I've participated in the FREMO meeting this weekend. I've made quite a few pictures and a video with narrow gauge. This here shows my friends Pete's "Joevalley.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Tis the season for train trips!
Though I took many more pictures than this on our trip, I don't want to bore you. Here are a few snaps from the train ride from Minneapolis to Winona MN. We basically followed the Mississippi river the whole time. We ended up riding in the Amtrak coach. Oh it's old alright, 1985!Oh well, it had a nice ride with clean bathrooms!
Ken, you are having waaaaay too much fun.....
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
This is Richard Head with Channel 5 Action news with a breaking story! There has been a train wreck on the south side of Kingsdown by K-10 mining. A north bound Conrail freight train lost part of its train by K-10 mining while heading to the Kingsdown yard. Spoke person for Conrail stated "we had a coupler fail while passing K-10 Mining company, we contacted the dispatcher as soon as the engineer knew he lost part of his train". Kingsdown yard master is not available for comment at this time.
We now switch to our Eye In The Sky, take it Guy. This is Guy Great in news copper 5 over the wreck site. Seems a south bound Mono coal train hit the stranded Conrail cars by K-10 Mining company. There where 3 tank cars in the wreck, one went over the 100 foot cliff. At this point authorities do not know the content of the rupture tank cars and evaluating the men from K-10 mining.
Few pictures from the ground crew before the forced evacuation.
This engine was found near the wreck, but it seems it may not be involved.
OK, this wrech happened last night while I was posting on this site. As stated the 40 box car came off the freight drag. I missed it till it was to late. White tanker on it side matching Walther's tank car went over the side! Still looking for missing parts.
Cuda Ken, no HO pepole where lost for the post.
I hate Rust
Not much on the workbench this week, although there's still plenty of work to do... This week's highlight was volunteering as a car host on the CRHS Conrail Express on Saturday.We got a very early start, 4 a.m. ish, but it was extremely cool to be below decks at 30th Street in wee hours...The Juniata Terminal E units, as usual, were impeccable, standing at the ready to pull our train of over 700 merry makers around southeast PA.We tried to get Vanna White, but she wasn't available, so we settled for Sean... As one of the primary organizers of the trip, Sean deserves a huge amount of credit.The weather was pretty dismal, but having the opportunity to ride the Port Road was not to be missed. Due to the rain and overcast, you couldn't get much leaf-peeping in, but just being in the remote areas where only the train has access was pretty remarkable. It was also cool to see the several power generating dams that line the Susquehanna. The view above was taken as we crossed from the east side of the river to the west via the Shock's Mill bridge.After rolling through Enola Yard, we crossed back over at Rockville Bridge. This was one of the few times I could witness the engines at work. Unfortunately, the rain and slow speeds through the yard left a lot of spots on the windows...At Harrisburg, we got a short platform break. Here, we got to enjoy the company of 4859, which is owned by the Harrisburg Chapter of NRHS. It's noted to be the first electrified locomotive to pull a train into the Harrisburg Terminal after the wires were strung, so it's displayed there along with a wooden caboose.I had the pleasure of working with Dave Foxx, as well as Jonathan, the guy from the NRHS working our car. Here we are with 72 of our new closest friends...It was a great day, and a very memorable experience. Thanks go to Russ, Sean and Ed, who extended the invitation to me and Dave. We truly had a blast!Lee
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Hello great work this weekend everyone. I started a new project it's the Buckmaster truck & radiator repair by Evergreen hill designs. Here are some work in progress shots.
This is a craftsmen kit so I had to do all the framing. It took a week to get this far. This is my first kit by this company and what a kit it is. So far this is one of the best kits I have built easy to work with and lots of detail parts it even came with a sink.As I get more done I will post more pics. Have a good weekend Frank
Hi Guys! Been awhile since i posted anything. Nice pictures everyone! This is one i took a bit ago i was working on this scean last spring but it got to hot so i had to stop,Now just picked up where i left off and im working at it little by little.
Have a great Weekend.
Dave, the video of the Sep running session was GREAT!.....
Loading dock at Prestage Tool & Gear, Hawk Point Mo. on the Missouri & Arkansas Railway.
Here is the link for my vast collection of signs for your layout & buildings. Please feel free to copy for your own use. They are for HO but can be re-sized for any scale. Most are pre-1970 ....So check them out!
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/album.php?albumid=721
I went on a trip with the Central New York Division of the NMRA today. They traveled from Syracuse, NY to Medina, NY to visit the Medina RR Museum. First stop was Ridge Road Station, a Train/Model/Hobby/Christmas all year around store. Inside there is a huge "G" scale layout. A couple of photos:
Then we traveled on to the Medina Railroad Museum which also has a huge layout that fills most of an old NYC Freight house. This one is HO. Here is a shot from just past the halfway point of the layout. The Dispatcher's Office is at the halfway point of the layout and the florescent lighting in the middle goes to the other end of the layout.......
Here is a couple more of that layout:
This is the 1/1 scale loco that pulled the NYC 20th. Century Special cars we rode on for a couple of hours:
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
rs2mikeWish you could see what he is doing.
Yea, too bad I'm about 9 hours away..... I've got family in Pittsburgh, so next time I'm out that way I'll swing by.
Driline your trees are awesome. Your gp- or sd- whatever it was you sent jerry to weather is.......well he said he teased you with a vid of the working beacon....ahhhh yea
it is nice man. I wish I had 1/2 is tallent. I was over his place today to help with his layout. Very neat building. I learned a lot on how I am going to build my eventual layout. Can't wait to get back and help some more. He is a wealth of info that I am glad to suck up. Wish you could see what he is doing.
Have a good weekend all
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
CNJ831Milwaukee, Racine & Troy #1023 is hard at work setting out one of the company's gons on this brisk mid October afternoon
OK---who snarfled the eras up?! Great shot there!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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P&SlocalI love the aspens. Som eof the detail stuff that you guys are doing is great, but with my oversized fingers and ability to drop objects without reason, I am skeptical of my abilities to do detail work on fine scale. It was in this pic that I think I found the answer to fine detail work (see lower left hand corner of pic for empty Crown Royal bottle). Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
I love the aspens. Som eof the detail stuff that you guys are doing is great, but with my oversized fingers and ability to drop objects without reason, I am skeptical of my abilities to do detail work on fine scale.
It was in this pic that I think I found the answer to fine detail work (see lower left hand corner of pic for empty Crown Royal bottle).
Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
And yes, its still contains alcohol. Albeit a little more potent. 91% isopropyl alcohol to be exact. I use it with an eye dropper as a wetting agent for scenery.
Milwaukee, Racine & Troy #1023 is hard at work setting out one of the company's gons on this brisk mid October afternoon.
CNJ831
Robert H. Shilling II
Tyler, the 3 exposures I used each time for a given image were pretty small aperture - f22 or more, with exposures typically around 3 seconds. But when the foreground is only 4 inches from the lens, even a very small aperture won't give me clarity at distances of 4 feet or so.
I looked at the Helicon site and I think they want $30 for a limited time license - a perpetual license if I recall correctly was over $100...which is why I decided to use photoshop, since I already have at my disposal.
Anyway, it was a fun, if laborious exercise.
Cheers.
RRCanuckThis week's contribution is not so much about modeling (admittedly mediocre) but photography. Recent articles in MR and past posts here about methods to enhance depth of field (like Helicon software) were the inspiration for this week's pics. I don't have Helicon, but figured I could achieve similar results taking 3 exposures of each scene that were identical except for the focus point, then using photoshop to "stitch" them together. The objective was to achieve zero-to-infinity focus. I have 2 things to say about this project: 1. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, and 2. Looking at photos is a great way to see all the mistakes you've made. You just don't realize how much you need to improve things until you look at your photos. A bit sobering, frankly.
This week's contribution is not so much about modeling (admittedly mediocre) but photography. Recent articles in MR and past posts here about methods to enhance depth of field (like Helicon software) were the inspiration for this week's pics. I don't have Helicon, but figured I could achieve similar results taking 3 exposures of each scene that were identical except for the focus point, then using photoshop to "stitch" them together. The objective was to achieve zero-to-infinity focus.
I have 2 things to say about this project: 1. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, and 2. Looking at photos is a great way to see all the mistakes you've made. You just don't realize how much you need to improve things until you look at your photos. A bit sobering, frankly.
If you have a camera that can go up to a high aperture, you can use that instead of / in conjunction with HeliconFocus to get a high depth of field. I shoot at F/36 for my photos and get plenty of depth of field, with the camera mounted on a tripod for the long exposure shots.
That being said, the new camera I'm considering (the Canon SX1) only goes up to F/5.6, so I will presumably get to learn how to use HeliconFocus! I believe it is free (or there's a similar version that's free), and I would imagine that it's a whole lot easier than Photoshop! I've tried to manually create HDR images using Photoshop 6.0, and it didn't work so great and was pretty tricky...I would imagine the effort is similar with depth of field.
Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose? The kit is called "Forest in a Flash" by Janes trains. I don't think they are available anymore. My hobby shop has had them for 15 years now and only has a few left. I'm not sure what kind of plant it is, but you do the following to make the trees. 1) Remove the small leaves found on the stem. 2) Paint the branches white 3) Wrap 2 or 3 branches together with wax string 4) Set the tree in a foam base with wax paper. 5) Spread white latex caulk up the trunk 6 Paint the trunk white 7) Use a fine black sharpie to make lines on the trunk and larger limbs. More trees to add..... ...snip.....
The kit is called "Forest in a Flash" by Janes trains. I don't think they are available anymore. My hobby shop has had them for 15 years now and only has a few left. I'm not sure what kind of plant it is, but you do the following to make the trees.
1) Remove the small leaves found on the stem.
2) Paint the branches white
3) Wrap 2 or 3 branches together with wax string
4) Set the tree in a foam base with wax paper.
5) Spread white latex caulk up the trunk
6 Paint the trunk white
7) Use a fine black sharpie to make lines on the trunk and larger limbs.
More trees to add.....
...snip.....
That looks like peppergrass, also known as "Candy Tuft" available in the craft stores. I have used it with moderate success but was never very happy with it. There's a shot of a couple small ones painted as fall trees. The problem I have had is the trunks are so thin and attempts to wrap multiple stems with clay or tape to make a larger tree just didn't look good. But I never thought of using caulk. Gonna try that!
George V.
great work all,love my weekend morning coffee and picts . they go together nice.......thanks for your effort's
Jeff - Kudos to you on your latest image. In my opinion, it's the best shot you've posted to date. You've come a long way in the past couple of years with your modelling and photography.
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Looks like my weekend is not going to be that fun! It will be spent sorting out the spur from K-10 mine to the A line. First fixed a curve that 50 foot cars did not like, then a turn out my Big Boy did not like. Now the Y6 B does not like curve the 50 cars do like. Then the Big Boy decides it doesn't like the turn out again? RSD 15 does not like any of it! M1A is fine with the first turn out that the Big Boy does not like,but does not like the second turn out all the other engines are fine with.
Only engines that are fine with ever thing are the F-3's.
Ken, laying rail again, and again and again!
As a tribute to the late, great Athearn blue box kit, I assembled all 26 of mine in one spot for a family photo. Not shown are another 18 still unassembled.
The Great Northern in the center is my first HO purchase back in about 1962. The UP boxcar next to it was my first and only attempt at painting and decaling.
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Off to another great start this week. ford86 - gorgeous paint jobs.
duckdoggerDriline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
Hey all, Driline nice trees. Was that sedum? No pics again this week from me. I have been busy doing all sorts of thing. Some mrr and lots of home stuff.
This week I got my 2 atlas Rs-1 painted in the home road scheme. Got them detailed with rotary beacon, antenna and gps dome. I lightly weathered the frames for now. Later I will lightly weather the bodies but for right now I like the way they are. I also painted and detailed a 3rd body and now just waiting on money to buy a frame and trucks. I already have the motor and spline and worms for it. I also learned how to properly use a multi meter. I also attempted to put a decoder in an IHC mother hubbard but lost that battle as the motor pulled a min of 6 amps. Wierd I thought can motors were low draw. I am also knee deep into converting and rewirirg for dcc 2 athearn sw-9 switchers. I have one done but the other has the metal sideframes and I can't seem to find anything to solder to so I have bid on a set on ebay. They will be detailed with beacons, antennas, and gps domes and have led lights wired in. I will see if I get the house work done enough to snap some pics.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Heres a couple shots of a drovers caboose at Collier Bluff. BILL