Here are my accomplishments for the week.
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I have no modeling photos to share, but I have a few research photos. I was in my hometown for an interview last month and brought my camera. Here are a few major items I'm including in my new layout. Thanks for humoring me.
The depot will be my centerpiece for the whole layout. I am kit bashing two Walthers kits to try to copy as close as I can.
This is looking from the depot parking lot. The grain terminal will be scaled down a bit.
Here's a photo of the front of the terminal. It has changed a little since the 50's. I'm still looking for a dated photo from this angle.
Here is a photo of the trestle that will go on the other side of the layout. I couldn't get far enough away to capture the whole thing.
Here is my contribution,I used Walthers Modular kit to create the terminal,all decals were made by me,enjoy.This will eventually land on my layout.
I installed the Walthers detail kit on my Athern F7 A and B. I didn't take pics of the B unit though.
I also made some grafitti for my EL boxcar, kind of hard to see in the pic but it says "Bapou"
I hope you like it!
Hello this is a Mdc/Roundhouse 2-6-0 I found at a show in March. It was my first roundhouse kit. This was a nice and easy kit to build It would be great for a beginner it came factory painted so all I had to do was clean all the flash and assemble. Have a good weekend Frank
One real, one model.
Went railfanning in PA last weekend; here's the eastbound Amtrak Pennsylvanian pulling into the restored 1850s station at Lewistown, PA on 3 May 2008.
And here's an N scale Atlas 50' boxcar I weathered this week:
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Dave Vollmer wrote: One real, one model.Went railfanning in PA last weekend; here's the eastbound Amtrak Pennsylvanian pulling into the restored 1850s station at Lewistown, PA on 3 May 2008.And here's an N scale Atlas 50' boxcar I weathered this week:
Dave: You did it! Conrail (or at least PennCentral) has STRUCK! Sweet job on the weathering, really nice.
Okay, Before and After:
I posted my Basket Case Yellowstone last week after I assembled and test ran it, then this week I ran it through the paint shop (haven't run it through the Weathering Shop yet, though)
Before:
After:
And a larger view of the loco facility. No, that strange thing behind the coaling tower isn't the Cloverfield Creature, it's a bottle of WS Scenic Cement that I didn't realize was there
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Heres a few shots of my shelf layout. I see a few people ask how is it going to be a 4ft by 12ft by 4ft. Well maybe the one shot will help. The blue foam will be DC. It will have it on controls. Its going to be about 4in higher than the lower part. I tried to show that in the one picture with the cars. The lower part will be DCC. Now, I will have another 4ft section on the other end, just haven't made it that far yet. I still need to work on some of the compound and some of the blue foam you see won't be used. Also the track plan probably won't be the same either.
I cut down the photos some. I just don't like the duct work and stuff exposed. Heres a few shots.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I've been experimenting with wooden fence construction this week, among other things. I'm using wooden coffee stirrers and, in the photos below, using alcohol/india ink to stain them.
On the next section, the fence will be shorter and I'll try using a grey'ish wash of acrylics.
Also this week I had my Class A NW 2-6-6-4 sitting on a siding while I operated a little Consolidated on the far side of the layout. The Consolidated ran foul of a turnout and created a short, which the Class A picked up... shooting backward at warp speed.. taking down anything in its path.
It's amazing how much a heavy BLI engine can demolish in a short time. I now have CV29 set to analog off on that engine. Thought I'd done it before, but evidently not.
And last is a photo of my 0-8-0 switcher in the days last light
Jarrell
Jacon 12- nice pics!
here's my contribution, an older pic.
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Jarrel; that looked like a really nasty wreck!
I've finally gotten my crossing signal for Dooley wired up, all I need to do is install it on the layout and take a video of it.
The only video/photos I have to post is this playlist of both Part 1 and Part 2 of railfanning the New Poland Turn on my HO scale layout. Guilford Guy was operating the train. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F770B58ABB40831A
Thats a good thing to wake up to in the morning. Forget looking up at the sun. The home owner gets to look at a reffer and a hopper. Then some of us might not complain about it. I don't know if thats good or bad.
Yep, the only thing that saved the engine from an almost 4 foot drop to the tile floor was the hillside. At the least it would've been bye bye tender.. hello BLI repair dept.
Robby P. wrote: Thats a good thing to wake up to in the morning. Forget looking up at the sun. The home owner gets to look at a reffer and a hopper. Then some of us might not complain about it. I don't know if thats good or bad.
Hello everybody!
These pictures are of my new depot in "Valley Heights". My new branch line meets the main line at this location. Being the most narrow section on the layout, it was a challenge to construct plausible scenery.
Also, I just completeted the blue 1957 Thunderbird from a kit with clear plastic pieces.
HAPPY MODEL RAILORADING!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Alex
Bapou wrote: I installed the Walthers detail kit on my Athern F7 A and B. I didn't take pics of the B unit though.
So that's what an old athearn F-unit will look like with one of those, looks pretty good. I'll be looking for an old BN one in P-cola next month, and a few of those packs.
How does yours run? the local MR club has a BB SD40-2 but it's noisy, was wondering if it's possible to make them quiet.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
All the contribotors have started off the thread very nicely. Well done, everyone.
Here is my image for the week. Pressed into temporary road service, an SW8 trundles along aloft to get a small local to the next town.
How about some steamy encounters?
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Lee--
Wow! I especially like the job you did on the 2-8-0. REALLY nice.
I always enjoy seeing everyone's work and photography. You always inspire me to do my best work.
This Texas & Pacific boxcar just arrived on the scene in Blackwater, Oregon. I spent the past couple of weeks of evenings building it from a craftsman kit (in Blackwater we say "no" to plastic). It's all metal and wood, with vintage sprung arch bar trucks. The weathering is a light dusting of Grimy Black along the bottom.
The caboose is another of my kit-built projects. It is all brass, painted Floquil caboose red, and not yet weathered. The crane in the background was built from a Durango Press kit.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
jeffrey-wimberly --I like the trucks on that orange tanker.
edo1039 -- impressive weathering on that terminal.
Vollmer - thats good subtle. I'd like to see you tackle an N scale rustbucket!
Tom -- You painted the M4? Or someone else did it local?
Lee-- those scenes are very balanced and believable. That your layout or a club?
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
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Dang, photographing tankers is weird. I keep getting a glare.
Looks like a great start for the weekend, nice work everybody.Here's a short clip of a local freight coming out of a tunnel, enjoy!http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff34/okrlroads/Video/?action=view¤t=MOV030mpg.flv
Looks like a great start for the weekend, nice work everybody.
Here's a short clip of a local freight coming out of a tunnel, enjoy!
http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff34/okrlroads/Video/?action=view¤t=MOV030mpg.flv
Hi guys. Haven't posted for ages...still travelling abroad and haven't seen the layout in 3 weeks - another 3 weeks to go. But I wanted to post something so dug into the archives. Nothing special, but better than nothing.
Thanks everyone for sharing your work. Cheers.
I believe this is my first time posting in WPF (picturewise that is). Anyway, this is what I've been busy with. I finally finished this morning.
The light's are a bright white, but my camera makes them look purple.
TONY
"If we never take the time, how can we ever have the time." - Merovingian (Matrix Reloaded)
Bapou:
To eleiminate that flare, either try to shoot without using the flash, or move to one side so that you are not shooting perpendicular to the side of the car. The flare is the flash reflecting off the side of the car.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
jasperofzeal wrote: I believe this is my first time posting in WPF (picturewise that is). Anyway, this is what I've been busy with. I finally finished this morning.The light's are a bright white, but my camera makes them look purple.
That is really cool. Is that BLI's maintenance unit? How smooth does it run for you?
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My rustbucket, per your request: