Cleaver shoot, I wood never of thought of it!
Ken
I hate Rust
Leave it to Beaver:
These beavers are working hard to earn money to go to their LHS for trains:
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
jguess733 Truck, seeing your workbench makes me think you are modeling NRE's Illinois shop's. Check this picutre out link
Truck, seeing your workbench makes me think you are modeling NRE's Illinois shop's. Check this picutre out link
Thank you, what a nice compliment. And I do not mean that sarcasticly neither. Haveing N & HO sacle it gets clutterd pretty quick. If I clean it then I cant find anything.
Good to see some pictures from you again Ken.
Nice pictures everyone else.
I painted my backdrop recently. Though not perfect, it certainly makes this section of the layout look better. I still have to figure out what else to add as far as low relief buildings and pictures. I think I need one more layer before the bluffs show behind the buildings. This was by far the cheapest option for a backdrop, $6 worth of craft paint!:D I also like the fact that I painted it instead of just buying it. I do that enough already.
Edit: After seeing Jack's photos, I wish I could have afforded to buy a backdrop! Maybe in another life.
A snapshot of part of Mankato.
The mill is starting to look like part of the whole instead of just a model sitting in the corner.
An attempt at blending 2D backdrop with 3D scenery. A bit photos intensive though
Jack W.
Y6 b doing a coal drag to Kingsdown.
A SD 7 heading out to the main line.
Pair of F3 Monon's
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
I got the scratch building bug this week, along with a few steam locos (one is here, two are on the way), so I decided I needed a place to keep them. I'm working on an enginehouse made out of basswood. It's based off of an old barn I saw without its siding. I also decided that the railroad needed to expand its facility to accommodate a larger 2-8-0 engine along with its 2-6-0s. Or maybe I measured wrong.
Another "Q", my first pic post here of a very rookie paint job probably over 20 years ago on this E7. Now converting to a dummy!
Great shots everyone! Here are some new goodies I've bought: From left to right it is Cotton Belt RSD-15 #5151(BLI Paragon DCC/Sound), BN GP20 #2004 (Proto 2000 DCC/Sound), and SP GP35 #7415(Athearn RTR customized DCC).
BN #2004
Cotton Belt #5151
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
HO scale Bachmann Decapod. Had to replace motor the old one burned up and fried a TCS decoder. I am going to install working marker lights while it is apart. Not an easy loco to disassemble.
Excleent work as always, everyone!
The brakeman on A&LR Shay 8's tank waves to one of the locals as the 80-3 shay passes through Willa, WV, over PL&M rails to reach a remote logging branch.
J in Sepia
Crandell
No new modeling from me this week. I took a trip to Manhattan, KS and visited some friends. My hotel was right by the Union Pacific tracks and my hotel room window had a great view of the tracks. The pictures aren't great, they were taken with my cell phone.
This photo proves that there are different colors of ballast used on mainlines by the same company.
A loaded coal train.
And, the DPU.
There were other trains that went through, but they were mostly at night. I learned that the numberboards on the GEVOs are extremely bright compared to other locos.
Will
GPaine, excellent work on the passenger car, stake truck and town scene. Good work on having people in the structures and vehicles. The scene in the 2nd photo brings me back memories of my childhood in the northeast back in the early 70s as trucks and cars from the 40s-60s were still running.
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Here are a couple of new items that were supposed to be done for last week's WPF. Antonio, the B&M coach was the one I mentioned in the AlClad post a couple of weeks ago.
BM 4806 Coach is an undecorated IHC LW coach that I stripped and repainted with AlClad Chrome with a maroon window stripe. The inside was painted in my version of the green scheme that was used on some of the B&M and MEC LW coaches. The IHC interior was kitbashed to match the prototype floor plan. I need to get a lighting kit to complete the model.
This stake truck is a MiniMetals International cab and chassis with GC Laser stake body. I will get a GCLaser platform kit, and turn the box body that came with the truck into a storage unit.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Looking out towards turntable. SW9 waiting on short storage track.
759 Berkshire waiting to exit turntable.
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Hard to tell this is an RTR Athearn GP35...
I weathered some cars recently, but I'll keep the Q theme running a bit longer
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66/Train%20stuff/5-18weathering007.jpghttp://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66/Train%20stuff/5-18weathering008.jpgAthearn BB CB&Q high-cube box. Stirrups changed to be closer to the prototype
Details West N&W insulated box
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66/Train%20stuff/5-18weathering003.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66/Train%20stuff/5-18weathering002.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj301/PackerPhan66/Train%20stuff/5-18weathering004.jpg MDC SCL 50' hi-cube
Atlas BN EV caboose. I was going to make this one that lost it's roofwalk, but then I found some prototype pictures that showed "modernized" ones that don't have access to the roof. This was accomplised by removing the "loop grabs" (I lost one, and couldn't get one bent that looked right) and cutting the top 2 rungs out of the ladders. Weathered very lightly to give the impression of being shopped recently.
E&C SP 50's high-cube box. Dusting was done by prevoius owner. I dullcoated it and "smoothed" the dusting, did the wheels, and added to it.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
The flatcar looks good Wolfgang. Great work.
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With my new finished ALAMOSA CAR SHOPS kit I had to take pictures.
Pushing cars:
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Nothing got done on the SLOW for the last 2 weeks as I have been up to my armpits in alligators with other pressing issues. One of those was Opening Day for the New York Museum of Transportation and the Rochester and Genesee Valley RR Museum in Rush, NY. It was a cold, dark, rainy, miserable day, but the local PBS Channel showed with some Dinosaurs.... We ended up being literally swamped with visitors. The NYMT had over 1,250 people buy tickets (and possibly as many as 500 more who decided not to wait out in the pouring rain to get inside). Running a overfilled Trolley from the NYMT to Midway where they switched to one of our Empire State Express coaches (From 1941) pulled by our Queen of the fleet, LV RS3 #211. A short video showing just how rotten the day was but how nice the accommodations were can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UgseNZHcfA
Oh.. BTW, at 1:37 you can even see me in my red very leaky jacket standing by the old Baggage Car...
Enjoy!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Billboard Reefer Madness
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
Although the layout is still in progress here are a pair of K4s at a servicing facility.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Keeping the Burlington theme going
Plus a visiting interchange car spotted for unloading
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Some "big" loads.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Bachmann GP38-2
My 2T Bachmann
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