Weekend Photo Fun 2-1-08

[jacon12]

 Thanks Don, I appreciate it.

J. 

 

Jarrell,

Great photo....you're an artist with the camera!

Don Z.

[dragenrider]

I guess it's about time I did a little contributing of my own.  Below are some photos of my recent background rock work at the Crossroads on my layout.  After making the landforms and testing the track, I test fit the buildings and signs.  Here's the progress so far:

 

In addition, I've been test fitting the road and railroad trestle over the highway just east of the Crossroads. 

 

My next project is to start the terra-forming for Tucker Hollow, the next spur up the track from the Crossroads.  Tucker Hollow is named after my deceased father-in-law, who gave me the partially finished water tower seen here.

 

My next month's work is cut out for me.  I'll be building more mountains, painting the backdrop, and laying some asphalt roads.

[tomkat-13]

 

  The track is down, now it is ready for weathering & ballast.

   For earlier photos check post in link below.

   http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1315698/ShowPost.aspx

[Robby P.]

Great looking photos as usual.  I have nothing this weekend, due to my layout is under redo I guess you can.  Yes again.  I can't seem to find a good one I have happy with.  I am leaning towards doing a switchers layout.  No mainline, but some sidings and some plants, mills,  etc.  I really like the layout in this months mag "Iron Works".  Now, that is something I would LOVE to do. 

[MRH044]

I wanted to post a pic that was something other than my usual MOW cars. This is my HO layout that I work on when the weather is too bad to run the G scale layout. The Super Chief makes a stop at the station before departing on its way to Los Angeles.  Enjoy,  Michael

[loathar]

dragenrider -Love that white house!

[claycts]

Photos are great folks. now time for a laugh. Trying my luck at scenery

[howmus]

Good work, all of you.  I always love this thread each week!

 

I have been using what little time I had to add the beginnings of a scratch built silo to the barn.  This is about 30% done and have to put a roof on it finish the staves, paint it, and attach it to the barn (would be much closer to being finished but I ran out of the size wood I was using and am waiting for a package from Kappler to arrive).  Ultimately the silo will be painted white as was the old Wood Stave Silo on the dairy farm I grew up on.  My Father made farming history with that old silo.  Got it written up in several farming magazines and in the local paper.  Almost 200 people showed to see him fail the day he had it moved intact from one side of the barn to the other to be next to the Grange concrete stave silo.  BTW it was a success and we got about 10 more years out the old girl before Dad didn't think it was going to hold up any more.  She fell down of her own accord about 30 years ago.  I figured it would be a good addition to the barn in 1925.





From the other side of the mountain (What the bear saw):



I will have to scratch build the silo chopper/loader as well and an old style canvas belt to run from it to a belt tractor.  Then the corn can be brought in to fill the silo.  (Hmmmm, of course then it won't be correct for august around here....  We didn't start harvesting corn for silage until late September........)  Oh well, I'm gonna do it anyway! :D

BTW, since this is supposed to be Plainville Turkey farm as it might have been in 1925 (both a dairy and Turkey farm), does anyone know where domestic 1/87 turkeys can be had?????

[chadw]

This was today's project.  Getting this bottle car weathered, lettered, and installing Kadees on it.

[outdoorsfellar]

Today I made trees for my Allegheny & Cumberland. Since nobody offered to contribute to my tree & shrub fund, I made a trip to Hobby Lobby & paid their outrageous price for foliage clusters.... again. Normally I buy this stuff in bulk online, but the end result with what I want to make, was worth the price... compared to buying trees. I've been wanting to add pine trees, so I took bits of the foliage & impaled them onto pointed sticks until I got the desired look & height. I used extra thin kish kabob sticks after I painted them. Each tree took perhaps 30 seconds to make, so what I did accomplish today, didn't take long .....
 

 

 

 
I have quite a few yet to make to fill in the gaps between the trees. There was no need to use any adhesive which helped speed things up.

[Blood Stained Angel]

Great work all, loved the water - that will be one of my next challenges. I spent the weekend touching up scenery and starting on forestation. One thing about taking photos - they mercilessly show up where more work needs to be done.

Any way this is the UTS (Ulladulla Tabourie Shortline) What some of you were thinking applies to my photography and scenery building skills.

Overall viw of peninsula portion.

Scratchbuilt Howe Truss trestle

Bachman 2-8-0 descends 3% grade.

Transition join - Shina code 70 to Peco code 75 Railheads match perfectly.

Enjoy your Sunday all. Bed and work for us down under!

 

[reklein]

Howmus,since when do turkeys eat silage?? I know,I know, just kidding.

[Driline]

Photos are great folks. now time for a laugh. Trying my luck at scenery

Hey Man....NICE FROSTING! Whens the cake gonna be done?

Seriously it will look a whole lot better once you start throwing that grass down and putting weeds & trees in there.

[Driline]

 

  The track is down, now it is ready for weathering & ballast.

  For earlier photos check post in link below.

   http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1315698/ShowPost.aspx

How long did it take you to line up your tools like that?

I would ballast AFTER you get some scenery in. Others do it opposite though. Its just that it looks like most railroads lay ballast on top of grass & weeds and such. So if you do it opposite you need to be carefull on how it all plays out.

[steinjr]

  Well, this weekend I got the backdrop painted blue, and started laying track. Still a long way to go, but it is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, slowly:

 

 Westwards view from the Poly Tech Pipe Co spur near the eastern end of Airlake industrial park.

The industrial park running track disappears westwards to the left between Twin City Brick Co (the low blue modern warehouse on the left) and Menasha Publishing (center rear). In the left rear you can see Crown Cork and Seal (red brick building).

 To the east, the running track curves down towards the lower right hand corner of image, with the track to the unloading rack at ChemCorp branching off to the left (top center/right).

 Track plan (image above is the one labelled A in track plan below):

Smile,
Stein

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

MGRy 422 leaving the barn at dawn.

 

[Tom Bryant_MR]

It's been 4 weeks since I've done anything on my layout - work, work, work and more work - at work.  So, thanks to all of you, I have a bit of the juices flowing again.

This morning finally put the fire escape on the Taylor City hall annex.

 

 

Regards,

[saronaterry]

Hi ,all!

Got some more scenery in and ran trains. Sorry 'bout the dust.

[graphitehemi]

I got a bit more work done on my scratchbuilt warehouse:

Next up is to install the flashing red / green dock lights!

Then onto the rooftop. I think I'm going to do a gravel roof.

[Driline]

I got a bit more work done on my scratchbuilt warehouse:

Next up is to install the flashing red / green dock lights!

Then onto the rooftop. I think I'm going to do a gravel roof.

Great color scheme. Thats coming along nicely.

[zgardner18]

Guys,

Here is my next project that I have been working on this week.  It's a Athearn Blue Box BNSF H1 Dash-9 that I had for a long time and couldn't part with it for these new RTRs.  I've added working ditchlights and a whole mess of other things.  I even purchased new railings from Athearn and cut up the window piece and inserted them into the window openings (would have worked if I would have used the right kind of glue.  Oh well, it just looks like the windows are getting fogged up).  The unit still isn't finish and I'm sorry because I don't like posting something that isn't finish. 

The other unit is a Kato AC4400 that I too have been working on.  All it needs is some Kadees and the upper nose grab irons to be painted the right color.

[howmus]

Howmus,since when do turkeys eat silage?? I know,I know, just kidding.

LOL, I was waiting for this one!  If and when I do get the Turkey pen and shed up and running (aka: built) and find something that will look anything like domestic turkeys to use, I will have to at least put up a corn crib.  That shouldn't be too difficult to scratch build.....

[C&O Fan]

Snip

Zak

Great looking Locos

But why are they sitting on a shelf ?

They are too pretty to be dust bunnys

[zgardner18]

Terry,

You bring out a great point, but when you have no layout and the club that you were once attending has now had to move once again but not have a place to go, All I have is this computer desk that I use to work on my fleet and talk to you guys.  Some day they will be finished and pulling a long stack train up the Mullan Pass of my future dream layout.  In the mean time a shelf is better than a box.

[Anonymous]

Sweet loocos Zak!

I filmed a tour of my layout, which is in a playlist of all my White River Southern videos.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3712049E7AB9A34 

Enjoy! 

[aav]

Sweet loocos Zak!

I filmed a tour of my layout, which is in a playlist of all my White River Southern videos.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3712049E7AB9A34 

Enjoy! 

            Enjoyed the tour TrainManTy,   nice looking layout       Looks like your doing some nice work.

           Also enjoyed the enchanting music  

[Dave Vollmer]

Photo time!  These photos feature all three of my N scale kitbashed PRR steam locos and several of my recently kitbashed PRR/TTX F30d TOFC cars.

Action on the Pennsy Middle Division in August 1956:

The first shot of the day (above) catches an M1 4-8-2 in charge of a string of empty hoppers running westbound, eventually bound for the mines north of Cresson.  On the eastbound track is a local pulled by H10sb #8756.

We catch up to M1 #6811 again at Jack's Run (below):

Waiting a few minutes we're rewarded by the arrival of TT2, the eastbound TrucTrain behind a matched set of GP9s (PRR class EFS17m).

TT2, normally a hotshot, must have been held up somewhere along the line, because we were able to make it eastward to Lewisport in time to see her blasting through town.

TT2 clears LEW Interlocking as a PRR class L1s 2-8-2 running cabin light gets a clear signal to run westbound through LEW.

Brought to you by the magic of N scale!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the compliments AAV!

Dave: Spectacular photos! Have you condsidered submitting to MR? I'm sure they'd accept it, as the work is outstanding, and it might make people stop complaining about "no small layouts"

[HHPATH56]

[Phoebe Vet]

DV:

I'm impressed!