Southern's #721 leads a train of freight cars up out of Woodland Valley, leaving the morning mist below..
JaRRell
That is one beautiful layout, Gramps!
Jarrell
jacon12 wrote: That is one beautiful layout, Gramps!Jarrell
Don't forget to add .... aw inspiring, fantastic, quite realistic, totally believable & many more exclamations !
Jarrell--That's a lovely, moody shot. I really LIKE it!
Grampys--Wonderful, as usual!
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!
Grampy ............ FANTASTIC!
Everybody .... There are five crows: 3 on the scare crow and 2 on nearby fence posts. The scare crow is a kitbashed Q-tip.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry--
I really like that shot. But I still say that you placed your ineffective scarecrow to scare the TRAINS, LOL!
twhite wrote:Jarrell--That's a lovely, moody shot. I really LIKE it!Grampys--Wonderful, as usual!Tom
Thanks Tom, I appreciate it!
twhite wrote: Garry--I really like that shot. But I still say that you placed your ineffective scarecrow to scare the TRAINS, LOL! Tom
Yes, Tom. The little GE unit was a big U28B until being scared into a 44 ton switcher.
Grampys Trains wrote: JaRRell, I really like the train coming up out of the mist. How's you do that?
That's just an MRC decoder shorting out and starting to smoke.
Seriously, excellent start to WPF this week!!!
Grampys Trains wrote: Hi all: Thanks for the kind words. JaRRell, I really like the train coming up out of the mist. How'd you do that? Garry, great shot, I like the humor of the crows being attracted to the scary crow! And, that corn looks so real, I'd like to pull a half doz. ears for dinner tonite!
Many thanks... The corn is a Busch product listed in Walthers catalog.
I finally got my caboose "fleet" into service
Still need to get my hands on a sheet of number decals.
Aside from the fact that I found no evidence that the Monon ever owned any cabs of these types, these are very prototypical. The layout of their caboose markings tended to vary with the whims of whoever was doing the painting, so from that perspective my modeling is spot on!
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Thanks - it is HO, and the figures are from Preiser, with some slight repainting - you'll see that the July 2008 MR front cover features a few Preiser figures too.
Brian
Grampys Trains wrote:An Alco meet on the bridge.. . Mean while, is he daydreaming, fishing, both? . West bound engineer's view of Stoney Creek.
Always liked your layout :D
Tjsingle
Here is my newest locomotive BN SD60M #9250 getting ready to emerge from Big Bed Tunnel with a train of empty coal cars!
SD60M wrote: Here is my newest locomotive BN SD60M #9250 getting ready to emerge from Big Bed Tunnel with a train of empty coal cars!
Its only fitting you have a SD60m, sound or no sound?
tjsingle
Tjsingle wrote: SD60M wrote: Here is my newest locomotive BN SD60M #9250 getting ready to emerge from Big Bed Tunnel with a train of empty coal cars!Its only fitting you have a SD60m, sound or no sound?tjsingle
DJ, it a 'fog' effect that is applied in Photoshop. Not real hard to do but does take some time to get it right so that it looks believable, otherwise it just looks kinda funny.
Love the mist, Grampy's pics and those SP locos.
An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout.
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Another shot of the New Kid on the Block, a PFM Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2 fresh out of the paint shop. She's a little 'grindy', but you'd be too, if you hadn't been run since about 1970, LOL!
Another 'newcomer', an ex Salt Lake 2-6-6-0 bringing a short string of cattle cars through Wagon Wheel Gap. She'll spot some of them here to pick up stock from high-country pasturage before the snows set in. In fact, the loco was rushed out here to California so fast that she doesn't even have her number (3370) put in on the boiler front, yet. Talk about power shortages on the Rio Grande in 1947!
Here she is spotting the cars at Wagon Wheel Gap. She'll take the rest of the train up to Sierra City and pick up some more stock, then bring the whole bunch back down to Deer Creek and the lower Sierra Ranches. October can sometimes bring an early snow to the high mountain meadows around 6,000 feet.
mikelhh wrote: Love the mist, Grampy's pics and those SP locos. An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout. Mike
Mike, that shot is just BEAUTIFUL! How on earth did you get the algae in the stream? Really superb modeling!!
Thankyou Tom! I'd gladly make room for some of your steamers Love that first shot especially.
The algae was? were? done with acrylic paint before I poured the varnish. I think I have an old overhead photo of it somewhere if you're interested. It doesn't look as good from overhead, but I'm happy with how it works from water level.
edit: it was a crummy photo - I'll take a better one soon when I have time
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Still playing with Mirrors (see last week's WPF for details).. My contributions this week:
Wabash # 1104 with 1104A in the lead crossing the bascule bridge out of the yard.
Wabash class O-1 4-8-4 #2907, same bridge