Lets get this kicked off this morning!
The area I've been working on for a while shows a couple of Southern Rwys trains passing each other up in the Flannigan Hill area. Both are Bachmanns, a 4-4-0 and a Consolidation.
Still a lot of work to be done here, it looks too CLEAN to me!
Jarrell
Jarrell........Great looking scene.
Here's my latest rust bucket.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Here are a few more recently finished freight cars.
This is an Eastern Car Works Airslide 2600 CF Covered Hopper, lettered with Microscale Decals.
This is an Accurail 6 Post 50' Boxcar. Lettered using three different Microscale Sets for all the lettering. This car used the PCA reporting marks and no herald as the leasing company wanted to be able to quickly grab their cars back if the PC bankruptcy went so bad as to dissolution. Class X71 was used for clean loading, mostly paper products.
This is an E&C Corrugated Side Gon Kit. Lettered for the MP using Oddballs decals. Most MP gons were painted boxcar red, but according to legend the manufactiurer in Mexico wanted to know how to paint the cars so they sent a black and white picture of the current car, and since the paint looked black in the picture the cars were painted black.
Thanks for looking!
Rick
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I finished (well, nearly) another mini-module:
Eiden series 900 EMU "Kirara" crossing Ichihara Road
Now 3 modules and growing!
Weekend Photo Fun has another good start. Thanks Jarrell for the opening post with the steam locomotives in a beautiful scene. Looks great. Outstanding work, Robby, Rick, and Ulrich!
It’s 1962, and a westbound secondary passenger train with modernized heavyweight cars is at the Black Hawk station. A westbound fright is holding on Track 2, and it will follow the passenger train in few minutes.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Great start this week. Ya gotta love those old steam engines, Jarrell, and nice job on the hand car and shed.
Robby, you're a weathering master. Those modules are looking good, Sir Madog. That's a great scene and photo, Heartland.
I1sa No. 4644 crosses Hammer Creek with a short local freight. DJ.
What a great start to the weekend, everyone!
Well, Lord only knows what SP's "Coast Daylight" is doing up in the mountains of the Northern Mines country of the Sierra Nevada, but here she is, anyway, passing Bassett's at the foot of the Buttes. Locos are a Genesis MT-4 4-8-2 doubleheaded with a Balboa GS-4 4-8-4. The cars are MTH.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Very nice work so far!
Robby - love that rust bucket!
Here's a tunnel portal shot:
Last Wednesday, George Barrett of Sheepscott Scale Products gave a talk at Boothbay Railway Village on transporation on the Maine coast in the 1920s and 30s. He included road travel (or the lack of it), coastal steamers and ferries, rail (standard and narrow gage), shipbuilding at Bath Iron Works, and the new airlines that were started by Boston & Maine RR and other railroads. To support the talk, I set up three 1930s trains on the museum's HO scale layout - a passenger train, a freight train and a mixed train. I made a video of a run-by of each train:
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q301/ggpaine/Boothbay%20Railroad/BB%20Rolling%20Stock/?action=view¤t=1930sTrainsatBoothbay.mp4
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
MABruce,
I really like the rockwork in that shot, please tell me how you did that, I think it is excellent!
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Jeffrey,what is that white thing next to that brick builbing.
Russell
csxns Jeffrey,what is that white thing next to that brick builbing.
ChadLRyan MABruce, I really like the rockwork in that shot, please tell me how you did that, I think it is excellent!
Me Too ! That rock wall looks really good.
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
Looks great so far everyone!
I recently finished this Accurail kit
and this one
and my new SD70ACe, which arrived last week, finally came in for a quick photoshoot
More photos to come in next weeks thread. I think I might also try my hand at weathering one of my cheaper cars (of which I have many) and build that Bigboy kit sitting in my closet...
Acela
(Note: Bigboy kit is for "display only". Now how can we fit a motor in there???)
The timbers beneath the rails are not the only ties that bind on the railroad. --Robert S. McGonigal
sfcouple ChadLRyan: MABruce, I really like the rockwork in that shot, please tell me how you did that, I think it is excellent! Me Too ! That rock wall looks really good. Wayne
ChadLRyan: MABruce, I really like the rockwork in that shot, please tell me how you did that, I think it is excellent!
Thanks guys!
My method is pretty much the same as stacking broken acoustic ceiling tiles, except I used a product called "Whipserwalk" by Pergo. It's a thin fibreboard underlay for Pergo floors (to deaden sound) that I had leftover from a flooring project. Since I model in N-scale, I thought that this would be thin enough to better work to scale. It also accepted paint washes very nicely.
Here's a shot of the wall shortly after painting it up and adding in some detail. It's about 20 layers high in staggered joints (some joints are noticeable):
I also used it for a smaller wall:
I'm pleased with how well this stuff worked. Not sure if this product is still available. Mine came from Home Depot over 10 years ago in bulk packages - which is way more than you'd need for this type of application.
Cool, Many Thanks, that gives me a whole lot of ideas, that I never even thought of. Thanks!
Those are excellent, love that 'look' of the rock! You captured it perfectly!
Thanks again!
Mabruce,
Thanks, you've given me some great ideas, that is one nice job of modeling.
Simply outstanding by everyone this week, insanely cool photos!
Robby, you probably shouldn't be posting photos from railcarphotos.com. I mean wow, the rust looks so real.
This past couple of weeks, I started working on the scenery and sawmill industry on the other side of my figure 8 loop.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Thanks for the comments on the boxcar. I need to get a diorama built. They might look a bit better.
Great rust job Robby.
Here is an eastbound coming through Carbo
A set of Southern locos leads another eastbound across the Clinch River
Larry
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClinchValleySD40
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52481330@N05/
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/page/1/ppuser/8745/sl/c
In the past few days installed the completed New River approach span at Hawks Nest
Charles
Robby P. Here's my latest rust bucket.
Hi Robbie,
I just love your weathering. For what it's worth, I know you use some of these photos on e-bay as well.
Just think if you got yourself a piece of EZtrack and weathered it up to the nines as well and use that to set your weathered cars on how much more professional it would look either in WPF of on the Bay.
I think it would really be worth it. What do you think????????????
Well what do you know ? I never saw your mention of a diorama the first time I went through here, that would be great.
Johnboy out............ for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
wmshay06 In the past few days installed the completed New River approach span at Hawks Nest Charles
Charles, looks good. I especially like the walkway cantilevered off the side. Is that the Micro Engineering 80ft deck girder?
Thanks,
Mike MacLatchy
Johnboy....... I have some stuff here to make one, but just to lazy to do it. I know it will make the cars look better. Maybe this weekend I can start on something. I have a good diorama but I left it in PA. It was built in just a hour or so. I need to make that one again. Thanks for the comments also!!
jacon12 Lets get this kicked off this morning! The area I've been working on for a while shows a couple of Southern Rwys trains passing each other up in the Flannigan Hill area. Both are Bachmanns, a 4-4-0 and a Consolidation. Still a lot of work to be done here, it looks too CLEAN to me! Jarrell
Very nice
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Grampys Trains Great start this week. Ya gotta love those old steam engines, Jarrell, and nice job on the hand car and shed. Robby, you're a weathering master. Those modules are looking good, Sir Madog. That's a great scene and photo, Heartland. I1sa No. 4644 crosses Hammer Creek with a short local freight. DJ.
Great shot
Mike - yep, the bridge proper is the Micro Engineering 80ft girder girder, The walkway, exclusive of the supports, is from various Central Valley wood fences. Finding prototype photos of the walkway side proved to be a bit elusive.
Great pictures, guys.
It's been a while since I posted on WPF. Over the past year-plus I've changed jobs, relocated, sold a house, bought a house, and got married; it's been tough to squeeze much layout work into my life. Things are settling down, so I've done some train work.
Today I have a photo sequence of the transition my layout has made over that same period.
Back in my old house, my layout was really two modules with a furnace in between. I made bridges to run track in front of and behind the furnace:
When I moved I left the furnace behind, and positioned the two modules close enough together to allow space on the left end for some expansion.
Since thins seemed a little too crowded when the pieces were butted together, I separated them, leaving room for a transitional "patch."
Next, I built a patch and laid the track:
I decided to experiment with the use of Great Stuff (aerosol urethane foam) to "sculpt" some terrain:
This was followed with a coat of plaster and rock castings:
And finally, color and texture. I still have trees, etc. to add, but I feel like the transition worked out pretty well:
It feels good to have it all connected together, again.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Alas... Someone has shown how to make bluffs & hills grow with "Great Stuff" thanks Phil. It is a creative modeling medium! Your pictures should be on the intro of 'This Old House" !!
Great Work!
(Gotta go DullCoat my entry to WPF, as I am late in the game, -geez! )