steemtrayn rdgk1se3019 Couple of new puff ball trees for my layout. Why do I suddenly have a craving for McNuggets?
rdgk1se3019 Couple of new puff ball trees for my layout.
Couple of new puff ball trees for my layout.
Why do I suddenly have a craving for McNuggets?
Flashback to the early 70's for me. Old star trek episode.
watch?v=rQ6LC olw9Q
Nice work everyone, and Robby those weathering techniques of yours are remarkable.
Finally got some weathering on the EM-1
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
I've done some painting before but it always seems like somewhat of a struggle. Rewarding when completed but def. harder for me than most other scenery aspects. Thanks for the kind words!
Karl,
Hey Thanks!!I know in my "Diesel Spotters Guide" they have some commuters with the antivandal mesh, but do they also have severe weather units?? I do know that the 'Lakes' cause phenomenal snowfalls, & I would expect to hear from those tales. However, it always seems we hear fromn the non-snow areas because it is special & becomes an event, where-as, in Washington or Oregon state it must be more nomal & they just deal with it....I would love to hear those stories, see video, or even artwork if it was that many years ago.
When was the last time you (anyone) heard, saw, or recorded a snow country epic story?I know they are going on!I had a better story with the 2 inch overlay snow calamities, than the few days before 7 inches we got.
Please share & feel free to start a new thread about it.. & because this is WPF, & I am burning Air Time, I will put an Oldie up that should be on topic!!!!
LNEFAN: I second what Corey said - Terrific!
Mike
Wow, that looks great! You've painted landscapes before?
Backdrop painting this week on my PC & KC RR (On30). Really out of my comfort zone here. Foreground trees, bushes and other etcs. still to do. Idea is that the background be rather vague and indistinct rather than sharp and detailed so that the trains and accompanying scenes become the focus.
Thought that might be a Conrail unit Chad, either South Philly or the Bronx.
Karl
NCE über alles!
ChadLRyan Great Work Everyone!!!! Happy New Year!!!!! Signs of things to come............Got Winter????
Great Work Everyone!!!!
Happy New Year!!!!!
Signs of things to come............Got Winter????
Chad Rules!
So what's new?
Rich
Alton Junction
Mike,
Holy cow, I actually never put that connection together, but Man, wow!!! Yeah!!!! Dude!!!I almost was motivated & tempted to put up $12.5 on an Aussie '72 XB Falcon once in the early 90's...
Those are MAXimus units aren't they!!! Almost even in the same paint Schemes! (These are XA's [4 doors])
http://trackmania-carpark.com/imagespark/up2/4b9deb77dcd0d.jpg
Anyway, this will be an ICEBREAKER, & low & snowbound...
Dont want to give much away, as I see major issues in my photo, as said, hopefully more to come....
Mike: Thanks for the very kind words. My artistic ability is 0 on a scale of 1 to 10. For once,at least, I quit while I was ahead!
Chad: Does this mean the rumors of a new Mel Gibson movie "Railroad Warrior" are true?
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
You're off to a good start there, SS Express. Just for you, I've got this one I happened to take of a bonus feature I can now use after adding the power supply for my structure lighting.
"Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel...................is a train!!"
I have a loop tying together two wyes in a tunnel that provides a continuous run for break in or display trains that is also long enough that it can provide staging for one train. I've already got 4 CCTVs/8 cameras and it's simple enough it didn't seem like it's worth adding another when if I could just see where the train was in the tunnel. I had a LED array from a car license plate holder I'd been thinking what to do with. Suddenly it hit me it'd be perfect in this tunnel, located where the end of the train needs to be to let me still use the wyes at either end, because the tunnel trackage is fairly straight. Bingo! I can now see where the loco is when it moves past the bright spot in the tunnel. It's actually way brighter than it needs to be, so I'm going to add another resistor to tame it down some more. In any case, it IS a train at the end of this tunnel, but also just a bright light. Also good to see James check in. C&O Fan's coal animation is outstanding! Mike, I love the way you've integrated the scenery and backdrop in that part of your layout, it's rather breathtaking "
I have a loop tying together two wyes in a tunnel that provides a continuous run for break in or display trains that is also long enough that it can provide staging for one train. I've already got 4 CCTVs/8 cameras and it's simple enough it didn't seem like it's worth adding another when if I could just see where the train was in the tunnel.
I had a LED array from a car license plate holder I'd been thinking what to do with. Suddenly it hit me it'd be perfect in this tunnel, located where the end of the train needs to be to let me still use the wyes at either end, because the tunnel trackage is fairly straight. Bingo! I can now see where the loco is when it moves past the bright spot in the tunnel. It's actually way brighter than it needs to be, so I'm going to add another resistor to tame it down some more.
In any case, it IS a train at the end of this tunnel, but also just a bright light.
Also good to see James check in. C&O Fan's coal animation is outstanding! Mike, I love the way you've integrated the scenery and backdrop in that part of your layout, it's rather breathtaking
"
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Terry, we'll have to call you McGuyver now!
Here is an old photo I ran into while looking through my archives. I only wish the headlight was on. May be a reason to switch to DCC!
Last year i built a working coal tipple loader using 2 ball point pen springs glued end to end laying in a soda straw to form an auger to move the coal from the container bin to the chute for the awaiting hopper
Here's a view of the container bin with the straw and springs laying in the bottom the springs are connected to a low RPM motor on one end and voltage is controlled by the DC variable side of my DC power pack
The container sits inside the Tipple
I added a Cell Phone vibrator to help move the coal down the chute
Using the old Tyco operating coal cars i run live loads from the mine over to the coaling tower
And using the Tyco Trick Track for opening the doors on the bottom of the hopper i dump the coal to a container under the layout
Here's a video of it in operation
It was a big hit at my open house on the layout tour as people were amazed that an idea so simple could work so well
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Great contributions again by everyone.
A PRR K4 Leads the "New Yorker" over shark infested lower tracks.
A quartet of Merchandise Service Boxcars on the head end of the "Gotham Limited"
John R.
Layout Extension begun today.
The layout will come back towards the camera on the left of the photo 6 feet.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Whether it's camera angles,or "night" lighting",weathering,or great scenery work,I always pick up ideas from this thread...
I'm working on dwarf signals for the east end of the yard this week.They're wired in series through the bluepoint switch machines,so a signal can't show "green" unless that route's switches are lined all the way to the mainline. I put them on the west end awhile back,and I haven't run a train into a mis-aligned switch since...I mean...not that I've ever done that! 'Still waiting on a few parts,maybe I'll have something to show next week. Here's an older picture from the layout.
Have a good rest of the weekend.
Finally finished getting a good coat of soot, gunk etc...on the recovery boiler.
Bryan B.
I been wanting to post on WPF for some time now.................
tigerholm2,
Those GoPro cams are really neat. I've been wanting one of the truck for when we hit the trails, but I never thought about using it on the layout. And a very nice video production you've done with it!
This week's big project here was adding lights so the night is more interesting. I did use blue LED rope lighting for general illumination. I don't usually shoot night pics with the blue on, but you do get interesting results.
I installed about 80 LEDs for structure lighting and outside lighting so far, extracted from donor Xmas lighting. Cheap and easy, with the intensity toned down, the light even starts acting like it's from bulbs. Inside lights aren't quite enough to do anything much beyond "look through the window" type shots, but I also added a few outside lights and have plenty of light to work with. The rest of these shots are taken with ambient light and long manual exposure times (up to 15 seconds. Here's the Gold Prince shot from the reverse angle with the blue lights off. The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck. The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well. In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark. This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
I installed about 80 LEDs for structure lighting and outside lighting so far, extracted from donor Xmas lighting. Cheap and easy, with the intensity toned down, the light even starts acting like it's from bulbs. Inside lights aren't quite enough to do anything much beyond "look through the window" type shots, but I also added a few outside lights and have plenty of light to work with. The rest of these shots are taken with ambient light and long manual exposure times (up to 15 seconds. Here's the Gold Prince shot from the reverse angle with the blue lights off.
The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck. The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well. In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark. This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
The Haymarket Tram is on the other side of the gulch from the Gold Prince. Here's a pic of its service truck.
The other end of the building shows off the outside lighting well.
In Eureka, the Sunnyside mill looms impressively, even in the dark.
This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place. . Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
This is the Eureka station. I may have to reconsider not adding at least a simple interior now that it's looks so empty with lighting in place.
. Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups. I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
Same thing here, need to add some basic interior mockups.
I really like the atmospherics of this shot of the Sunnyside.
Here is a project I yet have to finish. Hopefully by this spring.
Once again some great images! Garry, nice looking consist. That's what you'd expect to see on the Burlington back in the day. Robby, great weathering! I like the simple graffiti. It looks like a typical RBOX car I used to "kick" in the B&O yard in Buffalo when I was a conductor there. Curt, those cars are all great. I like to do my wooden reefers in a similar fashion keeping the bright colors while giving them just enough dust and rust for the right look. Grampy, great shot! I really like the depth of the scene. Lee, that's going to be a great water tower.
Here's my contribution for the week. This is the first HD shot I've decided to publish using my new Iphone:
Everyone have a great week!
-Stan
Thank you for the comment.
One of the surprises to me was to watch the gondola and following freight cars in the train behind swaying and rocking behind the engine, and another was the glimpse of the engineer in the cab as the engine also swaying around as it rocked on the track. The one drawback was the go pro has poor closeup focus even though the depth is so good. The sound pickup was a surprise since the gopro mic was on the flatcar floor. Since the flatcar had plastic wheels, I was now thinking metal whee;ls may have added sopme sound and maybe the effect of slamming through turnout frogs. As I said the video crop mask needed to take out almost 70% of the video frame to keep the ceiling and lights off of the frame. Another thing that surprise me was how in the point of view, it almost seems like an illusion of 1:1 scale.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJ5aPVzayFeGcORAEvPXlGrjlhj835tC
Tigerholm @Yahoo.com
Video http://www.youtube.com/user/lakesuperiorvideos#p/p
Been doing some minor work on that etched metal kit of an On30 critter I am currently building. Body and chassis are finished, next comes cleaning, primer and painting - before final assembly of gearbox, motor, pick-ups and wheels.
tigerholm2I tried an experiment on my layout of video point of view... http://youtu.be/MKGk_XOlEUA
http://youtu.be/MKGk_XOlEUA
One of the most ENJOYABLE on-board videos I have ever seen!
Come on guys. WPF on page two?
Here is an old photo from the BRVRR and a bump!
Keep the ideas and photos coming everyone.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/