jacon12 Not much from me this week, just working on facia boards. It's something I should have done a long, long time ago. Anyway, isn't it amazing how much they add to the railroad. Here's a before and after of one section.Jarrell
Not much from me this week, just working on facia boards. It's something I should have done a long, long time ago. Anyway, isn't it amazing how much they add to the railroad. Here's a before and after of one section.
Jarrell
As a fan of steam facilities, I would like to see more of this part of your layout, if you are so inclined. It looks great in this picture. The placement of the buildings looks nice from this angle.
I'd like to see it from above, and leading into the turntable, from the right in the picture above.
Thanks, Tom. Yes, it does stay put, I believe they add some sort of adhesive to it. If there is a down side, once it's rubbed in, it's very hard to get off. I start with just a very light amount and use a fairly stiff, short bristle brush to distribute it. If it's not enough, add more light coats.
Phoebe Vet, how about those stick on labels with your forum name printed on it?
Thanks Garry: I'm a relative novice at photography, but here's how I've been taking photos, recently. The camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7. ISO 100, Aperture Priority, f stop 8.0, manual focus. I manually focus on the fore ground subject, then there is this bar in the screen that gives you a focus range in ft. So, everything that is in that range will be in focus. The nice thing about digital cameras, is you can experiment till you get the results you're after.
Wow! 3 pages of great photos already and it is only Friday night. This could be a great, great weekend.
I have been finishing up work on the yard, planting some more "silflor" grass, and reballasting a couple places that the glue didn't take (ie: pot holes in the tracks) and gerally getting ready for the layout tour in a week.
The area around the coal tower:
A few shots of the yard now with cars returned.....
Notice any improvement, Grampy?
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hi Ray, Yes, that was the finishing touch! Very nice work, and that Silfor grass looks great!
howmus
That scene just "looks right", if you catch my drift. Great camera angle. It makes you feel like you are track side, looking across at the loco and up at the hill behind. The rusted rails, the grass, weathering, background life, and the downtown all add up to a heck of a good shot. Send it to MR for their magazine!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
DANG RAY, yard looks great!!!!!!!!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Snooping around the yard again today I wandered over to the carmen's shanty. Looks like they don't have much going on but they did have a neat string of old MOW cars on the RIP track.
Well I got some more detail parts to add to my caboose shed for the club layout. I have lots more to add but thought I would take a break and take a few photos of my progess. In the unlikely event I get some more free time this weekend I will post some more photos of my progress.
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Just logged onto the forum from downunder and noticed the WPF has been expanded further to now include Tuesdays. Thats five out the seven days allocated. Unfortunately our weekends are limited to Saturday and Sunday.
Seriously though, this is the thread I head for on Saturday nights. There is some great photography and modelling done by you guys over there.
I have had a good day today, an old school mate decided to change scales from HO to O scale, so I picked up quite a few bargains. And the bad news, my football team were loosing 34 to 6 just after half time so I decided to come on line early tonight.
Bob
http://southcoastrail.blogspot.com/
SouthCoastRail . . . . And the bad news, my football team were loosing 34 to 6 just after half time so I decided to come on line early tonight. Bob
. . . . And the bad news, my football team were loosing 34 to 6 just after half time so I decided to come on line early tonight.
Didn't know you had the Detroit Lions down there . . .
Nice pictures so far folks. I've been wanting to share my extremely slow progress with you. Some where along the way of building my trestle, I decided to add the old concrete auto bridge. Now I'm stacking and carving foam to try to mimic the actual location. Here are a few progress picks. As you can see, I have a long way to go!:)
And, of course, the actual area that is haunting me at times!:D Of course, this photo was taken forty years before my layout era.
Corey that is going to be an awesome scene!!! Great work so far!
Where exactly is that bridge located?
A big thank you to all for your kind words on the Yard at Hopewell. It's getting close.
Cory, I don't know if this matters to you, but my impression is that the railway bridge is curved in a horizontal plane. It approaches the road bridge at an angle at left and then begins to diverge most of the way toward the right, as the bents on the right suggest by their turning to face the lens. I think the lens was a simple one that imparted a great deal of curvature of field to the resulting image, but the faces of the bents at right suggest to me that the bridge curved. Either that or there is field compression and both bridges were much longer, about twice as long, as they appear to be and the wide angle lens is just compressing the image.
-Crandell
It's curved.... got to be.
howmus Corey that is going to be an awesome scene!!! Great work so far! Where exactly is that bridge located?
OHH, OHH, call on me teacher! I know the answer, call on me!
It is the Red Jacket Bridge near Mankato, Mn. The picture was taken at the time of the automobile bridge's dedication in August of 1911. I do not know if it still stands there or not. I was somewhat surprised to see it posted here, as I recognized it from a book I own called "Railroads Across North America, An Illustrated History", authored by Claude Wiatrowski.
Oh, and I believe the curvature that you are seeing is entirely the result of the wide-angle lens.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
The bridge is straight and still stands, at least according to Google Earth. Interestingly, the road bridge is curved, although I suspect the one in the old photograph had been replaced.
Nic Work My buddy an I are into taking old car a refurbishing them into new working cars.
CMLewis The bridge is straight and still stands, at least according to Google Earth. Interestingly, the road bridge is curved, although I suspect the one in the old photograph had been replaced.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=112767661823924719613.000457a8c96bb3b61b04a
Click on "View in Google Earth" link, then zoom in.
Skip
Here are a couple photos from messing around on my diorama. I need to work on lighting, but these were impromptu as it is. I was trying to get some interesting/realistic angled shots.
Thanks for the interest guys. The trestle still stands to this day. The concrete bridge was replaced in the eighties in order to realign the highway. You use to have to almost come to a stop and then make a ninety degree turn to go under the trestle. Here are a few recent photos. Some are form early spring and some are from the fall. I hope to go out there again once old man winter goes away.
Thanks for 'straightening me out", Corey.
Not a problem. As you can see from the pictures I took, the original photographer must have used a wide angle lens. I hadn't noticed the weird geometry of the trestle in the photo until you pointed it out. I had just noticed the apparent curve on the top that isn't actually there.
Here's my entry for the WPF.
I have been working on weathering my new Atlas GP 40-2 and my Photoshop skills. Here is the latest result.
The image of the locomotive and rail cars was taken on one of my modules outdoors (you can't beat natural light for a good photo). The backdrop building and sky was added with Photoshop. I erased some distracting powerlines and a lightpole that appeared in the original background photo I took. Everyone keep up the good work.
WOW!!!!
From the Club swap meet today.
Still a long way to go,but here is what I`m up to. Horseshoe Curve in 1/87 correct radius. Much detailing of rolling stock and scenery need to be done.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/millerracers2000/ photos 1, 2,3
Buildy Still a long way to go,but here is what I`m up to. Horseshoe Curve in 1/87 correct radius. Much detailing of rolling stock and scenery need to be done. http://www.flickr.com/photos/millerracers2000/ photos 1, 2,3
EDIT: I went and made them IMGs for ya. And those should have been up there to begin with if anyone saw my inital posting...
Notbad. Got any wide shots of the whole curve?
-Morgan
Hawksridge
Sorry folks, I don't usually quote photographs in deference to our dialup friends, but this was worth a second look. There's a great deal of talent unveiled on this thread each week, and I've seen some really first-class work posted here, but this has to be the most impressive photograph of a model that I have ever seen. Well done.
Chris
"EDIT: I went and made them IMGs for ya. And those should have been up there to begin with if anyone saw my inital posting...
Notbad. Got any wide shots of the whole curve?"
Thanks for helping me out!
I don`t have any photos of the whole curve,and due to space limitations I will only have the curve itself and a bit of the approaches to it. So it is not a complete Horseshoe Curve layout lilke some of the really big club types. It is 13ft Wide IIRC-I started this back in the 90s and I had it set up so my young son could run multiple trains like we saw at the real curve. I had the grade,etc and we ran 50-60 car freights with helpers on the rear.
Then,we needed space for other uses and the center and one end were removed so I have just around the walls in a large U at the moment.
I also want to say to Hawkridge,man that is a beautiful job on that CSX! It looks as real as the ones that come to my plant everyday!