My contributions for the week(end). Actually taken a couple months ago while trying to dial in the white balance of my layout lighting for available light photographs (to avoid that washed out flash glare look).
Late Evening-Night time.
Yes bitsy was used in the making of “The 50 ft cat”
I caught this scene behind the Farmer’s CO OP. Doing a little tail gating after loading up on some free fertilizer.
Alex: What’s that cinder-block like building in the last photo?
I-5: You can make a plow by cutting the plow halves from styrene or cardstock and gluing them together. I cut off the corners of the flatcar on the plow end at a 45 degree angle and glued the halves to that. The top was added later. I used tacky glue, but the Gorilla Glue you used should work too. I don’t think regular plastic glue would work, I like having a solid type of glue for this type of thing.
From an old engine house kit…
I finished! I will post soon!
This snow plow thing is great!!! You are starting a revolution, I may make one tonight… I look forward to someday putting the plows on the fronts of my Chessie Locos. They just don’t seem right without any.
Great Fotos this weekend!!! I hope to have a layout started by spring, which means the end of Oval City (test track on pool table), my wife is giving me one bay of the garage (provided the Harley doesnt end up on her side).
Here is my Snowplow! 
You may want to consider a larger plow. railroads built them wide enough to plow the snow out of the way fof the rest of the trains, not just for the wheels. You might want to make it a bit higher seeing its a bit useless in heavier snows. [:)]
Well, the sides of the plow kept catching on my switches, so I had to make a smaller plow. It is so sturdy that I use it to push trees & other debris off the tracks!
Jeff, very nice. I love the torpedoes. Very nice camera work also.
Tom
Jeff, you’ve done a good job with the pictures, I like them! Color is good (that white balance can be a pill, can’t it) Good sharpness and I like the way the camera is down at a level close to the locomotives, just like in real life! Good lighting, brings out the locomotives lights!
Jarrell
Cooter, the fella sitting on the lumber, is supposed to be helping load the truck but he’d rather play the harmonica. Lazy bum.
The building is an Atlas that I’ve added a ‘tar paper’ roof to, and weathered some. The ‘lumber’ is also an Atlas product. The stacks on this side of the building haven’t been weathered yet. I think it looks a lot better when it is.
Light for the photo supplied by a work light on a stand up and to the right. The camera is an old model, 3 mp… that I bought back in '99 or 2000.
JaRRell
Tom, Jarrell, Thanks a bunch… Nice to know they are enjoyed…
Jarrell, I think I’d rather play a harmonica than move all that lumber too [C):-)]
Hey guys, I made snow plow too.
(Yeah whatever I’m a copycat.)
[B)] That isn’t a snowplow… It’s an ES44… plowing through an HST consist.
[#oops]
A couple of shots from my friend Art’s layout
Thurmond Depot
We’ll give this a shot. These are progress shots of an industrial area I’ve been working on. One track does go through the first floor of the factory. I need to tidy up the ties some where the underlay of colored plaster still sits on top. Lots more detail and signage to do, but it is at least progress. The second shot was with a single incadescent bulb that I thought made a nice evening shot. Still working on that focus thing as the camera is being pushed to the edge of it’s abilities (and mine).
thanks for looking. J.R.
Don’t you mean a parrot? [:-^]
Very nice! It looks like the real vegitation that would be in that area! Great job![tup]
JaRRell: That sounds like me, except I’d be watching the train rather than moving lumber![:-^] Cool scene![tup]
Don’t know if I posted this before or not, but what the heck! Since the writer’s strike, everybody is in re-runs! LOL
-George