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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:17 AM

 ... time to review some old pictures - just to wet your appetite...

 

 

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:24 AM

Wow! More good stuff! More great models. Also, a bonus of some international pictures.  

Vincent asked me: "Garry, the scene looks good. Couldn't the local frieght go around the passenger train on the other track, or is it one of those arrangments where all traffic heading one way can only be on one track?" ..Vincent, the local freight train was holding as instructed by the dispatcher. When the eastbound passenger train clears, the SD7 of the local freight train will need to use both mainline tracks to pull the green box car out of the siding on the right of the photo. That box car will be added to the local train before it heads east on the same track as the eastbound passenger train. The SD7 crew will have limited time because a westbound train will be passing through in about 45 minutes on the westbound mainline track.

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Posted by simon1966 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:56 AM

howmus

I did, however, complete a Waterspout to satisfy the demands of those thirsty passenger locos stopping in Hopewell Junction.  A few varied shots of her:

Ray, great shots.  I am really interested in the long retaining wall at the rear.  Can you tell me a little about it, brand, method of construction etc?

 

Thanks

 

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Posted by Oakhurst Railroad Engineer on Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:19 AM

So, Margaritaman, are you hiding a fantastic layout in Southern California, or have you been on local layout tours?  From what you are showing, it looks great!

Thanks,

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:19 AM

Nice start to the weekend all!

I removed a backdrop today, in preparation for running the mainline perpendicular to the current mainline, crossing the aisle and entering a staging yard along the wall. Now I just need to realign the mainline.

BEFORE:

AFTER: The mainline will run along the backdrop, and it's current alignment will be filled by the town of West Canaan and some industries.


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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:53 AM

Silver Pilot

 Here's my first try at a WPF post.  Some SOO F7s weathered including a little snow after working Michigan's UP.

 

 

Excelelnt first WPF post Bow I LOVE the weathering on that SOO unit!

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:58 AM

simon1966
Ray, great shots.  I am really interested in the long retaining wall at the rear.  Can you tell me a little about it, brand, method of construction etc?

 

Hi Simon and thank you!

Not sure which retaining wall you are referring to as there are two of them in the photo.  The one directly behind the the Water Column is made from hydrocal.  Way back in the 1980s I bought a couple stock ones at the LHS (I can no longer find ones that are exactly like those BTW) and as I had little cash to spend on things like that, I made a mold and poured my own.  They were then "stained" with some oil paints my late wife had by making a diluted wash and staining it several times.  It is still the best stone wall on the layout.  The wooden retaining wall way in the back (top of the picture) is scratch built from some more or less scale lumber that a Technology (aka: Shop) teacher gave me, again, 25+ years ago.  It is either pine or basswood, not sure which.  It was the trimmings from some class project he was doing and he thought it might be something I could use.  It was......  It was cut to length, stained with some old wood stain I had laying around the house, and glued in place with Walthers Goo.  Been sitting there for a quarter of a century and still solid as a rock!

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Posted by steemtrayn on Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:38 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q

Grampy...  ..What, no Alcos, this week?? Confused

See pg.86-87, July MR

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:46 PM

don7

C&O Fan Would have been nicer if it was in focus. Sounds good anyway.

Sorry not sure why the camera doesn't focus better

It's not a true video camera but a snap shot camera that  can shoot videos

I can only get with in 21/2 inches of the subject in macro mode on a still shot

but in videos the camera acts confused as to what to focus on

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Posted by Margaritaman on Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:43 PM

Oakhurst Railroad Engineer
So, Margaritaman, are you hiding a fantastic layout in Southern California, or have you been on local layout tours?  From what you are showing, it looks great! Thanks, Marty

Hiding, but your more than welcome to see all 6 x 9 of it.  Send a PM or email.

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:10 PM

tattooguy67

Hi all, this week we mourn the end of one eraSigh

But we celebrate the begining of another!Smile

updates as we get them.

Chuck & Heather

I guess we can call this the planning phase.  Nothing bad about starting fresh.. good luck with it and keep us updated.
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:33 PM

Great pictures and great modelling, everyone.  I, too, am a big fan of that waterspout.

The perpetual chirping in my train room told me it was time to change the battery in the smoke detector.  It's about 10 feet up, so I needed to haul the big stepladder in from the garage to change it.  While I had the ladder out, though, I thought I'd snap some "aerial photography" shots.

This one is downtown Moose Bay:

And here's a shot of the Bay itself:

Sorry, I don't have a bi-plane, so I couldn't put a wing in the photo like Jon's shots of Sweethome.

 

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:48 PM

Gee Mr. B looks like a google earth photo Bow 

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Posted by Annonymous on Saturday, May 30, 2009 5:01 PM

Nothing new here, but I finally got some of my older photos organized. Here are some pics from Krøderen station, Krøderbanen is the longest museum railway in Norway:

 

 

You can see all the pics in this photo album here.

Svein

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Posted by wm3798 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:33 PM

 

A peek through the window at my latest project.  Read more about it in the Layouts and Layout Construction section...

 

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Posted by slow train Ed on Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:53 PM

they are good ut why do we wnt to see them again? sry just asking. lol

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Posted by wsdimenna on Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:22 PM

the walkway is done, except for vaccuming   

 

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Posted by Margaritaman on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:32 AM

wsdimenna

the walkway is done, except for vaccuming   

  

Bravo!

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Posted by ns3010 on Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:27 AM

Great work everyone.

Here's my new GP9m:

It will be patched as TSRy 2201.

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Posted by jwhitten on Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:52 AM

Margaritaman


 

 

That's a great bridge. Is that a central valley truss bridge?

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Posted by Margaritaman on Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:12 PM

jwhitten
That'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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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Sunday, May 31, 2009 4:28 PM

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.

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Posted by twhite on Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:06 PM

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!! Shock  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: 

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:06 PM

 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! Yeah!!

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:31 PM

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...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:58 PM

 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 Blush )

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):

 

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Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:26 PM

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

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Posted by twhite on Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:37 PM

Mark: 

AHAH!   Do I spy the old furnace-filter-bamboo-skewer evergreens on your layout?   REALLY nice job!  Bow   Wonderful thing about those trees is that yhou can make TONS of them in about a half-hour. 

Really like the photos! 

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Posted by nik .n on Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:41 PM

 

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Is that three rail I see?

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:48 PM

twhite
Here's my contribution:  The Rio Grande Yuba River Sub is going DIESEL!! Shock  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!Bow I like that layout of yours---Bow

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