General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Mark, on my monitor the colour of the rails in John's image is identical to the tone of the earth at the upper edge of the image above the tank car most removed from the tunnel portal.  I see a sort of hand-held fan-shaped swath above that first tanker with its top edge contiguous with the top edge of the photo itself.  The colour there and what I see of the rails on the bridge are so close as to be indistinguishable to me.

-Crandell

selector:

Mark, on my monitor the colour of the rails in John's image is identical to the tone of the earth at the upper edge of the image above the tank car most removed from the tunnel portal.  I see a sort of hand-held fan-shaped swath above that first tanker with its top edge contiguous with the top edge of the photo itself.  The colour there and what I see of the rails on the bridge are so close as to be indistinguishable to me.

-Crandell

That's a relief.  I thought maybe John used Floquil's rail brown (green).

Mark

markpierce:

Are the colors accurately reproduced in the picture?  The rails look green to me.  What brand and color is the paint?

Edit -- I'm referring to John's photo of a train crossing the steel bridge.

Mark

The rails are actually railroad tie brown. I intend to paint them a grimy black with some brown rust here and there. Now that you mention the green tinge stands out to me to, in the photos anyway.

 Worked on cleaning up some details.  Ran a few trains between hamburgers and sparklers...


Lee

I managed to just run across a "before photo of the area I showed earlier (page 2 I think).

The area used to look like this:

Same area today:

My uh contribution this week is this two stall garage I just finished for my Z scale layout.It is a rather crappy picture but I wanted everything to show in the picture  ;D

Catt, I wish I could see it better.  I'm afraid your image doesn't do it justice, but I can see that it turned out very well...net, backboard, and all.  Well done!

-Crandell

Flashwave:

Love the ps everyone. Especially Wolfgang;s simply because it;s a great MRR pic without a train.

That said, Wolfgang, there;s something in the formattin of the blog that has mashed the first paragraph way to the left, annd it is kinda painful to read.

Thank you, I found my mistake in the html code.     

You see it with IE .

Wolfgang

What a great Holiday WPF lots of great photos

Gotta admit i was just a bit jealous of Tom's Beautiful

New York Central L-4a Mohawk

Then of Course Crandell had to go and post a great picture of his H-8

Ok Enough is Enough

I'll see your H-8 and Raise you A Berkshire and a F-19 Pacific !

Either of you wanna go all in ?       

Catt:

My uh contribution this week is this two stall garage I just finished for my Z scale layout.It is a rather crappy picture but I wanted everything to show in the picture  ;D

C&O Fan:

Ok Enough is Enough

I'll see your H-8 and Raise you A Berkshire and a F-19 Pacific !

Either of you wanna go all in ?

Purdy picture, but all I can see ya right now is half a heavy Mountain, Th other half is still at Bachmann.