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Old pictures but I like them.
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Gidday Ken, Good to see we’re off to a flying start. Your photos maybe “oldies” but they are “goodies”.
A belated thanks to Mike Lehman for your link to the snow plow detailed part.
Meanwhile I’m going down to the station to do a bit of train and people watching.
Have a Great One Folks.
Cheers, the Bear.
Great pictures guys!! Makes me miss having a lyout.
Here’s a diorama I’ve been working on for N Scale cars. I know it has a lot of green in it, but I have since added lighter green to the bushes. Now for the top I was thinking…one main track and a old “out of use” track beside that one. Just trying to figure out what ideas for the top.
Nothing new this week, so I will post some of my favorite pictures from the Strongsville OH Club I belong to.
PRR N1s leaving the tower after being released to go over the crossing.
My favorite F units, the Wabash Bluebirds released from the restrictive signal.
Nickle Plate Geeps taking the siding in Thurd!
Rick J [2c]
A good beginning to my favoite thread guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
Here is one from the BRVRR:
The Grafton Turn with just shopped SW-8 #9622 in the lead, heads East on the BRVRR main line to begin its daily round trip. The loco is a P2K with a drop-in NCE decoder while the caboose is a weathered Athearn BB kit with interior lighting.
Keep them coming everyone, you always make this the best thread of the week.
Port on the club layout.
I took part in building this boat, the crane is mine.
Been adding a Beaver Pond the the BAR layout. Except for a few minor touchups, it’s pretty much all set.
Carl
The Bangor & Aroostook and Aroostook Valley Lines
Hi Jack,
very nice boat. Is that a kit or scratchbuilt ?
Martin 4
Outstanding work everyone!
I bashed an Eastern Car Works #4800 depressed center flat to HOn3. Not so fine as the detail on my PSC WP&Y depressed center flat, but the price was so much cheaper!
Here we see it loaded with a bulldozer.
Back in Durango, a narrowgauge diesel works the yard, while another train passes the station in the hours before dawn.
Jack, that is an AWESOME container ship! Love that scene, very well done.
Thanks Martin and Michael, it is scratch built from plan a naval architect loaned us for this project. This is a very small container carrier, 1100 20 feet containers. The hull is wood planking covered with 3 coats of fiber glass, the superstructure is styrene. It is 6 feet by 1 foot wide, we shortened the length by one foot and cut a floor from the superstructure. Unfortunately the prototype was never built.
Great work everyone.
Bear- Sorry I did not get back to you last week. I bought the plow as-is on the Bay. The front coupler is a dummy. I put 36" wheels on the front and 33’ on the back to help with track clearance and I decaled it.
Here are some layout photos.
M&A RAILWAY Hawk Point Mo.
Finally after month of delays, the Midland took delivery of 3 “new” chop nosed Geep 9’s, now parked on the ready track awaiting an assignment
Laramie Street Dining Room must represent Hollywood’s idea of the frontier version of the roadside eatery whose popularity is evidenced by all the 18-wheelers parked outside. In this case, horses at the hitching rail take the place of trucks.
Miss Margery is greeting a cowboy potential customer at the door.
The front of the front wall only is from an old 1970-something era Railhead kit.
Of course, since this is a Hollywood movie set, there is no inside behind the door, just scaffolding and struts. And the cowboy and Miss Margery are from Central Casting.
On a Hollywood set, the horses might come from “Equine Actors” or some such organization. But for the model, they are from Musket Miniatures. That was the one source I could find for riderless saddled standing horses, which would be appropriate for the hitching rail. Bachmann’s unsaddled trotting horses are good for a pasture but not for this scene.
Leighant your work looks amazing!
anywho here’s a video, I still have the plywood pacific phase going. An oddball trio rounds the bend, SP&S #50 is unfortunately suffering from issues with it’s Hi-Ad trucks. the thing that ultimately retired many of the BN’s Alcos only a year or two after the merger.
Sweet shots, Ken. The photos around here just keep getting better, and more numerous. Love it! [:)]
Got the track laying fever.
A track progress shot, and a test close-up of UP 9000 in the yard.
dug up an old maintenance photo
Peter
dcfixer,
Wow! Thats an incredible what you did with the interior details on that UP obs car! Amazing work. I have the same car. Did you upgrade the lighting? Or did you get the lights factory installed one?
Thanks, Michael
The lighting is my own design with full wave rectifier, RC filter, regulator and LEDs. There’s 19 LEDs in/on the car at about 3mA per.
Here’s an older pic showing the bashed CY tail sign that I took apart and stuffed 9 SMT LEDs in the bezzel. The original CY sign would not do with the bulky LED case that required a hole to be drilled in the brass. [B)] NO, NO, NO. Besides, that also took up space in the interior.
There’s more pics on my web site of the interior work, the car, and my lighting , if interested.
