Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
mikelhh Fabulous work everyone. P2K Boston and Maine S1 and a couple of boxcars. Mike
Fabulous work everyone.
P2K Boston and Maine S1 and a couple of boxcars.
Mike
Great Photo Mike
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Dave VollmerPainted, detailed, weathered, and added DCC to a Kato Conrail SD40 in N scale. I submitted an article to the Conrail Historical Society webpage on what I did. Unfortunately, Sunrise Enterprises no longer makes their N scale cab signal box, but it's an easy scratchbuild.
Nice work Dave
What Time period do these locos represent ?
Dave...... Vollmer...... Hmmmmmm......
There used to be a guy around here with that name long ago....... Back in aught-six as I recall.....
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Near end of skool year, so busy busy, but have been slowly adding to the module:
layers of ground cover, puttin' some trees in.I put guard rails on the bridges, but used CA and got blobs, so gonna pop 'em out and get some pliobond (thanks to peoples on other thread that helped with that).
Build an engine shed outta coffee stirs "donated" from local cafe. They are now my main lumber supplier. Forgot to paint the backdrop inside the shed (oops) so thus the angle on the photo.
These big, zoomed in photos aren't very flattering. It's n-scale so looks a bit better "in real life"
Awesome photos, everyone! Very inspirational!--Mark
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mononguy63 Dave...... Vollmer...... Hmmmmmm...... There used to be a guy around here with that name long ago....... Back in aught-six as I recall.....
Naw...THAT guy modeled The Pennsy. This must be someone new...
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Great start to the weekend.
I've been experimenting with some aerial shots over the past few days. Here are a few examples
There are some different shots in another thread
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/153600.aspx
..................and the pilot.......................
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jon grant Great start to the weekend. I've been experimenting with some aerial shots over the past few days. Here are a few examples ..................and the pilot....................... Jon
Those were some fantasic shots. Is that a Spad 8 bi-plane? Snoopy looks happy.
DrilineIs that a Spad 8 bi-plane? Snoopy looks happy.
mononguy63Good stuff here, as is the norm these days. The videos are fun. Where do you guys get the audio for those? There's more there than what comes from an on-board speaker.
Thanks! I dubbed in the sounds from prototype videos I've taken, using this method.
Wow Jon just keeps moving the bar higher and higher.
My simple submission.
John
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Thanks, Phil! I was glad to see the work you did on the "left" (alonetillnow?) side of yr layout. Any more picts?
My 3yrold son and I also went railfanning today:First to the live steam in the hills above berkeleyhttp://www.redwoodvalleyrailway.com/I used to live next to one of the dudes that built those engines and he'd let us 6 yrolds come at 6am and fire up the boilers and build the train for the public running that day. So it's fun now to take my son (he's a good excuse to go!) We both love that live steam whooosh!
Also to the local MRC in Walnut Creek:http://www.wcmrs.org/which I've been going to since I was 5 or 6. All the handlaid track & turnouts are inspirational!(They also have a section modeling Mallard, the port for the car ferry Ramon on the Sactramento line that was featured in June 2009 MR in the layout design by John Williams).
So it's been a very trainy (and hot) weekend! Keep up all the cool picts!--Mark
Don't mind the unfinished power poles
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Not a bad weekend ... I got a new 2-6-0 Mogul on E-bay, added a Bachmann Vanderbuilt oil tender (also from E-bay), and took a look at a real Southern Pacific 2-6-0 at the Lomita Railroad Museum ...
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Driline Those were some fantasic shots. Is that a Spad 8 bi-plane? Snoopy looks happy.
It is a Revel kit of a Sopwith Camel in 1/28 scale, that I got as a birthday present last year. It's only taken me a year-and-a-bit to get round to building it.
Wow! Great looking photos. I look forward to joining in and posting some pictures in the future.
zgardner18 Don't mind the unfinished power poles
Nice looking consist there!! BTW--those power poles look interesting without the lines---we have a few poles still up with nothing on them--could consider the power guys just recently buried the lines and left the poles up
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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jeffrey-wimberlymcfunkeymonkey Good looking scratchbuild, and built with recycled locally available products too. I like it.
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Oakhurst Railroad Engineer Not a bad weekend ... I got a new 2-6-0 Mogul on E-bay, added a Bachmann Vanderbuilt oil tender (also from E-bay), and took a look at a real Southern Pacific 2-6-0 at the Lomita Railroad Museum
Not a bad weekend ... I got a new 2-6-0 Mogul on E-bay, added a Bachmann Vanderbuilt oil tender (also from E-bay), and took a look at a real Southern Pacific 2-6-0 at the Lomita Railroad Museum
Its been a while since i've looked at your stuff and I must say its all looking good. Your models look great and the module is well done. The lighting made this shot pop for me.
Um... well, I go to the cafe everyday after school to grade papers for a bit. And there's a serve-yr-self counter. So I do.They probably think I just like my coffee superstirred.But if you take a couple each visit...(I hadn't thought of what the other patrons might think about me examining the stirs for kinks & knots )(And I do tip a lot...)
I measured and they come out to be about 4x20's in N scale. A bit wide (like the shed above) (which still needs doors & more weathering).I've been chopping them in half lengthwise on my chopper for the next projects. Makes em look more like regular lumber.
If yr local coffee house objects to making donations, you can bulk packs at most grocery stores or restaurant supply stores.
that winter shot is about as real looking as one could get. Perfect capture of late winter.
Bill D
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
IVRWI've actually been wanting to model in coffee stirrers for a long time, but my parents haven't gotten me any yet. May I inquire as to how you get them?
Next time you go to the supermarket, take a look in the coffee aisle, they may have a box. Also, craft stores often has them. Naturally, you will have to pay for them at these places, but a box will last a long time.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
spidge zgardner18 Don't mind the unfinished power poles Its been a while since i've looked at your stuff and I must say its all looking good. Your models look great and the module is well done. The lighting made this shot pop for me.
Thanks Barry and John for the kind words. I have to give credit to the man upstairs for the lighting since it is from the sun. I admit that I still need to get in gear and finish the scene. I'm also hoping that this years Christmas will bring me a good camera too.
Another good weekend for browsing layouts. Margaritaman, I love that water tower, and Spidge's upward-looking shot of the trestle is downright scary.
This is another resurrected relic from my childhood. It's a plastic signal bridge with metal bulb brackets. I got it in a yard sale box-of-trains when I was a young teen. I replaced two of the bulbs with new ones, but I figured if the two that were left were still running after 50 years, the least I could do is to let them spend the rest of their years on a layout. Since I don't do "real" signalling on the Moose Bay, I've got these wired up as turnout position indicators, with both sides flipping between green and red as the turnout throws.
The engine is my non-sound Geep, with its noisy sister close behind. Protos, with some weathering added.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Nothing new done to the bench for some time now, well have 3 dozen trees that need to be planted. But had some great funny anyway. Simon 1966 brought over the lads to run the bench!
Crisp and Andrew.
This is Andrew, he brought over his Euro Train (to bad I did not get a picture of it) and it ran well. Then he asked if I want to see how fast it went and cranked it up! Had to get the Big Hook out, it derailed in a 7 foot long tunnel.
Crisp is the real rail fan, he brought over some well cars. They tracked very well, I might get some my self.
Crisp and Andrew seem to enjoy my Blue Line GE AC 6000. What surprised me is they ran them with the sound off most of the time. Thank God I will add. Two of them with all the sound going would be never racking after 2 hours of fun.
Crisp then found my stash of Tyco Old Dutch Hoppers He lashed up 20 of them to a UP GE AC 6000. They are going by K-10 Mine on the C line.
Then they found my Rio Grand SD 50. I have forgot how well it runs. Crisp lashed up all my tank cars and few piggy back and box cars to it. Here it is going around the town of Kingsdown.
Simon escaped the shutter today. He found two of the reasons I could not get my PR 3 to work. Seems I had the wrong JMRI down loaded and I need to use the 12 volt power supply.
Only thing that would have made the visit better? Simon forgot I am a single operator and did not bring over any throttles? I called him before he came over and as he was hanging up I was saying Don't forg-- and then he could not hear me.
Lads still had fun, but Simon bench only has one main. Bet the Lads would have more fun if they where not sharing my lone DT 400.
Great Rail Day, Cuda Ken
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Ken, that's what I'd call a good weekend! But what's up with that first photo?
He looks like he just took a kick to the gut!
Jim