Yep, it’s that time again. Show us a couple of your most favorite pictures you or someone else as taken of your layout, or maybe from someone else’s layout or even a prototype shot you’ve taken. Please… if at all possible… limit it to no more than three. [8D]
A couple of mine…
Jarrell
Tough act to follow, Jarrell.
This is my pit turntable and roundhouse, a “pit-bash” from an Atlas deck turntable:
And the City Classics grocery store, with interior detail and lighting added:
Very nice shots.
Here’s a couple from me. They might not be “award winning”, but I like them.
A thread like this is so inspiring. I know it’s been done before, but not everyone sees them and new people come around all the time.
Great work so far! I can’t wait to see the rest.[tup]
My pictures are not the best pictures, but they will have to do until I can stage a better picture. I need to rig up a way to backdrop the trestle so you don’t see the bench work behind. Until then, here is my favorite scene if not my favorite picture.
This is my favorite prototype picture. We took a ride on the Fall Colors train out of Duluth MN. We rode in a heavyweight used in IRON WILL pulled behind a restored SOO Pacific. She liked the ride almost as much as me. This was where she stopped giving me a hard time about trains! The ‘moment’, if you will.
I appreciate you guys posting your photos. Corey thanks for showing one of you and your daughter also… [:D] we all love riding trains! If I might let me say a word about the pictures I post. I’ve been in photography for about 48 years, both as a hobby and some pro work. There are about as many cameras, lenses, meters, lights and light stands, light modifiers etc. around here as there are trains, though most of it is getting kinda dated. On many of my pictures I use Photoshop for adjusting the crop, color, sharpness and the like. All that doesn’t stop me from wanting to see the pictures other people post that may not have the equipment or the experience. I see good photos here all the time and, better yet, in those pictures I see modeling that is drop dead gorgeous. So please, don’t worry about if your shot is magazine quality or not. If it is YOUR favorite, that’s all that counts.
And btw, I consider myself pretty good at the photography craft… not great. I’ve seen great and I ain’t there yet!
Jarrell
I’m sure she’ll appreciate that![:D]
Jarrell:
If you’re not there yet I would love to see your idea of great photography.
Well why not?
I always like this picture because it has the essence of the Chessie System in its early years…
Photo was taken at the Bucyrus(Oh) club.The C&O and Chessie units are mine.
Another one of my favorites features 3 of my C&HV units also taken at the club.
I have several favorite prototype pictures that I have taken…However,so far this is the top choice of 2009.
My favourite picture? Here it is…
it ain´t a model, but for me, it epitomizes the feeling of an era long gone!
I love threads like this one.
Here are a few from me (sticking to the suggested limit of three).
Over and under Thrillseeker Bridge:
Twilight in Blackwater:
Runnin’ trains with my nephew:
Of all three, the last one is my favorite. It represents the wonderful moments this hobby gives us.
I’ve always been an admirer of your work but this picture brought a smile to my face but makes me wish even more that my grandkids lived closer to me.
Thanks for the smile.
Jarrell
Oboy, right off the bat, the bar has been set really high! [:P]
Okay, a couple of my favorites:
Cleaning out the ash-pit.
The curve at Wagon Wheel Gap
Tom
Here’s a favorite shot from my old layout:
I recently ran across this prototype shot which I would call: CSX: Trouble Ahead
Gosh, the A games are being played! (gulp!)
I don’t have quite a matching team, but these two are my favourites.
-Crandell
Crandell,Doesn’t take much imagination to believe that’s a exVGN Trainmaster on the former Virginian Ry…[tup]
Golly so many pictures so little space. It’s hard to pick three…
Norfolk & Western J. All the steam effects were done in camera. The only computer work was the black & white conversion. Now I have a Reading T1, I plan on doing a similar shot using it.
Pennsylvania coal train at dawn. Again all the effects were done in camera.
D&H RS11 crossing mill pond:
Nick
Hello WOW you guys have to stop scanning magazine photos and posting them [:D]. Well it’s time to lower the bar.
and this was the best layout that weekend
Have a nice day Frank
I see a lot of shots here that I never seen before - like Crandel’s VGN Trainmaster that looks totally like a proto-photo, and Brakie’s view of a collection of Chessie and pre-Chessie geeps like I used to see during my teenage railfanning days at Baltimore’s Riverside engine terminal. Sure brings back some fond memories!
I’m sharing this first pic because it’s a scene I always dreamed of building since I was a young’en, now I finally got it. I covered my garage wall with a few sheets of blue extruded foam insulation board, and the haze effect was accomplished by using aerosol Fog-In-A-Can:
The 2nd pic is of the interior of my Basic-Oxygen furnace building, supposed to be hot pig iron being poured into the furnace vessel. The flame effect was created by placing a 40w light bulb inside the clay furnace vessel and covering the top with a thin layer of fiberglas insulation batting:
Hi Jarrell: Thanks for starting this thread. Wow, lots of great shots, here. Here’s some recent faves.
RS3 with a passenger local at sunset.
An F7AB and GP7 West bound along Roaring Creek.
An SD45 on the wrong main, passing a work train.
Love it! [tup]
