show your favorite scene

[cwclark]

  So far, this one is my favorite. Flatonia Texas highway 90 crossing...chuck

[mls1621]

very nice scene, i have a double track bridge, did you use the chooch bridge tie sections?

Rick, thanks for the kind words.

The two truss bridges are from Kato. 

I bashed them by removing the snap track and replacing it with Micro Engineering bridge and trestle track.  I also cut the bridge shoes from the huge block of plastic they mold for the bridge abutments. 

I've seen the Chooch tie sections, but I don't know if they make them in N scale.

[Don Z]

  So far, this one is my favorite. Flatonia Texas highway 90 crossing...chuck

Chuck,

Should I assume Tower #3 is nearby?

Don Z.

[jktrains]

Here's a favorite of mine.  Working the third shift under a full moon.

[mls1621]

Very nice scene, JK, I like the way you managed to get the over dock lights just right.  It's seldom you see that in models, usually they're overpowering to the surrounding scene.

Once again, very nice.

[howmus]

I guess my favorites of the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western would be these two.

 

 

[cudaken]

 Steamage do you have any links or details about the SP AC-9 in HO scale? I was pretty sure I was done looking for (spell check need badly for this next word) Art tick a lated engines excpet a Challanger but that is one great looking engine! Looks like a stream lined Big Boy. Boy I hope someone made in plactic last thing I need to do is get hooked on brass!

 You guys need to stop posting PIC!!!!!!!! I am running out of hard drive spaces!

 Few from K-10 Trains

 

 

 Hard to just pick one and I still left some out.

 Blessed to live with in 2 miles of this great bench Ken

[Pruitt]

Here's mine - nighttime at the coaling tower:

[cwclark]

 

Chuck,

Should I assume Tower #3 is nearby?

Don Z.

yes..it's over in the right hand corner of this picture just under the corner seam in the wall. (click to enlarge)

[steamage]

 Steamage do you have any links or details about the SP AC-9 in HO scale? I was pretty sure I was done looking for (spell check need badly for this next word) Art tick a lated engines excpet a Challanger but that is one great looking engine! Looks like a stream lined Big Boy. Boy I hope someone made in plactic last thing I need to do is get hooked on brass!

I don't have much about these AC9's in HO, but the prototypes were transfered from the EP&SW to SP's Modoc line in 1953. Richard Hughes, a retired railroader tells that they were really an easy engine to run, just don't try to do a lot of switching with them. Winter time they were used as helpers because you couldn't see much in front because of all the condensate coming off the boiler jacket when wet. They were converted to oil from coal at the time they arrived on the Modoc.

[zgardner18]

I am very impressed!  Everyone has great scenes.

I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay. 

These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole. 

This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing.  That is the I-90 freeway above.  The scene is HO.

 

[Anonymous]

My favorite scene because its my only scene.

[Charlie Conway]

Hello all,

This is a photo of a kitbashed Pennsy freight station I built for MR's Art Curren Kitbashing Contest a while ago.

To take the picture, I made a simple diorama on a piece of styrene foam.  The road is a piece of 1/4 inch thick foam sanded to a crowned profile, painted with latex paint and weathered with ground pastels.  Some finely sifted dirt and a little ground foam finished off the roadway shoulders and the parking area behind the building.  The fence in the background is a photo of board fence near my home, printed on bond, glued to cardstock and cut out.

I weathered up an old K4s with a jammed mechanism for the photo, and I built a new body for the truck featuring adverts for "Art Curren & Co." out of styrene and paper.

I photographed the diorama on my back porch in direct sun at about 3pm.  To compensate for reduced depth of field, I took several photos with different focus settings and used Photoshop to manually composite them.  There is software now that will do this automatically, as described in the current issue of MR.

On the way home from the hobby shop one afternoon, I photographed the CSX mainline in Newport News, Virginia (near where I lived at the time) and a nice old oak tree just down the road.  Using Photoshop, I inserted these elements into the composite photo.  To finish it off, I added smoke from a photo of a Strasburg Railroad locomotive I had on hand, and painted in steam by hand.  The illuminated headlight is derived from a photo of my daughter's school bus.  A total of 13 photos went into the creation of the composite image.

Kind of a time consuming project, but I had almost as much fun making this image as it did building the model.

Charlie Conway

[rs2mike]

Everyone is doing a great job.  I wish i could contribute something to the mix, but I have not started a layout yet.  Hopefully soon I can post some pics of my favorite trains and cars.  It is nice to see everyone got along in this thread.  Keep up the good work everyone.

 

mike

[EspeeEngineer]

Here is a GREAT scene from our club layout! It has it all: great scenery, plenty of switching and good mainline placement!

 

[Derrick Moore]

Here are my favorite scenes......

Las Vegas, anyone?

 

 

How about Miami?

 

 

How about Europe?

How about the carsystem?

 

For more pics, visit www.miniatur-wunderland.com

[Maurice]

Here is a GREAT scene from our club layout! It has it all: great scenery, plenty of switching and good mainline placement!

 

I really like that tower, very sharp. What are the platforms next to the signals on either side of the tracks? Passing train orders perhaps? I don't recall seeing anything like that before. Was this peculiar to the SP?

Thanks for sharing.

Maurice 

[BF&D]

My pheasant hunting scene

 

Art  -  I like that cornfield; can you tell us how you made it?

 Steve 

[Rick Bradley]

This is an older shot but it is my favorite, probaly the most scenery i have had at one time

[rs2mike]

Good work everyone.

[BCSJ]

Here's some brand new scenery on my Bear Creek and South Jackson. I kind of liked the way its turning out...

(full size at http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/bcsj3/construct080102/constr_080102_01.htm )

Regards,

Charlie Comstock

[BCSJ]

And here's another one from Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line layout - the bridge over the Umpqua River

 

(bigger image at: http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/otherlayouts/fugate/fugate_01.htm )

Joe is a master at making realistic scenery as a look at this picture clearly illustrates!

Cheers,

Charlie Comstock

[J Campbell]

Derrick-

Two words...

Friggin' radical.

[rs2mike]

those were great.

 

Anyone have any new shots for the new year

[D&HRR]

I am very impressed!  Everyone has great scenes.

I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay. 

These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole. 

This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing.  That is the I-90 freeway above.  The scene is HO.

 

 

  Now thats looking good!

[msowsun]

Here is a phtoto I took of one of my favourite scenes on our club layout. (York Railway Modellers, Toronto, Ontario)

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

This corner of my layout came out well I think. The station on the left is Prairie View Depot. The highway simulates distance by being wide the front edge of the layout and getting more narrow as it moves to the back. Behind the trees, the road becomes paint on the backdrop. The county park in the foreground has its never ending volleyball game and a picnic birthday party for some children. The farm house was made from a Cambell kit. Dairy cows are smaller than HO scale to simulate depth. The farm road (behind the GP7's) has a rural mail box where it meets the highway. The scene includes the Woodland Scenics treehouse with dog house and has a boy on tire swing. Behind the house is laundry on the line and an outhouse. MR. and Mrs. farmer on standing on the front porch.

BTW, the locomotves are Athearn models, and rivit counters will tell you that the Burlington did not have dynamic brakes on their GP7's as mine do. Shhhhhh..... don't tell.

[loathar]

I am very impressed!  Everyone has great scenes.

I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay. 

These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole. 

This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing.  That is the I-90 freeway above.  The scene is HO.

 

 

  Now thats looking good!

I can't wait to see that when it's finished!

[chatanuga]

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

 

Is that second picture by any chance on the Bucyrus Model Railroad Association's layout in Bucyrus, Ohio?

Kevin

http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html

[bogp40]

Here is a phtoto I took of one of my favourite scenes on our club layout. (York Railway Modellers, Toronto, Ontario)

Some real great scenery, doesn't get more realistic than that. nice work.