I guess I will start us off.
Please keep it free of your ego, just the facts....the image(s), that is. If you find something deficient with an image you see, please consider the effect of your observation if you choose intemperate words. If you must find fault, please consider using the private communications functions at the bottom of the person's post.
Wildly ecstatic and enthusiastic encouragement are always easy on the ears, so they are welcome here.
Morning light at Seneca Falls.
Since I have my layout down for... ahem... improvements, I offer this mini scene. A couple of buddies swap lies just up the hill from the tracks in the last light of day.
Pertinent info about the image
HO Preisler figures
camera is a 3mp 6 year old Nikon 990
light provided by a 40 watt incandesant bulb in a beatup clamp on style reflector
smoke of campfire only thing added digitally
Jarrell
HO scale
(..in most manic and wild-eyed manner and voice...) that is a really interesting image, Jarrell. I can almost place myself in the dark, climbing up the back side of the hill and entering the glow of the campfire while these two honchos swap stories about last Saturday night in town.
Nice image.
Thanks for starting it off Selector. Nice scene!
As always, mine is in N-scale. Some light switching in the yard. Background is digitally added.
GO RED SOX!
This was taken at the club.
Here we see a Chessie(C&O) freight setting out some cars for the local switch crew while 3 trains pass on the triple main line..
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Have a *** G R E A T W E E K E N D *** all.
Ever felt like you just threaded a bunch of needles? After four hours, I finally got the handrails on my Athearn GP50. Why couldn't Athearn make these metal monsters so that they would actually fit as intended. I assembled the railing as I went along and had to drill out each and every hole, a pretty good trick when you don't have a pin vise.
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jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Ever felt like you just threaded a bunch of needles? After four hours, I finally got the handrails on my Athearn GP50. Why couldn't Athearn make these metal monsters so that they would actually fit as intended. I assembled the railing as I went along and had to drill out each and every hole, a pretty good trick when you don't have a pin vise.
Jeff,Use old goats use the new fandango spaghetti thin handrails which slips into place..
Those old metal ones can be rough to install..
About all I got done this week was to connect the wireing for the lighting of Hopewell Junction. So.... here are a couple of night shots of the bandstand area at night.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Great photo Bruce. However you did the background its looks great.
Photobucket got my pics up, finally. I did my first scratch built building in decades. I started with a Walnut tree in Bloomington, had the logs sawed at a sawmill demonstration, cut the HO scale lumber to width on my table saw and to thickness on the band saw. The natural walnut grain looks better than any staining I have done. The building is to be the Shay's house at the gold mine. I also started an old Campbell kit for the mine itself. I still have to decide the weathering, but that will have to wait until the scene is more complete, as will the roofing material on the Shay shed.
Great start to the WPF guys!
Here is my offering for this week!
I finished attaching cork sheet around the inspection pits and eventual flooring for the roundhouse will be concrete painted sheet styrene, here is an image with the Southern loco on the recently wired track:
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
I added my rock face cut. It isn't exactly prototypical of the cut at Muir, Montana but close enough for me. The look that I was going for was rocks protruding through the dirt. This marks the first rocks that I have even done. I followed Joe Fugate's video. Thanks Joe! (Note: Scenery is no where near complete)
--Zak Gardner
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Those rocks are just great, Zak! When you add some greenery, and it might be better sparse in this locoation, it will be first class.
I love that scratchbuilt shed, Art. Wow!
-Crandell
I second that hillside Zak. Well done.
That shack is nice, Art. Makes me want to break out my popsicle sticks.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
It is weekend photo FUN, right. And the weekend before Halloween. So in that spirit
There's more than one kind of BNSF pumpkin
Railroading's past and present
Trick or Treat!
Cox 47 wrote:This my first post on week end photo fun and only my second photo..It a parts bashed IC transfer caboose...Cox 47
There, now everyone can see it......
Here's my contribution for the weekend. This is the Walthers Modern Roundhouse, so far I've only completed the main walls and I just finished gluing the walls to the floor. Figured this would be as good a time as any to step back and let the glue dry.
A short wall:
The floor with walls attached:
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Cox 47 wrote:Thanks Ray how did you do that? Cox 47
You have a typo. The [ at the begining of the URL for your photo is missing.
jktrains, I love it! Art, that is a great scratchbuild. I agree with you on the wood. The color and texture are just perfect. And Ray, I'm doing wiring, too. I installed copper bus wires running down the length of the Penny Lane subway station, just under the roof/street. (One man's ceiling is another man's floor, after all.) Then I installed light bulbs with shades until I ran out of bulbs. Here's the station with the top off, showing some of the new wiring:
I temporarily replaced the street and buildings above, and took a "night shot." I call this guy Liesure Suit Larry.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Crandell, Great scene at dawn. The lighting ( or lack of) really pops out the background.
Jarrell, How about some coffee, Pard?
Bruce, What area are you modeling? I looks like parts of California. Your trees are great.
Art, Nice scratch built engine shed.
Ryan, Great progress on the RH. I love the safety yellow railings.
MrB, You described your lighting of the Penny Lane Subway Station. Your night scenes always look great. I will tell Larry that you put him in a Leisure Suit. We used to call them loser suits.
No pictures yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
I've had CN diesel running for a while. Time to switch to CP, and while doing it, figured I'd take a few pics of the roster. Good work everyone. Cheers.
These CN locos are P2K, Atlas, Athearn, Kato, plus one BLI thrown in for good measure.
CP locos are Kato and Atlas. They could all do with a touch of weathering...one of these days I'll get a round tuit.
RRCanuck, that's a nice stable in both roads. Your layout is looking like it hasn't pouted too much over your extended absence.
Weekends here again, gotta love it. Caught 5418 coming out of the tunnel north of town and across highway overpass, just a couple of quick picsGreat work everbody!
Weekends here again, gotta love it.
Caught 5418 coming out of the tunnel north of town and across highway overpass, just a couple of quick pics
Great work everbody!
Hello all, here is my first contribution for a long time.
Here are my first two Coal wagons I've finished, two VAK coal wagons, which are circa 1980. They are painted to appear heavily weathered, they were silver originally, similar to the Bethgons etc of the US. They have a 76t tare weight.
The middle photo, actually has a decal which was printed from a photo of an actual wagon, which QR paid some artists to paint, to deter graffitti.There are a few other wagons in a similar scheme. The last photo is just normal graffitti, which is very common on coal wagons here.
Hope you enjoyed.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
james saunders wrote: Hello all, here is my first contribution for a long time. Here are my first two Coal wagons I've finished, two VAK coal wagons, which are circa 1980. They are painted to appear heavily weathered, they were silver originally, similar to the Bethgons etc of the US. They have a 76t tare weight. The middle photo, actually has a decal which was printed from a photo of an actual wagon, which QR paid some artists to paint, to deter graffitti.There are a few other wagons in a similar scheme. The last photo is just normal graffitti, which is very common on coal wagons here. Hope you enjoyed.
Here are my first two Coal wagons I've finished, two VAK coal wagons, which are circa 1980. They are painted to appear heavily weathered, they were silver originally, similar to the Bethgons etc of the US. They have a 76t tare weight. The middle photo, actually has a decal which was printed from a photo of an actual wagon, which QR paid some artists to paint, to deter graffitti.There are a few other wagons in a similar scheme. The last photo is just normal graffitti, which is very common on coal wagons here.
I did not realize that in AU they put graffitti on your wagons there, here in Omaha, NE almost all the wagons have graffitti. Sometimes it makes me sick to see it. Your wagons look great, I do not think I will have the talent to do it myself.