WPF March 11/13

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

My blue Chapel Car has been dispatched for those who care to pray and offer condolences to our Japanese friends who are affected by the earth quake.

The car is a modified Roundhouse Pullman Palace observation.

 

 

[nik .n]

My contributions for the day.

 

A Western Maryland local passenger coasts out of the cut as she prepares to notch up again to take the siding.

Another view shows the newest addition to the family's roster.

After the passenger took the siding, a hot local roars up the grade with a cut of boxcars and flats.

[WinRI]

Winter Projects completed Stewart RS3, 4 Track Signal Tower, and "MO" Tower...

[Motley]

[stebbycentral]

howmus

Ray,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  I just printed out your picture and hung it up next to my own workbench.  Since any just about any project I've ever done pales in comparison, I may never have to clean my bench again. 

[VAMidlandRR]

Ray I know where you are coming from!

Getting organized was the best thing I ever did.  Knowing where something was on the desktop was a great turning point in my modeling career.  It's so nice to know exactly where that piece of scrap styrene is or that where that  detail part is stored.  Takes about a weekend to do, but worth every second of it! 

[jacon12]

I agree with Wolfgang, that's some serious rock work!

Jarrell

 

 

 

 

[cahrn]

Odie

Very nice here...definitely reminds me of Chickies Rock!

 

Indeed it does. I've only been out to Chickies one time but when I was there I got to see a decently long string of hoppers roll past.

 

Cahrn

[wedudler]

cwclark

Here's Crow Creek with an east bound passing the campers.

Chuck, this rock looks fantastic! How did you do it?  Perhaps another thread?

Wolfgang

[cwclark]

Some real nice work in here this weekend. Daylight savings time is about to start so want to get these in here before the time change messes my sleeping pattern up.....chuck

 

Here's Crow Creek with an east bound passing the campers.

A Boy Scout troop working on their Camping  and Railroading merit badge.

West bound crosses wooden trestle bridge.

Locomotives serviced at the engine house.

 

[howmus]

I decided This week to take a bit of a break from the Engine House project for several reasons.  1.  I have run out of some needed details..  2.  The next part will require me to start building the roof trusses and the roof, and I need to get some information before I proceed. and 3. My workbench is preventing me from doing much other than trying to find stuff lost in the piles of "stuff" on it.  It is a complete disaster and needs to be cleaned.  Only problem is that cleaning, by virtue of a lack of space to put stuff, means moving everything from one messy place to another equal or more messy place.

So I made a plan which I hope will let me organize things a bit better and be able to spend more time making stuff than looking for things to make stuff with.........

My work bench came from an old 1800's square piano frame.  It weighs several hundred pounds.  Took myself and my 2 then teenage sons to get it down the cellar stairs a quarter of a century ago.  Almost got crushed doing that as well.  So here is what the thing looked like yesterday:

I had some pegboard laying around and since much of the "stuff" can be hung, I decided to create more peg board area on one end of the old piano bench:

That was where it stood last night.  Today I got a bit more done.  Still have quite a bit more work to do on it and I have to buy more pegs and some storage drawers to use, but it is getting there.  Hopefully by tomorrow night I will have the area cleaned up so I can get back to work on some layout projects.

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[tarhawk]

Thanks Crandell.

Tarhawk

[Tashtego]

2 from Quincy Yard.

 

[selector]

tarhawk

As always very inspiring pics. I have tried to upload a pic. Today I dragged a pic from Apple iPhoto into this reply box easily. But when posted it just showed an "unopenable" link and no pic. Is photobucket the only solution? How bout from Picasa? Sorry to again open this can of worms!

Tarhawk

The server doesn't accept  direct uploads from computers.  It will only use a link with the [img] tags at each end to retrieve the appropriate file from a webhost such as photobucket or railimages.com.  They are free for a small gallery of your images which you do upload from your computer.  Get the tagged URL, paste it in a text box here, and you are good to go.

Crandell

[wedudler]

I've just finished building a coal house for my narrow gauge module Salina.

Wolfgang

[tarhawk]

As always very inspiring pics. I have tried to upload a pic. Today I dragged a pic from Apple iPhoto into this reply box easily. But when posted it just showed an "unopenable" link and no pic. Is photobucket the only solution? How bout from Picasa? Sorry to again open this can of worms!

Tarhawk

[Anonymous]

My layout is slowly advancing towards a stage where I can enjoy taking photos of it again. The next steps are ordering track, then painting the backdrop and layout surface while waiting for the track to arrive.

[robfi]

I got some work done on my module

 

[Odie]

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[selector]

Sue, your creation is entirely believable.   Nice job in 'planting' the trees...they are nicely vertical, and they look darned good!

I had to clone the 'sky' in my photo because what is really there is a window face trim, sill, and venetian blinds over a night-time darkness in the window beyond.  What I had to do was to place a piece of blue Dow extruded foam on the window sill, take the image, and then use Sagelight's cloning brush to paint the sky using the blue foam as a reference point.  Takes some doing, but it was a vast improvement over cropping or leaving the window trim and sill visible.

The smoke and the tiny steam column at the front of the stack were created using the clone brush and hues on the side of the boiler and tender.

Crandell

[gear-jammer]

Thanks, Bruce.  I have always enjoyed your photos.

Sue

[MAbruce]

Wow! Those are great photos-- not sure which one I like better.... your layout really looks nice!

 John

Thanks John.

gear-jammer

Bruce,  Digital trickery is fine. Nice sunset.  Are the trees part of the sunset or part of your layout?

 

Sue

Thanks Sue.  The trees are part of my layout.  Only the sunset was added.

That's a very nice scene from your latest project.  The trees look fantastic.

 

[gear-jammer]

Hi gang.  I haven't been in for a while.

Here is my latest project.  This is one of the legs of the wye coming down to the sawmill from the log camp.

John,  Great addition to your layout.  I have dreams of brass.

Bruce,  Digital trickery is fine. Nice sunset.  Are the trees part of the sunset or part of your layout?

Crandell, Nice photo as usual.  Are you photoshopping your backdrops ?

Ray,  That hammer is cool.

Chad,  I am envious of your yard.  It should make for some great switching.

Jarrell, Thanks for sharing the before & after on blending into your backdrop.

Johnwar,  Your shots from inside the shop worked well.  Your greasy workbench is a neat detail.

Sue

[jwar41]

Start of a new

shop, will be a run through, hope this pic works, having a bit of a prob with them. and this may be too big? This was a larger shop  started last year and cut it down so that this will be a running repair facility (quick turnaround and light maintainance.) There will be a back shop for the heavy repairs later, any how I have some of the red iron done, will scrach a 5 ton overhead crane, oil and water pipeing and such. The bottom pic is  a peeler (tread profiller) which has a few parts lost from being tossed from piller to post LOL Aint great but it is fun      Take Care...John

[Colorado_Mac]

Personally, I love the sunset.  Could never frown on the artistic side of model railroading (and photography).

And the shot of the coal drag?  Fantastic.

 

Count me among the many jealous of that brass loco, too.

[-E-C-Mills]

Awesome!

[jacon12]

Nothing new from me this week, so I went back into the archives and found a before and after shot of the same corner of my layout.  Seems so long ago...

Jarrell

[ChadMichaels]

here is some shots of my yard...still a work in progress..

 

From the north end of the yard looking South...

From the South end looking North...

Close up from the sout looking North....

Comments and suggestions welcome.