Ok, it is little early but I have new Sony Point and Shot camera that the wife and I got for an up coming cruise so I have been playing around with shooting some of my trains.
A couple shots of my CSX GP-38 A couple of some Railboxes I got yesterday, one weather and the other original that I will weather this weekend and a B&W of the Magic Pan Bakery (need to fill in the corner)
Eric,
I like the loading dock doors on the bakery, is that a kit or scratchbuilt?
Also, some nice perspective in the shots! Looks good.
Here's what I've just finished - a HOn3 goose, painted for the MoW division of the A.N. Bradford mining company:
Eric, I like the artistic, B&W shots.
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I have built a diorama over the past three weeks, the first real modelling I have done in five years. I wanted something for outdoors photography...in the sun, of course,
Apart from cropping to rid the final product derived in Combine ZP of its weird edge, a stack of four images, I have done nothing to this. Everything visible to the lens and CMOS chip is depicted unaltered in this image. Nothing has been removed, added, or changed.
Crandell
Well, it's now Friday on the East coast, and all I got are a couple of "bugs" at the crossing in Stoney Creek. Wow, Crandell, great loco and photo, esp. like the back ground. DJ.
Great pictures so far... Rail boxes are an undying classic! Last week, I was happy to see a long string of Rail Gon in the harbour... It would be a nice model in HO.
@Crandell: Excellent diorama! It blends seemlessly with the real background. Is the blue shed real or model?
On my side, nothing fancy, plain benchwork... Track laying started on the new layout extension. It is a protofreelanced reinterpretation (Euh!!!!??!?) of Quebec City Harbour (we blended two distinctive parts of it together!) We also worked on the peninsula tonight.
http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt111/sailormatlac/Hedley%20Junction/IMG_3745b.jpg
And some update from the existing layout (new concrete overpass) and some industries along the main line (the one in the foreground is scratchbuilt according to an insurance map from 1957).
Matt
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ChadLRyan Eric, I like the loading dock doors on the bakery, is that a kit or scratchbuilt? Also, some nice perspective in the shots! Looks good.
I think they came with the kit but then again they have been left overs from another kit, I don't throw away the extras from a kit, you never know when something might work on another building
Matt, thanks for your comment and question. The diorama is what is below the obvious trees beyond the tracks and immediate middle ground. So what appears to be terrain, rails, bridge, and the train are parts of the diorama, and the background foliage, the real stuff, is actually all there large as life, including the green potato shed. I had the diorama on the bank slightly higher than the paved country road which is between the diorama and those trees and mountains and the large shed. The diorama is about 4' by 14", and would be more than 70' to the scraggly tree at extreme left. There is also a fence on the far side of the road about 10 feet away from the pavement.
I just had a better look at my own image, and I hadn't noticed how well the tall grass at extreme left blends in...like I had photoshopped it. But truthfully, that really is tall rye on both sides of the fence I mentioned, about 40 feet away from the camera.
Switching at Silver Creek
Wolfgang
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"Rust, whats not to love?"
Here is this weeks group of completed cars!
This is a Front Range 40' ACF Welded Side Boxcars to represent the cars the DT&I rebuilt with Plug Doors and insulated for use serving the Campbell's Soup plant in Napoleon, OH. Car painted Armour Yellow and Boxcar Red, lettered with Champ Decals.
This is an ACF Welded Side Combination Door Boxcar, standing in for a GATC car (None Available). Substituted a 9' Door from the scrapbox to match the prototype and used Details West Extended Coupler Pockets. Painted Boxcar Red and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals.
This is a stock Walthers 86' PS Hy-Cube Boxcar, painted Armour Yellow, Galvanized Roof and White Excess Height Stripe at end. Lettered with Herald King Decals. The BRO over the Reporting marks means the car is to be returned to the Ford Stamping Plant at BROwnstone, MI, a DT&I Customer.
All cars had their sill steps replaced with A-Line metal steps, and no rust here except for the wheels on the cars.
Thanks for looking!
Rick
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From San Miguel del Monte, Argentina I took this two videos and photos. The firs video it's the switching locomotive taken the hoppers to unload them, while in the mainline passed the empty hoppers taken back to load again.
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Second video is has no train action but it can view the unloading rail and the complete station.
watch?v=dO4C5zUwHjM
Here is the switching locomotive:
Loaded cars
I'll keep uploading photos in my flickr's album!
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Oh yes, like the shed Jeffrey!
Jarrell
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Great work and outstanding photos, everybody! The Weekend Photo Fun is running early this time.
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Wow, great work everyone--a VERY impressive start to the weekend!
Crandell: What a great diorama.
Jeff: LOVE that shed!
Garry: Burlington SD's--what's NOT to love?
I posted this in the Diner this week, but thought I'd re-post it for the WPF thread. My lone (illegal) October fisherman totally non-plussed by the big Challenger roaring over the South Yuba bridge behind him.
Tom
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Crandell, great to see you back doing some modeling. That an absolute gorgeous looking diorama, WOW!
Everybody else, too many awesome photos, I can't keep up. LOL
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Things you see when you don't have your camera..... arrrrgh...no pics!
Yesterday as I was heading into Knoxville at the junction of I-640 and I-275 I look up to my left at the NS line and what do I see....F units pulling a nice shiny maroon passenger train into town.
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Been working on my fourth module during the week:
Actually, I am not quite happy with the looks of it, so I will undertake some major corrections, making it look a little more like this:
I am still not yet sure about the waterfall, though!
Over the past 2 weeks, I completed 2 locomotives and 3 trucks, but could not get myself together with the camera to get some pics until a couple of days ago.
GP-7 MEC 572 pulling a short passenger train by MidState Machine in Greenvale. It's an undecorated Atlas loco that I painted, added details, and a decoder. 572 lasted in into the 1980s because it had a steam generator in the short hood and could warm the president's car on inspection runs.
RS-11 MEC-801 was painted yellow in the late 70s. This is another Atlas loco that I painted and detailed like the prototype. I actually completed the detailing a couple of years ago, but just got the decoder installed last week. 801 is pushing a reefer into Reilly Meat Packing in lower Sheepecott
Midstate Tool and Die box truck is a Stoney Mountain Classic Castings resin kit of a 1950 Ford COE
The Merrill flatbed is a Sheepscott Scale Products IH resin kit with a MiniMetals trailer and a load of Evergreen Styrene I-beams; turning on to Main St in Greenvale Junction
Speedball Tucker Fast Freight is an Alloy Forms 1935 Mack BQ metal kit with a MiniMetals trailer. The truck is leaving Sheepscott Transfer and Storage in lower Sheepecott
Trivia question for today: who was Speedball Tucker???
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Almost finished the scenery on The Loops.
I've also posted a video of some train action on this section of the layout
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClinchValleySD40#p/u/6/9A0-7yE3Kts
Larry
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That is some beautiful modeling Garry
Photographed some more weathered freight cars this week
Busy editing some video footage together this weekend
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Great work everyone!!
Nothing much from me, been "building in my mind" & doing some measuring & figuring for this one. I'm working on a bridge module. It's base is 64" x 10", just because I found a board that size, & it will allow a little scenery next to & under the bridges. The bridges are two (unfinished) Exact Rail 72' Plate Girder kits, & the main span is a BLMA 200' truss bridge. As seen here, the truss bridge is on wood riser piers to make the rail height close for the photo. I will have to custom cast & fit some stonework to make all the decks line up & look good.
G Paine Speedball Tucker Fast Freight is an Alloy Forms 1935 Mack BQ metal kit with a MiniMetals trailer. The truck is leaving Sheepscott Transfer and Storage in lower Sheepecott Trivia question for today: who was Speedball Tucker???
Clever inclusion of Speedball Tucker- apparently he was a "terror on the highway"... one of my favorite Jim Croce songs. Best lyric of the song is- "95 is the route you were on, it is not the speed limit sign."
Nice weathering on the truck too!
PRR I1sa with a coal drag. The camera is not the best quality.
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The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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ChadLRyan Great work everyone!! Nothing much from me, been "building in my mind" & doing some measuring & figuring for this one. I'm working on a bridge module. It's base is 64" x 10", just because I found a board that size, & it will allow a little scenery next to & under the bridges. The bridges are two (unfinished) Exact Rail 72' Plate Girder kits, & the main span is a BLMA 200' truss bridge. As seen here, the truss bridge is on wood riser piers to make the rail height close for the photo. I will have to custom cast & fit some stonework to make all the decks line up & look good.
Chad,
Thanks for posting this picture of a great looking bridge, that is exactly what I'm looking for as a possible "duck under" from my main layout to a staging area. You've given me some nice ideas.
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.