an original or one of the repros made by a brave few over the years. If a repro, lots of good work replicating Lionel's scenic technique there. I know the only one I have is a half-plot made by Joe Mania some 2-3 decades ago, the materials much the same. Anyway, another fun project. Now back to cleaning up the basement layout.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Sept 7, 2024 16:39:17 GMT
I’ll go wordless (temporarily) about these other than to say that I really like route map cars:
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Post by af3020 on Sept 7, 2024 17:02:30 GMT
Healey36, I think you will have a tough time finding unvarnished Lionel houses. Every one of those houses I've seen, including the two I have, are varnished. Varnishing was a common practice with litho back then. Indeed, it is one reason you don't want to store these buildings or any other varnished item wrapped in protective paper - any storage which allows the paper to press against the litho will result in the paper leaving marks on the varnish surface if the storage conditions are "right". By the way, nice job on the garage. An example of varnish damage due to paper well shoot - I pressed the wrong button - I didn't mean to like my own post!
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Post by healey36 on Sept 8, 2024 12:48:15 GMT
Varnishing was a common practice with litho back then. That's very interesting, af; I had no idea that varnishing was a common practice. I have this 118 tunnel that a previous owner gave a coat of varnish...other than the glossy finish, it's not too apparent (although the color appears to have darkened quite a bit over time).
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Post by healey36 on Sept 8, 2024 13:02:15 GMT
Another route-map car:
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Post by af3020 on Sept 8, 2024 19:50:06 GMT
What we have here are obviously two examples of output during the work week. Friday afternoon First thing Monday morning after a wild weekend
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Post by rtraincollector on Sept 9, 2024 0:24:48 GMT
Here is an updated pictures of most of my trains.
At least one more shelf to be built below the one above. At bottom of picture, the orange cars I have a 392E to pull them and I have apple green cars coming in to go behind the engine.
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Post by healey36 on Sept 14, 2024 14:11:52 GMT
A number of irons in the fire, but no side-shot photos of progress, so here's one from the Dinky archives, a Morris army staff car and its diecast counterpart: Hurtling through the space and time continuum, you might remember this vehicle from the opening credits of Hogan's Heroes.
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Post by atsda on Sept 16, 2024 2:33:08 GMT
Thanks for the interesting Sep 7 and 8 posts. Alfred
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Post by seayakbill on Sept 16, 2024 10:40:36 GMT
GN and Milwaukee electric power on the S&Y RR
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