Sharing Pics

[Tom The Brat]

QUOTE: some day I'll get all the Honey Do's I have finished

Alas. It will never happen.

Once married, twice careful[}:)]

[Anonymous]

Majnnj, the pics look great! Any problems with the stones pushing the fence out?

Rastun, Your pics need some trains in them, and Torby's right the honey do is never done!

Vic, Could it be those cool scratch/bashes get in the way of the rest of the layout?[;)]

[Rastun]

Matt, Well I could put some trains in them but all I have is 5 cars and only one of those has trucks under it atm so it's hard to take pictures of trains.

But....



there is those so at least there is some train part

Jack

[Anonymous]

These pics were taken about a month ago, We rent so I'm stuck with a VERY small garden. [V]

A very short freight rolls into town


Leaving town via the "big" covered bridge

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ElMik

These pics were taken about a month ago, We rent so I'm stuck with a VERY small garden. [V]

There is nothing wrong with small! I have learned much from the small layout crowd!

Check out VSmith's "Saga of my every shrinking RR". It's a very worth while read!

Not to mention your small layout is better then my NO layout[;)][:D]

[pbjwilson]

I'm a 3 rail O guy ,but come summer I have to have some trains to run outside. My son and I built most of this today. Great weather in the Chicago area today.

[pbjwilson]

Hello All,
Got the trains up and running. This is my engine "Otto" pulling a short freight.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pbjwilson

Hello All,
Got the trains up and running. This is my engine "Otto" pulling a short freight.

Is that LGB track? If so it is well weathered, does aristocraft track eventually get that effect.

I like the action shot at the bottom!!!!

Capt Carrales

[pbjwilson]

CAPT.,
I bought most of my track, LGB, used and was pretty well weathered then - that was 6-7 years ago. It's been outside since then so it's seen alot of weather.

[mgilger]

Boy is this fun.

As soon as the weather broke, I started construction on my first Garden Railroad. After 18 days of construction, over about 5 weeks, I have trains running. I'm probably about 1/2 completed with the plans for the first year. No buildings yet. Landscaping is taking up a lot of time. See the before and after pictures at the following link.

http://community.webshots.com/user/mvgilger

Regards,
Mark
[:p]

[Anonymous]

Mark, You've been BUSY! Looks great! I'm amazed at the amount of track and the construction of hills mountains.

How many feet of track are down?

How many sick days at work did you use?[:p][:D]

[mgilger]

About 560 feet of track down so far. It occupies a space of abount 100 x 60 foot area. I'll probably put down another 100-150 feet before too much longer although I'm getting short on my road bed ( #8 Limestone) and my balast ( Limestone paver).

My wife has constructed the tunnels and made several of the mountains and of course planted all the plants. [8)]

http://community.webshots.com/user/mvgilger

Having fun in Ohio....

Regards,
Mark

[ghelman]

Mark,

Nice job. Keep the pics coming. Looks like you have a lot of room to roam around the rails.

[Anonymous]

Nice one Mark, nice to see the pics in slideshow where they flow together well.Keep up the work and don't be afraid to make the wife work harder[;)]Keep the pics coming. Like the colour scheme on the diesel.
Cheers,
kim
[tup]

[powlee]

Mark
Nice pics. We always remember the early days of construction. Not enough hours in the day. Eager to get the trains running.

Capt
I have some Aristo track and I notice it is still very bright but the LGB track seems to weather very quickly.

Kim
[wow][:D][^]What about that match last night? Baseball, American footy.[zzz] You can keep it.

All the best

Ian P

[Anonymous]

Slightly off topic guys...sorry.
Yes Ian, superb and what a shoot out! I only wi***he right team won in our final.****nal robbers![censored]
Anyway, back on topic now...........
Cheers,
kim
[tup]

I love it, the software has deleted the first part of the gunners name because it thinks it's rude[(-D]

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by carpenter matt


Vic, Could it be those cool scratch/bashes get in the way of the rest of the layout?[;)]

Yep, but thats the rub! I enjoy the modeling part of it far more than the layout part of the hobby. The layout is what killed all my previous attempts in the hobby, namely getting frustrated with the scenery process. thats why I'm taking my bloddy sweet time with this one, so I dont burn out, and doing all the scratch stuff keeps my fire lit! Its also why I so dang many locomotives for such a tiny tiny layout, I dig modeling loco's.

PS theres a very good chance I might have to dismantle the Borracho Springs RR, again.....this time for a new garage/studio we've been talking about for years. The bad news is that my layout will be mothballed (or temp set up on the patio) but the good news is that when finished it will be housed in a drywall clad, air conditioned new home !!!!

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,
It's cattle drive time again on the Colorado and Southern with a bit of a mixed consist and a few mixed roads. There's a picture, that I hope comes out alright, of the new range of Bachmann self weathering range, the hand rail on the tank is going nicely rusty.






Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mgilger

About 560 feet of track down so far. It occupies a space of abount 100 x 60 foot area. I'll probably put down another 100-150 feet before too much longer although I'm getting short on my road bed ( #8 Limestone) and my balast ( Limestone paver).

My wife has constructed the tunnels and made several of the mountains and of course planted all the plants. [8)]

Having fun in Ohio....

Regards,
Mark

Ohio? Where[:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

QUOTE: Originally posted by carpenter matt


Vic, Could it be those cool scratch/bashes get in the way of the rest of the layout?[;)]

Yep, but thats the rub! I enjoy the modeling part of it far more than the layout part of the hobby. The layout is what killed all my previous attempts in the hobby, namely getting frustrated with the scenery process. thats why I'm taking my bloddy sweet time with this one, so I dont burn out, and doing all the scratch stuff keeps my fire lit! Its also why I so dang many locomotives for such a tiny tiny layout, I dig modeling loco's.

PS theres a very good chance I might have to dismantle the Borracho Springs RR, again.....this time for a new garage/studio we've been talking about for years. The bad news is that my layout will be mothballed (or temp set up on the patio) but the good news is that when finished it will be housed in a drywall clad, air conditioned new home !!!!

Vic, Besure to post some pics of the RR's new home during constuction and moving in the Saga Thread!

[mgilger]

Carpenter

I'm up near Akron outside of Doylestown.

Regards,
Mark

[mgilger]

[:p] The weather today was great.

I got a chance to do some operating and took some new pictures of my new Rio Grande SD-30 and SD-38 in operation.

http://community.webshots.com/user/mvgilger

Regards,
Mark

[pbjwilson]

The sprig of grass in the foreground is called fiber optic grass. Gets to about 6" tall, grows in tufts like the one here. Great stuff - seems very hardy - takes stepping on.



Ahh, the morning sun.



The control panel

[Chompers]

Kim,
what type of engine is that???

I Like it!!!

[Anonymous]

Hi Chompers,



It's an Aristo/Delton C16 in Colorado Southern guise and scaled to 1:24. It's a very reasonabley priced engine and comes with a bright led lamp, running lights and a flickering fire box. It runs very well but rocks side to side a bit and is responsive to the train engineer control unit. There is a jumper wire between loco and tender with all wheel pick up but it still stalls a bit on my switch if the track is a bit dirty. The knuckle coupler is the old Delton type that mates very easily with Bachmann/USA. I have also fitted an old sound unit that I have had for years, can't afford these modern ones!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[pbjwilson]

One happy little boy -

[pbjwilson]

[pbjwilson]

worms eye view

[pbjwilson]

Nice afternoon light

[markperr]

First, a ground level of phase two coming together



Second is an overhead from my roof top of the beginnings of phase two of my front yard layout.



Third is a before of the kitchen.



Fourth, an after.



Fifth, the location of my next venture in my backyard.



I also have an overhead in my mudroom as well.

Mark