Here it is April First, but I am not really in the mood for an April Fools Joke right now.
Instead, here is something not normally shared, the inside of a model mountain:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
OK, show me the “business part” of a layout. The wiring, benchwork, underside of scenery, etc.
-Kevin
Thank you for the April kickoff of Show Me Something, Kevin!
Twenty-two years ago…
HO_2000_0002 by Edmund, on Flickr
More recently:
Coal-View_4-22 by Edmund, on Flickr
More of the “ugly underbelly” please.
Early days.
More layout guts, please.
One of my favorite parts of layout building is landscape forming with cardboard webbing.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Show me more of what makes the layout work.
-Kevin
Nice benchwork Ed, Brent and Kevin (Spiderman)[(-D]
Love working with wood and foam.
More layout guts please
TF
A couple photos showing various stages of completion along one wall of my shortline railroad.
First, going from completed scene to the right to bare resin paper on the left.
I’m using a variation of a technique described by Howard Zane a number or years ago. I shape my mountains using basket weaved cardboard strips, then cover it with red resin paper. Rather than coat the red resin paper with white glue, I mix a slow setting joint compound that gives me plenty of working time. I sprinkle on some ground cover while it is still wet. Eventually puff ball trees will cover the hillside with Super Trees in the front.
The next photo shows a section where benchwork and track have yet to be laid.
I’m building a switchback to a saw mill at the top of the grade. Two legs still need completion before the scenery can be filled in.
More pictures of the “bones” of the layout please.
John: “More pictures of the “bones” of the layout please.”
The begining of “Pasture Corner” hills and rock cut.
Consturction complete.
Pasture Corner today:
More layout pieces and parts please.
This view goes way back!
More recent:
Union Station by Edmund, on Flickr
More benchwork, early construction or “in-progress” scenes, please.
Where the RH and TT go. I wanted to be able to remove it to work on it and be able to take it out in one piece if we move.
More creation shots, please.
Here is the roadbed being installed on the sub-roadbed:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Show me a piece of railroad equipment that is gray and at least one additional colour.
-Kevin
Now let’s see a piece of railroad equipment that is tri-colored.
Here’s gray with maroon and yellow:
EL_7381-pit by Edmund, on Flickr
More tri-colored equipment, please. Ed
I have something similar.
More tri-coloured, please.
Batman: “More tri-coloured, please.”
More tri-colored equipment please.
BRVRR asked for “More tri-colored equipment please.”
This is my favorite piece of rolling stock.
Let’s see more tri-colored equipment.
Red White & Blue…
Carry on with three or more colors on your equipment, please.
Red, White, and Blue again. An E unit decorated for the bicentennial:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
More three colors on equipment please.
-Kevin
Nothing says Red, White, and Blue better than a Bangor and Aroostook State of Maine boxcar here on the interchange track with the Lehigh and Hudson River RR.
I started the tri-colored theme and so I’m going to end it.
How about a branchline or shortline passenger or mixed train.
My New York central gas-electric is in branchline duty:
NYC_M-10_tone2 by Edmund, on Flickr
More branch line locals or mixed freights please.