Weekend Photo Fun 9-28-2007 Thru 9-30-2007

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I was just in time this morning to catch this sunrise shot on the layout.

 

[jblackwelljr]

about to test the cow catcher..

JaRRell

JaRRell,

I always wondered why they called that a cow catcher instead of a cow tosser.. mystery of life I guess.  

Nice shot, beautiful loco - and not a bad looking bovine.

[mls1621]

Jim,

The pond-oops-lake looks great, the lilly pads are a great touch.  Your modelling skills have never failed to impress me. 

[jktrains]

I took advantage of the excellent weather to do a little shooting outside.

 

[johnnyx]

Well I think this is the first time i have done WPF.  Heres my 2 M&E ALco's 18 & 19 shot outdoors. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Anonymous]

Jim,

The pond-oops-lake looks great, the lilly pads are a great touch.  Your modelling skills have never failed to impress me. 

I also like the puddle.....er....lake!

JK; That's one of the most realistic shots I have seen! Great work!

[gear-jammer]

I just stopped in for quick peek.  Great photos this weekend.  

Sue

[jktrains]

Time to finish out the day railfanning

[Anonymous]

OMG!!!! THAT LOOKS AWSOME!!!!!

I need to make a diarama so I can do that; any suggestions for size? 

[AggroJones]

WHOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!! 

[GTX765]

Here is one, mine is very new setup so I do not have much. This is one my New J type Post also.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I now have a DCC equipped Athearn GP50 running on my layout. My neighbors son traded me his GP50 for my RS3 SP Black Widow. I wasted no time sticking a NCE Silent Running decoder in the GP50. Here's some pics taken during the conversion and a video showing the testing being done afterwards.

And here's the link for the test video.
http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/forum-1/?action=view&current=P1010006-3.flv

 

[Driline]

I now have a DCC equipped Athearn GP50 running on my layout. My neighbors son traded me his GP50 for my RS3 SP Black Widow. I wasted no time sticking a NCE Silent Running decoder in the GP50. Here's some pics taken during the conversion and a video showing the testing being done afterwards.

And here's the link for the test video.
http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/forum-1/?action=view&current=P1010006-3.flv

 

Masking tape is not a good idea to attach your decoder to the locomotive. Use the two sided foam tape or at least electrical tape.

And what is that "RED" locomotive?

[Driline]

I took advantage of the excellent weather to do a little shooting outside.

 

JK your pictures look awesome as usual. What brand/make of camera are you using? I just bought a Canon G7 and hope to take better pictures soon.

[ngartshore350]

That's a pretty good picture for being taken by a cell phone.  What kind of phone do you have?  My RAZR takes lousy pics, it's a good thing I have the Kodak 6.1 MP around.

Hi jasperofzeal,

It is a RAZR V3x with 2megapixel camera. I recently installed the software again on the PC and it downloaded about 6 - 70M of updates and the pictures seem much bigger?! But I thought it wasn't a bad photo for a cell phone.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

And what is that "RED" locomotive?

That a P2K PA1. The masking tape is only a temporary measure. I intend to install a better decoder when I get one.

[Driline]

And what is that "RED" locomotive?

That a P2K PA1. The masking tape is only a temporary measure. I intend to install a better decoder when I get one.

Is that a work in progress or what? Its all RED. I mean everything except the trucks.

[SpaceMouse]

Well another inspiring weekend guys. It even got me into the basement to work on a scratch-bash station--it's been a couple months. I hope to finish it and post pictures next week.

 Thanks for getting me going.

[howmus]

I haven't had much time this week to do anything on the layout, but I did manage to do a couple of repaints of some old bobbers I have had for 20+ years and got one old Roundhouse caboose kit more or less finished.  I have forgotten how frustrating those 25 year old kits were.  I bought 4 of these kits around 23 years ago and only assembled one.  Another one of the kits that I had started got to close to a soldering iron and sat on the workbench for almost 20 years until I finally threw it out a couple years ago.  That left 2 more of them to assemble.  Here are the Roundhouse Kit and the two Bobbers freshly painted and decaled for the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western.



The last one is being assembled now and I have decided to scratch build details for the interior.  I downloaded some plans for 1913 Erie Cabooses that can give me an idea of the proper layout for the inside.  I will see how it comes out......

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Is that a work in progress or what? Its all RED. I mean everything except the trucks.

It's in the process of being repainted for the MKT.

[jwar]

This weekend I removed the rock quarry and added a few feet of track to the yard in its place, ballasted yard, finnished the Mi Jack kit and added this intermodule yard. Note the retaining wall, the jury is out, may rock it to look more like the other rock embankment on the outside track,This will be the new gravel pit The hopper cars will come out of the plant and sit on a wood trestle, the rock trucks will drive under them (two tracks) there will be three conveyers and my kit bashed truck crane will have some type of lifting job to do, perhaps holding a conveyer section , the three door shop will be heavy equip repair. I probley will leave this set for a month or so to, may pull it out or condense it???? The mountain in the back needs some serious work on it too....Oh well huh...John

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[MAbruce]

Nice work everyone!  Yet another weekend of great inspiration.  Now if I could only get the house painting done, the leaves to fall faster, and stop the decline of daylight each day, then I could finish my fall projects and get back inside to do some modeling.

Bruce, 

Step on toes?  Didn't you start it last week, too?  I don't think I heard any complaints.

You're right; I did it last week too but didn't know if certain member(s) was being nice by not saying anything.  Now that it's settled, I'll try to start it Friday afternoons if I see that it has not been started, but also won't be offended in the least if anyone else starts it.     

Looking great already!  Bruce, I thought you were starting us off with railfan pictures from a trip out West.  Nice work.

Thanks!  The track scene is at the edge of my layout, so entire area I filled in with a digital backdrop (left and sky) is actually my basement wall and hot water heater.  BTW - Excellent progress on that scene

[jktrains]

Jeff,

What's that big black thing on the left??

[C&O Fan]

Jeff,

What's that big black thing on the left??

I'm guessing he left the phone laying on the layout

[tstage]

Maybe it's that scene from "The Blob". I thought I saw Steve McQueen in the background somewhere...

Tom 

[AltoonaRailroader]

Jeff,

What's that big black thing on the left??

Let's play..................What's on Jef's layout!!!!

I'm guessing it's a eye glasses case. Did I win?

 Besides that it looks pretty good Jeff. And are there teenagers making out in that car or railfans?

[Hoople]

I guess it's a monolith.

[jktrains]

I guess it's a monolith.

I thought I heard the 2001 theme in the background. 

[reklein]

Nice work jwar. If you're considering a change on that retaining wall,you might consider those big prepoured concrete blocks they get from ready mix plants. Just a thought.