It's Friday morning and I think it's time to start WPF off! (I feel like that proverbial kid getting up at 1 AM on Saturday and yelling "It's the weekend!" )
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This week I'll start off with a new video from the WRS. Yesterday I chased Extra LECD (a Lebanon - Concord extra train) from Lebanon to West Canaan, NH, though the towns of Mascoma and Enfield filming at several locations along the way. You will notice however that no HO scale figure could get from scene to scene fast enough and if you are really paying attention, you'll notice that the scale videographer should be visible in one of the scenes filming the previous one! The video is available in HD format - although the quality difference isn't so noticeable due to quite a bit of video compression in the production process. Bear with me on the shallow depth of field in some shots...it was a while until I realized I could shoot video in Aperture Priority mode and set it to F/8!
Now I'm going to stop nitpicking my own work and let you decide what you think!
Chasing Extra LECD (12/3/09)
Enjoy!
Here are some pics from the layout we built to raffle off for a charity here on the Air Force base. The design was by our own Dave Vollmer who also led the effort.
Ethanol Facility
Warehouse and UP bridge
Under the Iowa Hwy 370 bridge
Ricky
Nice looking layout!!
Here's a little area I've been working on. Not finished but close.
I added a couple of shots. One is a overview. I want to add some weeds to the "blue" area. I still gotta add some more detail work thou.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Here' more from Nov. running session.
Keith's S/B Train at Bridgeport.
John's N/B Train South Tunnel.
Murphy's S/B Train at Bridgeport.
Terry's N/B Train at Wildwood.
Terry's N/B Train at Wauhatchie.
That's it for now.
-Dave
Dave,Sweet,very sweet..That's one club I would love to visit.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Christmas is coming, and so it is time for lots of mail and express. The train below was photographed by a railfan in Hinterland on my layout. It has ten head-end cars and two modernized heavyweight passenger cars (coach and diner/parlor).
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Nice work, everyone.
The evening West bound local crossing Hammer Creek.
This week I decided to bite the bullet. When I installed the curve in upper Sheepscot some time ago, I knew the curve was tight. At the time I was thinking about freight, and the tight curve would be no problem for 40' and 50' boxcars and 4 axle diesels (DUH). Since them I have become interested in running passernger trains as well, and my Walthers heavyweight always derailed on that curve. I also have a building and details almost ready to go into lower Sheepscot near the retaining wall that could be damaged with trackwork nearby. So out came about 3 feet of track and back in on a better curve.
Now all I have to do is to revise my street and building plans in upper Sheepscot.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Tyler, always like your audio matching to the scene. Dave, very nice bridge and the string of Fs is done well. Grampy, your photo's depth of field always blows me away.
Over the past week, I stripped "BNSF" from 3 GP60s and decaled with Santa Fe adding mu cable and hoses, windshield wipers, and weathering along the way. I found a photo of a really dirty 60M via Google so I used MIG pigment to get the depth of grunge needed on top of a still damp gouache layer. The Dullcote diminished it a bit but it still conveys the point.
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Grampys TrainsNice work, everyone.The evening West bound local crossing Hammer Creek.
George, I feel your pain. I had not tested all the curves with any Walther's or BLI passenger cars. Like you, I figured if an 89 ft flat, 86 ft HC box or autorack had no problems, an 85 ft passenger car would be a no-brainer. Wrong - the diaphrams bind badly on one curve and put the cars on the ballast. Looking down on the curve from a ladder revealed the ever tightening curve radius. The 36-inch radius objective had executed badly - more like a V.
So, long butcher knife in hand, its time to remove and relay some track....
Duckdogger ....... I'm really impressed with the GP60's. as well as the realistic scenery. Great photography also.
Tyler... thanks for starting WPF and for the video!
Grampy, Robby, Ricky, george, Dave .... Great work.
Dave ... I get to Nashville often. I should have looked up your club and seen it by now. Maybe next time.
Very nice, everyone. I see that we are off to a fine weekend.
Here is a C&O Allegheny leaving the valley at Seneca Falls.
-Crandell
Our Club layouts Barge Terminal. These photo's were taken at the open house a few weeks ago.
Garry, if you ever make it to Nashville, just let us know.
Driline, Very impressive
Nice work Everyone
Art will have his layout open tomorrow for the San Jac Tour
so i'll try to shoot some video there
TerryinTexas
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Another great start to the weekend folks!
Nothing new worth posting from me so I'll get out an old favorite of mine to see:
I will be at the RIT Train Show this weekend at the NMRA Modelers Corner making a couple more of these:
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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!
IVRWhowmus: You always have my favorite pictures! Could you tell me a bit more about your layout, please, if you could. Thanks in advance. John
Thank you John! I'd be glad to.
The Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western RR (call letters SLOW) is a freelance model railroad set in the mid 1920's. It is loosely based on the New York, Ontario, & Western of the same time period. The layout is about 450 sq. feet in area in two rooms in my basement. About 30% of the layout is sceniced at this time. Trackwork is 95% complete. Basic trackplan is:
Track is Atlas code 83 with some hand laid code 70. Turnouts are mostly Atlas with a few Shinohara curved turnouts. There are two stub end turnouts that were scratch built back 25 or so years ago. Buildings are mostly kits (mostly laser cut wood kits with some plastic kits) with several scratch built buildings and structures. Scenery: Trees are all scratch built using wood (twigs from trees) armatures and Woodland Scenics Flocking. Several colors and sizes of ground foam and other ground cover is used for fields and scrub land. I use a lot of the Scenic Express (Silflor) grass tuffs. You can see progress photos at either of the URLs found in my signature.
The layout earned the NMRA Master Builder - Scenery, Achievement Program Certificate last Month.
Great job every one:
"It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas..."
Jamie
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
HO scale Horseshoe Curve in 5’x10’
My YouTube
IVRWI can not find where you took the tunnel photo, the abandon one, or the long sweeping curve shots. Where were those taken?
OK, a few overview shots may help you out. If you were standing in the aisle at the far right of the layout (the finished portion) the camera would be aimed right at you (from the access hole behind the layout at the bottom of the diagram):
The long sweeping curve you are looking for would be at the right of the photo above. You can also see a couple tunnel portals. If you look again at the track diagram, the dotted lines show tunnels. That will give you a good idea of where they are located.
If you were standing at the top of the aisle (which you can see in the first photo) and looked straight ahead you would see this:
Turning again to your left 90°, and you will see:
And finally about 45°more to the left, you see the new tunnel and the abandoned track to the old tunnel:
That is an older photo before the final touches were put in place for the judging. Hope this has helped you"see" where everything is. Oh and thank you!
How about an update video from me? I recently reconfigured the track as I saw what the true space I had was after adding the backdrop.
Also ahve this pic of the interchange track:
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Tyler I don't post very often but when I saw the quality of your video and your layout I just had to comment. You have done a fine job on this layout and on the models. The work you did on the track ballast is second to none! Keep the videos coming they are some of the best work I seen in a long time and are very enjoyable!
Jim
So much eye-catching stuff on here! including that soupy water at the barge terminal. Perfect.
A couple of Proto 2000s GP38-2 and S3
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Thanks for the kind words all!
berlingoAnd one more thing is how is your sound system? Well done.......TrainManTy.
Although I use DCC, I don't have sound in any of my equipment because it's a lot of $$$... I dubbed audio from real trains instead of the audio captured with the model footage. That way it sounds like a real train and not my basement with the radio, hot water heater, and sometimes the furnace going!
RailfanS Great job every one: "It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas..." Jamie
That must explain why this large tree has suddenly appeared in my living room with these trains underneath it....
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!