Weekend Photo Fun 4-4 through 4-6

[Flashwave]

Yep, It;s early. But I;m up, so nyah! Anyway, these crawled up form the primordial goo in which they should have stayed. Senty forth to doom a nation, and signify why teenagers shouldn;t have large areas for trains, They are,

LAYOUT PICTURES

(DUN DUN DUN!)

First shot of the new storage shelves for under the layout. Just put these up not too long a go, and their already filling up!

 

Lookign along the room.

 

 

Closet area, home to our Computer Hub that will be recording the cars we have in, when we can get the programs on it. This was the first area built for the layout with some semblence of a plan. It was to be a terminal, but now it;s looking more like it's gonna be engine shops.

 

[jecorbett]

Looks a lot like the unscenicked portions of my layout. And I haven't been a teenager for almost 40 years. What's the problem?

I thought this was the week I would finally have a contribution to WPF but I hate to post partially completed scenes. I have spent most of the winter on the town of Bedford Falls, the second largest town on my fictional NYBW. There's still a few more pieces that need to be put into place and then I can ballast the track and have something worth showing. Heavy rains have postponed the start of the golf season for me here in Ohio which has extended the MR season. I'd like to have this section of the layout reasonably complete, minus the fine details, before the golf clubs put the layout on the back burner.

[lvanhen]

Looks like the Thomas stuff is in better shape than the HO!!!

[Flashwave]

Looks a lot like the unscenicked portions of my layout. And I haven't been a teenager for almost 40 years. What's the problem?

I thought this was the week I would finally have a contribution to WPF but I hate to post partially completed scenes. I have spent most of the winter on the town of Bedford Falls, the second largest town on my fictional NYBW. There's still a few more pieces that need to be put into place and then I can ballast the track and have something worth showing. Heavy rains have postponed the start of the golf season for me here in Ohio which has extended the MR season. I'd like to have this section of the layout reasonably complete, minus the fine details, before the golf clubs put the layout on the back burner.

Looks like the Thomas stuff is in better shape than the HO!!!

I've been collecting that a lot longer.

Nothing works, and the room doesn't have a good Air Conditioner yet. The buiklders ran a flex duct that pinches, so in the Summer, it get's too hot up there to work. Besides that, we'd been collecting trains before building the layout, and have a lot of engines/cars/etc with no place to put them. And besides that, the room, and the stuff on the layout, is how you say "slightly disorganzed". Teh track is Bachmann EZ stuff that's not a wide enough radius, and the "benchwork" isn't even close. In the other pictures I;m going to put up when Photobucket settles down, will show that despite our attempst and use of a lazer level, there's an ever so noticlble grade through the whole thing, and one side of the layout is about 8 inches higher than the other. There be massive rework, and alot of  unused 18 inch curves.  

 

[jon grant]

Hello all.

I took my layout to a Model Railway show in London last weekend. We had a great time although the 600 mile round trip was a bit punishing, especially on the Sunday night after a weekend operating.

Here are a few photos showing the layout in the context of the great hall at Alexandra Palace - once the home of the BBC.

Alexandra Palace

Jon

[bogp40]

Some of the latest ones from the club:

***, I missed my train..

Your's truely running those B&O Fs, Oops

[RedSkin]

 Well here is a blast from the past I'm sure, this is a couple of shots of my control panel for my little layout.

I think that for a layout my size that DC is the way for me...

Brad

[jecorbett]

Some of the latest ones from the club:

Are the concrete railings in these first two photos scratchbuilt or commercial products? I'd like to create a similar look when I tackle my large urban scene.

[bogp40]

Some of the latest ones from the club:

Are the concrete railings in these first two photos scratchbuilt or commercial products? I'd like to create a similar look when I tackle my large urban scene.

I didn't do this portion. I believe they are Rix Products to continue the same look as the Rix overpass

[FastTracks]

Hi all,

 Its been quite some time since I posted an update of my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout, for good reason, I haven't been working on it.

 The last few weeks I have returned to the project and have completed to benchwork for the portable layout.

Instead of using curtains to hide the legs I built a fake shipping crate that is fastened to the legs.  I added rivets to the edge of the fascia using wood plugs and painted it to look like rust.

The layout breaks down into sections that allow me to easily move it to shows.  Tomorrow it will be on display at the Kitchener Doubleheaders Layout Tour, if you are in the area drop by!

Lots of construction photos at my CNJ Bronx Terminal blog. 

[selector]

Say, that is waaay cool, Tim.  I even think you got all the rivets! 

-Crandell

[loathar]

Tim-That rocks! Really original. Ya gonna use Atlas track on it??

[stokesda]

I already posted this in the "active duty" thread, but thought I'd offer it up for WPF as well.

Here's a couple of photos of my layout as it currently sits in my garage awaiting the moving company (we're moving to California next week):

The "box" in the foreground consists of two 18" x 4' long layout sections, boxed in with 1/8" masonite. The side facing you is obviously the bottom of one of the layout sections. The other layout section is on the opposite side of the "box," also with it's bottom side facing out. Between the sections are 4 pieces of 16" tall, 1/8" thick masonite secured with #6 screws around the perimeter of the two sections. There is no "vertical" support bracing in the corners between the two layout sections. Turns out the stiffness of the masonite itself makes a sturdy enough structure to survive transportation from point A to B... At least, that's the theory. This is my first attempt with this kind of thing, so hopefully it will work out well. There are a total of 4 of these "boxes" that make up my layout in "transit mode." The other 3 assembled boxes can be seen in the background.

By the way, the masonite will serve double duty. Once the layout is reassembled, the masonite sections will be used as the backdrop for the layout.

[selector]

Nifty!!   Let's hope it works as well as you wish it to.

-Crandell

[Robby P.]

This is what I have been working on for the last few days.  I will add a wash to tone down the black and maybe to show some rivets.  Theres a few things I'm ot happy with.  I still need to order some more letters and get some reflective like tape.  Thats just one side.  Theres still the other side, ends, underneath, wheels, couplers, trucks, air hoses, and inside

Heres the prototype:

 

What I started with:

 

Where I am at:

 

[bogp40]

Hi all,

 Its been quite some time since I posted an update of my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout, for good reason, I haven't been working on it.

 The last few weeks I have returned to the project and have completed to benchwork for the portable layout.

Instead of using curtains to hide the legs I built a fake shipping crate that is fastened to the legs.  I added rivets to the edge of the fascia using wood plugs and painted it to look like rust.

The layout breaks down into sections that allow me to easily move it to shows.  Tomorrow it will be on display at the Kitchener Doubleheaders Layout Tour, if you are in the area drop by!

Lots of construction photos at my CNJ Bronx Terminal blog. 

Tim.

,

That's some awsome work, can't wait to see what you'll do do on top of it.

[Hoople]

Oi, your making me want to go and find a million daylight cars there flashwave...

[electrolove]

I just updated my webpage, progress report March 2008. Located under the model menu.

http://www.thrutherockies.com

[railroadnut675]

Well if you are all posting photos, I might as well...

And for some reason WWII has broken out in town

good times, good layouts

[railroadnut675]

note to self, buy more roadway

[Railphotog]

44 tonner crossing the bridge:

 

 

 

[Dave Vollmer]

Wow, you blew it.

Those rivets are .013" too narrow, are too rounded, and worst of all, there's one too few rivets per actual foot.

Waaaaay off.

No, seriously, that is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.  I love a well-finished layout in every respect, and that includes benchwork and fascia.  That really rocks!!!  You're giving me some ideas here...!

[BRVRR]

Great stuff as usual guys. Keep them coming.

 A little something from my updated website:

Experimenting with license plates and mud flaps. Printed the plates with my home computer. The mud flaps are made from manila card stock and glued to the frames of the trucks with a couple of drops of gel-type super glue. Still some things to do. Any suggestions for tail lights? Both need a coat of Dulcote to take of the sheen.

Keep up the good work guys.

 

[wm3798]

Still need to do some wire shuffling to get the shell to sit more snuggly, but overall I'm happy with this decoder install.  It's a Life Like N scale 2-8-8-2.  I put the decoder in the tender to take advantage of the tender truck pick ups, then ran the motor wires and pick ups to the engine.

It runs like a swiss watch, but unfortunately lacks chutzpah.  It can probably handle about 15 cars on the flat, but it barely pulls 7 or 8 hoppers up the grade on my layout.  Fortunately the guy did the installation for is planning to use this for helper service, so it'll be more important to push than to pull.

Lee 

[Flashwave]

Here's some more, so I can kill 2 pages

Our modest Christmas Train collection passing. The coach train is the Con Cor North Pole and Southern. On the other side is a freight train carrying collected gifts to be taken to shelters by rail. The caboose and old Combines are for the head end train crew and the cars in back carry the borrowed stage hands form Broadway that help us set up the stages and tables, punch, cake, tents, unload a designated boxcar(s), and then get the whole mess packed up so we can keep our timetable. The astute observer might notice that neither train has any engines.  

 

Our temporary siding. For the most part, they are on Flextrack

 

What lies beneath the table...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I just finished installing Digitrax DZ125 decoders in these two husky brutes, both Athearn BB's, an F7-A and a GP50.

[pike-62]

I caught this picture of two D&H RS3m's leading a string of new cars late on a summer day.

[PMeyer]

Hi all,

 Its been quite some time since I posted an update of my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout, for good reason, I haven't been working on it.

 The last few weeks I have returned to the project and have completed to benchwork for the portable layout.

Instead of using curtains to hide the legs I built a fake shipping crate that is fastened to the legs.  I added rivets to the edge of the fascia using wood plugs and painted it to look like rust.

The layout breaks down into sections that allow me to easily move it to shows.  Tomorrow it will be on display at the Kitchener Doubleheaders Layout Tour, if you are in the area drop by!

Lots of construction photos at my CNJ Bronx Terminal blog. 

Wow!

[New Haven I-5]

http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/SuperChieff/?action=view&current=NewPics015.flv A video of my 2 Bachmann Berks before I installed sound.

[selector]

Pike-62, that turned out very nicely.  It looks just as you say.  Nice modelling!

Is your forest polyfiber and ground foam?  Quite a convincing expanse you have there.

-Crandell