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WPF for 19 - 23 November 2010

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, November 19, 2010 2:17 PM

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.

GARRY

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, November 19, 2010 12:48 PM

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:)

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, November 19, 2010 12:15 PM

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 !

 

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Posted by howmus on Friday, November 19, 2010 11:50 AM

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.....

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by selector on Friday, November 19, 2010 11:42 AM

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

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Posted by Renegade1c on Friday, November 19, 2010 11:36 AM

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)


Colorado Front Range Railroad: 
http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/

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Posted by Annonymous on Friday, November 19, 2010 11:22 AM

Content removed due to a completely frak'ed up and incompetent Kalmbach customer service.

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Posted by mountaingoatgreg on Friday, November 19, 2010 9:16 AM

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

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Posted by Motley on Friday, November 19, 2010 9:14 AM

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


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Posted by NeO6874 on Friday, November 19, 2010 9:13 AM

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 Smile

 

 

(edit) -- WITH the pictures this time!

-Dan

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, November 19, 2010 9:04 AM

Good work from everyone, this week.  The old folks out for a Sunday drive. DJ.

 

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Posted by Tashtego on Friday, November 19, 2010 8:45 AM

Nothing fancy here. Just a couple of pics of old track in the Greenbush Yard.

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, November 19, 2010 8:25 AM

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  

 

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, November 19, 2010 6:52 AM

 How about a NASTY auto-rack!!

 

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, November 19, 2010 6:40 AM

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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Posted by MAbruce on Friday, November 19, 2010 6:33 AM

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.

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Posted by jdobo on Friday, November 19, 2010 5:19 AM

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.  

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 19, 2010 4:54 AM

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:

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WPF for 19 - 23 November 2010
Posted by selector on Friday, November 19, 2010 4:10 AM

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