Wow, you guys. Either my brain is learning how to appreciate good models and photography at long last, or our caliber of them has risen dramatically over the past several months. WPF has been tremendously appealing for me since the early spring. Of course, Jarrell has been outstanding since Day 1 for me, but what would you expect from a retired master photog? Weathered boxcars that I could only dream of accomplishing...wonderful. Rock cuts with a steamer coursing through them. Oh my!
Here is my latest. I have been using Sagelight since April to improve my photos. Got to cloning out shadows on the backdrop, filling in 'sky' where window casings would show, and of course the added steam and smoke. I'm having a blast!
This Rookie Engine pulling a long freight is bound for the West coast. Here it is leaving the foothills of Alberta and just licking the Eastern edge of the Rockies. Soon it will have help from a Consist of Selkirks and Mikados, for the long grind up to the Continental Divide.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Nice work!
Jarrell, I really like that scene. The foreman (and family) must not get too much sleep living on top of the tracks like that. The diesel smoke must not do too much for the laundry either.
No picture this week. Rather, I put a video roll-by together featuring new scenery on an area of my layout.. Still a bit more to do:
Roll by in the Pass
Here are some cars that I just completed, no weathering on my railroad!This is a Front Range ACF 50' Single Door Boxcar, with an Athearn 10' Door Substituted for the kits 8' Door, car lettered with Microscale Decals.E&C Corrugated Side 52' Gondola, lettered with Oddballs Decals.Front Range 50' Intermodal Flat, Southern Railway built these from excess 50' Boxcars. The Trailer is a Durango Press Kit that I wanted to use for the metal wheels and landing gear to add weight to this car (no place for weight). The Flat was lettered with Oddballs Decals and the trailer with Herald King Decals.Thanks for looking!!
Rick
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Jarrel & Robby outstanding photos!!!
#841 a Dash-8 ...the crew waiting patiently for refueling at the Denver BNSF yard.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Jarrell.........Very nice
Here's a ex. St Lawrence boxcar, and patched to Norfolk Southern.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hey, lets get the ball... uh, train rollin'!
Here Southern Rwys RS-3 2131 leads a local down Choctaw Ridge past the section foreman's house just above the little town of Woodland in the Appalachian mountains.
Jarrell