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Hello to "Will I Amtrak'. Welcome to the MR Forum. I see you are new. I am sure people would like to see your photos instead of those X's. If you have your photos in a hosting site such as Photobucket, it is easy to post here. In Photobucket, you may copy the "IMG" into the forum. Please ask if you have questions, and you will have several willing members answering. There are many good people here.
Wolfgang........ I like the scene on your layout.
Ken L ...Nice job with Merchants Row.
Tom W ... Thanks for the comment on my F units. I like your Challenger in action on your layout.
Crandel ... You bridge looks great with the big locomotive and all of that smoke!
I like all those videos this weekend.
GARRY
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Will.I.AmtrakThis is a Athearn Sd40T-2 I weathered from an internet photo of the real thing. Compared to the picture I was very pleased by the end results. The first pic was before obviously. The second picture is when I faded the paint down to the color from the picture and the third picture is after it was fully weathered.
I'm not sure why your photos aren't showing up.
I added the IMG and /IMG brackets before and after your photo link. It appears to work for me on your first photo.
Don Z.
EDIT: Of course, now that I have replied, your photos work in your posting....
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Don, I tried to re-orient the text with tags, but it doesn't seem to have accomplished anything. I see the images when I go into "edit", as you must, but I can't figure out why the server won't post the images when I save the changes and return to the normal view.
-Crandell
jecorbett -NICE! I like your choice of colors. That dark grey on the end unit looks really good.
Those merchant row pics just gave me the motivation to go buy em!! Thats a great job on them!!! I have several similar DPM kits that are still "in the white" as I try to decide colors, but I might follow after your vacant store, but may add soaping the windows.
Here's short video of my T-1 Crossing the New River Bridge on the Loup Creek Branch Line
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Will.I.AmtrakI have fixed the pictures now they are posted and I can see them when I am logged on the page. Can you still not see them??
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Will I Amtrak........ no need to be sorry. Technology drives me nuts all of the time.
Do you have photos in Photobucket or one of those host sights?
If you do, you should be able to click on the IMG code and copy it. Next paste it in the message box in the forum.
Ask anybody for help if you need it. Everybody here is a good person. Others may do a better job of explaining than I.
Nothing new to post this week (the one thing I didn't get was any photos of anything today). But Ken's city block looked very familiar.......... The Merchant's row is a very nice kit. I found mine right behind the bandstand in the park. just the other side of the street as a matter of fact.
Of course that is my 1925 rendition of it.........
Oh, and nice job Ken!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Another good WPF. I did some 1:1 modeling in the train room this weekend. Here's a picture of the TV I mounted on the wall so I can watch my favorite MRR DVD's while working on the layout. that's Cody Grevino operating David Popp's New Haven N scale layout on the screen in one of the Dream Plan Build videos....chuck
Well finally some progress on the layout! Sorry about the pic its a bit blurry, batteries in the camera must be going dead. Its a good feeling to get the trains off the floor and about eye level!
LNEFANReally nice work! Great job! I also have a Merchants Row, but when I saw all the tedious painting of windows and etc. needed I put it on the shelf for "later". Any hints on detailing would be appreciated!
Thanks Tom, I decided to start a separate thread sharing what I learned from building these things, so I wouldn't accidentally 'hijack' WPF!
jecorbettCSX, great job on Merchant's Row I. ... ... ... ...that white brick is an excellent idea that I may steal.
John, thanx for your kind words. I certainly don't have a patent on white walls so you wouldn't be "stealing" the idea, LOL! Doing ads or graffitti might be a bit of a challenge because the mortar lines are so much deeper on a model brick surface than on a prototype building, I've never attempted it but I'm sure somebody has.
Robby P.Ken, Those store fronts look very good, and the back as well.
Thanx Robby, your photos from a few weeks ago are what inspired me to do the "whitewashing" of the rear brickwork!
tinman1Those merchant row pics just gave me the motivation to go buy em!! Thats a great job on them!!! I have several similar DPM kits that are still "in the white" as I try to decide colors, but I might follow after your vacant store, ...
Thank you Tin Man, glad they had that effect on you! I'm a little embarrassed to admit, I made that corner store front 'vacant' because of all the windows showing the bare interior – I’m just not ready to do all the extra work necessary to fix it up. Maybe someday...
Ray - I really like your 1925 rendition of Merchants Row, especially the multi-colored brick facade on the end/corner unit! I see a lot of brick buildings that look exactly like that even nowadays.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
It was great of Ken L to show his Merchants row. Nice work, Ken! I hope people are now inspired to build these fine kits.
Ray showed his 1925 rendition.
Here is my 1950's rendition with both Merchant's Row I and II......
It is a great way to fill a corner of the layout.
grampy: Great pastural scene
Here is part of hiking trail that runs along back of layout. Need to straighten s few trees. From front of layout they looked ok.
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
Everyone showing there merchant row, I chose row III for my downtown district.
A little more modern for my layout.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
LNEFAN Really nice work! Great job! I also have a Merchants Row, but when I saw all the tedious painting of windows and etc. needed I put it on the shelf for "later". Any hints on detailing would be appreciated!
Really nice work! Great job! I also have a Merchants Row, but when I saw all the tedious painting of windows and etc. needed I put it on the shelf for "later". Any hints on detailing would be appreciated!
Tom, all I can suggest is to spray the major brick color; mask off and spray secondary colors (like the storefront that is stone or any painted brick), then get out the paintbrushes to do all those windows. It may be tedious, but the end result will please. I am working on the same kit now, but am cutting it up to use the building fronts as a background flat and the backs as the buildings "across the street". It's been on the shelf for a couple of weeks due to other priorities; I need to get back to it.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I have been working on a module for our club layout. Here are the bridges crossing the creek.
Adding some finishing touch ups on the Hawk Point area.
Tomkat ... that scene looks real!
RR trainman I like the Merchants Row III on your layout.
Moelarrucurly ........ Great work there. Hey! You're in Padacah. That's not far from here.
Heartland Division CB&Q .... Moelarrucurly ........ Great work there. Hey! You're in Padacah. That's not far from here.
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How far are you?
The layout was being exhibited over the weekend in Nottingham. I didn't see the Sheriff but did have a great time.
The new fiddle yard turntables worked better than I'd expected and really improved the operation of the whole layout
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To: Jon ... That looks outstanding even with no sheriff.
moelarrycurly4 Heartland Division CB&Q .... Moelarrucurly ........ Great work there. Hey! You're in Padacah. That's not far from here. How far are you?
On Lake Barkley; Trigg County. There are 3 model railroaders here.
Heartland Division CB&Q On Lake Barkley; Trigg County. There are 3 model railroaders here.
well that is just a hop skip and a jump.
Great work everyone! Here is a BN autorack testing out the first piece of track laid on my N-scale CSX Dixie Line layout:
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moelarrycurly4 Heartland Division CB&Q On Lake Barkley; Trigg County. There are 3 model railroaders here. well that is just a hop skip and a jump.
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Tv looks great! Thanks for the help on Saturday! I hope to take a picture of the new Walthers Built Transfer Table and post. Looks like alot of modeling done this week! Great work.
cwclark Another good WPF. I did some 1:1 modeling in the train room this weekend. Here's a picture of the TV I mounted on the wall so I can watch my favorite MRR DVD's while working on the layout. that's Cody Grevino operating David Popp's New Haven N scale layout on the screen in one of the Dream Plan Build videos....chuck
Here's what I've been up to recently... Trackwork...
After I finished all that, I took a break and made some scrap metal loads.
Then I commenced training my youngest engineer...
This was right before the train stalled on the grade, when I ran my Atlas U23B over to give the train a shove up the pass. No problems on the new trackwork (a real joy to me!) and there were no derailments save for one caused by excessive speed (the OTHER way makes the train go slower, Andy!) and when we went right off the end of track in as-yet-unfinished New Poland... Which reminds me of how my next free weekends will be spent!
I got some new equipment during the weekend:
Those cars are all athearn kits. I don't have metal wheels on the tank cars since the P2K and branchlines don't fit. Looks like I'll have to get some that will fit.
A pair of Atlas SD24s. The UP one originally had sound, but now it's under the BN one. Don't know what I'll do with the UP one. I've though about using it to make the one SD24 that BN chopped the nose on and using it as a transfer engine; however, I'm leaning towards selling it off.
While I was in pensacola (car show, I have pictures of that too), I came across an actual BN caboose on some abandoned track:
If it's still there next time I'm in the area, I'll ask the people at the buisness near it if it's okay to go on their property to get closer (and maybe on it)
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.
Great photos from everyone this weekend! I weathered one of my plastics hoppers, but have yet to take pictures of it.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout