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Posted by ARTHILL on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:21 AM

Great pics. I am inspired by these, as if I need any more scenes to build.

My newest new one.

An older one

My pheasant hunting scene

My first good tree

Some days this is my favorite

 

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:05 AM
I won't even get into this one , mine are not even close to the great work I see in these photos. Great job everyone. Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by BRAKIE on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:04 AM

There is several areas on the club layout that I like.So.....I narrowed it down to these 2 scenes.

 

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Posted by rs2mike on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:54 AM
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:

I have two that I really like.

jeffery I love the rusted steamer.  I am currently working on a revell 4-6-4 hudson for that very purpose.  I really couldn't bring myself to rust up my ols riv 2-8-4 berkshire.  It runs just so quiet and pulls so good.Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by rs2mike on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:51 AM
Thanks gary for the advise on the pics.  that will be my mrring project for today.

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Posted by rs2mike on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:49 AM

CSX I love that scene as well.

 everyone has such awesome scenes!!!!   Good job on a great thread so far!!!!

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Posted by pcarrell on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:39 AM

Great stuff guys!

I'll throw one in the ring.......

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Posted by mikelhh on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:09 AM

 

 

 

  Much the same scene taken on different days with different cameras.

 

 I'm really enjoying this thread! Some top photos on here.  

 Mike 

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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:42 AM

Even though it still needs to be scenicked:

Click to enlarge picture

There are also a couple of favorites that come to mind on Cliff Power's MA & G layout.

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Posted by jep1267 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:13 AM

This one from Ray & Renee Grosser's Nostalgic Tour ranks up there for me.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:05 AM
These are all very good shots. Keep them coming.

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Posted by MAbruce on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:32 AM

My favorite:

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:51 AM


I model MKT & CB&Q in Missouri. A MUST SEE LINK: Great photographs from glassplate negatives of St Louis 1914-1917!!!! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm Boeing Employee RR Club-St Louis http://www.berrc-stl.com/
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Posted by Teditor on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:39 AM

I like making timber trestles in N scale.

 

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Posted by mls1621 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:29 AM

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.

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Posted by dragenrider on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:06 AM

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.

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Posted by SOU Fan on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 11:14 PM

My favorite shot as of late:

This one is a close second:

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 11:11 PM

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.

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Posted by Hawks05 on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:32 PM
 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'. 

 

 



You had me going. I thought that was proto type. Very nice photo.
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Posted by larak on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:30 PM

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.

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Posted by steemtrayn on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:18 PM

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.

 

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Posted by CNJ831 on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:01 PM

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:57 PM

I think my favorite would be this one..

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Posted by twhite on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:56 PM

 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.

 

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:52 PM

This scene is not finished yet. The picture is also a little out of focus.  I just like the overall feel of the scene.

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Posted by jwar on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:44 PM
Not done with the road yet, but is my favoriteJohn
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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:43 PM

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.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:35 PM

I have two that I really like.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:02 PM

 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.

Whistling [:-^]It's spelled "Vollmer..."  Ask me how I know Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]!

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:

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Posted by simon1966 on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:59 PM

 

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