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Posted by ac4400fan on Sunday, August 19, 2007 2:50 AM

Nice Pics Everyone! Jeffery i love that seen nice , here is my work latly as arrgo says been alittle bunt out but got up and started last 2 weeks. This is my light maint facility ive been working on

 

Enjoy!

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:33 AM
Alot of toylike looking layouts here.  Well thats fine.  Good job
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Posted by railroadyoshi on Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:51 PM

Esleeck Mfg. The building is done, and now I need to install a billboard of sorts/smokestack/something to fill the empty spaces on both sides. 

 

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Posted by Train Master on Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:59 PM

GP35 Conrail

GP50 KCS [In work]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:15 PM

GP60 - J & M Mining

GP40-2P - KCS

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:32 PM

You guys ever seen a Hall type locomotive?

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Posted by magicman710 on Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:20 PM

Well, I decided I wanted to participate in Weekend photo fun, but since I dont have my layout built yet, I decided I would post some pics of my new a E-Z Command. (Click to the right of the thumbnail to make it larger)


 

Nice pics everyone!

 

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:12 PM

No fun here this weekend , tiling my train room floor. It'll feel better on the old feet.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 7:51 PM

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Posted by Robby P. on Saturday, August 18, 2007 4:21 PM

FINALLY, I think I have a layout I will like.  I have tried several the last few days, and I think this is the one.  I thought I would show everybody what I have so far.   I like the layout of the yard and a smaller yard near the end.  I added a almost dried out lake.  I still need to work on my lake, and get the wife to add the road bed.  She has better patience than I do when it comes to that.  Theres still many steps left on this one.  I will try to get more pictures when I get something done. 

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by ARTHILL on Saturday, August 18, 2007 4:09 PM

Aggro, I miss you. Your rust spots are as good an artistic rendition as anything I've seen.

Grandpa Cyote, Nice detail.

If you think you have it right, your standards are too low. my photos http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/ARTHILL/ Art
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Posted by AggroJones on Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:57 PM

Sorry I haven't been around much. Lately I've been on a Transformers kick! Shock [:O] I'm actually  a little burnt out on railroading!

 

 

 selector wrote:

Nice shot. Good angle!

 Jeffery--I've got an old Lifelike 0-4-0 Dockside I'm planning on rusting up like that. Thumbs Up [tup]

Grant--Excellent work on beautifing the worlds ugliest diesel! Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Heres my contribution.

 

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EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION

http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588

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Posted by magicman710 on Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:50 PM
 grandpacoyote wrote:

Hey Gang;

Betcha thought I was dead huh? Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg] I'm not but been busier than I can even begin to tell you all about.

Anyway thought I drop off my latest pics; hope all enjoy em.

 

You can see the rest at http://picasaweb.google.com/Grandpawcoyote/Scenery2 if you want.

Till later and and always...

Peace

Fantastic detail! Great Job!! Others too!!!! Cool [8D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:46 PM

Hey Gang;

Betcha thought I was dead huh? Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg] I'm not but been busier than I can even begin to tell you all about.

Anyway thought I drop off my latest pics; hope all enjoy em.

 

You can see the rest at http://picasaweb.google.com/Grandpawcoyote/Scenery2 if you want.

Till later and and always...

Peace

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:02 PM
That's very good work!

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Posted by Pruitt on Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:50 PM

Wow! Great work everyone!

 This has to be the best Weekend Photo Fun all summer!!

Here's the completion of my latest project - rebuilding my control panel to add staging yard occupancy indicators and turnout routing:

The green and red LEDs in the track diagram are occupancy indicators (red means occupied), and the blue ones indicate to which track the turnouts are aligned from the lead-in track.

The areas where there are holes or blanks in the panel are where yet-to-be installed occupancy indicators will go.

Here's a close-up of the Milwaukee West yard ladder diagram:

This particular project has taken several weeks to finish. The additional occupancy detectors and indicators will be installed over the next six to nine months.

Just as a comparison, here's the original panel, completed in 2005:

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 11:53 AM

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Posted by selector on Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:48 AM

It's still morning out in the Pacific time zone, so Good Morning, Everyone! Smile [:)]

There have been some wonderful photos added since last evening.  JaRRell, holy smoke!  You keep scaring the pants off me every time you sneak in a new image!  Don't you ever go on vacation? Mischief [:-,]

Jeffrey, I sure like that derelict old steamer.  Great job on setting that up.  I'm thinkin', though, it needs some railfan photogs setting up tripods and all that, as a thought. Smile [:)]  Can't let that old hulk ever get too lonely, you know.

Tom and Terry, I really like your teasers.  Have you been holding out on us?  Your images are very realistic.  Nice work and planning.

-Crandell

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:37 AM

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:12 AM
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A note from Big Bird where everything is yellow Thanks to a reader who emailed me about my yellowish pictures. I found a better brightness setting in my camera, it's called extra room lighting. After a squirting yellow paint all over the scene Monday, things are better. (See post on going into the train room PO'ed). Here's last weeks work finalized. Geeps roaming through Coyote Canyon on my SP Fresno District N Scale layout:

Ahhh.... much better! 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:05 AM

Great Stuff guys !

Much better photos Chuck !

I've been installing more rock molds. when i built the layout i put in a shelve 6 inches below the

table top which i think adds another dimension to the looks .

Here's a before shot

This is after the rocks were installed

Here's a close up

 

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Posted by Tom Bryant_MR on Saturday, August 18, 2007 4:36 AM

Wow!  WPF started and there are 2 pages as of now.  Looks to be a great one.

Selector - love the perspective. After all the long hours we spend on our creations it's really nice when someone spends the time learning to set up the shot.  As others have said, it looks real.

Jon - I always like the detail you have in your photos and weathering of your locos. You take excellent close ups.

Chuck G - That is a nice job on the grassland.

SouthWest - I like that 3rd picture. They're all good but I gravitated to the last one.

Not too much in my area this last week. Been stealing a moment here and there in the mornings before work adding detail to this scene. Dry brushed the rock outcropping. The rock work was done with ceiling tile. Hope to work on some trees for the foreground today.

 

Longer shot (but not like Selector's) of that corner as a train will be coming around into the Taylor West yard.

 

Regards,

Tom

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Posted by NYCentral1 on Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:07 AM
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Three views of the desert section on my layout

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I like that western U.S. desert...If I wasn't 75% into my New York Central layout this is the kind of locale I would want to model.  I guess that will have to be next time; I always did like Sante Fe and Southern PacificSmile [:)]

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, August 17, 2007 10:37 PM

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Friday, August 17, 2007 10:22 PM
Three views of the desert section on my layout

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Posted by Chuck Geiger on Friday, August 17, 2007 10:02 PM

A note from Big Bird where everything is yellow Thanks to a reader who emailed me about my yellowish pictures. I found a better brightness setting in my camera, it's called extra room lighting. After a squirting yellow paint all over the scene Monday, things are better. (See post on going into the train room PO'ed). Here's last weeks work finalized. Geeps roaming through Coyote Canyon on my SP Fresno District N Scale layout:

 

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, August 17, 2007 9:40 PM

Lot's of neat stuff, everybody!

Jon Grant's Bl-2 is great.  Looks very much like Monon BL2 at Kentucky Railway museum. That unit is alive and well, and sometimes pulls excursion trains there.

You can see a photo of the BL-2 at kyrail.org.

GARRY

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, August 17, 2007 9:38 PM

A couple of scenes from the area I've been working in..

two buddies saying hello while one fills up with gas and the other with Coke

Engine 159 at the Scenic Railway station

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, August 17, 2007 9:21 PM

I really like the way you've captured the train from engine to caboose in this shot plus the way you cropped it.

A+    Big Smile [:D]

JaRRell

 

 

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I'm at the computer and felt I might as well get this thread underway...it's past noon out where a lot of you are, so it's official.

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Posted by loathar on Friday, August 17, 2007 8:45 PM

I've just got some structure pics this week.

This is my first attempt at scratch building something. Just some left over junk I had laying around.

These next few are some buildings from my dads layout that I've been cleaning up and re-painting. (Dad was kind of sloppy about building kits) I had to completely redo most of them.

Being able to take pictures now, I notice a lot more mistakes in the photos than I do when I'm actually working on the stuff.

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