Carknocker1,
Yes, I am aware of that line, but I did not know about it until after I had created my fictional model railroad company. I honestly did not know about their paint scheme/logo–what a coincidence!
Thanks for the info!
Tom
Luke, great work on the engine house!
Just a few shots from last weekend again:
Jeffery, From past experiences in the real life scale you not only have to move the back wall further back, but you may also have to grind the ramp out for the truck to fit in the building. We had about an inch of clearance over the light bar. Seeing that your engine has a raised cab, that pumper may not be leaving the building.
Rob
Southern 6547, a Fairbanks Morse H16-44, slows coming up grade toward the yard…
Jarrell
I know what you mean. It goes in and out just fine with about a scale 6 inches to spare. We have the same kind of thing at the fire station I work at as a volunteer. The doors are 10’ 5" high and the tallest truck is 10’ 3" from the ground to the tip of the deck gun nozzle.
From the looks of things I would say that your people seriously need to apply for some of that Infrastructure rebuilding money that Uncle Sam will soon be handing out. Great job!
Thanks. I’ve since added drainage pipes and gutters. Good work yourself!
That looks like some of the patchwork quilt roads we have here. Good job Tomkat.
StebbyCentral:
OMG, you’ve been out here observing our California Freeways [:P]!
Neat job. I really like it.
Tom [:D]
Everything looks great…EXCEPT…Do I spy a matchbox fork lift there in the background driving up the ramp [;)]
Now we can’t have that on an otherwise fine layout specimen. You know how I feel about matchbox cars on HO layouts [:D]
Wiking makes a great looking HO forklift…I would check the walthers catalog.
I think he just does it just to torture us lesser mortals. [sigh]
So far so good everybody. Some great looking shots.
No layout shots for me. I have been working on this old “The Rock” for a couple of days now. I keep changing some rust spots, and trying to add some “depth” to the rust.
Well here’s a before:
After (this is the side I have been working on, I didn’t like how it was turning out):
Before I worked on this side…
Now the new look of that side:
And…a underneath shot:
Looks real good to me Larry, but I’ll have to have my wife eye ball it. She’s from Richlands!! lol
Bob
Great photos this weekend, on page 3 and its still Friday! Grampy–What did you use for the cable along your roadway? As always, your layout looks great. Karl–Great details, what scale?
Jarrell–nice shot! Tomkat13–I’m just sure I’ve driven on that road, near Akron, I think.
Thats looking better than the pro’s on modeltrainsweathered.com How did you “fade” the hopper? N scale right?
Thanks all for the kind remarks.
Completely scratchbuilt (except for a few of the details) board by board in ‘O’ scale Ken.
Karl.A
Some tough acts to follow!
P2K S3 H0 scale
Mike
Some very, very tough acts to follow. Nice work as always being shown in this thread!
I finally got some scale sized beads in to work on my line poles. Here is what I tried a couple weeks ago:
And here is the second try with the new beads and smaller wire for the braces:
I also assembled a Roundhouse kit that has been sitting on the shelf in my basement train room for close to 25 years…
Even back in 1925 we needed to have some California fruit ya know! Obviously the car has not been weathered yet. Other than a little dust and sone rust on the trucks, it will stay fairly clean. I added Kadee #5 couplers and Kadee archbar trucks with metal wheelsets. Rolls nice!
Hi Kenfolk: Thank you. They are the smallest picture hanging wire I could find.
Really great pictures so far this week!
I’ve been finishing up a LONG project…
