Good morning, model railroaders,
In Elliot's Diner, we talked about chapel cars. (If you google "chapel cars" you should be able to obtain good information on such cars.)
These pictures show the results of my efforts to build one. It's fictional chapel car. I made it from the Roundhouse Palace Cars observation kit. I am opperating it as a short, special train. A gas electric motor car is all that's needed. Alternatively, i can use my 2-6-2 with a combine to provide a place for railroad crews to ride. A caboose would do also.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
More pics of my CR's
Garry--
I like that Chapel car. "St. Francis" is my next project (after finishing the Buttes and mounting the lookout tower). And WHERE did you get that cute little Burlington 2-6-2? That's just a HONEY of a little steamer.
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!
No A/C unit?
EDIT: Here's the M, P, & N logo
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Packers1 wrote:No A/C unit?
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CNJ831 wrote: Approaching the Route 55 grade crossing in Putney, NY, circa mid October 1941, on the Hudson Highlands RR.CNJ831
Approaching the Route 55 grade crossing in Putney, NY, circa mid October 1941, on the Hudson Highlands RR.
CNJ831
CNJ831,
That's a fantastic shot!
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Packers1 wrote: No A/C unit?Give that man a chocolate donut! He got it right.
Packers1 wrote: No A/C unit?
No clouds, either.
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
OKrlroads wrote:So here's one old engine shot and a spray can smoke job on a highway trailer
So here's one old engine shot and a spray can smoke job on a highway trailer
Sadly, the trailers don't look anything like that anymore. Tagged, vandalized, stripped of parts....
If only they could get them back on the road, instead of sitting in Chicago, etc
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twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun thoughFlash--Thank you, sir. I like what you did with it. I think that the light as such would just be reflecting off of the inner wall right in front of the tunnel mouth at that point. But thank you. Nice job. Tom
Flashwave wrote: It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun though
It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun though
Flash--
Thank you, sir. I like what you did with it. I think that the light as such would just be reflecting off of the inner wall right in front of the tunnel mouth at that point.
But thank you. Nice job.
Nice pic Flash! What program did you use?
Here's the one I played with:
Don Z wrote: Nothing from my layout, but here's a railfan photo I took this week while standing 1,053 feet above the river.....Don Z.
Nothing from my layout, but here's a railfan photo I took this week while standing 1,053 feet above the river.....
Don Z.
Nice photo. You must have a pretty good lens on your camera. thats a really deep canyon (hence the name Royal Gorge).
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Renegade,
I think I was just lucky...the photo was taken with a Canon Powershot G5 camera. I think I was zoomed in about 4X for that photo.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Just some photos I took of the local model railroad club in Aurora, Illinois.
Alex
I gots me a new toy! I picked up a cheapie wireless minicam. Here it is pictured very skillfully mounted on a flatcar to give a brakeman's world view.
Here's my first video using it. I recorded with no sound - I added a soundtrack but Photobucket wouldn't let me upload it because of copyright violation So here's the raw silent video instead:
http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i89/mononguy63/Model%20Railroad/?action=view¤t=MainLineEastBrakemanView.flv
Feel free to pick away at your own banjo while watching
Next video I make, I'll use more light. LOTS more light!
Jim
"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
So, since the original post was deleted (Tom, I have the man's permission to post his drawings), here it is again. Okay, so I kinda took a ton of pics. This is the very best.
New feature (the F7 burned out and I thought about Jeff's steam loco in the park, so here's it final resting place [for now])
jguess733 wrote:Alex where was rail camp 08 held? those are some great pics. Jim cool video, how big is your layout?
The layout's about 9x17. Here's a track plan:
Rotorranch wrote: twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun thoughFlash--Thank you, sir. I like what you did with it. I think that the light as such would just be reflecting off of the inner wall right in front of the tunnel mouth at that point. But thank you. Nice job. Tom Nice pic Flash! What program did you use?Here's the one I played with:Rotor
Photoshop. I didn't think of adding a filter. The smoke was just triimmed and added from, of all things, a Big Boy.
-Morgan
Got this at a train show today. $40 car & got it "new" for $20!!
But that's not the best part - when I got it home & opened the
Box, it had a $13 lighting kit already installed!! Sometimes you
Just get lucky!!
lvanhen wrote: Got this at a train show today. $40 car & got it "new" for $20!! But that's not the best part - when I got it home & opened theBox, it had a $13 lighting kit already installed!! Sometimes youJust get lucky!!
Phhhtttt!!!!!!!
Flashwave wrote: Rotorranch wrote: twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun thoughFlash--Thank you, sir. I like what you did with it. I think that the light as such would just be reflecting off of the inner wall right in front of the tunnel mouth at that point. But thank you. Nice job. Tom Nice pic Flash! What program did you use?Here's the one I played with:RotorPhotoshop. I didn't think of adding a filter. The smoke was just triimmed and added from, of all things, a Big Boy.
Flash--OMYGAW, that's SMOKE? I thought you just darkened that section of rock, LOL! And from a BIG BOY? That's a COAL-BURNER, my friend--the AC is an OIL BURNER, and would hardly be throwing anything--maybe little puffy 'wisps'. Only time I ever saw an AC throw out smoke was if the temperature was about 12 degrees in Truckee during the Winter.
Nonetheless, I will let you and Rotor Photoshop my new GN Z-6 when I get it in October. So prepare yourselves, you two! NEW ARTICULATED COMING TO YUBA RIVER SUB! But it's an oil-burner, so keep that in mind, LOL!
In the meantime, here's a little ex-Moffat Line 2-6-6-0 coal burner at Wagon Wheel Gap if you guys want to Photoshop some smoke in. She's handling a 2% grade, so she's probably working her little rear end off.
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: Rotorranch wrote: twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: It needs a headlight, but I know not the science of how light casts to properly simulate. Twas fun thoughFlash--Thank you, sir. I like what you did with it. I think that the light as such would just be reflecting off of the inner wall right in front of the tunnel mouth at that point. But thank you. Nice job. Tom Nice pic Flash! What program did you use?Here's the one I played with:RotorPhotoshop. I didn't think of adding a filter. The smoke was just triimmed and added from, of all things, a Big Boy. Flash--OMYGAW, that's SMOKE? I thought you just darkened that section of rock, LOL! And from a BIG BOY? That's a COAL-BURNER, my friend--the AC is an OIL BURNER, and would hardly be throwing anything--maybe little puffy 'wisps'. Only time I ever saw an AC throw out smoke was if the temperature was about 12 degrees in Truckee during the Winter. Nonetheless, I will let you and Rotor Photoshop my new GN Z-6 when I get it in October. So prepare yourselves, you two! NEW ARTICULATED COMING TO YUBA RIVER SUB! But it's an oil-burner, so keep that in mind, LOL!In the meantime, here's a little ex-Moffat Line 2-6-6-0 coal burner at Wagon Wheel Gap if you guys want to Photoshop some smoke in. She's handling a 2% grade, so she's probably working her little rear end off. Tom
Whoops. Sorry The oil burners I know (Daylight mostly) did smoke some, and I was going by what I knew of the AC12 on the MSTS Add ons...
What train show was dat?
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Robby P. wrote: I didn't see one started so.....................Here we go!!!!!Heres a rust bucket I have been working on. What can you say, I love them beat up.
I didn't see one started so.....................
Here we go!!!!!
Heres a rust bucket I have been working on. What can you say, I love them beat up.
ROBBY!
Those sides may be the best I think I've seen from you.
I've got some weathered stuff too.
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588
mononguy63 wrote: Here's my first video using it. I recorded with no sound - I added a soundtrack but Photobucket wouldn't let me upload it because of copyright violation So here's the raw silent video instead: http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i89/mononguy63/Model%20Railroad/?action=view¤t=MainLineEastBrakemanView.flvFeel free to pick away at your own banjo while watching Jim
Good video! I enjoyed the view from behind the engine. Nice trip around the layout.
I broke a banjo string, though. Billy Joe started laughing and spit tobacco juice in his harmonica!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!