Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
started this tunnel this week...the tunnel is scratch built using a jig and plaster of paris and a lot of scratching with a hobby knife...the retaining walls are woodland scenics and other materials include blue foam, plaster of paris, plaster cloth, and ground goop...chuck
Good start guys.
I have been meaning to finish off the weathering on this loco for some time, but just hadn't got round to it. So last night I got the acrylics and chalks out to get the job done. Here's the photos
Jon
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Beautiful shots. Jon, what is your secret for the photos ?
Worked last night myself to get this portion of the entrance to staging in Houston yard further along. 3 tracks on the left are yard.
Over all shot of area looking from opposite direction
Tom
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Two other Grandkids came over for the weekend. They like to run the trains. Here they are with a mixed freight and the coal train passing at the canyon. Part of the canyon is missing for they also like scenery and started to do the Sonoron desert scene. Cactus, Ocotilio, Brittlebush and lots of other stuff. Its a start.
Nice photos everyone.
jon grant wrote: Good start guys. I have been meaning to finish off the weathering on this loco for some time, but just hadn't got round to it. So last night I got the acrylics and chalks out to get the job done. Here's the photosJon
I have been meaning to finish off the weathering on this loco for some time, but just hadn't got round to it. So last night I got the acrylics and chalks out to get the job done. Here's the photosJon
Thats acrylic and chalk? Impressive.
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Fire in Port Elizabeth.!!! But not to worry the P.E.F.D. is on the scene. They are very good --- never lost a foundation yet
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Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Beautiful shots. Jon, what is your secret for the photos ?
Thanks guys.
Tom, there's no secret with the photos. I just take lots of them with the digital camera and show only the best few. I just erase the rest. Digital cameras are great like that.
I finished the first section of backdrop tonight, and will hopefully finish the other section tomrrow.
I started painting a GP40-2 today. Pics of the backdrop and GP next time WPF rolls around as they should be done by then.
Here it is 11 something PM. Just finishing for the day.
Put together one of four SP 40ft box cars. This time I went much lighter on the weathering but still notice some accumulations of "white/gray" dust in the handholds. Also, picked up this Bachmann HO GE 70 ton DCC equiped for $39 from the LHS. Could not believe it. It actually has some pretty good detail.
Also, last weekend I had to correct a mistake. In this first picture I had laid the track thinking ... well, I don't know what I was thinking.
Supposedly the story goes. Tom was the chief surveyor in charge of letting the track crews know exactly where track for the MKT lines needed to be laid.
As the story goes, Tom may have had too many beers when he directed the crew to lay this curve, or, they were all following the cows home ... who knows. At any rate, a delugh of rain washed out this problematic curve, which by the way, had caused several derailments of some 75ft passenger cars. The crew pulled up the old track.
New track is now in place and trial runs have occurred. MKT management is not real happy with the MOW crew as they left several of the ties and some old rails rusting away in the old road bed. A grimey path marks the route of the old curve and it will be many years before the vegetation grows completely back into the ROW.
Also, that dark shadow area is from the valance. I used a flash and the valance cast the shadow.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
I took a whole bunch of stuff to the cottage to get done and started with my 3 Bachman Spectrum Lighted Passenger cars. I only got the business car done.
Heres what I gotten done over the last few days.I built some BB kits,painted the tracks,axles,weight and frame on the boxcars.The covered hoppers received painted trucks and axles..
Larry
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Well, how about an outdoor shot on this hotter than H**l weekend? These railfans have been chasing the NYC's Empire State Express all the way down the Hudson River from Albany in a scene set long ago. Here they've caught it near Cold Spring, NY, just south of famous Breakneck Mountain and across the river from majestic old Stormking. Betcha that charging Hudson locomotive will provide some great snapshots...and that water looks cool and inviting from here!
CNJ831
My CGW GP40-2 (and no, CGW didnt have any GP40-2s)
got the backdop up today
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
More weathering from this end of town.
I'm late.....
That Geep was an undec that I put IC decals on (didn't paint it, tho) and then I removed the decals and painted it as a CGW unit. My GP38-2 has a LOT of paint- started out as a factory ATSF unit, then I painted it IC black. Now it wears Iowa Northern colors-
The clouds so look a bit....strange. Better than looking at the cinderblock wall, tho