I went to trainfest in milwaukee on saturday and bout a Blue line Class A
I also bought a Genisis WM F7a but no pics yet.
Here is the latest progress photo of Larry's trestle.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Matt, what do you think of the Class A? I am guessing the one next to it is a PK Y6-b, what do you think of it? I have a PCM Y6b and it pulls like a bear.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Sue, you and Larry are producing a very interesting and fine layout.
I like the looks of the trestle. I'll bet it has been a challenge for Larry, but I assure him it looks really good. Does he do contracts?
-Crandell
I spent today at a train show in Batavia, NY. The Lakeshores Division, NMRA had a Modeler's Corner at the show. Several of us just sat and worked on various projects for the day. Harold Russell (MMR #14) was there working on a hand laid Turnout in O scale. The Master's Hands at work:Rich W. was doing some decal work on some cars:Former Division Superintendent Mike R. does some painting:and yours truly assembles a bunch of Walther's Track Bumpers. Here I am posing for the camera.I assembled these:
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thanks, Crandell. It has been a long haul. He started it last Christmas. I am crossing my fingers for this Christmas.
The next stage is the ground goop. The girder and bridge deck is just sitting in place.
I got pretty busy on the layout again this week. Started hacking up a couple more hopper rebuilds, fixed a couple of pesky electrical problems around the staging yard, and got a nice job installing a bunch of decoders for a guy out in Minnesota.I also got a couple of back to back nights of running some trains in... Friday night one of my regular crew, Brian stopped by to goof around for awhile, and Saturday night, I got a visit from a couple of guys I hadn't seen in decades...What a great treat! Two of my old mentors from the BSME stopped by to see my layout. I hadn't seen these guys in probably 25 years. At right is Charlie Hill, who introduced me to prototypical operations on his layout, the Hillside Central, back in the early 80's. In the middle is Greg Shindledecker and his wife Angel. Greg used to have a pretty well developed free-lance road, the Maryland and Delta. He's now working on an HO WM layout. At left is Charlie's friend Jeff, who I met for the first time, but was just as fun as the rest of them. Greg and I reconnected after stumbling across each other's work over on the MR Forum. They were nearby visiting a layout about 45 minutes from my house, and decided to drop by. We went out for some tasty Mexican, then spent an hour or so running some WM fast freights.I also dragged the K-2 project back out. After getting some photos of the prototype at Hagerstown, I realized my oil bunker wasn't quite right. ... now the front of the bunker looks closer to the prototype. I added the gigantic valve wheel (a brake wheel) to add a little something... The feed pipe is about where it's supposed to be though. Overall I shortened the bunker to get it out from under the cab roof, and changed the plastic walkway for an etched brass one. Much better!Still need to tidy up a couple of seams... but overall it looks much better.Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
The weekend's about over, and I haven't yet taken any pictures! But I sure have enjoyed seeing the ones on this thread...
Same here! I get a warm and fuzzy from posts like Sue's and Lee's, and several others earlier, showing that folks have gotten bitten again and are turning their creative juices up. It is that time of year, after all, and I get the sense some folks are getting interested in modelling. Nice to see the progress.
A good weekend, absolutely. Thanks, everyone.
Milepost 266.2 AlantrainsOn firefox, the images come in large format while they load. Then they reduce to the smaller size with the caption to click on for the larger image. This opens in a new tag. I'm probably the only one here who wants this, but I would like to turn off the shrinking completely. Since they're already loaded full size, it's a waste of time to have to open and close new tabs all the time. Having them load like this and then shrink is really accomplishing nothing for the crowd with older computers/slower connctions though. In fact, it might be hampering their performance more than just loading up the pics as they are.
AlantrainsOn firefox, the images come in large format while they load. Then they reduce to the smaller size with the caption to click on for the larger image. This opens in a new tag.
I'm probably the only one here who wants this, but I would like to turn off the shrinking completely. Since they're already loaded full size, it's a waste of time to have to open and close new tabs all the time.
Having them load like this and then shrink is really accomplishing nothing for the crowd with older computers/slower connctions though. In fact, it might be hampering their performance more than just loading up the pics as they are.
The problem with full-size images is that they make the page too wide to display on the monitor forcing the use of the horizontal scroll bar. That is what I was "complaining" about in my earlier posts.
As for "wasting time to open and close new tabs," one would have the option to open each tab, not the obligation to do so. Therefore, the time "wasted" would be optional. Besides, it takes but a second (or less) for the enlarged image to appear.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Two weeks after the local MRR clubs open house, I got an e-mail with some pictures, had one of one of the trains I ran.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
They are a few BN modelers in the south i buy a lot of Burlington Northern stock and their is a modeler in Shelby that is only BN and nothing else.
Russell
Jeff,
My buddy and I tooka dummy chasis with power trucks and turned her into a running Athearn train