4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
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Trentonizer wrote:Alot of toylike looking layouts here. Well thats fine. Good job
Here's a newsflash, T-Tizer---They are ALL toys. Even high-end brass.
Mick
Jarrell
Outstanding work you have done so far
Jim
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Jeffrey, it looks like you and David Parks got together for the weekend to run trains together - great job/photos.
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
lvanhen wrote:Jeffrey, it looks like you and David Parks got together for the weekend to run trains together - great job/photos.
Nice! I like that MP15DC!
Which layouts are you reffering to as "toylike"?
Brunton wrote: Here's the completion of my latest project - rebuilding my control panel to add staging yard occupancy indicators and turnout routing:
Here's the completion of my latest project - rebuilding my control panel to add staging yard occupancy indicators and turnout routing:
Great control panel, Brunton. How did you do it? Chartpack tape on a white background or some digital graphics program? What system are you using for occupancy detection?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Good looking shots guys,jeff i like the U.P Nice pair
Here is another Toy shot from me
My E.J&E. SD-38's And a GP-9
Carl.
Fiat, that MP15DC is looking nice! Love the MRL scheme. I've got a Union RR MP15 for decaling into B&M arriving on Tuesday (my first sound locomotive, woot!). How have your experiences with it been?
Carl, great shot of the enginehouse! Brunton, very nice and professional looking control panel you have!
Nice shots everybody,
Alec
A little then & now.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Great stuff as usual guys. Selector, marvelous picture.
Its been awhile since I posted anything. Here are a few photos taken during a major cleaning of the layout in preparation for making a video.
My Athearn BB set of NYC F7s rounding the curve at the Black River Valley COOP with a short mixed freight.
The same pair of locos as they cross HWY 18 on the edge of town.
NYC S-3 picking up an empty box car on one of the team track sidings on the BRVRR.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
No pictures this weekend... Maybe next weekend I'll take a pic of whatever new engine I get.
Crandell, Thanks for hosting the photo fun this weekend. Your photo is a great inspiration. We just picked up 6 more coal hoppers.
Great job everyone. No photos from us this weekend. Family stuff.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Brunton,
You control panel is very neat. Being I live in the Seattle area, (Renton,WA) I am thinking of modeling the Pacific Northwest. Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Spokane, Seattle and Portland, Chicago, Burlington, and Quincey.
or I free lance based off prototypes from up here in the Seattle area.
Here's a picture of a way freight train returning to Blackhawk behind a 2-6-2. The caboose is one of my Walthers CB&Q "way cars", and I installed the grab irons on this one in the last cople of days.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Great Stuff Selector, et al...
I have been busy lately and have gotten behind... I am writing a family project book around the building of my PB&J Railroad.... I have been taking pictures but can never manage to remember to upload them, so here you go...
I designed a logo and masthead:
Then several losing track plans:
Eventually I settled on this one because when I set it up, it didn't give me as many fits as the others-including running my too long passenger cars around the curves:
Here are the inner and outer loops and the yard:
And finally these are the kits that I bought years ago that I finally got to build...
though the little bridge is just a rickety looking thing I built out of toothpcks for another project
Great work by everyone. Jeffrey, I like the low-level shots. Keep 'em coming.
The Tour de France is over, so here's the winner of what was left of it by the end, Alberto. Now riding for Team Preiser, he's taking some perfectly legal potassium in the form of a banana.
Next down the road in the pink sweats is Floyd, who is either having some trouble with his bike, or maybe he's railfanning the RS-3 and GP-9.
Finally, Lance is bringing up the rear. It's OK, he's earned it. Besides, he's waving to his new girlfriend, Carmen...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Carl, here's a photo of a Bessemer & Lake Erie small engine service facility.
A few construction shots from my weekend project. Tunnel portals, track elevation, clearance testing for engines and camera equipment...
railroadyoshi wrote:Fiat, that MP15DC is looking nice! Love the MRL scheme. I've got a Union RR MP15 for decaling into B&M arriving on Tuesday (my first sound locomotive, woot!). How have your experiences with it been?
Yoshi, I've only run it for about 5 minutes, getting it into position for the photo. It runs like any other Atlas - smooth, slow, quiet! I can't answer about sound or DCC. Mine is DC.
The paint scheme is a little deceptive. The engine is lettered SRY Rail Link. Both the SRY and MRL are owned by a conglomerate listed as The Washington Companies. SRY stands for Southern Railway of British Columbia.
Tom
rayw46 wrote: Carl, here's a photo of a Bessemer & Lake Erie small engine service facility.
I see that a wash rack is not on their list of engine facility items!!
MisterBeasley-Where did you get that metal guard rail from in the first pic?
This week is shaping up to be better than last weeks!
For those who like my old rusted steamer so much, I got some good sharp pics just for you.
loathar wrote: MisterBeasley-Where did you get that metal guard rail from in the first pic?
It's from Pikestuff. One package is about 7 inches of guardrail. Each package comes with end pieces as well. I cut the vertical supports in half, so I could place them twice as close. They're way too tall, anyway. I glue the whole thing together and then spray it glossy silver with hardware store paint. Then it gets a blast of Dul-Coat to tone it down. It's very flexible and goes around curves beautifully.
Two really serious puns in there, too. Anyone get them?
fiatfan wrote: railroadyoshi wrote:Fiat, that MP15DC is looking nice! Love the MRL scheme. I've got a Union RR MP15 for decaling into B&M arriving on Tuesday (my first sound locomotive, woot!). How have your experiences with it been? Yoshi, I've only run it for about 5 minutes, getting it into position for the photo. It runs like any other Atlas - smooth, slow, quiet! I can't answer about sound or DCC. Mine is DC.The paint scheme is a little deceptive. The engine is lettered SRY Rail Link. Both the SRY and MRL are owned by a conglomerate listed as The Washington Companies. SRY stands for Southern Railway of British Columbia. Tom
Whoops! Nonetheless, a beauty.
Brunton, as others have said before, your control panel is very professional
Mr. B, looking good as always. The back stories definitely add to the charm.