jacon12 That's interesting, Jeff. Could you give a brief description of how it's done, with a closeup photo? I'm always interested in 'new to me' ways of doing scenery. Thanks, Jarrell Knowcents R. T. POTEET Do like your rockwork there Knowcents! Thanks! It is a combination of plaster and pine bark nuggets!! A buddy of mine has been showing me how to use the nuggets.
That's interesting, Jeff. Could you give a brief description of how it's done, with a closeup photo? I'm always interested in 'new to me' ways of doing scenery.
Thanks,
Jarrell
Knowcents R. T. POTEET Do like your rockwork there Knowcents! Thanks! It is a combination of plaster and pine bark nuggets!! A buddy of mine has been showing me how to use the nuggets.
R. T. POTEET Do like your rockwork there Knowcents!
Do like your rockwork there Knowcents!
Thanks! It is a combination of plaster and pine bark nuggets!! A buddy of mine has been showing me how to use the nuggets.
I will post some photos over the next couple of weeks.
twhite I was fooling around with an older shot today, doing some cropping and adjusting, so thought I'd post it. I'm still having trouble reading those little dinky symbols on the camera, so the focus isn't exactly what I hoped it would be. But what the Heck, here it is: One of my Challengers on Yuba Summit. Tom
I was fooling around with an older shot today, doing some cropping and adjusting, so thought I'd post it. I'm still having trouble reading those little dinky symbols on the camera, so the focus isn't exactly what I hoped it would be.
But what the Heck, here it is: One of my Challengers on Yuba Summit.
Tom
Nice photo Tom
What's the purpose of the container with the yellow stripes behind the headlight
on the front deck of the loco ?
TerryinTexas
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KnowcentsR. T. POTEET Do like your rockwork there Knowcents! Thanks! It is a combination of plaster and pine bark nuggets!! A buddy of mine has been showing me how to use the nuggets.
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!
RT, thanks for your compliment!
Yes, in truth, there is more wrong with that scene, as you might not have been inclined to point out. I agree, the sidings should be more earth-filled and weedy, and the main, itself, ought to have deeper and nicely groomed ballast. It is a consequence of my rush to build this second layout. I am resolved to never allow myself to do that again. Such omissions and defects last a very long time between layout builds.
-Crandell
Great WPF with a lot of wonderful pics
Now, something a bit different. Got my second brass engine yesterday, a loco I had since long desired but almost given up on by now, the NSB (Norwegian State Railways) class 24b. This one is made by Brimalm (Swedish mfg), only 250 made, and possibly the only one with factory installed DCC and sound, according to the previous owner. She also has sprung buffers and axels, and a detailed cab interior:
The front pilot truck have larger flange wheels to negotiate sharp curves, as you can see in the pics, they will be replaced with the original wheels.
Sorry about the dust, she looked good to the eye, but the camera has its own mind...
Svein
Trying to steady his team as the 'iron horse' thunders by....
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.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
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
I hate Rust
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
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
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.
cudaken Could it be the 25 foot wide train tracks Ray?
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
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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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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
Oh, that's what it is! I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.
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...):
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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!
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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.....
73
One more, then I'm done.
Cheers.
The Lebanon, NH, shop crew poses with GP7 #8569. That's the shop manager in the tie!
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.
Shot some video of my 0-8-0 MOW train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWnqDdXNRg
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.
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.
Great shots everybody.
Here's a Corning hopper I've been working on. Not my normal "rust bucket".
"Rust, whats not to love?"