Weekend Photo Fun 04/11/08

[railroadnut675]

In my desperate search for CSX rolling stock I have the following:

The 'Spirit of Tampa' CSX loco.

The 40' boxcar was a Christmas present; little did my dad know it was also a track cleaner.

I picked up the agggregate cars at an expo at the state fair grounds, along with a Chessie covered hopper.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

New Haven:  Where'd you get that gorgeous little Pacific? 

He's done a good job on it. That's the one I had that was just decorating my display rack.

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Lot's of ideas, again, from the work being shown here.

Mikellh, I am amazed at what natural sunlight does for these models!  And Selector, the same for you. It adds a whole new dimension. I can well appreciate why there is quite a bit of discussion about lighting.

Did manage to get Taylor Mattress Co located this weekend. Started adding some details. Working on the 1.5" ledge has been challenging - but fun. Next will be adding the signage.

What it was like on 9-Mar and as of yesterday.

 

An MKT E8 arrives in the yard lite as a local freight cruises by on the mainline - evidently the RR is working back down the mainline installing some new-fangled electrical turnout controls. Gone are the good ole days when (was it the switchman?) the man in the caboose got out and manualy did it.

Regards,

[bogp40]

This is some really great stuff in this Weeks Photo Fun.

It's nice to see so many others doing Chessie.

Well, there really is no accounting for TASTE!!

I prefer my trains to remain free of Kitty Litter...

"No Cats in America!"

Lee 

Well Lee, the "UP" or the "Down" side to look at it is: Chessie did allow the RR to still operate even as shoddy as it may have been to WM standards.

[garya]

I worked on a couple of projects this week.

For work night at my friend's layout, he brought in a bunch of buildings he got at a swap meet. This Atlas water tank was assmbled but unpainted:



One of the other guys showed me how he painted and weathered with craft paint, chalks, and rubbing alcohol, so I experimented.

I also worked on an Accurail SS box car underframe, as discussed in this thread: http://cs.trains.com/forums/1337954/ShowPost.aspx. Here's what I've done, after some advice from Orsonroy:





I've got several other Accurail cars to do, so I hope it gets quicker.

[SpaceMouse]

I haven't gotten a chance to look at your work yet, but we can assume it's good.

I was out doing some research for my second N-scale diorama in Johnstown right next to the shops....

When along comes this big old four-header movin' around 5 SMPH.

Dragging among other things...this....

 

[twhite]

Great job, everyone.  I see lots of skill here this weekend. It is impossible to pick a favorite.

Here is an update on my stockyard. 

Sue

Couldn't help but notice the nice looking trees...how did you make them?

Wayne 

Thanks, Wayne.  They are Aggro trees.  If you do a search on Aggro trees, you will find several tutorials.  They are basically furnace filters, bamboo skewers, hairspray, and ground foam.  I use a  dark color for the interior until no blue shows and then lightly sprinkle a lighter color on the tops of the branches.

100 skewers for $.99, and I think the filter was between $3.00 and $4.00.  I am still working on the first filter.

Have fun,  Sue

Sue--

Terrific as usual.  I don't know about you, but after about 75 Aggro trees, I'm still working on one corner of the furnace filters.  I think by the time I finally get halfway through, I will have not only replaced a whole bunch of WS 'pines' but re-populated the entire Tahoe National Forest, LOL.  Dang, that stuff goes a long way, doesn't it?

LOVE that stockyard!! 

Tom

PS:  Everyone else--what a GREAT batch of photos, this weekend.  New Haven:  Where'd you get that gorgeous little Pacific? 

Tom

[gear-jammer]

Great job, everyone.  I see lots of skill here this weekend. It is impossible to pick a favorite.

Here is an update on my stockyard. 

Sue

Couldn't help but notice the nice looking trees...how did you make them?

Wayne 

Thanks, Wayne.  They are Aggro trees.  If you do a search on Aggro trees, you will find several tutorials.  They are basically furnace filters, bamboo skewers, hairspray, and ground foam.  I use a  dark color for the interior until no blue shows and then lightly sprinkle a lighter color on the tops of the branches.

100 skewers for $.99, and I think the filter was between $3.00 and $4.00.  I am still working on the first filter.

Have fun,  Sue

[wm3798]

This is some really great stuff in this Weeks Photo Fun.

It's nice to see so many others doing Chessie.

Well, there really is no accounting for TASTE!!

I prefer my trains to remain free of Kitty Litter...

"No Cats in America!"

Lee 

[twhite]

Here's a second shot of my new Conrail class N20 cabin in service on my layout:

There's a slight coupler height difference, unfortunately, with the PRR X26C rebuild it's trailing.

Dave--

I've always heard about tight tunnel clearances on some Eastern railroads.  Obviously the rumors are false, LOL! 

Okay, some new shots from the Yuba River Sub--new photo loading program, and as usual, it's six times more complex than the old one.   And my camera skills have not improved either, but here goes: 

Double-headed freight heading through Deer Creek with two M-75 3-cylinder 1600's on the head end.

 

And no, that's not one of my Yellowstones in the foreground, it's one of my L-131 2-8-8-2's.

Same train heading out of town toward South Yuba Canyon past the coaling facilities.  Notice the one tree that got blown over by a windstorm onto the Eastbound track.  Wonder if MW has been appraised of this, LOL!  Obviously it slipped past the owner. 

 

Tom

 

 

[HHPATH56]

Just a trial picture showing the corn field in the foreground, and the farmer plowing a field surrounded by a woodland area. The railroad bridge crosses a hidden stream, in the background.       Bob

[New Haven I-5]

Here's a second shot of my new Conrail class N20 cabin in service on my layout:

There's a slight coupler height difference, unfortunately, with the PRR X26C rebuild it's trailing.

Ohh No!!!! He's going Conrail crazy!!!!!

[Dave Vollmer]

Here's a second shot of my new Conrail class N20 cabin in service on my layout:

There's a slight coupler height difference, unfortunately, with the PRR X26C rebuild it's trailing.

[selector]

I like the light in this image.  It almost could be sunset...there was a lot of reflected sunlight coming in the window outside the right edge of the image.  So, here it is...up close and personal with a Duplex.

[bogp40]

This is some really great stuff in this Weeks Photo Fun.

It's nice to see so many others doing Chessie.

[medic_149]

Nothing New on the layout yet. Still cant decide on the track plan. I did pick up a new edition to the fleet. I fell in love with the new executive scheme for nofolk southern as soon as I laid eyes on it. Found it today at the train show in gadsden. Just had to have it. Also got the digitrax decoders for it as well. Still have to install those. Cant wait to run it.

 

 

[ngartshore350]

Hi All,

Just some progress shots. Please excuse the quality of some as they were taken with a Cell Phone camera while the Canon was on another mission.

9/30/07 

11/19/07

4/14/08

 

Getting there!

Nige.

[lvanhen]

Sue - good to see you back with pics!!  Stockyard looks great - did the cowboy ever find his clothes?

[sfcouple]

Great job, everyone.  I see lots of skill here this weekend. It is impossible to pick a favorite.

Here is an update on my stockyard. 

Sue

Couldn't help but notice the nice looking trees...how did you make them?

Wayne 

[New Haven I-5]

 Here is more of my 4-6-2: Also, there is my P1K RS-11:

[NeO6874]

Some excellent work from everyone this weekend.  I was at the local roundhouse this afternoon  (OK, so a partially completed Walthers kit) and saw this Hudson sitting idle through the windows

 

I think it looks a little better in B&W (I also cropped this one down and rotated it a bit to make the window panes straight)

While at the roundhouse, the hostlers brought this Mike into one of the other stalls

Same shot of the mike with the same enhancements as on the Hudson

These two are just "test" shots -- I had a little of the c70 rail I used in the roundhouse so I wanted to see what a loco would look like on top of it....

 

 

I think I still need a little work on making these shots look better (and some scenery for the locos, but that'll come in due time).  What can/should I do to make the shots look more real? 

[rolleiman]

Not my best photo work ever but here's my contribution this week..

 

 

The most recent additions to the Diesel fleet. Love those Genisis shells, Hate the electronics..  

[howmus]

Great work this weekend from all of you!

I have finally had some time to get back to the farm at the top of the hill....  The scenery, fence, and some details have been added behind where the barn will sit.  I am still waiting on some n scale kits to finish a scratch built silo blower from the 1920's. (Now, your wondering why someone wants n scale kits for HO???  I am looking for wheels for the silo blower and the ones from the preiser horse drawn wagons will just about right.)

Here is the area as it now looks:



The area in front of the barn will have to wait till I finish the silo blower....  There will also be a Milkhouse (aka: Springhouse) for keeping the milk cold added in that area as well as an Aermotor water pump to pump the water to it, the cows, and into the house.

Another from a slightly different angle:



BTW, there is imaginary barbed wire fence between the fence posts... You see the wire don't you?  I really don't like the looks of the only commercial barbed wire fencing I can find and since the fence would, in scale, be around 0.004"  I figure the 3' rule applies.....

[Robby P.]

Heres my next weathering project.  I just finished up the CONRAIL hopper.  Saw this one and said "now this is a project."  Heres my car, and the prototype.  I have ALOT to do.  It doesn't look like much.  Theres several steps to go.

 

 

[outdoorsfellar]

Earlier this week, I finished building my signal bridges from NJ International for my N scale Allegheny & Cumberland. They weren't fun to build, but I have 'em just the same after years of wondering when this day would come. In the next few months, I'll add operating LEDs ......

[selector]

I said out loud, "Wow!" when I saw your image, Sue.  You have been busy.  And the results are excellent.  Well done!

-Crandell

[gear-jammer]

Great job, everyone.  I see lots of skill here this weekend. It is impossible to pick a favorite.

Here is an update on my stockyard. 

Sue

[SD60M]

Well i thought i would show everyone my favorite and one of the oldest loco's in my fleet! Athearn RTR Burlington Northern Pacific Pride II GP38-2.

[David Woodard]

jalajoie - I guess that 6' is a bit long for my 4x8!!  great job

David Woodard - coming along nicely - one suggestion, I see you're useing steel EZ track (black roadbed) - maybe consider the gray roadbed - nickel silver - it wont rust up like the steel will. My

Selector - getting into the automotive motif?

Mikelhh - if it wasn't for the "glad hands", the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th pics would be hard to tel from the 1:1 models!!

Dave V - What's with the new avatar?!! 

Thanks.  The black came with the Casey Jones set I bought my son for his birthday.  He quickly wanted to expand, so I just bought him more of the same.  I have no layout now.  I am currently converting my garage into a train room (well my side, my wife's side will still house her vehicle).  I will be looking for plenty of advice on what to use when I put up a permanent layout.  I expect soon enough he will (my nine year old) push me aside and take off on his own in this hobby.  What a sad but joyous day that will be... Then I will have to sneek into his stuff during school to play !!!

[selector]

...Selector - getting into the automotive motif?...

Lou, the gentleman who made these is actually quite an automotive buff.  He has an early Corvette that he finished a couple of years back, and let me just say he's no slouch when it comes to car restoration.  It's a beauty.

-Crandell