Let's get it underway! Here's Southerns RS 3 #2131 backing a box car into a spur..
2131 is an Athearn HO scale RTR.
Jarrell
You will be hard pressed to find a nicer engine than an Atlas Master Gold Series Locomotive with QSI Sound. Here's a Union Pacific HO Dash 8-40CW coming round the bend past the "Trailer Trash Park".
Nice Photo Jarrell !
Love the Mopac ! nice looking switcher
Here's a video of my friend Art's C&O H-5 Pulling a string of emptys accross the New River bridge and thru Mt Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFPAvVfM2jg
TerryinTexas
See my Web Site Here
http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
I'm busy with my H0n3 modules:
Still without track.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
Nice work so far.
Jarrell - Love that RS unit (and your scenery in general).
My latest (with a digital sky backdrop):
Some cars that were finished!
Athearn 50' Box Car Kit, Replaced the 6' Door with an 8' Door, Plugged the Roofwalk holes and decaled using Herald King Decals, Followed article by Jim Six.
Athearn 40' Box Car Kit, Replaced the door with a Detail Associates Superior 5 Panel Door. Herald King Decal.
Atherarn 40' Box decaled with Champ Decal.
Rick
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Work is progressing on the engine house at Hawksbill Station. I still need to weather the building and work on the ground around it. The ballast is all in place. So far, so good!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
I am very encouraged by everyone's photos. Nice work, everyone.
I haven't posted in a while, so here is my first WPF contribution in about five weeks. It shows a Pennsy Q2 4-4-6-4 crossing the Seneca River taking cattle to market.
-Crandell
Great work, everyone. Crandell, great looking addition to your roster.
A Geep and a switcher. DJ.
selectorI am very encouraged by everyone's photos. Nice work, everyone. I haven't posted in a while, so here is my first WPF contribution in about five weeks. It shows a Pennsy Q2 4-4-6-4 crossing the Seneca River taking cattle to market. -Crandell
Thar she is! Lookin´ great, Crandell!
I've been hard at work on the railroad in preparation for the operating session next Saturday, but I did find these old photos of my layout from 2006 and 2007. You can find them on my blog.
Jarrell's grenn Southern RS3 is a tough act to follow, but everyone else has some great photos, too. Pennsy is well represented I see.
Here are some Burlington F units of two trains meeting in Vally Heights. Standing Falls is partly visible looking beneath the bridge.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
jacon12Let's get it underway
last week I posted work in progress mainly new road construction.
This was my first road not using sheet styrene. I started with Durhams water putty and finished it off with dry wall compound. Below are are the results after finishing the road
Yes, I see that white streak on the background and will do something about it after the allergy season if it that ever happens.
This has been a real learning experience and if it not for the forum just think how much worse things would look. But then I wouldn't know how real you make scenes look.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
OUSTANDING work everybody!!
Here's a ACL hopper from me.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Bob, just park a steam engine under the white streak and call it a day. At first glances that what I thought it was.
What did you think of the Durhams water putty, where did you buy it and what was the cost? Why did you cover it with drywall compound? My drywall compound has more lumps than my wifes home made mash potato's.
What are the tanks toward the front? Kits or scratch built.
Reason I ask is because I ripped out my town of Kingsdown and wanting to make new roads, sidewalks and looking to add a small oil depot.
Looks good and looking forward to some insight.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
I don't remember if I posted this one here, so here it is...
CSX 2112 and 1042 working DM yard.
cudakenjust park a steam engine under the white streak and call it a day
Ken,
Now, why didn't I think of that!!
Like most things experience is the best teacher. First I used weather stripping cord (a putty like rope) to outline the road. Then I mixed the Durhams pretty thin and poured it inside the cord and leveled it with a scrap piece of styrene. If you try to rework it too soon you make things worse and if you wait too long it gets too hard. Consequently the road ended up like your wife’s mash potatoes. Durhams is available at Lowes and most hardware stores. It cost $2.52 for a pound can and 4lbs goes for $7.88.
I misspoke about using drywall compound it was joint compound. Once again I thinned it with water and spread it out. After it dries it sands easily and a wet foam brush will soften it up so you can smooth it out some more.
For a town and parking lots sheet styrene would probably be best but for a windy road or one going up and down try using the above.
The oil plant came from several different kits including a Walthers piping kit and I scratched built the dike. The office -ware house is a Walthers built up. It isn't too far off from the real thing.
The building to the left was a pump house and the rr siding came in along side the dock with the drums.
Thanks for the comments and good luck with the town.
Crandell
Nothing better than a Q2 right out of the shops at the head end of a train.
CZ
Super awesome photos everyone! Since DJ posted a geep and a switcher, here's my pair. (us Pa. guys gotta stick together LOL) This part of the layout's been posted before but never before in this state of completion. 90% done in this section...
Matt
I wanna play! Great pictures everyone, all kinds of ideas and motivation.
This is my first WPF post in probably 2 years. As some of you know, my layout went bye bye and I have been working on the new one. Pretty excited as I am making some nice progress. I have begun putting down some secenry. Going for the "high desert look" of middle Arizona. I am sorry my camera is, uh, cruddy.
This is my new yard on my "Whitton bracnhline"..
Best Regards, Big John
Kiva Valley Railway- Freelanced road in central Arizona. Visit the link to see my MR forum thread on The Building of the Whitton Branch on the Kiva Valley Railway
Welcome back, Big John. Don't sweat the camera, it's the trains that count.
cudakenWhat did you think of the Durhams water putty, where did you buy it and what was the cost? Why did you cover it with drywall compound? My drywall compound has more lumps than my wifes home made mash potato's.
I've found that the secret to Durham's Water Putty is to keep smoothing it out with a wet foam brush after you've poured it. I keep a small yogurt cup of water right there, and use a 1-inch foam brush, kept quite wet, to spread the putty and get rid of the lumps while it sets. If the water gets too gunked up, toss it (NOT down the drain) and get some more. I also add a teaspoon or so of white vinegar to the putty as I'm mixing it. This slows the setting time considerably, which gives you more time to get the road surface the shape you want it. Yes, red wine vinegar will work, but your layout will smell like a salad for a week. And yes, this is the voice of experience talking.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Here's an oldie, still working on accumulating the bones needed to buy a decent camera to replace Old Reliable...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Lee, got to love BL 2's! I got to get my 4 converted over to DCC.
Bob, thanks for the very detailed answers.
Big John. I thought you where farther a long from other postings.
Hope to have something worth posting later tonight.
New layout pic. mike h.
As always.... Excellent! I do love the weekend.
I have been little by little assembling the end walls for the new engine house on Bare Mountain. Here is the inside walls:
And the painted outside walls and the main doors for the structure:
Still lots of fun to be had on this, but progress is being made!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Here is a replica of SPMW 7113 & 7111 that was retired from the Roseville Division. It was moved to the California State Railroad museum and is now in Niles Canyon California. It is an Athearn 250 ton Bucyrus Erie crane that was once steam driven and was converted to diesel in the 70's. I've worked on this HO scale model for three weeks to complete it. I lighted it with a 1.5 volt bulb and a resistor using a Kadee copper coupler spring plate bent and screwed to the wheel housing to ride against the wheels to pick up track power.
....chuck
Chuck ... I like that! ... I think you are the one who posted a neat looking SP tool car recently that was made from a baggage car. You'll have a neat looking wreck train.
Heartland Division CB&Q Chuck ... I like that! ... I think you are the one who posted a neat looking SP tool car recently that was made from a baggage car. You'll have a neat looking wreck train.
You mean this one? Chuck
Yes, Chuck! I like that tool car, too.
I think these models of yours are examples of a fun part of model railroading. ... Kitbashing. .. I hope you inspired others to try it themselves.