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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, May 8, 2009 10:11 AM

 Good work, everyone!

 

West bound SD45 about to enter Blue Mountain tunnel.

 

 

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, May 8, 2009 9:57 AM

Margaritaman love the trees. Did you build them or did you buy them.  If bought who makes them, if made wanna share your secerets?Wink

Here is what I got done this week, not much as we did a fair amout of flying this week.  These are my hand built trees.  Carved the trunk out of balsa and mixed burt sienna, raw sienna and umber to get the trunk color.  The branches are made from some sort of fern material I got at pat catans.  I plan on using woodland senics groud cover with pine cones. 



mike

alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)

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Posted by Geared Steam on Friday, May 8, 2009 8:45 AM

Margaritaman

I come back here after months of being away and...you guys used to start weekend photo fun on Thursday at 5a.m.!  Big Smile

Fine, be that way, I'll start it...

No subject in particular I just liked the lighting.

Margaritaman

Welcome back, you have a great layout, I really like your scenery (trees) and era. Please post more pictures Thumbs Up

Do you have a website?

Nothing new for me, been too busy to work on the layout, so I'll post an oldie.

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein

http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/

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Posted by MAbruce on Friday, May 8, 2009 8:28 AM

secondhandmodeler

 

VERY nice work on that bridge!  

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, May 8, 2009 8:23 AM

So far so good.  Thumbs Up

I will add some night shots, and a quick video.

 

 

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, May 8, 2009 7:55 AM

Hello looks like a good start to the weekend. I have been working on my feed&seed still need to add some trees and some more detail but this what it looks like now.

have a great week end Frank

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Friday, May 8, 2009 7:55 AM

Nice pictures everyone.  Margaritaman, I love those trees!

For those of you that frequent the coffee shop, I apologize for showing my trestle again.  For those that haven't, I've made quite a bit of progress playing God on my river valley.  I haven't mounted the trestle or weathered anything yet, but I'm moving along at a fairly good pace. The piers are the only thing secured so far. The river needs a substantial amount of work as well, but at least it's not blue foam!Big Smile  Here are a few progress pictures.

Corey
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, May 8, 2009 6:31 AM

This week my attention has been on getting my two latest motive power acquisitions ready for service. I picked them up for a fraction of their retail cost. Both units had some light cosmetic damage.

First is an Atlas U30C. The mounting holes for the endrails had to be drilled out so the endrails (the ones supplied are for a U33C) could be added. I couldn't find any visors lying around so I fashioned a pair from card stock. They're likely not to scale but I like them and that's what matters here. I got the unit for about 1/3 it's retail cost.

Second is an Atlas SD24. I didn't have to go scrounging for detail parts for this one. The mounting of the endrails was a bit problematic as they didn't want to stay in place. A little super glue took care of that problem. I drilled a small hole in the top of the cab so I could miunt the horns there. The mounting holes for the ladders had to be drilled out. The ladders were mounted in place with super glue as were the visors. This unit was obtained for about 1/4 of it's retail cost.

 

 

 

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, May 8, 2009 5:37 AM

 Great pictures !

Here's mine, Plywood local on its way to Westport, at Harbor Jct.

Made with CombineZM.

Wolfgang

Pueblo & Salt Lake RR

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Posted by pike-62 on Friday, May 8, 2009 5:31 AM

 Been working on this guy for a while now. finally got it assembled. Atlas U33C painted to resemble Conrail 1776 U34C bicentennial

Dan Pikulski

www.DansResinCasting.com

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Posted by wholeman on Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:48 PM

Great photos.  I also like the window in the background.  It can give off a nice sunset.Smile,Wink, & Grin

Will

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WPF 5/8-5/11
Posted by Margaritaman on Thursday, May 7, 2009 10:30 PM

I come back here after months of being away and...you guys used to start weekend photo fun on Thursday at 5a.m.!  Big Smile

Fine, be that way, I'll start it...

No subject in particular I just liked the lighting.

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