Just finished up my yard today.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
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.
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!
Nothing new on my new layout.......here some old views from the old layout.
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
TerryinTexas
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cwclark wrote: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
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!
twhite wrote:Ray--Your 'also rans' look as if they're at full gallop to me. Beautiful stuff!Tom
Ray--
Your 'also rans' look as if they're at full gallop to me. Beautiful stuff!
Thank You Tom! The band isn't doing the Gallop though..... Dmitri hadn't written it yet....
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Train 284 wrote:Alex, good job on the loco!So can you finally get back to your stuff now?
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...
Alex
cwclark wrote: 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
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
...And don't forget a track plan.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
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I've been working on a loco for Tyler, first are a couple Terrible pictures of the weathered loco taken with a Cell Phone, then a slightly better picture prior to weathering.
Wonderful photos this weekend everyone--and we've still got two days to go!
Grampy's: I know I'D be a happy passenger on that handsome train--especially if I got to travel through that handsome layout of yours! Beautiful shots.
CW suggested we offer a tour of our layouts to co-incide with the other thread on 'favorite' layouts. And BTW, CW--that yard trackage of your SP layout just makes me drool--wish I'd planned for something like that (he said, kicking himself).
Anyway, though I kind of did this before, I've done a lot more on the layout since, so here's a kind of mini-tour of the Rio Grande Yuba River Sub. Unfortunately, my layout really can't be photographed by 'overall' views, my mountains are just too darned high, LOL!
Opening the garage door, you're immediately faced with Plum Creek Canyon, the Sierra Buttes, and Sierra City:
Then Bassett's and the Yuba Summit Tunnel:
Then Yuba Pass on the other side, with the Deer Creek Viaduct in the distance:
Below that, we have the yard at Deer Creek with the viaduct and the bridges over Malakoff Hydraulic Diggings:
[And the locomotive facility at the other end:
The 2% pull up South Yuba Canyon past the Champion Mine:
Wagon Wheel Gap on San Juan Ridge between the South and Middle Forks of the Yuba River:
Overcrossing at San Juan Ridge:
Bullards Bar bridge on Middle and North Forks of the Yuba River:
Anyway, there's the mini-tour. Hope you enjoyed it.
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I guess i'll just give a tour of the layout room. I began the layout in May of 2004 and still have a long way to go before it's looking good.
As you walk thru the door the new Hearne yard is to the right.
After leaving the Hearne yard the scene becomes the Shell refinery. The refinery sits in the middle of a wye so the trains can turn around.
The trains can travel in two directions. Here the train can go to a dogbone island.
and under the layout
or stay on the top level and come into the El Paso Yard. Here's engine service which I'm gonna redo one day.
Here is the west end of the El Paso yard.
and the east end of the yard. The lower track is where the island reappears on the layout thru the tunnel.
After leaving the El Paso yard the trains can go into another three level dogbone island that is still the plywood central
or into the Houston Ship Channel spur and the end of the layout. The entrance / exit door is on the left a few inches from the end of the Houston Ship channel.
That's it!....chuck
First, let me congratulate you on your timing, ... this last week I removed every unsecured structure from the layout, all the vehicles, and a number of trees and bushes that were loose and/or falling over. It's part of a 3-months-late "spring cleaning" project. My plan is to clean, inspect, and make necessary repairs to each structure before replacing it back on the layout. So right now my layout pictures would be very unimpressive indeed.
Hey Guys alot of stuff has been done on the layout.
First Built a styrene bridge for the layout.
My New diorama
new figures i bought
New boxcar
Athearn BB gondola with chooch load
My layout in march
my Current layout
Tjsingle
Thanks. I'll tell you the worst part. I didn't have the drill bits. UGH!!!!!! I had to go 20+ miles for 2 dang bits. But, it was worth it. Got another train car in that trip and got some shots of a train going by, which I seem to forget the camera all of the time.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I'll make one of each of my three (none are completed, one just needs figures and vehicles). I guess they won't win, but hey, have fun looking at my work later.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
This is what I have done for a few days. Its a old looking ABOX. Hand painted graffiti, and good looking rusted roof.
Next is a engine I did for a guy. I added some MU cables, air hoses, ditch lights, and a snow plow. I am waiting on a GPS for the roof. He's happy, so that makes me happy!!!
Hello everybody....
Great pictures so far, and it's only Friday afternoon.....
Here's a sequence of photos. The GN has running rghts on my fictional division of the old Burlington Route. A set of Alco units is hauling an eastbound frieght train. In one phto, the meet the Empire Builder.
happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Jeff, Ryan, and matt, great photos. Here's my NW GP35 and some other photos:
Aiken locomotive works junk pile:
Two project locos:
Weathered boxcars (not the best, I know, but not the worst):
Some shots of my GP35 (a ton at my photobuckety album, http://www.packers1.tk/ [click on the desktop layout album, just my photobucket album)[backdrop=blue construction paper, crayola crayons, and frame of popsicle sticks. cheap way to a decent backdrop]
And here's the paper towels painted. I think a small mine would look good here, any ideas on what kind?
Been awhile since I added some photos to this weekly thread, and since I was taking a different approach to my photography this week, I actually looked forward to making a contribution this time around.
Well I finally read the fine print on the manual for the digital camera and learned how to modify the f-stop for more depth of field in the images. I took all of these with the aperture at f-stop 22 and on a tripod for the extended exposure time. So I started with some shots of the locomotive servicing facility area of the layout. Chuck, I would love to participate in the full layout series, but I just don't have a collection of images in that format at this time.
Subject: Loco Servicing Facility
...and with a Photo Shop background layer added
Subject: Prime Mover on Southern Flatbed car
Then I played around with this image of the Prime Mover on top the Southern flat bed car
Original image
....then a few different background layers added
...and another background layer
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan