SouthPennNice pictures!
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Thanks! Unfortunately I had to go to Orlando today, so this weekend's photo fun came to an abrupt end.
So... until the lomng weekend... have fun everyone.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190 I guess I am having too much "Photo Fun" this weekend. . A couple more with the new lens: . . . I might keep this going for a while... We will see. . -Kevin.
I guess I am having too much "Photo Fun" this weekend.
A couple more with the new lens:
I might keep this going for a while... We will see.
-Kevin.
Nice pictures!
Heartland Division CB&QGeorge ... It looks like the chubby guy ate all the food in the Diner. LOL
That could be; however, the diner sits back about 2-1/2 feet from the fascia and slightly below eye level for most folks. Based on that, I decided to not detail the tables.
mlehmanIt may be a generic kit, but it's certainly a classic. City Classics makes some great stuff, well worth keeping in mind for almost any urban scene.
I like the City Classics kits as well. Just to be clear, the model does not have an interior. I added it with sheet styrene. The tables are from Palace Car Works with 3 Vessmann lighting modules. Microscale does make a decal set for the kit, but I made my own signs from photos I took at Moody's Diner, resized using Photoshop Elements, and printed on photo paper. The stripes on the diner sides are from a sheet of blue Microscale Trimfilm.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Great looking stuff this week.
Ed, I have finished a car with a Chooch load also. It has two of those HUGE wooden crates Chooch used to sell. It looks like there are a couple of big items being delivered somewhere.
The flat car is from Tichy. Of course, trucks and couplers are Kadee.
I am also playing with my new 10mm close up lens. The camera was about 2 inches from the car for the picture. This lens stops all the way down to f28. I cannot believe how much of the scene is in focus!
Just for fun... here is another shot with the new 10mm lens:
Jimmy, Thanks for the WPF start and the opportunity to see the progress being made on your rare breed.
Some brick madness.
Thinking of those in Harvey's path, may you fare well.
As always thanks to all the contributors for sharing your modeling, regards, Peter
mlehman NYBW-John, Great pics and you really depicted the onset of totality well. I'm looking foward to 2024, as I have kin in the oath of totality.
NYBW-John, Great pics and you really depicted the onset of totality well. I'm looking foward to 2024, as I have kin in the oath of totality.
Just a word of advice for anyone who wants to see the 2024 eclipse in totality. Clouds can ruin the show so pay close attention to the forecast in the last few days. Be flexible and be ready to move. Even traveling a short distance can be the difference between seeing the sun completely eclipsed and just seeing it get dark in the middle of the day. I changed plans three times in the last two days including twice that morning. Originally I was planning on southwest Kentucky but the forecast the day before gave a 10% chance of rain in that area while it had 0% in north central Tennessee so I decided Lebanon, TN was the place. On the way down I decided it might be better to stay north of Nashville to make it easier to move west if need be. When I got to Bowling Green, KY early that morning the USA Today forecast showed the best chance for sunny skies was back in southwest KY, so I turned west heading for my original destination when I happened on the Walmart parking lot and saw people camping out there and decided that was as good a place as any. Turned out to be a great choice. We were about halfway between Carbondale, IL and Nashville, both of which got blocked by clouds during totality. You can never be 100% sure what you are going to get but monitoring the forecasts can improve your odds.
G PaineThe model is a generic diner kit from City Classics.
George, It may be a generic kit, but it's certainly a classic. City Classics makes some great stuff, well worth keeping in mind for almost any urban scene. You'r build really shows it off
South Penn, A great depiction of progress in pics, looks great!
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Here is what I have been working on.
In the beginning there was plywood.
Then there was a plan.
Now, almost finished.
What are you working on?
( sorry about the terrible pictures.)
Mike L ... You are welcome.
George ... It looks like the chubby guy ate all the food in the Diner. LOL
NYBW-John .... Thanks ! for posting your eclipse photos! ... Nice ! .... We are about 65 miles west of Russellville on US 68 at Land Between the Lakes area. We had a lot of out of town guests, and I had no time for any photography. (Just iPhone pictures.) We saw what you saw during the total eclipse, and your photos do a good job of showing how it was. ...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Last week I asked if anyone would object to me posting my eclipse pictures and no one did so here we go. These pictures were taken at a Walmart parking lot in Russellville, KY, not far from maximum totality.
The fellow next to me had set up a variation of the pinhole projection method using one side of his binoculars.
The eclipse is just beginning. This projection method reverses the image from top to bottom and left to right but because we are facing in the opposite direction, left and right get reversed back. In reality the moon's shadow was encroaching from the upper right.
About halfway through. The picture was taken from the side.
Nearing totality. Note how bright it still is with just a sliver of the sun shining.
Seconds from totality the light level has dropped dramatically. It reminded me of light when a heavy thunderstorm is approaching but as you see, there is hardly a cloud in the sky.
TOTALITY!!! I took this picture with no zoom. In reality the moon's disk is the same size as a full moon high in the sky.
This is with 4X zoom. We had this view for roughly 2 1/2 minutes. Totally awesome!!!
My hands were shaking when I took this picture but it shows just how dark it got. We're looking to the west and you can see the light approaching in the distance.
And now the sun begins to reappear.
One of the most exciting 150 seconds of my life. The one in 2024 will last over 4 minutes. Looking forward to it as it will be much closer to home.
Last week, I finished Moody's Diner for the Boothbay Railway Village layout. The real Moody's has been in business in Waldoboro, ME for about 90 years. A favorite for both locals and tourists. When my wife's dad drove MEC busses between Bangor and Boston in the late 1940s, Moody's was a usual lunch stop. The model is a generic diner kit from City Classics.
The chubby guy comes to Maine for a good lunch
I reckon Mike, being able to recycle other bits and pieces into useful model railroad items is the sign of a good modeller.
Bear, Yes, "recycling since before recycling was cool" is a good motto and habit in this hobby. Those logging shacks are coming along nicely. Is there a plan to move them by rail? I always find that fascinating, but haven't got around to building any - yet.
dti406Mike, nice looking stuff, but I don't see the need of a depressed center flat for a gear like that, would fit nicely on a regular heavy duty flat. Ed, nice work on your depressed center flat, I have one of those to build also, and I think Mikes is the old Eastern Car Works flat
Rick, Nice rendition of the ECW model, which mine is, answering Ed's inquiry. Yeah, that car is a bit of overkill as far as weight alone goes, but you gotta remember this is the narrowgauge and the car utilization choices are limited. The croassbar arrangement on one end deck is a mod for a boom rest used in this car's assigned service hauling equipment in from the logging camps, mines, and oil fields for repair. The super hates to put heavy stuff on those old 6000 series wood flats and demand for the newer steel cars means one wasn't on hand. This ca happened to be headed in the general direction of where the big gear is going for it's next pick-up, so it gets the deluxe ride. At least that's my story....
Thanks to GARRY and everyone for the kind comments
Casey ... Your LV loco looks great. Looking forward to seeing the one now being built.
Bear ... Thanks for the remarks on my photos. I have asked in WPF what happpened to DJ (Grampy) but nobody anserred. Hope he is okay. ... The cabins look good. ... LOL at Austinville Examiner article.
Ed.... Thanks for commenting on my County Park scene. ... You have much to show. I like the IC reefer, the well car, and the PRR brass passenger cars.
Mike L ... You also have much to show. The smoke stack looks good along with your layout scenery and structures. Interesting eclipse photography. Thanks for commenting on my photos.
Rick ..... I like your EL caboose and the PRR express reefer. Thanks for the nice remark about my photos. ....
Here is the CNW Baldwin Rick mentioned.
Good morning all from partly cloudy and mild Northeast Ohio!
Jimmy, coming along nicely, like the Milwaukee the C&NW purchased from Baldwin a DR 6-4-1000 with only one engine and a baggage compartment, and I assume they hauled a few passenger cars with it, although not many with only a 1,000 hp versus the 2,000 hp in a normal passenger unit.
Mike, nice looking stuff, but I don't see the need of a depressed center flat for a gear like that, would fit nicely on a regular heavy duty flat.
Ed, nice work on your depressed center flat, I have one of those to build also, and I think Mikes is the old Eastern Car Works flat like this one:
Garry, I really like the way you set your scenes with a lot of detail and things a lot of people miss when they do the same type of scene.
Bear, your shacks are coming along nicely, need to finish my car ferry for me!
Casey, your skill with those steam engine kitbashes for the CNJ and Reading are great, did not even know some of those engines existed.
Here are my humble offerings for this week!
I needed an EL Caboose to go with my SDP45 and SD45-2, so I did a standin using an Athearn SP style Bay Window caboose, filled all the holes in the roof for the SP stuff and then painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Black Paints then decaled using Herald King Decals.
Walthers R50b PRR Express Refrigerator, the PRR rostered 550 of these cars for use in head end passenger service delivering perishables and with the ice holding areas collapsed things like magazines and newspapers. Cars were built in 1929 and carried a number of paint schemes in their lives, this is the end scheme painted with Scalecoat II PRR Red and Loco Black Paints, then lettered with Champ Decals. Major project that required drilling many #79 holes for the various grabs that need to be applied to the car, also replaced the cast on sill steps with those from A-Line.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Lehigh Valley M-36 with some tank cars...
And a total scratch build is starting to shape up to something
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Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Another Weekend Already!
They say the older you get the faster... well— you know the rest.
Thanks for starting us off, Jimmy. That's quite a machine you have going there. It's all about the FUN!
I don't recall ever seeing that particular Milwaukee Road beast, Garry! Looks like the fellows by the standpipe are trying to figure which hole on top gets the water!
Your "people" scenes are fantastic, Garry! They have, well, a nice human interest to them The Good Humor truck is especially
I'd say you have a Sun-Shy-Shay there, Mike!
I like that gear load on the flat car, too, and all the other neat stuff. I have a bunch of smoke stacks on my layout, too. The EPA hasn't been launched yet in my era! May I ask the origin of your nice looking depressed-center flat car? I have a "thing" for flat cars, too—as you will see below.
I have been finishing up some little projects and getting ready for the winter season's BIG projects.
Here's a few examples...
IMG_9796_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
A Funaro & Camerlengo PRR F33 well-hole flat with a {temporary} Chooch gear load. This is actually my first finished resin freight car.
Then I dug out an Intermountain reefer kit that has been on my shelf at least a dozen years. These kits go together bbeautifully.
IMG_9780_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
I finished up some paint and lettering on these Custom Brass MPB70 and P70 cars that were also collecting dust on the shelf. I bought these years before Broadway made the plastic P70s available.
IMG_9785_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
And the coach...
IMG_9783_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Coupled to a diminutive H10s 2-8-0 they make a sweet little train...
IMG_9789_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more GREAT STUFF!
Regards, Ed
Jimmy, At least the stockholder's should appreciate the efforts of management to keep expenses under control with such an economical piec of rolling stock.
GARRY, Great pics of the layout!
Finally did some indoor modeling this week. An operating pal gifted me with one-half of a pair of Magnuson smoke stacks, which I painted and weathared after epoxying a mounting dowel in the bottom.
It adds to the gravitas of the mill.
Recycled a worn drone part into a nice-sized industrial gear.
Then there was the eclipse...
The pic is from 1:20pm CDT with 93% of the sun obscured, as is the pic of my Shay below.
I took the same pic and it went from a 1/1000 to a 1/80 exposure in the 45 minutes leading up to 1:20pm.
Jimmy ... Looks like a fun freelance project. I recall Milwaukee Road had something somewhat similar which they used from branch line service. I think the railroad's shops built it. .... Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun .
Edit .... I found an image of what I was thinking about. Looks like it had a baggage compartment, but not any seating for passengers.
Below are some photos of County Park located across the road from Prairie View station.
It's that time again....weekend photo Fun. For those first time posters, this is a weekly thread that lets us show off what we have been working on during the week/end. This goes to any scale modeling, even 1:1 in some cases.
Well here's what I have been working on... I'm still working on a class for it, but the nickname is "Poor Man's Business train"
It still needs a motor, an interior and the "guts", but the outside looks well.
Let's see what everyone else has been working at.
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These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).