Quiet weekend for WPF...
More progress on the bridge extension...
Rough yard layout
And the extension to accommodate longer trains... this may end up being a 3 track 15' extension
(shhh)
I just need to get some foam to shape some hills and the valley into where the river will be.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
I've been working on Mooseport, the section of my Moose Bay layout where the carfloats come in. In the past, it was a mill area, with an old canal providing water to power the mill. That building no longer uses water power, but the canal remains. A bridge beyond the mill crosses over, and you can see a tank car being pushed along to the carfloat.
It's one of those work-in-progress shots. The canal is dry, and will be until I pour some Envirotex into it. The canal banks need some scenic work too, and I've already got a shopping cart, an old bicycle and some tires to toss into the canal to make it look even more run down.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mister Beasley
What a great notion to include an old canal site. I've poked around a lot of old canal sites in New England and New York and you have captured the feeling quite well.
It's getting late... How about a night cap?
Looks like Officer O' Leary has his watchful eye on some Rail-B-Q merry makers...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Last post for my weekend... A few more lights and a bit more sidewalk for Greenwood. This little stretch just before the helix down into west staging is serving as my test bed for structure lighting as I begin to plan out Cumberland. I reshot this using the Aperture Priority setting, stopping it down to 8.0 with a .3/sec. exposure. The blue's still a little bright, but it looks less like there's a nuclear reaction going on upstairs. Also, notice that I added lighting to the building next door.I used more subdued LED's in this one. I think the two main interior lights are on boards from Life Like diesels... they used a nice dull not quite yellow color. The porch light is a 1.8 mm white LED, I dulled it down with the orange Sharpie trick, then carved a blob of dried hot glue into a small globe. The street light is a yellow 1.8mm LED, which I sanded smooth and painted the top of it black, and then silver. The leads go through the wall of the building where they are wired into the building system. I used some old telegraph poles leftover from the Heljan kits I used for the paper mill to "hold them up".Here's the updated scene with some daylight on it...Note that I was able to do the "dual" dormers of the prototype.... and enjoyed adding a few subtle details... I'll be adding a couple of more buildings to the scene this week, then starting on the flats for the west end of Ridgely. Eventually I'll be adding a permanent light circuit for this end of the layout. I did a couple of other buildings for North Junction, but Andy decided he wanted to go to bed early, so he threw me out before I could shoot pictures. :(Lee