alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Here's one of my favorites: The car with the people out for a Sunday Drive is from Life-Like. I think the background and foreground are fairly realistic looking.
Mondo
Here's my favorite at the moment: Railfan Park in the town of Adobe Flats.
Greeat idea for a thread.
Tom
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I have the pleasure of having an open invitation to visit and operate trains on the railroad of Chuck Ellis here in Austin, TX. His layout was featured in an article and on the cover of MR magazine some years ago. This photo is from his layout:
Don Z.
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This is one of my favorites, a country scene on a layout that is otherwise dominated by heavy industry. I've always loved finding a single-track main line in the middle of nowhere, so this was a 'must'.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Ken,
The depot looks great! Can you provide details about the building?
RS2mike ......... This is a great idea for a thread. Some outstanding pictures have been posted already and I congratulate those who posted them.
You askd about posting photos. Open a photobucket account and upload pictures in that account. Read Bergie's instructions on obtaining a URL for the picture. All you have to do is copy the URL code into your post. Ask for help if needed and many will provide an answer.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Don Z wrote: I have the pleasure of having an open invitation to visit and operate trains the railroad of Chuck Ellis here in Austin, TX. His layout was featured in an article and on the cover of MR magazine some years ago. This photo is from his layout:Don Z.
I have the pleasure of having an open invitation to visit and operate trains the railroad of Chuck Ellis here in Austin, TX. His layout was featured in an article and on the cover of MR magazine some years ago. This photo is from his layout:
The trouble with Chucks layout is trying to choose a favorite
Wish he lived in Houston
TerryinTexas
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Terry,
I know what you mean...I have hundreds of pictures of Chuck's layout....
Don Z wrote:Ken,The depot looks great! Can you provide details about the building?
Thanx Don! It's from a Life-Like Main Line Station kit (now O.O.P.), based on a prototype B&O depot located at Sykesville, MD. I live within a 20-minute drive of that place, it's been converted into a restaurant.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
rs2mike wrote:Getting ideas for my layout and I love all your techniques. Someday I will learn how to post pics of my vollamer hotel turned restraunt.
It's spelled "Vollmer..." Ask me how I know !
I'm not directly related to Vollmer GmbH & Co KG, but I imagine back in Germany a few hundred years ago you'd find a link.
Anyway, I'd like to see that when you're done!
My favorite scene on my layout is here at Jack's Run, PA, on my N scale Pennsylvania Middle Division, circa July 1956:
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
I have two that I really like.
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I guess it would be the wide shot of the old layout I just tore down. 1994 shot when I had a room with a covered corner and lots of background. I added a lot to the layout since then but could never get as clear and wide a shot.
This scene is not finished yet. The picture is also a little out of focus. I just like the overall feel of the scene.
jwar wrote:Not done with the road yet, but is my favoriteJohn
John--that Keddie Wye is REMARKABLY good! You've really done a wonderful job of re-creating one of my favorite railroad scenes in miniature. It must have taken a great deal of careful work, and the results are just really FINE! Oboy, I can just see one of those handsome WP 251 series 2-8-8-2's trundling over that with an eastbound manifest.
One of my favorite scenes on my own Yuba River Sub--Proto-lance, not Prototype, but I'm kind of fond of it: My big Rio Grande L-131 hauling a coal train over Yuba Pass.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I think my favorite would be this one..
JaRRell
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I like this scene, from the May issue of MR....
...And how closely it resembles the cover pic from the book "Stations".
Aw, C'mon, I can't be the only one who caught that.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
OK here are a couple of twilight shots at Black Creek:
It and a couple of other scenes are modeled after favorite places in the macro world. I chose these photos because the scene is "almost" done.
Karl
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CSX_road_slug wrote:This is one of my favorites, a country scene on a layout that is otherwise dominated by heavy industry. I've always loved finding a single-track main line in the middle of nowhere, so this was a 'must'.
I was pretty happy with the way both of these very different scenes came out. This is my turntable, "pit-bashed" from an Atlas deck turntable. That's a P2K 0-6-0 pulling on to the bridge from the Atlas roundhouse.
I had the next one on my computer at work as the wallpaper. A guy from New York came in and looked at the picture, and said he didn't recognize the name of the station. He actually thought this was a photo from the New York Subway system, which made my day. P1K subway cars by Life-Like.
These two scenes, incidentally, are only about a foot and a half apart on my layout. Since the subway is "underground" with scenery above it, you would never know it's there from looking at the top of the layout.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
My favorite shot as of late:
This one is a close second:
-Smoke
I think this one off my old layout would be one of my favorites. It's evening at Miller's Cove and switchers are being fueled. The MOW crew stops to chat about fishing and football.
Or maybe its this one. An old red CB&W caboose rattles downhill through Upper Millers Cove.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
My favorite scenes are the ones that can't be seen except through the lens of a camera.
In these three examples, the front of the layout is to the left.
I like making timber trestles in N scale.
Teditor
My favorite: