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[CMSTPP]

Man is this place dull!!! I'm going to spiff it up.

I have been doing allot lately on my model railroad, and it's coming around quite nicely.

 

This shows the engine house. There are two locomotives inside it at the moment.

The  good portion of area that I have put scenery to.

Another shot of the engine shed.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/cmstpp/rr004.jpg

A shot of the hills I made. I thought they had turned out quite well.

(You may notice that the ballast looks really bright and this is due to the flash on the camera. I shot these pictures at about 10 o'clock at night.)

James

[Anonymous]

Nice work, James. Not much new for me. I got a pair of Atlas / Kato GP7s at Oelwein RR days

I'll post the pics if imageshack ever works.

The new Atlas S1 will be out anyday (I have one pre-ordered at the LHS)

[Ham549]

Jeez Ham if the trains in you area suck, then look at your spelling.

 

 

kevin

The railroading in the nearby vicinity is mediocre at best. I find that the two Amtrak trains a day being hauled by a repugnant parade of Geneses locomotives is most unnerving. The cargo trains that frequent the area tend to come late in the night as so I can't see them and I need my sleep. I find myself in a state of vexation at my current predicament.

 

(Is that better Kevin?)     

 

 

[trainboyH16-44]

Wow, Ham, please do that in the future! Although you find P40s and P42s unnerving....interesting.
Sorry I haven't been in, I have been....lazy. No other reason, really. I sort of got a job, but that isn't really a factor....I'm pulling weeds in the mountains near Exshaw at $20/hour. Today we worked for 7 hours doing blueweed on the foreslopes of mountains overlooking the cement plant - I saw a ton of trains! Amd earned $140....
James - Nice pics and MRR! I like that enginehouse....looks fab! I think I'll follow in your posting footsteps....I got pictures of my GN GP20 back, as well as a lot of others I decided to take, here are a good number of them, as well as highlights from (some rolls) of my trip. (Some film isn't back yet)

Here are a trio from my hopefully-famous curve, showing quite a lot of Proto stuff...



And I couldn't resist throwing an all-stops-out shot in. The one on the left is a long coal drag, last in line to depart, middle is an interchange manifest, and on the right is a hotshot, showing a rare two units in the new 'Multimark' paint scheme that CP brought out earlier that year. It hasn't even made its way to The Canadian on the right!

Here are a pair of shots from the highest place on the railroad, Virginia. First, the enginehouse (Modest, with a small turntable) and second,a nd overview including the mine complex.


Now, the usual daily passenger train that actually runs, and runs well. (With a new scenic dome added to enhance rider experience!)

And now, on to vacation pics! All the daylight ones were rejected by railpictures for bad angle ('Cept for the work train, because it  actually is), which I'm kinda mad about, since that's a pretty bad reason....
Missoula! The times 30 to 15 minutes before Mr. Wonderful chewed me out for trespassing on Missoula's main street were in the second and third photos, and then the fourth was where I caught the work train the work screw told me about.




Here's one from Revelstoke which is bad motive, and that's okay, because it isn't insulting the photo.

And another bag angle...

I love the faces of CP 5200, 5300 and 5400 series Mikes!
And now....some random non-train crap that makes girls swoon, apparantly.
Lightning around my house: (Why'd I have to bump the tripod...)

Telephone poles at the bus station with Two-Tone-Green after a day of fanning BCR

Now, three different exposures of Shuswap Lake and Salmon Arm, with varying degrees of exposure!
Two minutes...

Five minutes...

TEN minutes! And it worked this time, not like with the Banff Springs hotel!

And.....more to come, maybe. Sorry I never uploaded the 6060 pics, they weren't that thrilling anyways.
In the meantime, my mum is a-fixin' to rage about me being up at this ungodly hour of midnight... *sigh*

[Ham549]

What is up with that light?

[trainboyH16-44]

What is that, an HO layout? LOL! there is only ONE scale for me, and that's 4'8.5

Ah, another scintillating, closed-minded, intolerent and hateful comment from our wonderful friend...

[Ham549]

Whoe Whoe What? "scintillating, closed-minded, intolerent and hateful" All I sead was I like real to play with the real thing more. Why are you getting so upset?

[Noah Hofrichter]

All right, I admit I’ve been lazy in getting in here lately. I’ve been enjoying my last few days of summer before school starts on Tuesday. Can’t say I’m looking forward too it, but I suppose I really can’t avoid it (at least not legally).

James, VERY nice model railroad you’ve got there! The ballast even looks to be about the right color for the Milwaukee. I do like the Milwaukee Road, and it looks like you are going to have a neat layout there. Is there any particular location(s) that you are modeling, or is it just a freelanced layout?

Matt, another nice set of photos you’ve got too. I wish I could get my model photos to come out that well. I suppose it would help if I had a decent camera though.......

Been a little busy on the MRRing front myself. I stopped by my local hobby shop yesterday and ordered myself a new airbrush. I’ve got a bunch of painting projects I want to do but no good airbrush, so I convinced my parents to get me a compressor and an airbrush for my birthday. I also picked up a 100 ton WC hopper car, and a DCC decoder to install in a GP15 I already own. My Wisconsin and Southern Athearn GP35 also arrived yesterday from the guy I bought it from on E-bay too. So I ended up with a lot of merchandise making a new home in my house yesterday! Now I’ve got to start putting some of it together.

I also got to do a little railfanning on Friday over on the CP mainline near Wisconsin Dells. I caught the westbound Amtrak Empire Builder along with one freight in a little over an hour of railfanning. Not too bad really.

Well, I suppose I better get going, I’ve got way to many things to do today and tomorrow before I start school again!

Noah

[nssr9169]

I don't believe there is a worse speller out there than me...of course I spend time doing more than makeing stupid F40 related attemps at jokes....if you want to give them that much credit 

[nssr9169]

Noah...so do you live close by the wsor.....??

[Ham549]

Should I stop makeing F40PH YTMND's? I have done a lot of things just check this thing out I am working on.

This is a subway rought I am makeing for Trainz 2004 (I will put up a video link soon ;-) The Grand Theft Locomotive I did was just for fun.

[oscaletrains]

hi guys im back after a long break i start school on teusday what happened to the old trains.com blue? i just started on a 4' by 8' layout in ho scale a note to every one here DO NOT USE AMI INSTANT ROADBED IT IS A PAIN IN THE NECK!!!

today i saw a cn/bnsf/bn/gtw consist going through the tunnel yard. gota go good night.

 

[PA Belt]

thats a good idea!

[Ham549]

Here is a link to the Subway video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no4Bvb8T7ZI

[Noah Hofrichter]

Noah...so do you live close by the wsor.....??

yep I do, I live at the end of the WSOR's Reedsburg Sub, in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. I also know a half dozen or so current employees, as well as a few more that used to work for the railroad (including the head of the WSOR passenger department). I know a heck of a lot about the railroad too, I can tell you most anything you want to know, or if I don't know I can use one of my many contacts to find out.

hi guys im back after a long break i start school on teusday what happened to the old trains.com blue? i just started on a 4' by 8' layout in ho scale a note to every one here DO NOT USE AMI INSTANT ROADBED IT IS A PAIN IN THE NECK!!!

Out of curiousity, have you been living in a hole in the ground for the past few months? It was only plastered all over the site for weeks or more before it happened that the site was changing, and it's been that way now for close to two months or so. You seriously need to pay a little more attention to things......

I've used AMI Instant Roadbed too, and it works great if you actually know how to use it properly. It's what I've got on my 8x16 foot layout, and it's been great for me. It doesn't work quite like they say, you still need to use nails and such for holding the track down, but it works great otherwise, it's good for holding the ballast (although I still use glue to hold the excess), and you can shape the edges to make a nice gradual transition between the surrounding scenery and the roadbed, unlike cork which you have to sand. Cork is a little better for a long term or permenant project, but I still like AMI instant roadbed too.

Noah