WPF 4/25/08

[V&AL]

Believe it or not the timetables of 2 different entities line right up! A PACE commuter train meets a V&AL train in Coffeeville, PA.

[twhite]

Don--Crandell--

Aww, YOU GUYS!!! (he blushed). 

BRASS coal?  Hm, never thought of it.  Hey, might get a better combustion from the heat, but hoo-boy--cleaning out the grates?  Whatta MESS, LOL!

Really, guys, thanks a lot.  Photobucket is cool, but I just found out--it lets you know what you REALLY have to work on, by golly!

Tom

[selector]

I agree, it looks to be part of a very nice layout.   But...............but..........don't those nice brass engines come with brass coal?

-Crandell

[Don Z]

Tom,

Great photo of a great loco! Welcome to the world of Photobucket...now I can see your layout and I can say it looks very nice indeed!

Don Z.

[twhite]

Sorry to chime in here again, but I think I got a closer view of the Basket Case through Photobucket.  Anyway, if it works, here it is.  I didn't know you could click the image to view it full-size.  Never could do that on my old PictureTrail. 

Oh, BTW, the other big hunker under the coal tower is #1802, my big M-68 4-8-4.  It's a Key model and it can handle all 10 of my Walthers "Royal Gorge" cars up a 2% without batting an eyelash or spinning a driver.  It's de-LOVELY!!

Now I promise I'll go away for a while. 

Tom  

 

[V&AL]

spent some time working on the RR... I'm gonna post in a new thread that I can continue as the layout progresses...

[tomkat-13]

Early morning at Hawk Point, Lincoln County Mo.

 

[KB0QQW]

The Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad Club in Denver hosted it's monthly open house Friday night...  Lots of interesting heavy weight passenger consists as well as other trains running the rails thru the rockies for the members of the public that stopped by to visit.

In the last couple of weeks, work on the Ft. Steele scenery has been progressing nicely.  Here's Duane working on some of the roadways in the town.  He also created most of the rockwork you can see in the image.

More info & images can be seen on the club's website @ www.PVWRR.org.

[stebbycentral]

I spent my model railroading time building this pump house from a Campbell kit.  It was a fun project:

I'm hoping you can give me advice about where to put it on my layout.  The pump house question is this: Does it make sense to place the pump house adjacent to a railroad water tank or should I put it somewhere else?

My friend, I think what you've got there is an oil derrick.  In which case somewhere else would be the best option. 

[saronaterry]

Terry, I like what I see. Looks like you may ned some operators to complete the layout.

 

John, that's the plan when I get a little farther along. Problem is I live in NW Wisconsin, out in the sticks. Finding 5-6 operators will be difficult, I'm afraid!

Terry

[twhite]

Ty--

Thanks for the compliment--I'm afraid that I got bit by John Allen when I was about 15 and have never recuperated, LOL! 

Well, here's my first try at Photobucket--the Deer Creek engine facility I'm working on.  It's of the famous "Basket Case" Yellowstone that I acquired a couple of months ago.  Still needs some cosmetic work, but it's turned out to be a really smooth runner.   Hope the picture turns up okay.  The 2-10-2 to the right of it is another 'basket case' I acquired about 20 years ago--a PFM that ran me a whole $25. 

The Yellowstone will join my other two 'never was' 3900 series Rio Grande L-140's. 

Tom

Question to the rest of you that use Photobucket:  I notice that there is an option for editing photos--I tried cropping this photo to get a better closeup, but couldn't get the crop to 'save'.  Is there some secret to this that I'm overlooking?  I come up with two directions:  "Override existing image" and plain "Save."  I've tried both, but the resulting photo turns out to be the original, not the cropped.  Any help will really be appreciated, especially since I'm so computer klutzy. 

Tom

[Anonymous]

Looks good Jeff!

Tom; That looks amazing! Reminds me of pics I've seen of the Gorre & Daphited!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I went to Wal-Mart the other day and got a quart of flat latex the same color as the WS blended turf I use in my scenery. Today I put it to the test. I paint an area then sprinkle on some blended turf. What would have taken an hour or more now takes about ten minutes.

[spidge]

 Tom

 

 

I haven't been here in a while but I do know that you have been working for some time to capture this very fine look to your layout and specifically this photo angle. Hows the rest of it?

[spidge]

Terry, I like what I see. Looks like you may ned some operators to complete the layout.

 

[Anonymous]

Terry, loved those shots of your layout! Lighting job and layout look professional!

I'd post one of mine, except I'd accidently kill all of you that are bothered by messes..... The shelves under the layout (and lots of the actual layout that's not completed) are covered in disorganized junk... I hope to put up black curtains to hide the shelves underneath.

[saronaterry]

Again some great pics!

How about something different?

Overall layout shot of bay 2 of 4 bays on my layout:

And a  progress shot of bay3 and 4:

I kinda like seeing overall shots of layouts.I've learned a lot about benchwork, backdrops etc from them.  And it's nice to see how a layout fits in a space.

Terry

 

[cwclark]

Here's an SP MW crane and flat car I just finished at the kitchen table. Relatives were visiting from Las Vegas all week so I had to stay in the house and entertain them with my train stuff.

     I bought this crane car and flat car at a garage sale. The control cab and crane hoist pulleys are scratch build from styrene and the pulleys made from metal paper brads. The flat car is an old Western Maryland tractor hauler. I sawed off the tractor hauler part and replaced the deck with strip styrene. It's as prototype as i could get it from pictures of SP MW 5595. The only thing that's different is the boom style and the white instead of black lettering. ( Ran out of black SP decals.) And who said you can't make tyco rolling stock look good?. I paid $3.00 for both cars. chuck

 

 

 

[selector]

I always enjoy seeing everyone's work.  Thanks for putting it up here....

  It's my favourite thread of the week.  And what a thread it is so far....

[shayfan84325]

I always enjoy seeing everyone's work.  Thanks for putting it up here.

I spent my model railroading time building this pump house from a Campbell kit.  It was a fun project:

I'm hoping you can give me advice about where to put it on my layout.  I model 1935 and my railroad buys most of their equipment second-hand (lots of slide valves - I like slide valve steam the best ).  The pump house question is this: Does it make sense to place the pump house adjacent to a railroad water tank or should I put it somewhere else?

Other news:  My railroad, the Blackwater and Butte Creek RR, got its first employee.  Here he is, hard at work:

He's my turntable polarity indicator - when he faces the front the polarity switch should be up; when he faces the other way...

...you get the idea.

Since I run DC with a solid state throttle, I have to have blocks, so I made this little panel for my turtable:

BTW, the crank is how the railroad's president (namely me) powers the turntable.

We had 2 days of snow this week and one morning it was 19 degrees.  If winter ever lets go, my model railroad will see little action (gotta do the summer chores).  Until then, I'll keep you all posted on progress.

[David Woodard]

Nothing from me yet.  I do have news on my new room though!  I am about one third of the way done with the remodel (in case you didnt know I am turning one side of my garage into a train room, which required extensive remodeling).  The plumbing reroute is done for the apartment upstairs, the stairwell is now drywalled and the outer walls insulated.  I now must build two walls, insulate, drywall and then put in a drop ceiling.  At that point I start benchwork.  I am getting excited as by the end of summer I may be laying track!!!!!!

 I will post pics of the progress sometime soon.

[Guilford Guy]

my education workload is staggering

Atleast you don't have a 5 page History Essay due Monday!

Great pix Bob! 

[bogp40]

Some great stuff and it's been a pleasant few weekends of WPF.

Here's a few:

[Anonymous]

Hmm... it seems I'm under pressure to get the op. session clips up...

Thanks for the compliments guys, it really is helping my happiness level. (I'm a bit depressed at the moment, my education workload is staggering and my parents aren't too happy with me right now..) 

Mike; it's not nice to post prototype photos and pretend they're models....

 

 

 

 

Great work!!!!!

[mikelhh]

 Thanks Alex. While I won't presume to do a tutorial, I could post a few photos and text of what I did in the layouts section, if anyone's interested.

 

 Mike 

[Guilford Guy]

Mike, once again, amazing modeling!

I'm sure we'd all love a tutorial!

[mikelhh]

 A couple of Proto2000 switchers.  HO scale

and trackside bank and puddle

with a Preiser dog

 Love the rocks, Don, and nscale1969 that looks nice a nice sunny area you're modelling.

 

 Mike 

 

[New Haven I-5]

  Have fun!

                         http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/SuperChieff/?action=view&current=MVI_0654.flv

That looked like my old Pacific out in front.

It is.

[nscale1969]

Ah what the heck..One more fom a different angle...

[nscale1969]

Wow lots of great work and it's early yet! Here is my contribution for the week...