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
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.
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.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
I stopped by the Abington Model Railroad Club's open house for a few hours today. It's a very nice layout.
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.
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?
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
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Karl Great scratch building !!!!!
Another great video Wolfgang
I love watching that little switcher earn it's keep !
TerryinTexas
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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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A work in progress........
The build thread so far...
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=27195&whichpage=1
Karl.A
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.
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.
That has to be one of the finest scenery backdrops I have ever seen. Photo? Painting?
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!
The local was switching hoppers at the gravel loader today.
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.
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.
RailfanS Great job every one: "It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas..." Jamie
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!
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!
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
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
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:
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!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
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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.
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:
Nice work Everyone
Art will have his layout open tomorrow for the San Jac Tour
so i'll try to shoot some video there