As usual, there is a lot of impressive modeling and photography exhibited here again this week.
jep1267-Great job on the RS-3. Tom, your TT is a work of art. ART, Is your layout in the living room or in the family room? I have to know the magic words you used to get the space. Looshi, I like your background. Good work.
Since we seem to be on something of a B&W kick, I resurrected this one from the archives. It shows most of the BRVRR's sound equipped locos about 2-years ago. Maybe I'll update it someday soon.
With any luck, I'll have something new to post later this weekend.
Keep up the good work guys.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
I havnt really been on these threads much over my time here, so why not start now . Well lets see I have been working on the yard I added to a 4x8 table I got for free (see pic below).
Well to catch up about a year ago a guy at my train club gave me this layout for free (cant beat the price) its a 4x8 it had atlas track, cork, painted tan, wired for DC, and cut in two pieces so he could get it out of his house. Here is what i looked like when I got it.
I put it together tore out old track (trashed when i got it) torn out wiring, and the panel on top of table to run atlas turnouts, I kept the cork for a plan, and just laid track on top, I then added a yard and laid cork down for that.
New track put down (most of it, trying to find shinohara turnout!) Just added yard, this was taken about 4 months ago.
About half of cork down in yard (whats down is engine servicing and caboose tracks)
All cork down
At this point I have started to lay some track and running feeders, these pics are current from about two days ago.
Here are Walthers Clayton Country Lumber Painted and weathered
Well I'm caught up now, so thats all I got, what ya think, not bad for a 15 year old, and my first layout so I'm learning. Mike
NSlover92 wrote:Well I'm caught up now, so thats all I got, what ya think, not bad for a 15 year old, and my first layout so I'm learning. Mike
Great start! I think we're all still learning. There's always something new to try.
graphitehemi wrote: NSlover92 wrote:Well I'm caught up now, so thats all I got, what ya think, not bad for a 15 year old, and my first layout so I'm learning. MikeGreat start! I think we're all still learning. There's always something new to try.
Truth there, Mike
Nice work mike.
JK - the second Miller sign is the top half of Elliotts' on the roof across the street from the Rexall sign. The picture is a bit blurry, but you can just make it out (I really do need to find where I put my tripod). J.R.
Here is what i did tonight, my first weathering rolling stock project, I use powders, Sorry about flash, and low light in others my camera is pretty bad, I have a cannon Rebel XTi coming though. Cant wait anyhow here they are,
Mike
I've been away from the forums for a while but here is one of the areas of the layout that I've been working on lately. This was the last section of benchwork that I needed to build for the layout and is also the end of the line for the Deming sub, Silver City, NM. This weekend I've been putting some of the partially built structures and some rolling stock in the city to see how everything fits. Ties are going down slowly but surely. Nice job everyone on the posted pics.
Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:
Here's my latest.
EMD SD 50 was a D&RGW then SP, now a UP patch.
Helm Corp. lease unit SD45-2 transverses the bridge.
New project: The GCC Rio Grande Limestone and Aggregate quarry.
Kenfolk wrote:
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Not much going on in my world. Been putting together torti - not much to look at.
I did take a break from that activity and worked on a new building (Walter's modulars) for that 2" space above the stone wall.
The new one here to the left will be the Taylor mattress company. Have some ground leveling to do, roof, windows ... etc.
Shot from the other side.
Regards,
Tom
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No photos from me just yet but I did get round to shooting some video clips of some decoder upgrades to a couple of my steam fleet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrF5v2W066k
Will try and post some photos later
Jon
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Jon, that's an outstanding video!
It brings back memories of when I was 4 and we just moved to Chicago area. My grandparents lived just north of Chicago in Evanston. They took our family to an old family restaurant called Andy's in Evanston, and it was just across the street from C&NW. I called the trains "Andy's trains". All of the dirty old suburban passenger trains had steam power, and some of the cars had open platforms if I remember correctly.
Jon, you certainly have achieved realism. Congrats!
el-capitan wrote: I've been away from the forums for a while but here is one of the areas of the layout that I've been working on lately. This was the last section of benchwork that I needed to build for the layout and is also the end of the line for the Deming sub, Silver City, NM. This weekend I've been putting some of the partially built structures and some rolling stock in the city to see how everything fits. Ties are going down slowly but surely. Nice job everyone on the posted pics.
Wow, those are some of the biggest HO engines I've seen! Your layout is very nice. I would not have the patience to handlay track.
Glad you like them. They are from BLI, one with QSI sound and one without - both very nice IMO. There is very little released for MKT, so I grab what I can. I will have to learn how to paint loco's eventually.
I haven't looked over the whole 4 pages, but from what I've seen so far, there is some really nice work! On page four, NSlover-92, that sure looks nice!
El-capitan, your layout is coming along nicely, I like it.
CWclark, those locomotives look nice. I especially like the Ex SP SD50.
Here's my contribution. Or more so a preview of what I'll be doing next weekend.
At a few train shows I picked up 3 Soo Line 7-Post Fon du lac boxcars. One is already built and will be kept in SOO reporting marks. All I need to do is fix the sill, add new Stirrups, and finish painting the roof.
The other 2 kits I still need to assemble. These two will be patched in WC. Here's a picture of the kit.
Here are some proto type shots of the patched SOO ones.
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p37542028.html
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p21042661.html
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p21042660.html
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Heres my Weekend Photo Fun, I started to favor this curve alot.
I plan to add plenty more details ofcourse, but for now here is what i have.
Winter shot of the Superstition Mountains from my driveway. The snow layers itself and looks like frosting between layers of a cake. One day I'd like to model this mountain scene.
Shot of Weaver's Needle we took from a recent hike on Paralta Trail. Another scene to model someday.
Layout shot...
Tom .... This is my only MKT train. I was inspired when I sw a picture of a KATY PA1. I had an old, Hobbytown PA1. I painted it and lettered it. Masking the nose was a little time cosnuming. The secret to the curved border is to use a curve blade on an Xacto knife and roll the blade over a piece of masking tape. With a little practice you can make curved masking tape that way. The passenger train is a ConCor set I purchased at a train show. It is weighted to NMRA standards and it has body mounted kadee couplers.
My fictional division of CB&Q interchanges with any road I want with the Katy being one.
NSWRDivision80061 wrote: Heres my Weekend Photo Fun, I started to favor this curve alot.I plan to add plenty more details ofcourse, but for now here is what i have.
That reminds me of the kudzu covered hills of North Carolina along the Southern Railroad.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
That sure looks like a nice place to live, Perry. Nice location, too.
The SD-50 looks like an impressive piece of kit! Every guy should have one of those in his back yard, along with a nice excavator/backhoe of course. Two things the well heeled gentleman is not without.
I can't remember if I posted this on WPF (I don't think so), but here is another photo of the H-8 gingerly trying the trestle. So far, so good.
New Haven I-5 wrote: Kenfolk wrote: Is that you?
No--I took the photo.
GP50 MGRy 471 and GP38-2 GWWR 4099 in the shop at once.
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reklein wrote:NSlover92, attaboy,way to get a good start.Keep your eyes and ears open,and watch for good deals specially at the swap meets. You'll have an empire in no time.
Thanks ya'll for compliments, I'm working on that empire . Mike
First, the grain extra powered by Bobcat's N&W Centuries...Here it is clearing the crossover at North Junction.
AJ-1 clears Maryland Junction while a coal extra arrives eastbound on the Thomas Sub.
Here we see AJ-1 crossing the Youghiougheny on it's way to Ohiopyle
There were, of course, some "lease units" on the layout yesterday. Here's the pairing that Ed brought to amuse us:
and we had some help switching Westvaco, thanks to Brian's GP-35.That sucker needs some serious weathering applied to it.
We ran about 20 train movements in the space of 4-1/2 hours, including locals, thru trains that neded to be switched in the yard, and a bunch of coal. A splendid time was had by all.
It was also nice to have CSX_road_slug (That's Ken there on the right) who I met through this very forum. Always a pleasure to meet another model railroader!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Well I might as well post my last of the weekend I weathered this boxcar, and then went to weather another and relized its the same one! So I put the one next to the other for before and after (edited by selector).