Weekend Photo Fun 11-21/11-24

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 

[shayfan84325]

Hey Jeffrey!

Thanks for getting us off to a great start.

I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola.  I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches:

After a little more work it went to the paint shop, then it went right into service behind my Forney.  Here it ventures onto Impossible Bridge while the B.& B. C. RR railbus/chuckwagon passes below:

Let me head off the inevitable comments about how a curved truss bridge just won't work (I'm pretty sure that this model falls outside the old "There's a prototype for everything." axiom).  When folks ask about it, I tell them that we got that civil engineer from CSU (to Wyoming alumni that explains a lot) and as long as we keep our speed down the bridge doesn't twist too much.  Besides, John Allen had a curved truss bridge on the Gorre & Daphetid - I'm just emulating a master.

Oh alright, I'm making excuses - I bent the rules a little by bending the bridge and thus got my track plan to work.

Here's to a great weekend's worth of pictures!

[ARTHILL]

My Yard Bird is all apart again. Its time to try to add the decoders. The power decoder will be in the engine and the sound decoder will be in the tender. I had to add new canisters for the LEDs and invent a way to get power puickup. I tried the Kadee spring approach. I hope it work. If it all runs I will see if I can hget my new airbrush to paint it. This project has certainly kept me out of trouble for a while.

[slow train Ed]

hea Phil i like that car now how many you gona make for me ? wtg on the bridge 2!

slow train ed

[jacon12]

Something a little different from me this week, a picture.. taken from the internet, of the prototype, and my Atlas model of it.

Jarrell

[howmus]

Ah.......... Jarrell?  You forgot to tell us which one was which!  Nice job, very nice job!!! 

[selector]

Thanks for starting us off, Jeff.  Nice engine shot.

Phil, you do amazing stuff!  Thanks for showing us the work in progress, and then the item situated on your nice layout.  Works for me!

Jarrell, have you been playing with Photoshop again, putting the real engine in your layout photo at top?

Here is my entry for the week.  I continue with my "older colour photo" look.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

You guys are off to a great start.

Jeff .... nice GP38!

Phil ..... A curved bridge! It must have been an uncivil engineer! Your modeling skills make it look real anyhow. I like your gon so far.

Art .... I like that little yard bird.  I bet you are enjoying working on it.

Jarrell .. I'm really impressed with your switcher!

Crandell posted another great shot combining his supperb modeling skills with his phographic talents! Pennsy power looks right at home in that western scenery!

Happy Model Railroading!

 

[Grampys Trains]

Hi all: Jeffrey, nice scene. Phil, you don't need to make any excuses, that' a great scene. Art, I'm sure you'll be happy with that loco.  Jarrell, you really nailed that loco, very nice.  Crandell, that scene looks like a painting, but very realistic, nice job. 

The blond in the Caddy conv. was so intent on trying to get the attention of the engineer, that------------------

 

 

Uh, Oh! Busted for speeding.

 

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Grampy .... Nice work. Perhaps the cop likes blondes and found an excuse to stop her! He should have stayed in the donut shop.

[SilverSpike]

Great start to the thread guys! Nothing new from my neck of the woods, but I do want to share with you and image I ran across a couple weeks ago.  

I can't take credit for this image, but I wanted to share it with the folks here on the MR forum. This image is an HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) that combines 3 or more bracketed exposures and then modified a bit with imaging software. I really like this one taken by prr8814 and posted on flickr. It is described as a caboose at the Holland Michigan RR yard, Photomatix 7 exposures using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT camera.

 

 

 

[Grampys Trains]

Hi Garry: Yeah, maybe he'll just give her a warning.

[shayfan84325]

Grampys Trains

Phil, you don't need to make any excuses, that' a great scene.  

Thanks, Grampy.

I figured that there is bound to be someone among us who would have issues with the curved bridge and I'd be best off acknowledging my violation of a basic bridge design principle.  I don't recall where I learned that successful curved bridges are nearly impossible to design, but I know it's true because the curve creates a twisting force on the bridge (you sometimes see curved track on a straight bridge, but bridges generally have to be straight between supports - I understand that there are a few very recent examples of curved railroad bridges).

As a point of interest, when I place my finger gently under the model bridge I can feel it twist when one of my little brass locos passes over it.  Sure enough, engineering principles still apply, even in HO scale.

[Driline]

GHQ HO Bobcat before....

After painting/weathering....

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Good job on the Bobcat Driline.

 

Here's one taken near the south engine house.

[wheeler]

Here is my 1st submission, an SD9 makes its way with a mixed train of empty hoppers to the mine site.

[wheeler]

I am trying shutter speeds and lighting to see what you all think. Does the landscape look ok?

[wheeler]

And a pull back view of the "staged" shot. Hopefully, these are interesting to you.

I enjoy looking at other peoples layouts, so I decided to participate. Enjoy.

[C&O Fan]

Really great photos every one

My friend Art came over and added some clouds to my skyboards just prior to the layout tour using some stencils

I'm really pleased with the way they came out

[gear-jammer]

Thanks for hosting WPF this week, Jeff.

Great photo posts everyone.

Sue

[Packers#1]

Great pics so far, and it's only friday!!!!!!!

[Driline]

wheeler

I am trying shutter speeds and lighting to see what you all think. Does the landscape look ok?

Your pictures are nice....just too small. 1600X1200 would be nice. Most cheap 3Mpixel cameras can handle that resolution.

[Robby P.]

OUTSTANDING WORK THIS WEEK.  Great shots everybody.

Heres the latest on my engine.  I weathered it, and added some details.  Snow plow, ditch lights, MU cables, and a GPS system.

Before:

After:

[SOU Fan]

I did some weathering as well this week.

[demonwolf224]

It will be a happy day when driving trucks on train tracks comes.

[Kenfolk]

demonwolf224

It will be a happy day when driving trucks on train tracks comes.

 

Ah....yes...

 Lots of nice photos this weekend. Thanks for posting.

[dragenrider]

wheeler

Here is my 1st submission, an SD9 makes its way with a mixed train of empty hoppers to the mine site.

What a nice looking SD9!  I like the way the track sits higher than the foreground, too.  Thanks for posting.

[BRAKIE]

Here is some recent additions to my growing N Scale collection and after dabbling in N Scale over the past few years I find myself some what excited that I decided to make N Scale my primary scale.Kinda like starting over in a new scale.
Not shown is my George Roberts Printing Company kit from Walthers.

Plus 2 of my newest Atlas Trainman cars.

[Driline]

SOU Fan

I did some weathering as well this week. 

Great Job on the wheels. I really like the dirty chrome look. Those cheap athearn trucks look real nice once you detail and weather them a little.

[wm3798]

I just wrapped up a decoder job for a fellow up in Minnesota, don'tchaknow... Well, he says so I hear ya install some of them decoders, is that right? and I says, well yah, I been known to solder a couple wires together here and there, and so he says well how about I send you a couple of engines, then? and I says well that sounds like it could keep me busy for a bit, yah? and he says yah. So next thing I know there's this knock on the door and wouldn'tcha know it? it's the post man and he wants me to sign for this box, yah see.  So I signs for it and when I open her up well right there is the same engines this feller up north told me he was going to send down, so I says to the wife, well whatdya know? And she says what's that, and I say well this fella from up north sent me these engines to work on for him, yah? and she says, yah, so why don't you go up to the train room so you can get those decoder rings put in, and I says they aren't decoder rings, they're just decoders, yah? and she says, yah whatever.
So anyways, I grind a few frames out in the shed, and sit down to wire some decoders and such and here's what I come up with...

First there's this RS-2 from Life Like, it takes a drop in, so I treat the guy right and don't charge him full price, then.


Then there's this pair of Life Like FA's.


And this little beauty, an Atlas torpedo tube Geep 7.


And we finished up replacing some boiler tubes and a crown sheet in this Union Pacific consolidation.  Not really, just put a decoder in just like all the others.

So I'm packing them up to send back up north here in the next day or so.  So what have you been up to then?

Lee

PS:  Everything I know about Minnesota I learned by watching Fargo...