Something started growing on my layout overnight:
First vegetation with static grass, bushes, spalings and trees. Many thanks to my family members for helping out with tree labor! Jamie
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Just completed my first weathering job on one of my locomotives. It is a Kato Dash 9 and I went with a heavier weather becuase #8979 is an older Dash 9. Here is what it looked like to start with.
8979 has had a tough life on the rails, alot of miles and awhile back she had a nasty fire. Those GE's and their blown turbos.
View from the other side, all in all it took me about 4 hours to complete.
Next three are views from the front. I am very pleased with the way it turned out.
Once again, I am overwhelmed by the quality of the work presented here!
Mike - I very much like the way you blend in your scenery with the background - excellent job!
WPF is always the week´s highlight for me!
Sir Madog WPF is always the week´s highlight for me!
Me too.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
I agree. To me,there is no better source of inspiration on line. RON
MotleyRix highway overpass
The overpass blends so nicely with the background. It really looks like the model extends beyond...
What did you use for the roadbed? The lines are so straight.
Good work.
Bob
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Great looking work everyone! This is always my favourite thread of the week.
For myself, I've recently finished a full typical modern VIA Rail Canada Quebec-City-Windsor Corridor consist, of a custom painted Athearn P42, and three Rapido Trains LRC resin coaches. All units are custom painted and decalled by me, and the coaches were also built from their kits by me.
I apologize from the start that the pictures aren't very clear.
(The paint line between the blue and gray isn't that neat here, due to a muck-up with the masking. I intend to fix that sometime in the future).
Also this past week, indulging in my other modelling interest (the CB&CNS and DEVCO in Cape Breton Nova Scotia in the late 1990s), I completed my first CB&CNS locomotive. It is an MLW RS-18, kitbashed from an Atlas RS-11 using Miniatures by Eric and Railflyer detail parts. I painted it and added Microscale decals. This photo is not very clear, but it shows it quickly.
I'm off on a cross-country vacation for the next few weeks, so I'll try to post some better pictures of this unit when I get back. By then I should be well relaxed and ready to get on to my next project: DEVCO GP38-2s.
Have a great weekend everyone.
-Tim
Ok, thanks for the explanation Ray.
Jarrell
howmus jacon12 What a great little scene, Ray...., lighting effects and all! And, how did the Papec Band get their name? Jarrell Ask and thou shalt receive...... The Papec Machine Co. aka: Pneumatic and Propeller Ensilage Company was a farm machinery company in Shorstville, NY (Not far from where I grew up) that made silo chopper filler machines... Well, one of these: Put together, they looked more like this (scratchbuilt for the farm on Bare Mountain). You can see it at the bottom right of the photo with the pipe going up the silo. We had a couple of them on the farm when I was a kid. more about Papec here: http://wellssouth.com/blog/?p=46 Anyway the Papec Company was very community minded and formed a band which used to play concerts in the nearby communities which all had the park gazebos for the purpose as well as marching in parades. My Father played for several years in the Papec Band before he went to Ithaca College as a music major. He was the first oboist to ever graduate from Ithaca College. This whole section of the SLOW has a bunch of family puns and jokes. It also has the names of a lot of the family on it as business owners. If you look close you will see "Rose's Dinner (the wife of Don Howard, my dad's cousin and the owner of Don Howard's Farm Machinery Dealership). Next door is Nina's Beauty Salon. The sign is a copy of the sign which I still have of my mother's hairdressing shop. Miller's bed and Breakfast is a tribute to my sister Rev. Janice Miller who runs a boarding house for foreign high school students. And many more down the street..... 73
jacon12 What a great little scene, Ray...., lighting effects and all! And, how did the Papec Band get their name? Jarrell
What a great little scene, Ray...., lighting effects and all! And, how did the Papec Band get their name?
Ask and thou shalt receive...... The Papec Machine Co. aka: Pneumatic and Propeller Ensilage Company was a farm machinery company in Shorstville, NY (Not far from where I grew up) that made silo chopper filler machines... Well, one of these:
Put together, they looked more like this (scratchbuilt for the farm on Bare Mountain). You can see it at the bottom right of the photo with the pipe going up the silo.
We had a couple of them on the farm when I was a kid. more about Papec here: http://wellssouth.com/blog/?p=46
Anyway the Papec Company was very community minded and formed a band which used to play concerts in the nearby communities which all had the park gazebos for the purpose as well as marching in parades. My Father played for several years in the Papec Band before he went to Ithaca College as a music major. He was the first oboist to ever graduate from Ithaca College. This whole section of the SLOW has a bunch of family puns and jokes. It also has the names of a lot of the family on it as business owners. If you look close you will see "Rose's Dinner (the wife of Don Howard, my dad's cousin and the owner of Don Howard's Farm Machinery Dealership). Next door is Nina's Beauty Salon. The sign is a copy of the sign which I still have of my mother's hairdressing shop. Miller's bed and Breakfast is a tribute to my sister Rev. Janice Miller who runs a boarding house for foreign high school students. And many more down the street.....
73
Montana is testing out an inner-state commuter train. San Diego Coaster is on loan for the testing photo'd here exiting Bozeman Tunnel on its way down toward Livingston to stop in at the old Northern Pacific Depot which used to service the Yellowstone tourists. The dopot just might once again. (Hey, I once heard talks that this could be possible in Montana. I think I even heard it from the Trains Forum)
This is called bringing my two favorite places together: Montana (where I'd love to be) and San Diego (my home town)
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rclangerMotleyRix highway overpass The overpass blends so nicely with the background. It really looks like the model extends beyond... What did you use for the roadbed? The lines are so straight. Good work.
Thanks Bob. I used the Busch Asphalt road
Michael
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Willjayna, that is some fine weathering. Very nicely done.
Not much happening on my layout as of late. Did have a small batch of unplanted trees that finally found homes this week
I'll echo others' sentiments - this is a really fun thread each week.
Jim
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
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zgardner18
Nice! So jealous of this consist!
Rob
Crandell, What a great scene.
An old Tyco commemorative locomotive that I purchased in the '70s with a small train set for my son. It is now just a dummy and in poor overall condition. But it has some sentimental value.
Keep up the good work guys. You always make this the best thread of the week!
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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I had that same loco as a kid. It didn't survive the times though. Good to see one still on a layout. :)
Springfield PA
Some pics of the original portion of my layout before I rip it up. I'll be posting in another thread the details.
MTH Berkshire alongside Blueline M1A
Hamltnblue
If you have time , could you share this photo over on the thread "Fitting a yard to bnchwork" in the "Layouts and Layout Building" section -- http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/176167/1935074.aspx#1935074 along with your technical data of track radii, brand of switches, switch radii, and length of spurs, plus your experience of coupling and uncoupling of cars? Your info sure could help a lot of us who are reading that thread!! Thanks in advance.
Pennsy
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That's a nice looking little layout! I do have one question though...what's that switcher doing sitting in that lot? :P
LOL. It was moved there over night by a group of college students.
I'm getting ready to rip the surface of the layout up. I just put it aside for now.
Driline
Seriously, I did a double take when I saw your photograph of that BN box; based upon an attempt I made some years back to heavily rust a 1940's era box I can assure others that it is one of the more difficult of weathering projects. I've always been a little unhappy with my endeavor; your accomplishment raises the incentive for me to give it another try.
Keep up the good work podna'!
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MotleyI used the Busch Asphalt road
I read on this forum they do not adhere very well. Did you have a positive experience?
Use them else where on your layout.
NS AS-416Hamltnblue Very impressive use of space. What size is your layout, 5x9?
Thanks NS AS-416. The section here is an 8x8. It joins with a 7x10 U shapped section.
Here's a video of the whole thing being traveled by my M1a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QubOJ9-Ca4A
pennsy-gg1 Hamltnblue If you have time , could you share this photo over on the thread "Fitting a yard to bnchwork" in the "Layouts and Layout Building" section -- http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/176167/1935074.aspx#1935074 along with your technical data of track radii, brand of switches, switch radii, and length of spurs, plus your experience of coupling and uncoupling of cars? Your info sure could help a lot of us who are reading that thread!! Thanks in advance. Pennsy Thanks pensy. I basically just reach over and lift the rolliing stock a hair to uncouple. I don't use anything else for uncoupling. However the radius used is 15-18 inch. The turnouts used a re Atlas #4's. I trimmed some of each turnout down so that the tracks would be closer together. Be careful not to trim too much though or they will go out of gauge.
Thanks pensy. I basically just reach over and lift the rolliing stock a hair to uncouple. I don't use anything else for uncoupling.
However the radius used is 15-18 inch. The turnouts used a re Atlas #4's. I trimmed some of each turnout down so that the tracks would be closer together. Be careful not to trim too much though or they will go out of gauge.
Forty NinerI do have one question and it in NO way reflects on your modeling skills, what happened to the outside rear view mirrors on the vehicles? It would never show except everythig else is 'soooooo" realistic. Actually the pick up is the one I noticed, it looks sort of naked without them.
We have no need in Iowa for side mirrors. It's all those other bad drivers that do
Actually these particular Busch and Trident brand cars did not come with side view mirrors. There were no pre-drilled holes either on the vehicles for them??? It will be some detail I'll add later......
Crandell:
Is that bridge over the river a kit?
Here's more progress on the Thomas Sub...An overview I took of the new storage tracks... These tracks will eventually serve a couple of coal mines in the immediate area of Thomas, West Virginia. They will also allow longer trains to be broken up to "double the hill" on the helix up to Elkins.And the scene is starting to come into focus now that I've moved all the tools off the roadbed...Lee
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Here are some 1st shots from my new Pentax K-X. These are the best two out of about 30 shots at different settings. I have lot to learn to get the best settings for my lighting. Yes these were taken with a tripod.