Garry, if you ever make it to Nashville, just let us know.
Driline, Very impressive
-Dave
Our Club layouts Barge Terminal. These photo's were taken at the open house a few weeks ago.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
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
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.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
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....
Grampys TrainsNice work, everyone.The evening West bound local crossing Hammer Creek.
Nice work, everyone.
The evening West bound local crossing Hammer Creek.
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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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
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).
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!"
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.
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?"
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
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!