General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Tom, your image is breathtaking.  Awesome!!!!!!!!!      Waaay up!

This site is just not acting right when it comes to pictures. Main thing I have done so far this weekend is clean up the train room / garage! It was well over do. Threw out tow large trash bags of old used cork, foam scrap and beer cans. I found a bunch of stuff I forgot I had, like 40 trees, 4 turnouts and 2% foam risers. After using the shop vacuum and then ran a old house vacuum to get ride of the pink foam snow, after math of working on the new section.

 All found some new music to play while I run the trains. With running mainly steam, blue grass seems to fit well, will all so look for some big band later.

 I have added some Super Tress to K-10 Mining section. This picture shows a Monon Heavy Mike dragging a freight train North while a NYC is sitting, waiting to drag some empty to the mine through the Wye. Did I spell that right?

           Cuda Ken

 Been working on new room for future layout, got to put up ceiling, then get started on benchwork. Seems to be taking forever and I'm missing running trains, but with increase size it ought to be worth the effort.

Dug up one old pic to remind myself to keep pushing forward. Great work everybody!  Really look forward to the weekends and to see what everybody has done.

I, too, am posting old photos to check how they show up in the WPF. 

The first photo is from my old layout and is hosted on trainboard.com.

The second photo is my first weathered car and is hosted on photobucket.

MisterBeasley:

I'm having no speed problems at all with the whole new forum thing.  I look in on a number of forums every day, hosted by different groups with different software.  To be honest, I'm happy if they work.  I'm not too concerned about the differences from one to the other.  As I recall, we got about the same reaction here the last time there was a forum software change, and I'm sure it will happen next time, too.

But, and it's an even bigger but than my own, what is going on with the picture sizes?  It's not just "some are larger, some are smaller."  I was looking in here an hour or two ago, and Jarrel's steam shovel picture was small, while Tom's SP shot was huge.  Now I'm back after eating a small HO-scale Dove Bar ice cream, and Jarrel's picture has grown, while Tom's has shrunk!  This is just too weird, so I think I'll go run some trains or something.

I tried that. But some of my N Scale trains have grown to HO and some of the HO has shrunk to N. The real butch is that it's only the engines. Now the only way I can run is with GP 40's pulling 36 ft stock cars and 2-6-0's pulling 90 ton coal hoppers.   

Some early morning sunlight on a corner of the layout  [H0scale]

and my Walthers Proto 1000  MEC RS1 [still waiting for some curved grabs] with an Atlas tanker

Good work everyone!

 Mike

Mike, that has to be one of the most realistically weathered diesels I have seen.  Very convincing.   Nice job on the grass, and the light is A-1.

Cuda Ken, I like how you are growing in the hobby.  Your layout is hugely improved.

-Crandell

Mike, that's an RS-2, not an RS-1, was that a typo? An RS-1 has the overhanging cab roof and a more squarish hood.

  Cheers, Crandell!

 Thanks for the correction, Jay. You are correct it's an RS2. I don't know why I typed that it was an RS1 - I don't even have any of those   Just the old brain playing up.

Mike

GTX765: Impressive collection, nice picks. If that is a UP 4-12-2 9000 class in back you have my extremely envious.

 The big hook is on the move!

It has been at least 6 months since I worked on my layout - don't ask.  Of course that meant some serious cleanup efforts before I could even determine where I had left off.

This is where I left off.  I just recently added the lettering. Wish now (and maybe still will) that I had used a lighter shade of letters.

Tom,

Back! It's good to see you posting again....

Don Z.

TrainManTy:

 New power here on the WRS...

 

The Diesel is modern and impressive----but that TREE next to the grade crossing is magnificent!  Nearly 50 years ago, MR had an article on a club layout and used a sub-head "Why fall is the easiest season to model."  I wonder if I'd tire of it though...  I KNOW I'd soon tire of a constant winter!  Should we start a new thread on the subject?