High over Seneca Gorge
Crandell
I love that shot, Crandell. Great perspective!
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Happy Anniversary Amtrak
This is an Atlas Dash8-32BWH with some detailing & weathering. Most notably, I added various sockets to the pilots, replaced the horn, & added MV Lens for marker lights. Just as it was almost finished it had an accident & met a concrete floor, damaging the cab & rear radiator, the windshield is dislodged & still inside the cab. I planned to swap the lights for LED in the future, so the Windsheild will be fized at that time. A Rapido Lounge car is in tow.
Excellent photos everyone. Here is my contribution for this week.
I added Sunny White LEDs to one of my Athearn SD70ACes.
Before:
After:
There is absolutely no comparison in my opinion.
Will
Thanks, Phil. I had fun with this one.
Will, you are right...they are like min-suns.
I tried my hand at painting and ballasting Kato N scale Unitrack:
I just finished these freight cars this week.This is an Athearn PS 5344 Boxcar Kit, replaced the sill steps with A-line metal ones. Lettered with Oddballs Decals.This is an Athearn Railbox Kit, replaced the stock door with a Details West #168 Pullman Standard Door, A-line Sill Steps and lettered with Microscale Decals.This is an Atlas 6-Bay ACF Covered Hopper, Painted Aluminum and lettered with Oddballs Decals.Thanks for looking!
Rick
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
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How about some engines.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Passing through PA's Famous Sasquish Forrest area
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
Very good! Love the angle on this one!
Jarrell
selector High over Seneca Gorge Crandell
Little River Shay passing Bennett's Salvage in the early morning..
All of you keep setting the bar higher and higher!
Very nice pictures everyone. The corn is done so here are a few updated shots. Now I have to 'plant' soybeans.
Overview shots.
Want to know what 2400 corn stalks looks like? Not as much as you think!
Great pictures, everybody.
Crandell... Your Seneca Gorge is magnificent;
Margaritaman ... Your scen has character!.
ChadLRyan .. Amtrak never looked so good.
Will ... Nice work with the night shots.:
Ulrich .. great work on the track. Rick ... I like the cars.
Robby ..Locos look real.
UncBob... Sasquish ? Yikes! Clever idea!;
Jarrell ... The Shay look nice.
Corey ..Your rural MN scene looks real.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Here are some first generation Burlington units in Blackhawk. I added details to the SD9's this week.
Here is my GE 44T and a branch line cabboose. Soon it will haul some box cars up the branch line.
Wow Garry, those are great scenes! Inspires me to do better...
Heartland Division CB&Q Here are some first generation Burlington units in Blackhawk. I added details to the SD9's this week. Here is my GE 44T and a branch line cabboose. Soon it will haul some box cars up the branch line.
Just one more pic, although it´ll be a long way until I have something more "presentable".
Yes, folks, this is N scale!
Garry, you are into MR photo territory.
Jarrell, thanks, and I must Shay that your loco is looking particularly scrumptious this morning. Nice engine in a nice setting.
I haven't had a lot of basement time lately, though on a whim one evening I was able to create a little extra office space
Even with the poor quality photo you can still make out just a hint of its former occupation, while one if its brethren waits nearby for the next assignment.
I should probably put together a set or two of stairs...
Jim
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
I just finished another HW passenger car; BM 4625 is an old Athearn blue box kit that I found at a train show. I stripped it, added some details, repainted and Highball Graphics decals. Is on the grade with a B&M baggage car and an MEC coach that I had done some time ago; also Athearns.
I still need to add an interior and diaphragms, but they are out of stock, so that finish work will have to wait...
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Nice car George. I always thought bluebox cars were decent for what they were. The really only noticeable difference to me is the cast on grabs.
I've been working on a pair of these units for the past week or so.
Alex
Alex, are you making a Delaware & Hudson RS-3 rebuild?
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Mike Kieran
Port Able Railway
I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.
Hello great work everyone. Sir Madog that is a very nice looking loco could you tell me more about it please. I am not sure what it is. But I like it and would like to see if I could fined one in ho. Thanks Frank.
I was moveing stuff around so I did a before and after shots.
Have a nice weekend Frank
Monkeyed around with a little sound...
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Got a little farther along on the roundhouse...
Updated the bliggity blog (words to go with the pictures!)
And entered a little something into the Hobby Town National Model Contest.
Otherwise, it's been a quiet week!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Mike- Nope! The Lamoille Valley, a shortline operating in northern Vermont in the 1970s-1990s, used a variety of neat ALCos, including 3 which had their noses chopped.
The model of the specific unit pictured below is still under construction. The one awaiting primer had the different headlight arrangement as modeled.
Lee- That roundhouse scene is really coming along. It's always a pleasure to see the circus alive and well.
0-6-0 Sir Madog that is a very nice looking loco could you tell me more about it please. I am not sure what it is. But I like it and would like to see if I could fined one in ho. Thanks Frank.
Sir Madog that is a very nice looking loco could you tell me more about it please. I am not sure what it is. But I like it and would like to see if I could fined one in ho. Thanks Frank.
Frank - it is an N scale model of a Japanese National Railway Class D51 Mikado, made by Kato, selling for about $ 120. As HO scale is not very popular in Japan (and it is not 1/87.1, but 1/80), HO models are rare. Kato did produce a HO version of this loco, and will eventually re-release it, but you will have to calculate with a price above the $ 400 mark for it - see here
wm3798 Got a little farther along on the roundhouse... Updated the bliggity blog (words to go with the pictures!) And entered a little something into the Hobby Town National Model Contest. Lee
Nice work on the roundhouse Lee! I've really been enjoying watching your layout shape up!
John
Wow, beautiful work here this week. Who says we don't work on our layouts once the weather gets nice?
Here's another in-progress picture of the swamp and small woodland which will fill in an awkward dead spot on my layout:
The water will surround a small island where the dead tree stands. About halfway between the tree and the lower left corner is a flat area where the beavers will build the dam which is causing the land to flood in the first place.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Alex,
Nice to see the Lamoille Valley being remembered. I am hoping to find one of its predecfssor, StJ&LC steam locos on a day when I can afford it. Have only seen one or two over the years.
Will you model the Wolcott covered bridge?
Have fun,
Richard
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