Weekend Photo Fun 9-21-2007 thru 9-23-2007

[MAbruce]

I see that it has not been started yet, so I'll venture out and fire off the first photos.  As always, let's please keep it civil.

Here's a shot of an abandoned rail spur leading up to an old coaling tower in the background, and an active siding in the foreground.  The backdrop is digitally added.

 

Here's a bridge shot (clouds in background digitally added):

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Bruce, you beat me to it.

[mikesmowers]

  Jeffrey, I really like the station, the roof looks exceptionaly good. Your pics have sure came a long way in the last couple of weeks. A decent camara works wonders. I wish mine took pics as well as yours.

  MA bruce,  I like the abandend track, I might have to have on on the new layout I am about ready to build.  Great pics.  Mike

[selector]

Aaaahh...bridge, tower, greenery and skies.  Great photos, MAbruce.

[wedudler]

I'm working at the yard, here the yard switcher prepares the next turn.

 

And a busy GE 44-ton.

Wolfgang 

[selector]

Wolfgang, that close turnout in your first image looks familiar.  Is it stamped Fast Tracks by any chance?    Nice big yard.  I hope to have such a thing sometime.

-Crandell

[selector]

Two from me this weekend. 

I call this Highland Meet.  A PRR J1 crawls along the close siding above Seneca Falls while a NYC Niagara rockets past on the mains.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Check out what I dug up. This is a Bachmann GE U-boat body on an Athearn GP50 chassis.

[R. T. POTEET]

WHOOPEE!!!! This topic means that another weekend is here!!!! WHOOPEE!!!!

[Pruitt]

Nice photos, The Bruce that lives in MA. I like the abandoned coaling tower spur. I also appreciate that you specify what you added digitally - I know for sure that I'm admiring good modeling, and not just good image manipulation skills.

Jeffrey,

Your photos have improved tremendously! Makes it look like you've upgraded your entire layout! (or have you done that, too?)?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffrey,

Your photos have improved tremendously! Makes it look like you've upgraded your entire layout! (or have you done that, too?)?

I'm working on it.

[Anonymous]

Great stuff everyone!!!!!

I don't really have anything to post, Not many new projects, except for the Stude, NH crossover I added. 

[trainnut1250]

Scratch built turntable at Groveland on the new layout

 

 

Guy Cantwell

Willoughby Line

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Hey Guy, that looks really good! I like that.

[lvanhen]

Wolfgang, I hope Bergie dosn't look too hard at the billboard in front of Brook Hill Dairy!! Or does it have something to do with Brook Hill(s)?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I think I've gone a little over-board in my retaining wall plan. I started off to make just ten castings. Well, I decided what's the harm with doing just one more? Now I have nineteen castings with number twenty in the mold!

 

[howmus]

Since I haven't had much time the last couple of weeks and I have had even less money, I have been putting together some Jordan Models vehicles that have been setting on the shelf in unopened boxes.  Man are they tedious little things.  I got to practice using some very bad language.  This week's work was a Mack Chain Drive Dump truck.  I took several photos both to put up here, and to see all those little areas that need to be touched up (like the wheels.....).  This model is not quite up to my standards yet but is getting there.



While assembling the truck, I was putting on the headlights, with my Magnifyer on so I could actually see the durned thing when "ping" it shot out of the tweezers like a speeding bullet.  Spent about 2 hours looking for it......  Someday when I am gone and the layout is being demolished someone with good eyesight will see this little tiny 1920's headlight hanging in an HO tree somewhere close by and say, "hmmm"???

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Man, I love that truck! The wall isn't bad either.

[Robby P.]

Great photo's as usual.  I worked on my layout some as far as added some foliage, and some grass around my yard.  I need to get some pictures, and maybe I can post them tomorrow. 

I also worked on my next weathered job.  Its a old Southern boxcar.  I made it a Conrail, and now its a BN.  I did a custom load to.  I get alot of people asking for more custom loads.  I think it turned out pretty good.

Check out the before and after photos.

[wm3798]

More video magic.  This time a tour of the whole layout, and of course, more coal. 

Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bK5M-7zAjo

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUQ9xd3wOX4

This covers pretty much the whole layout. More fun with sound bites, too!

Lee

[RRCanuck]

Finally back from Asia. Last weekend took a short steam excursion.  The loco and all the cars were built in Sweden and brought to Canada in the early 1990s.  Loco was built in 1901.  Thought you might be interested in their turntable...2 people push the handle at each end and she swings around with ease.

 

I had a chance to get in the cab and take a pic, which I combined with a layout pic...the oncoming loco is a P2K 0-6-0.  Obviously, used photoshop to create the effect.

Cheers.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Fantastic videos. I like the sound effects.

Here's something for you steam lovers.

Too bad it doesn't run. It's destined to become a static display on my layout.

[UP2CSX]

Some really nice pics so far. Wolfgang, you've got the nicest billboard on any layout. The 44 tonner isn't bad either. Darn, I start these and always forget who posted what. That turntable has some incredible detail. Jeffrey, it looks like winter is turning to spring on your layout. Great WM videos. They make me feel like I'm really at trackside with you.

Anyway, it's time for a fill-up for the P&N 638. Spike is handling the fuel hose while Billy Ray, President and CEO of the P&N, supervises to make sure the Texaco dealer doesn't cheat him. Billy Ray always says the railroad is "fixin to" put in a fuel tank but they haven't gotten around to it yet:

The local school bus heads down Main Street with a load of kids making a bunch of racket:

The UP Farmer John train with an SD-24 on the head end MU'ed to an SDP-35 heads out into the blue concrete wall sunset and toward the dreaded reaches of the Pink Prarie:

[modelmaker51]

More video magic.  This time a tour of the whole layout, and of course, more coal. 

Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bK5M-7zAjo

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUQ9xd3wOX4

This covers pretty much the whole layout. More fun with sound bites, too!

Lee

 

I think you need some flange oilers! Great Video.

[PB&J RR]

Excellent work EVERYONE... Progress on the PB&J is ging well, this week I have gotten the roadbed for the westbound lap of the mainline laid, and I ordered my WS Incline sets to do the grades on the eastbund lap... This weekend I am going to do the roadbed on the Penneburg Spur and I am still kicking arounf the idea of putting foam sheets down in the yard or mounting the track directly to the foam base....

[Dave Vollmer]

No photos these weekend...  ....just the video tour I did Thursday night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veEvKHFGd5s

[soumodeler]

Great photo's as usual.  I worked on my layout some as far as added some foliage, and some grass around my yard.  I need to get some pictures, and maybe I can post them tomorrow. 

I also worked on my next weathered job.  Its a old Southern boxcar.  I made it a Conrail, and now its a BN.  I did a custom load to.  I get alot of people asking for more custom loads.  I think it turned out pretty good.

Check out the before and after photos.

I think you might have gone a little overboard with the weathering there. Isn't the Southern supposed to remain visible? Unless, of course, you are one of those poor, misguided souls who model the Norfolk Southern?

[SOU Fan]

Here is what I have been working on.

First I finished my Southern Railway SD80AMC:

SD70 and SD80MAC  posing together for the first time:

Another BN '80MAC:

and finally a Sd70MAC that is undergoing changes to become a CSX YN3 SD70MAC:

[Driline]

Here's a pic of my last Davenport Rock Island & Northwestern switcher that I painted and decaled this last week. This will complete my trio of engines so now I can begin to operate on the layout. Its a Proto 2000 SW8 WITH QSI SOUND & DCC. It operates great!

Heres the other two engines and the caboose I painted & decaled that all go together.

Last but not least is the "Bar Mills" brand Collards Creek Motor Park. I painted and put this little beauty together last week also. I added the trailer park sign on the front of the builing, as it will be the main building in my trailer park.

[MisterBeasley]

Wow, great work, great photos, and lots of them!  We've got our thread back, I guess.

Back to the subways in Moose Bay.  I've been doing un-exciting but still necessary infrastructure work the last couple of weeks.  The light bulbs had all burned out in the Saint Anne Street subway station, so I set about replacing them.  I used 16-volt bulbs this time, and re-wired the circuit to use 10 volts.  This gives me the level of illumination I want and the bulbs should last a long time.  Now, the brighter, safer stations have brought back some entertainment, as Woody Seenik plays for spare change:

 

When I turned on the lights for the first time and looked in, I noticed that vandals had knocked down the "Saint Anne Street" signs, all 3 of them.  Serves me right put putting them up with rubber cement.  I located my long tweezers and some CA, and put them back up.  Down at the other end of the station, you can see the sign back on the wall.  A couple of kids are down there, about as far away as they can get from that "cowboy music."  Well, it ain't what they call rock 'n' roll.

 

Here's the over and under.  The Strumpet Brewery, a Walthers "background building," sits directly above the station.  It's on the edge of the layout, so I'm detailing the interior.