Thought I would share some of my recent work now that I have finished the fall semester of night school & have time again.

First here's a shot of my North Shoreline Combine:


Next a shot of my work train (Thanks MWB for explaining your method of radial mounted couplers):


Now on to the new arrivals to the fleet, Brooklyn Elevated 2 car train with poles & steps as rebuilt:


Next is Red Arrow Brill #84 on its first run after assembly:


Anither shot of the North Shore cars:


Now for some recent scenery work:



There will be more to follow, hope you enjoyed them & feedback is welcome

Steve L.

Hey! What're you doing with my Master Unit???

Lee

Good one Lee! All I have to do now is convert you over to 2 rail...BTW my track is code 148 Atlas flex, it is really to big for traction, but the price was right....

Steve

who made the buildings? were they store bought or scratch built? fantastic work

Hi Pelham, Thanks! They are Ameritowne false fronts that I painted, still have to finish the window treatments, glass and detailing..

I gotta get some of those. I've wanted to do an El scene, but am rathere limited in table space. Saw fronts from Elf works (not sure of name) and I kno i have to keep every thing within a 24" space.

Beautiful work!

love those Brooklyn El cars...the rest is also fantastic

fullpara............awesome layout.

Some nice rolling stock there!

Can you give us a list of sources??

Great work there Steve!

Thanks for all the compliments guys!! MWB, the North Shore Line Combine (and coach now in the paint shop) are both Clouser epoxy carbodies that I picked up from Ed Skuchas at the Berkshire carshop. The Differential Dump car is by Franklin Models (also purchased used from Ed Skuchas). The Red Arrow 80 car is a Bronze Key Models kit that I picked up on Ebay a few weeks ago. The Brooklyn El cars are by Q-Car Company. Once these are done I have two car ICC Presto-Plast Interstate Public Service kit to start.....

Enjoy
Steve

Thought I recognized the Q-car models and the Franklin models dump car (always wanted one of those, too...) but seriously very nice stuff with the Clouser and Bronze Key models!!

I think I have one of those ICC plastic or what it really is stuff CERA box trailer kits stashed away. I have a good collection of the old red ICC styrene parts, too.

It's my current plan to get much of my bench cleared off so that I can see if I can scale up an HO La Belle CERA trailer along side of that ICC kit.

Kevin Farrel currently has a Franklin Models differential dump triler for sale. He also says he has some parts for the Franklin Models cars.An easy way to get his list is thru the East Penn site.
I would like to see what the ICC kit looked like since Jones used different media for his kits. I liked his clear plastic interurban roofs because of the preformed clerestory beading on the ends. I had a plexiglass miter box made up by our model shop that was deep enough for the roofs.A couple of years ago I bought some of these roofs from East Gary.

Great work Steve. Any ideas for the Strasburg rail car No.10? Would love to build a model of that.

MWB, I have been trying to get in touch with Model RR Warehouse to pick up some of the ICC parts to build Montreal & Southern Counties wood coach #9.

Bill, The ICC kits are a type of pressed paper (?) with a wood roof, floor and forms for the ends. Those clear clerestory roof castings sound really interesting!!

Trainman 311, Unfortunately I do not know the gas car at Strasburg that well, but I have had good luck with building streetcars out of styrene. I have a Connecticut Company 3200 series car that I scrathbuilt (OK still need to finish that one too) when I first got into O scale about 5 years ago....

Steve

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Originally posted by FullParallel:
MWB, I have been trying to get in touch with Model RR Warehouse to pick up some of the ICC parts to build Montreal & Southern Counties wood coach #9.

What parts do you need? Got any pix?

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Bill, The ICC kits are a type of pressed paper (?) with a wood roof, floor and forms for the ends. Those clear clerestory roof castings sound really interesting!!

I've got a couple of those waiting in the project queues,

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Trainman 311, Unfortunately I do not know the gas car at Strasburg that well, but I have had good luck with building streetcars out of styrene. I have a Connecticut Company 3200 series car that I scrathbuilt (OK still need to finish that one too) when I first got into O scale about 5 years ago....

Been pondering that car - I had hoped to bash it out of some La Bele kits, but I'm not sure about the window spacing working out. Might be a total scratchbuilding exercise after all,

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Originally posted by FullParallel: ...snip... Bill, The ICC kits are a type of pressed paper (?) with a wood roof, floor and forms for the ends ...snip... Steve

Jones called that material "Prestoplast", I have two and a half Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis articulator kits; one built-up and powered with a very early Wagner truck set and the other unbuilt.

Did you assemble the one, Dave, and if so, how much fun was that to do?

MWB, I would need quite a bit as I dont have any ICC parts for the project yet. Here are two shots of M&SC #9 at Branford
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1659163

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1659163

Steve

I really like that car, too. Wish I had one.
Here's another view of it:




Notice the light bulb on the car end, so the conductor could see the overhead
wire when putting the pole on the wire on a cold, dark Quebec night...

Lee

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Originally posted by FullParallel:
MWB, I would need quite a bit as I dont have any ICC parts for the project yet. Here are two shots of M&SC #9 at Branford
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1659163

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1659163

Steve

Nice looking car!

I used to have a shoebox full of ICC castings; might at least have a pair of ends for you - I'll try to excavate that end of my shop and see what's been stashed away.....