Heres a before and a somewhat of a after shot of my next weathering job. Its a BLI SP AC6000, which I willl patch to a lease engine. I posted pictures of it earlier this week, but I haven’t touched it to much. Its more a fantasy engine for my layout. With about 95% of my layout cars/engines weathered, I can’t let this one go untouched.
Theres still a ways to go. Next is the trucks. OH BOY!!!
Before:
After:
A BNSF GP39M spots some old Burlington Northern boxcars at LCLS Distribution.
Here is the tower close to completion plopped onto the layout in roughly the place it will go. It is amazing what photos reveal and I am not happy with the roof weathering, so it needs some work. Then I can get the thing installed and wired to the power bus.
Hi all: Here’s SD-45 #6174 leading Stoney Creek local into Blackwood #1 cut with Reading GP-7 #633 pushing emptys up to Blackwood #2.
. 6174 approaching Blackwood tunnel.
. 6174 entering Blackwood tunnel
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These are images taken from the eastern edge of Seneca Falls Sub yard. The first was taken from atop the roundhouse, and the second from the edge of the turntable lip.
And finally a close-up of the depot. PRR observation car at the rear of a train departing, and its competitor NYC Niagara’s nose visible as it stops to discharge passengers and take those waiting on to their destination.
-Crandell
Wow lots of great Loco pictures
Love the park shot Jeff
Gramps Trains Nice photos
And of course Crandels normal great photos
I really like the last one
but the one shot accross the turn table pit is good too
Here’s the new guy in town
I’m really gonna get grief from my C&O friends because the C&O didn’t run their mountain
engines thru Thurmond
But for $176 including shipping i just couldn’t say no to that great Tsunami sound
Is Thurmond on the way of the George Washington? This could be a backup engine from the first one breaking down.
Yes - great pictures, everyone. Here’s an SP Train Master sharing duties with a GP9 on my version of the “Smokey”, a reefer train that worked south from San Luis Obispo in the 1950s. The big Fairbanks Morse units were happily (for me) not solely limited to San Franciscan commute duties…
Brian
Great work every one!
Robby the AC6000 looks great!
DJ, I am a big fan of SD45s, and I love that PRR one! Looks like a proto.
Hi WCfan: Good eye! It’s a Proto with a Loc Sound decoder and Minitronics yellow glo LEDs.
Yes Thurmond is on the George Washington Route
As the GW ran all the way west to Cincinnati
But the Mountain Engines were pulled at Hinton and turned for service back east
they were replaced by the F-19 Pacifics which pulled the GW west thru Thurmond and on to
Cincinnati there was no need for the mountains as the terrain was flatter on the main line
Okay… An F wasn’t available that day? They were experimenting with not making the engine change (costing time)
Nice engines, everyone. Crandall, I love the tail end of the passenger train viewed from across the turntable pit. Nice image.
A while back, I was In Search of Elvis. Well, I never found one pre-made, but instead of The King, I brought home The Count. Yes, my fellow basement-dwellers, that dapper Transylvanian (no, Dave, Transylvania, not Pennsylvania) had somehow made it to Milwaukee, and was even on sale at Walthers when I ordered him shipped, in his own little personal clear plastic box, to my LHS:
A few brush strokes later, and The Count was transformed into The King:
I’m going to place those blue suede shoes on the sidewalk in front of the Heartbreak Hotel, add a hound dog, and call it a weekend.
Ah, the Smokey. Train 830, later symboled as the GUWCP. Lots of Geeps, SD9’s and later SD45’s almost exclusively. Great train. Nice photo.
Thought I’d try something I read about in MR many years ago. Using a mirror to get an eye level perspective of a locomotive shot. Taken from the viewpoint as if a 5-6 foot tall person were standing On the tracks (train not moving of course) taking the photo.
The only photoshop magic here is a crop and the b&w (infrared) filter applied. No perspective changes were made.
So is this the early Elvis, or Vegas Elvis? 'Cause in truth he looks more like Liberachi to me…"[:D]
[(-D][(-D] Anybody know where I can get a 1:87 candalabra? [(-D][(-D]
Don’t forget brother George - boy am I showing my age!!![:-^]
Did you mean Boy George? If so, you are really showing your age.[swg]