Guess I will start this on off for the first time! Layout tours are coming to Houston and this seems to motivate to get work done.
Heading West
Local gas stop
Troops on the move
Wish I lived there
Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. What a great start! Sante Fe is one of my favorites, and I really like those photos.
Here are a few pictures of my Burlington theme layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry, great dock scene and I also like the backdrop in the middle pic. DJ.
E8 No.5766 is plenty of head end power on this East bound local pulling into Stoney Creek.
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Nice images, and a great start to WPF, fellas. I like the all the tiny people in the shots, Garry. Lee, that is some nice looking hardware in a nicely done layout setting. DJ, great as always...wonderful depth and good focus. Knowcents, what marvellous images you have provided us to start WPF!
I show a J Class being admired by Dad and the kids.
My gratitude for the sky and smoke, including smoke shadow on the cliff face, goes to RRCanuck.
-Crandell
Nice start to the weekend already. Great shots all of you!
I am still getting photos to use for the NMRA AP Scenery Certificate. I finally figured out that an open spot behind the layout (used for maintenance access) would be a great place to get a few photos. It allowed me to get a good "overview" shot of the end of the layout that I couldn't get before. I also got some shots of the back of the buildings showing some detail that can't be photographed from the main aisle.
All of these are taken inside the Lighting Valence. You can see the valence in this one (the black and white area):
Here is one of the lighting showing both the 5000°K CFLs used and the blue rope light (not lit) used for night time:
This is the back side of the pond and Ice House at Cooley's Blue Ice:
Enjoy!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
DJ .... thanks for the remark ....... I really like the E8 scene........ I saw plenty of Pennsy E units at Chicago Union Station when I grew up near Chicago. ... I could see them becasue we rode the CBQ suburban trains to get to downtown Chicago which also was at Union Station (for those who do not know). One good memory was ou family went to Philadelphia round trip on the PRR Broadway Limited. ...Pennsy E's were all tuscan red by then. .
Everbody else............. Great photos!
Great photos guys, and thanks for you comments!
Great shots everybody.
Here's a Corning hopper I've been working on. Not my normal "rust bucket".
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Looks like this week is off to a great start. Thanks to travel abroad and other obligations, I've done virtually nothing on the layout for 2 months. But I figured at least I could take a new photo or two, so here's my contribution. (Backdrop added digitally). Cheers.
Ok, some of you may have seen my thread awhile back on tearing up my old 1st ever layout and starting new: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/156917/1731024.aspx#1731024. I've been working on my smaller, but better detailed/working layout since.
Here's a pic of the torn up old layout:
Here is the new setup. Not everything is done, there is always more detail or construction that needs to be worked on.
Shot some video of my 0-8-0 MOW train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWnqDdXNRg
TerryinTexas
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Excellent work everyone!
As of now, I have nothing, but I'm home this weekend (for the first time in who knows how long), so maybe I can dig up something I haven't posted yet, or get something new.
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The Lebanon, NH, shop crew poses with GP7 #8569. That's the shop manager in the tie!
One more, then I'm done.
Cheers.
Wow! Already some great work displayed.
I'll add a few more that I took a couple days ago from the "hole". These are some close-ups of the buildings from a view you can't usually see.
If something looks wrong in these next few (and it should) tell me what it is.....
Everytime WPF comes up, I get another chance to see why I love this hobby so much! Remarkable work, you guys, all of you.
And Ray--if you don't win that NMRA Certificate, I am PERSONALLY picketing the convention when it comes here to Sacramento in '11!
Well, just one from me, this week--2-8-8-2 #3508 sliding down the Westbound main after a helper jaunt on Yuba Pass, while 4-8-2 #1605 heads a freight east up out of South Yuba Canyon. They're both crossing the South Yuba River on adjacent bridges. At this elevation--3500' above sea level, South Yuba is kinda/sorta a mere creek and we're still in what we refer to around here as the Sierra Nevada "Foothills." At this elevation, Autumn tends to hit BIG!
Tom
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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!
Some more great work guys!
Tri-State Railway GP9m 2201 tows a damaged caboose back to the Summit Shops for repair. (As you can see, yes, the caboose did actually have a little incident. The "shop" will fix it as soon as they get more glue... And also, please excuse the lack of handrails on 2201. They were removed for the application of the patches, and were left off for painting, which hasn't happenned because I'm still putting off getting an airbrush. For Christmas this year, for sure...):
Could it be the 25 foot wide train tracks Ray?
I hate Rust
Oh, that's what it is! I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.
Added an oil column and water column...now where do I put the coal tower? Oil tower is an old Lambert brass piece and the water column is a Tichy kit. And please humor me, I know, the oil column is over the water fill on the wood burner loco. It's been a long week. You get the idea.
And how to weather a loco in 20 minutes or less. A little self challenge. Proof that the less I think about it the better I do. Decaling was 10 the night prior.
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Great pictures, Margaritaman!
Friday night with a few friends, another strange engine at WT tracks:
Model Railroading is fun
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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cudaken Could it be the 25 foot wide train tracks Ray?
You got it Ken. The buildings/figures/scenery back there are "n" scale to give a forced perspective. Works very well from the other side of the layout, but the trains are still "HO".
Actually the track is only 9'9"...... LOL
Here is the link to my vast model railroad sign collection for layouts. Help yourself to some signs to add realism to your train scenes. You can size them to what ever scale you need. I use them for my HO trains. Check it out!
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/album.php?albumid=721
Now some pics of the CB&Q at Hawk Point Mo.
Great stuff as usual guys. I'm out of my league here.
The latest addition to the BRVRR power roster. A Proto 2000 GP-20 in NYC colors. I stuffed in a Soundtraxx DSD-101LC sound decoder and a Soundtraxx small oval speaker. Everything works and it sounds great. I still have to speed match it to a Mantua GP-20 that has been on the roster for a long time.
Keep up the good work guys. This is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Well, got off at 3:00 today but was not feeling great. Sat here for a hour or so thinking about working on the layout. Then I threw in a Blue Grass tape and got me going. Who could not get fired up listening to Fogy Mountain Break Down and Wabash Cannon Ball?
Starting to pull some coal from K-10 Mining. BL 2 pulling out some coal cars.
Got the K-10 Gain Mill is places. Seems Ken the owner of K-10 has his finger's into everything! (by the K-10 is named after my LHS K-10 Model Trains and the owner is all so named Ken)
Added the needed section to hook the A line to the B-line installed. Foam is all so glued down. Sunday it is time for road bed, rails and auto reverser.
Inside the mountain.
On a side note I am getting interested in the Alton Railroad Company, I work in Alton IL where it started. My cliffs are based on the ones in Alton IL.
Few Alton Railroad PIC.
Thanks for looking.
Cuda Ken
Do like your rockwork there Knowcents!
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
Crandell, great shot! I will, however, raise a point: the top of the rail in that siding is very, very rusty indicating it is seldom, if ever, used anymore. Shouldn't some foliage have taken root between the rails as has done between the tracks. Just a little detail.
Trying to steady his team as the 'iron horse' thunders by....
Jarrell