Sunday, uh Weekend Photo Fun

[steveblackledge]

KARL, you may think a British Rail IC125 was a strange site on a US Railroad, how about this, London Midland and Scotish pacific 6233 is helping a failed Wisconsin Central SD45 out of a fix

[SpaceMouse]

Karl,

Welcome back! I could imagine you not rebuilding the tressel. Excellent work.

[ukguy]

Thanks Chip, its good to be back, appreciate the welcome.

The tressle only took 10% of the time the second go around (3 hrs instead of 30) due to I had the measurements, jig and so on to hand, I also did it out of 2 sheets of balsa (1/4"x2x24" and a 1/16"x2"x24")this time instead of a 2x6. Much easier to cut the scale lumber out of, used an exacto instead of a band saw !!

Looks like your getting experience on all sorts of things at that club, thats great, I'm really pleased, wi***here was a good one close by here.

Take care & be safe
Karl.

[rrinker]

OK here's one from me:



A group of cabeese await service in PinkTown. All 3 are P2K from the first run, and they recently had their handrails painted.

--Randy

[SpaceMouse]

We'll it may not be as pretty as some of the pictures on here, but having ordered it 8 weeks ago, it sure looks pretty to me. Now I just have 8 decoders to install. I had one already in my daughters and I put a SoundTrax in my son's Spectrum 2-8-0 before I even hooked it up.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy
It's been a busy two days, and one night here, but I'm pleased with the progress I've made. The scene isn't finished yet, still a few more things to add, such as some weeds around the dock piles and mailbox, a few more details on the pier, and of course some signage are the main things.

But, heres how it started for me late Thursday afternoon.......



By early evening 3 hours later I had built the new trestle and put a dirt road in


From there it was just details and figuring out the tale to tell.....
Overview of Gator Creek Bait Shop and Fishing Pier.

The Short family are on a day trip to Gator Creek for some fishing and family time.Dad leaves Mom and the kids watching the swans while he goes into the bait shop to hire a boat.

At the front of the shop, worker Dave is replacing a couple of boards on an old row boat. Dave has to stop and look up at the bosses son who's complaining Daves taking too long and Dave needs to clear up the trash from the walkway. Daves mumbles something about not nailing the other board on and hoping young Mr West is the next one to use the boat.

Around the back of the store Joe gets himself and Anne a soda while Anne chats casually with Old Mr West while she waits. The trash cans around the back are full too, Dave better get moving!

While Dad heads off into the store a 2-8-0 passes disturbing the ducks on its way to the Pine Ridge yard.

5 minutes later and theres another rumble, this time as the 3:15 crosses the tressle overhead pulling in to Pineridge Central right on time(almost)


More views and bigger pics on the last two pages of my Railimages account below.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

[twhite]

Karl--let me echo Aggro on your work--it's really superb. As to the trees, unfortunately my Photo Shop seems to freeze pictures at a certain size, and the only way I can get them to enlarge is to go back into my documents, but I can't get the document pictures to transfer onto a post. I'll try and take some close-up photos this week and send them along in a post.
But your Gator Creek area is just STUNNING! Really STUNNING![bow][bow][bow]
Tom

[grandeman]

Karl, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but have to agree with the above two posts. AWESOME work! That's some super detail.

[ukguy]

Thanks guys, coming from three masters of the art such as yourselves means alot, you all give me something to aspire to.

Tom , thanks for trying, I appreciate it.

Chip , beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I'm sure after 8 weeks they were a wonderful sight. Congratulations. (I need to get me one of those things when I start the next layout and finish playing with this one.)

Randy , they look great, I like the subtle differences on each one, the same but different.

Steve B , gotta love them big ole British steamers, fantastic pic, thanks for putting my mind at rest that I'm not the only one who not only mixes era's but CONTINENTS too !!! (occassionaly) [:D]

Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by steveblackledge

KARL, you may think a British Rail IC125 was a strange site on a US Railroad, how about this, London Midland and Scotish pacific 6233 is helping a failed Wisconsin Central SD45 out of a fix

That is awesome, I love mixing locomotives of different regions on trains!