General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Did up a GP40 in the Pan Am Ph II Paint for a friend. Has working ditch lights to boot!

some excellent work bye all ,makes my weekend coffee & picts morning.......standout work on yore module (TOMKAT 13) great examples of the use of your signs you posted early-er in week...........very nice textile mill (CWCLARK) I wouldn't no where to start,you had to see one up close and personnel to model it eh! it well be a great interior to one of those buildings with to much glass ....great work all J.W.

berlingo:

Hi everyone, Thank you Tyler, I set up my lighting with warmwhite 11w and playing around with white balance on its camera. So i miss your pictures this weekend.

I'll have to try playing with lighting someday. I'm still impressed at how close you got to the model and still kept it in focus - my camera can't even focus that close on manual!

Also, I did post a photo early on the first page.

Excellent work everyone! It's all so great, I can't even comment on just one!

Not much new from me. Just this shot of 2201 and a newly weathered boxcar. I'm not happy with how the weathering came out (way too heavy for what I had in mind), so I'm gonna redo it:

Had to post this: 

Went to the Roseville train show today and found this baby in a brass collection of over 200 SP/WP/ATSF locomotives that a woman was selling of her late husband's brass collection.  The prices were marvelously low, the booth was PACKED with model railroaders from teenagers to guys my age looking over the collection.  I picked this one up, a Westside F-5 SP 2-10-2 with a 'switched' tender (SP was famous for doing this).  It needs a front coupler, the gearbox cleaned out and possibly either a new motor or the old one cleaned up a little, but it's such a honey, that I couldn't pass it up for the price.  Even if I have to shell out $25 for a new NWSL can motor for this baby, I still have one of the best brass bargains I've had in years. 

Anyway, here's a couple of photos of it.  ALL of the collection was custom-painted, and according to the woman, all of it ran on his rather large model railroad. 

I'm going back tomorrow, wallet in hand. 

If brass is just for 'collectors', someone might want to tell the 60 or so guys at the booth who were looking at the collection and asking each other "I wonder how this runs?" instead of asking, "Do I want this for my display case?"

Tom

Congratulations, Tom.  SP 2-10-2 locos are great prototypes, and with a whaleback tender, is irresistible.

Mark

Guilford Guy:

Did up a GP40 in the Pan Am Ph II Paint for a friend. Has working ditch lights to boot!

 

I don't think I will get used to PanAm being a railroad replacing Guilford / Maine Central /  Boston & Maine. At least their colors are more pleasing than Guilford Gray.

I've been working on the scenery all week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjW2LCNhU9w
I'll be working on these tufts of grass.



Yard shots:

Here's one more from me.
This started out as an accident, but it looked cool so I did a reshoot and came out with this. It looks like a long exposure shot, even though it is not. It's a 1/2 second exposure, but the train is running at full throttle, giving the blur effect:

HP Photosmart 720, f/2.6, 1/2 second, ISO 100. Light was natural, from the large glass door behind me.

cwclark:

Another weekend of great photos. Here's my entry. This is a textile mill specalizing in fire retardant material that will eventually be surrounded by a walthers building. It is all scratch build with balsa wood, styrene, sewing thread, beads, and ribbon for the fabric. There are also a few  parts added to it from my parts junk box to give it more detail. The cotton goes into a gin, which makes the thread. The thread is sent to a weaving loom and then the material is dipped into fire retardant and eventually rolled into bolts for shipping.....chuck 

Wonderful detail.  Very imaginative.

The legs are just clamped on for now, but heres the mockup of my Iron City Brewery on the almost completed benchwork for Phase I of my layout.

Clearly I like buildings that look like they need rail service.

NittanyLion:

The legs are just clamped on for now, but heres the mockup of my Iron City Brewery on the almost completed benchwork for Phase I of my layout.

 

Clearly I like buildings that look like they need rail service.

Looks great! Those buildings look good enough to just keep the mockup.

 A couple pictures from today...

SYRX Tank Car with light weathering.

Scratchbuilt Freight House. It's in need of a foundation and paint. The pieces of styrene in the corners are only for mocking it's height. The dock only has the braces installed in the portions not hidden by brush!

New Grade Crossing

New Power

Over on The Railwire, one of the guys posted this picture:

Well, we got to kicking the ball around a little, and next thing you know, there's 6 or 8 of us building one, including Z and HO, and several in N.  There's probably going to be an O scale entry at some point as well.  Just another example of Better Modeling thru Peer Pressure, to borrow a phrase from Midwest Modutrak.  Here's my N scale entry.

All in all I've got about 3 hours in it.  And believe it or not, not one beer lost its life in the production of this model. 

On behalf of the band, I hope we passed the audition...

Lee