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Great work Kyle - nothing to apologize for!! I bet some heavy posters here wish they could do as well!![:D]
Great Photos everyone
Here’s a few shots of my C&O H-5
Crossing the river
Rumbling thru Thurmond on the way back to the mines with a string of emptys
while 3007 waits on the west bound main
I couldn’t sleep last night. I was up at 4:00 this morning, and after that first cup of joe, I went out to the garage to finish my other project…an idea I had to store the backdrops when not in use. I drilled holes for 1/4" dowells in spots on the underside of the layout and set the backdrops behind them. Next, I partially nailed in some 6d nails above the backdrops, cut the nail heads off and bent them 90 degrees. I’m able to turn them and use them as a kind of lock to hold the backdrops in place. Now, they’re mounted in place under the layout when not in use and they’re accessable when needed instead of hanging around somewhere where they can be damaged.
I’ve also been working on the town this past weekend finalizing structure position. Here’s a shot from a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve been painting structures and planning a new church scene with momma (she’s got big big plans for a cemetary scene for behind the church. We nixed the Life-Like church for her scratchbuilt church (a 2 year, on and off battle), as we both finally agreed that the life-Like’s spire was too tall. Here’s the latest shot:
Fantastic pics everyone…
C&O Fan: What do you use for ballast?
Toast Etc…
JaRRell
That’s Arizona Rock’s Fine Gray on the main line and Yard mix in the yard
I’ve tried several types but Arizona Rock looks the best to me
Kinda pricey almost gold dust
Ron, first off DONT USE AN MRC DECODER! From what I’ve read on this forum every user says they’re CRAP. Use NCE or digitrax. I know for a fact that the NCE decoder allows you to add a strobe. Follow JK’s instructions as shown in this thread. Basically all you do is drill a small hole for the wires to go through in your cab and then solder them to the extra solder pads on the decoder for the strobe. Program that light in your CV for “strobe” effect. I’ve done three and its not all that hard. Some engines like Atlas’s GP7 look a little tricky so I’ve not done them, but the proto 2000’s sw1200’s are very simple.
This is a picture of the empty coal gondolas on a barge, in front of the swing bridge.
Is everyone familiar with the way to “Paste” a picture in WPF ? This may be the Vista Windows method, but it works for me 0n my new Compaq Laptop.
Transfer your camera picture to “My Album” in Photobucket, and Name it. Below the picture will be four options. Choose the [IMG] option to Click on. Momentarily, it will say “Copied” This means that the code for the picture is automatically “Copied” to the “Word Processor” program. Now, go to the Trains Forum WPF thread, and Click on “Reply”. Click on the little Icon with the W on it, in the Tool Bar, (which tells you that it is transferring the picture from the Word Processor program The “Code” will appear in a box, to which you can add your Text explanation to the pictre, before click on on “Insert” (At the bottom left) of the box. This takes you to the “Reply” box. You then Click on “Post”, at the bottom left of the Reply box. “Lo and Behold”, when you go to WPF, your Picture and Text, appear as a “New-Old Post”,(or at the end of “Old to New” Posts). Any picture on WPF can ,then, be enlarged by clicking on the Picture". To return to the smaller size, you Click on “Close” in the upper left coner. You can always click on “Edit”, to correct any typos , or add to the Text. Be sure that you then Click on “Post”, to return you corrected picture and text, to WPF. Click on “Post” (only once, or the WebMaster will scold you!) You can “Delete” a Post, but you must exp
A minor correction - the copied IMG tag goes to your computer’s clipboard, and not to a word processing program. It will stay there until you copy anything else or turn off your computer. The clipboard is a temporary place in memory to store stuff. This described method is the same with Windows XP.
Thanks Bob, for the “minor correction”. I am not “up” on exactly how things work on a computer. Glad to know that this method also applies to Windows XP. I wrote a note to Bernie, to get the updated option included in his “old directions”, on how to Post pictueres. I am a little at a loss, as to how you add the dashed boxes around someone’s Post, and then add your own text. Will you please enlighten me (and others). Bob Hahn
I just use the IMG tags. [ img]photobucket photo[ /img]. Just omit the spaces.
A pair of GP50s wait for clearance to proceed SB on triple-track with a unit grain train.
Very nice shot. You can tell the quality layouts apart from the others as evidenced by your great job on ballasting and scenery technique.
Checking the outgoing…
As usual, great photos all!
secondhand modeler: That really stinks! [:(] I remember when I was in progress between layout; I finally succombed and broke out the EZ track, hooking my DCC system up to it and running trains![:O]
As someone at 60 years of age, I found a new way to punish myself. Athearn in their wisdom didn’t put coupler cut levers on their new SD40T-2, I suppose they aren’t putting them on all the RTR units. So I bought Deatail Associates cut levers and brackets and Detail West MU hoses to add to the unit. Many awful hours later I got them on. My old eyes couldn’t focus on those tiny brackets at all. And then threading the cut levers through them was a real treat. Anyway here they are:
Front:
Rear:
Well, I stepped away from the egg nog long enough to get some more work done.
Put the decoders into my friend Bob’s PRR F-unit fleet this week… It’s been fun running all those covered wagons!
Lee
Well, I’ve been just fooling around and had an old Bachmann Dash8-40CW in UP that I didn’t like the paint job so a while back I weathered the heck out of it, and since I don’t really model the UP anymore I decided to strip the paint and repaint it in MRL colors. I had to paint the nose stripes since I didn’t have decals for those. So remember its just a Bachmann engine, nothing special. All for fun. I’m still thinking of adding ditch lights to it. Maybe it’ll be a keeper. Personally I think I really like the MRL paint job on a GE engine. I’m even thinking of doing it on a AC4400CW or something. Sorry that the pictures are so bad.
Wow…really, nice paint job. Great pics everyone. Keep up the good work!
Brian