Show us your all time most favorite photos!

[secondhandmodeler]

Margaritaman

 

 

 

That is absolutely awesome.  "Folks around here say that every once in a while a phantom locomotive will pass by!  If you wave, you can almost hear the whistle."

[steamage]

Like running my SP Funits

 

Running steam too.  

 

 

[OKrlroads]

Nice pics everybody!

Here's a couple of favorites.

[selector]

jwhitten

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Gosh, the A games are being played!  (gulp!)

I don't have quite a matching team, but these two are my favourites.

 

-Crandell

 

 

 

That's nice snow. How did you do that?

 

 

Thanks!!  It is simply WS "snow" and sprinkled as heavily and as thinly as I could get away with and still make it look like it was snow.  It comes in the same shake-the-bottle plastic bottles that ground foam and some ballast does.  Clear plastic, red cap with one or two lift-tabs for sprinkling or inserting a small scoop or tablespoon.

-Crandell

[jwhitten]

selector

Gosh, the A games are being played!  (gulp!)

I don't have quite a matching team, but these two are my favourites.

-Crandell

 

 

 

That's nice snow. How did you do that?

 

 

[Guilford Guy]

[Margaritaman]

 

[Flashwave]

There are so many good pictures to comment on, but I have to grab a few.

Graffen, I definately love the third pic, B/W does Shays good. Im guessing that it's the model. What is that cute little coach in the second pic, ahead of the Southern steamer?

Milw-Rodr Thank you. I played with that angle for a little while, I have a few others of that set on my Photobucket. It was actually kindof a a whim angle, that I loved and tried to improve. I love the In Your Face angle they present. In hindsight, there are a couple of things that I wanted to change (Aren't there always). One is that corner where the wall curves back, which is actually the reason I put it in the brown tones, to dull it down. In color, it;'s kinda annoying.

Shayfan: I love the bus. And your right about the third pick. Family is woderful things in hobbies

CSX: The mill looks awesome.

Grampy's: I love he worktrain. The picture is great too, but I love that worktrain

Others: If I didn't comment here, I've probably commented before. But keep up the good work

[Texas Zepher]

jacon12

Show us a couple of your most favorite pictures you or someone else as taken of your layout, or maybe from someone else's layout or even a prototype shot you've taken. 

Crew Break at the Hermosa Diner

Colorado State Fair Special
August 25, 2007

[Graffen]

This is my contribution, I shot them at my layout, the M-K & Eastern.

Enjoy:

[cv_acr]

doctorwayne: Those shots are amazing. Very nice modelling, and very nice photography.

Here's two of my shots from the club layout:

[BerkshireSteam]

Flashwave

So far my favorite one shown. I feel like I'm looking at an old wood carved post card, even though those were out of fashionable use way before the Sharks roamed the tracks.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

I like ALL photos so far! Fantastic thread! Amazing!

My Heartland Division is a fictional divsion of the old CB&Q allwoing me to relive childhood memories.

Here are shots of passenger and freight trains. The depot shot with the Jordon bus and heavyweight sleepers is similar to one publishedin Trackside Photos a couple of years ago.

[Flashwave]

wm3798

I've got some that are better, but you'll have to buy N Scale Magazine next month to see them...

congrats. And I think I'll look at one when it hits the LHS

[doctorwayne]

Some really great shots here.  

Here are three of my own favourites:

Wayne

[wm3798]

I've got some that are better, but you'll have to buy N Scale Magazine next month to see them...

Lee

[jacon12]

 Wow, this is better than the last time we ran this thread! Lotta new stuff!

Lordy, Lordy... ya'll are ta-len-teed    

Jarrell

[Flashwave]

So, I'm gonna cheat here, one of my favs is in my sig, cause I love the angle and the cars.

 Same train, another angle. This time heading Southeast, for the FLordian coast. North Rail Enterprises (Northern Enterprises, renamed because it exists) put together a tour train with car pickup for the Spring and Summer Break Markets. Regular trips of 5-11 car passenger trains, plus a pair of baggage cars, and usually 2-4 auto carriers hjjacked from the AutoTrain during their last upgrade. The cars are NMRA exclusive Walhers cars from the 2002 South FLorida show. I found them at the GTE in Indianapolis

Baldwin Sharknose 6000A-D crawl off the passing track in front of the Dew Drop Inn while a few motorists watch there day become boring. 6000 is dragging a Hot Mixed freight just as long as management will allow them and was in the hole while a passenger train had the singletrack main in front of the Mine.  Miller and nearby Hunter's Ridge is one of several chokepoints along the main, since the Monon ties in, the coal mine sends in/out through there, and East Bend yard and terminal isn;t far away. It's a great place to catch some action

Picking three is a hard one, bt I think I'll go with this one.

BL1 crossing a rural bridge on the Naptown White River. I painted the model, and shot it. The BL1 was taking a short train up to East Bend with a stop at the Mine on the way back.

 

[howmus]

Great idea Jarrell!

A couple of "new" little buildings at Miller's Bed and Breakfast:

Some farmland I have been working on:

And one of me in the cab of an 80 tonner:

 

[stebbycentral]

My Colorado depot model in On30

the same at nighttime...

And now for something completely different...

[rjake4454]

CSX_road_slug

I'm sharing this first pic because it's a scene I always dreamed of building since I was a young'en, now I finally got it.  I covered my garage wall with a few sheets of blue extruded foam insulation board, and the haze effect was accomplished by using aerosol Fog-In-A-Can:

 

Love it!

[Grampys Trains]

 Hi Jarrell: Thanks for starting this thread. Wow, lots of great shots, here. Here's some recent faves.

 RS3 with a passenger local at sunset.

An F7AB and GP7 West bound along Roaring Creek.

An SD45 on the wrong main, passing a work train.

 

 

[CSX_road_slug]

jacon12

Yep, it's that time again.  Show us a couple of your most favorite pictures you or someone else as taken of your layout, or maybe from someone else's layout or even a prototype shot you've taken.

I see a lot of shots here that I never seen before - like Crandel's VGN Trainmaster that looks totally like a proto-photo, and Brakie's view of a collection of Chessie and pre-Chessie geeps like I used to see during my teenage railfanning days at Baltimore's Riverside engine terminal.  Sure brings back some fond memories!

I'm sharing this first pic because it's a scene I always dreamed of building since I was a young'en, now I finally got it.  I covered my garage wall with a few sheets of blue extruded foam insulation board, and the haze effect was accomplished by using aerosol Fog-In-A-Can:

 

The 2nd pic is of the interior of my Basic-Oxygen furnace building, supposed to be hot pig iron being poured into the furnace vessel.  The flame effect was created by placing a 40w light bulb inside the clay furnace vessel and covering the top with a thin layer of fiberglas insulation batting:

 

 

[0-6-0]

Hello   WOW  you guys have to stop scanning magazine photos and posting them . Well it's time to lower the bar.

and this was the best layout that weekend

Have a nice day Frank

[nbrodar]

 Golly so many pictures so little space.  It's hard to pick three...

Norfolk & Western J.   All the steam effects were done in camera.  The only computer work was the black & white conversion. Now I have a Reading T1, I plan on doing a similar shot using it.

Pennsylvania coal train at dawn.  Again all the effects were done in camera.

D&H RS11 crossing mill pond:

Nick

 

[BRAKIE]

Crandell,Doesn't take much imagination to believe that's a exVGN Trainmaster on the former Virginian Ry..

[selector]

Gosh, the A games are being played!  (gulp!)

I don't have quite a matching team, but these two are my favourites.

-Crandell

 

[MAbruce]

Here's a favorite shot from my old layout:

 I recently ran across this prototype shot which I would call:  CSX: Trouble Ahead

[twhite]

Oboy, right off the bat, the bar has been set really high! 

Okay, a couple of my favorites: 

Cleaning out the ash-pit. 

 

The curve at Wagon Wheel Gap

Tom

[jacon12]

 I've always been an admirer of your work but this picture brought a smile to my face but makes me wish even more that my grandkids lived closer to me.

Thanks for the smile.

Jarrell

 

shayfan84325

Runnin' trains with my nephew: