I picked up a few Athearn and Mini-Metals cars from the 1930's last week, so I thought I'd set the Wayback Machine and see what happened:
1937 to 1967. Yeah, sometimes my wife takes that long to buy her vegetables from the farm stand, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Nice transition from past to present, some scenes are just ageless. Love your work. The stones came out great.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
That is a sweet scene, Mr. B, and I really like them little vehicles. Nicely done!
Here is my weekly contribution...NYC Mikado crosses the Seneca Falls trestle.
Nice photo's guys.
Now that my community of Between has been reworked; I can get new photos.
Sunrise switching at Between:
Wow those are some good photos. I feel Ashamed to post a pic of my layout. Owell here it is. Just been working on painting my roads. I want to get some hills in by the end of the weekend.(I'm Sorry for the 'trash', I'm still working on it)
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WCfan wrote: Wow those are some good photos. I feel Ashamed to post a pic of my layout. Owell here it is. Just been working on painting my roads. I want to get some hills in by the end of the weekend.(I'm Sorry for the 'trash', I'm still working on it)
I like it. I looks like you have a lot of fun packed into a small area. It will be really sharp once completed.
This week I finished 2 projects. The first is MEC Consolidation 524. It's based on a April 99 MR article on modifying a Spectrum Consolidation to look like the MEC version; details include a new pilot, bell, tender handrail, and other details.
The other is the cement bagging building for the Dragon Cement Plant at the Boothbay Railway Village. The building is a modified Walthers Golden Valley Canning; the rest of the plant is Valley Cement. Dragon is a real company located in Thomaston, ME and is the largest cement plant in New England.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Allright everyone...
Haven't been here in awhile so here a few older photos...
Here are several shots of former ICG 2257 working on BSRX (Bay State Rail Corp) Just outside of Watertown Mass on a cold February Morning.
The other day I witnessed B&M 4117 being moved onto the track for Restoration
A friend of RailroadYoshi guides the tender down the branch
Another shot of yoshi's friend posing with 4117
An over all shot of 4117
Alex
A generous forum member sent these to me and I recieved them on tuesday. Now if only I had a layout to run them on!
Great videos, Hoople! Tremendously cool. And that whistle is just to die for!
Jim
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
The majority of the scenery is complete at Gaskins Switch. This junction is the western most part of the Cedar Branch & Western RR. At this location the CB&W joins the Missouri Pacific. A small bit of CB&W track continues west across the MP main and dies out. It's used for storage.
To the east of the junction is Gaskins Creek. It's a pretty little stream which gurgles around the rocks and mountains. This can't be beat for a great camping spot.
The evening sets in and so does the peace and quiet. The last train of the day has passed and lightening bugs are starting to flash. In the tree covered mountain a whippoorwill is singing it's bed time song. Frogs are croaking and a splash can be heard as a fish jumps somewhere upstream.
It's going to be a great weekend!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
I took about 50 pics the other day, and none of them turned out worth a damn. I think I need to turn off the flash. They all seem to be washed out. I am using a digital camera, with the flash on. I'm also going to experiment with the Macro and Close up settings. One nice thing about a digital camera, you can just delete the bum pics, and start over. And you aren't out any film and developing costs.
Oh. I also found out that double stacks are a little higher than piggy back trailers on flat cars. NS 20V lost a couple containers the other night, going under the Decatur bridge. Hearing is next week.
popeye9941 wrote:I took about 50 pics the other day, and none of them turned out worth a damn. I think I need to turn off the flash. They all seem to be washed out. I am using a digital camera, with the flash on.
I have the same problem. The best pictures I've produced were taken without the flash. Good luck!
Pictures from the op session
More at my op sites and Georg's site
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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electrolove there's not much space. You can see pictures at staging yard. You see the NMRA gauge, that's the clearance I have. I can reach to the most back track - if the other tracks are empty. And the Westport boxes are not covered at the bottom. From my experience I can see I have nearly zero derailments. When an engine stucks I have to reach. But at the ends are the tracks empty.
I've 12 staging track. At the plan you can see the data.
Nice Mr B. Love the vintage cars.
I've been dropping feeders, putting in switch stand pads and general cleanup of track, wheels etc.
Some parts of this hobby are not very glamorus .
Regards,
Tom
electrolove wrote:Guilford Guy,Wonderful photos, thanks for posting them. I'm a little curious about the snow. How did you make it look so real?
Baking powder
A little night shift work...
Lee
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Foam carving
Tubing the river
T-Rex
Heres a few shots of the engines I got this morning at the Hobby Sale. Got the 3005 today, the 3007 about a month ago. The CSX SD70M, I couldnt pass up as it was only 68 bucks. And I have a soft spot for the YN3.
http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1020435ta6.jpg
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Alec
dragenrider wrote: popeye9941 wrote:I took about 50 pics the other day, and none of them turned out worth a damn. I think I need to turn off the flash. They all seem to be washed out. I am using a digital camera, with the flash on.I have the same problem. The best pictures I've produced were taken without the flash. Good luck!
Depending on your camera of course, but I never use the flash around the layout. My camera also has a menu for setting lighting to what ever lighting I have. In my case lots of flourescent.
My camera is not a great one but it works.
I just ran down the street when I heard a horn and look what I found!
B&M Cab Hop waiting for a crew change!
As a result of the demand for pictures in the Commuter Modelers thread, I got cracking on the commuter station at Turners Falls, MA. Here, the actual platform has been poured.
The new platform:
Two passengers wait for their Pioneer North Tansportation Authority ride down to Northampton as NEW lines freight TFNA rumbles by as it departs Turners Falls with BM 204, BM 212, and NKP 900. (NKP 900 courtesy Guilford Guy)
These two passengers will be the only ones riding from here down to Northampton on this midday RDC run:
The next step will be to install stairwells from the platform down to Montague City Rd, below the station and pour the fringes of a commuter lot, aside from adding signage.
And above, the trainman watches carefully over his train, keeping in touch with the engineer via his radio transponder. This pic is somewhat amusing because that "trainman" is really a stereotypical larger woman in a yellow dress with a bonnet and the "transponder" is really some sort of fried cream pastry, like those you might get at Quincy Market (Bostonian's 'll know what i'm talkin' 'bout). By cutting off the legs and propping the torso along the ledge of the cupola overhang, that dress and bonnet became a nice yellow worksuit and hardhat.
wm3798 wrote: A little night shift work...Lee
Some really great shots. The best part is seeing the WM stuff.
I see that you must like 3798. Those 5 GP40s are some of my all time favorites next to ones in Chessie paint.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org