Caught this tank car coming through on a general freight.
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It must have been sitting on the siding for a long time to get that much dust on it!
Here's a boxcar I did over the week.
Before:
After (sides one and two):
"Rust, whats not to love?"
"Wash Day Blues"
A lady, somewhere in the southern Appalachians around 1947, tries to get her clean clothes off the line before the train... with all the smoke and cinders.. gets to her house. She's not going to make it.
Jarrell
Here is some pics of the layout, trying different ways of taking photos.
End of Double Track at Bridgeport.
The mountain in the background is actually across the aisle.
Shots of the Bridge #2 at Bridgeport, Al
Bridge #1 at Bridgepor, AL
Shell Mound [HBD]
Wildwood
Moooo
Wauhatchie
Hopefuly I'll have some photos with trains in them next time.
-Dave
Awesome layout and photos. The bridges are especially spectacular! How large is the layout?
O Kamoto- AWESOME! Do you realize that if the ground was a little less pristine on the first photo, and the ceiling was photoshopped out in the 3rd (with the boat) You would have a hard time telling the photos from the real thing. Especially the photo with the boat. Wow, Great work!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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They look like most of the shots I get when I try to go railfanning!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
crfan Awesome layout and photos. The bridges are especially spectacular! How large is the layout?
The layout is about 40' x 25' with 350' of main line right now.
When it's done, 45' x 35' with over 1200' of mainline. We might have the go ahead to build into the next room by the building owner, so it could get bigger .
Thanks for the comments guys
Whew, beautiful work Dave! How were most of the trees done?
jeffrey-wimberly Caught this tank car coming through on a general freight.
Russell
It's been through a couple.
Silver Pilot It must have been sitting on the siding for a long time to get that much dust on it!
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EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
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I've been playing around in Photoshop...
During a torrential rainstorm, WRS train CDWJ (Concord, NH to White River Junction, VT) screams in Run 8 up Mascoma Lake Grade.
2.0 seconds at F/29, ISO 800. Lighting was created by turning all the tracks lights away from the scene and intentionally underexposing the photo.
The sky, mist, and rain were added in Adobe Photoshop 6.0. The rain was created by creating a new layer, filling it with black, then going under Filter --> Noise --> Add Noise. Then I used Filter --> Blur --> Motion Blur to blur the noise, creating rain on a black backdrop. Then I reduced the opacity of the black-and-rain layer until it looked good. The light from the locomotive's headlights refracting off the raindrops was added using the Dodge tool.
Great work so far in this thread. Amazing bridge and water scenes!!
Jarrell, I love your 'post card' image...excellent.
Here I show a Pennsy K4s towing a crippled GG1 and its consist through Seneca Falls Sub on the way to its final destination. Very much late, and with no further stops, the train is taken off the catenary route and through Seneca because it will be much faster and won't disrupt the schedules elsewhere any further. Shown running through on the AD track, the K4 hogger gets a friendly wave from another hogger on his way to the Duplex on the ready track.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Shot a video of my Shay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPBhiCPiII
TerryinTexas
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Last week I bought a cardboard box full of old (really old) HO train models made by Roundhouse back in 1954 (date on instruction sheet), All the freight are made of Zamac, and most are still in kits. I cleaned up this all metal stock car and set it on the tracks at the scrap yard. Will have to say this old stuff is kind of neat, think now I will build up some of the kits.
Got my yard ladder laid. Might make some changes though:
I'm gonna swap that left-hander that goes nowhere to a right-hander that goes to the engine servicing.
EDIT: here's one more (much better overall image):
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Back in the day, this would have been shot on Verichrome Pan, 1/500 sec. at f:8 ... and some developing adjustments to hold back the highlights.
Sigh- I don't miss those days at all !
The local returning from Quintus Paper takes the siding at Richlands West while a road train holds the main.
Larry
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Nice work everyone.
This is something new for me. I finished my facia on my shelf diaroma/picture background. The sw? I just finished weathering today after it has sat all summer with no love. I have rewired it and is ready for a decoder. I will probably black out the prr and just make it a local switcher.
Enjoy
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Last one for me this weekend. A riv heisler leaves the woods with caboose in tow. If you look closely you may be able to see the couple on the hill camping, or a rail fan hiking by the tracks.
To paraphrase a famous man "In the house at last, in the house at last, thank gosh almighty it's in the house at last!" I have my man cave back to! now the real fun work begins.
And the trains are running again!
Eureka!!!
Chuck & Heather
C&O FanShot a video of my Shay
Terry
Your Shay runs nice and smooth, what brand is it? I have my eyes open for a brass model, I wonder what the best runners are.
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Geared Steam C&O FanShot a video of my Shay Terry Your Shay runs nice and smooth, what brand is it? I have my eyes open for a brass model, I wonder what the best runners are.
Thank You
It's an old United Circa 1970 that I re powered with a Sagami
I paid $50 used for it in 1985
As always some fantastic work and photography here! So many of you are a constant source of inspiration.
I didn't get a lot accomplished on the layout this week as there have been a wealth of other deadlines that had to be met. I did get another Jordan kit finished tonight after several days of a bit at a time. This is a 1911 Model T Delivery Van. She is painted and decaled for Howard's Dairy.
Uncle Eli has parked one of his delivery vans near the Station at Hopewell Junction. He is likely waiting for his "Lady" Bessie to arrive on the afternoon train from the "Big City". Eli can well afford to get another car for personal use, but figures that would be wasteful as the van is only 14 years old and runs well. He believes that, "A penny saved is a penny earned!" He also subscribes to "neither a lender nor a borrower be." He will pay cash for his next vehicle as he did for this one........
Eli is a bit of a miser, he still has all the hand tools that he inherited from his father and will someday pass on to others. And... They had best subscribe to, "A place for everything and everything in its place" or else! He will retire before the age of 40 as a very wealthy man. Here is another shot from a different angle. This kit has to be one of the older Jordan kits as the directions were vague and the drawings not the clearest. Therefore I made a few errors in assembling the model. It will sit towards the back of the layout and the 3 foot rule will be in effect......
One of the real fun things about these old car kits is putting the crank in place. It measures about 1/16th of an inch....
(BTW, Uncle Eli was my father's uncle and I have inherited some of his hand tools. Some well over 100 years old and still in usable condition....... He was the owner of Howard's Dairy in Canandaigua, NY and was the first dairy to use Electric Pastuization in upstate, NY The logo on the truck was taken from a milk bottle I have from his dairy. )
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray, Thanks for getting that Tichy water column in there. I just built four and have/had no idea how to paint them. I'm done building Jordans, I only have so much eyesight to spare!
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Not much for posting here as I've been busy with the room, but I managed some loads... or at least some attempts!
A few logs (not secured yet) and a very first attempt at some small weathering on a flat... it was just powders and still needs some dulcote. Then we have a few shredded scrap metal loads that can be removed, two auto scrap loads and some ship propellers from the factory.
Some really nice layout work there guys... and sweet photos to boot. Is it just me or are folks really starting to take up a notch?!?!!!