It's Friday...The Tigers eliminate the Yankees...And it's time for WPF. Life is good!
I finally received my '37 set of Fox Valley Models B&O M-53 Wagontops in the mail yesterday:
They're not as nicely detailed as a Proto 2000 box car but they're still very good. They come with Kadee #5s and flat-back metal wheelsets. (I swapped the #5s out for #58s.) The doors are fixed and do not slide. That would have been a nice feature. My only regret is that FVM didn't offer these in kits.
Still...they will make for a nice, unique model for my rolling stock roster.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
The SP Daylight Shasta.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Go Cardinals!!!
I caught some activity at the White City Mine this week
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Some activity at Ambry station
Here's the same shot with an amateurish I-don't-really-know-how-to-use-Gimp attempt at a background
If anybody familiar with that program can tell me how to insert an image cleanly behind the trees, I'm all ears!
Jim
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
A small summer scene on my layout...
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
Scarpia, you got me! I had to look twice and then a third time!
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Scarpia ... I like that photo.
Jim ... Nice scene with bridge and depot with or without backdrop.
Simon .. Nice coal mine
Michael ... I like your SP passenger train, and I have been admiring your Inion Station in its Colorado setting.
Tom .. The B&O boxcar is very nice. Thanks for starting WPF.
Here are photos from my Union Station. I am continuing work on this scene.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Great start, you guys. Excellent photos and scenes.
GP7's take the siding at Stoney Creek. DJ.
VERY NICE start so far!
Garry, I like your Union Station as well, it looks really nice. I like the brick and the color of the buildng is perfect!
Also, I really like the subtle weathering on your Burlington Zephyr locomotive. I want to do that on some of mine, but still too scared to try it. LOL
Here is a K4s freight out of Sandusky that just finished scooping water
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Beautiful photos, guys. OK, these are from a couple of months back on my last Alclad project.
How about:
"Cool Steel on a hot day!"
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Kept myself occupied this week making a custom built drive to fit a Walthers GP9m shell. Front Range frameMashima motorProto 2000 flywheelsProto 2000 AAR trucks (Alco FA)Athearn worms and clipsAthearn shafts made from pieces for an SD9 and a PA2Digitrax DZ143 decoderI have a brand new Alaska shell coming for it
Nice pics everyone!
A Cab Forward leads a mainline freight across a tall trestle.
Have Fun.... Bob.
Many great photos of great modeling this week!
I scratched a freight shed for my N(ormal)-scale layout:
M.C. Fujiwara
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Silicon Valley Free-moN
Great scene, beautiful pictures.
What really caught my eye was the light. It looks to my eye to be close to natural. The water is excellently done and on the 2nd picture the light and shadow is great. The foreground is bright like a sunny day and the bridge casts a solid shadow but it's not straight overhead. I'd love to see more.
Great scratch built structure!
Friday night there was a guest engine at Westport Terminal RR:
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Great photos, everyone!
Michael (Motley) ... Thanks for the comments. The color on my Union Station was made in two steps. First, I sprayed it with Rust-Oleum Khaki color camouflage flat paint. Second, I brush of alcohol and india ink. (A good substitute is watered down black acrylic paint). ..... The E5 locomotive is a brass model. The A-unit has had its entire chassis replaced with an upgraded Hobbytown chassis.
Here's a favorite of mine.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I love that freight shed, and the locomotive cab detail on Wolfgang's layout. Beautiful work, and well-photographed. The DPW finally got around to paving the road in front of Zorba's Diner.
The diner is a City Classics kit. I scratch-built the interior.
Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those eyes?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Bob,
That has to be one of the best trestle bridges I have ever seen. The water fall looks very real. What a great scene that is. I had to look twice because I have a scratch built trestle very much like yours, of course not quit as good. Is that a kit or did you scratch build it? . Great job. I will post a pic of my bridge when I get it transported to my PC. Hopefully next WPF
This is something from my old layout.
Not a model but, its a wonderful time near here in the mountains!
Taken last weekend just south of Silverton Colorado, looking towards Windom Eolus and Sunlight, 14,000 foot peaks of the Needles range in the San Juan Mountains.
Erik
Great stuff again this weekend guys. Thanks to all.
Here is one from the BRVRR:
NYC E8 #4089 approaches the station in Berea for passenger pick-up.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. This is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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-E-C-Mills Not a model but, its a wonderful time near here in the mountains! Taken last weekend just south of Silverton Colorado, looking towards Windom Eolus and Sunlight, 14,000 foot peaks of the Needles range in the San Juan Mountains. Erik
Pictures like this make me either want to ride a train or model one. Very nice!
MC, that's an awesome little building.
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
Colorado_Mac MC, that's an awesome little building.
Thanks.
I really need to learn the salt / "peeled paint" technique, but this one turned out okie dokie.
I like the composition of this photo:
Thanks, C-Mac ;)