Here's a veiw of a mock-up scene with my kitbashed Walthers Rolling mill.
Looking good, everyone!
It's deep night in late autumn in 1942. Local switcher 545 pauses under the coaling tower for a brief rest before the next train arrives in Laurel, Montana.
Mark P.
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Merry Christmas everyone!! This is a christmas present I made for a friend of mine. I painted the containers and put the name of his company on them. I hope he likes it!! (G scale)
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Very nice work everyone, and thank you all for the comments on my own work.
bogp40 wrote:Very nice! Must feel good to restore such a sentimental piece. Even though the origional lettering on the tender was "American Flyer", don't forget that B&O capital dome needs to be highlighted in Dulux gold, maybe you can find the gold lettering or make your own decals for the gold tender and cab no.How many of the origional cars do you have? behind the newly painted box car, I see a tank car.
How many of the origional cars do you have? behind the newly painted box car, I see a tank car.
The one I have actually had slightly different paint and lettering on it (there were a LOT of slightly different lettering and paint schemes on the Royal Blue). The engine was all blue, with "The Royal Blue" in bold yellow, and "566" in silver. The tender had "American Flyer" in silver. Unfortunately, I can't find anyone who makes that style, so I'm going with the bold white lettering used on later S gauge models.
I have all the original cars from the set, which are the boxcar and tanker in the picture, and a lighted caboose. The tanker's paint is in as bad of shape as the boxcar's was, and will need to be repainted some time. The caboose is still pretty good, so I won't repaint it.
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Selector... I've been on the road, so I'm a little late posting, but I really liked your Mike doing the hopper drag, and especially that "Seneca Falls" shot. (Awesome scenery & modeling!!!)
Bob
Darth Santa Fe wrote: Very nice work everyone, and thank you all for the comments on my own work. bogp40 wrote:Very nice! Must feel good to restore such a sentimental piece. Even though the origional lettering on the tender was "American Flyer", don't forget that B&O capital dome needs to be highlighted in Dulux gold, maybe you can find the gold lettering or make your own decals for the gold tender and cab no.How many of the origional cars do you have? behind the newly painted box car, I see a tank car.The one I have actually had slightly different paint and lettering on it (there were a LOT of slightly different lettering and paint schemes on the Royal Blue). The engine was all blue, with "The Royal Blue" in bold yellow, and "566" in silver. The tender had "American Flyer" in silver. Unfortunately, I can't find anyone who makes that style, so I'm going with the bold white lettering used on later S gauge models.I have all the original cars from the set, which are the boxcar and tanker in the picture, and a lighted caboose. The tanker's paint is in as bad of shape as the boxcar's was, and will need to be repainted some time. The caboose is still pretty good, so I won't repaint it.
Check into Microscale for the Dulux gold lettering and no. It may be a pain to put all the individual letters on, but all will match. This sheet may work
http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=70128&Category_Code=NEWRLS&Product_Count=7
Check it out.
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A few pix from Springfield 07. Who is going to 08?
An excursion bears down on us heading towards Twin Peaks.
At Twin Peaks, flying around the curve and over the river doing 60!
We slow for a freight ahead. Once it enters Rogers Yard we should be able to get ahead of it.
Alex
Heres part of my new layout. Its going to be a shape like a S or so. I still have to add some legs and a couple of table tops. I have the backdrop but I need to paint it white for a base color. I will have a yard around the block beam. I will probably box the beam it and make it kinda like a back drop to. I still have a good bit to go.
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Great stuff everyone!
Time for another member into the WPF, as I will finally have an operating layout in the few days to come. Heres a few shots of it so far.
These are from last weekend (Sunday) after myfriend and I finished up for the day.
And today after yesterdays work. We could have finished the mainline today, but he wasn't able to come over.
As you can see, I havent finished laying the mainline, but Its getting there. My friend brought over his MP15AC with sound last night (Athearn Gen) and we ran it a bit up and down while we were working. Should have the main up and running be next weekend, if not sooner, so I'll keep you all updated.
Alec
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Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
I hope I did this right.
I hope this is my LAST layout. I haven't been to happy with the last few. I had to take a break for a bit and had to do some planning on what kind of layout I wanted.
I took a break from the layout today, and will work on it some tomorrow. I still have a good bit to do. I ran out of wood for the peninsula's legs. I had to make a trip to Lowes. I will put the legs there tomorrow, and I am going to add another 2 x 4 sheet on both peninsulas. Big enough for the turn. I will post more pictures tomo.
gcri wrote:I picked up an N scale Atlas SD35 Chessie engine to go with my GP38 as a bit of an early Christmas present to myself.
I picked up an N scale Atlas SD35 Chessie engine to go with my GP38 as a bit of an early Christmas present to myself.
How tragic for you. Surely you have some blue paint and some proper B&O decals to fix that...
Lee
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There's safety in numbers !
Mark B, ya done good! I really like the night image. Just for the edification of onlookers who are wondering how many shots it takes to pull the right one out of the hat, this is one of how many attempts?
Ten Wheeler, thanks for your kind comment. I don't get that many, but when they come like yours, it makes up for the "dry" weekends...probably because the images are so-so.
-Crandell
wm3798 wrote: gcri wrote: I picked up an N scale Atlas SD35 Chessie engine to go with my GP38 as a bit of an early Christmas present to myself. How tragic for you. Surely you have some blue paint and some proper B&O decals to fix that...Lee
gcri wrote: I picked up an N scale Atlas SD35 Chessie engine to go with my GP38 as a bit of an early Christmas present to myself.
Oh, c'mon now Lee, you know that there's many of them that have the RWB under that great paint. Then CSX ruined everything.........
Thanks Johnboy... I appreciate it!
Jarrell
Jarrell, I am impressed, You are doing a terrific job of that background.Tell you what ! I'll be your manager, and we will hire you out we could make a killing.Johnboy out.............James:1 Verse:5Here it comes again. WHHoaa "Wobbly" don't go so fast.
Jarrell,
I am impressed, You are doing a terrific job of that background.
Tell you what ! I'll be your manager, and we will hire you out we could make a killing.
Johnboy out.............
James:1 Verse:5
Here it comes again. WHHoaa "Wobbly" don't go so fast.
wm3798 wrote: How tragic for you. Surely you have some blue paint and some proper B&O decals to fix that...Lee
Run quick Lee. The big bad kitties are banding together!
DigitalGriffin wrote: wm3798 wrote: How tragic for you. Surely you have some blue paint and some proper B&O decals to fix that...Lee Run quick Lee. The big bad kitties are banding together!
That's pretty funny, Lee doesn't have to worry about a thing. He's in "N" scale and they're so small they can hide anywhere. Man what a shot-- can't wait for the N attack to start...
Some oldies form me, as I haven't had much modelling time lately
Jon
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Well at least this one was spared, wasn't it?
My kitties play well with others..
wm3798 wrote: I knew that shot was a little rough... I balanced the camera on the edge of the plexiglass, which was pretty loose. Good idea about the bag of rice, though. I'll have to try that!Lee
I knew that shot was a little rough... I balanced the camera on the edge of the plexiglass, which was pretty loose. Good idea about the bag of rice, though. I'll have to try that!
The bean bag is an old trick when the location doesn't have room for a tripod.
I can fix that color cast for you, too.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Happy Holidays everyone! I've been away traveling for the last couple weeks so not much work getting done on my RR - lot's of good work showing up here though.
Mark B - those efforts you did on the coaling tower have paid off big time. I have the same kit and will eventually get to it. I'll use yours as inspiration - you can do it - you can do it
I've been working in my town and yard area.
Here's the modulars originally.
Here they are with first paint
And, the south end of the yard as it was.
And now
Best to all,
Tom
jon grant wrote:Some oldies form me, as I haven't had much modelling time lately
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I'm amazed I found any time to work on the layout after "honey-do's" and building my friends business computer.
I did get to some field work done on the farm scene....
And a little on the yard and station area....
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I finished striping the last of my roads this weekend.
Unfortunately, this scene is opposite the front of the layout, but I'll know it's done.
Here's the overall view.
A closer shot of the end of the bridge.
This is the view from the front of the layout.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: jon grant wrote:Some oldies form me, as I haven't had much modelling time lately I really like the effect that the black and white has on this photo.
Speaking of OLDIES! -Dates back to about 1935, and this is a Commodore Vanderbilt engine, pulling 3 passenger coaches, and there is another steam engine, a 2-4-0 and 3 freight cras of the same years vintage, a boxcar, a hopper car, and a sunoco tanker car and a cabooseThis was last evenings project.
And everything still works! Power pack is a newer Lionel unit,as is the Lionel Fast track, original track still exists, but is very corroded after 70 plus years.
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Thanks, Don & Crandell.
It only took about four shots - I got lucky. I put the camera on the tripod in the aisle and just by luck had a good position. I took the photo in color, then figured it would look better (more "period," I guess) in black and white. A little cropping and there it was.
On another layout subject, here's a shot of the Milwaukee Staging Yard part of my NP Staging Loop control panel. All occupancy detectors are in place and functioning now.
Wow, I did not realize my picture would cause such a conversation. You should not hate the kitty Lee, in fact I think I heard CSX was thinking about updating their logo to this one