hi guys…It’s that time again…Finally finished painting and decaling these proto 2000 Alco Pa-1 A/B/A units…
Relettered my MP15DC from G&W RR to W&P RR:
A tug boat heads out to sea. In the distance, Engine #1584 (a 4-6-0) makes its way over the harbor bridge.
Great looking Locos Guys ! The water in the picture looks soooooooooo real Bob
Not much going on here I did make a few more trees
And early this morning this guy shows up. I didn’t have the heart to tell him i forgot to add fish to the water
I don’t have much to contribute this week, nothing but this shot of my 2-6-6-4
JaRRell
A shot of the Hudson Highlands brand new EMD F-3’s, with a long freight in tow, approaching the bridge across the Black River.
CNJ831
well i took half days yesterday and today… and here is what i have gotten done…
built some bookshelves into the benchwork
installed some trees
started on painting/weathering the Fayette City Coal Company (New River Minining Kit)
Still building mountains here.
This is picture of MOW Shay #7 coming out of the mountain that grew up last night.
Last week I finished my yard tracks
BNSF AC4400
CGW GP7
I have been working on 9 of the 12 stalls of my roundhouse, worked the bugs out of my Walthers 90’ turntable, and finished ballasting my 12-track stub-end yard.
The big white area next to the roundhouse is the future site for the Walthers machine shop. I still have to weather/age the roundhouse, but I figured I’d show you what I’ve been up to so far.
Let’s start of with a fantasy photo of a CNW Bigboy.
Here’s my MStL F3.
SPEED TRAP.
Well, this will be different.
I took most of Oct off from work and really poured myself into getting my lower level staging yard completed as shown in this first shot.
Note the hills in the background and I did say lower level staging.
Because I had started scenicing (is that a word) several had made comment that it was a shame to cover it up with a deck above it.
Here, my friend and partner in crime, Don Z, are tearing out some track to make way for a business on this lower level staging yard only. If I’m going to use it in operations, it has to have some businesses!
Okay, now for the punch. As can be seen in this next photo, the upper deck, temporarily positioned, looks like … well, you know. I was not pleased. In it’s original position, just below the brown line on the wall, it was too low and just absolutely hid too much of the lower level staging and the scenery work I had done. Poor planning on my part.
Yesterday morning I tore out all of the existing scenery.
I’ve spent the last week or so on converting what was to be a lower level staging only yard and turn-a-round to a new single decked plan. This time I planned all the businesses, down to their footprint, and have purchased all of them with exception of the new Walther’s creamery in Elgin. This time I was able to put in the diamond in Elgin (rather than as an after thought) and a week ago I met an ex-Katy engineer who remembered the TT and roundhouse in Smithville. He told me it had
Great pics guys. Alan, I love your terraforming and Terry, great trees.
I put the last bent on the trestle. Yes I am building it upside down. My there are a lot of sticks in a trestle. This is all scratch build out of walnut strip wood. I still have all the bracing to do on the back side, and need to finish the lake and stream behind the trestle before I install it.
Man that’s a lot of great work
Sure hope it fits !
Here is the latest news from Royal Gorge and the hanging bridge area. [swg] I just added some more vermiculite mix. It’s soon time for gluing rocks to the shell. I’m really looking forward to that.
All you fellows are doing wonderful work. I just hope that you are all having fun, and not getting too run down…Art? Are you remembering to breath?
I have ballasted, weathered the roadbed, and weathered the rails over the past week. I am in the process of scraping the rail tops clear and sanding them with 600 grit. You find quickly how less than smooth is the surface of new track. I have to go back, after some intense scrubbing, and actually pick 1/2" long thin strips of paint off the railheads with a fine metal point due to linear grooves.
I hope to have some pictures for next weekend.
Keep coming with the pictures, guys. I need to keep pumped up.
Everyone thanks for the great photographs! I’m just trying to learn this new camera ( Canon power shot A540 ).
Here is my first try in black and white mode.
Also I here is one in Sepia.
You can also swap colors of an object. So many options on this camera, (not like my old Pentex K1000 35mm), but I like having instant photos and being able to edit & crop.
I got to visit Tom Cobb’s layout today on the Houston Layout Tour
I nicknamed it the Lone Tree Pacific since it has so little scenery
I felt sorry for him so i gave him a tree i made
It’s an industrial switching layout depicting the SP here in Houston
the building represents the Kroger Warehouse There are some other really neat buildings
on the layout
You can view more photos in this album
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2099871364
I have a couple projects to show you guys. First a N scale trunout I hand laid.
Second a section of hand track hand laid,
Third, my Gp30 which is now a high hood.
-dekruif
I started on the dirt road for my layout and all I have left to do is the crossings. I am still trying to decide what method to use for the dirt. http://www.trainweb.org/mgr/dirtroad.jpg (I still don’t know how to post pictures)
