Don, it is good to have you back, even if you are just zipping through. That is a nice diorama.
I take it you went ahead with the matter in our last email exchange. Drop me an email if you like.
-Crandell
Don, I hope you find a way to make it work out for the best. I hope you find some space for storing it and eventually reusing the layout again.
Will
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Jeffery-- NYC Niagara?
Drilline-- are those hoppers from the 2 hour challenge?
Tom White-- are those fall color trees store bought? If you made them yourself bravo!
Robby- Nice progress, my layout has taken the exact opposite direction....
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AggroJonesDrilline-- are those hoppers from the 2 hour challenge?
No...more like 2 minute challenge...
AggroJonesJeffery-- NYC Niagara?
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Here's some handlaid trackwork I did on my Z scale diorama in Code 40 rail. My first time handlaying anything in code 40 that wasn't in a fixture.
Handlaid Z Scale Trackwork (my blog, figured it was easier than posting pictures here)
Great work everyone! Unfortunately, I once again have nothing to show, so I'm just here to praise...
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Aggro........Yeah I still gotta ways to go. You should have posted some pictures of the layout before you rip it up. I honestly don't think I have ever seen any.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
WM3798, saw your post yesterday, read it and wondered what the rabbits were all about. Scanning the thread today, with benefit of caffine, and the light went on. LOL.
AggroJones Tom White-- are those fall color trees store bought? If you made them yourself bravo!
Aggro:
Thank you, sir. Yes, I made them myself. SuperTrees and WS fall foam and really CHEAP hairspray. I still have a TON of them to do for the lower elevations.
I sincerely hope that the photos of your layout are a revision and not a complete tear-down, BTW. As you know, I'm a real fan of your work!
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!
Don Z--
Thanks for posting those photos again--your skills at rockwork have always dropped my jaw in admiration. I really hope that you can salvage most of your MR, and I SINCERELY hope that you can get it up and running again, very soon.
Best wishes,
Hey folks, was soldering some track and decided to make a couple quick how-to vids. Yes, I know the quality is crap, but hey, it gets the point across.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF5J0Tf875s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGQrnh-MnU
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Good job Sawyer. Soldering seems to be one of those things (along with airbrushing) that really isn't as hard as some people think it is. You just gotta get on it and do it.
DingySP Good job Sawyer. Soldering seems to be one of those things (along with airbrushing) that really isn't as hard as some people think it is. You just gotta get on it and do it. Tom
thank you very much . Once again, sorry for the horrible quality, but hey, it's a camera that records videos. And yes, it is very easy to get the hang of, perhaps one of the simplest things to do in the hobby.
And yes, airbrushing is also easy to do, haha.
Look like Ortner gons.
Flip
DrilineTrainManTyAnother video from me.Chasing CDLE-1 through the night Very Nice. It was all believable until the lights came on for sunrise You'll make a nice video editor someday for a TV station. Yours is better than some of the editors I used to work with.
TrainManTyAnother video from me.Chasing CDLE-1 through the night
Another video from me.
Chasing CDLE-1 through the night
You'll make a nice video editor someday for a TV station. Yours is better than some of the editors I used to work with.
Thanks for the kind words! I tried to do a just-after-sunrise shot, but it didn't work out so great (looked too much like night again) so I went to full daylight...but the shadows were much too short to look like early morning. I need to put in a dimmer switch!
Karl.A
Disclaimer. There was no image manipulation in the posting of this picture, the backdrop is real and the track really was on the floor.
Karl seeing the "choo choo" on the floor like that dramatically shows just how big that trestle is. Wow!
I finished putting up the skirt on the part of the layout that judged for the Scenery Merit Award and started to take the required photos of that part. The first photos they want are some general overview type photos. In order for me to get photos of everything as an overview, it took me 6 shots. Starting on the right hand part as you face Hopewell junction..
Engine servicing facility/roundhouse and above Cooley's Blue Ice and the pond:
Moving counter clockwise, The Town of Hopewell Junction and the Yard:
More of the Yard, Hopewell Station, and the farmland above:
Freight House, Yard Lead, and farmland:
Yard Lead, farmland, and above is Thompson Tile:
Yard Limit, Waterfalls, abandoned trackage, and hillside:
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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:
If you don't get the Scenery Merit Award for that work, to quote Hamlet: "There's something rotten in the state of Denmark."
That is just BEAUTIFUL!!!
Karl: -----and how long is that trestle anyhooooo?????
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Wow! It's only Saturday night and already we're on page 4! Anyway, here's what I've been working on lately:
A little more progress on my intermodal/team track. Sheet styrene is in place for all the pavement. They were all spray painted with Krylon "pebble" colored spray paint for plastic, then I went over them with an india ink & alcohol wash to weather. The section in the upper right is screwed up and I need to redo it.
Old Athearn Amtrak FP45 shell, with all the paint stripped off. Time to start modifying and superdetailing for an ATSF Super Fleet unit! The image came out too dark, but you get the point.
Old Athearn U33B model that I'm going to superdetail. The paint has been stripped off the frame and the shell has been completely broken down to it's basic components.
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My other car is a tunnel motor
Ray, your layout has really developed marvellously....it has a real railroad look and feel about it. Very nice modelling.
Using the same location, I have taken another image as the last one with the Duplex. This time, it is an NYC freight pulled by a Mikado. What is different, aside from Dad having caught up to supervise the kids, is that this image was shot in daylight, unlike my usual practice. The overhead halogens are on, but it is a bright sunny morning with plenty of blue sky-light entering the window out the left side of the image on the far wall. The black shiny boiler of the Mike has a different look.
New wheel painting jig I made using idea from another site:
Springfield PA
The prototype of this commute train back in 1981 was known as "Baxter's Choo-Choo." Baxter Ward was a L.A. County Supervisor, 1974-80. His idea for a commuter rail system eventually turned into the L.A. Metrolink.
ukguy Karl.A Disclaimer. There was no image manipulation in the posting of this picture, the backdrop is real and the track really was on the floor.
Karl, The trestle is (as always) magnificent! (The floor doesn't look bad either!)
-Kosmo
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
A couple of parting shots of my 2-8-2's working pusher service out of South Yuba Canyon. And yes, in case anyone's interested, the train was actually RUNNING, with my 3-cylinder 4-8-2 at the head end. In DC. It can be done.
Ok I'll bite Tom How do you control 3 locos running DC
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Duckdogger, love the scenery is the are the rock striations acoustic ceiling tile?
C&O Fan Ok I'll bite Tom How do you control 3 locos running DC Us DCCers Wanna Know
Terry:
Balance, weight, compatable gearing and can motors and a HECK of a lot of good old fashioned Luck. I can doublehead a lot of my steam locos with no problems, but this is the first time I really ever attempted double pushers at the end of a train.
The train was crawling at about 20 smph, without any stringling at all. However, I cut the pushers off at Wagon Wheel Gap (around the corner from the signal in the photo) because that grade out of South Yuba is one of the heaviest (2.4%) on the layout. I let the 4-8-2 take the train solo from there to Yuba Pass. Didn't want to push my luck, LOL!
But I was pretty pleased with the way my 2-8-2's performed on the grade. I might get brave and do some more pusher service in the future. I also use the "Nudge" switch on my Controlmaster 20, which gives me really superior slow-speed control.