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Holiday Weekend Photo Fun
Posted by rdgk1se3019 on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:53 PM

Hi all,

Since we have ourselves a holiday weekend I thought I would start off WPF early :)

Here is a pic of my layout with a work in progress of an abandoned interurban line.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.Smile, Wink & Grin

Dennis Blank Jr.

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:16 PM

Well hey.....  close enough to the weekend for me!

I got a bit of scenery done in the train room over the past few days...



This is the area to the right of the hillside/mountain scene I have been working on.  The above is just the start of the forest.  The next step, to put in the brush along the edge of it:



Still have more to do there, just waiting for the glue to dry.  Here is the area right next to the hillside and you can get a better idea of how it will turnout when done:



Still a bit more to do, but getting there.

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by caballorr on Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:27 AM

Well just some cleaning for me  here a photo of the Ranch shop on my layout that just got cleaned 


One last look by ICR140, on Flickr

~ Tim .

To see photos of my HO scale / 1/64 scale  layout and diorama photos base in the present day .  http://www.flickr.com/photos/icr140/

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Posted by selector on Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:28 AM

I have to get in on this weekend, even if it is to post an older photo.   Love the trestle and gully, by the way.  And the interior of the vehicle hangar looks marvellous.

On the Ready Track - a hot J1 2-10-4 is just waiting for the word.

Crandell

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Posted by wsdimenna on Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:14 AM

Howmus.    I like your technique for back dropping the forest.   

Bill

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Posted by kbkchooch on Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:51 AM

Just playin with the new camera as 504 comes out of the shops after a little PM.Big Smile

Karl

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Posted by el-capitan on Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:52 AM

Finally got some mountains painted in Rincon, NM

 Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:

Deming Sub Deming Sub

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:57 AM

Now that the Boothbay Railway Village has closed for th season, it's time to start some larger projects that we could not do when the museum is open and we have to run trains every day.

We have installed a profile board across the back of the layout to support hillside scenery. This will hide a 3 track hidden staging, part of the return loop on our HOn30 narrow gage section, and a narrow access between the layout and the wall.

We have installed tunnel portals on tracks going to standard gage hidden staging and the narrow gage return loop. The double track standad gage line is visible across the back side and will go to a depot and connection to the narrow gage line.

The power plant and substation I finshed a couple of months ago is installed along with tracks for the coal dump and loaded car tracks. Lots of scenery and details to add to finish the scene.

We have started work on a 50s vintage hillside village. The roads and scenery profile are roughed out. Still working on what buildings will go where - we have a John Deere tractor dealer, a gas station, diner, post office, fire station and a few others in the planning

Hopefully, most of this will be finished or well underway by the time the museum opens next May.

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, November 22, 2012 9:00 AM

Happy Thanksgiving!....  Great photos so far!

Here is a football special with an E8, an E7, and a mix of passenger cars. Fans of the visiting football team have a comfortable trip.

 

GARRY

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:30 AM

Detail is at the other end of de cat.

We were donated 110 frozen turkies. Not counting the ones that Mr. Ramu ate on the way in.

LION is working on his interpretation of 116th Street. Photos to follow shortly.

ROAR

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Posted by tstage on Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:30 AM

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.

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Posted by slow train Ed on Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:39 AM

Crandell Get that guy off the tellaphone poll he's gona jump into the smoke stack.lol

el captian thats an afull full moon over the land . but is yellow (orange)

everyone have a gr8 thanksgiveing

slow train Ed

 

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Posted by mountaingoatgreg on Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:56 AM

I have not posted in WPF on this forum in awhile..not really sure why either =)

Here is my most recent project, Mr. Humphrey's House this is a small house that I have added a small addition for a bathroom. I also added some flowers and vegetable garden. I still have some outdoor details to add, but I am happy with everything so far.

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

More stuff on my blog SP&S OREGON TRUNK

Be Wise Beware Be Safe

"Mountain Goat" Greg

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Posted by Burlington Northern #24 on Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:04 AM

happy T-day guys.

SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.

 http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide 

Gary DuPrey

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Posted by Rastafarr on Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:10 AM

All the best to my brothers down south! Have a great nap this afternoon and don't get trampled in the Walmart parking lot tomorrow!

Stu

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Happy turkey day.
Posted by Paul_in_GA on Thursday, November 22, 2012 4:36 PM

Still need to detail things.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, November 22, 2012 4:36 PM

You inspired me to put some details on my layout.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

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Posted by nycstlrr on Thursday, November 22, 2012 5:31 PM

 These are a few custom painted NKP models I have done. I am nowhere close to having my layout done, so I took their photo on an old module that has been stripped.

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Posted by rclanger on Thursday, November 22, 2012 6:17 PM

Add signs and other details to major intersection on the NPBL.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:10 PM

An Alco RSD-15 taking the curve at Stoney Creek. DJ.

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Posted by Eric97123 on Friday, November 23, 2012 8:59 AM

Paul_in_GA

Still need to detail things.

Very good start to your layout! 

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Posted by Curt Webb on Friday, November 23, 2012 4:04 PM

Excellent work this week (as always). This week I took a plain RTR Athearn F7 and detailed, painted (top) and weathered it. Currently it has a SoundTraxx mobile decoder. The paint was a rattle can of Tuscan Red Scalecoat paint and heated Valspar Flat finiish. The detail parts are Cal Scale.

 

 

 

Curt Webb

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:53 AM

Page two huh?  I'll bump with an old photo from me.

Corey
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Posted by stebbycentral on Saturday, November 24, 2012 9:49 AM

Looks like this is turning out to be "half-finished projects" weekend.  Here is a little laser-cut kit I was working on Thursday while the turkey was in the oven.

I envision it as a hunter's cabin in the woods.  I have a little foundation and a porch gluing up on the workbench.  Eventually I will run a wooden stairs down to the parking area, and plant trees all around it.

I have figured out what is wrong with my brain!  On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!

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Posted by BRAKIE on Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:49 AM

Nice photos every one.

Looking back.

Rolling toward disaster.

This 35 car C&HV train detailed just a second or two after I took the photo..17 of the 35 cars will leave the rail inside a tunnel..I still don't know why the train derailed and the bigger mystery is how 17 cars left the rail blocking both mains.

Larry

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:54 AM

Great Photo's of really neat subjects this weekend!!!

Here is an oldie, but I am hoping that everyone has safe travels & good times, no matter what leade engine they have!!!

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, November 24, 2012 2:38 PM

Wow, didn't think I would DoubleHead...

I have a unique project, help form the community here led me to these Sylvan Resin Kits, & I (actually do &) took advice! So, here is one moched up Kit style, & one 'After Chad & the LAGun' milling machine..
And, one of the first the Prototypes! A CRDX Ballast Hopper!

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1383724

Now the model, in (Chad's Production), being milled into alteration to fit the prototype....

 

Chad L Ryan
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Posted by DGX GP 38 on Saturday, November 24, 2012 3:14 PM


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Posted by Aikidomaster on Saturday, November 24, 2012 3:34 PM

Great scene!! I would love to see more of your work, Crandell.Bow

Craig North Carolina

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, November 24, 2012 4:55 PM

Great stuff as usual this weekend.  Here's my contribution, a late afternoon water stop at Bassetts on the Sierra Buttes, just west of Yuba Pass.

Tom

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