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Heres a before and a somewhat of a after shot of my next weathering job. Its a BLI SP AC6000, which I willl patch to a lease engine. I posted pictures of it earlier this week, but I haven't touched it to much. Its more a fantasy engine for my layout. With about 95% of my layout cars/engines weathered, I can't let this one go untouched.
Theres still a ways to go. Next is the trucks. OH BOY!!!!!!!!!
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"
A BNSF GP39M spots some old Burlington Northern boxcars at LCLS Distribution.
Reese
Modeling NS One Locomotive At a Time
Here is the tower close to completion plopped onto the layout in roughly the place it will go. It is amazing what photos reveal and I am not happy with the roof weathering, so it needs some work. Then I can get the thing installed and wired to the power bus.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
These are images taken from the eastern edge of Seneca Falls Sub yard. The first was taken from atop the roundhouse, and the second from the edge of the turntable lip.
And finally a close-up of the depot. PRR observation car at the rear of a train departing, and its competitor NYC Niagara's nose visible as it stops to discharge passengers and take those waiting on to their destination.
-Crandell
Wow lots of great Loco pictures
Love the park shot Jeff
Gramps Trains Nice photos
And of course Crandels normal great photos
I really like the last one
but the one shot accross the turn table pit is good too
Here's the new guy in town
I'm really gonna get grief from my C&O friends because the C&O didn't run their mountain
engines thru Thurmond
But for $176 including shipping i just couldn't say no to that great Tsunami sound
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CandO Fan wrote: Wow lots of great Loco picturesLove the park shot JeffGramps Trains Nice photosAnd of course Crandels normal great photosI really like the last one but the one shot accross the turn table pit is good tooHere's the new guy in townI'm really gonna get greif from my C&O friends because the C&O didn't run their mountainengines thru ThurmondBut for $176 including shipping i just couldn't say no to that great Tsunami sound
I'm really gonna get greif from my C&O friends because the C&O didn't run their mountain
Is Thurmond on the way of the George Washington? This could be a backup engine from the first one breaking down.
-Morgan
Yes - great pictures, everyone. Here's an SP Train Master sharing duties with a GP9 on my version of the "Smokey", a reefer train that worked south from San Luis Obispo in the 1950s. The big Fairbanks Morse units were happily (for me) not solely limited to San Franciscan commute duties...
Brian
Great work every one!
Robby the AC6000 looks great!
DJ, I am a big fan of SD45s, and I love that PRR one! Looks like a proto.
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Flashwave wrote: CandO Fan wrote: Wow lots of great Loco pictures Snip Is Thurmond on the way of the George Washington? This could be a backup engine from the first one breaking down.
CandO Fan wrote: Wow lots of great Loco pictures Snip
Snip
Yes Thurmond is on the George Washington Route
As the GW ran all the way west to Cincinnati
But the Mountain Engines were pulled at Hinton and turned for service back east
they were replaced by the F-19 Pacifics which pulled the GW west thru Thurmond and on to
Cincinnati there was no need for the mountains as the terrain was flatter on the main line
Nice engines, everyone. Crandall, I love the tail end of the passenger train viewed from across the turntable pit. Nice image.
A while back, I was In Search of Elvis. Well, I never found one pre-made, but instead of The King, I brought home The Count. Yes, my fellow basement-dwellers, that dapper Transylvanian (no, Dave, Transylvania, not Pennsylvania) had somehow made it to Milwaukee, and was even on sale at Walthers when I ordered him shipped, in his own little personal clear plastic box, to my LHS:
A few brush strokes later, and The Count was transformed into The King:
I'm going to place those blue suede shoes on the sidewalk in front of the Heartbreak Hotel, add a hound dog, and call it a weekend.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Brian M wrote: Yes - great pictures, everyone. Here's an SP Train Master sharing duties with a GP9 on my version of the "Smokey", a reefer train that worked south from San Luis Obispo in the 1950s. The big Fairbanks Morse units were happily (for me) not solely limited to San Franciscan commute duties... Brian
Ah, the Smokey. Train 830, later symboled as the GUWCP. Lots of Geeps, SD9's and later SD45's almost exclusively. Great train. Nice photo.
Thought I'd try something I read about in MR many years ago. Using a mirror to get an eye level perspective of a locomotive shot. Taken from the viewpoint as if a 5-6 foot tall person were standing On the tracks (train not moving of course) taking the photo.
The only photoshop magic here is a crop and the b&w (infrared) filter applied. No perspective changes were made.
MisterBeasley wrote: A while back, I was In Search of Elvis. Well, I never found one pre-made, but instead of The King, I brought home The Count. Yes, my fellow basement-dwellers, that dapper Transylvanian (no, Dave, Transylvania, not Pennsylvania) had somehow made it to Milwaukee, and was even on sale at Walthers when I ordered him shipped, in his own little personal clear plastic box, to my LHS:A few brush strokes later, and The Count was transformed into The King:
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
stebbycentral wrote: 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me..."
Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra?
MisterBeasley wrote: stebbycentral wrote: 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me..." Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra?
Don't forget brother George - boy am I showing my age!!!
lvanhen wrote: MisterBeasley wrote: stebbycentral wrote: 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me..." Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra? Don't forget brother George - boy am I showing my age!!!
Did you mean Boy George? If so, you are really showing your age.
jecorbett wrote: lvanhen wrote: MisterBeasley wrote: stebbycentral wrote: 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me..." Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra? Don't forget brother George - boy am I showing my age!!!Did you mean Boy George? If so, you are really showing your age.
I'm remembering the Bugs Bunny lines about him.
selector wrote: And finally a close-up of the depot. PRR observation car at the rear of a train departing, and its competitor NYC Niagara's nose visible as it stops to discharge passengers and take those waiting on to their destination. -Crandell Crandell: I see we both have the same taste in nifty stations. Great photos! Unfortunately, because of the way I laid out the Deer Creek yards, you can only see my Rico station from the back , but I sure like that building. I bet mine's older than yours, though, LOL! It's an original AHM kit from way, WAY back!Tom
Crandell:
I see we both have the same taste in nifty stations. Great photos! Unfortunately, because of the way I laid out the Deer Creek yards, you can only see my Rico station from the back , but I sure like that building. I bet mine's older than yours, though, LOL! It's an original AHM kit from way, WAY back!
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!
I am glad you like it, Tom. I can't remember if this kit was Heljan or Life-Like, but I don't believe it was Walthers or Atlas. If yours is older than three years, yes yours is older...sounds like considerably older.
Kit building and detailng/painting isn't yet one of my strengths as you can see. I did some touching up to it a year or so ago, but it needs quite a bit more sprucing up and painting.
This thread keeps getting better and better every week. GREAT photos from EVERYONE, people!
Well, just to prove that not every locomotive on my roster is a big, hunking Articulated, here's a photo of 2-8-0 #1159 and 2-8-2 #1204 double-heading around the south shore of Bullard's Bar Lake with an eastbound stock extra. The Connie is a VERY old LMB model, and the Mike is a Key import. Both have been re-fitted with NWSL cans, and are very smooth runners.
I've been updating my Burlington way cars (way car is the Burlington term for caboose).
Last week I showed the side door way car, and I've done more to it. It now has Allied trucks which had been used by CB&Q in at least one instance to replace the normal old wood beam trucks.
The "three window" way car has been completed this week. Its trucks should be wood beam trucks, but I used express car trucks which are about the same deminsions. Both the "three window" way car and the side door way car are modified Roundhouse wood cabooses.
The photo with several cabooses includes these two cars with some others. The GN caboose was a "basket case" caboose from a train show that I modified and painted. The second track has two of my six Walthers "four window" cabooses that are authentic replicas of Burlinton way cars. The silver cabooses include one of my three modified and repainted bachmann "train set" cabooses that are based on steel cabooses built by Burlington shops in the 1950's. The wide vision caboose is an Atlas model.
I have had three Athearn Santa Fe style cabooses that were painted in CB&Q colors and lettering. So far, I have repainted one to be ATSF.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry--
That's some really NICE work on those waycars. Question, is that GN ex-"Basket Case" possibly an old Silver Streak caboose? Reason I ask is that I have several--one SP and one for a private logging road, and I built them years and YEARS ago when Silver Streak was alive and well. They were really good kits, and a lot of fun to build.
Really nice work!d
Tom ... thanks. The basket case may have been a Silver Streak model, but it was in horrible condition with no box when I got it. I looks like the SP prototype. GN had cabooses that were similar to them, so I applied a few details to GN-ize it. Tom... I really like the 2-8-0/2-8-2 double header photo.
Everybody ........WOW! I see many really outstanding photos here. I feel "outclassed" again. Keep it up!
Happy Model Railroading!
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: jecorbett wrote: lvanhen wrote: MisterBeasley wrote: stebbycentral wrote: 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me..." Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra? Don't forget brother George - boy am I showing my age!!!Did you mean Boy George? If so, you are really showing your age.I remember Boy George, and yes, I have quite a bit of gray hair.
Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon, you come and go, you come and go oh oh oh......
Quick! somebody get me an aspirin, I MUST be ill!!!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.