Thank you, Peter - I'll pass your welcome comments on. I only wish it was! Instead, it was taken at Hilltop Community Centre, Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth, UK, on a typically wet and windy British Saturday afternoon... The backscene was a rather rushed, albeit effective job, and the layout is supposed to be at the foot of the Rockies...
Brian
Brian M wrote:Here's two I took a few months ago at the club - SP power on the grade crossing.Brian
My offering for the week probably fits better on a "1:87 Vehicles" forum than here, but FWIW: Here's a Kibri model of a Liebherr 883 tracked crane, being used as a "slag smasher" by the Erie Steel Corp. It picks up the cast iron ball with an electro-magnet and drops it from a height of ~30ft onto solidified slag, to break it up so it can be shoveled and carted off to the crushing facility. I spent 10 days of evenings and weekends painting and assembling this kit.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
The weekend is drawing to a close and I finally have some time to sit at the PC. As ever there are so many talented modellers and photographers showing their work on the WPF thread. Great work everyone, it is always a pleasure to browse this thread.
Not much to add myself, just a throw-away shot of a tower I built some years back form a JL Innovative kit. Ii is lit and has an interior, not that you can see it.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
A couple more from me..
Not quite the eye level perspective I've been going after lately but still a fair shot.
My First Ever Athearn BB car (purchased in 1978)
Great shots everyone. I always enjoy and look forward to this thread.. Hopefully someday, I'll actually have some finished scenes to show.
Thanks for the compliments! Those shots were all made in the train room on the layout. I have two banks of track lighting with 50w spots (six on each track), plus a ceiling fan with three of them twist cone lookin' flourescents. The 84 Lumber shot was done with the ceiling fan light as the primary light source, with the spots over head dimmed enough to provide some fill. I shot it at F-8 at a 6 second exposure on my Canon S-2 digital with the Macro setting on and ISO100.
I just loaded my shots up before dinner without leafing through this week's other entries...Now that I have, I have some compliments of my own to dish out! Grampy, your PRR scenes are right on! You can almost feel the ground shake under those big Keystones. And Jeff, I'm really diggin' on that park scene. You need to replace those clunky old Lichen trees with something a little nicer though, and you'll have a real winner there.
Outstanding work everyone! Have a great week...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
The log train from Central Camp is running late and the trains are backing up at the Fish Camp Y, waiting to start the long trip back down to Oakhurst.
www.oakhurstrailroad.com
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wm3798's photo
Very nice indeed.
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
As usual, there is some really awesome stuff on here!
I have a couple prototype pics. I went to the Greenbank station earlier today, (remember the 2x8 contest) and caught the W&W train there.
First a pic of 4-4-0 #98
Next is SW-1 #114
And finally the old depot and water tower.
That's actually the Yorklyn depot. It was moved to Greenbank in 1968.
wm3798 wrote: And just in time, the counter monkey at 84 Lumber finishes pulling the last hack of lumber from the WM bulkhead flat, that is due to be picked up and returned to Ridgely. Lee
The lighting looks so real!.......Was this taken in real sunlight?.....Nice job!....
.... of days gone by.
Thanks Tom and Garry,
I just went back to my last post and replaced the original photos with new ones.
I started it Weds morning Tom before work, a couple of hours per day and finished it this morning. Thanks for the remarks.
Karl.A
Here's a series of a short freight making its way through the new works coming in from the west.The train appears from the portal of the tunnel, and passes the new industrial track at the west end of Ohiopyle.
Slowing down from road speeds to pass through the switching area, the train approaches the crossover.
The dispatcher in Cumberland is moving him over to the wrong rail to allow him to pass a MOW gang working on the track up ahead.
The train clatters through the trackwork as it heads east toward Meyersdale and Sandpatch.
The train picks up speed as caboose 1891 clears the switch.
Meanwhile, the local, which was holding on the siding of the G.A. Smith Baking Company, gets ready to finish it's switching duties.
And just in time, the counter monkey at 84 Lumber finishes pulling the last hack of lumber from the WM bulkhead flat, that is due to be picked up and returned to Ridgely.
There will probably be a lot of down time, so I can go to the Barnes and Noble on Campus and (hopefully) pick up July's MRR.
May I also mention the 6 floor library? And Cafeteia? And gameroom?
Pillsbury 3 bay covered hopper; Answer to how I weathered this one at the bottom
An old Heidelberg reefer
And returning now is this fuel car.
Apologies for any low camera quality
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I have started on the roads....& grade crossings. (far from complete)
Before:
So far....
Any questions and/or comments welcomed....always looking to learn something new!
Related links on the layout: http://cs.trains.com/forums/3/1436416/ShowPost.aspx#1436416
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1433211/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/forums/3/1405737/ShowPost.aspx#1405737
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1417716/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/forums/3/1378506/ShowPost.aspx#1378506
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/1315698/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/1348379/ShowPost.aspx
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Karl--
That flatcar model is a STUNNER! Kudos!! Did I understand correctly that it only took you a WEEK to build it? Amazing!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
This weeks project was a scratchbuilt flatcar with load.
Great progress everyone.
jasperofzeal wrote: tatorsalad wrote: If I were a rivet counter, this one would be easy to count: 0. J/K, what materials did you use for construction?
tatorsalad wrote:
If I were a rivet counter, this one would be easy to count: 0. J/K, what materials did you use for construction?
Well rivets are kinda hard to do in n scale but the main material I used was styrene.
Reese
Modeling NS One Locomotive At a Time
Geared Steam--
That's a honey of a turntable. Kind of reminds me of the one on the old SP Keeler branch at Laws. Nice work!
Great photos this weekend fellas.
Mostly finished the gallows portion of my Atlas TT. I will cover it completely with planking and dress up the motor house. Not an original concept but one well worth doing. The gallows cost me about $5.00, the cables are actually stainless steel welding wire.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
TONY
"If we never take the time, how can we ever have the time." - Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)
Nothing much done this week execpt I custom built myself a flatcar. It's almost complete, i'm just waiting on some decals.
rolleiman wrote: User "C&O Fan" wrote I like the idea and the use of a mirror is very clever but why not just set the camera on the track and take the photoRead my post in Last weeks Weekend Photo Fun thread and you'll see why.. last week's WPF In addition, with respect to my two posted photos, Impossible on my layout withOut a mirror.
User "C&O Fan" wrote I like the idea and the use of a mirror is very clever but why not just set the camera on the track and take the photo
I like the idea and the use of a mirror is very clever but why not just set the camera on the track and take the photo
Read my post in Last weeks Weekend Photo Fun thread and you'll see why..
last week's WPF
In addition, with respect to my two posted photos, Impossible on my layout withOut a mirror.
Oh ok i see
My camera is a Cannon power shot and from the base to the center of the lens
is 6 HO scale feet and since it's small i can generally just set it right on the rail to get a good
eye level photo
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
twhite wrote: mikelhh wrote: Love the mist, Grampy's pics and those SP locos. An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout. Mike Mike, that shot is just BEAUTIFUL! How on earth did you get the algae in the stream? Really superb modeling!!Tom
mikelhh wrote: Love the mist, Grampy's pics and those SP locos. An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout. Mike
Love the mist, Grampy's pics and those SP locos.
An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout.
Mike, that shot is just BEAUTIFUL! How on earth did you get the algae in the stream? Really superb modeling!!
I agree Tom. I know a scene is spot on when I want to walk into it and wade around in the water.
Jarrell
Mike, that scene looks like a painting. Very well done! Man, I wish I was half that good.