Post 'em if yuh got 'em!
Norfolk & Western J Class 4-8-4 drifting down Seneca Hill where the siding and main join.
Crandell
Nice shot Crandell. Up early (like me) today? [swg]
I’ve been playing around with my video camera again. I made a tracking shot following my Geep around recently upgraded scenery:
You guys are up early ![zzz]
Good Shot Crandell
Very good video MA Bruce and you held the camera so steady
a feat that has eluded me thus far !
I keep dragging my feet to get in the train room
and dust off the layout for my open house on the 20 th
maybe this weeks WPF will motivate me
Good Morning from Northeast Ohio, attached are a few pictures of cars that I have just completed.
I found that I had started building this IMRC PS1 boxcar years ago and had painted it blue, I masked it off and painted the black panel, then lettered with Herald King Decals.
I accidently purchased this decal, so I researched what car it went on and luckily it was an available IMRC 40’ PS1 with 6’ Door, the decal is from Oddballs.
I had to do this car, it was the only 60’ Auto Parts car owned by the Chicago Great Western, and served a GM Plant in Flint Michigan. The car is an IMRC PS 60’ Auto Parts Car. the so-called Fisher Body Car. the Lettering was applied using Oddballs Decals.
Thanks for looking! [:D]
Rick
AWSOME pics guyes love the video
love the pics and video guyes really give me the fever to get building
here’s a shot of my (mostly) newly painted Bowser K-11.
still needs decals and a few other bits to make it look “right” – but for my first paint job on metal, it seems to be holding up well. Hopefully I’ll get things looking as good as you guys do [:)]
You done good! [;)]
Jarrell
A Southern U23B local starts the climb up Choctaw Ridge.
Ho scale, Atlas locomotive.
Jarrell
Jarrell, great picture. From the lighting it appears that the picture is one of morning. Love the effect.
Wow, Crandell and Jarrell, you’ve really raised the bar this week, excellent scenes and images.
Bruce, great video and scenery.
Here’s a lashup of F7’s and GP7 exiting the yard. DJ.
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Grampy, you and Jarrell have 'bout the best looking ballast there is out there. My compliments to both of you. Nice crisp photos, guys. Crandell
Picked up these two items at the LHS yesterday. They won’t look new and shiny for long.
Great photos from everybody so far!
The freight house crew waits for an SD7 to move some cars.
My first ever hand carved rock work:
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Jamie
Recently weathered and now sold Berkshire.
Gotta find the friggin camera so I can get pics of the boxcab project and the new log cars for the line.
Nice job everyone!!
Tried a night pic.
Don’t ever mess with a mama bear and her cubs…
Wow, an awesome start as always, Great work Everyone!!!
This may be a repeat to some of you, but after seeing the ‘other magazines’ cover this month, my snowplow bell got rang! I would like to know what kit or scratchbuilt unit was used for that other ‘Cover’ plow, it actually looks more like the one I used for the basis of my ficticious one here. Perhaps that is fuel for a new thread… Most of my OP is listed below.
Well, (although could be embarrassing) this is one of my first kitbashes. I started with an unknown U-29 Ore car after seeing a friend’s Video showing a DM&E plow in a very quick crossing shot. Mind you, this was BEFORE I knew what ‘Prototype’ meant, & I didn’t have any RR mag subscriptions or references. I did what I thought would work & be cool. After spending a lot of time designing the blade angle & determining the truck position, I cut off the front bolster (the ‘A’ end -remarkable I knew that) & moved it forward. Then I used a cardboard pattern & a torch to bend styrene around a brass tube & steel bar at an angle to try to form blade parts. I engineered & altered the rest to make what I though I had seen in the video. I tried to make it like I thought it may have been done, with very little experience or knowledge of any railroading.
The Pusher is an ‘in the works’ Atlas GP40 in DME colors. It shows fitting & assembly scars, & I will fix all that after I add working ditch lights & figure out some sort of decal solution (Dakota Minnesota & Eastern -spelled out [made my own but they ran/distorted, many unsuccessful tries]).
I like it enough, that I’m not ashamed to show it to all of you. Hopefully you can see where I was & where I’m going, & that is what is really great about this hobby.
(Update: since then the GP got some of the better, but not perfect homemade decals, & still needs a few data tags & reflector stripes before weathering,.)
Thanks
PS: I’m ready for winter.
MAbruce: Great video! Just out of curiousity, what grade have you used where the mainline climbs above the water scene?
Dave