Thank you, Bob: Since I'm an amateur photographer, I can only give you the settings I use. Aperture priority, f8, and manual focus. DJ.
DJ:
Great photograph. How did you get so much depth of field?
Bob
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Lee-That last set of pics is really nice!
Thank you, Garry and Sawyer. I appreciate it.
One last set of shots....
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I'm late to this wpf but here it goes:
On a warm sunny Summer day Montana Rail Link's M-L lead by #8905 which still wears it dirty old paint job as an ex VMV SD45. She been around the block but still very valuable to MRL as she passes a pair of GP35s sitting in the hole at Muir waiting their turn to complete their climb of the Bozeman Pass. All that's left is to pass throught the Bozeman Pass Tunnel and deliver their load to the city of Belgrade as well as Bozeman while 8905 and the rest of the M-L head to the Laurel yard which is Montana Rail Links east point before hitting Billings.
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Here is D&H PA#19 headed northbound on a dark summer night.
Heartland Division CB&Qsteemtrayn Heartland Division CB&Q Grampy... ..What, no Alcos, this week?? See pg.86-87, July MR my MR arrived today. Congrats to Grampy! Also..... congrats to those who posted the many fine photos over the weekend.
steemtrayn Heartland Division CB&Q Grampy... ..What, no Alcos, this week?? See pg.86-87, July MR
Heartland Division CB&Q Grampy... ..What, no Alcos, this week??
Grampy... ..What, no Alcos, this week??
See pg.86-87, July MR
my MR arrived today. Congrats to Grampy!
Also..... congrats to those who posted the many fine photos over the weekend.
Ditto. Congrats Grampy (and a belated congrats to Wolfgang for last month)
Sawyer Berry
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Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Furthermore, I see Tom White is running diesels! Amazing! Holy Cow!....Looks great, Tom!
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nik .nTrainManTyhttp://s233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/?action=view¤t=P1040329.jpgIs that three rail I see?
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Is that three rail I see?
Yes, it's for static display. I also have several posters and a full-size railroad crossbuck (no, I did NOT steal it! ) hanging up down there.
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twhiteThe Rio Grande Yuba River Sub is going DIESEL!
WHAT!!!! Say it ain't so!!
twhiteNo, not really
Oh, don't say that stuff I ain't as young as I used to be! Seriously Tom, it looks fantastic!
Todd
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Mark:
I'm going to have to try that method, then. I've been using furnace filters, and I still have half of the Tahoe National Forest to plant, LOL. Nice job!
Okay, a last one from me. The "Prospector" getting the green as it pulls out of Deer Creek. Not seen in the photo, an engine-yard full of VERY nervous articulateds (don't worry, guys, 1956 will NEVER arrive! )
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Actually, they're the old "Power-Scour"-scouring-pads-(Safeway-was-having-a-sale)-bamboo-skewer evergreens. They're ok for my first go at trees (heck if I'm going pay a kabillion dollars for trees), but I'm still working on trying to separate the layers thinner.
From some angles, the branches look ready to take on my wife's burned lasanga dish (I never burn lasanga ).
Think I want to try those wrapped-wire trees that dude from Belgium(?) was showing a couple months ago. It's always good to branch out!--Mark
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Progress thus far on the round house includes getting the wiring in and painting the framing.
The house is now functional, so I can move on to other things for a bit.
Lee
twhiteHere's my contribution: The Rio Grande Yuba River Sub is going DIESEL!! No, not really. Just the neat 7-car "Prospector" that I made up from Walthers cars, powered by a Genesis Rio Grande F-3 A/B set.
That is one good looking consist! I like that layout of yours---
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TrainManTy
AHAH! Do I spy the old furnace-filter-bamboo-skewer evergreens on your layout? REALLY nice job! Wonderful thing about those trees is that yhou can make TONS of them in about a half-hour.
Really like the photos!
Didn't think I'd get any modeling done this weekend, but waddayanno, somehow snuck a batch of trees, modpodged some ripples on my creek, & discovered the miracle that is polyfiber/fill. Pure magic, that stuff. So after planting, I planted a couple of cars & my NW2 on the module at tried some picts:
Walking closer:
Really need to weather that engine.And from the right side of the module:
Thanks for sharing all yr picts this weekend!Cheers!--Mark
Great pics everyone! looking good for the staging etc. Tyler.
OK, this weekend I've been stripping the paint off of my locos. I have three done so far, 4 to go. I took these pictures outside with my shadow over them, and also on my new code 55 track. I ordered an airbrush through my LHS yesterday, should be here middle of this week. I have the paint for my H-15-44 and GP9, need to order the paint for the rest. And before you mention it, yes, I know there is still some paint on the sill units etc., but it doesn't stick up and those areas will be painted black. Also, I will be adding details to these, and more than likely not the factory details (read I had to pry the horns off, so I need to buy new ones )
how about a picture with all three in consist to start?
H-15-44:
GP35:
GP30 (this was the most difficult and still has some model master paint remaining, but nothing a coat of primer won't fix):
I've finished laying track, and mocked up the scene with some of the buildings I'll use, as well as placing a bunch of toy autos to show where the road in West Canaan will be. Emphasis on the TOY part, I don't have enough scale autos to put enough on the road and make it easy to see the path.
Anyway, here are the photos with captions:
Overall view. The full train (with power on the left end) is on the track that will lead to the staging yard once I get around to building the lift bridge. The pulpwood gon and loaded centerbeam car are at Delery Pulpwood & Lumber Co., and that track curving around the front and heading through the backdrop on the right is the continuous running connection.
Here's where the lift bridge will be. That's the same Conrail boxcar in the first photo. There are two lines crossing the continuous running connection at diamonds. They will go onto the bridge, and curve towards the camera, meeting at a switch and heading towards the camera into the staging yard along the wall.
Delery Pulpwood & Lumber Co. Ignore the ripped-up track.
There's the road, crossing the industry tracks and continuous run connection at an unsignaled crossing (just crossbucks, flagged by the brakeman) and a tiny little scrap transload center. I have just enough room for the fences, loading truck, and pile of scrap metal, which is trucked in.
Another overall view. That's Ogden Siding in the foreground, which got a lot shorter (it used to extend all the way to the switch for Delery and the scrap transloading center!) and can now hold 8 cars and two locos...
As usual, questions and comments are welcome...
Great bridge, Margaritaman!
I've been starting to learn weathering, and here are a few of my first attempts, before and after photos:
ATSF covered hopper - before, then after -
and a Western Pacific one -
then a WP boxcar -
and a UP boxcar -
On the UP 'before' vs. 'after' photos, I think part of the color change was due to the camera's batteries being about to die on me (so the flash was a bit lower in output, and the tungsten lamp behind me gave a little color cast to the after shot).
Nothing like some of Robby's stuff, but I'm happy with the progress so far. Next, rust!
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Haven't been on here for a while, but I keep looking in and see all the really GREAT work every weekend.
Here's my contribution: The Rio Grande Yuba River Sub is going DIESEL!! No, not really. Just the neat 7-car "Prospector" that I made up from Walthers cars, powered by a Genesis Rio Grande F-3 A/B set.
Here's some photos of her maiden voyage on the layout.
Leaving Deer Creek, heading east over the Sierra:
Pulling out of South Yuba Canyon toward Wagon Wheel Gap:
Climbing Yuba Pass above Sierra City:
I've started stockpiling supplies in preparation for extending the Juniata Division eastward! I'm planning a 24" wide door to create an L-shape, with a stub-ended yard. The working plan includes 2 staging tracks, 4 bowl tracks, a caboose track, 2 pit tracks, and a 3-track shop. This yard will be crossed by a highway bridge and is inspired by places like Enola and Morrisville. In keeping with the "almost right PA-sounding" naming convention on my layout, the yard is tentatively named "Morristown, PA."
I just received the folding table legs for the yard extension and am amassing Atlas code 55 track. I've also started working on the structures. I'd had a Walthers "Modulars 3-in-1" kit lying around, and thought it might make a decent yard office/locker building.
I added some extra details like scratchbuilt downspouts and an old heating oil tank from an Atlas station kit. The roof is covered with Woodland Scenics cinders. I plan to add interchangeable signage, one in Pennsy style for when it's 1956 and a nice, gaudy blue sign for Conrail in 1980. I just haven't figured out that part yet, but I want it to go over the large porch roof.
The structure almost cries out for a raised concrete foundation, except that it's rather tall as it is. It's a good 25% taller than my two-story Walthers freight station. So I think I'll leave it as-is.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
jwhittenThat's a great bridge. Is that a central valley truss bridge?
Thank you. It's not a CV bridge, this one is brass.
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Margaritaman
That's a great bridge. Is that a central valley truss bridge?
Great work everyone.
Here's my new GP9m:
It will be patched as TSRy 2201.
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wsdimenna the walkway is done, except for vaccuming
the walkway is done, except for vaccuming
Bravo!