Fellow B&M/MEC Modeler, WELL DONE!
How did you do the trees, and roadway? What did you do for ground cover? Thanks!
again, EXCELLENT MODELING!
Alex
It's a little before 5 a.m. as the graveyard shift finishes switching the Westvaco paper mill at Luke, Maryland.
Now the sun is up, beginning to burn off the morning mountain haze. The day shift crew is aboard VO-1000 129 now, and they begin sorting the cars in the yard leftover from the night before.
A fresh cut of loaded coal hoppers has been delivered from the Laurel Valley.
...and 129 shoves a cut into the coal pier at the plant's power station.
Later, the local arrives with today's first drop... cars to be spotted, and raw materials for the mill. The local's power spots the pulp racks at the pulpwood yard.
Then 129 pulls a cut of empties and spots them at the warehouse to be loaded. They'll be ready to roll out with tomorrow's local
As the day goes on, more than 40 cars will be received, switched and spotted, and a similar number will be shipped out.
As night falls, the second trick crew keeps 129 on the move as more cars are brought in and others are emptied and ready to ship out.
The work goes on around the clock... and there's no rest for the weary old Baldwin...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
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Mike!!!! Wow! Eye-popping. Now I have to go back and look once more.
-Crandell
Okee doke.
Enjoy the thread. It works better when folks try even a little bit to swallow once and just move on when they see something that they think isn't up to their own standards. But everyone can use a pat on the back, especially when they are trying hard. Even Michelangelo must have been half-proud of his first sculpture, and would have said of it later in life that it was still his best work. Or not.
selector wrote: Mass Man wrote:... Is it ok to say a picture is not nice on weekend photo fun though? There is a comment I read that says they must all be praised replies to every picture. No.Incorrect. Praise, if it is truly intended, is welcome. Criticism, unless it is sought in expressed terms (means the poster asks for feedback), is not. Since praise takes fewer words, they don't clutter the thread too much. Criticism takes many more words if it is to be of any value, so that should be done off-line. Use a pm or email.I have a "feeling", though, that you knew that already.
Mass Man wrote:... Is it ok to say a picture is not nice on weekend photo fun though? There is a comment I read that says they must all be praised replies to every picture.
... Is it ok to say a picture is not nice on weekend photo fun though? There is a comment I read that says they must all be praised replies to every picture.
No.
Incorrect. Praise, if it is truly intended, is welcome. Criticism, unless it is sought in expressed terms (means the poster asks for feedback), is not. Since praise takes fewer words, they don't clutter the thread too much. Criticism takes many more words if it is to be of any value, so that should be done off-line. Use a pm or email.
I have a "feeling", though, that you knew that already.
Im sorry, I was just playing. I read a few of the past Picture topics and I seen people talking about that so that is why I said that.
Some sensational photos here this week. I particularly like selector's steamer and TBryant's yard. Superb.
A couple from my diorama . HO scale.
Atlas loco, pulpwood car and hopper
Proto 2000 BL2
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
This guy might have a feeling he's coming and going.
All right. From now on, if I have a long series of photos, I'll try to post a link to a sub-album on the photo hosting server. The new link with all the photos is HERE
Bogp40: Thank you for the link. This unit is eventually going into the paint shop to be repainted as WRS 2300. If I had extra money to spend on detail parts, I might get it for the "heritage" of the unit, as those Blomburg trucks on it were only used on the C&O U23Bs, as far as I know.
Driline wrote: davidmbedard wrote: I applaud you in your kitbashing efforts, but your unit is now the posterchild for why to use an airbrush! Good luck with the rest of your project!David BHow do you know it wasn't done with crayons?
davidmbedard wrote: I applaud you in your kitbashing efforts, but your unit is now the posterchild for why to use an airbrush! Good luck with the rest of your project!David B
I applaud you in your kitbashing efforts, but your unit is now the posterchild for why to use an airbrush!
Good luck with the rest of your project!
David B
How do you know it wasn't done with crayons?
Lol, I don't recall ever saying it was a good paint job. I just threw some paint on it to see if I had sanded/glued everything well enough.
Very funny reply. Is it ok to say a picture is not nice on weekend photo fun though? There is a comment I read that says they must all be praised replies to every picture.
Welcome, Ocyt3006! I am a steam nut, so I especially am interested in your l'il feller there.
This my first time with posting to weekend photo fun. I'm just getting into model railroading and a relative gave me a couple of boxes of their old trains. I don't now how old they are or if they're any good or not. Maybe you guys can tell me I really excited to get them and what to start working on a layout real soon so I have some place to run them.
I really like this one - bicentennial - NEAT!
I am enjoying all the latest images. Some excellent results if I use my own judgement. George all the way to the last...great stuff, guys.
Sue and Larry, howzit going? Are you two working on the layout? No more Mallet videos for us?
5 pix of my most recent acquisition. Sorry about the poor quality of the photo's.
Just a few recent ones from the club
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
TrainManTy wrote:
Tyler,
Mike Rose detail parts is now offering the right "Chessie Rock Pilot" for U boats. Take a look, I would have to scratch build one DW only has the EMD one.
http://www.mrhobby.com/MRH_Detail_Parts.html
Looking at all of these neat photos inspired me to get down to the basement and get busy on the layout. I can't run trains right now due to major renovation of the layout. The new benchwork is done and the roadbed has been in place for about two weeks. I need to get some (Atlas Code 83) track down. I glue the track down with latex caulk which is easy to do, however I first solder two sections of flex track together on the work bench. After ruining three pieces of flex track and branding myself on the hand, I am back at looking at photos.
I will try again tomorrow!
Jim, Modeling the Kansas City Southern Lines in HO scale.
selector wrote: Pike 62, nice engine. May I ask what it was you had to "do" to it? Was this a kit, or did you repaint....? Turned out well for my eyes.-Crandell
Pike 62, nice engine. May I ask what it was you had to "do" to it? Was this a kit, or did you repaint....? Turned out well for my eyes.
It started life as an undecorated Proto 2000 Gp30 and was painted and decaled.
Dan
sledgehammer wrote: i did not do anything this week . but I got a email of a good backhoe driver and I thought i would share
i did not do anything this week . but I got a email of a good backhoe driver and I thought i would share
What I want to know is now that he is up there, how does he get it down? From the looks, this is not the first time this has done this routine!
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Great stuff as usual guys. I guess I'm going to have to learn to use PhotoShop properly. The clouds and smoke treatments really add to the photos.
RRCanuk, A beautiful photo and a great looking passenger train.
I have been working on signs this week. It was time to mark some of my businesses. Most of the names come from my childhood or from the family.
The name is from the oil distributor in my little home town in Michigan.
This is one of the small driveway signs on the main drag for Barron Oil.
Judy's in named for one of my sisters, who now lives in Washington D.C. Funny, I never noticed the wire showing through the window until I saw this photo.
Michelle (Shelly) is another of my sisters who now resides in Willmington, N. C.
All of the signs were made on my home computer, mounted on card stock or styrene and then glued to the ssupports or posts. Michelle's sign is an exception, it is on card stock glued directly to the building.
You just gotta have one picture of a model train:
My BLI NYC Hudson #5335 Eastbound rounding Elevator Curve with a short passenger train of heavyweight cars. The pine/cedar trees in the background are my version of AGGRO JONES' furnace filter trees.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
I can't help myself, I like to build model ships too.
My weekend photo fun comes courtesy of my second scratch building project. I picked up an undecorated GP7 shell and am doing some work to make it look like one the Wisconsin & Southern uses.
A back view of the prototype. Not many pictures available online and I haven't seen it IRL.
This is what the original shell looked like, except mine was undecorated.
One view of how it is now.
Another view.
I found out, to my dismay, that the red I'm using is too bright. I also still need to pick up the right shade of gray and print some of my own decals if I can't find any soon.
OK, here's my very first WPF contribution....
Pa is real proud of his big new coal delivery service. He stands there all day and looks at it. With all the boys back from war, he's betting on a big housing boom and you'll need a lot of coal to heat those houses.
Ma's up there at the restaurant. She thinks he's a blamed idiot fer building that fool thing. And she she makes sure he knows it. She also wants to kick that painter's behind for not getting their name centered on the building.
George V.
Alas, I have no new photos to add to this thread. (Well actually, I do, I just haven't uploaded them on Photobucket yet!)
heres an old one:
enjoy!
Hopefully next weekend I 'll get my new photos up. I got lots of them!!!
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