A little wine, a few trains, a lot of turkey, and no, its not the picture that is out of focus.
I got my brass 2-6-6-2 running again as seen here pulling the coal drag out of the tunnel and across Kimm's Kanyon Bridge
I am trying to find a pic of Kimm's Kanyon for a contest. Here some some possibilities.
The photos below show what I have been working on the past month:
The area to the left of the tunnel was bare foam about a month ago. That scenery is all new. The hillside above and to the right of the tunnel was redone and is essentially new. This had been the first part of the layout I had scenicked after about a 10 year hiatus from the hobby and my skills were quite rusty. On top of that, mice had been using the wooded hillside as their playground and rest stop so the whole area was cleaned up and new woods were added.
Above the Mohican Valley RR milk train is near the end of its morning run from Willoughby into Bedford Falls. It carries a combine with early morning rider, most of whom will transfer to commuter trains bound for Franklinton and New York City. After dropping the passengers at Bedford Falls station, the little 4-6-0 will collect the two milk cars from the Hood and Sons creamery to the left and leave all four milk cars on the interchange track to be picked up by the NYB&W RR morning milk train to Franklinton. The shot is staged. The branch line ends a few feet to the left of the photo. Right now, this functions as a dummy interchange. When the mainline is fully scenicked, I plan to begin work on building this branchline all the way to Willoughby. That is at least a year away. More likely two. For now, the junction is just a scenic feature.
A NYB&W 2-10-2 leads its freight train out of Bedford falls toward the tunnel. On the opposite side, it will diverge off the NYB&W main onto the northbound branch for Utica, NY. It's the summer of 1956 and steam is making its last stand on the NYB&W. By next year, F-units will have replaced the giant steamer.
The local was switching hoppers at the gravel loader today.
Wow, what a beginning to the weekend! Absolutely GREAT stuff here, everybody!
Better get mine in here while I can--got a weekend full of Advent Masses and rehearsals to play for.
Here's my Rio Grande 4-8-4 #1711 charging out of South Yuba Canyon with a long mail and express reefer train headed east, while 4-8-2 #1527 eases a freight of empty reefers down the 2.4% westbound grade. Rio Grande had 14 of these 4-8-4's on their roster, I think they're about the prettiest 4-8-4's I've ever seen.
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!
jecorbettThe photos below show what I have been working on the past month: The area to the left of the tunnel was bare foam about a month ago. That scenery is all new. The hillside above and to the right of the tunnel was redone and is essentially new. This had been the first part of the layout I had scenicked after about a 10 year hiatus from the hobby and my skills were quite rusty. On top of that, mice had been using the wooded hillside as their playground and rest stop so the whole area was cleaned up and new woods were added.
That has to be one of the finest scenery backdrops I have ever seen. Photo? Painting?
The backdrops are Realistic Backgrounds from Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. out of Pittsburgh. I cutoff the sky and mounted it directly to the wallboard backdrop. I do like the way the 3-D scenery blended with the backdrop. It was more a lucky accident than any great planning on my part.
A work in progress........
The build thread so far...
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=27195&whichpage=1
Karl.A
Great work.
Karl A, scratch building is fun, like I see.
I have no pictures this time, but the next video.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Karl Great scratch building !!!!!
Another great video Wolfgang
I love watching that little switcher earn it's keep !
TerryinTexas
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~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
IVRWVery Nice Packers#1: I think things are really moving along. I think your next big project is building the factories. Here is what I would do when you reach the occasion: Make a perfect mock up with the foam core. When you are happy, get some right angle blocks of wood as tall as the foam core is. Glue the blocks to the corners of the foam core for structure. Next proceed to glue styrene to the foam core. With this, you have a cheep easy and strong scratch made building. Have fun and Merry Xmas - John
Thanks man. You're right about the factories being the next big project, but it's the furniture factory in the yard. I've got aluminum tubing for some cross braces, styrene angles for corner support, and corrugated styrene for the walls. I'm thinking brick styrene for the cannery, styrene to simulate poured con crete for the fertilizer plant, and DPM modulars for the textile mill.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
howmus
(Apologies to the 'quoting pictures' police)
How deep is this section of your RR-- the yard part-- from the wall (rear) to the front fascia? And about how deep are just the town and yard portions respectively?
And you do have a very nice RR. I always admire your photos!
John
jecorbettThe backdrops are Realistic Backgrounds from Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. out of Pittsburgh. I cutoff the sky and mounted it directly to the wallboard backdrop. I do like the way the 3-D scenery blended with the backdrop. It was more a lucky accident than any great planning on my part.
I've decided I have to have that background. My layout will require 9 sheets. I was wondering, how many sheets did you buy, was it hard to match them,and what did they charge you for shipping?
I stopped by the Abington Model Railroad Club's open house for a few hours today. It's a very nice layout.
Packers#1IVRWVery Nice Packers#1: I think things are really moving along. I think your next big project is building the factories. Here is what I would do when you reach the occasion: Make a perfect mock up with the foam core. When you are happy, get some right angle blocks of wood as tall as the foam core is. Glue the blocks to the corners of the foam core for structure. Next proceed to glue styrene to the foam core. With this, you have a cheep easy and strong scratch made building. Have fun and Merry Xmas - John Thanks man. You're right about the factories being the next big project, but it's the furniture factory in the yard. I've got aluminum tubing for some cross braces, styrene angles for corner support, and corrugated styrene for the walls. I'm thinking brick styrene for the cannery, styrene to simulate poured con crete for the fertilizer plant, and DPM modulars for the textile mill.
Well I have finalized the design of my Free-Mo version of redmond Oregon. I have completed the top 45 and have started work on the otehr two pieces of Benchwork. I hope to have it at least operational by Spring as we have a set-up in Ark City I would like to debut the modules at.
Here is a photo of a GN train on the completed module
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
mountaingoatgreg Well I have finalized the design of my Free-Mo version of redmond Oregon. I have completed the top 45 and have started work on the otehr two pieces of Benchwork. I hope to have it at least operational by Spring as we have a set-up in Ark City I would like to debut the modules at. Here is a photo of a GN train on the completed module
Yeahhhhhh!
We can retire one of the old 90 degree modules!
I loved that shot when you first showed it to us.
See you at Wichita
Ricky
jwhittenHow deep is this section of your RR-- the yard part-- from the wall (rear) to the front fascia? And about how deep are just the town and yard portions respectively? And you do have a very nice RR. I always admire your photos!
First off, Thank You John!
From where the camera is sitting to the backdrop at the far end is 18'. The widest part (the area across where the tops of the buildings are) is just under 6 feet. I built this tablework back about 25 years ago...... back when I knew everything......
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
IVRWVery good! I hope it works out nicely. The moment you build it please post some pictures!
Will do. Hopefully I'll have them in for Christmas break. Next weekend I'll probably be studying for semester exams (we take them before Christmas break so we don't have to worry abt. them over Christmas)
howmusjwhittenHow deep is this section of your RR-- the yard part-- from the wall (rear) to the front fascia? And about how deep are just the town and yard portions respectively? And you do have a very nice RR. I always admire your photos! First off, Thank You John!From where the camera is sitting to the backdrop at the far end is 18'. The widest part (the area across where the tops of the buildings are) is just under 6 feet. I built this tablework back about 25 years ago...... back when I knew everything......73
Here's my contributions for this week. I've been continuing the sound decoder upgrades for my fleet. Here is a Kato SD80MAC with a new Soundbug, shortened light pipes with LEDs glued on (with heat shrink) for the flashing ditch lights.
Two of the SD80MAC shells are taped up for a couple of coats of clear finish.
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
Driline jecorbett The backdrops are Realistic Backgrounds from Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. out of Pittsburgh. I cutoff the sky and mounted it directly to the wallboard backdrop. I do like the way the 3-D scenery blended with the backdrop. It was more a lucky accident than any great planning on my part. I've decided I have to have that background. My layout will require 9 sheets. I was wondering, how many sheets did you buy, was it hard to match them,and what did they charge you for shipping?
jecorbett The backdrops are Realistic Backgrounds from Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. out of Pittsburgh. I cutoff the sky and mounted it directly to the wallboard backdrop. I do like the way the 3-D scenery blended with the backdrop. It was more a lucky accident than any great planning on my part.
The backdrops each are about 3 feet long, although I haven't measured them. There are three that have an Appalachian look plus the hillside town you see in the background of the third photo. Two of the three mountain scenes are nearly identical. There might even be more that I haven't seen. I've picked them up an my LHS and at train shows. They can be matched depending on how you arrange them but I have found that it is more effective to have a 3-D hillside that peaks in front of the gap as you can see in the first photo. Then you don't have to worry about how well they blend.
In addition, they make some excellent heavy industry backdrops and I believe there are others as well but I have only used their mountain and industrial backdrops.
Driline, I wanted to correct a couple of things I told you yesterday. After doing a google search, it appears to me Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. is just the printer for Realistic Backgrounds but not the company that actually sells them. Their company name is on the back of the backgrounds but I think they are just a contractor for the seller of these backgrounds.
Here is one source for these backgrounds. .
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/SearchResults.asp
As you can see, there are only two Appalachian mountain scenes not three. I think I cropped one of the that gave me the impression they offer three of these. As you can see, these two could be matched up indefinitely to make as long a range of background ridges as you like. With foreground hills in front of them, it probably wouldn't be two obvious. I've used three in this area of the layout and have them in several other places with plans for more. Here's another place I used one.
I also forgot that in addition to their mountain and industrial backdrops, I have two of their very fine cityscapes. I agree with you that these are some of the best backdrops available but unfortunately, their selection is more limited than other company's offerings.
Driline, these backdrops are also available from Scenic Express. They are all taken in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. Here's a few more. Very nicely done, jecorbett. DJ.
Farm
City
Here are a couple of pics from a project I am working on. It is a PULLMAN-STANDARD 4785 cuft. PS-2CD COVERED HOPPER NEW YORK CENTRAL 138-H from Railyard Models. I have a few details to add yet like the brake wheel and the end supports for the roof walk.
Dan Pikulski
jecorbettDriline, I wanted to correct a couple of things I told you yesterday. After doing a google search, it appears to me Duquesne Quick Copy Inc. is just the printer for Realistic Backgrounds but not the company that actually sells them. Their company name is on the back of the backgrounds but I think they are just a contractor for the seller of these backgrounds. Here is one source for these backgrounds. . http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/SearchResults.asp As you can see, there are only two Appalachian mountain scenes not three. I think I cropped one of the that gave me the impression they offer three of these. As you can see, these two could be matched up indefinitely to make as long a range of background ridges as you like. With foreground hills in front of them, it probably wouldn't be two obvious. I've used three in this area of the layout and have them in several other places with plans for more. Here's another place I used one. I also forgot that in addition to their mountain and industrial backdrops, I have two of their very fine cityscapes. I agree with you that these are some of the best backdrops available but unfortunately, their selection is more limited than other company's offerings.
Thanks for the great info. Modeltrainstuff is my favorite Online hobby store. I just checked them out. I can get ALL 9 scenes plus shipping for around $80 dollars. Plus its on sale. Since my layout does not have foreground scenes per se; since its a shelf unit, I'm going to purchase 7 cloud scenes and just two mountain A B scenes only because I think they look great. You wouldn't see those in Iowa, but hey its my layout
Ukguy, you got to be kidding! Wiring? Either my standards are to low, or you have just way to much time on your hands! Either way I take my hat off to you.
Impressed Ken
I hate Rust