Weekend Photo Fun!

[grandeman]

Happy Fouth of July weekend, everyone!!! As a long holiday weekend, this should turn out a good quantity (and quality, considering the talent ya'll have demonstrated in the past) of pics. To kick it off, here goes...


Industrial switcher hustles Platte Canyon coal at Public Service Company of Colorado's Cherokee Station generating plant in Denver.

The loco is an old Athearn we got at a train show for $5. I removed the "guts" (motor) and added the headlight, windows and weathering. It's for display only at the plant.




Ma and Paw cattle operation on the Platte Canyon spur.




Grande mixed freight approaches the CB&Q interchange south of Sedalia. The consist is a mix of old and new. The lead unit is a GP30 followed by a GP7 with a new GP35 bringing up the rear.

[Mark R.]

.... New D&H Bi-Centennial RS-3m "clearing her throat !"

.... comin' atcha ....


.... headin' away ....


Mark.

[tommyr]

Grande Man;
Great pics as usual[bow] Did you know there is a regear kit to replace the rubber band drive for these locos? I bought one & it really runs great. The man. Ernst regear kit.
Tom

[Anonymous]

Hey mark that smoke effect is pretty cool. Is that photoshop or what?

[Mark R.]

Thanks for the compliment ! This is a proto-type of a new smoke generator I'm building .... works great, but everything in the train room is turning black !!! [(-D]
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(O.K., so it IS Photo-shopped !) [:I]

Mark.

[Anonymous]

Great pics!!

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tommyr

Grande Man;
Great pics as usual[bow] Did you know there is a regear kit to replace the rubber band drive for these locos? I bought one & it really runs great. The man. Ernst regear kit.
Tom

Thanks for the info on the regear kit.

[Train 284]

All the pictures look great everyone! Keep up the good work! I'll have post some pics sometime!

Matt

[hminky]

Out on the mainline in California in the 1870's on the Pacific Coast Air Line Railway



Harold

[Anonymous]

I'm really stumped this weekend!

O scale version:



HO scale version:



Bob Boudreau

[steveblackledge]

Mark, i thought i was looking at a loco in front of Mt St Helens, great shot
BOB love the stumps

Keep em coming guys

[steveblackledge]

Took this today, it's 4-6-2 No 6233 climbing the bank at Houghton on it's way to Carlisle, it goes north today and returns south next Saturday

[cheese3]

Ok here is my contribution


After noon express


Coal Drag!

[Darth Santa Fe]

Here are some photos from my Father's Day trip to the Monticello Railway Museum.


Front view of the Wabash F unit

Side view of the F unit

The 0-4-0 at the entrance of the museum (looks kind of like the Varney Dockside, doesn't it?)

The museum was small, but I had fun there. The Wabash F unit pulls a passenger train that's there. I got to ride on the caboose and in an air conditioned passenger car.[:D]

[lesterperry]

Lets try this again

[lesterperry]

I DID IT. WEEKS NOW I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND SUCCESS AT LAST.[:D][:D][:)][:)][8D][8D]

[ChessieFan13]

wow this stuff is great....the wife has the photsgraphers eye and as soon as we figure out how to get pictures from the camera to the cpu and on the site then youse guys can see some of my stuff

[AggroJones]

Nice pictures guys.

lesterperry-- man, I want one of those T1s!

Boudreau-- did you buy those or handcraft those stumps? looks good.

***--looking forward to it.

Cheese--is that a Bachmann FT? how does it run?

[AggroJones]

Nothing really new on the SP&E. Same ol' stuff.


Yet another shot of the UP bohemeth.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Watch out!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Nice pictures guys.

Boudreau-- did you buy those or handcraft those stumps? looks good.

They are resin stumps from http://railway-recollections.com

A friend is associated with Railway Recollections, and gave them to me to do something with for the manufacturer. They are hollow cast resin, really neat. They have some more smaller "rotten" stumps on the way so I can try something out with them too. Will post some photos when available.

The stumps are new, not on their website yet but they do have other interesting resin item such as conversions for HOn30 - engine bodies for N scale engines to operate on HOn30.

Bob Boudreau

[TBat55]

local RR pic's (Finger Lakes, Upstate NY)

old deck girder bridge over Barge Canal (Waterloo):

note the metal covers on the piles and green water

(the water level never gets higher than this, but is

empty in winter)

I want to model this, but someone will say the water

color is "wrong"


close-up of the notched timbers and lap joint


a VERY TALL and MASSIVE bridge abutment (Geneva); each

stone is about 3'x2'


These just show that you could model almost anything

and it probably exists somewhere.

[TBat55]

local RR pic's (Finger Lakes, Upstate NY)

old deck girder bridge over Barge Canal (Waterloo):



note the metal covers on the piles and green water (the water level never gets higher than this, but is empty in winter)

I want to model this, but someone will say the water color is "wrong"



close-up of the notched timbers and lap joint



a VERY TALL and MASSIVE bridge abutment (Geneva); each stone is about 3'x2'




These just show that you could model almost anything and it probably exists somewhere.

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones


Cheese--is that a Bachmann FT? how does it run?

It sure is. It is one of my best. It is super quiet and smooth. Nice slow speeds too. I have had it for about Five years and have had no problems with it. I don't know why some people are harsh on bachmann.

[Anonymous]

Nothing to show modeling wise...
But yesterday I went shark fishing with my dad and his friend and a huge 5ft shark snapped my pole and now if have a gash from it.

DRew

[lesterperry]

Chessiefan13 It is easy once you figure it out. I use picturetrail.com. after you get an account there and upload some pics give me a e-mail I will try to help you
[e-mail]

[steveblackledge]

ADAM, i like the look of the Geep
Terry, that is an impressive canyon you have done
one for Conrailpolice, it's my sole Conrail unit, an SD40-2, brilliant

[lesterperry]

This cool now that I can do it. How about anther one.

Getten ready to go

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by steveblackledge

ADAM, i like the look of the Geep

Thanks, It is an athearn BB gp40 i got used for $15. It was also my first weathering experiment...that was about a year ago and I love doing it and I have improved alot sense then.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lesterperry

This cool now that I can do it. How about anther one.

You da man, Lester! Glad the pic posting came together for you. It's much easier to do than explain to someone isn't it? Look forward to more.

[Anonymous]

Great pictures as always everyone!!![:D][^][:)][(-D][tup]