My contribution to WPF is a few "under construction" photos.
Pictured below is the curve and bridge crossing at Deer Creek. The end result should be an image of a railroad hugging a ledge between a steep rock wall and a drop off into a trackside creek. The track crosses the creek and enters a tunnel through the ridge.
Once through the tunnel, the train emerges at Tucker Hollow. Tucker Hollow is a small "spot in the road" consisting of an abandoned depot, an old water tower, and a very small pulpwood siding.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Lot of cool pics! I realy like those night scenes.
Did some work on my concrete State Hiway, MO 47. Still need to add stripes & more signs.
Wyatt, great work on those bandits! i'm really going to have to do one for my RR
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
BRVRR Great modeling and great photos again this week guys. Both are beyond my abilities I think. Selector/Jerrel, I would love to know how you did the smoke on the N&W Malett...
Great modeling and great photos again this week guys. Both are beyond my abilities I think.
Selector/Jerrel, I would love to know how you did the smoke on the N&W Malett...
You have a very nice set-up there, and the Challenger looks marvellous! I like your crossing and the trees!
Thanks for your question and compliment. The smoke was lifted from an earlier image of the same Mallet done a year ago. It was provided by RRCanuck. Jarrell resized it, did some cropping and added it for me...way beyond my skills, and I don't have the software. Jarrell would have done some colour altering to my original, cropped out items visible that are not part of the layout, maybe sharpened it...not sure...and added the nice border to give a depth look to it.
Here is the original.
I'm back from the layout tour!
1st, I'll show James Donlon's SP Coast Line layout. This is a 3 level layout in HO.
Next, I'll show Joe Heumphreus A&G G scale layout and his Sierra RR HO layout.
The A&G:
The Sierra:
2 more layouts left!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Now, we'll be seeing Gary Siegel's Santa Cruz Division of the SP in G scale, then his L&N East Kentcuky Division in HO. The L&N layout was in Model Railroader in 1996. I took mostly video of the SP.
The Santa Cruz Division:
The L&N:
Finally, we'll see Mike Murphy's Santa Rosa Pacific.
I hoped you enjoyed my photos!
Selector,
I knew it wouldn't be anything simple. I have tried to put smoke in a couple of photos with a basic copy of PhotoShop, but the results are always less than pleasing. As complicated as it sounds, Jerrel did a wonderful job for you.
Thanks for the kind word on the Challenger.
Again, my complements. Beautiful imagery.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Bump...............
Trainman Sam unca roggie Here's a bit of extra detailing I've made on a trackside structure...can't figure out why everyone goes into a laughing fit when they look at it (???) Hey, does the tenant in that unit ever step outside in the early morning hours and wonder why the sun is just SO DARN bright!!! ROFLMAO!!! Thanks for a bit of humor!!!
unca roggie Here's a bit of extra detailing I've made on a trackside structure...can't figure out why everyone goes into a laughing fit when they look at it (???)
Here's a bit of extra detailing I've made on a trackside structure...can't figure out why everyone goes into a laughing fit when they look at it (???)
Hey, does the tenant in that unit ever step outside in the early morning hours and wonder why the sun is just SO DARN bright!!! ROFLMAO!!! Thanks for a bit of humor!!!
Corollary: How long dotenents stay in that unit?
-Morgan
Here's my latest locomotive addition to my ever growing fleet of diesels. Its an HO Atlas GP-40 ebay special for only $49.95. Quite a steal. I added an NCE DA-SR DCC decoder and along with that, a working strobe and new horn.
Activity at the public siding in Cuba, Missouri on the OTRR.
Tom
After the train passed on the main I saw this neat little building so I grabbed a quick shot. Looks like the car-men are hard at work on their coffee break.
This building is a kitbash of the JL innovations Trakside Jamboree. When it is on its permenat home it will be the caboose supply and shanty. I plan on having the room under the metal roof fully detailed but I need to first finish up the final details on the outside of the building. I hope everyone has a great weekend!!
Here is where its permanent home will be:
www.lsofmrr.org
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Driline, nice score on the GP40. How did you get an operating beacon on that unit, and what programming had to be done on the DA-SR? I have a U30C with an NCE DA-SR that I want to get an operating beacon on (and the SD45s I posted earlier).
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.
PackerDriline, nice score on the GP40. How did you get an operating beacon on that unit, and what programming had to be done on the DA-SR? I have a U30C with an NCE DA-SR that I want to get an operating beacon on (and the SD45s I posted earlier).
You need three things to make it happen plus programming.
1) Pkg. Details West RB-106 "Rotary Beacon"
2) Pkg. Miniatronics # 18-C03-10 1.5v 30ma 1.2mm BULBS
3) Pkg. 330ohm 1/4 watt resistors you can buy at Radio Shack
I've found that you have to use this specific resistor for these lamps. Too high or too low a resistance just doesn't cut it.
On the DA-SR output 3 Do not cut the link, just leave it alone. Put the resistor in series with the C output. Change CV122 to a value of 20 or whatever lighting effect you want on the decoder. NCE offers you tons of choices. Its fun to check them all out.
Thats it. I use a rechargable solder iron, but you can use any iron that has a small pencil tip on it. I've installed at least half dozen engines this way. It really makes them come to life.
Could you post a slightly wider shot so we can see how you've placed the tell-tales?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I've gotta give credit where its due: this is but one of several such shots of ACTUAL contruction screwups, from around the world. You'll probably have at least one of your friends send you the email with them attached. Believe it or not, this was one of the LESSER stupid ones!
unca roggie I've gotta give credit where its due: this is but one of several such shots of ACTUAL contruction screwups, from around the world. You'll probably have at least one of your friends send you the email with them attached. Believe it or not, this was one of the LESSER stupid ones!
I hate to burst bubbles but that is not real. there is no rust on the railheads which means they would have had to have built it after the last passing train, plus the rail spikes don't look right.
All honesty, I figured on that, or Photoshop. the shadows, and the brick was too real.
Aha! I forgot to be suspicious of ANYthing in a photograph, nowadays...having heard of just how much malarkey can be done with internet tools.
I never did hear, though, of the outcome of the investigation into that Lee Harvey Oswald photo of him holding a gun and newspaper up, as if posing for an incriminating shot....the shadow his chin made, was different from the angle of the sun in the rest of the shot. They lacked the technology back then, that would have made for a better version any 11 year old could whip out, today.
Ah.
Must be the "low rent" district.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Great Photos everybody. I've been looking for some insperation to get me going again and this thread has certainly helped.
The photos this week have been great! Thanks to all who posted them.
I started a laser kit, a country market. It is n-scale, so the tomatoes will be tiny for sure! I had earlier thought I might finish it up by now, but there was a certain football game that kept me out of the train room a few hours tonight.
(The photo is just a quick snapshot with a cellphone. I'll take a picture when its done with my good camera.)