Sunday Photo Fun DST Edition 4-02-06

[andregg1]

Nice pictures to every one!!!
Roy your NYC video is excelent, the only one problem that I saw is....to short!!
Do you need more memory?
Nice job guy
Andre.

[1688torpedo]

Dave- If BB jumps over Beagle Canyon, You'll have to change her name to "Evel Beagle Knievel". Look out if she Takes a interest in Hot Rod Corvairs for her Canyon Jump.[:o)][8D][:D][:P][;)][:)] If she proves to be successful Bruce may want to give it a try as well.[;)][;)] or maybe Jim Duda.[:D] Take Care.

[wrmcclellan]

Thanks ccgrc - glad you enjoyed the video. It was fun making it. Love that Lionel RS 5!

[Anonymous]

wrmcclellan , that video of the streamline loco and pass train is "THE BEST " model train video EVER . The lighting and camera angle and sound is just right and awesome .
You really have the sweet spot for videos on your layout .

[wrmcclellan]

Dougzilla!

[laz 57]

How about an APE suit for DOUG?
KING KONG?
laz57

[mickey4479]

jaabat, neat layout and I also have that Lionel milk car.

Dave, way cool! I can tell you are having a blast building that layout.

[Jumijo]

Thanks, Frank. You can see a few home-made filter trees lining the river bank in that photo. That big tree near the water tower was sprayed with hair spray, had ground foam added, then painted so it would look fuller. I wonder why that one won't size up.

Jim

[Frank53]

Jim:



great work - looks outstanding

[Anonymous]

Very nice pictures keep up the good work![:)]

[1688torpedo]

Thanks for the compliment Dave! Take Care.

[1688torpedo]

Hello Jim- Yep, Those Cars belong to the Torpedo alright & They are getting hard to find in that condition. I hope that someday Lionel or Mike make reproductions of them. Take Care. P.S. I've got about 3 other sets like that in better shape with restored Torpedo's also & they were not easy to get. Had to look high & low for them.

[FJ and G]

Keith,

With your forum-namesake locomotive now polishing the rails, you can feel like, what novel author Wolf termed, "a man in full."

[Jumijo]

Keith,

Great to see some photos of your Torpedo on the rails. It was well worth the wait! Are those your tin plate cars it's pulling? I saw a lot of those for sale this weekend.

Jim

[1688torpedo]

Jim & Dave- Both of you sure have done well with your layout projects.wow! Nice photo's as well.Thanks to Tom for posting the Photo's of my 1688 set. They came out nice on the computer. Take Care all.

[Anonymous]

Jim,
That layout looks great. We need more pics! The Fastrack works perfectly with your scenery.

Dave,
The new water feature looks awsome!

Mike

[Jumijo]

David,

I've got one word for you - AWESOME!

Jim

[FJ and G]

Jim, Paul, and others; way cool photos.

I was gonna lay track over the weekend but got sidetracked with the landscaping for the trains instead.

Namely, the creation of Beagle Lake and the extension of Hound Canyon River.

I used a large-size, thick, black plastic drywall mixing container (about $10 and some change) to form Beagle Lake, which will serve several purposes, one of which is to be a reservoir for irrigation canals I will build leading to the garden. Hound Canyon River leads from the water downspout to Beagle Lake to repleni***he water supply when it rains or when I use the hose, as I did in these photos (the rainspout will actually produce several times this flow).

Naturally, the other purpose is to serve as scenery for the trains. I debated about whether to lay the tracks then the scenery, but in this case, I wanted to do the scenery first and then the tracks. I already have a 6 foot long girder bridge I’ve been working on that will span some of the area you see in the photos and another track will lope around Beagle Lake. That’s the next stage.

In creating the vegetation around the lake and river, I wanted a bit of diversity and small and large trees. Also, I chose plants that “scale” well in my mind so the trains have a natural setting. If you look at the first very closeup photo of the greenish plant; that happened to be growing wild on a mound of dirt in my garden. It looks like parsley but I tasted it and it is not. I replanted it along the river and it seems right at home. If anyone knows the name of it, I’d sure like to know. I placed wood chips over the excavated clay mountains to slow erosion. I’m not quite done with the vegetation and will also need a place to walk!

The river is made with concrete blocks, mortared together. There were some leaks during testing so I applied “Rubber Cement” a grayish powder made by Sakrete. I’ll know this evening how well it worked.

The whole project, river, lake, plantings, and moving rocks around, was completed in a day and a half. Actually about a day as I had to walk the hound quite a bit.

[laz 57]

NICE PICS again GIZ,
laz57

[Jumijo]

Some new photos of our layout.

Jim


The Mountain


The new St. Mary's River





Water Tower and River

[pbjwilson]

Doug - You'd make a good Godzilla.

[Buckeye Riveter]

I'm under the weather, but wanted to check in and see the photos. I think the best thing about this topic is that one can learn so many new ideas from the photos. Many times I have looked at the photos and thought, Wow! I could do that on my layout.

I especially like seeing the structures and landscaping on the layouts and how our members create whimsical and industrial scenes.

Great job everybody! Super kudos to Doug for getting that giant to work properly on the layout. [(-D]

[Anonymous]

My new UP SD90MAC picked up at the Train Show in Wilmington, MA

[cnw1995]

How I spent my weekend


This is my friend's layout. It fills the entire small room. I'm small enough to climb up on the layout and balance between the tracks to drill and place and glue those elevated track supports and track - atop the existing track. He came up with a clever idea to send 'supplies' to me - he put double-stick tape on the roof of that C&NW boxcar to send track pieces, and screws. He'd put four screws or a piece of track on the tape and pu***he car to me - and I'd take 'em off and push it back. Great check for trackwork. Only derailed it once. Oh my back! But it was sure fun! Next week, we have a gigantic MTH bridge to install in the back

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I think I finally got the hang of this. Felix [img]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dd33b3127cce97e478f5e51d00000016100ActG7Ru0ZsWJg[/img

[Anonymous]

I think I finally got the hang of this. Felix [img]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dd33b3127cce97e478f5e51d00000016100ActG7Ru0ZsWJg[/img

[Anonymous]

To answer Birds question , yes , the loco is a traditional 2-8-4 . It came in the SP Overnight set with TMCC . I like it [:)]

[mickey4479]

Good pics fellas. A few photos of my layout.