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Posted by ukguy on Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:33 AM
Tom !! fantabulous, your shots bring a whole new meaning to the expression "eyecandy". I wish I had as many great photo locations on my layout, gotta wait till the next one. [sigh]

Timothy : Kilz is a basic primer available at HD, Lowes or other hardware outlets, available in oil or latex and now spraycans. I usually paint all my rocks with it prior to colouraton, esp the tile ones otherwise the colour just disapears.

Paugust : excellent, unique shot, I may need to 'borrow' that idea [;)]

Have fun & be safe
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:33 AM
Here's my contribution for this week. I finally have two mainlines on my module. Now I just have to lay the rest of the track in my engine facility:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/act.jpg

And here's a shot of two WSOR trains passing on the "Plywood Central"

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/acu.jpg

Noah
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Posted by eng22 on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:14 PM
Hello all - Enjoy your weekend!





Craig - Annpere MI, a cool place if you like trains and scrapyards
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:30 PM
Elevator i built this weekend..........

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:30 PM
Ken you really should ditch those bachmann candles and get a set of P2K ones.
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Posted by cheese3 on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:38 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Midniteflyer

Elevator i built this weekend..........




Thats nice!!!! is it scratchbuilt?

Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!

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Posted by grandeman on Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:43 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ARTHILL

Gkids came over and wanted to make rocks, so a little headway on Kimm's Kanyon




Art, that's quite a crew. Nice to see you're training them well.

BTW, the scenery is looking great!
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Posted by NZRMac on Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:51 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Stuckarmchairing

Ken you really should ditch those bachmann candles and get a set of P2K ones.



I think I'll try e-bay, what value do you think?[:D][:D][;)][;)]

Ken.

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Posted by twhite on Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:43 PM
Midnite--that's one very cool grain elevator. And do I spy a Microscale tall viaduct in the background there? Yummy!!
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Posted by scubaterry on Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:33 PM
All those ceiling tile shots are awesome. Just like in the book. However when I tried my hand at it I ended up throwing in all in the dumpster and went with Foam in a can. Great job folks. Almost have all of my track layed. I really need to clean up my train room and take some pics to post. Finished my passenger siding today. Start on my west yard tomorrow and when thats done I can finally start on the scenery..
Terry
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Posted by lesterperry on Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:55 PM
I am back from my short trip. Some good looking stuff out there. Here is another pic of J3 as requested.

Lester Perry Check out my layout at http://lesterperry.webs.com/
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:58 PM
Spent the entire weekend working on my basement layout without a picture to show. Friday, I redesigned the space for the layout in 3rd Planit. Saturday I cleared out my garage to move my weight equipment into storage--the first stage in my basement reclaimation project. Today I downloaded over 700 logging pictures from the University of Washington. I learned a lot about logging and it has affected my layout design.

Ah heck, a reject from my other post. A Climax taken in 1920.



Chip

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Posted by ukguy on Monday, July 25, 2005 1:19 AM
Wow Chip 700 !!! thats some serious research material, I'll know where to come when I need a pic of a logging operation in the future.

Well as the weekend fades away all too quickly into another Monday morning the crews head home for a well earned rest.



Have a great week & be safe.
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, July 25, 2005 6:44 AM
Great sunset photo Karl.

Chip

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 7:40 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by grande man
Wait'in on the train...



Hey grande man,

I just finished assembling the exact same passenger station. It's a nice looking kit too. I hope to get some pics posted soon.

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Posted by grandeman on Monday, July 25, 2005 8:09 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by TrevorG

QUOTE: Originally posted by grande man
Wait'in on the train...



Hey grande man,

I just finished assembling the exact same passenger station. It's a nice looking kit too. I hope to get some pics posted soon.

Trevor


Look forward to seeing it! Those Atlas kits are inexpensive, but to me they're timeless. I remember them from when I was a kid.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 8:40 AM
Here is a Walthers background building (Armstrong Electric, I think...) that I detailed and weathered for my modules for the club Layout. It's about 75% of the way there, and I'll come back to it at a later time and see if I want to add more details, or change anything.



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Posted by oleirish on Monday, July 25, 2005 9:00 AM

Three of my KATO switchers hard at work(I'll get the hang of my new camera yet)
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Posted by twhite on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:24 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy
Well as the weekend fades away all too quickly into another Monday morning the crews head home for a well earned rest.



Have a great week & be safe.
Karl.


Karl--that is simply one of the most gorgeous MR photos I've ever seen, period! It's just jaw-dropping BEAUTIFUL! You really ought to enter it in the annual MR photo contest--I MEAN it!!
Tom [bow][bow][bow]

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Posted by cheese3 on Monday, July 25, 2005 10:56 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy
Well as the weekend fades away all too quickly into another Monday morning the crews head home for a well earned rest.



Have a great week & be safe.
Karl.


Karl--that is simply one of the most gorgeous MR photos I've ever seen, period! It's just jaw-dropping BEAUTIFUL! You really ought to enter it in the annual MR photo contest--I MEAN it!!
Tom [bow][bow][bow]




[#ditto] That is one great picture!

Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!

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Posted by ukguy on Monday, July 25, 2005 1:25 PM
Thanks, the backdrop adds alot. I just re-took the pic to try and get more depth, it worked, kinda, I got focus all the way through but lost a little at the front, so I left the back trees in this time.



Heres one for you Tom, taken from your sigpic, hope you don't mind.



Take care,
Karl.
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Monday, July 25, 2005 2:02 PM
Well, I guess the best I can do is tell everyone that I have updated my website with two new pictures of electric locomotives.

freewebs.com/sblocomotives

Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern

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