Nice find. Are those plastic or metal wheelsets?
Springfield PA
P&SlocalAfter seeing the prototype pics for this...ummm...mess, I thought there was no way that they actually ran trains (or attempted to) through the real thing. Then pics of a stuck locomotive. Holy Cow!!! I can just hear Bo and Luke Duke Engineer going ...YeeeeeeHawwwwwww!!!! (Wonder if they played Dixie on the air horn before hitting the mud hole?)
After seeing the prototype pics for this...ummm...mess, I thought there was no way that they actually ran trains (or attempted to) through the real thing. Then pics of a stuck locomotive. Holy Cow!!! I can just hear Bo and Luke Duke Engineer going ...YeeeeeeHawwwwwww!!!! (Wonder if they played Dixie on the air horn before hitting the mud hole?)
Don't matter much, Uncle Jesse will be along directly to get the boys out of their jam. Meanwhile they can spend the time showing Daisy how to handle the throttle. And I'll bet Roscoe never finds the illegal hootch stowed in the back hatch...
mikelhh This is the latest on Guilford's mud-pit Lots of landscaping to do yet. Oh - and a bridge to build across the top. Mike
This is the latest on Guilford's mud-pit
Lots of landscaping to do yet. Oh - and a bridge to build across the top.
Mike
Model Railroading is indeed a strange hobby when you can post a picture of a mud puddle and get rave reviews.
And yet, your work is stunning. Very excellent, KUDOS!!!!
John
I too still have a 5 year old version of Paint Shop Pro I use for adding head lights, etc that I can't do with PS Elements.
Hamltnblue gmcrail what do you use to add the smoke and steam to your pics?
gmcrail what do you use to add the smoke and steam to your pics?
I have a (very) old version of Paint Shop Pro that I use for just about all my photo editing work. In this case, the airbrush and smudge tools, on a separate raster layer.
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Oh, oh, I think Ken's on to me!
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Fine Jim, just kick another Monon Guy when he is down by showing your F3's dragging freight!
Far has why it died, besides seeing the same rail time as the others I am going to guess it ate a decoder because the motor started to draw to many amp's.
Will find out more Wednesday.
My self, I think Monon Guy gave the Monon Caboose a DCC virus I got from him! He thinks DCC is evil and his trying to save me from the Dark Side. It might be working!
Cuda Ken killing engines again.
I hate Rust
I've not been as active as I'd like this holiday weekend, but did manage this evening to spend a few minutes at the work desk just sitting and letting a couple of trains go. Took a quickie video of the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61G4RSKTDmE
Not a real high quality video, but nonetheless a nice way to end a long weekend.
Jim
Wow, those have to be about the worst I've seen. Imagine what was going through the mind of the engineer driving through there. Good find.
G PaineGuilford Guy http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2007120115582726202.jpg I don't think Mike included a prototype pic but here is what the scene looks like in real life. Looks like abandoned rails to me, but consider the source: PanAm = Guilford on an old B&M line. Who knows how bad the trackwork was before trains stopped running?
Guilford Guy http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2007120115582726202.jpg I don't think Mike included a prototype pic but here is what the scene looks like in real life.
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2007120115582726202.jpg
I don't think Mike included a prototype pic but here is what the scene looks like in real life.
Looks like abandoned rails to me, but consider the source: PanAm = Guilford on an old B&M line. Who knows how bad the trackwork was before trains stopped running?
At the time of the photo it was active. This was before they actually did a minor fix where they removed the rails and put 2 sections of prefab track over the old ties/roadbed to make it less of a hazard. After that 2 trains ran over before service stopped in February of 2008.
Alex
Good Luck with the cleanup. Any chance of reviving the F3? What failed? Gears, Motor, pickup?
Well it has not been the best of days on the CK RR. Seems I over oiled the new engines (NIB but still 5 over years old) and it oiled the track! Ever see a Y6 b spin it wheels? I have now. I know the drill, not fun but will clean the mess up.
Plus I lost another PK 1000 F3, I think. If I did it will be 3 out of 4 Monon to kick the bucket. They do have well over 400 hours of run time so I cannot complain.
Anyway few pictures.
New Stewart's F 9's that I was going to convert to Monon F-3's. (shells interchange)
Dragging a passenger train, cars are Con Cor and work well now with some work.
Boy, wiping down 300 feet of track is going to be a pain in the caboose.
Cuda Ken
I got hold of some ancient and venerable Northeast Decals, and tried my best not to mess them up.I sprayed the decals with a thin coat of clear lacquer to keep them from crumbling from age. Aside from a minor slip of the pin stripe, I think it turned out well. I'm amazed at how sharp the Fireball herald is even after all these years.The engine now has a number to go with the decoder address!Lee
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George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
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The local has spotted the last car, a box car of apliances for the sears store, and the brakeman has just climbed down from setting the hand brake. he will climb abord the lead F7 and depart.
Mike,
Great job on the bad track!
I don't often post here, but this shot was, I think, pretty good: A Nebraska railfan caught this picture when a northbound local freight with FHN #721 stopped in front of the B&B Cafe to grab some quick chow as a Southbound passenger local with USRA Pacific #300 on point came slowly through town. (A speed limit has been imposed until the crossing gets some protection.)
Messing around with photoshop some. Y6B passes through town
mikelhh Geared steam that one enlarges really well! And Hamilton - love your backdrop. This is the latest on Guilford's mud-pit Lots of landscaping to do yet. Oh - and a bridge to build across the top. Mike
Geared steam that one enlarges really well! And Hamilton - love your backdrop.
Mike - Outstanding work! Once the bridge goes in, you just need to place a loco that got trapped and you will have this scene:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=84705
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=84708
Crandell, to me the rails look dull like the tops of them where weathered. More than likely why you don't have much problem with power pick up is because you run a lot of steam power.
Mike, what can I say but great modeling! Enjoyed the clips.
Nice shots Spidge
As for my scenery - reluctant to share? everything is explained in detail on another forum. No secrets there. What would you like to know? No-one has asked how, and to avoid looking like a know-all I tend to keep quiet on here 'til then.
and just to prove the line is operational, here are two videos taken today
http://www.vimeo.com/12165967
http://www.vimeo.com/12166131
There's some boxcar wobble, but you can get that on good lines!
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
I haven't been here much but it looks like Mike is reluctant to share his techniques on that scenery.
The only new stuff is a freemoN module I built for the upcomming June 5 and 6 Big Train Show in Ontario California.
Kewl....the rails have sunk and bent so much they look like ribbons of steel. Now, I wonder how my Niagara would do on that...
-Crandell
Thanks Crandell
cudakenOK Crandell and Mike you guys have got me stumped! Great photos, but what I don't understand is how do your engines get electrical pickup? Tops of the rails look like the real deal. Is it photo shop magic?
My rails hardly get any use at all, so they may appear dull and not shiny. Or are you saying they are really shiny? It's funny, but I don't seem to have any/many issues with my general lack of layout time. Occasionally I get a bad spot, and 600 grit paper does the trick for me, but generally my rails seem to permit pickup whenever I decide to run them. My main gets maybe 4 circuits a week...that's it. Sometimes I won't move an engine for a couple of weeks or more.
Aside from image sharpening, I don't do any manipulation of the image, such as adding or deleting stuff that isn't already there.
Mike, if you're still looking on, the car is a Hot Wheels "55 Chevy" made in Thailand, and I think it is 1:64 scale. It is much larger than your typical HO scale offerings from different places. HOwever, I feel that most of those claiming to be in scale are too small by near 15%. Mostly. I also find that many of the HO scale figures are quite disparate in size. Some are downright tiny, and way too small IMO.