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WPF 10/21-10/24
Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, October 21, 2011 11:17 AM





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Posted by Curt Webb on Friday, October 21, 2011 11:39 AM

Hio-44 passing a FP-7

A couple of freight cars

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Posted by steamage on Friday, October 21, 2011 11:53 AM

Extra 6177, F7 slowly pulls its freight train past the Burbank depot.

 

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Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Friday, October 21, 2011 11:54 AM

Some more picts of our N-scale Alameda switching layout, showing the added ground cover and some photo buildings, flats and fence:

 

Thanks for looking.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, October 21, 2011 11:56 AM

West bound GP7's passing through Stoney Creek. DJ.

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Posted by Train Master on Friday, October 21, 2011 12:45 PM

jeffrey-wimberly
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z471/j56616-142/P1012396.jpg

I like the way everything is in focus from the foreground to the background. I know from being there that is a distance of over 4 feet between the closest tree and the back wall. Did you use photo stacking?

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, October 21, 2011 1:07 PM

Train Master

I like the way everything is in focus from the foreground to the background. I know from being there that is a distance of over 4 feet between the closest tree and the back wall. Did you use photo stacking?

 

It's a single shot. No stacking.

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Posted by tarhawk on Friday, October 21, 2011 1:29 PM

Mcfunkeymonkey,

   Looks great. May I ask what you used to create the great looking flat tall background buildings? thanks.

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Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Friday, October 21, 2011 1:38 PM

tarhawk

Mcfunkeymonkey,

   Looks great. May I ask what you used to create the great looking flat tall background buildings? thanks.

Tarhawk

Thanks.

The "Bella Fonte Cannery" (based on the Del Monte cannery in Alameda) is made up of two Gripp's Luggage kits bashed together with some photo flats behind it to take up the rest of the 3 1/2" backdrop space, while the yellowish building with lots of windows (behind the chain-link fence) is a photo of a real building in Alameda I scaled down, printed on card stock, and affixed to the masonite backdrop with spray adheasive.  A two-story DMP brick building flat with styrene spacer behind it covers the right side.

Everything has to be less than 3/4" off the wall at that point to allow the backdrops of the middle 3" spacer and the right 1'x3' (1/2" and 1" shorter, respecively, than the 12" left section) to fold inward when I close the layout into a 1'x3' box for portablility.

You can check out the construction of it on this thread.

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, October 21, 2011 2:45 PM

Here's the finished crossing.

Now comes the next turnout, cod 55, #8, dual.

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Posted by Motley on Friday, October 21, 2011 3:56 PM

Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don't know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.

The Ski Train at Denver Union Station at night.

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Posted by SD60M on Friday, October 21, 2011 6:14 PM

Hows it going guys? Its been a long time since i have posted on the forum, had a lot of stuff going on. Im really glad to be back though, ive switched to N-Scale to get away with a little more in the space i have. Here is a picture of my layout, with of course BN power. 

[View:http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/themes/trc/utility/N-Scale Layout:550:0]

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Posted by steamage on Friday, October 21, 2011 6:22 PM

Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today.

Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one! 

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Posted by ollevon on Friday, October 21, 2011 6:23 PM

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Posted by tarhawk on Friday, October 21, 2011 8:34 PM

Thanks for taking time to give me such a complete answer!

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Posted by selector on Friday, October 21, 2011 10:18 PM

It has been quite a while since I have photographed anything on my layout.  Figured I'd take another image to keep my hand in the use of the camera and stacking software.

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Posted by wedudler on Saturday, October 22, 2011 5:57 AM

Motley

Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don't know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.t.

Thank you, you can do it, simple, step by step.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:01 AM

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06 AM

A good beginning guys. Some great photos here this week.

Here's one from the BRVRR:

CR SD40-2 #6520 rounds the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout at the head of a short freight. I dug this old Athearn BB SD40-2 out of storage and ran it on the layout just for fun. The CONRAIL blue looks pretty good but the loco has suffered a little hangar rash in storage. Some touch-ups are probably in order.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.

Remember its your railroad

Allan

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:15 AM

A different angle on Sir Madog's favorite scene on my layout. Ezra Johnson's gas station, garage and home.

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:14 PM

Here's a few models i built for my friend's layout in AZ he models the Milwaukee Road

 

Heres a proto type shot of the town of Avery

Here's the Station in Avery in the first photo it's gray and white

in this photo it's brown

 

Here's my model from the back

and a front shot

 

Here's the proto type station in Plummer

 

Here's my model the rubber bands are used to train the roof to the contour of the walls

 

 

a close up of the proto type

 

My Model

 

 

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:42 PM

ollevon

http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee460/Sam_Novello/icehouse.jpg

That looks EXCELLENT!! A lot of thought and details.

-G .

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Posted by ollevon on Saturday, October 22, 2011 4:15 PM

Thank you Galaxy,

  That layout  took me 15 years to complete, and it no longer exist . I am now working on my new layout, and hope to have some photos soon.

   Thanks again,

  Sam

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Posted by selector on Saturday, October 22, 2011 4:56 PM

Terry, I like your handiwork.  It looks terrific!!

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, October 22, 2011 5:30 PM

Wow thanks for the nice words Crandell

it's alot of fun to do but then a lot of worry that the postal service will play football with the packages Bang Head

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Posted by fmilhaupt on Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:09 AM

I came across an undec Walthers heayweight baggage car at a train show at an unusually low price.  Knowing that I was going to be short of head-end equipment, I picked it up.

Since the PM didn't have any cars that looked very much like it, I created a new and entirely false number series for it and painted it up.

The trick here was that nobody makes Pere Marquette passenger car roadname lettering that would fit in the space between the doors. Fortunately, I have an ALPS printer and was able to lay out what I needed.

I also picked up three undec Walthers Trainline baggage cars in the same deal. Once I take some photos of those that are actually decent, I'll post them.

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Posted by stebbycentral on Sunday, October 23, 2011 11:56 AM

steamage

Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today.

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/steamage/wine_tank_car.jpg

Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one! 

But would you buy a wine shipped in tank cars?Stick out tongue

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Posted by stebbycentral on Sunday, October 23, 2011 12:03 PM

Just thought of joke,..first you have Vin Ordinare and then you have a step below it, Vin Diesel...

I have figured out what is wrong with my brain!  On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!

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Posted by Odie on Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:21 PM

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Posted by gmcrail on Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:30 PM

I'm not sure if Ive posted this one on a WPF before, but in case I haven't, here's the FHN's #301 easing into the West Tate, Neb. depot with Train #2 (smoke, steam and clouds added):

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