Tom ... Thanks! .... Actually, my muscle loco is my Bowser Pennsy T-1. With two motors and 5 pounds of weight, it will pull down the house. Of course, the Northern is quite a hauler, too!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry---
Ooooh, that BOWSER 4-8-4! Yummy! Tell me, did you run out of cars to put behind it before it stalled? Those babies have been known to move actual HOUSES, LOL!
Gorgeous!
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!
Hello everyone..
I ran the CZ yesterday ...........
Also, my good old Bowser 4-8-4 emerged from the roundhouse, and runs just fine.
Jeff, for the record, Hot Wheels and Match Box cars are typically closer to 1:64, or S scale. That mid 50's jalopy next to the station should dwarf a modern Mustang.
But recognizing that you're in it for the fun, I'll concede that you can get "close" with those cars, and you certainly can't beat the price or availability. In my younger days fooling with HO, there were quite a few Hot Wheels, Match Boxes, and even the occasional Johnny Lightning.
In N scale we had a similar problem a few years ago, when you could get Micro Machines for a dime a dozen, although they were closer to 1:144 than 1:160.
You can see that the wheel base on the Chevy Bel Air is almost the same as the 1:160 straight truck, and the wheels are about the same diameter... The larger vehicles can work when you're doing "forced perspective" by placing them in the foreground of a scene.
The trick is not to mix them in the same scene or in the same relative position to the camera angle.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
wm3798Everything I know about Minnesota I learned by watching Fargo...
"Let me whip up some eggs for ya Margie"
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
Wow! WPF on page two on a Saturday! I know I'm not a good photo contributor here, but WPF on page two on Saturday? This is my son's favorite regular feature on the forums. He loves all YOUR trains almost as much as mine and his own. The other son is busy sweeping up his toys right now. They swap places later and I have to go through all the train pictures a second time for him.
Medina, I love the way you have the background in the photobucket link. What did you use to do that?
Springfield PA
Jeff love the mustang. For all those that question the scale of the wheels have you looked at rims lately. This is what is called the DUB edition rims.
Any way I finished up the brass sd-7 runs real smooth now. I also put a decoder in my altas rs-1. I also built the revell big boy, still finishing it up.
Bought the athern hustler and dropped in ernst gears for it. Not as easy as drop of course but it really runs sweet now. It runs real slow. I stripped the paint on it and it will get a z size digitrax decoder. I will try to light it as well. Depends on the room left over. I also bought the ahm plymoth diesel which I stripped down and got running real sweet as well. I might take the original motor out and replace it with a smaller can motor and put a decoder and lights in it. Now the question is do the hustler made by athern and the ahm plymoth actual engines or something made up by the manufactures. I searched the web and have not really found anything. Any help would be great so I can weather them properly.
Thanks
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Great photos Jeffery! Like the mustang.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
DrilineIs the Red car 1:87 scale? Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks right.
jeffrey-wimberly
Is the Red car 1:87 scale? Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks right.
lvanhenDon't you know the wheels are a scale 2" too big?
Robby P.Now thats a SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET 'Stang. I think it would look good, if you did a small burnout and a cop pulling up. Hey, I've been there before in a mustang
There's a Louisiana State Police car just out of frame. The stang driver is minding his P's and Q's.
Jeffrey, Hot Wheels?
Don't you know the wheels are a scale 2" too big?
Phil, nice, real nice!
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
Now thats a SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET 'Stang. I think it would look good, if you did a small burnout and a cop pulling up. Hey, I've been there before in a mustang
"Rust, whats not to love?"
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...
SOU FanI 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.
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.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
wheeler Here is my 1st submission, an SD9 makes its way with a mixed train of empty hoppers to the mine site.
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.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
demonwolf224It will be a happy day when driving trucks on train tracks comes.
It will be a happy day when driving trucks on train tracks comes.
Ah....yes...
Lots of nice photos this weekend. Thanks for posting.
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:
wheeler I am trying shutter speeds and lighting to see what you all think. Does the landscape look ok?
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.
Great pics so far, and it's only friday!!!!!!!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Thanks for hosting WPF this week, Jeff.
Great photo posts everyone.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
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
TerryinTexas
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http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
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.