A recent image of my Christmas gift. Had a bit of trouble with the connector to the cab receptacle, but it seems to be fine now, and running very nicely.
trainnut1250 wrote: A few from the Willoughby Line:A Cab Forward arrives in Arvin. Another Cab Forward shot. Reefers sit in the sun. Caboose rolling through. Something for the brass fans. Guy
A few from the Willoughby Line:
A Cab Forward arrives in Arvin.
Another Cab Forward shot.
Reefers sit in the sun.
Caboose rolling through.
Something for the brass fans.
Guy
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
The mill switcher pulls an empty bottle car from the ingot mold foundry.
The foundry is the walthers American Millwork Co. kit, and the bottle car is another walthers kit. Today I hope to begin laying track at this end of the layout.
selector wrote: Trainnut (Guy), your tall grass in the one image is wonderful. I wish I could do mine like that. -Crandell
Trainnut (Guy), your tall grass in the one image is wonderful. I wish I could do mine like that.
-Crandell
Crandall,
What you are seeing is my tall grass experimnet. On one side of the taller bush I used a weed that is common in CA and gives a finer, less even texture. On the other side of the taller bush I used woodland sceneics horse hair grass. Both techniques require enormous amounts of time and patience - way too much to cover a large area. It took a couple of painstaking hours to do those patches. With the woodland scenics grass I discovered that it is too "Paintbrush like" most of the time. To combat this Tendency I spread the bottom of the clump out as much as possible before setting it in the glue. This makes the clumps a little less dense and more realistic looking.
Next up is the Siflor patches and the sweat shirt fuzz. Then on to fake fur and eventually what I hope will be my savior (although expensive): static grass.
BTW: nice x-mas present!!
New Haven: Yes I believe that is a Westside P-8. I bought it with out a box, mainly because I loved the paint job. Although it doesn't show too well in the photo, It is the classic grey paint job that looks kinda retro to my eye. Took several tries and the "Dance of brass" to make it run decently. I didn't photoshop the light, I used a superbright LED in the headlight and it comes out that way when you use a slow exposure...Might have to tone it down some
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Nice pics everyone. Crandell, I guess the "nothing new til the old stuff dies" rule was suspended for the holidays ; ) Lots of nice pics this weekend, and Tom, your efforts on the city look like they're paying off nicely.
Not a whole heckuva lot to show. Did a bit of work on the new spur I showed a week ago...
Some ballasting...
A little ground cover...
And a touch of foliage. Now I have to go get some of that tall grass ; )
Cheers.
RRCanuck, you ballast waaay better'n I do. Nice setting. I'll hope to see more of it later with some lighting set up and an engine. (?)
I retired an IHC Mike that had been damaged and repaired, but not well. So, lost one and gosh if another wasn't right there in the wings waiting for a chance. Amazing, eh? I can't explain the earlier Atlas Train Master H22-66. I slipped, I guess. The only item I have left to add is a caboose for the Y6b. I have more of the general rolling stock than I need at present, so I might as well get to putting more trees on the layout and finishing the industry areas. MRR expenses have come to a close. Whew!
Crandell, a bit of planning goes a long way. You should have stocked up on Tyco junk before you made the pledge of limiting your purchases to replacements only ; ) I can send you some gratis if you think it'll work : )
As for the pics, yeah, they were not intended to be "art"...I'll be taking off again for another 2-month stint next week or the week after, so I'll try to take a whack of pics before I go so I can play around with them while I'm gone.
Guilford Guy wrote: TrainManTy wrote:Wow. I use Code 100 Atlas track, it's nice to know it's possible to disguise the oversised rail that well!Oh, it isn't too hard Tyler! I'm still working on my GP40MC. So far I've lowered the cab, filled in the windows. I need to raise the windows a bit. I lowered the cab so I can install the AC on the roof. I've added the CN anticlimber and ditchlights. I've removed the nose door, and the markers and number boards above the windows. I need to file down the bottom of the plow...
TrainManTy wrote:Wow. I use Code 100 Atlas track, it's nice to know it's possible to disguise the oversised rail that well!
Oh, it isn't too hard Tyler!
I'm still working on my GP40MC. So far I've lowered the cab, filled in the windows. I need to raise the windows a bit. I lowered the cab so I can install the AC on the roof. I've added the CN anticlimber and ditchlights. I've removed the nose door, and the markers and number boards above the windows. I need to file down the bottom of the plow...
Well yeah, if you bury it in ballast!
Do the ditchlights operate?
PASMITH wrote:Guy, I love your PFE reefer blocks. How many cars do you have and who is the manufacturer? It looks like a Broadway Limited AC-4 pulling them?Peter Smith, Memphis
Thanks for the compliments loathar and RRCanuck!
Finished the windows this morning.
Regards,
Tom
Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Thanks for the compliments loathar and RRCanuck!Finished the windows this morning.Regards,
My compliments to the chef!
From what did you make that stone wall under it?
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Art
Beautiful job on that tank!
Art, looks great! Your shot of the roundhouse begs for a shot of your layout back there, looks amazing!
Tom, love the building, the sun shades add so much, and ofcourse the logos and signs on the roof!
Alex, the kitbash looks to be going pretty good! Keep it up.
Since my shots were taken, I have finished the mainline, and am now starting on the yard. But, before this I was out of supplies and bored, so I played around with the camera a bit. Enjoy,
My New Pulpwood cars that I got for Christmas. Great cars!
And my two Athearn RTR SOO SD60s sitting with a State Trooper.
Happy New Year,
Alec
Thanks for the compliment Phobe Vet.
The stone wall is embossed paper that can be purchased from Scenic Express http://www.sceneryexpress.com - comes in 12 and 24 inch lengths by 6 inches tall.
Search on stone walls
I finally got some time off this week to finish a freight terminal, add a water tower and do some landscaping. I still have some details to add but wanted to add my contribution this weekend.
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
trainnut1250 wrote: PASMITH wrote:Guy, I love your PFE reefer blocks. How many cars do you have and who is the manufacturer? It looks like a Broadway Limited AC-4 pulling them?Peter Smith, MemphisPeter,Nice to see another reefer block fan. I have about 30 or so right now. They are mostly Red Caboose and Intermountain kits. I recently put together a batch of 12, kinda made things a little more realistic in terms of train length (at least in modeling terms). I figure I need about 15 more to meet the operating scheme of the layout. I have the kits sitting in boxes waiting for the inspiration (and time). The Cab Forward is a BLI AC-5. (I had to go look at the side of the loco to be sure). I have the BLI AC 4 and 5. Not as well detailed as the Intermountain AC-12, but the BLIs are not as finnicky about trackwork as the Intermountain loco and run very well.Guy
This is a photo of , the Stock yard and Processing plant on my HO layout.
PASMITH wrote: trainnut1250 wrote: PASMITH wrote:Guy, I love your PFE reefer blocks. How many cars do you have and who is the manufacturer? It looks like a Broadway Limited AC-4 pulling them?Peter Smith, MemphisPeter,Nice to see another reefer block fan. I have about 30 or so right now. They are mostly Red Caboose and Intermountain kits. I recently put together a batch of 12, kinda made things a little more realistic in terms of train length (at least in modeling terms). I figure I need about 15 more to meet the operating scheme of the layout. I have the kits sitting in boxes waiting for the inspiration (and time). The Cab Forward is a BLI AC-5. (I had to go look at the side of the loco to be sure). I have the BLI AC 4 and 5. Not as well detailed as the Intermountain AC-12, but the BLIs are not as finnicky about trackwork as the Intermountain loco and run very well.GuyGuy, I live in Memphis and in October of each year our local modular group sets up in the Pink Palace museum. We run 113 car coal trains which only take up about a third of our main line. I am an SP fan and a friend of mine decided that we need to run reefer blocks next year. We hope to have at least 50. He has an AC-4 and I have a Riverrossi AC-12 which is nowhere near as detailed as the Intermountain but runs much better. My friend bought the Intermountain but the wheels were so out of gauge that he had to send it back. I am currently in San Diego and the La Mesa club purchased a lot of them. I was told they are going through a major re-motor/gearing project to get them to run at prototypical top speed. PS: My home RR is SP 1909 (See Attched)Peter Smith, Memphis
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I've reached a real milestone in terms of layout construction - the earliest beginnings of scenery!
For me that means painted backdrop and fascia installation.
Here's the first - a section of backdrop behind Glenrock siding. The sky is a bit splotchy because the paint was still wet in a few spots when the photo was taken:
Here's the latter - the first section of fascia, in front of Glenrock siding and Minneapolis staging:
The fascia cutouts need to be cleaned up and the fascia painted, after I make cutouts for the DCC throttle sockets and such.
The cutouts in the fascia will provide access to Minneapolis Staging once the land is in place around Glenrock siding and there is no direct access from above anymore. Here a 2-10-2 is sitting on Glenrock siding with boxcars in Minneapolis Staging below:
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
I'm one of a group of modelers building a layout based on the HOG concept http://www.layoutdesignservice.com/lds/samples/betterbeginnerlayout.htm which was initiated by Scott Perry a year or so ago. Though I'm not a true "beginner" (time in retirement to be serious about trains again!), this layout concept favors operation, is very flexible and fit my space/footprint almost perfectly- so I chose this general layout design, adding and subtracting here and there. My version is loosly based on the eastern Pa L&NE and is MRC Prodigy Advance DCC based. All benchwork (wall brackets to studs supporting foam topped "ladders") and track (Peco Cd 83 throughout) is complete and trains run (and sound!) well. Scenery work is now beginning and this week I was working on some hills in one corner of the layout (9 x 11 around-the-walls spare bedroom). I used foam blocks for the elevations and filled in with newspaper and masking tape lattice. Then I added Woodland Scenics plaster cloth. Sculptamold colored earth brown will go on next. Eventually this terrain will be planted solidly with trees as seen in eastern Pennsylvania, however the facing cut will be Plaster of Paris limestone castings. More to come...
Inspirational stuff on here, as ever.
My B&M GP38-2 glimpsed through the clouds. This photo didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, and I deleted about 30 others, but it was fun to try. The admittedly low cloud is hand-held cotton wool, blowing in the breeze from the open window. Would've been better with a higher ceiling
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Brunton wrote: I've reached a real milestone in terms of layout construction - the earliest beginnings of scenery!For me that means painted backdrop and fascia installation. Here's the first - a section of backdrop behind Glenrock siding. The sky is a bit splotchy because the paint was still wet in a few spots when the photo was taken:Snip
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Wow what a big improvement !
Sure beats looking at water pipes et all
TerryinTexas
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Phoebe Vet wrote:Clouds should be white when viewed from above. If you have Photoshop, send me an e-mail, I'll give you some tips for your next try......
Yep, good point I was trying to achieve the look without image software, but the camera cast a shadow onto the cotton wool. I did manage to get some with white clouds, but the ground was blurry in those pics. Ah well, it was only an experiment.
I might try again sometime when I'm feeling adventurous. Standing on a wobbly chair over the layout isn't something I want to do every day.
Cheers,
Got a start at least on my newest project; the Branchline Engine-house by Crystal River Products. Finished the four wall sections over the course of the weekend. It's a wood kit, so assembly is pretty straight forward using regular carpenter's glue.
I purchased the optional interior detail kit, which includes adhesive-backed veneer simulating plank siding, and lots and lots of individual 2X6 wall studs. Placing those studs is the part of the process that takes time and patience. (The image is upside down BTW.)
The finish is wood stain on the inside and acrylic paint on the outside. The doors and windows are next, they are build-ups not plastic inserts. Should be interesting!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Finally got my first train video up on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZoMLGPMykw
Enjoy!