Good start for this week´s WPF, Crandell!
Here are my humble beginnings of my future HOn3 layout:
This is where my T-12 will roam around:
I got this on Ebay this week, it started life as an old Atlas (Austrian made) SD35 and has been detailed to a good standard.
Great start guys!
I'm posting a 'Before and After' shot.
The first photo is what this location on my layout looked like before the scenery demo and rebuild (2007):
BEFORE SHOT
This is what it looks like after the scenery redo:
AFTER SHOT
This is one of the few locations on my layout that kept roughly the original configuration.
Good morning from Northeast Ohio! The below are cars that I have just recently finished. These two cars are old Front Range Kits which I built. The first is lettered for the Wabash Railroad using Champ Decals. The second is an NW box car which was an old Wabash car in the same class as the first car. They were put in the B-75 class by the NW with a 3 added to the Wabash Car Number. This is an FGE RBL which was the lease the DT&I took over from the PC. The last six cars in the lease were the centered door version rather than the offset side. They received the centered door version for the last 7 cars in the lease as there were not enough offset door cars (we need a model of the offset door car). left due to cars being destroyed. This is a Walther's 4160CR Airslide Covered Hopper, lettered with Microscale decals. (Discontinued Set)Thanks for looking Rick
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How about a NASTY auto-rack!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Crandell: if the loco is moving, the caboose crew had better jump! ... Is that a 2-8-2?..Great photo!
Ulrich: nice layou plan and great loco! .... Idobo: your SD35 looks realistically ugly. Nice.... MA Bruce, both before and after a great pictures! ... Rick, your cars look good....Robby, looks like a smokey auto rack.
My photo is a scene in my fictional town of Blackhawk. A Baldwin switcher and an EMD switcher are busy serving industries. Closest unit in the ABA lashup of F-units is C&S 700D which was a rebuilt wrecked F7-A. EMD rebuilt it into an F9-AM
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Nothing fancy here. Just a couple of pics of old track in the Greenbush Yard.
Good work from everyone, this week. The old folks out for a Sunday drive. DJ.
great pics so far everyone!
still building my railroad empire ... so nothing near as good as you guys...
Started construction on the 90' TT ... it's coming along rather nicely. spins pretty freely too!
and a close-up of the bridge (still waiting for the glue to dry).
When I finished painting the pit, there was still some Aged Concrete in the airbrush, so I painted the parts to the base of the Walthers Ash Pit as well (though this'll have to wait til other things are done).
I probably would have done well to have mixed more and painted the "Modern Coaling Tower" as well... but i have enough projects going on as it is
(edit) -- WITH the pictures this time!
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Holy moly batman! Amazing photos by everyone. Kinda hard to follow that....
Here is my newly acquired very first steam engine, an MTH 4-6-6-4 UP Challenger, for excursion service. I absolutley love this thing, so much so I'm getting another one, probably the 4-12-2 9000.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
A little more weathering....While I am testing my Redmond Shelf Layout I have been working on my freight car fleet. I have been adding better roofwalks, air hoses, cut levers and other appropriate details. I did find a bug on the layout and will be working on it to get it fixed. I also need to add the tortoise to my Free-Mo section which requires me taking it down so I can get to both sides of the module.
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
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Here are some layout photos. I am finally getting to point where I can start doing scenery stuff.
Here is the Conoco Refinery:
Here is a Coal Drag Crossing Leyden Bridge in CO:
The Beginnings of the Purina Plant in Commerce city, CO.
I also just opened layout up for the Houston Fall Layout tour and it ran very well (only two or three derailments, mostly due to operator error)
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Svein, your construction looks wonderful...a lot like an aircraft wing. Nice!!
Garry, your layout is one of those layouts that keeps drawing my attention. You have a lot going on there, and so nicely laid out. Great angles in your image this week.
And, yes, it is a Trix Mikado. The engine has just deposited the caboose on this radial leading to the turntable so that it can be reconditioned by the railroad. It was just acquired from the CPR. The Mike is crawling back onto the turntable and will run forward down the lead, the next track over, once the bridge has it lined for that route.
Crandell
Ah.... The Weekend and my favorite thread! Looks like the Bar has been set high for this weekend as well...
I have been continuing work on the Quarry area and specifically on the crusher house. The porch to the upper level outside door has been added and I have been test fitting it to the layout. Pardon the junk in the background on these shots, the quarry area is being done as a lift-out and is in my workshop, not on the layout. I'm hoping by Thanksgiving it will be back in place on Bare Mountain.....
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Nice Stuff Guys
Open House tomorrow for me so I will be cleaning track all day and doing tune ups
I'll try to post some photos Sunday
Have Fun All !
TerryinTexas
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Nothing new from me been busy helping out at my parents house this week. I do gotta say though I absolutely love that ol family lines crusted up, patched up pile of gorgeous junk. Looks great for an old atlas from austria.
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
selector Svein, your construction looks wonderful...a lot like an aircraft wing. Nice!! Garry, your layout is one of those layouts that keeps drawing my attention. You have a lot going on there, and so nicely laid out. Great angles in your image this week. And, yes, it is a Trix Mikado. The engine has just deposited the caboose on this radial leading to the turntable so that it can be reconditioned by the railroad. It was just acquired from the CPR. The Mike is crawling back onto the turntable and will run forward down the lead, the next track over, once the bridge has it lined for that route. Crandell
Crandell ... Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the remarks. I look forward to your WPF photos of your great layout. .....
There are so many good quality pictures this week, i do not know where to begin. I'm gladd to see each one. It's good Svein visited from across the Atlantic with his layout progress pictures. ...
DJ ... I hope the old car does not hit any pot holes. Nice picture.
Renagade ... I like the detailed refinery.
some great pictures in this thread... keep up the great work and inspiration for the rest of us!
Hello everyone,
great work and great pictures by everone on this tread. My contribution this week is simpily a couple of trains running on "EZ" track loops on my floor. Prototype modelers view at own risk :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHtW3_HpjNg&feature=player_profilepage
Cheers,
Jamie
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
HO scale Horseshoe Curve in 5’x10’
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I've just finished my little church for Salina.
Salina is the town at my narrow gauge H0n3 module. This church is scratch built.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Thanks everyone for sharing your pics.
Been playing with my new laptop and Corel. Great fun. More time for fun since I quit work. I love it!
DC
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Southern's 2131 on Choctaw Ridge..
Jarrell
Selector,
NIce photo and I love the concrete color/finish on the turntable pit. What did you use for the concrete finish?
Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Ulrich,
I am happy to see you now seem to have a layout in the works. Have your fortunes improved? I pray they have...
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Grampy, as usual a fantastic picture. Here is my contribution.
Jarrell, a lovely image. I especially note, and appreciate what it took to make it look so good, the wonderful berm and rocks on each side of the approach to the bridge. Very nice!!!
Allow me to drop the bar for yas.
Tis be a goodly amount of 10-12 years ago. It's a 4H diorama I did. Note the road is Hotwheels and the track ain't ballasted.
ballasted two months ago, just recently photo'd. Yep, the Ballasting crew learned quite a bit since then and will attempt a cover-up. Redwood's a little farm town that used to be a refuel stop for engines on the branchline. Though the railroad isn't using either facility nowadays, a coal cmpany now operates out of the old tipple, and the town water is now in the water tower following damage to the orignal town tower.
-Morgan