JBinkley60, I want to know where you got that guardrail too. I've been looking for something like that for a while. CNW, nice view of the trains through town. Did CNW stop using theos crossing bell things on the short hood or haven't you stuck them on yet?
Crandell, I frequent several forums also and the Atlas picture posts are generally really good. I enjoy seeing just about any kind of picture, from layouts under construction to the super detailed layouts from guys who are also great photographers. I'm glad there are several forums to visit because each one tends to give me a different perspective than the other.Actually, my wife doesn't understand why I bother taking photos at all. I just pat her on the head and say "Honey, you just don't understand model railroading".
Now, for something a little different, here's the old LV&T depot in Rhyolite, Nevada. It's been on my list of scratchbuild projects for years.
I took a break from working on the Layout and actually ran some trains
Every once in a while i get out some of my old DC locos and give them a spin
So today i let the Cat out of the box
Here's a pair of Uboats and a GP-9 waiting to use the main at Thurmond
TerryinTexas
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I hope this won't be taken as an indelicate post, but I think it would be a pleasant thing to move over to the Atlas forum if you have the time and see some of the contributions to their Sunday Photo thread. Wow!
I only say this because I frequent about three other forums regularly, and some of the images from week to week are really first class. I'd personally not want to miss them, and you may feel the same.
Sorry for the intrusion.
-Crandell
Well here's my contribution to the thread:
A pair of CNW GP50s hustle a hopper train through town.
Keep on posting Jeff!
Dan
Jeffrey keep right on posting, the WPF would not be the same without you. THe last pictures you have taken have been very crisp and clear.
PB&J do you want covered bridges from Maine? It would be kind of neat to start a thread on unique historical bridges. We have a wire suspension bridge here in Kingfield that is on the historical register and over near Sunday river ski area is a covered bridge that is unique.
Kevin
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C&O Fan,
That's actually Penneburgh, Briarwood, and Jameson... PB&J is classic and my kids inspired it... I do a bit of writing, well more than a bit, aside from model railroading its the thing I love to do most...
One day we were driving around taking train photos and I was calling out the initials of the various rolling stock and my 7 year old was repeating it, and the other one chimed up UP. BNSF, PB&J... it stuck, pun intended.
Yoshi,
If you get the chance to take and photos ad measurements of a couple of New England style covered bridges, I'd like to have a couple of different ones... My plan, though I am illustrating my project book with storebought kits, I plan to use all scratchbuilt or kitbashed stuff on my layout... In some cases that is easy, but in others it will be a near impossibility- or worse all overed bridges would be the same, or all houses would be 1S/fr box ranches....
Jeffrey, I too want to see you keep posting your work! Yeh, the photos look like they were taken with a $10 camera. That camera is desribed as a Keychain Camera and is not meant to make "World Class, Contest Winning, high res" photos. However it is much better in close up shots than your old one is. From them I can get a sense of your work on your layout, which is what this thread is supposed to be about. BTW, your modeling is excellent by anyones standards. Factor in the disabilities and handicaps that you have to live with, your work is incredible!
I would hate to see this forum (or any other that I go to) limited to those of us that can afford to buy professional EOS cameras and spend thousands every year on the hobby. I have been fortunate to be blessed with steady hands, mobility, good eyesite, and controlled diabetes. I also am retired and live on a decent retirement income. Jeffrey's work is every bit as good as mine! Jeffrey, friend, keep on having fun, post our work, and ignore the total ignorance of those who don't know you and the difficulties you live with.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
conrail92 wrote:I love the yard photo's jbinkley great job on it. Your layout looks pretty cool, waiting for more. It's hard to beet a nice NS layout :)
I don't think you can beat a nice NS layout <g>...
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Hows this for a track-side low angle shot?
Hows this for a track-side low angle shot?
Jeffrey, it is good. And in deference to a prior posting's constructive criticism, I note that the image is in fact well composed and free of potentially distracting "stuff". Good for you, and keep it up. Cheers.
Jeff NONONONO, keep up the good work and keep showing us the results! Don't let one troll get you down, just look at all your friends who spoke up for you. Your 5000+ posts vs. his 8, forget the small guy and his petty comments - he don't count for much.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I agree I have a similar camera, and don;t mind AT ALL! Keep posting!
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: This will probably be my last entry on Weekend Photo Fun. I try to put up the best shots I can, but due to the fact that my cheap little camera doesn't take clear photos in the first place I try to clean them up as well as I can. I'm sorry if that's not good enough, I'm doing the best I can with what little I have. If that's not good enough, if I'm going to be getting slapped down for doing my best, if I have to have perfect shots all the time I'll not be posting in WPF anymore.
This will probably be my last entry on Weekend Photo Fun. I try to put up the best shots I can, but due to the fact that my cheap little camera doesn't take clear photos in the first place I try to clean them up as well as I can. I'm sorry if that's not good enough, I'm doing the best I can with what little I have. If that's not good enough, if I'm going to be getting slapped down for doing my best, if I have to have perfect shots all the time I'll not be posting in WPF anymore.
You keep right on posting Jeff
The title of the Thread is "Weekend Photo Fun "
NOT "Weekend Photo Contest "
You're last photo is just fine !
You're getting better with each shot !
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: If that's not good enough, if I'm going to be getting slapped down for doing my best, if I have to have perfect shots all the time I'll not be posting in WPF anymore.
If that's not good enough, if I'm going to be getting slapped down for doing my best, if I have to have perfect shots all the time I'll not be posting in WPF anymore.
Nooooooooo, we all like your pictures even if they aren't perfect. Keep posting them, don't stop!
-Smoke
Lots of nice shots on this thread. I won't beat dead horses-no point. As soon as my camera finishes charging it's time to show what I finished this weekend!
jbinkley60: what'd you use for that guardrail?
Now Tom is not to bad as a railroad man but he is terrible at honey do's.
He thought of tackling new roofing to save money but once his wife saw the flimsy tar paper roof he installed on the back shed, she immediately hired professionals, well ... semi-pro anyway They did a better job of the main roof and front porch.
Tom needs to get his butt in gear and get a new paint job also - lots of mold starting to show after 10 years.
Oh yeah, Tom built that front porch too. Can you tell ?
Regards,
Tom
Engineer Jeff,
Your pics are good examples of what I'm talking about. They're well composed, well lighted, crisp with good detail and there's no cluttter.
An amendment to my prior comment. If you pics are meant to show layout construction in progress then having 'clutter' like drills, saws or scenery tools and material in the pic would be understandable.
jktrains
Wow, I feel like I walked onto the set of Grumpy Old Men. Anyway, here's my contributions for this week. Flames are weclome and equally ignored.
I finished a long stretch of guard rail at my intermodal facility. Next week I finally hope to post some updated pictures of my fuel storage facility. There hasn't been enough progress to post updates yet and I haven't had time to crawl underneath the layout to wire up all of the building lights.
While I disagree with Trentonizer's personal attack on Jeff, there is a portion of his comments that I have to admit to agreeing with. Keeping in mind Selector's reply and previous WPFs I'll try to make the comments more on the constructive side.
Firstly, I'm straining my eyes trying to look at the pictures. They're out of focus or something. In a separate thread, Jeff asked which pic was better out of two he took and manipulated through some editing software. My personal opinion was the both look bad and that there was not a lot, if any, difference between the two. It is impossible to make out any of the details on the subject. In that thread someone commented that Jeff was enlarging the pics to be able to post them because of small size that his camera is limited to ending up in pixilated pics. If that's the case, then post the smaller pics. IMO, that doesn't seem to be account for the poor quality. I realize that Jeff has limited resources and that he's using a $10 camera. Maybe he's trying to determine if the camera's output is acceptable. Well, put me down in the no column. With his limited resources, IMO the $10 spent on the camera was a waste of limited resources because it can't produce a picture that is very good.
Second, try to vary the composition of your pics. Contrary to Hoople's defense about them all not being they same, they basically are. I counted 8 pics that are identical except for the change in loco in the photo. Other than that they are identical and still not crisp and lacking resolution. If you want to post ‘builder's photos' of your loco fleet I'd suggest starting a separate thread instead of using WPF for it. Also, Jeff's started other discussion threads just this weekend in Gen Disc and Layout Building that have the same photos in them.
Third, IMO, the idea of posting a photo in WPF is to show off your work. Posting a poor quality pic doesn't do this. I recall a WPF a number of weeks ago where someone posted a pic about his or her loco detailing project, except the pic was so bad that you couldn't see the detail. When no one commented on it the poster went on a tirade. If you want to show off your work post a pic that is capable of doing it.
Fourth, take the time to compose your picture. Follow good composition practices. Look at the shot before you press the button - is everything right. Make sure the wheels are on the track etc. Jeff needs to remove the clutter from his pictures. Too many of his pics have things in them like spray bottles, glue bottles, a Pringles can, boxes, other equipment not on the track, scenery bottles etc. Please clean up the layout area first. Remove the clutter from the background. If possible use a simple piece of poster board as a backdrop.
Finally, there comes a time when someone must say that the emperor's new clothes are ugly. By this I mean if everyone is afraid to tell someone that what they're doing isn't really all that good, but instead tells them that it is good, we are doing the emperor a disservice. They won't know that they should try to do better if the only thing people are willing to do is slap them on the back and tell them they're doing a great job. Again, I understand Jeff has limited resources, which makes it all the more important that those limited resources are properly spent and yield good results. Sometimes the focus needs to shift from quantity to quality.
Well, I will now don my fire resistant suit and wait for the flames. In response to some, I have posted pics of my work in this thread. Are they without fault - no, but I think I've been true to my remarks above. They're in focus, well composed, different, crisp and there was no editing done on any software to achieve the effects shown. I don't mean to 'feed the troll' but felt the need to add some hopefully constructive comments.