Great work everybody.CNJ831-----Outstanding picture!Haven't posted lately, to many outside projects going on. So here's one old engine shot and a spray can smoke job on a highway trailer.
Great work everybody.
CNJ831-----Outstanding picture!
Haven't posted lately, to many outside projects going on. So here's one old engine shot and a spray can smoke job on a highway trailer.
kog1027 wrote: I'm another one that doesn't post often.Last weekend I bought a Walther's Cornerstone Track Bumpers kit. It has the parts to make a dozen track bumpers and I had some fun customizing some of them.I tried painting them different colors, Primer Red, Two different types of Black and Safety Yellow.I also discovered that using the bumpers from the kit stock meant that they would not stay in place without being glued down and that they would not sit level on Atlas Code 83 track, the spike heads were spaced just wrong.To solve those problems I glued some excess ties, cut in half, onto the bottom of the bumpers. I also trimed down the sides of two of the bumpers where I need to use them on Atlas Code 83.Just some fun had on the cheap ($10 or the same as a single movie ticket here locally ).Mark Gosdin
I'm another one that doesn't post often.
Last weekend I bought a Walther's Cornerstone Track Bumpers kit. It has the parts to make a dozen track bumpers and I had some fun customizing some of them.
I tried painting them different colors, Primer Red, Two different types of Black and Safety Yellow.
I also discovered that using the bumpers from the kit stock meant that they would not stay in place without being glued down and that they would not sit level on Atlas Code 83 track, the spike heads were spaced just wrong.
To solve those problems I glued some excess ties, cut in half, onto the bottom of the bumpers. I also trimed down the sides of two of the bumpers where I need to use them on Atlas Code 83.
Just some fun had on the cheap ($10 or the same as a single movie ticket here locally ).
Mark Gosdin
Mark:
I like your solution. I had a Devil of a time getting those bumpers to stay put on my Code 83, also. I finally just 'over' ballasted the end of the track to have something for them to sit on. But I like your solution a lot better.
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!
CNJ:
That's just GORGEOUS!! .
Approaching the Route 55 grade crossing in Putney, NY, circa mid October 1941, on the Hudson Highlands RR.
CNJ831
Lots of great pics so far.
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Flash,
Observation's by Railway Classics.
Roofer
How do your roofers work?
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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We took a little family excursion to Grand Haven, Michigan a couple of weeks ago, and stumbled across this beauty on static display - Pere Marquette Berkshire #1223
That's me and two of my railfans-in-training looking things over. One thing I lose appreciation of working in my little 1:87 world is that these locomotives are very LARGE MACHINES! The photographs really don't do her justice. She had a very imposing presence just in her current inoperative state. I can only imagine what a rush it would be to experience one of these pulling a freight train past at 50 mph.
"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
Flashwave wrote: Tom: May I play with contrasts in Photoshop on the pic and send it to ya?
I was thinking the same thing, Flash!
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
Flash--
Be my guest, buddy. I'd be interested to see what you do with it.
I don't post on these threads often, but here goes....
from this
to this:
I am sure the Espee folks will knock these off right away, but for the rest the main subject is a Southern Pacific, Budd baggage/dorm (prototype was built for the Sunset). The other car is a SP, Budd baggage/rpo. The kits are from Union Station Products. When I feel confident enough, I am going to start a tutorial thread on the construction of USP cars.
grampy: Lookin good with the Pennsy again.
MJ Nice. WHo made the Observation?
Tom: May I play with contrasts in Photoshop on the pic and send it to ya?
-Morgan
Crandell--
Thanks. It's a very smooth running beastie--it's been re-motored with a NWSL can and NWSL universals. Pulls beautifully, too. Doesn't seem to notice my 2-2.4% grades at all. Those Akanes are HEAVY babies, LOL!
Tom, that beast looks right at home on the wonderful rock face you created. Very impressive results!
-Crandell
Grampys--
It's part of it. The Yuba Pass tunnel. Still working on the other 6 feet, LOL! Thanks for the compliment, I really appreciate it coming from a modeler I admire as much as I do you.
Flash--here it is in B&W, closest I can do to a night shot with my Canon. OR the lighting in my garage, LOL!
Great stuff this weekend--as usual, by golly!
Grampys: Beautiful as always.
Crandell: That's what you call 'horespower,' LOL! Beautiful shot.
MJ: Love that 'Century'.
Here's mine: Rio Grande grants SP trackage rights when Donner Pass gets too clogged--here's an AC-11 helping the CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO over Yuba Pass. Train is running REALLY late (or maybe REALLY early) since COSF usually runs over the Sierra at night. And yes, this is a 'posed' shot--my DC can-motored Akane AC-11 would be running like a racehorse before the DC/DCC BLI E-6's even started getting their headlights on.
Couldn't resist one of the Century.
Hey John I like the Conrails. I have been leaning towards weathering more engines lately. I was wanting to do some Conrails patched to NS or CSX. What brand are they, and are they DCC?
By the way. I use to live right below Hickory before Imoved to PA. Wife use to work in Hickory as a teacher.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby P. wrote: Hey what do you expect. I work 3rd and my mind doesn't work to good.
It's OK Robby...we'll not send you in front of the firing squad... yet!
You can still edit the title of the thread...just go to the first post, click "edit", and change the title!
Rotorranch wrote:Wow! This WPF is 2 months long? And there was flack for the 4 day Holiday WPF's! Rotor
Wow! This WPF is 2 months long?
And there was flack for the 4 day Holiday WPF's!
Methinks he ment 7/11-7/13... Whoopsie.
Those who amy think that Crandell likes doing things in a big way may have such thoughts confirmed when the N&W mallet strikes that horse. Talk about road kill. Amazing. .... Oh. Hi Crandell...... nice work. ....I like the bridge.
Great work Grampy. I like the realistic weathering on the box car, Robby. ....
......and it looks like ConRail is off to a good start here in WPF.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
Tjsingle wrote:Very Nice conrail, and engine terminal! Sound or none sound units?
Non sound units