Weekend Photo Fun, 26-28 Oct 07

[DonaldAgne]

Thanks, Crandell and Chip.  I'll post some more pictures next weekend.

 Don

 

[SpaceMouse]

Don, Tom,

Those layouts are making me jealous.

I finished my turnouts and expect to lay track this weekend. I hope to have some trains running for Sunday Show-off.

[G Paine]

This photo shows the ore boat docked at the ore loader,(before the ore chutes were installed). Next to it is the front of the four track railroad ferry, in one of two harbors on my HO layout  Other than E-BAY, does anyone know where one can get a kit for an HO steel mill?

Plastruct has some kits that may work:

Steel Mill Fake Front

http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineProductDetail.lasso?&CCode=KIT-1030

Sintering Plant

http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineProductDetail.lasso?&CCode=KIT-1031

List of HO Kits

http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineCatalogIndex.lasso

The kits are background models, but could be start for a mill scene

[selector]

Hello, again.  I've just been lurking and haven't posted any pictures since the forum format changed, because I just figured out how to do it.  Duh!  Anyway, here's a picture of my engine facility in the late afternoon sun.

Don

Don, hello.  It is a wonderful layout you have if I can judge by this one picture.  I hope you will post more images.

-Crandell

[MAbruce]

Great pictures everyone!!

 

Bruce,  What area are you modeling?  I looks like parts of California.  Your trees are great.

Thanks!  I tried to model a nonspecific mid-Atlantic region, but if it looks like California, fine.    This layout was more of an experiment of various scenery processes.  Some things worked, some sort of worked, while others didn't.  It's all in preparation for my future dream layout... someday... probably many years from now.    

 RED SOX SWEEP!!

[DonaldAgne]

Hello, again.  I've just been lurking and haven't posted any pictures since the forum format changed, because I just figured out how to do it.  Duh!  Anyway, here's a picture of my engine facility in the late afternoon sun.

Don

[ArtOfRuin]

Here is my locomotive roster so far, along with my plans for them. My future layout will be "Pan Am-Under New Management" (i.e. yours truely).  I figure, if a bunch of robber barons who don't give a flying F-unit about trains or sevice can run a railroad, than so can I. I guess you could call it a love-hate relationship or morbid fascination with the prototype because, despite its (considerable) faults, its the railroad that got me into model railroading.This is all in HO scale.

Atlas SD26, the pride of the fleet. Seriously, Atlas did an outstanding job with it. Plans: Ditch lights and weathering.

Atlas C424 Phase II. Plans: Weathering, brake chain, and some other details.

Walthers GP9M. Plans: Will donate its cab and nose to an Atlas GP7 or backdated P2K GP9 to make a GP7P.

My infamous E-R Models RF-16 "superdetailing project." Looks perfect for a deadline scene, doesn't it? Plans: Keep this shell as a practice shell, replace it with a Bachmann shell on the chassis.

The sister unit. Plans: Not sure. I might try to detail it, or I might sell it since it doesn't quite fit into my grand scheme to make a Pan Am layout. 

Not shown:

"Pre-owned" Genesis UP SD70M. Plans: Clean it up then dirty it up, get the Details West detail kit, and use it for run-through power. If I get a picture, I'l post it in an edit.

Athearn RTR SD45 HH undecorated. Plans: Hasn't arrived yet. Once it does, it will become ST #681 

Athearn GP40-2 shell undecorated. Plans: Needs a chassis, then will become GP40-2LW MEC #505

IHC 2-6-0 or 2-8-0 steamer, C&EI. Plans: Sell it once I find it. It's lost in my attic. 

I think at this point, since I don't have a permanent layout, that I will stop here with stockpiling locomotives and get started on my various plans for them. I already sold an Atlas P&W B40-8, a Spectrum GP30, and a couple of pieces of rolling stock that doesn't fit my era. I have about 20 pieces of rolling stock and I only plan to buy a couple more pieces until I can get a permanent layout. Hopefully, I'll be able to make enough space to get a permanent layout going. It's not easy when you're living in a small house with a big family!

[zgardner18]

Here you go.  I got this one heading for Los Angeles at the El Monte Metrolink Station, but it is only a C39-8

[SOU Fan]

I was only off by a C07

[SOU Fan]

david,

If i'm not mistaken, that is a C39-8.

-Smoke

[jeffrey-wimberly]

David: I like that brass caboose. Well done!

[soumodeler]

I did little actual work on the layout this weekend. However, seismographs recorded an astonishing earthquake measuring 14.7 on the Richter Scale that destroyed said layout...

Yep. I started over (again).

Let's see... restart number 5... in 6 years...

However, there is light at the end of the tunnel... I am going to build a modular layout this time. So when I find out that I have done something that can't easily be fixed, only a fraction of the layout will be lost. So, after I had fun destroying- I mean I sorrowfully, and very slowly dismantled my layout I actually did some things right this time. I am finishing the room to make it more suitable for a layout. I intalled lighting:

I am going to patch and paint the walls (I would like a sky blue, but that won't fly too well...) and fully clean the carpet (and uselessly promise myself to put down drop cloths next time).

Anyways, more cleaning to do.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Great looking boxcar Jeff.  I don't do many washes.  I will have to try it more.

You think that looks good? Check out the headlight of my GP50. That joker is blinding! This was taken from over seven feet away.

BTW, the answer to your question in your sig is 'a towel'.

[SilverSpike]

Tom,

Great progress on ballasting the yard area, and I like your track plan too. Thanks for sharing.

Ryan

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Finished washing my car and went in to take some pictures of what I did last night.

At the Austin Model Jamboree I purchased two of these sage brush armatures.  Wanted to have a go at decorating one. I elected not add any other fine foam to them at this point. I can tell from the photo the left one needs a bit more material in the top.

Also, finished ballasting the yard last night - first cut of cars arriving.

 

Regards,

[Robby P.]

Thats true.  If everybody won, there wouldn't be any casinos.  Great looking boxcar Jeff.  I don't do many washes.  I will have to try it more.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I think I am done with the casino.  For the month I am -$300.  Just think of the stuff I could by at $300. 

Do what I do and stay away from them. If most people who go to casinos won most of the time, there wouldn't be any casinos.

[Robby P.]

I think I am done with the casino.  For the month I am -$300.  Just think of the stuff I could by at $300. 

[Gryphon]

Jeffery nice job on the MILW boxcar.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's a weathering job I did last winter. It's a wash of alcohol and black leather dye applied with an airbrush.

 

[CNJ831]

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CNJ831

[jeffrey-wimberly]

go to the casino up the road and lose $160. 

OUCH!

I found a great way to keep from losing money in casinos and it works every time. I stay away from them.

[AggroJones]

Great pictures everybody.  I didn't do much this week/weekend other than knock a wall down in the basement, um.....weather some cars, and go to the casino up the road and lose $160.  The first two wasn't to bad, but the 3rd one (casino) made it a bad weekend so far. 

 

 

Negative $160? OUCH....

[Robby P.]

Great pictures everybody.  I didn't do much this week/weekend other than knock a wall down in the basement, um.....weather some cars, and go to the casino up the road and lose $160.  The first two wasn't to bad, but the 3rd one (casino) made it a bad weekend so far. 

Heres a couple of pictures of the cars. 

[SOU Fan]

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)

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mmmmm, good stuff, those are the insparational type of pictures Zak, thanks for sharing.

[howmus]

As always great work so far!  I always love these threads.

Thought I would pop in and show you what I've done today (well, actually I started this last night by putting together the 3 part steel wheels).  I have had this Jordon Fordson Tractor kit sitting on the shelf for almost 2 years and I need to use it at the Tile Industry.

Assembled but yet to be painted (maybe tomorrow).



I left a couple tools sitting on the bench to show the actual size of this little thing.  The crank is about 3/16" long.......



Quick flash snapshot of the area it will be used in.  This is Thompson Tiles, manufacturer of farm field tiles.  The Fordson will used in place of the old draft Horses to pull logs from the nearby forest to feed the Kilns.  This is just around the corner from the yard at Hopewell Junction.  In fact the yard lead is on a lower track right here (not shown) as well.  Scenery is in progress and the stacked face cord of hardwood was scratch built this week.

[james saunders]

"The wagons that sit in the yards, or at a standstill for long periods are the ones targetted normally. Wagons on the move most of the time are relatively graffitti free."

James, I suspect it's kinda hard to paint when you're jogging.

Ray

 

By that I mean our intermodal wagons and the like have little graffitti, our coal, fuel and box wagons are covered in it.

[WCfan]

Great Work every one. It gives me inspiration to look at your works guys.

RRCanuck: Looks really good, can't wait to see it weathered.

mountaingoatgreg: Wow! That thing is HUGE. I hope that was sarcasm because if that's small I can't imagine the size of your layout!

I haven't done much at all this month. I've been working on a diorama, but no need for pictures of that now. At this moment I'm working on my WC P2K SD45. I had got it used, so the body isn't in the best of shape. I'm most disappointed about the roof. There a huge hole I had to fill where the horn was. Anyway I want to model this locomotive pretty close to the proto-type 6588.

Here's a good shot I found off of the internet.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=78781

As you can tell I still need to add the War Flag on the side, and I need to add that thing around the window. (Sorry I don't know what that's called) I also need to make a 3 Window Bay Window. Hopefully a stop to my LHS can fix that.

BTW. Sorry for the darkness.

[mountaingoatgreg]

The windows are from City Classics and they have been custom cut and shaped to fit what as needed. They are pretty easy to cut and use and I have been happy with them so far. The building is made from two walthers Rolling Mills. I am building it for a club in Eugene Oregon and this is just one part of the serviceing facility. Here is a link to their website.

http://www.lsofmrr.org

 Be Wise Beware Be Safe

"Mountain Goat" Greg