twhite wrote: Don--I like!! Are those trees commercial or scratch? I also notice a portion of your layout on the right. How about some general photos of what you're doing as far as the general layout itself? Setting, time period, all that good stuff. You've got me pretty fascinated, and I don't think I'm the ONLY one on this forum , considering what you've been showing, lately. Everyone else: This is one of the best WPF's I've seen in a long time. DANG, you guys are good! Now that my 'California Basement' is finally cleaned out (AGAIN!), I'm all inspired to really get to work. It must be Spring, LOL!Tom
Don--
I like!! Are those trees commercial or scratch? I also notice a portion of your layout on the right. How about some general photos of what you're doing as far as the general layout itself? Setting, time period, all that good stuff. You've got me pretty fascinated, and I don't think I'm the ONLY one on this forum , considering what you've been showing, lately.
Everyone else: This is one of the best WPF's I've seen in a long time. DANG, you guys are good! Now that my 'California Basement' is finally cleaned out (AGAIN!), I'm all inspired to really get to work. It must be Spring, LOL!
Tom
Tom,
The trees in the photo are goldenrod trees. There is a fellow here in Texas that makes them by the thousands and travels to the train shows to sell them. They look really good and at $0.80 per tree, I figured I couldn't go wrong with them. I still plan on trying to make some AggroJones pine trees pretty soon.
Regarding the rest of my layout: at this time, it's still pretty much a pink foam prairie....so it's not very photogenic. I have freelanced (very liberally) a railroad set in the upper midwest (though my scenery probably doesn't look like anything in the midwest) where the Union Pacific and Great Northern co-exist. The timeframe is very late 1960's to 1980. I know the Great Northern was gone in 1970, but in my world, the Burlington Northern wasn't ever created, so you won't find a single piece of BN rolling stock on my layout. It's my first layout so I started building long before I understood how important it is to develop a plan for operations and a reason for the railroad to exist.
I'll look into posting a diagram of my trackplan and place an arrow on the diagram to point out the section in the above photo so you'll understand where I'm working on the layout.
Thanks again for the very kind words from you and everyone else that has commented. This has been one of the best WPF threads in a long time.
Don Z.
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jalajoie wrote: A friend of mine just built this three stalls engine house for our local club.
A friend of mine just built this three stalls engine house for our local club.
Jack,
Can you tell us how big the building is? Length, width, height? What can you tell us about the fuel storage tanks? That building is outstanding!
dusk shot of the Ozark Belt Commuter Northbound
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I finished up the weekend with another decoder installation... This time I did an Atlas N scale Shay.
I'll have to get my own Shay done now!
Lee
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Neat photo Lee! Always admired your work!
I got a new HO railfanning video up. It's of through freight 404.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmIB6JZJBc
Enjoy!
This was a fantastic WPF and its back to some great fun with no problems, hats off to all that corrected that.
No entrys from this end as I had my carple tunnel done last week and will get the other hand operated on...I hope shortley. Why is it..when ya can ya dont do it enought, when ya can't.... ya wanna do more...LOL
The work here is fantastic, keep it up...John
TrainManTy wrote: snipI got a new HO railfanning video up. It's of through freight 404.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmIB6JZJBc Enjoy!
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Nice video! Very realistic!
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OK, I'm a little late for the weekend. I started this project on Sunday, finished it Tuesday night. It's a Campbell SM Pumphouse (nothing looks like wood, like wood does):
Now I need to know where I should put it on my layout. Does a facility like this belong next to a railroad water tank? Should I put it somewhere else? What do you think?
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MisterBeasley wrote: Great work, everyone. I'm "stuck" skiing this weekend, again, but it's our last trip north of ,the season. 70 degrees, and still a ton of snow at Sunday River. Not much work on the layout, once again.I did get the power company from Moose Bay to give me a 4.5 volt source to run the Miller Engineering animated sign. Well, it's not permanent, as I'll have to replace the batteries or come up with something more like a real voltage source, but at least I could run the sign enough to take a bunch of pictures and get a couple where all the letters were on:This is DPM's "First National Bank." I've decided to rename it the Heartbreak Hotel.
Great work, everyone. I'm "stuck" skiing this weekend, again, but it's our last trip north of ,the season. 70 degrees, and still a ton of snow at Sunday River. Not much work on the layout, once again.
I did get the power company from Moose Bay to give me a 4.5 volt source to run the Miller Engineering animated sign. Well, it's not permanent, as I'll have to replace the batteries or come up with something more like a real voltage source, but at least I could run the sign enough to take a bunch of pictures and get a couple where all the letters were on:
This is DPM's "First National Bank." I've decided to rename it the Heartbreak Hotel.
Mr. B... couldn't u put 6 diodies in series and tap the voltage off before and after? That would give 4.2 V???? Just a thought....
Brian