Weekend Photo Fun 13-17 March (Tuesdays included now)

[MPRR]

Shouldn't the name be changed to weekly photo fun??

Mike

[Buildy]

 Nice Truss rod early tank car!

[shayfan84325]

I look forward to WPF every week.  You guys always put up some great work and the discussion is the best.  Glad this one is going into Tuesday.  I just finished this Labelle tank car.  As you look at it, keep in mind that it is almost entirely wood and metal, even the tank is wood (wrapped with embossed paper):

[Kenfolk]

Thanks for all the photos--this really is a fun thread this weekend!  

Here's a couple of n-scale  projects I have underway (obviously, neither one completed yet).

[BerkshireSteam]

I know he can't see the doors. I also happened to have watched him pull out of a companies lot. And there isn't an eating place in that area that would be easy for a rig to get into/out of, or for that matter park. Also illegal to park on alot of those streets. Just to let ya know.

[Phoebe Vet]

There is another possible explaination.

Sometimes when the truck is stopped at a diner, truckstop, or even a traffic light, some less than honorable person will open the door to see if it contains anything easily removed.  The driver cannot see the doors from his seat.

[BerkshireSteam]

Hrmm. Sorry I did the link wrong. Here it is:   http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss321/MILW-railfan/train%20photogs/

[BerkshireSteam]

Well this first one I just threw on here cause, well, look at it! I mean don't you just hate it when you forget to do something pretty important?

The ironic thing is around here there are a number of bigger companies that own multiple buildings that are located pretty close to each other, so empy rigs just pull out, drive down the road a few blocks to another building and load up there so they don't bother closing the doors. Although usually they will still have the doors pinned back with bungi cords. Now the problem is, the rig turned LEFT at the stop lights you see just up ahead. The reason this is a problem, and why I made a significance on the LEFT back there, is because left is heading West, and on West Lombardi there is no industrial, just residential on the north side of Lombardi and mixed residential/commercial on the south side of Lombardi. Going on West Lombardi takes you to HWY 41, which is the most likely that way this driver is going. Now you see why it got me a little worried? And of course just before I snapped the pick the open door was swung out and partially ubstructing the right hand lane.

These are just a bunch of pics I took, they're not of a model RR but I thought they would be neat to show off.

[jecorbett]

selector

John, it was worth the wait!  Very nice.  You planted tons of trees!  Did you make any of them?

-Crandell

Oh boy that was a lot of trees and yes I did make them. Most of the trees are polyfiber balls coated with either WS light green or burnt grass coarse foam. I find that in my lighting, the medium and dark green look a little artificial to my eye. I did another corner mixing those colors in as well and didn't like the result so I will probably be redoing them. I tried to make the trees gradually larger as I worked down the hill to add some forced perspective. I think it worked well without being too obvious. The frontline trees are WS armatures with lichen canopies and covered with the same two colors of foam. I've found that on a slope, you really only need one or two rows of these to hide the fact the polyfiber trees have no trunks. I mixed in a few Super Trees for effect but had to be careful where I placed them since they are so brittle. Those are my favorite trees but I don't put them anywhere that I might have to reach into the layout. I tried to place them among the WS trees to give them some protection.

[selector]

John, it was worth the wait!  Very nice.  You planted tons of trees!  Did you make any of them?

For those looking on, Erik and the others discussed extending WPF to go up to midnight on Tuesdays from now on so that latecomers could get their images posted in a given timeframe.  We agreed to extend it by a full day...Tom had been cutting it off on Mondays at midnight, but we settled on another full day to accomodate some vocal and disappointed participants.

-Crandell

[jecorbett]

Good thing Crandell extended the deadline this week or I wouldn't have made it.

Here is where I left off last weekend on my big corner hill project:

And this is where I'm at now. Except for some touching up, it's fairly complete. I intend to string wires on the poles eventually but that is a project for another day (year?):

A view of the east portals:

And another of the west portals:

Next week's project, fill this 3' x 3' gap with scenery:

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 WPF on page 3? I'll just bump it up with my poor mans derail.

[saronaterry]

Thanks,Tom. They're a couple of old Atlas kits I tried to rework a little.I think loading up the bins with lumber helps hide that "kit everybody has " look.

Here's the other end:

 

Terry

 

 

 

[RRCanuck]

Some really inspiring work here this weekend.  Always my favourite thread.  It's been a long time snce I contributed anything.

Finally took some new snaps today.  Same old same old.  A couple of notes - the sky in the RDC pic is photoshopped.  The area behind the bridges in the freight pic showed the door to the layout room, and was really distracting.  So I just painted it a neutral tone in p'shop to be easier on the eye.

 

Cheers.

[LNEFAN]

saronaterry

A load of plywood ready for delivery at Dahle Lumber in Haugen,Wisc.

I like your lumber facility. Is it a kit? Scratchbuilt? Kitbashed?

 

Terry

 

 

 

 

 

[Hawksridge]

Thanks Chris and all for the compliments on my previous photograph of the CSX locomotive. I have one more submission for this week. This shot was taken on my friends layout during an ops session. The scene is of the Miami, FL passenger station. His model railroad depects the FEC Miami to Key West Extension. Hope all you steam fans enjoy the shot.

The image was enhanced in Photoshop with adding some smoke from the locomotive and converted to Black and White to give it that "old time photograph" look. I am still learning how to use all the features of the Photoshop program and appreciate all comments.  

   

[wedudler]

slow train Ed

wolfgang

 I was wondering if all your switches in this picture are left  hand or are they on the curve? like the one on the other end of the building.Also was wondering if the cattle shoot is built along side of a buttment? looks gr8 from what I see thank you

slow train Ed

Here's the whole story, with track plan. Diamond Valley is a 90° module. 

Wolfgang

[saronaterry]

A load of plywood ready for delivery at Dahle Lumber in Haugen,Wisc.

 

 

Terry

 

 

 

 

 

[slow train Ed]

wolfgang

 I was wondering if all your switches in this picture are left  hand or are they on the curve? like the one on the other end of the building.Also was wondering if the cattle shoot is built along side of a buttment? looks gr8 from what I see thank you

slow train Ed

[zgardner18]

Well it's 4:30 am here and I can't sleep.  Our baby has an ear infection and has kept me up wanting to be held.  I figured I don't know how the day is going to go so I'm going to post my photos now on the things that I have been working on this week.

What you don't see is that I have about 5 engines in the paint booth right now that I have been working on.  I'm going to wait until I am all done to post photos of them. 

At the same time I am working on learning how to wearther with my airbrush.  I picked up the now Kalmbach book from Pelle Soeborg "Done in a Day" and boy is it great.

This first one is three engines that I have been working on.  One to the left is a P2K SD45 that I have custom painted to match the messy MRL #8905.  The other two engines are Athearn BB.  They are the ones that I have been weathering. 

This is a more close up shot of my BN unit.  It still needs some more details like windshield wipers and added details around the tank

And last is just a photo that proves that I need a better camera for shooting my trains.  This is my MRL local exiting the Bozeman Tunnel on my Diorama.  Scene still not done.

IT GREAT TO SEE A LOT OF POST THIS WEEK FOR WPF.  WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MANY ALL THE TIME!

[wedudler]

 Segement 4 from Diamond Valley:

 

Wolfgang

[Grampys Trains]

 Hi: Nice job on that switcher,Tom.

Mark, looks like you're well on your way for a terrific looking water scene on your module. Please keep us posted on your progress.

[mcfunkeymonkey]

Amazing stuff!  These weekend "show & tell" sessions are fab!  Very inspiring!
(And as a high school teacher, its great to see people teaching each other, with passion for the subject & the sharing!  All education should be like this!) (Well, face to face would be preferable, but shoganai what can you do?)

While a novice, I was encouraged by some positive comments about me n-scale a-frame bridge last week, and so got inspired to share some picts of my 1'x4' module that might become part of my "Sourdough & Sequim RailRoad" dreamlayout.

 

Track is 95% laid (last bit waiting for a bridge, which is waiting for a creekbed, which is waiting for godot...),  as is the wiring.  All the toggles and powerpack is stuffed into a very slim drawer under the baseboard.  I had to set up an anchor for the wires and a spring on each side to pull the wires back into the body as the drawer slides back.  I think it works.

Today screwed the fascia in place and sealed the inside edge with latex caulk so the 3 undertrack switch machines along the mainline don't get a bath while landscaping.  The rest of the turnouts have caboose handthrows which I tried to slide under the turnouts to reduce their profiles (the first couple installed normally look like catapults).

 

 

All the bridges are just sitting there temporary.  Will cut off ties & mount to bridges once riverbed in & bridges set.
Off to landscaping!  Riverbottoms!  Rocks!  Magic Water!  Tunnels!  Trees!  Wheeeeee!

[dtommy]

 A lot of great photos this weekend! 

This is my first attempt at applying decals.  I made them with a decal kit from Testors and an inkjet printer. 

 

#71 switching the local feed mill in Cuba, Missouri.

 

Tom

 

[Buildy]

 I also want to say to Hawkridge,man that is a beautiful job on that CSX! It looks as real as the ones that come to my plant everyday!

[Buildy]

 

"EDIT: I went and made them IMGs for ya. And those should have been up there to begin with if anyone saw my inital posting...

Notbad. Got any wide shots of the whole curve?"

 

Thanks for helping me out!

I don`t have any photos of the whole curve,and due to space limitations I will only have the curve itself and a bit of the approaches to it. So it is not a complete Horseshoe Curve layout lilke some of the really big club types. It is 13ft Wide IIRC-I started this back in the 90s and I had it set up so my young son could run multiple trains like we saw at the real curve. I had the grade,etc and we ran 50-60 car freights with helpers on the rear.

Then,we needed space for other uses and the center and one end were removed so I have just around the walls  in a large U at the moment.

[CMLewis]

Hawksridge

Sorry folks, I don't usually quote photographs in deference to our dialup friends, but this was worth a second look.  There's a great deal of talent unveiled on this thread each week, and I've seen some really first-class work posted here, but this has to be the most impressive photograph of a model that I have ever seen.  Well done.

Chris

[Flashwave]

Buildy

Still a long way to go,but here is what I`m up to. Horseshoe Curve in 1/87 correct radius. Much detailing of rolling stock and scenery need to be done.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/millerracers2000/             photos 1, 2,3

 

EDIT: I went and made them IMGs for ya. And those should have been up there to begin with if anyone saw my inital posting...

Notbad. Got any wide shots of the whole curve?

[Buildy]

Still a long way to go,but here is what I`m up to. Horseshoe Curve in 1/87 correct radius. Much detailing of rolling stock and scenery need to be done.

 

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/millerracers2000/             photos 1, 2,3