Thanks for opening up Bear and Terry, sorry I can’t see your videos as they are locked out at work.
I finally finished some cars this week:
IMWX 40’ 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Mark Vaughn decals. This was one of 1,000 boxcars the Wabash purchased from the New Haven in the 1950’s. The gap between the numbers is prototypical.
Branchline 50’ Berwick Boxcar Kit. Painted with Floquil Big Sky Blue and lettered with Herald King Decals. This was one of the many IPD Boxcars made in the late 70’s for numerous shortline railroads, when the IPD rules changed these cars changed hands frequently. Also added the Detail Assoc. Hennessy Door Opener as the prototype had those installed.
Walthers 52’6" Thrall Gon, painted with Scalecoat II Reading Green and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Removed the cast on grabs and sill steps and replaced with wire grabs and sill steps. Also added air lines between the air reservoir, ABD Valve and Brake Cylinder.
A good start guys. Pretty good video Bear. Same for you Terry.
A NYC four loco lash-up at the head of a long coal drag on the BRVRR. Both A-units are powered and both B-units have sound decoders. All of the locos are Athearn BB kits with details added.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Nice work everyone. Love the video, Bear, I may have to try my hand at one sometime.
The layout has been greening up as I’ve added lots of trees in recent weeks made from bumpy chenille. There are close to 5000 trees now on the layout and it shows. They’re about 2 cents each to produce. In many cases, I’ve pulled my store-bought trees forward in the scene and installed lots of tiny trees behind, saving a bundle of money.
Here’s a pic of the pole train loco taking water at Tefft, with lots of new trees on the rocky slopes above.
Here’s #456 taking the poles through Rockwood. I like the reverse angle looking out from the inside of the layout.
Here’s the train shuffling along the High Line.
I think I’ve finally got what I’ve been looking for: towering mountains and lush evergreen forests – oh, and narrowgauge trains, too.[:D]
Here the train crosses Missionary Creek.
And passing the Smokey Sez sign at the national forest boundary.
For the standard gauge and diesel fans, a nice shot of PA 6003 and the La Sal Flyer at Hesperus.
Bear : Nice video… Terry: I enjyed the layout tour. Wish I could see it in person… Mike L: I continue to enjoy your CO layout and also wish I could see it in person… Curt: Your container terminal looks good… Rick: 3 more outstanding freight cars!
On my layout C&S 700D is hauling a freight train in the first two photos. The last photo shows CB&Q car 308 at the rear of a passenger train.
Thats a good question. There is going to be a lot of water, which is about 4ft x 8ft in the harbor, and the river is about 4ft long and 8 to 10 inches wide. So as you can see a lot of water, but that will be just about the step after all the scenery & structures are in place. I used Invirotex on my last layout and was very happy with it, so I’ll stay with that.
Some really nice modeling and pics by everyone, keep up the great work.
The ATSF Northern 4-8-4 #3754 excursion locomotive, after getting serviced in the Cheyenne maintenance shops, before heading back to Southern California.
Although I haven’t posted in a looooooong time, I still check in every week. This week I finally have something to show, a long awaited pre-order. The new Athearn Genesis, NS “Penn Central Heritage” SD70ACe in HO scale with DCC/Sound arrived today. I’ve run her for maybe an hour, and out of the box she’s AWESOME! Just wait 'til I get some more time with her and start “customizing” the CV’s
I went to a train show in Bremen/Germany yesterday. While most of the layouts on display had a rather uniform look (that´s due to the buildings coming from Faller/Vollmer/Kibri), there was one layout which really captured my attention:
It was built by an elderly gentleman in his late 70´s, based on childhood memories right after WW II. It´s basically just two loops of a light railway going through the streets, hauling the rubble to a barge loading facility. He did an extraordinary good job in capturing the colors of those years. I talked to this guy and asked him why he had chosen such grim scenes. It helped him to work over his bad dreams he got while enduring the air raids in a bomb shelter. He plans on touring German schools with this layout to show kids what Germany (and, in fact, many European cities) looked like when he was their age.
Actually Terry, its a fluke!!! The Bachmann EM-1 is running straight from the box with the default address of 03, and the Proto Heritage 2-10-2 has been programmed with some added momentum which is my preference. The throttle settings to run separately at the same speed are quite different for both locos and while speed matching was on my to-do list, I would not have even considered consisting them. As it was near the end of the show and while I was absent from the layout my partner in crime decided to give it a go (seeing that they were my locos) so he could start removing excess rolling stock for any early start to pack up. They ran well together for the last 15 minutes of the show and unfortunately I haven’t had the opportunity to investigate why??? Thanks for your layout tour, next best thing to the real deal. [:D]
I see your Green Thumb has been hard at work again Mike.
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