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Weekend Photo Fun (WPF) June 10 - 12

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Posted by IVRW on Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:28 PM

Hey! It's been a while since Ive posted. Ive been busy with MRCV. I recently put together a trailer. It's only a minute. Enjoy!!!

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Posted by simon1966 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 5:38 PM

A few more from the Brit file!

The small tank engines are all circa 1970 from my childhood.  Most of them still run, the GWR Pannier tank is missing a connecting rod.

 

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Posted by simon1966 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:26 PM

Here is the County of Bedford and a rake of teak coaches heading through town on a fan trip.

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:04 PM

Motley,

That looks totally cool in that pic, I want to build a mini-module using a BLMA unit with two Exactrail girder bridges as 'feeders' on each end. However, I have not made the effort to go buy the wood for the base yet.  I hope it will make a neat little (5 foot) display.. 

I like the way you shot that picture, (as I would not want to shoot loco's on it as the structure would take away from the image details). Your shot has given me inspiration to capture the loco's & the bridge at the same time. That is a real nice composition you did there!  Good job!

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Posted by Motley on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:47 PM

ChadLRyan

Motley,

Sorry, I have to ask, what bridge is that, it looks great, sweet scene!

I'd like to know what it is, or if you custom built it!?  Excellent!

Thanks Chad. It's an Atlas 18" Truss bridge. I just weathered it with a black wash.

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Posted by Motley on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:43 PM

riogrande5761

Oh yeah!   Love the D&RGW and can never get enough of nice photo's.  The Grande gold/silver paint scheme is very nice and appealing, in some ways more than the AT&SF because all the D&RGW passenger cars had it save the CZ cars, yet the still complement each other well.  Do you run any CZ stuff as well?

Not yet, but I definatley plan to get the Cali Zephyr train soon.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:43 PM

Motley,

Sorry, I have to ask, what bridge is that, it looks great, sweet scene!

I'd like to know what it is, or if you custom built it!?  Excellent!

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:33 PM

Oh yeah!   Love the D&RGW and can never get enough of nice photo's.  The Grande gold/silver paint scheme is very nice and appealing, in some ways more than the AT&SF because all the D&RGW passenger cars had it save the CZ cars, yet the still complement each other well.  Do you run any CZ stuff as well?

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Posted by Motley on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:25 PM

riogrande5761

Motley, I'd enjoy seeing more of photo's of your D&RGW!!!   Nice!

Thanks! It's nice to see some D&RGW love here!

This is a poster I have in my trainroom.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:21 AM

Motley, I'd enjoy seeing more of photo's of your D&RGW!!!   Nice!

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, June 11, 2011 10:48 AM

Garry,

All I can say is that you have great taste, love that scene!

Thanks for the info too, keep up the excellent shots, & thanks for the comments you gave us!

Kudo's!!

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, June 11, 2011 10:29 AM

ChadRyan.... Thanks for commenting on my photo. The 2 SD24's are Atlas units. They were limited production, and I am glad I purchased them while they were available.  I grew up along the CB&Q main line and saw the real SD24's pulling trains when they were new. They would put four SD24's on the train from Chicago to Denver. At the time, crews called these units "Red Devils", but this paint scheme became common on the Q soon afterwards.  

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:45 AM

Heartland Garry,

Are those SD24's factory, or did you custom paint & D'cal them? Looks nice! I admine that CB&Q scheme, especially after seeing the restored one.  Great subject for the photo shoot!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:39 AM

Jon: Wow!!  This is gorgeous work here!!  

Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry

I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:19 AM

Great work this weekend y'all, and ditto, send your pics in Ulrich, ain't sense in not trying. Well, got my pics of the stuff I ordered last week to upload to facebook, flash player keeps crashing so photobucket ain't gonna work.

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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, June 10, 2011 11:25 PM

Sir Madog

Motley - I tell you a secret. I´d be happy to see one of my pictures published in the MR Trackside Photo section one day, but I don´t think I am good enough.

Crying

Tell you what. You are you're own worst critic, so lets get a third opinion, shall we? If you send in a CD-ROM of it to

Model Railroader, trackside Photos,
P.O. Box 1612,
Waukesha, WI 53187-1612 

I'll get up the nerve to send in two of mine I've kicked around. We'll let that Sperandeo guy decide. He might know.

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Posted by howmus on Friday, June 10, 2011 9:21 PM

I can see this is going to be another great thread this weekend!  Some excellent modeling and photography folks!

I have gotten a bit more done on the Engine House this past week.  Not much time available for trains......Sad  I have finally gotten all the lights installed and checked to make sure they will work.  Also built another workbench and added some tools.  Waiting on more parts to arrive to finish the interior.

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We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by hon30critter on Friday, June 10, 2011 9:13 PM

Ulrich

Some of us would disagree - your work is certainly good enough to be published.

Dave

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Posted by Geared Steam on Friday, June 10, 2011 8:57 PM

My lightly weathered Climax demonstrator.

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Posted by jon grant on Friday, June 10, 2011 7:21 PM

Hello all. Great photos to start the weekend

I've continued with the scenery on Sweethome Alabama this wek and took some new photos this evening

Jon

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Posted by simon1966 on Friday, June 10, 2011 7:17 PM

Even Jeff is posting Q images!!!   Really nice work everyone.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, June 10, 2011 7:00 PM

Ex-UP 116 GP7 on the L&A mainline.

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, June 10, 2011 6:21 PM

Hello everyone. Where's Jarrel? His Southern RR is noticably missing.\

Nice photos so far! Great work all of you! Ulrich's tunnel looks terrfic. I like Rick's freight cars, Robby's covered hopper, Chad's big flat car. Larry's switcher, Michael's D&RGW, Simon's club layout, Morgan's photo shop creativity, Don's F units, Jeff's layout, Acela's photos of layout and real, and PC99's covered hoppers.  

DJ ... The scrap yard looks very good with the dead tree and all.

Here is a westbound train entering the bridge over the Mrs. Hippy River while running on the eastbound track.

 

 

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Posted by Acela026 on Friday, June 10, 2011 5:16 PM

This isn't an actual model, but everyone tells me it looks like one Huh? so lets see what you think...

 But seriously, here is one I caught at a club layout.  I didn't see what I caught until later. 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, June 10, 2011 4:09 PM

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Friday, June 10, 2011 3:43 PM

These 3-bay ACF CenterFlow Covered Hoppers are Accurail kits.  They were custom painted prior to my purchase, I found them on eBay for $15.95 each.  I installed Kadee #5 couplers and Intermountain metal wheels in place of the plastic ones that come in the kit. I assembled them today (not ready to weather them):

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Posted by tankertoad70 on Friday, June 10, 2011 3:38 PM

Here is an ABB combo of my Wishram Oregon & Western F units heading westbound through Bridgeport on the Mt Hood RR club layout.Cowboy


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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, June 10, 2011 1:35 PM

And now, for something completely different. The picture I made for an avatar ends up a bit small, so I want to repost it here. I'm too pleased with how it turned out. It's just a photoshopping, I crpped a picture of CMPA 3634 out and ran it through the "Watercolor" filter, adjusted its settings, and then played with color balance and shading to try to match it to the painting background. The original painting is of the Madison Incline, circe late 1800s sometime. Notice the guy in the lower left sitting on the stump, reading. In my little world, CMPA commisined a new picture, using the orignal as a template but including the diesel in place of the open cut to capture the heritage of the line.


For self-teaching Photoshop, I think it turned out nicely.

And yes, I'll try to get something model train-y up here this weekend too.

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, June 10, 2011 1:01 PM

Sir Madog

Motley - I tell you a secret. I´d be happy to see one of my pictures published in the MR Trackside Photo section one day, but I don´t think I am good enough.

Crying

 

You're easily as good as many I've seen published.

 

John

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Friday, June 10, 2011 10:39 AM

BRAKIE

 

 Mike Kieran:

 

Awesome photos guys.

Brakie, is your diesel a nod to the Atlantic Coast Line?

 

 

Mike,I believe the previous owner had ACL in mine when he decided on a paint scheme.

My thoughts was to strip and repaint this locomotive but,now I decided to keep her as she is since its a sharp looking engine.

It is a sharp paint scheme. I'm keeping the Southern paint scheme on my Kato NW2 while putting on my own lettering.

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