I agree, Austin Redbox. We have raised this matter in the past.
Folks, encouraging and challenging each other is what this thread is all about...that much doesn't need to change. But as has been pleaded many times over the time I have been a member here, when we load this thread with repetitions of the images, it effectively excludes the members who are not able to subscribe to DSL or wideband....it doesn't matter the reason, they just can't. That's one reason.
Also, it makes this thread very long, often running to many pages of those same repetitions.
Would it be okay if we compacted this thread a bit more from now on? It would only take a bit longer to edit out the HTML code for the images if you really must have a quote in your thread. But, it would be preferable, I think, to merely state the person's name and give them the kudos or the question.
Please?
-Crandell
graphitehemi wrote:Next I need to get some shingles, paint and a brick foundation.Not too impressive, but considering it use to be a flat sheet of styrene... I'm proud of it
Next I need to get some shingles, paint and a brick foundation.
Not too impressive, but considering it use to be a flat sheet of styrene... I'm proud of it
Nice work, graphite. Are you following any plan, or just winging it?
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Here is my long weekend project. The Low Gap trestle's backdrop is complete and the rocks are painted. My thanks to the guidance posted on the "layout" side of the forum for the great rock painting tips. The next item is the greenery.
The area to the left where the paint tapers off will be a foreground mountain. Below is a "before" shot of Low Gap.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
MisterBeasley wrote: Wow, people are doing big things this weekend. I did a bit of scenery, and decided to upgrade some horn-hooks. These old log cars were made by a Hong Kong company named Crown back in the early 1960's. They've got 4 trucks apiece, mounted on a swivel bar, with a single mounting point from the bar to the frame. The couplers are mounted on the end of the bar.I took a bunch of pics as I was doing the couplers, and I think I'll try to put together a photo essay on this one. The logs look too plastic right now, too, so the next thing on these will be to remove and paint the logs, and then replace the wire holding them down with chain. I think the cars might need some real weight, too. They don't track all that well.The other Bruce that lives in MA.
Wow, people are doing big things this weekend. I did a bit of scenery, and decided to upgrade some horn-hooks. These old log cars were made by a Hong Kong company named Crown back in the early 1960's. They've got 4 trucks apiece, mounted on a swivel bar, with a single mounting point from the bar to the frame. The couplers are mounted on the end of the bar.
I took a bunch of pics as I was doing the couplers, and I think I'll try to put together a photo essay on this one. The logs look too plastic right now, too, so the next thing on these will be to remove and paint the logs, and then replace the wire holding them down with chain. I think the cars might need some real weight, too. They don't track all that well.
The other Bruce that lives in MA.
Really Like the log cars Mr B
Can't wait to see them with the logs painted !
TerryinTexas
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Hi All,
Hope you are enjoying Thanks Giving! No long week-end here in Australia!
Just a couple of progress shots of the station platform. My fathers been in Hospital for the past 10 weeks recovering from a stroke so the amount of progress on the layout is slower at the moment. Will have to match the colour of the station later!
Original station installed
Platform extension photo 1
Platform extension photo 2
Regards,
Nigel
PS. Sorry about all the junk, they were just very quick photos!
Nice work guys!
Not as pretty as most of yours, but here's the farm house I started this weekend......
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
SteamFreak wrote: SpaceMouse wrote:Bruce and Dave,Nice nice layout pics. Guys, don't you just love those N-scale layouts. They are just so cute! Uh-oh Chip, them's fightin' words!
SpaceMouse wrote:Bruce and Dave,Nice nice layout pics. Guys, don't you just love those N-scale layouts. They are just so cute!
Uh-oh Chip, them's fightin' words!
I'm still too stuffed with turkey to move.
Nice work everyone!
Just fooling around with the camera.
In a stunning surprise to industry observers, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved vast new routes and right of ways for the Silverton Railroad:
Some wags suggest Otto Mears bribed the ICC to get the new routes, but there is NO EVIDENCE supporting these scurrilous allegations.
Chief Engineer C.W. Gibbs drove the crews mercilessly to get the right of way graded and the rail laid for the new lines before winter set its icy grip on the Colorado Rockies:
Delays in shipping postponed finished infrastructure wiring, so the men were tasked with a Holiday Beautification Project, system-wide, which is progressing nicely and may well in fact be completed before the holidays:
Then again, maybe not. It is rumored that the real power behind the Mears throne, a shady figure known only as "jeffers", may be spending too much time knocking out easy multi-pitch rock climbs, and not enough time working the railroad.
Time will tell.
TrainManTy wrote: jktrains wrote: Ty,I like the first 2 night shots better than the others. On the third, the headlight (flashlight?) is too blinding and takes away from see anything else. On the first two there is just enough light to be able to see the subject and around it which causes the viewer to focus on it. Nice, keep experimenting.Thanks!It was a flashlight..... There's NO WAY I could do that with the little headlight of a model loco!The light on the 2nd one was supposed to be from a street lamp which is installed, but not hooked up yet. BTW: How did you do the moon? It looks great!
jktrains wrote: Ty,I like the first 2 night shots better than the others. On the third, the headlight (flashlight?) is too blinding and takes away from see anything else. On the first two there is just enough light to be able to see the subject and around it which causes the viewer to focus on it. Nice, keep experimenting.
Ty,
I like the first 2 night shots better than the others. On the third, the headlight (flashlight?) is too blinding and takes away from see anything else. On the first two there is just enough light to be able to see the subject and around it which causes the viewer to focus on it.
Nice, keep experimenting.
Thanks!
It was a flashlight..... There's NO WAY I could do that with the little headlight of a model loco!
The light on the 2nd one was supposed to be from a street lamp which is installed, but not hooked up yet.
BTW: How did you do the moon? It looks great!
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Tis the season when the MOW car becomes the dining car. Today the MOW is back in opperation and I begin my Rusty Stumps water tank kit.
Cheese wrote:Sorry,But #40, is not a sister engine to #60, who, as you know, is a Great Western Railroad locomotive. It was built by Baldwin new for the Lanchaster and Chester Railway, here in South Carolina. When #40 became surplus after World War 2, it was sold to the Cliffside Railroad in North Carolina.
But #40, is not a sister engine to #60, who, as you know, is a Great Western Railroad locomotive. It was built by Baldwin new for the Lanchaster and Chester Railway, here in South Carolina. When #40 became surplus after World War 2, it was sold to the Cliffside Railroad in North Carolina.
Duly noted. It seems I was given some false information by a member of the BR&W staff that they both came from the GW.
It then migrated north to its current home. While it probably will never happen, it has always been a dream of mine to bring the #40 back to South Carolina where she belongs, rather than running for a, pardon the word, as no offense is meant, "yankee" toruist road.
Not if I have anything to say about it.
SteamFreak wrote: SpaceMouse wrote:Bruce and Dave,Nice nice layout pics. Guys, don't you just love those N-scale layouts. They are just so cute! Uh-oh Chip, them's fightin' words! Great work, everyone! Thanks for the nice comments about my pictures. Bob, your shop pictures are more realistic than my shots of the real thing. Colin, yes the BR&W staff are about the nicest I've run into, and their passion for their work is undeniable. Even the reading material in their restroom was Trains magazine! The smokebox photo and the closeup of the drivers were taken a week prior to the others, and it was dark in there because the shop doors were closed on that first visit. I was doing my best to get everything in frame while not taking a ride on the rows of spare flues, or getting tangled in the welding gear.Here's a few I forgot to include. I stuck my head inside the firebox to get a shot of #60's new flues and grate. The large pipes circulate water to the water jacket surrounding the firebox.Yes, the overturned bucket is for sitting.The BR&W headquarters are in Ringoes, NJ, a very rural farming town not far east of the Delaware and new Hope, PA. Number 60's sister engine, ex-Great Western 2-8-0 #40 is currently in service on the New Hope & Ivyland. The tracks southwest from Ringoes to Lambertville, New Hope's companion town on the NJ side of the river, have been condemned. They would like to restore that trackage, but the funds are lacking. The excursions I rode in the early 70's behind #60 went all the way to Lambertville.Here's something for the Pennsy fans.Beside the shop with #60, this privately owned PRR Doodlebug is showing its age. In the 70's the paint was fresh and it ran regular excursions. I never rode it, because I was too preoccupied with #60. I don't know what the owners' plans are for it.This round-top boxcar is also privately owned, and is undergoing restoration. I don't think there are too many examples of these around anymore.Their trackage was originally a branch of the Pennsylvania, so there's a good bit of Pennsy equipment stored here. There's also a restored PRR flatcar, caboose, and an ore jimmy. And they let us climb on any piece of equipment we wanted, even a caboose with no floor! End of the line in Ringoes, looking towards Lambertville from the back of a coach stored there, where the trains used to run.
Great work, everyone! Thanks for the nice comments about my pictures. Bob, your shop pictures are more realistic than my shots of the real thing. Colin, yes the BR&W staff are about the nicest I've run into, and their passion for their work is undeniable. Even the reading material in their restroom was Trains magazine!
The smokebox photo and the closeup of the drivers were taken a week prior to the others, and it was dark in there because the shop doors were closed on that first visit. I was doing my best to get everything in frame while not taking a ride on the rows of spare flues, or getting tangled in the welding gear.
Here's a few I forgot to include. I stuck my head inside the firebox to get a shot of #60's new flues and grate. The large pipes circulate water to the water jacket surrounding the firebox.
Yes, the overturned bucket is for sitting.The BR&W headquarters are in Ringoes, NJ, a very rural farming town not far east of the Delaware and new Hope, PA. Number 60's sister engine, ex-Great Western 2-8-0 #40 is currently in service on the New Hope & Ivyland. The tracks southwest from Ringoes to Lambertville, New Hope's companion town on the NJ side of the river, have been condemned. They would like to restore that trackage, but the funds are lacking. The excursions I rode in the early 70's behind #60 went all the way to Lambertville.
Here's something for the Pennsy fans.
Beside the shop with #60, this privately owned PRR Doodlebug is showing its age. In the 70's the paint was fresh and it ran regular excursions. I never rode it, because I was too preoccupied with #60. I don't know what the owners' plans are for it.
This round-top boxcar is also privately owned, and is undergoing restoration. I don't think there are too many examples of these around anymore.
Their trackage was originally a branch of the Pennsylvania, so there's a good bit of Pennsy equipment stored here. There's also a restored PRR flatcar, caboose, and an ore jimmy. And they let us climb on any piece of equipment we wanted, even a caboose with no floor!
End of the line in Ringoes, looking towards Lambertville from the back of a coach stored there, where the trains used to run.
Sorry,
Cheese
Nick! :)
jktrains wrote:Ty,I like the first 2 night shots better than the others. On the third, the headlight (flashlight?) is too blinding and takes away from see anything else. On the first two there is just enough light to be able to see the subject and around it which causes the viewer to focus on it. Nice, keep experimenting.
Dustin wrote: Railphotog wrote: Although the Canadian Thanksgiving has already come and gone, this railroad employee is doing his part to celebrate the US Thanksgiving: Happy Thanksgiving!Bob,Is this an Athabasca model?2nd question: should the roof be black on this caboose... I don't recall seeing any with yellow roofs. I love both models!
Railphotog wrote: Although the Canadian Thanksgiving has already come and gone, this railroad employee is doing his part to celebrate the US Thanksgiving: Happy Thanksgiving!
Although the Canadian Thanksgiving has already come and gone, this railroad employee is doing his part to celebrate the US Thanksgiving:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bob,
Is this an Athabasca model?
2nd question: should the roof be black on this caboose... I don't recall seeing any with yellow roofs. I love both models!
No, it's a kitbash, made from two Athearn wide vision cabeese. Built it following Patrick Lawson's article in RMC many years ago - a lot of work!
I don't recall re the roof, I have prototype photos that I took, can't recall if I could see the roof in them or not. They are buried somewhere in the 20 albums of prototype photos that I have. I assume yellow is either correct or one of the ways they were painted, as it would have been noted in the article too.
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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All the added details to the front pilot give it that more "cluttered and alive" look.
The biggest change comes from replacing the cast fans with Cannon fans.
Before:
After:
Surprisingly, not a difficult conversion, probably takes an hour or so to do.
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
I'm close enough to finishing the project to be able to post some pics. I've been detailing an Athearn SD40-2.
Here's the front shot before:
Here's the front shot after details have been added:
Details added include: new snow plow with grab irons added, mu box, air hoses, coupler lift bar, grab irons on the nose, #58 coupler, drop step, new headlight with bulbs replacing the original lenses, removed horn and relocated and replaced with brass and working rotary beacon.
Other details added, but no showing, include; Cannon fans for both DB and radiator, lift rings, etched brass steps, etched brass safety walkways, and grab irons.
The last time I was there, I don't recall seeing the doodlebug. I hate to see any RR equipment in that condition.
A Thanksgiving excursion train ran through the layout today.
Yes, Chip, it's another one of those cute little N scale layouts.(LOL)
TrainManTy wrote: OK, I fixed the links. They're now on photobucket. Can you see them?EDIT: Love the CP caboose!
OK, I fixed the links. They're now on photobucket. Can you see them?
EDIT: Love the CP caboose!
Yep all better now Ty thanks !
Love the second photo looks very real !
My little contribution. The urban outdoorsman has his choice of rides... maybe. The train coming down the track or the truck waiting to cross them.
I really enjoy seeing other peoples work in threads like this!
JaRRell