Once again a lot of great pics! Bear, I love the Baldwin demonstrators, but dear Lord, I wouldn’t want to be the flagman spotting tank cars at that busy intersection! More good pics Mike! I’m starting to work on our rope lighting. Nice scene Garry! I like the contrast of the Burlington and Katy locos. Sam, I like the bridge scene, and that’s an interesting backdrop. Karl, nice scene! the depth is great! Allan, I like the color scheme for the Black River and Western. It looks like a cross between the Burlington and the NYC Cigar Band scheme. M.C. that’s a nice modular layout! I always thought it would be fun to be in a modular club. Chad, that’s a nice looking GP35! Terry, that’s a convenient way to hide things! I might have to try it. Mike, I really like that green boiler on the 453! Geared Steam, that scene looks very realistic, love the sky! Michael, love the flag scheme. I had the chance to run these when I was an engineer. Rick, some nice looking rolling stock there, good job! Guy, very nice CN loco.
Things are shaping up on the layout with the yard scene near the projects. I finished getting the streetlights working last night, now I have to add people, details, and lights to the tenement houses.
Garry, Here’s one I know you’ll like. A Nickel plated CB&Q S-4 Aeolus, that I restored last year. Still looking good. After I got all the old tarnish off of it, I decaled it and applied a shield coat to it.
Carey … Thanks for sharing. I really like your work with lettering an the clear finish. The prototype, Aeolus, was originally a 4-6-4 built in 1930. The stainless steel shroud was added in 1937 when it was renumbered to 4000 from 3002. Crews called the locomotive “Big Alice, the Goon”. The shrouding was removed in the early 1940’s.
Stan commented on Carey’s post. Not only is Stan a great model railroader, but he is an outstanding artist who paints pictures of trains. Stan and I exchanged a few emails a year or so ago. The result was I traded a B&O locomotive for a very nice painting of Aeolus next to another CB&Q locomotive. I am proud to say the painting is on a wall next to my model railroad.
Thanks for the fine compliments! Garry, I’m jealous of the painting. While I don’t model the CB&Q, a real good friend does. I did this for him. I love Railroad art, no matter what RR the painting covers.
Being a western railfan including the ATSF. When I lived in Phoenix as a kid sometimes we went to Flagstaff and watched trains at the depot for an afternoon.
The CB&Q is good. I have interest in some of the Midwestern RRs because of where family lived.
But the last one WOW. NYC right? My first thought was it reminds me some of the picture of (I think NYC engine crew) waiting to find out if they’ve gone on strike. Late 40s or so. The eyelevel is similar and from what I remember. I could be remembering the pic incorrectly. The detail is great. The distance could easily be from the platform. Is that what the front tan/beige (I’m colorblind) lowest part of the painting is?
I have a framed Robert West painting of the Grand Canyon Limited on the AZ/NM border. Everything is 66. The engine number, Route 66, a 66 year old lady in a '66 convertible.
I like the trackside level on your action paintings.
