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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, July 29, 2011 8:04 PM

Tom requested a drovers caboose but it's been 4 or 5 hours now so somebody request something!

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Posted by the North East Rail Modeler on Friday, July 29, 2011 8:11 PM

jacon12

Tom requested a drovers caboose but it's been 4 or 5 hours now so somebody request something!

Jarrell

I have an idea, if it will be O.K.

Show me a Conrail diesel locomotive

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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, July 29, 2011 9:17 PM

jarrell, look at that last photo, the one of the other Forney. Look to the right of it. There's a Drover;s Cab, so I believe It's GPaine's turn to pick.

But in the spirit of things, I'll go ahead and yank a phot of the NWR club (In club, friend's camera took this) off their Facebook page. Here's some Conrail.



Show me the ghosts of railroads Past

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, July 29, 2011 9:35 PM

Here's a couple.  An SD20-2 along side a B30-7.

Show me a Gazebo

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Friday, July 29, 2011 9:38 PM

Flashwave
Show me the ghosts of railroads Past

Awsome trackside shot, Morgan!Bow

(OOOPS - looks like Hamilton blue got his shot in a few minutes ahead of me..!]

You want 'ghosts', eh?  This first pic shows a B&O GP35 in 1969:

...fast forward to 1999, and here she is again - as a road slug!  Only a silent shell of her former self...

 

Still waiting on a gazebo...

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:39 AM

Times up on the gazebo.  I think we're running into the weekend doldrums, folks are out and about, doing this and that.

Someone make a request!

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:42 AM

Show me a waterfall - how´s that?

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:24 AM

It's been over 3 hours since a waterfall was requested, and I don't think the 2 or 3 members with waterfalls on their layout are following this thread.  I propose we broaden the scope to include the things that spawn waterfalls:

 

Show us a river.

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Posted by jalajoie on Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:31 AM

Will you accept this as a waterfall?

Show me a lift bridge.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:39 AM

jalajoie - that´s exactly what I was looking for! How´dya do it?

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Posted by jalajoie on Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:37 AM

Sir Madog

jalajoie - that´s exactly what I was looking for! How´dya do it?

That scene is from my club layout.

The water was made using Woodland Scenics "Realistic Water" for the base and 3 to 4 layers of "Water Effects" to simulate rapids. Between each layer of "Water Effects" a very tin coat of white paint was used.

The bridge is scratch built and represent an icon on the Canadian Pacific line. It is the "Stoney Creek Bridge" in BC. I am sure Grandell knows all about this prototype. 

Still looking for a lift bridge 

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Posted by Flashwave on Saturday, July 30, 2011 2:08 PM

CSX_road_slug

It's been over 3 hours since a waterfall was requested, and I don't think the 2 or 3 members with waterfalls on their layout are following this thread.  I propose we broaden the scope to include the things that spawn waterfalls:

 

Show us a river.


 Just tieing up a loose end, since a waterfall surfaced after you posted this.

Those blue cars are part of the Walthers-made NRA 2002 exclusives. There's 5 cars, each with a different name on the other side, and a material handling car. Athearn made a Genesis for it, but good luvk finding the thing.

Lift Bridge. Does anyone have a lift bridge??? Going once, goijng twice...
SOLD to the man with a chimp on his shoulder...

Well sorta. I can't find the picture I took of this assembly, but this showed up at a Great Train Expo in Indy a few years back. It's a pneumatic lift bridge...

for people.

Let's see a movie

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Posted by leighant on Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:07 PM

Show you a movie?  Here is a small layout designed to selectively compress the already selectively compressed MGM movie studio back lot of 1930-40s-50s.

 

And following MGM theme ("Wizard of OZ") show me something Not in Kansas Anymore.

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Posted by ARTHILL on Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:31 PM

My grand daughter and cousins. They never were in Kansas, but are in Redikulus now.

Show me an old store

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:48 PM

They're still around, I suppose, but Woolworths have been a fixture of this country for a long time.

Times and cars change, but some things stay the same.

 

Show me a trailer camp.

 

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Flashwave on Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:08 PM

PUNT!

I know we're into night time EST, but this request has been up since 3:48. Pulled this off of Google, but it;s not my photo at all, so it really doesn't count.

Let's see something railroad superstitiony...

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:19 PM

Flashwave
Let's see something railroad superstitiony...

Could you maybe elaborate on that?Confused  Is this supposed to be something on my layout or my workbench?

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:41 PM

Superstitiony huh?

I'm tempted to post a photo I took last year of our old 45 Tonner from RG&E.  I cought a glimpse of "Ready Kilowatt" standing on the walkway.... His hand is on the right side cowling.......

But since we can't use 1/1/ scale stuff, how about old Uncle Albert who swears he saw something in the woods near his still one afternoon a few years ago.  It has become a local legend...

Show me a abandoned siding.

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We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:44 PM

Your favorite built up Jordan vehicle kit.

Come on CMW, make a '41-'46 Chevy school bus!
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Posted by howmus on Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:46 PM

Santa Fe all the way!

Your favorite built up Jordan vehicle kit.

Uh, Uh!!!!!  No! You have to show me an abandoned siding first!!!  Smile, Wink & GrinLaugh

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Posted by Flashwave on Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:17 PM

Superstition-y: The rails were full of them, like leaving couplers open or engien numbers or whatever. Probbabyl because soemthign REALLY BAD happened because someone did it, but it developed it's own lore. I figured someone creative could take it and run.

Abandoned siding: Thos one really is, too. A long time ago (well, twenty years, bu that's a long tiime for a model railroad) this track ran to a penninsula called Bison Springs, and was a resort. That area was referred to as a weddign cake, because you had three levels of stuff going on there, and was a general maintenence nightmare. Then the mines closed, the track was ripped up, and all that's left of that main is rthe bridge, and a track that is now Miller Mine's Outboundf loads track2

 

Santa Fe all the way!

Your favorite built up Jordan vehicle kit.

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:50 PM

Favorite built up Jordan Kit: Mine is this railbus, based on a Jordan school bus kit:

It uses an NWSL Flea for drive and there's even a flywheel.  The pilot wheels are from an N-scale boxcar that I got at a swap meet.

Let's see a Jordan vehicle from the '20s.

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Posted by Annonymous on Sunday, July 31, 2011 1:37 AM

Oh I got one! This is the second Jordan car my girlfriend ever built:

Now, show me some turntable / roundhouse details.

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Sunday, July 31, 2011 2:12 AM

Dang Svein, your girlfriend is talented. How did you get such a crisp, clear image of such a tiny car?

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Posted by Flashwave on Sunday, July 31, 2011 2:25 AM

Svein

Oh I got one! This is the second Jordan car my girlfriend ever built:

http://www.hjemstad.no/pics/IMG_1541b_w1200.jpg

http://www.hjemstad.no/pics/IMG_1542b_w1200.jpg

Now, show me some turntable / roundhouse details.

Svein



I agree, the girl's got talent. Even the people's are good.

Ive been fairly on it, someone else want to grab the roundhouse/turntable?

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Posted by Annonymous on Sunday, July 31, 2011 3:39 AM

Thanks guys, I keep telling her that also!Smile The people are just ordinary ready-made Preiser figures, but they needed some chopping to fit into the car.

Santa Fe;
The pics were taken using the standard 18-55mm kit lens that came with my Canon camera. I used a tripod, no flash, and used the self timer to avoid shaking the camera. The background is plain white paper, and the only light source (apart from ambient light through the windows) is a desk mounted magnifyer lamp (the kind with a circular fluorescent tube around the magnifying glass) above the car.

The camera settings were as follows:
Focal lenght: 41 mm
Aperture value: F22
Shutter speed: 1/6th second
ISO speed: 100
Exposure compensation: +2/3
White balance: Auto
AF mode: Manual
Metering: Centerweighted average
Picture style: Neutral

The original pics came out a little dark, but since I always shoot in RAW mode, I edited the RAW file (increased the exposure and changed the color temperature as I saw fit) before cropping the pics and exporting them into Photoshop Elements, Where I reduced the pic size to 1200x800 pixels and saved the JPG file.

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:35 AM

Show me a 4-track mainline.

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Posted by jacon12 on Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:05 AM

 

Rich, it's been a while on the 4 track mainline request, would you like to change it?   If not, guys give it another hour from the eastern daylight savings time on this post and then it's anybodies game, maybe someone has a 4 track mainline on their layout?

Jarrell

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http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/richhotrain/DSC01964-1.jpg

Show me a 4-track mainline.

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:19 AM

Show me a Steel Mill

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Posted by jacon12 on Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:52 AM

 

Yaaaaeeeh!  Big Smile

Now for the steel mill!

Jarrell

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