My New England & North Coast RR is scheduled for a full photo shoot for MRR this may.I don't know when it will ever get int the mag.but at any rate I am pretty sighted about it.Sorry I am not able to send any pics, at this time, but you can see one of my photos in the 2009 Walthers HO reference book page 623 Sam
My Piedmont Southern Railroad was in the 2009 Great Model Railroads issue.
Photos have also appeared in the Dec. 2001, October 2008, and Model Railroad Planning 2009 to help illustrate other people's articles (Paul Dolkus and Roark Shallow). I took the photos for Roark's article on the Polar Bear restaurant chain and Paul took all of the photos for the other articles.
The layout is also featured for the month of June in MR's "The Art of Model Railroading 2010" calendar.
All a dream come true since I first saw an MR issue in the 1950's.
Dale Latham, Piedmont Southern Railroad
ollevon My New England & North Coast RR is scheduled for a full photo shoot for MRR this may.I don't know when it will ever get int the mag.but at any rate I am pretty sighted about it.Sorry I am not able to send any pics, at this time, but you can see one of my photos in the 2009 Walthers HO reference book page 623 Sam
Very Cool! I look forward to seeing it.
John
Back in 2006 my layout was in Great Model Railroads (Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley RR), and have done a few articles in MRR. I enjoy sharing the modeling methods I use from my past 40 years in the hobby.
PiedsouMy Piedmont Southern Railroad was in the 2009 Great Model Railroads issue. Photos have also appeared in the Dec. 2001, October 2008, and Model Railroad Planning 2009 to help illustrate other people's articles (Paul Dolkus and Roark Shallow). I took the photos for Roark's article on the Polar Bear restaurant chain and Paul took all of the photos for the other articles. The layout is also featured for the month of June in MR's "The Art of Model Railroading 2010" calendar. All a dream come true since I first saw an MR issue in the 1950's. Dale Latham, Piedmont Southern Railroad
Ah yes... the Piedmont Southern... I have drooled over the pictures of your layout for quite some time. I especially like the scenes you have of the abandoned spur. That is excellent craftsmanship! Well done.
jwhitten pastorbobMaybe before I go to the nursing home or die I will get a trackplan. You mean when they stick you out to Pastor... (Ducking! ) John
pastorbobMaybe before I go to the nursing home or die I will get a trackplan.
You mean when they stick you out to Pastor...
(Ducking! )
EEEEEEEWWWWWW!
Actually I am partly out to pasture now. Have been dual career all my working life. I am an ordained pastor, hold my degrees in theology but also ended up in the beginnings of the computer revolution working for Santa Fe in Topeka in the 60's. So I spent 38 years working with mainframe/micro computers for Santa Fe and then Federal Reserve while pastoring smaller churches. Retired at age 60 from computers and continue to do pastoral supply in various churches in Kansas City. However, I find at age 73 I do much better keeping busy. The railroad (and my wife & family) are my recreational breaks. I might add that when we moved into our current home in 1979 we had 3 teenagers, each used to their own space, but we had only three bedrooms. So the basement was finished with a bedroom, bathroom and shower and the rest was railroad. Kevin moved out two years later, and the bedroom became part of the railroad but I did not remove the walls. Just cut through them at certain spots. Hated to do it, would have preferred the whole basement, but wiser heads (my wife) prevailed and though I had the basement I had extra walls. That is why the layout is configured as it is. My wife Joyce is 7 years younger than me and pretty darn spry also, and she does a lot of the scenery work.
Bob
jwhitten I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I think its time to move on... I checked out your web site-- do you have a layout or planning one? John
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I think its time to move on...
I checked out your web site-- do you have a layout or planning one?
Only reason I mentioned not getting the photo back was because the photo was taken by a friend of mine, and it was my only print of the photo. Oh well.
The new layout is well under way. Go to http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html, and check out the links in the new layout section.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
pastorbob I am an ordained pastor, hold my degrees in theology but also ended up in the beginnings of the computer revolution working for Santa Fe in Topeka in the 60's. So I spent 38 years working with mainframe/micro computers for Santa Fe and then Federal Reserve while pastoring smaller churches.
The Fed is understandable of course, but frankly I never realized the Santa Fe was in such shape to require the services of an ordained minister-- who knew? Apparently they were able to cover it over pretty well, at least long enough for them to finalize their merger-- but you know, that's pretty common too you know-- people meet, have drinks, go out and the next thing you know one thing leads to another and they're walking down the aisle-- after that it anything goes-- they let it all out-- the beer gut, the unpredictable mood swings... the Pastor in the back programming their routes into the computer-- you just never know any more. (shaking head) On the other hand, maybe the big guy's a fan of the Super Chief... stranger things have happened.
pastorbobThe railroad (and my wife & family) are my recreational breaks.
Yes, me too. And not in any particular order. As long as I am able to keep my job and my health-- I have pretty much everything in life that I could really want. Not that there isn't probably *something* else I could use-- more track maybe-- but generally speaking, I'm pretty happy. And I hope it stays that way.
pastorbobMy wife Joyce is 7 years younger than me and pretty darn spry also, and she does a lot of the scenery work.
My wife does not like or appreciate my trains-- although she did make the remark not to long ago that she's no longer as against them as she used to be since my oldest son (he's 2yo, almost 3) is always begging to go downstairs with daddy and "work on the layout". He really likes running the trains-- and he's good at it too. We have a NCE ProCab and I just hand it over to him and let him go. Last night my wife came down and I handed her the (secondary) radio throttle and went upstairs to fix supper-- so she and my son ran the layout together. It was her *very first time* at the throttle. I doubt she was impressed though-- but she didn't run away either. She played with our son running trains for nearly an hour. Then she came upstairs-- left him there running the trains-- I had to *strongly* resist the urge to rush downstairs-- but I did and he did fine. I inspected everything later and there were no upsets and no accidents. And he loved it! (He always does). My youngest is 11mos, almost 1yo. I'm hoping he'll grow up to love trains too. Maybe my wife will even come around in the end-- I hope she will. Its a fun hobby and there's lots of stuff to get interested in. It doesn't have to be "just trains".
chatanugajwhitten I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I think its time to move on... I checked out your web site-- do you have a layout or planning one? John Only reason I mentioned not getting the photo back was because the photo was taken by a friend of mine, and it was my only print of the photo. Oh well. The new layout is well under way. Go to http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html, and check out the links in the new layout section. Kevin
I understand, and I was only having fun with ya!
I checked out your layout pics-- very cool-- actually I've run across them and studied them before-- just didn't know they were yours. I like the way you did your benchwork.
yes yes yes yes yes//////...thank you, Whitten.........I'm happy somebody understands!!!
I'm gonna print out that song!!!!
jwhittenSt Francis Consolidated RR someday someday someday I hope....I feel like the singer who said he'd rather be on the cover of Model Railroad Magazine than the Rolling Stone Magazine. A guy I know at our local hobby shop actually heard him say this so I know it's true. For me, you can keep the art magazines, I wanna be on Model Railroader. maybe in a couple of years. "Well we're big rock singers We got golden fingers And we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us) We sing about beauty And we sing about truth At ten million dollars a show (yeah, right!) We take all kinda spills That give us all kinda thrills But the thrill we've never known Is the thrill that it gets ya When you get your picture On the cover of the Model Railroader (Chorus)Model RailroaderI'm gonna see my picture on the cover RailroaderGonna buy five copies for my mother RailroaderGonna see my smiling face On the cover of the Model Railroader" Hmmmm.... you may just have something there...
St Francis Consolidated RR someday someday someday I hope....I feel like the singer who said he'd rather be on the cover of Model Railroad Magazine than the Rolling Stone Magazine. A guy I know at our local hobby shop actually heard him say this so I know it's true. For me, you can keep the art magazines, I wanna be on Model Railroader. maybe in a couple of years.
someday someday someday I hope....I feel like the singer who said he'd rather be on the cover of Model Railroad Magazine than the Rolling Stone Magazine. A guy I know at our local hobby shop actually heard him say this so I know it's true. For me, you can keep the art magazines, I wanna be on Model Railroader. maybe in a couple of years.
"Well we're big rock singers We got golden fingers And we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us) We sing about beauty And we sing about truth At ten million dollars a show (yeah, right!) We take all kinda spills That give us all kinda thrills But the thrill we've never known Is the thrill that it gets ya When you get your picture On the cover of the Model Railroader (Chorus)Model RailroaderI'm gonna see my picture on the cover RailroaderGonna buy five copies for my mother RailroaderGonna see my smiling face On the cover of the Model Railroader"
"Well we're big rock singers We got golden fingers And we're loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us) We sing about beauty And we sing about truth At ten million dollars a show (yeah, right!) We take all kinda spills That give us all kinda thrills But the thrill we've never known Is the thrill that it gets ya When you get your picture On the cover of the Model Railroader
(Chorus)
Model RailroaderI'm gonna see my picture on the cover RailroaderGonna buy five copies for my mother RailroaderGonna see my smiling face On the cover of the Model Railroader"
Hmmmm.... you may just have something there...
The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies
Denver, Colorado
jwhittenPackers#1 I've used some pictures of my dioramas and work-in-progress layout in my columns for Model Railroad News, but otherwise nope. As mentioned earlier though, someday hopefully (we can all dream can't we?) I think that counts. You're in.... not even touching the rim! I like that magazine btw, I pick it up regularly. Its got a lot of interesting and useful info it. John
Packers#1 I've used some pictures of my dioramas and work-in-progress layout in my columns for Model Railroad News, but otherwise nope. As mentioned earlier though, someday hopefully (we can all dream can't we?)
I've used some pictures of my dioramas and work-in-progress layout in my columns for Model Railroad News, but otherwise nope. As mentioned earlier though, someday hopefully (we can all dream can't we?)
I think that counts. You're in.... not even touching the rim!
I like that magazine btw, I pick it up regularly. Its got a lot of interesting and useful info it.
sweet. yeah, MRN is pretty dang good. I love writing for it, and then it'll look good on a college application as well "been a columnist in a magazine since 8th grade"
Dale, I really enjoyed the GMR 2009 article on your Piedmont Southern. you've done a good job on both the scenery and locomotives.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Almost forgot... our hosts included one of my shots in Trackside Photos last fall... I think it was this one, or something close to it...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Craig North Carolina
My layout was on the cover of July 1999 and the layout story in that issue.
AikidomasterThat would be a dream come true. I might have something ready in 5 years. But, if you are going to dream, why not have Allen Keller make a DVD in Great Model Railroads?
Indeed, why not shoot for induction into the "Model Railroader's Hall of Fame" !!!
f-unitMy layout was on the cover of July 1999 and the layout story in that issue.
The Soo Line Bayport Division ??? That's your layout ?? Wow! Very nice.
I've read through that article a lot of times. In fact, that whole issue is chock full of good stuff for that matter.
The cover shot is especially nice!
Good work!
P.S. Have you changed anything since then? If so, what?
jwhitten f-unit My layout was on the cover of July 1999 and the layout story in that issue. The Soo Line Bayport Division ??? That's your layout ?? Wow! Very nice. I've read through that article a lot of times. In fact, that whole issue is chock full of good stuff for that matter. The cover shot is especially nice! Good work! John P.S. Have you changed anything since then? If so, what?
f-unit My layout was on the cover of July 1999 and the layout story in that issue.
Also has most, of those who where in MR, mind also lives only in that issue.
Dave.
f-unitjwhitten f-unit My layout was on the cover of July 1999 and the layout story in that issue. The Soo Line Bayport Division ??? That's your layout ?? Wow! Very nice. I've read through that article a lot of times. In fact, that whole issue is chock full of good stuff for that matter. The cover shot is especially nice! Good work! John P.S. Have you changed anything since then? If so, what? John. How close have you looked at the cab of the F unit on the cover? Also has most, of those who where in MR, mind also lives only in that issue. Dave.
So were you just being funny or perhaps making a little political statement about the governor of the state next door ???