Well i am off to the CREWE locomotive works open weekend, it looks to be a fun event with loads of main line steam locos, diesel locos and electric locos with lots of model railroads aswell, this link is to the web site showing all the steam locos arriving this week http://www.creweopendays.co.uk/locos_gathering_steam.htm
this is just one of the locos present, a 9F 2-10-0 under restoration
Enjoy your trip, Steve!
As for WPF, I’ll play this weekend.
My subject this week is helpers.
The rulebook allows up to eight powered axles behind a caboose on the Grande. The following helpers are living by the book.
Lone SD7 helper couples to the rear of an eastbound coal drag for the battle against gravity on the grade ahead.
Same unit “running light” on it’s return trip down the mountain.
GP7 helpers at the crest…
OH BOY! The Weekend! Hope you have a great one at the Locomotive Works Steve. Like the weathering on the diesels Grande Man. Today is the day I have been waiting for for almost ten months. Today a crew is comming over to help me move the Ice House and Mountain Diorama to its home on the layout. Most work is finished on the module with the addition of some work horses and a leanto to house them. An aermotor pump and watering trough and fence also complete the scene. With the exception of the figures, the Office Building (Walthers Modular) and the Aermotor (WS kit) the entire scene is scratchbuilt and took around 500 hours of work.
It will find its home here on the layout:
I hope to post back on Sunday to show the after (the move) photos. [:D]
BTW The only alterations of the photos were to crop and adjust for brightness/contrast and color balance.
Pictures look great guys, not much happened on my railroad this week, but I did get a chance to see the 3985 come into town…
Cant wait for pictures!!
Very nice, everybody. Steve, I soooooo want to walk up to that loco and place my warm, wet tongue against it…! [:P]
Here are some shots for the start of the weekend:
Main office shared by BNSF and UP, they are on separate floors.
Cut of TP&W cars at WPG Yard1
Photoshopped picture using lensflares
Another enhanced image trying to capture a old time look
Wish I had some proto shots to post [:I]
David, nice photos! But, that last one is particularly good. Please work on more of those, and see if it can’t become a niche for you. It would be great, as a sub-hobby, for someone on this forum to develop expertise in generating faux-photos of the steam era, but in scale models.
I need to get back to taking pix of my layout itself. But in the mean time, here’s a before and after shot.
After.
Aggro WOW! The whole thing is great but how did you get the ladders to look so much better in the after photo? The first thing my eyes go to on models the ladders and grab irons, they are normally so over sized. How did you get the ladders to look so much more realistic?
David,
Nice photoshop work - you might want to blur or “mist”, in the background at least, the B&W shot. It’s a little odd for the distant hills to look that sharp.
But lovely stuff indeed.
Great pics guys as always,
Steve I hope you have a great time in Crewe, I used to live 2miles outside Crewe when I lived in the UK, but I wasnt back into trains then and never got around to the locoworks[banghead].
Ray, I cant wait to see that module in place, it looks fantastic and I have been following its progress, great work.
Have fun all
Karl
Hi There;
A busy Saturday morning in downtown Kelton.
Tom
good pic good luke on that restoration
Hi Guys everyones photos look great!
Heres somthing i stumbled on to while cleaning up and putting recycle out ,some of you might have seen these inside left over pizza boxes a plasic mesh,so it came to me ,i cut it out painted it and made some poles out of tooth picks and there you have it ! a metal fence,what do you think?
they might have some fine tuning but there you have it cheep too
Carl…
I originally posted this over on The Coffee Shop thread, but since a lot of you don’t go there, I thought I’d share it here. Nothing great, but a big stride for me. It’s tough working on some of this stuff in N scale, but in my case ‘lack of space’ trumps ‘poor eyesight’. As shown they’re probably lose to life size. You can click on the picture to enlarge them. I wish I could have done that while I was working on them. [:D]
The repaint program goes slow, like everything else around here. But I did finally get a couple of cars to the point where I can show pictures. These cars are old “el cheapo” ones that are still laying around from back when I first got into N scale back in the early 80’s (before going hobby dormant again for a number of years). Great subjects for creative artwork.
The first is an old Bachmann “Old Timer” coach that has been repainted and lettered as a second class coach. Coupler conversion is awaiting receiving additional coupler kits from up north.
And here we have the first of three “beer can” tank cars being redone for Pemex (fantasy paint scheme, in case you hadn’t guessed). The first shot has the ladder temporarily removed on this side to show off the decal. The second shot has the ladder back in normal location, hiding part of the logo. Hey, there’s just not a lot of room on a car this small.
And here is a flatcar lettered for my home road, the FCVN. This is made from a Bachmann “Old Timer” water car. If I even touch that brake wheel I’ll probably break it. But it’s nice having a couple of cars that are obviously shorter/smaller than even the regular 40 footers that I have. I’m also working on redoing both the Bachmann old timer boxcars. These are about the size of narrow gauge boxcars, but t
Really nice, Ed. You’re still fighting off old age, if my eyes don’t decieve me.
Went to the Lowell, Massachusetts, National Historic Park. This is based on the growth of Lowell in the industrial revolution in the 19th century, but there are some railroad exhibits, too. There is a new “satellite” museum from the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine, with a short history of trolley and subway transportation. The whole thing is well worth the trip, if you’re just north of Boston for any reason.
Here’s an old Boston and Maine steamer, an 0-6-0. They were renovating the cab today, so I couldn’t climb aboard:
And this is an old Brill trolley, still in service shuttling visitors around the park:
Nice,great shots everyone, the fencing looks great Carl
just some inexpensive models I’ve detailed this past winter.
I realized that right after I posted the pic [:(!], It’s was kind of fun doing some MR mag modeling [}:)][:p][;)]