Excellent night photos, Frank! What were the camera settings? (ISO, aperture, exposure time, manual v.s. autofocus, etc)
I built my staging yard and lift bridge this week. I just need to buy track for it, lay it, connect everything up, and then I can start holding operating sessions again! It's really solid, with brass door hinges and quality hardwood for the bridge and staging tracks. I added a fence to keep trains from taking the dive, made out of old brass flextrack. I read about that tip somewhere on the TRAINS.Com forums.
The tracks don't extend as far as I'd wanted, since I didn't buy enough shelf wood, but it's easily long enough for two 10 car trains end-to-end.The bridge is aligned with dowel "teeth" on the bottom of the bridge that fit into holes in the benchwork. I rounded the edges of the teeth with a sanding block so that they would correct for warping and expansion, and force the bridge into alignment. When the bridge is down, they keep it right where I want it, so I have no worries at all about rail alignment.
Questions and comments welcome, as usual!
Great Night Photos Frank !!!
I've been working on a proto type steam for my branch line
that the old KGJ&E used to operate on
I bought a Bachman 2-6-2 on ebay and also bought a 0-4-0 for the sloped tender
when I found out the KGJ&E ran both I decided to just swap tenders
to make the look like the proto types
Proto Type
http://www.wvepostcards.com/postcards/?picture=/pimages/p7771.jpg
0-4-0 looked like this
But I painted it to look like this
and also installed tender pick ups in
both
http://www.wvepostcards.com/postcards/?picture=/pimages/p7777.jpg
Still lots of detailing to do and I am installing a decoder in the 2-6-2
you can see the progress here
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/155104.aspx
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Hello did not get much done this week but here are a couple night shots first is NKP 941 at the ash pit and then one of the TT and RH
have a good weekend Frank
Nice robby.
I haven't done much lately. I have worked on my roundhouse overland passanger set. I got the bases done, trucks painted, and bent the handrails a couple weeks ago. I also finished cutting the window glass to size and have painted the roofs. I also added a room to the combine car to serve as a kitchen for my excursion train. I got some metal seats in from ebay the other day, cleaned the up and painted them. All I need to do is settle on an exterior color and interior color. Unfortunatley since my wife is now off for the summer(teacher) all work has come to a grinding halt. Not to mention I have been busy flying this month. Out of the last 24 days I will have been away from home for 19 of them.
Great start to the weekend so far lets see more!!!
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Well I was uploading some pictures, and thought I would start it. I kept thinking yesterday was Friday .
I started on my next weathering job. Its a Intermountain "Potash" 4-bay Cyld. Hopper. It still has a ways to go.
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"