I am trying shutter speeds and lighting to see what you all think. Does the landscape look ok?
Here is my 1st submission, an SD9 makes its way with a mixed train of empty hoppers to the mine site.
Good job on the Bobcat Driline.
Here's one taken near the south engine house.
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GHQ HO Bobcat before....
After painting/weathering....
Grampys TrainsPhil, 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.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Hi Garry: Yeah, maybe he'll just give her a warning.
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.
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Grampy .... Nice work. Perhaps the cop likes blondes and found an excuse to stop her! He should have stayed in the donut shop.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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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.
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!
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.
Ah.......... Jarrell? You forgot to tell us which one was which! Nice job, very nice job!!!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Something a little different from me this week, a picture.. taken from the internet, of the prototype, and my Atlas model of it.
Jarrell
hea Phil i like that car now how many you gona make for me ? wtg on the bridge 2!
slow train ed
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.
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!