Sunday, uh Weekend Photo Fun

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by steveblackledge

KARL, you may think a British Rail IC125 was a strange site on a US Railroad, how about this, London Midland and Scotish pacific 6233 is helping a failed Wisconsin Central SD45 out of a fix

That is awesome, I love mixing locomotives of different regions on trains!

[ukguy]

Thanks guys, coming from three masters of the art such as yourselves means alot, you all give me something to aspire to.

Tom , thanks for trying, I appreciate it.

Chip , beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I'm sure after 8 weeks they were a wonderful sight. Congratulations. (I need to get me one of those things when I start the next layout and finish playing with this one.)

Randy , they look great, I like the subtle differences on each one, the same but different.

Steve B , gotta love them big ole British steamers, fantastic pic, thanks for putting my mind at rest that I'm not the only one who not only mixes era's but CONTINENTS too !!! (occassionaly) [:D]

Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

[grandeman]

Karl, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but have to agree with the above two posts. AWESOME work! That's some super detail.

[twhite]

Karl--let me echo Aggro on your work--it's really superb. As to the trees, unfortunately my Photo Shop seems to freeze pictures at a certain size, and the only way I can get them to enlarge is to go back into my documents, but I can't get the document pictures to transfer onto a post. I'll try and take some close-up photos this week and send them along in a post.
But your Gator Creek area is just STUNNING! Really STUNNING![bow][bow][bow]
Tom

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy
It's been a busy two days, and one night here, but I'm pleased with the progress I've made. The scene isn't finished yet, still a few more things to add, such as some weeds around the dock piles and mailbox, a few more details on the pier, and of course some signage are the main things.

But, heres how it started for me late Thursday afternoon.......



By early evening 3 hours later I had built the new trestle and put a dirt road in


From there it was just details and figuring out the tale to tell.....
Overview of Gator Creek Bait Shop and Fishing Pier.

The Short family are on a day trip to Gator Creek for some fishing and family time.Dad leaves Mom and the kids watching the swans while he goes into the bait shop to hire a boat.

At the front of the shop, worker Dave is replacing a couple of boards on an old row boat. Dave has to stop and look up at the bosses son who's complaining Daves taking too long and Dave needs to clear up the trash from the walkway. Daves mumbles something about not nailing the other board on and hoping young Mr West is the next one to use the boat.

Around the back of the store Joe gets himself and Anne a soda while Anne chats casually with Old Mr West while she waits. The trash cans around the back are full too, Dave better get moving!

While Dad heads off into the store a 2-8-0 passes disturbing the ducks on its way to the Pine Ridge yard.

5 minutes later and theres another rumble, this time as the 3:15 crosses the tressle overhead pulling in to Pineridge Central right on time(almost)


More views and bigger pics on the last two pages of my Railimages account below.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

[SpaceMouse]

We'll it may not be as pretty as some of the pictures on here, but having ordered it 8 weeks ago, it sure looks pretty to me. Now I just have 8 decoders to install. I had one already in my daughters and I put a SoundTrax in my son's Spectrum 2-8-0 before I even hooked it up.

[rrinker]

OK here's one from me:



A group of cabeese await service in PinkTown. All 3 are P2K from the first run, and they recently had their handrails painted.

--Randy

[ukguy]

Thanks Chip, its good to be back, appreciate the welcome.

The tressle only took 10% of the time the second go around (3 hrs instead of 30) due to I had the measurements, jig and so on to hand, I also did it out of 2 sheets of balsa (1/4"x2x24" and a 1/16"x2"x24")this time instead of a 2x6. Much easier to cut the scale lumber out of, used an exacto instead of a band saw !!

Looks like your getting experience on all sorts of things at that club, thats great, I'm really pleased, wi***here was a good one close by here.

Take care & be safe
Karl.

[SpaceMouse]

Karl,

Welcome back! I could imagine you not rebuilding the tressel. Excellent work.

[steveblackledge]

KARL, you may think a British Rail IC125 was a strange site on a US Railroad, how about this, London Midland and Scotish pacific 6233 is helping a failed Wisconsin Central SD45 out of a fix

[fiatfan]

A little bit different take on SPF or WPF:

I've seen many comments about how there should be a few wide shots to see the overall layout so I thought I would post pictures of all four walls of my train room. The photo of the south wall is stitched together from two phots because I couldn't back up far enough. [:I]

North:


East


South


West


Tom

[UP Deano]

aggro, NICE trainmaster!(cant let a pic. of an FM go by without commenting). this is the first chance i"ve had to get on the forums this weekend as my PC died thursday night[V], so i"m useing my sons pc to get my forum fix[:D]. AWSOME pics. and work done by all!! keep em coming!

[Darth Santa Fe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oleirish

What a buitetiful(sorry about the spelling)Engine,you realy run that??Somday I will have one,NICE
JIM

Don't worry, I can hardly spell it too. Yes, I really run it. Believe it or not, it makes it around 18" curves without a problem. If you do get one someday, just remember to take your time, don't rush and make sure you're doing it right. But it is ok to make a personal modification once in a while, like I did on the valve gear.[:)]

[oleirish]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe

My Bowser Challenger with the boiler on the mechanism

The Challenger's Tender

One of the Challenger's modified valve gears

What a buitetiful(sorry about the spelling)Engine,you realy run that??Somday I will have one,NICE
JIM

[oleirish]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Train 284

Hey everyone, great pictures! Here some pics of my Shasta Central Railroad. These were taken at about 8:30 this morning and it was already getting close to 100 degrees in my garage. It has been about 100-113 here this past week.



The Central Valley Express stopped by a lazy cow. Luckily, the train was 2 minutes ahead of schedule so the passengers were not late to there destinations.



The new locomotive display at the Juniata depot. It is UP #3179, an 0-4-0



Here is the Athrean Southern Pacific SW1500 #2638 I bought last weekend at Railroad Days 2005 in Dunsmuir, CA. The best $26 I ever spent! It runs great and has a lot of power. As you can see, many of the detail parts have not been added and it does need to be weathered.



#2638 shunting cars at the Stevenson Coal Mine.

Great engine,I wish I had known about the train show in Dunsmuir,I would have jumped down there,It is not that far from here in Central Point,Ore.In the middle of this picture you will my two Athrean switchers an SW-7 cow(gray} and an SW-1500 in kodacrome.I have three more now All S.P. an emd/nw-2's(KATO)I love them.
JIM

[Anonymous]

Some scenery work this A.M.
Can be a tuff neighborhood !!!!!

[ukguy]

Tom would it be possible for you to upload a larger image of those excellent trees, I think I've got the plant to try and make some but your pic, and the one on the web site are a bit small for me to see the exact detail, would be great if you could, thanks.

Cheese that looks as though its coming on great, looking forward to the next instalment

Matt : that wagon looks great, just seeing the name 'airfix' takes me back to 7yrs old building model planes on the kitchen table. [:)] happy days

Art : looking good, trees make all the difference, but you'd be surprised how many you need, I already doubled my estimate and I'm only a third planted.


It's been a busy two days, and one night here, but I'm pleased with the progress I've made. The scene isn't finished yet, still a few more things to add, such as some weeds around the dock piles and mailbox, a few more details on the pier, and of course some signage are the main things.

But, heres how it started for me late Thursday afternoon.......



By early evening 3 hours later I had built the new trestle and put a dirt road in


From there it was just details and figuring out the tale to tell.....
Overview of Gator Creek Bait Shop and Fishing Pier.

The Short family are on a day trip to Gator Creek for some fishing and family time.Dad leaves Mom and the kids watching the swans while he goes into the bait shop to hire a boat.

At the front of the shop, worker Dave is replacing a couple of boards on an old row boat. Dave has to stop and look up at the bosses son who's complaining Daves taking too long and Dave needs to clear up the trash from the walkway. Daves mumbles something about not nailing the other board on and hoping young Mr West is the next one to use the boat.

Around the back of the store Joe gets himself and Anne a soda while Anne chats casually with Old Mr West while she waits. The trash cans around the back are full too, Dave better get moving!

While Dad heads off into the store a 2-8-0 passes disturbing the ducks on its way to the Pine Ridge yard.

5 minutes later and theres another rumble, this time as the 3:15 crosses the tressle overhead pulling in to Pineridge Central right on time(almost)


More views and bigger pics on the last two pages of my Railimages account below.


Have fun & be safe
Karl.

[Supermicha]

Hi Guys,

i built a service crane for my railroad shop. The truck was a three axle Mack tractor, i added a fourth axle and a Bilstein crane assembly from Kibri:

[twhite]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite
Grande man: the trees are made by M-Tec here in Sacramento. I get them through Bruce's Trains in Sacto, or Railroad Hobbies in Roseville. You could probably order them directly from their website: www.mtec1.com The Aspen/poplar are lot #MT-14 and retail at $6.95 for either two or three of them in a pack, depending on the size. I should own stock in the company, for all the ones I have dotting my streambeds, LOL! But they're cool trees, aren't they? Natural, too. I have no idea what they're made out of, but those leaves look REAL!
Tom[:p][:p]

I've got those flowers growing in the empty field across the steet from my house!
(i think it is called "candy turf")
I've made trees from them before, but not as good as those store bought ones.
But that was a few years ago. NOW I can probably match them if I TRY. [(-D]

[bow][bow][bow] back at'cha, Aggro. After your evergreens, you could probably do Aspen to have us going into Terminal Drool, LOL!
Tom[:p]

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite
Grande man: the trees are made by M-Tec here in Sacramento. I get them through Bruce's Trains in Sacto, or Railroad Hobbies in Roseville. You could probably order them directly from their website: www.mtec1.com The Aspen/poplar are lot #MT-14 and retail at $6.95 for either two or three of them in a pack, depending on the size. I should own stock in the company, for all the ones I have dotting my streambeds, LOL! But they're cool trees, aren't they? Natural, too. I have no idea what they're made out of, but those leaves look REAL!
Tom[:p][:p]

I've got those flowers growing in the empty field across the steet from my house!
(i think it is called "candy turf")
I've made trees from them before, but not as good as those store bought ones.
But that was a few years ago. NOW I can probably match them if I TRY. [(-D]

[dragenrider]

Well, all of my weekend projects have been on rolling stock. I've decaled a crane and kitbashed a crane tender.



I've also put the Cedar Branch & Western decals on the GP 20 I've been laboring over. While digging in my box of decals for the crane tender, I found some left over MR Turtle Creek Central stuff. So, I decorated a hopper, too!



Maybe next weekend the engine will be complete and I can watch it go 'round and 'round.

Great pictures, everyone. This repeating topic is a great reason to visit here at least once a week. [tup]

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

Originally posted by grande man

Originally posted by twhite






Grande man: the trees are made by M-Tec here in Sacramento. I get them through Bruce's Trains in Sacto, or Railroad Hobbies in Roseville. You could probably order them directly from their website: www.mtec1.com The Aspen/poplar are lot #MT-14 and retail at $6.95 for either two or three of them in a pack, depending on the size. I should own stock in the company, for all the ones I have dotting my streambeds, LOL! But they're cool trees, aren't they? Natural, too. I have no idea what they're made out of, but those leaves look REAL!
Tom[:p][:p]

Thanks Tom. I've got their site bookmarked. Wow, they aren't cheap. [V] They do look great though.

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