Holy Smokes! This seems to me to be the best groupings of photos seen here all at once! Outstanding work all!!!!
Matt
DrilinecudakenMotleyEdit: This is the real one: Micheal, nothing short of OUT STANDING photo! I don't know which is better, your modeling skills or your photo skills! Which kit is it and is it stock? Details on the fences and painting! A total impressed friend Ken! LOL You'd think he got caught in an April Fools Joke
cudakenMotleyEdit: This is the real one: Micheal, nothing short of OUT STANDING photo! I don't know which is better, your modeling skills or your photo skills! Which kit is it and is it stock? Details on the fences and painting! A total impressed friend Ken!
MotleyEdit: This is the real one:
Edit: This is the real one:
Micheal, nothing short of OUT STANDING photo! I don't know which is better, your modeling skills or your photo skills!
Which kit is it and is it stock? Details on the fences and painting!
A total impressed friend Ken!
LOL You'd think he got caught in an April Fools Joke
I can't believe Ken thought my modeling skills were THAT good. LOL
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Hi Guys, Yet another week of great pics. Here's my entry. Been wanting to do this for years but was aprehensive about doing a hand layed turnout. I found that the secret is getting the frog point exactly 4' 81/2" on both sides of the stock rails and that's were the end of the frog point goes Everything else fell into place with a track gauge and an NMRA gauge. I used a copper clad pc board from radio shack and cut out the throw bar. The ties are 3/32" basswood sanded to 9" x 7" HO scale, micro engineering 1/4" spikes, and the track is Atlas code 100 rail.This was so fun i'm gonna start another one tomorrow.....chuck
Nothing new from me this week. I have been busy studying for a couple FAA tests the last 2 weeks. I am currently in the process of doing an alco c-630 rebuild on a tyco shell. I bought an athearn frame and I am in the process of modifying it for the shell. I have stripped the shell and filled in all the mounting holes for the old power trucks. I plan on bending new handrails, adding fueling caps, air tanks, bell, horn, fill in the pilot and add kadee couplers. The shell has nice details I think for a cheap tyco train. I know I could have bought a stewart, or an IHC or a AHM but my parents were at an estate sale and bought it for me(completely ignoring the list I gave them for stuff to look for) so I thought I would put a little effort into making this looking good. It will be a dummy and I will have it in a shop scene or a deadline ready to be scrapped scene. Once I get to it I will take some pics of the project and post them.
Great job everyone on the pics posted so far. Gotta say the 55 chevy is my favorite pic!! Gotta love the shoebox chevies.
have a great weekend
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
A busy Friday in Oakhurst. In addition to the normal Southern Pacific train from Fresno (far right 2-6-0 #522), we have a passenger excursion special pulled by Sierra Railroad 2-8-0 #24. That will require doubling the normal passenger train, as the excursion guests will be transferring to the shorty passenger cars pulled by Shay #7 (left) and Shay #2 (antlers) for the trip to Wawona over the steep, sharp, and rough track on the Oakhurst Railroad ...
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No that is the picture of the REAL one, the second photo was mine. btw, it's the Walthers Union Station kit, with 2 station terminals.
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Did you mean to say, ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE. If so hers's a start.
It’s a fine Spring morning in Wink, Va. Bobby Joe is mowing grass in front of the oil company. as a motorcycle speeds by. In the back ground Tonya and her crew are planting two flowering trees in front of Miller Milling Co. paying no attention to the B & O locomotive moving grain cars at New World Pasta
Bob
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Oakhurst Railroad EngineerMargaritaman got this started off at a high level. All pictures so far this week are excellent!
Margaritaman got this started off at a high level. All pictures so far this week are excellent!
For a minute there I thought you forgot to finish your sentence.
"Margaritaman got this started off at a high level. All pictures so far this week are excellent! And it went ALL DOWNHILL From There!"
Here's a KATO HO SD70MAC with a brand new Tsunami Sound decoder. Can you hear it? Much better than the soundtraxx LC decoder, but still not as good as a QSI Atlas Gold IMHO.
So who's gonna make it through the crossing first? The SD70Mac, or the 1968 micro bus?
C&O FanIs that a Canadian 55 Chevy Crandell
Close. Chinese.
I am glad you like my photo, Ty.
-Crandell
Even the toast is in focus ...
Dave VollmerSo here's what the layout looks like from above, showing the relation between the old and the new:
Dave, I thought your layout was much larger, goes to show what great modeling and great photography can do!
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
TrainManTy
George Foreman!!
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Wow, this is a very solid start to the weekend! Crandall, I really like your photo in particular! I have done some new stuff down in the basement (starting my paper mill, completing my burned-out-barn project, and replacing my 18 gauge bus with a 14 gauge one) but no photos as of yet. I've just been too busy working this busy school vacation week.
What I have to share this week isn't actually on the layout, but of a scene on the railroad nonetheless - the summit of the Mascoma Lake Grade, currently my avatar. Custom plate from hand-drawn artwork based off a photograph.
Well, this thread is sure off to a healthy start!
Jarrell
My very first WPF post ever!!! My new (newbie) layout is finally coming together.
And here is mine: (my sign is red, don't know why the camera lost the red).
Thanks,
Very nice, Gentlemen....very nice start indeed.
I can participate this week....the last for a while. Picked up a couple of trucks at the local train show.
I say last for a while, as soon after taking these, I dismantled my current "chainsaw" layout.
A short video of the dismantling process is up on YouTube.
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Great start for this week. I've been wondering where those Turtle Creek decals were! The detail on the mailman scene is phenomenal.
This is a Walthers undecorated plastic pellet hopper lettered with home-made decals. The name Gubenol is a hold-over from the old days when the kids went out to play in the fields, you had to always warn them to "don't step in the gubenol!"
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
Excellent scene and modeling, MM.
Nice job on the turtle boxcar, Jim.
Switching a couple of TOFC's into an EB through freight. DJ.
What a great scene. The dogs attacking the mailman is priceless!
I was rummaging through some old MR mags and came across the April '03 issue, which said FREE DECALS on the cover. Sure enough, stapled inside was a sheet for their project layout at the time, the Turtle Creek Central. I thought to myself, "Self, any line who's slogan mentions 'dashing turtles' deserves to be represented on your layout!" So a rattle can and a couple of evenings later, I had:
There were enough decals to do a few cars. I might have to just do a few more.
Jim
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