weekend photo fun

[Anonymous]

Joe, nice leaser.

Jon, I love those BW shots!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by joeyegarner

Great pics everyone , here's one of mine P2k GP9. Just can't seem to bring myself to do the weathering here.
[sigh]

Don't be affraid........

Quaterback it, then dive right in. No guts no glory.

[#ditto]

[Anonymous]

This is the test run of another decoder job I just finished. Everything works great so its time to send it back to the guy and get paid

[:D][:D]

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup

Hey, TrainFreak409!

I see you got the Pennsy DD40AX you mentioned a while back. Looks great with that nice, long consist!

Hope you didn't mind the joking about Pennsy not having any DD40AX's! LOL

You did good!

Darrell, quiet...for now

Oh yeah, it is one good looking locomotive, ain't it? I didn't mind the joking...because I knew I was going to prove you wrong.[(-D][;)]

[Anonymous]

Below is a building flat for my industrial area I finished tonight. It's made from 2 of the Walthers Red Wing Mill kits, each cut in half to make a flat. I altered it up some to make it less symetrical - (1) top small building moved to the other side of the opposite main building; (2) both chimneys placed on a single powerhouse building and the other powerhouse building moved to the roof; (3) made an expanded dock on the left side of the dock area so that it came all the way out to the rails. The dock on the right area of the dock area is how the kit comes as built; and (4) added a water tank to the left side of the building to balance it out visually. I wired it up for lights as well, since I love night shots. Overall footprint is 4.25" x 42".

[TrainFreak409]

Eddie, that is AWESOME! That looks really, REALLY good! I like it all lit up at night like that.[bow]

[Anonymous]

Eddie's impressing me more and more as the weeks go by.

[joeyegarner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jon grant

Realising I'd never taken any black and white photos of my British outline 'Double O' layout, Hudson Road, I decided to rectify the omission. Here's some quickly snapped-off piccies without rolling stock of any kind.







And a couple of colour ones for good measure






Jon

Jon, thoes photos are incredible.!!!!! Great work !!

[joeyegarner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by joeyegarner

Great pics everyone , here's one of mine P2k GP9. Just can't seem to bring myself to do the weathering here.
[sigh]

Don't be affraid........

Quaterback it, then dive right in. No guts no glory.

Oh, I have done some on my Athearn BB units, P2K is just a little more scarry! I'll get to is soon. Thanks for the encouragement. Joey

[UP Deano]

everybody, and i mean EVERYBODY! has posted GREAT work, i hate to coment on everyone indiviually, because you all would get real tired of all my WOWS!!, but some things just cant go without saying, and Eddie Landreth, my jaw is touching the ground[:p]. that building is NO LESS then AWSOME!![:p][^][:D] NOT to take away from ANY of you, cripes, truth is i REALLY admire all of you guys work![^] the photo fun threads are MY FAVORITE![;)] of all the threads in this forum, photo fun pushes me the MOST, to do my best.[;)][:D] KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK GUYS! and keep the pictures comeing![8D]

[oleirish]

Eddie as usual great work,every one ulse allso great work,some day I will get the nack of it myself!!!
JIM

[SpaceMouse]

Eddie, that is great work.

Here's what I've been working on.

[steveblackledge]

Chip wow those weeds have grown fast, there were none there yesterday, looking great now, better than when you first got it.
Eddie fantastic looking building you have done there, it's one to be proud of

[Anonymous]

Eddie - I really like what you did with the Red Wing kit![bow] (Those Walthers Cornerstone kits are just "crying out" to be kitbashed, eh!) Is it still a flour milling plant on your layout or does it serve a different purpose?

Chip - your factory building has come a long way since its days as an eBay reject, can't wait to see it on your ESPEE pike with a few 4-6-0's beside it!

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen


Chip - your factory building has come a long way since its days as an eBay reject, can't wait to see it on your ESPEE pike with a few 4-6-0's beside it!

Sorry, it will be 2-6-0's and 4-4-0s.

I'm sure my son will drive that big old 2-8-0 in there as well. YOu just can't teach some kids about time lines.

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Did some traveling this Saturday and went to Taylor, Elgin and Smithville, Texas. In Taylor is an old MoPac yard, now UP. This is part of the area I am building a plan for.

Lo and behold, yard has a bridge over it with a covered pedestrian walkway on one side.


Looking over the other way. Can someone tell me what kind of car that is with the round "man-hole" covers in the bottom of the pic?

[Anonymous]

Tom- That would be a covered hopper. Great pics, I always love foreign power. Foreign for around here, that is.[;)]

[andrechapelon]

In the prototype for everything department, I thought you guys might like to see that there actually is a prototype for James the Red Engine.

It's an inside cylinder 2-6-0, class K2, originally built for the Dublin & Southeastern Ry of Ireland.



Andre

[twhite]

Great photos, everybody. Art, is that a PFM "Sierra" 2-6-6-2 I spy in your beautiful Autumn photos? And where did you get the UP 4-8-4, Aggro? Neat loco!
Well, after a fairly non-productive summer, I went out and ran trains last week. Put together a double-headed articulated freight, and put my not-so-hot-puller Proto USRA 2-8-8-2 on the head with an old (25-30 year) Westside Rio Grande Challenger. Seems the reduction gear on the Challenger (which will pull the walls off the garage, BTW) and the Proto like each other very much. So here's some shots through Wagon Wheel Gap. No DCC here, just some good old-fashioned DC luck!
Tom

Ex N&W 2-8-8-2 now Rio Grande #3561

Road engine #3704, a big L-105 Challenger

Heading out of Wagon Wheel Gap for the long pull to Yuba Pass

Tom

[howmus]

Been doing some wiring and maintenance on the layout! You don't need to see pictures of that. I did go to the Lakeshores Division, Niagra Frontier Division, NMRA meet yesterday. They had some good clinics on scratchbuilding and kitbashing with lots of things to see. Here are a couple of photos of some of the work displayed.

A kitbashed coal tower:


And a Sratchbuilt one along with some other very nicely done structures:

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lginc

everybody, and i mean EVERYBODY! has posted GREAT work, i hate to coment on everyone indiviually, because you all would get real tired of all my WOWS!!, but some things just cant go without saying, and Eddie Landreth, my jaw is touching the ground[:p]. that building is NO LESS then AWSOME!![:p][^][:D] NOT to take away from ANY of you, cripes, truth is i REALLY admire all of you guys work![^] the photo fun threads are MY FAVORITE![;)] of all the threads in this forum, photo fun pushes me the MOST, to do my best.[;)][:D] KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK GUYS! and keep the pictures comeing![8D]

I could not have said it ANY better!!! [tup]

[Anonymous]

I was at Santa fe modelers thsi weekend in KC heer are soem pics of Chuck Hitchcocks and stephen preists layouts, and my Archer Grain Loco i did and my hopper.
enjoy!
Bicentinial Sanat fe sd45-2 crosses the cottonwood river






my pride and joy archer grain #1988 gp30

[Anonymous]

Whoa! Daniel, that loco and hopper look great!!!

[Anonymous]

As promised-better shots of the Railbox. Plus a bonus roof shot![;)] I followed several film photos of roofs.

[Anonymous]

here are some more pics of my two pieces of Archer Grain equipment

[Anonymous]

Daniel-
Custom decals?

Great work!

[Anonymous]

yep custom decals
hey matt
have you got my email yet
i dunno if i will be able to get the bq handrails the walthers catelog dosent list them under smokey valley any more

[AggroJones]

Tom-- That a new production Riva FEF-3 aquired during a super sale. The weathering on it is quite heavy for a passenger locomotive, even though that photo doesn't show it.

Bryant--love those yard shots.

Nice work Matt and Archer.

[Anonymous]

Good Evening All,
Earlier on in the post I showed some in progress photos of my weekend project. Here are some more photos of the progression so far. I'm pretty pleased with the results. Yes, I know SP never had the GP-15-1, but when they bought out UP, they had to be repainted...




From what I've seen this weekend, there is all sorts of great modeling going on...Looking foward to next weekend already!!

Mike

[Anonymous]

Daniel - excellent work on the hi-hood GP30![tup] (I was thinking that was your layout until I read the fine print...[(-D])

MikeGibbs - that brass GP15 is looking like a true masterpiece!

Well guys, this week I actually have some shots of my own to contribute. Last December I did a thread on a presentation I was making to a group of home-based educators. I made a 2x6ft fully-scenicked module for it. I incorporated that module into my new layout and had my first op session today with my youngest daughter (the only one who appreciates trains), here are the pics:


7yr-old Stephanie at the controls:


The sleepy little town of East Minister:


Crossbucks flash as a train draws near:


A view of the approaching train from the field behind KFC:


A close-up shot captured by my virtual twin...


...and another view of the E8 from the field:


Trailing passenger car just barely clears the grade crossing, so traffic is free to move again: