Happy Birthday to you Packer, hope you will get more and more of those model RRs.
Thank you to Packers#1 for your compliment and kind word, 1st i had a confusion your login between Packer and Packers #1 .LOL
And say thank you to Steemtrayn for putting that beautiful picture that looked quite similar,too.
And everyone's works , great jobs.........
Rob bro I wanna see you hit a crazy style rustbucket boxcar.
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588
galaxy wrote: PAcker!Enjoy it all you can!(Oh, to be 19 again! )
PAcker!
Enjoy it all you can!
(Oh, to be 19 again! )
Yeah Packer, . Remember it while you can. I can't remember my 19th. Of course, I can be excused for not remembering. After all, it WAS a few months more than 50 years ago.
By the way, thanks to everyone for making this a great start to the Labour Day Weekend. Enjoy.
Blue Flamer.
ChrisKSDF
Alaska railroad, you live in Vegas.. Your season will be winter on your layout :)
Backround is UP SD70Ace
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
I made some more progress on my WSOR weed sprayer cars.
Prototype can be found here:Weed Sprayer. Photo not mine.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Looks like a great start to the weekend. Thanks to you all for posting your work.
I've got something a little different from the 1:1 world.
Last weekend I met my brother in Portland, OR and we rode Amtrak up to Seattle to take in the Mariners/A's game. After Ichiro went 1 for 3 with a sac. bunt and an RBI, and the Mariners won 8 to 4, we borded the train for our return trip. What could be better than a train/baseball sandwich?!
Anyway, on our way south to Portland we had to stop in the woods. It seems that a northbound freight had hit a fallen tree and there was debris on the track. Here are a few pictures I took out the window while we waited to get back underway:
Have a safe Labor Day weekend, everyone.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Completed 2 tank cars this week; both are Athern HO scale undecorateds that I got cheap at a train show. UTLX 85302 uses a Champ decal set and MEC 715 uses the remnants from an old Walthers decal set with data from the Champ set.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Berlingo-Great picture of that steam loco.
Corey-great looking benchwork.
jarrel-love that Southern unit, and the trees.
Robby-Great Railbox boxcar, your work is always great.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
steemtrayn wrote: selector wrote: Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual. Can't you read ON the throne?
selector wrote: Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual.
Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual.
Can't you read ON the throne?
I had considered typing, "...get off the pot...", but thought it might be worse. Oh, well..
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
Very Nice Work Matt !!
Good Photo
Selector !!
I went in the train room to take a few shots and the little red dead battery
light came on
Oh Well maybe i can pick up some tomorrow and then join the fun
meantime no shortage of good photos here to entertain me
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Matt, very nice work you have there. Congratulations. Must be a few odd hours invested there?
All previous posters, thanks for a great show. Some outstanding work evident.
Jarrell badgered me (but very nicely) to get off the throne and read my camera manual. I had dabbled a bit early in the summer, but got busy and forgot to persist. Jarrell coached me through playing with the manual settings, and I think I finally am getting a feel for it. So, here is an improved version of an image I posted a couple of weeks back, maybe three now, where I manipulated and locked shutter speed, saturation, contrast, and such, and had to play with lighting and camera position. No more glaring, washed out, bright blotches that were overexposed so badly. Yay!! Thank-you, Jarrell.
this weeks projects were a house for my home layout and a lawsons store for the club
prototype kims antiques
prototype lawsons
(Edited by selector- images deleted in consideration of other viewers)
Grampy, the whole thing ties together so well. Colors, tones, textures.
I don't think I'd go back that far. Whew!!! It was hard enough the first time.
Happy B-day Packer!!!! Enjoy it while it last, the older you get the fast time goes.
Thanks Jim, it's been a fun and educational experience!
Jarrell
oleirish wrote:JarrellIf I didn't know better,that picture looks like the real thing,you have come an long way!!!!JIM
If I didn't know better,that picture looks like the real thing,you have come an long way!!!!
JIM
lvanhen wrote: Driline wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too OK Driline - you can have next Wed, but I wan't the following Tues!!
Driline wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.
Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too
OK Driline - you can have next Wed, but I wan't the following Tues!!
What happens when it starts on sunday?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Good grief ChrisKSDF, now I know why it is so hard to find my road stock... you have them all. So do you have a track plan together yet? Please post if you do.
Peter (in Alaska).
ChrisKSDF wrote: In light of the completion of climate control installation in my 3 car Las Vegas garage, meaning that construction can finally begin on the 22x35ft ARR Anchorage Subdivision, here's my first of hopefully many contributions to WPF:A celebratory photo of the 17 locomotives that'll soon finally have some real mainline track to get out and stretch their legs on!
In light of the completion of climate control installation in my 3 car Las Vegas garage, meaning that construction can finally begin on the 22x35ft ARR Anchorage Subdivision, here's my first of hopefully many contributions to WPF:
A celebratory photo of the 17 locomotives that'll soon finally have some real mainline track to get out and stretch their legs on!
Grampy, every week I look forward to your pictures. Besides great modeling they're always candy for the eyes.
Grampys Trains wrote:Hi all: Good start everyone. I'm finally getting caught up with weathering all my locos and freight cars. I also added some more foliage, and tried Paul Dolkos weed seed follicles for tall grass, from Oct. MR. Here's a Reading RR short coal train, for a change.
Dave Vollmer wrote: One thing I tried to replicate was, as evidenced by hundreds of photos of similar ex-Penn Central Conrail locos, that they often slapped what must have been cheap black paint over the Penn Central Scotchlite logos and lettering. In short order, that lettering showed through on almost every engine as that cheap paint peeled away. The "CR" stencils were another early Conrail cost-saver; they're the "C" and "R" from the "CENTRAL" portion of the Penn Central roadname stencils.
One thing I tried to replicate was, as evidenced by hundreds of photos of similar ex-Penn Central Conrail locos, that they often slapped what must have been cheap black paint over the Penn Central Scotchlite logos and lettering. In short order, that lettering showed through on almost every engine as that cheap paint peeled away. The "CR" stencils were another early Conrail cost-saver; they're the "C" and "R" from the "CENTRAL" portion of the Penn Central roadname stencils.
Dave, glad to hear you are feeling better. I like that almost can't see the Penn Central on those locos. At first I thought it was some light dirt weathering, the I got a closer look.
This is a CR conversion boxcar from an old Walthers HO decal set. Same idea of an old car with a quickie CR paintout.
berlingo wrote:
Operations or pretty much anything else on the Allegheny & Cumberland cease for the summer, but here's a pic of a west bound mix passing through Coal Fork Jct.
TrainManTy wrote: Dave, glad to hear you're recovering. Your last photo brought to mind something about N scale... And I thought the wires I have to solder in a DCC install in HO were small! Getting them in N scale must be a nightmare!
Dave, glad to hear you're recovering. Your last photo brought to mind something about N scale... And I thought the wires I have to solder in a DCC install in HO were small! Getting them in N scale must be a nightmare!
Soldering a 6-wire decoder into the smokebox of an N scale steamer is probably one of the most challenging things I've done, but I'm a better modeler for having mastered it. So now, DCC installs in a nice roomy tender are no big deal at all. But nightmare, no... Challenge, yes. I've been blessed with a very steady hand.
The outside diameter of the boiler here is about that of a healthy person's finger.
This is a kitbashed model of a PRR H10sb 2-8-0, with a shortened Minitrix K4 boiler on a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 chassis.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
secondhandmodeler wrote:Thanks Altoona, it took four coats to cover it completely! This layout has to share the room with our home office. The computer desks are a deep Merlot color. I figured that the bench work wouldn't stick out as bad if it was the same color. Now, if I could only get my turnouts in, I'd be cooking with gas!
I took that from the surrounding room that you weren't in an attic or basement like most of us and that it might have been in a family room or something like that.
Hmmmmmm, now how do convince the wife that if I paint the benchwork and make it look nice, that I need to build an around the walls layout in the living room?????
Yeah right!!!!! LOL
I have one like that. It's actually one of my favorite piece of RS. I think it's a Proto 1K.
So far I've cut it out, painted it, and sceneced the pond-bed. Now I'm just waiting for the paint to dry. (I'm using it as an adhesive for the dirt and stuff on the pond-bed, along with later my usual glue-water mix.)