Just got my DSL working on the new laptop, plug in the cable and accessed Internet Explorer - Voila... just in time for a selection of great shots. Mouse thank you for the repost of Selectors picture, and that Motel ROCKS!! Great pictures of the new steam power by Darth and Loathar.
Now I have to master the camera connection!
Will
selector wrote: I always look for angles that make my layout look bigger than it really is. I just tried this one, and I am happy with it...considering it was hand-held. I'll have to devise a more sturdy support. No way to use a tripod on this one.Nice photos, everyone. It's only Saturday, so lots of time and bandwidth left in the thread.
I always look for angles that make my layout look bigger than it really is. I just tried this one, and I am happy with it...considering it was hand-held. I'll have to devise a more sturdy support. No way to use a tripod on this one.
Nice photos, everyone. It's only Saturday, so lots of time and bandwidth left in the thread.
Great Pic!!! Love those bridge piers... you make them yourself? Love the branch in the water...
Brian
selector wrote: I always look for angles that make my layout look bigger than it really is. I just tried this one, and I am happy with it...considering it was hand-held. I'll have to devise a more sturdy support. No way to use a tripod on this one.
Another nice shot. My camera doesn't have a tripod mount. I use the timer a lot, even if I'm doing a hand-held shot. That takes out the jiggle from my finger hitting the shutter button. Helps a bunch on my layout photos.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
GAPPLEG wrote: Not that anyone cares, but would you please not keep quoting photos !! Man on dialup(I'm stuck no access to faster here yet) loading photos over and over takes forever.Anyway great work everyone, love that Bronx trackwork !
Not that anyone cares, but would you please not keep quoting photos !! Man on dialup(I'm stuck no access to faster here yet) loading photos over and over takes forever.
Anyway great work everyone, love that Bronx trackwork !
The good news: Once you download the picture once, if someone quotes it, it doesn't need to be downloaded again, the quote just refers to it.
The bad news: If the quote is of a post on another page, you may have to download it again.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Lou,
The eggs are not alien. Everyone knows that aliens are not real. These shots are for you, because I know you're not crazy about my third rail.
Without the beast....
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Dave Vollmer wrote: My new staging yard (last Saturday's project):
My new staging yard (last Saturday's project):
That concept really isn't anything new, but it certainly opens up operation possiblities for smaller type layouts that I think many don't think about. That's what I call... thinking outside the box ! Great job as always & thanks for sharing !!
Thanks Loather!
Yes, I made it myself, Mostly styrene with some bits of wood and brass. Fluorescent paint and a blacklight are what make it come alive! (I have to be careful, though. Lots of things glow under a blacklight, including the clear window glazing)
Dave,
OMG... that is almost exactly like the staging yard I was just about to start building... VERY nice! I am doing the same thing of the edge of my layout, in front of my workbench!
perry1060 wrote:
Perry, are those dinosaur eggs in the second pic? Or are they eggs!
Just saw your post on UFO thread - they ARE alien eggs!!!
AggroJones wrote: Tomkat-- did you paint and decal that gaggle of reefers? Or are they a stock set?Darth Santa Fe--that Pacific is aching for some Dullcote!
Tomkat-- did you paint and decal that gaggle of reefers? Or are they a stock set?
Darth Santa Fe--that Pacific is aching for some Dullcote!
The reefers are Walthers set #932-950 all steel BREX-CB&Q set. All I did was to add #5's and some quickie weathering so I would have something new to run for our club show & swap meet on saturday.
Just been fiddling with my industrial area. Track in lower left of pix, on white board is a new crossover I'm installing. Industries were accessed from other side only before.
loathar wrote: Some shots of my Mantua Mike that I have to remotor and detail yet. Can't decide on a road name yet.
Some shots of my Mantua Mike that I have to remotor and detail yet. Can't decide on a road name yet.
Can't go wrong with Southern Pacific!
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588
Fun with Plasticville. I was inspired by the "doo wop" motels of Wildwood, NJ.
Nice pics everyone.
This weekends project: More demolition . The track was way too rough for me to live with.
I also need to order a Fast Tracks curved turnout jig. The Peco turnouts I was trying to use were too much hassle.
I bought my first N scale loco since switching from HO. It's a Kato SD70M wearing the dark future scheme. I also bought a few 48' containers for the well car sets that I probably won't ever see. I have a feeling Walthers won't be making any more.
Have a great weekend!
Here are two Mikes doubling up a grade. The rearmost is #5834 with a feedwater heater atop the smokebox front.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/cp/cp-s5811ark.jpg
selector wrote:Loathar, I like the looks of that Mantua Mike. If you don't mind the observation and question, do you think it would be worth hiding the white gear with a piece of painted metal or plastic, something that could be made to look like a user-mod, or part of the frame maybe? Otherwise, it looks great, and that it could outpull a small dog.
Absolutely! That's on the list for when I put a new motor in it. I remember a while back someone showing how they built a little box around theirs. Between Yardbird and Bowser I should be able to detail it out pretty good. Anybody know if Canadian Pacific ran Mikes like that? I still need to decide on decals for it.
I've got the itch now! I want to build a few Bowser steam kits when I get the $$$.
Chip,
Thanks for the photo. That is exactly what I wanted to see on Crandell's photo.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
simon1966 wrote: tomkat-13 wrote: Tomkat, is the swap meet something that is open to the public in the St. Louis area? If so, details please I might make the trip across the river.
tomkat-13 wrote:
Tomkat, is the swap meet something that is open to the public in the St. Louis area? If so, details please I might make the trip across the river.
Yes the public is welcome...It is the Boeing Employees' RR Club-St Louis swap meet...At Queeny park ice rink 10-to 3 Sat 17th
Simon I sent you a private Message with all the info...
Trying my hand at some weathering. (on my cheap cars first.)
Added a light and did some weathering, but I think yours takes the cake over mine, but I hope to jazz up the coaling tower area soon.
-beegle55
Hello all,
I am really starting to like the WPF thing!
Got my Atlas B30-7 in! With sound and all. Only had to wait 4.5 mos. Ran it and learned some of the tricks (in analog). I REALLY enjoy it and love the sound. (My first sound unit) ***Bonus*** My wife may approve a DCC system purchase! She saw me working the direction switch to death while programing the thing. She said "That's rediculous, we have to get you DCC" (She's familiar with the club's NCE system).
Also, finished my crossing scene, complete with traffic stop.
Have a blessed and happy weekend.
Rich