Weekend Photo Fun 01-19-08

[Anonymous]

Good point! You could just prop it up behind that building.

[wm3798]

You might want to re-take it with a sheet of blue plywood (or better yet, foam) propped up behind the scene so you can't see those ceiling tiles....

I'd need an awfully big piece of foam...  The layout fills a 50x50 space.  I don't think a wee bit of photoshopping would hurt anyone's feelings...

Lee

[WCfan]

and the shot of the day...

I kept a full size file of that one... I'm going to send it in to MR to see if they'll pick it up.

Lee

Nice work every one!

I'm guessing that is a PRR SD45, right? (6140) Long live the SD45s.

[beegle55]

Since this is a extended weekend for some, here are some progress pics on extending Bald Mountain. Gotta love big mountain projects with foam and cardboard and plaster... going everywhere.

 -beegle55

 

[Anonymous]

and the shot of the day...

I kept a full size file of that one... I'm going to send it in to MR to see if they'll pick it up.

Lee

You might want to re-take it with a sheet of blue plywood (or better yet, foam) propped up behind the scene so you can't see those ceiling tiles....

[AltoonaRailroader]

Nice work evryone.

Especially sweet Brian M.

Driline thats shaping up well. Is that Woodland Scenic field grass?

Heres some stuff from me.

Yeah, I would love to see a forum clinic on how Aggro does that AWSOME weathering. Mabye he already has a I'm just too new.


Aggro, Thats really good weathering on the Frisco hopper. I'd like to read a thread of how you weather and did those rusty spots.

[wm3798]

Good weekend for the train geek of the house. On Saturday, the wife took the kids to a birthday party up in B'more, so I had the ranch to myself for awhile.
It was great, because there's lots of stuff that I can do... paint shutters, work on the taxes, finish up a foundation plan for a client... So naturally I spent the day in the train room...

As usually, I sought inspiration by running some trains....

Then I started working on one of the RS-3's that Bufkin sent me in trade for doing brain surgery on some of his locomotives.... I was able to strip, detail, paint and letter it before bed time.

So please, welcome newly christened #191 to the fleet!

I also got some weathering done to a couple of pieces of rolling stock. I'm using various washes of craft acrylic, thinned with dirty water.

Then today, to cap it off, RockGP40 and I adventured off to Delmar, Delaware to the Delmarva Model Railroad Club open house. Before we got there, though, we stopped to watch the local NS power get tied down for the night.

There we are getting cozy with an SD-40-2.

Then it was up the street a block or so to the club.

There's a lot more posted on my web gallery, but here's a couple of samples of what we saw...
N Scale -

HO Scale -

and the shot of the day...

I kept a full size file of that one... I'm going to send it in to MR to see if they'll pick it up.

Lee

[Bapou]

Great photos everyone!

Here is the grim reaper in the graveyard:

ATVer driving off a cliff:

 

Dog atacks mailman:

 

Detailed and lighted NJT cab car:

Have a good week! 

[beegle55]

Well there is an all around fence around the zoo, but I haven't got to the protective fencing. I think instead I might get creative with the scene, you've given me a better idea. I'll keep you updated on what I do to it... hehe.

 -beegle55

[Anonymous]

Beegle55: I've never seen a zoo on a layout before! Cool! If you don't mind some constructive critisism, you might want to put some fences up between the animals and people so no one gets eaten! (Zebras/humans)

I've been working on a river, which I hope to pour tomorrow if all goes well, and foresting my pass some more, (a NEVERENDING job!!!) but I found some time to take a few misc. photos.

(Above) Train 403 rumbles past the New Poland, NH depot.

(Above) Snowplow extra 431 charges the pass.

[C&O Fan]

Snip

 

Picture of the train rounding the bend

 -beegle55

So did you wave when you went through Thurmond ?

 

Hope that Tiger isn't a man eater !

[luvadj]

I really didn't want to work on the layout this weekend but instead, I started a new little project I could pack up and take with me anywhere....

[Driline]

I've been wanting to put a few pics on here for weeks but haven't had much to show except benchwork. 

I'm finally starting to lay roadbed.  I was given good advice & tips from several members here which made the process go much easier and faster.  Here are a few pics of my staging area where I started laying the cork roadbed.

Your benchwork looks well built and nicely laid out. Very nice....

[beegle55]

Here are my contributions, finally. Thought I was going to have to toss my computer out the window because my camera was being difficult. But I won. Heres what Ive got:

Tourists at the Bald Mountain Zoo getting up close and personal

Workers on the Bald Mountain loading dock and office.

And here are some shots from the senic trip from Huntington, WV to Hinton, WV]

New River Gorge Bridge

From a different angle

Picture of the train rounding the bend

 -beegle55

[eeyore9900]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of grafitti, but your ability to copy the prototype is remarkable!!!  It almost looks like you photographed the original & made decals from it!!  How did you ever get the ATW114169 on the truck?!!  GREAT JOB!!!!

Thanks Lou-I used the smallest font of an N scale alphabet decal sheet-all I can say is after doing these, I have that much more respect for the N scale folk as they have to deal with that small size on a regular basis.

I do the graffiti by hand, as I don't have the means to replicate in decal form. 

[WCfan]

Well here's my work for the weekend.

A SOO 50' Pulg door boxcar I made into a wood chip hopper.

Here's the crew doing a drop move.

Here's the brake man stopping the car.

Here are some prototype shots.

http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/c598861.html

[beegle55]

Nice work everyone. I'm planning on doing some work during the later part of today so I might fire up the camera and put some pictures on here before the weekend is over. It's went by so fast... thats not good. But I do have tomorrow off so it is a three day weekend, which is good.

 -beegle55

[MisterBeasley]

I looked at this picture, and thought, "That guy looks like me, saying 'Hmmm...could I do this in HO?' "  If you don't mind, I'm going to try to copy those welding tanks.  That's really, really nice detail work.  Thanks.

[Driline]

Great work everybody.

loather and Mike, nice job on the buildings.

Aggro, Mitch, weathering and detail work  look great.

Driline, got any pics from trailer park guys camera?

As a matter of fact I do! Unfortunately the "Forum cops" would probably yank that picture in no time flat.

[OKrlroads]

Great work everybody.

loather and Mike, nice job on the buildings.

Aggro, Mitch, weathering and detail work  look great.

Driline, got any pics from trailer park guys camera?

[Cox 47]

This is a IC SW 8 spotting a Staley Shorty Tanker in on the Greenup team track on my N scale layout....COx 47

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Getting this E7-A E6-B lashup into operation has been my weekend project. Both are donations and they both needed some work. The E7 had a bad light board and a broken gear. The E6 has bad pickups in the front truck, other than that it's fine. I removed the lightboard from the E7, wired in a 12v bulb and wired the pickups directly to the motor and light. I then ran wires from the good pickups in the E6 and connected them to the E7 and added a drawbar between the units. They are now permantly coupled together. Being that both units are powered the set can pull a string of more than thirty cars without a problem. It's going to be fun putting decoders into these two locos.

 

[fiatfan]

When the local Critters went down for the count, a friendly neighbor loaned the town of Adobe Flats a couple of locos for a few days until the critters have been repaired.  The local folks were rather surprised to see what was switching the local pet food plant.

 

Tom 

[lvanhen]

Well, after a very aggravating 2007, I'm finally able to post a some pics of my 1st car since last winter-Proto pic 1st:

 

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of grafitti, but your ability to copy the prototype is remarkable!!!  It almost looks like you photographed the original & made decals from it!!  How did you ever get the ATW114169 on the truck?!!  GREAT JOB!!!!

[reklein]

OH MAN!!!, no more pictures of cool G gauge stuff please. I don't need another hobby. I been eyeing a spot in my yard for a year or two now and keep resisting.

[Bill54]

I've been wanting to put a few pics on here for weeks but haven't had much to show except benchwork. 

I'm finally starting to lay roadbed.  I was given good advice & tips from several members here which made the process go much easier and faster.  Here are a few pics of my staging area where I started laying the cork roadbed.

[saronaterry]

here's mine:

[Dave Vollmer]

Here's another shot of my N scale PRR H10sb I reboilered last weekend:

Here's another look at the mods required to fit a decoder (in this case, a TCS M1 under the electrical tape) and to fit the narrow modified Minitrix K4 a boiler/firebox/smokebox:

Once upon a time I was scared to hardwire a DCC decoder...  No longer.  TCS is great because they have a no-questions asked "goof-proof" warranty; you toast it, they replace it for free!  I toasted one my very first try, and they replaced it for free.  So I highly recommend TCS.  I've also hardwired Digitrax DZ123s.

This weekend we actually had some snow in North Carolina (no, this ain't Pennsylvania so it actually makes the news!) so I had lots of modeling time.

I took a new Walthers GSC flat lettered as a Pennsy F41 (front, nice little car, so I can forgive the incorrect deck for the PRR F41) and painted up and weathered the deck to look like wood.  I also made a load of pipes from styrene tubes. 

The other flat (rear) is an Athearn flat also representing a PRR F41.  The load next to it is a slightly modified Hay Borthers Garage load.

Two obviously different cars representing the same car class and number series?  The proto police are probably speeding to my house with a warrant right now...!

[secondhandmodeler]

For anyone who asks Mr. Aggro about his weathering techniques, you won't get far.  He makes money off of his creations, so it's kind of like asking a chef for their recipes.  "Oh sure, you take water, tomatoes, garlic, sugar, SPICES, and mix it together."  Just so you know.  Maybe I'm wrong.   

[Railphotog]

Been scanning some of my old black and white prints for posting on another forum, might as well do it here too:

 

(click on photo to enlarge)

This is a double exposure of my kitbashed CN C-Liner, made from an AHM shell many, many moons ago.  Shot the chassis without the body, added the shell and made the second exposure on the same film frame.  Haven't tried such an effect with digital, could possibly be done by combining two images in layers.  But that is way beyond my interests at this time!