cwclark wrote:V&AL Congratulations!...Hope you're not gonna have to trade in your rolling stock for a baby buggy soon!...LOL...have a great honey moon!....chuck
Nope!! we got 3 kids... err... puppies! no real kids for a long while...
Great work everyone! Congrats, on the marriage! One of these days I will post some pictures myself. Had a website, but quit updateing and took it down.
CW looks awsome! I have some ideas for your mountain scene. Call me!!
LSWrr wrote:Wolfgang, very impressive station you have there. How long did you work on that to get those great results?Lee
Wolfgang, very impressive station you have there. How long did you work on that to get those great results?
Lee
I started with July and worked since that time. You see it with my pictures at the structures site and at my blog. The first picture was made on June 30.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
The "New" Chicago & North Western's most recent acquirement due to a power shortage:Dash 8-40B CNW 5124:
I have also made some remote switch operating devices from piano wire and "L" brackets since I have some switches on my module that are hard to reach:
Dan
V&AL.
Congratulations on your Nuptuals. I hope that you both have a long and happy married life together and will one day surpass my wife and I. Tomorrow, August 11/08 we will celebrate our 46th anniversary. I think that I'll hang on to her for now. (I have to, I'm to old to break in a new one). Besides, she lets me play with trains so she can't be too bad.
Again, congratulations.
Blue Flamer.
LSWrr wrote:VAL!Congratulations!!!!!!!Where are you stationed?BM1 Lee Soule, USCG, D9 (dpw-2)
VAL!
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Where are you stationed?
BM1 Lee Soule, USCG, D9 (dpw-2)
Elizabeth City Air Station, NC AET3
.........V&AL ..............Great news!
It's good to couple up!
if you stop in at Elliot's Diner we'll treat you to more scrumptious goodies to celebrate.........
Everyone is welcome!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Tom, The best thing is that if I move the yard is automatically expandable. The yard covers 3 four foot long tables so if I move into a larger house I can add sections to the center. Thanks for your comments.
Lee, Wow great work, and thanks for passing on the $$$ saving tricks.
New project: I'm attempting to make a latex mold of a junk yard. I poured the latex yesterday still waiting for it to cure all the way through. If this works I plan on trying to make scrap metal loads for my gondolas. If things work out I'll post picture for next weekend.
VAL wrote:I got married yesterday:The cake was delicious, the local construction company was on hand to assist with the distribution:Yes, there was a train running arround the cake:The PRR GP-30 we bought on a railfan trip to PA, the Galveston Wharves reminds me of home, the NS boxcar is for us, here in NC along the former NS mainline, and the WC caboose if for her, she grew up in WI, along the WC tracks. My buddies at the club whipped up the Just Married sign on the spot...Here's a close-up of the sign:We'll have better pictures later, these are just from a friend's digi-cam. I'm a lucky man to have a woman who enjoys my hobby as much as she does...
Congrats!
-Morgan
I've been on a really-away vacation in Nova Scotia, but it's good to see that the regiment has been holding the fort. (We actually took in a couple of colonial-era forts, but that's another story.) I did get a bit of modelling done on Sunday, still working on The Mill. Nothing photo worthy yet, though, so please stand by. I just wanted to say I appreciated all the photos.
Alex, you've changed your Avatar. Not much to go on with so few pixels, but I wish you the best...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
twhite wrote: Don--Looking GOOD! Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not the ONLY person I know who builds my curved tunnels into big, sheer-cliffed mountainsides, LOL! BTW, what kind of bridges are you planning for those tracks? A short, curved ME steel viaduct would sure look good on that upper line. Very GN or UP for that part of the countryNice work!BTW, I notice your Avatar has changed. Does this mean (hopefully) that you've gotten 'bit' by the GN 'bug'? That's an absolutely GREAT railroad to model! Tom
Don--
Looking GOOD! Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not the ONLY person I know who builds my curved tunnels into big, sheer-cliffed mountainsides, LOL! BTW, what kind of bridges are you planning for those tracks? A short, curved ME steel viaduct would sure look good on that upper line. Very GN or UP for that part of the country
Nice work!
BTW, I notice your Avatar has changed. Does this mean (hopefully) that you've gotten 'bit' by the GN 'bug'? That's an absolutely GREAT railroad to model!
Tom
Tom,
I can't slip anything past you these days! I was bit by the GN bug long ago.....I designed my trackplan and accidently created something almost tailor made for the GN. My creation is now known as the Butte Terminal Railroad, focusing on the Butte, Silver Bow and Anaconda, MT area. I'm sure you know what that means....I'm now on the lookout for just the right assortment of NP, Milw and BA&P road power and cars to compliment the GN and UP interchange at Silver Bow.
Regarding the bridges....I'm not sure what I'm going to do for the higher line. I do have a ME Tall Steel Viaduct bridge kit for the lower line since it's right out near the edge of the layout in a ravine. I figured I would let that bridge be the focal point for people looking into the ravine. Thanks for the kind words regarding the portals!
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
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!
Well, not a whole lot of progress on my layout this week.....but I've finally installed the tunnel portals on both ends of the tunnel and started to blend them into the surrounding scenery. Here's a before and after of the south end:
One of these days I'll remember to level the camera before shooting so it doesn't look like everything is leaning left.....
Here's the other end of the tunnel....
Wolfgang:
That station is just SUPERB! Really beautiful modeling. And I enjoyed the video very much. Congratulations!
I've just finished my scratch build station
And I've made a vid at Harbor Jct..
The first is representative of a 1969 car, freshly painted. Note the cut off ladders and no roofwalk.
Modeled after a 1949 car. I'm going to replace the roofwalk with etched brass, I think. Weathered with acrylic craft paint washes.The original Fast Freight logo can be seen fading through the newer speedlettering. Based on a car photo shown in Jack Browns WM Color Guide. I also tried to show the faded touch up paint that reveals the stencil pattern on the lettering, but I'm not real happy with the result. From normal viewing distance it looks fine, the camera can be soooo cruel!
Next is a bashed car to represent a series B-24 Pullman Standard car. I grafted a peaked roof from an Atlas Trainman car onto a Life Like 50' Evans car to get a reasonable representation of the B-24 series boxcar. The cushion underframe is represented by grafting MT draft gear onto Accumate roller bearing trucks. The main discrepancy is the underframe skirting should be trimmed back over the trucks for a "fish belly" effect. I may go back and do that. then again, I might not!
Finally, as I work toward hosting a "Steam Day" operation session, I resurrected a couple of ancient boxcars from the junk box.
Again, ordering new floors from the Atlas Parts Department, and adding Accumate trucks leftover from my hopper rebuilds, these old birds are ready to again fly behind my 2-8-0. The great irony of these cars is they are among the first N scale rolling stock I ever owned. So the models are actually as old as the prototypes they represent on my 1971-era layout!
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twhite wrote: Wow, I don't mind sounding like "Attaboy" at all with the quality of this week's shots. Ray--Um, I seem to remember something that looked suspiciously like that still in my grandmother's basement when I was a kid. She said it was for making 'root beer.' Yah, SURE! Neat shot, I like it. Lee, that yard is terrific--makes me wish I'd planned one out like that for the Yuba SubGarry: It's always great to see your Burlington lines--I just love that kitbash observation car. Crandell: GREAT angle for that crane shot! Fine work, everyone. Take a bow. In fact, take SEVERAL! Tom
Wow, I don't mind sounding like "Attaboy" at all with the quality of this week's shots.
Ray--Um, I seem to remember something that looked suspiciously like that still in my grandmother's basement when I was a kid. She said it was for making 'root beer.' Yah, SURE! Neat shot, I like it.
Lee, that yard is terrific--makes me wish I'd planned one out like that for the Yuba Sub
Garry: It's always great to see your Burlington lines--I just love that kitbash observation car.
Crandell: GREAT angle for that crane shot!
Fine work, everyone. Take a bow. In fact, take SEVERAL!
Thanks, Tom.... I agree with your remarks on Crandell, Lee, andd ray...
I particularily like CW Clarks oil refrinery tanks, etc. because my Dad was in the oil biz.
I like all the others, too. It's great to see all that fun going on!
Happy Model Railroading!
Good morning all,
I've been slugging away at the new layout this week. Here are some pictures of the East-West yard. I installed the "new" diesel locomotive service center, ground throws, ballast, and some shrubberies. The ballast is recycled rubber. Most of the turnouts are used brass that I have painted then coated with a metal preservative. There are 128 photos in this album, but this is the first one in last night's photo session, feel free to hit the next picture at the upper right.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2451907010029441264fNAFzY?vhost=rides
Those ships you see on the shelf will be part of the port Authority and coal docks in an adjoining room. I hope to have the adjoining room remodeled and the bench work up by February 09.
Terry I still love that steel mill & blast furnace you have there.
RRTrainman, that is a very impressive refinery you have there.
It's a bit past midnight and wanted to get this photo in of these tanks for the refinery. Hopefully, i'll have the road and gravel in around the plant by the end of the week...good night guys!
Wow, tons of great images here. Nice start, Grampy; they don't come much finer.
A gentleman on another forum read my whine when the convenor of their photo-of-the-month contest directed that the image be of a crane. I didn't have one, but this person mailed me one of his several yet unmade (thanks, Jerome ). I thank him for that. I put it together that very afternoon, slapped some "weather" on it...literally... and imaged it this way. So far it's running a close second.
Here's a bunch of pictures. These are ones I've posted before, but they provide an overview of my layout as it now stands. I still have plans to add much more to the layout.
This was almost ready to hit page 2...... Can't have that on Saturday!
It seems the spinster sisters that live at home with their parents on the farm at the top of the hill have a thriving business going. They are producing the family "Recipe" that has been passed down in the family for generations (or at least the beginning of prohibition). It is known to cure coughs, colds, fevers, snake bite, and rheumatism. Not to mention dermatitis and stomach problems. I am posting a few pictures of the "factory" which distills, er..... produces the elixir. Must be good stuff, officer Obbie appears to be a steady customer.Thought I would show a few photos of the new area I am scenicing before it becomes "hidden" in the forest......... The still sits at the top of the falls by the side of the gorge just below the farm.Closer up:And closer still (pun not intended.....)
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
This weekend the Tidewater Division's module group has a show at the Children's Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. This may be the last one there for a while, as the museum is scheduled to close for renovations next month.
This is the "front" of the layout, Bill Miller (l) and Len Brue are setting up trains in the staging yard. The main layout is NMRA standardish HO scale modules.
Yardmaster Nelson Clarke (r) makes up the trains during our op session.
The big hook is clearing up a wreck, neccesitating a slow order for the op session. The speedometer function (F10) on the QSI sound decoders comes in handy!
This section is the branchline one-track modules of the Great Lakes and South-Eastern (GLSE). This is another group of Tidewater Division members who prefer not to run in circles.
John Cryderman serves as McKeever Yardmaster and also controlls the interchange between the main modules and the GLSE.
Tom Blair(l) and Dave Hudson are switching cars at the South Branch Yard at the end of the GLSE modules.
This is part of my modules, the Tidewater and Albemarle. I've been working on the fuel company, lots still to be done!
John Fallon
If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.
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