WPF 8-8-08

[steemtrayn]

HI guys,

    This weekend, I would like to propose that each and every one take pictures of their layouts from the point you enter the room to the point you leave the room. There is a thread on here wanting everyone to pick their "favorite model railroad" and in all fairness everyone should get exposure before posting to the thread. As soon as i get home from work i'll start a pictorial of my layout from starting point to ending point.  I don't have a snowball's chance in H E double hockey sticks of being a favorite, but at least the entire layout will be exposed on here before judgement is made on a favorite model railroad....chuck

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...And don't forget a track plan.

[Guilford Guy]

Alex, good job on the loco!

So can you finally get back to your stuff now?

Not quite, I need to finish a BN HH GP30, and a PCRR GP38-2 by the end of the month...

[howmus]

Ray--

Your 'also rans' look as if they're at full gallop to me.  Beautiful stuff!

Tom

Thank You Tom!  The band isn't doing the Gallop though..... Dmitri hadn't written it yet....

[twhite]

Tom, that is a fantastic view of your layout. how long have you been working on it?

CW:

Thank you, kind sir.  I've been working on it about 7 years, now.  Still have MORE than enough to do on it--part of the pleasure of this hobby (like why didn't I put the backdrop up FIRST? ). 

Ray:

Yah, I know (sigh) Dimitri hasn't written it for MY railroad yet, either.  I think he's just finished the "Leningrad" Symphony in my time frame.

Oops!  WRONG Dimitri!

Tom

[C&O Fan]

Great views of your layout Tom

Did you ever finish the rock work on the mountains ?

 

I made this small shed that will serve as a pump house at my fueling siding

out of the window cutouts for my friends engine house

Seemed better than just throwing them away

I put a couple in the picture so you could get an idea

I put a coalbunker at the back of the shed and a floor inside

 

[tomkat-13]

Nothing new on my new layout.......here some old views from the old layout.

[stebbycentral]

As I mentioned earlier, most of my layout is has been cleared for maintance, so I got to thinking if there was any part of the layout where I could get a quick snapshot. Especially since I want to start experimenting with my new toy - a Kodak Z712IS. 

Here's a quiet day's fishing on a lazy Iowa stream.

[RRTrainman]

Just finished up my yard today.

[jfallon]

  This weekend the Tidewater Division's module group has a show at the Children's Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. This may be the last one there for a while, as the museum is scheduled to close for renovations next month.

 

This is the "front" of the layout, Bill Miller (l) and Len Brue are setting up trains in the staging yard. The main layout is NMRA standardish HO scale modules.

 

 Yardmaster Nelson Clarke (r) makes up the trains during our op session.

 

 The big hook is clearing up a wreck, neccesitating a slow order for the op session. The speedometer function (F10) on the QSI sound decoders comes in handy!

 

 This section is the branchline one-track modules of the Great Lakes and South-Eastern (GLSE). This is another group of Tidewater Division members who prefer not to run in circles.

 

 John Cryderman serves as McKeever Yardmaster and also controlls the interchange between the main modules and the GLSE.

 

 Tom Blair(l) and Dave Hudson are switching cars at the South Branch Yard at the end of the GLSE modules.

 

 This is part of my modules, the Tidewater and Albemarle. I've been working on the fuel company, lots still to be done!

                                                                    John Fallon

[howmus]

This was almost ready to hit page 2......  Can't have that on Saturday!

 

It seems the spinster sisters that live at home with their parents on the farm at the top of the hill have a thriving business going.  They are producing the family "Recipe" that has been passed down in the family for generations (or at least the beginning of prohibition).  It is known to cure coughs, colds, fevers, snake bite, and rheumatism.  Not to mention dermatitis and stomach problems.  I am posting a few pictures of the "factory" which distills, er..... produces the elixir.  Must be good stuff, officer Obbie appears to be a steady customer.

Thought I would show a few photos of the new area I am scenicing before it becomes "hidden" in the forest.........  The still sits at the top of the falls by the side of the gorge just below the farm.



Closer up:



And closer still (pun not intended.....)

[Packers#1]

Great work everyone, can't wait to see what tommorow brings!

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Here's a bunch of pictures. These are ones I've posted before, but they provide an overview of my layout as it now stands. I still have plans to add much more to the layout.

[selector]

Wow, tons of great images here.  Nice start, Grampy; they don't come much finer.

A gentleman on another forum read my whine when the convenor of their photo-of-the-month contest directed that the image be of a crane.  I didn't have one, but this person mailed me one of his several yet unmade (thanks, Jerome ).  I thank him for that.  I put it together that very afternoon, slapped some "weather" on it...literally... and imaged it this way.  So far it's running a close second.

[cwclark]

   It's a bit past midnight and wanted to get this photo in of these tanks for the refinery. Hopefully, i'll have the road and gravel in around the plant by the end of the week...good night guys!

[LSWrr]

Good morning all,

I've been slugging away at the new layout this week.  Here are some pictures of the East-West yard.  I installed the "new" diesel locomotive service center, ground throws, ballast, and some shrubberies.  The ballast is recycled rubber.  Most of the turnouts are used brass that I have painted then coated with a metal preservative.  There are 128 photos in this album, but this is the first one in last night's photo session, feel free to hit the next picture at the upper right.

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2451907010029441264fNAFzY?vhost=rides

Those ships you see on the shelf will be part of the port Authority and coal docks in an adjoining room.  I hope to have the adjoining room remodeled and the bench work up by February 09.

Terry I still love that steel mill & blast furnace you have there.

RRTrainman, that is a very impressive refinery you have there.

Lee

[twhite]

Wow, I don't mind sounding like "Attaboy" at all with the quality of this week's shots. 

Ray--Um, I seem to remember something that looked suspiciously like that still in my grandmother's basement when I was a kid.  She said it was for making 'root beer.'  Yah, SURE!   Neat shot, I like it. 

Lee, that yard is terrific--makes me wish I'd planned one out like that for the Yuba Sub

Garry:  It's always great to see your Burlington lines--I just love that kitbash observation car. 

Crandell:  GREAT angle for that crane shot! 

Fine work, everyone.  Take a bow.  In fact, take SEVERAL!

Tom

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Wow, I don't mind sounding like "Attaboy" at all with the quality of this week's shots. 

Ray--Um, I seem to remember something that looked suspiciously like that still in my grandmother's basement when I was a kid.  She said it was for making 'root beer.'  Yah, SURE!   Neat shot, I like it. 

Lee, that yard is terrific--makes me wish I'd planned one out like that for the Yuba Sub

Garry:  It's always great to see your Burlington lines--I just love that kitbash observation car. 

Crandell:  GREAT angle for that crane shot! 

Fine work, everyone.  Take a bow.  In fact, take SEVERAL!

Tom

Thanks, Tom.... I agree with your remarks on Crandell, Lee, andd ray...

I particularily like CW Clarks oil refrinery tanks, etc. because my Dad was in the oil biz.

I like all the others, too. It's great to see all that fun going on!

Happy Model Railroading!

[wm3798]

Meanwhile, back at the Elkins Car Shops, the boys have been busy adding to the boxcar fleet... I've found that a quick and cheap way to get boxcars is to buy floors and shells from the Atlas parts department. For a couple of bucks, you get two shells a two floors, another 2 bucks gets you the weights you need, or you can just add your own if you have some laying around. Since I'll be adding upgraded trucks and running boards to future ones, there's no point in paying retail for a finished car, when all I need are the main parts. MicroScale's WM Boxcar set provides enough lettering for 4 cars, which I can now build and letter for about $6 each, before the brass details.

The first is representative of a 1969 car, freshly painted. Note the cut off ladders and no roofwalk.

Modeled after a 1949 car. I'm going to replace the roofwalk with etched brass, I think. Weathered with acrylic craft paint washes.

The original Fast Freight logo can be seen fading through the newer speedlettering. Based on a car photo shown in Jack Browns WM Color Guide. I also tried to show the faded touch up paint that reveals the stencil pattern on the lettering, but I'm not real happy with the result. From normal viewing distance it looks fine, the camera can be soooo cruel!

Next is a bashed car to represent a series B-24 Pullman Standard car.

I grafted a peaked roof from an Atlas Trainman car onto a Life Like 50' Evans car to get a reasonable representation of the B-24 series boxcar. The cushion underframe is represented by grafting MT draft gear onto Accumate roller bearing trucks. The main discrepancy is the underframe skirting should be trimmed back over the trucks for a "fish belly" effect. I may go back and do that. then again, I might not!

Finally, as I work toward hosting a "Steam Day" operation session, I resurrected a couple of ancient boxcars from the junk box.

Again, ordering new floors from the Atlas Parts Department, and adding Accumate trucks leftover from my hopper rebuilds, these old birds are ready to again fly behind my 2-8-0. The great irony of these cars is they are among the first N scale rolling stock I ever owned. So the models are actually as old as the prototypes they represent on my 1971-era layout!

Lee

[wedudler]

I've just finished my scratch build station   

 

 And I've made a vid  at Harbor Jct..

Wolfgang

[twhite]

Wolfgang:

That station is just SUPERB!  Really beautiful modeling.  And I enjoyed the video very much.  Congratulations!

Tom

[Don Z]

Well, not a whole lot of progress on my layout this week.....but I've finally installed the tunnel portals on both ends of the tunnel and started to blend them into the surrounding scenery. Here's a before and after of the south end:

One of these days I'll remember to level the camera before shooting so it doesn't look like everything is leaning left.....

Here's the other end of the tunnel....

Don Z.

[twhite]

Don--

Looking GOOD!  Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not the ONLY person I know who builds my curved tunnels into big, sheer-cliffed mountainsides, LOL!  BTW, what kind of bridges are you planning for those tracks?  A short, curved ME steel viaduct would sure look good on that upper line.  Very GN or UP for that part of the country

Nice work!

BTW, I notice your Avatar has changed.  Does this mean (hopefully) that you've gotten 'bit' by the GN 'bug'?  That's an absolutely GREAT railroad to model! 

Tom

[Don Z]

Don--

Looking GOOD!  Boy, I'm sure glad I'm not the ONLY person I know who builds my curved tunnels into big, sheer-cliffed mountainsides, LOL!  BTW, what kind of bridges are you planning for those tracks?  A short, curved ME steel viaduct would sure look good on that upper line.  Very GN or UP for that part of the country

Nice work!

BTW, I notice your Avatar has changed.  Does this mean (hopefully) that you've gotten 'bit' by the GN 'bug'?  That's an absolutely GREAT railroad to model! 

Tom

Tom,

I can't slip anything past you these days! I was bit by the GN bug long ago.....I designed my trackplan and accidently created something almost tailor made for the GN. My creation is now known as the Butte Terminal Railroad, focusing on the Butte, Silver Bow and Anaconda, MT area. I'm sure you know what that means....I'm now on the lookout for just the right assortment of NP, Milw and BA&P road power and cars to compliment the GN and UP interchange at Silver Bow.

Regarding the bridges....I'm not sure what I'm going to do for the higher line. I do have a ME Tall Steel Viaduct bridge kit for the lower line since it's right out near the edge of the layout in a ravine. I figured I would let that bridge be the focal point for people looking into the ravine. Thanks for the kind words regarding the portals!

Don Z.

[MisterBeasley]

I've been on a really-away vacation in Nova Scotia, but it's good to see that the regiment has been holding the fort.  (We actually took in a couple of colonial-era forts, but that's another story.)  I did get a bit of modelling done on Sunday, still working on The Mill.  Nothing photo worthy yet, though, so please stand by.  I just wanted to say I appreciated all the photos.

Alex, you've changed your Avatar.  Not much to go on with so few pixels, but I wish you the best...

[V&AL]

I got married yesterday:



The cake was delicious, the local construction company was on hand to assist with the distribution:



Yes, there was a train running arround the cake:
The PRR GP-30 we bought on a railfan trip to PA, the Galveston Wharves reminds me of home, the NS boxcar is for us, here in NC along the former NS mainline, and the WC caboose if for her, she grew up in WI, along the WC tracks. My buddies at the club whipped up the Just Married sign on the spot...


Here's a close-up of the sign:


We'll have better pictures later, these are just from a friend's digi-cam.  I'm a lucky man to have a woman who enjoys my hobby as much as she does...

[Flashwave]

I got married yesterday:



The cake was delicious, the local construction company was on hand to assist with the distribution:



Yes, there was a train running arround the cake:
The PRR GP-30 we bought on a railfan trip to PA, the Galveston Wharves reminds me of home, the NS boxcar is for us, here in NC along the former NS mainline, and the WC caboose if for her, she grew up in WI, along the WC tracks. My buddies at the club whipped up the Just Married sign on the spot...


Here's a close-up of the sign:


We'll have better pictures later, these are just from a friend's digi-cam.  I'm a lucky man to have a woman who enjoys my hobby as much as she does...

Congrats!

[LSWrr]

Tom, The best thing is that if I move the yard is automatically expandable.  The yard covers 3 four foot long tables so if I move into a larger house I can add sections to the center.   Thanks for your comments.

Lee, Wow great work, and thanks for passing on the $$$ saving tricks.

Wolfgang, very impressive station you have there.  How long did you work on that to get those great results?

New project: I'm attempting to make a latex mold of a junk yard.  I poured the latex yesterday still waiting for it to cure all the way through.  If this works I plan on trying to make scrap metal loads for my gondolas.  If things work out I'll post picture for next weekend.

Lee

[Packers#1]

A very big congradulations to you, V&AL, and great train, that sign is cool.

[LSWrr]

VAL!

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Where are you stationed?

BM1 Lee Soule, USCG, D9 (dpw-2)

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

.........V&AL ..............Great news!

It's good to couple up!

if you stop in at Elliot's Diner we'll treat you to more scrumptious goodies to celebrate.........

Everyone is welcome!