I’m remembering the Bugs Bunny lines about him.
I am glad you like it, Tom. I can’t remember if this kit was Heljan or Life-Like, but I don’t believe it was Walthers or Atlas. If yours is older than three years, yes yours is older…sounds like considerably older.
Kit building and detailng/painting isn’t yet one of my strengths as you can see. I did some touching up to it a year or so ago, but it needs quite a bit more sprucing up and painting.
-Crandell
Late Saturday night when the company store is closed and the loggers ( Beer That is) are at Billy’s.
Peter Smith, Memphis
This thread keeps getting better and better every week. GREAT photos from EVERYONE, people!
Well, just to prove that not every locomotive on my roster is a big, hunking Articulated, here’s a photo of 2-8-0 #1159 and 2-8-2 #1204 double-heading around the south shore of Bullard’s Bar Lake with an eastbound stock extra. The Connie is a VERY old LMB model, and the Mike is a Key import. Both have been re-fitted with NWSL cans, and are very smooth runners.
Tom [;)]
I’ve been updating my Burlington way cars (way car is the Burlington term for caboose).
Last week I showed the side door way car, and I’ve done more to it. It now has Allied trucks which had been used by CB&Q in at least one instance to replace the normal old wood beam trucks.
The “three window” way car has been completed this week. Its trucks should be wood beam trucks, but I used express car trucks which are about the same deminsions. Both the “three window” way car and the side door way car are modified Roundhouse wood cabooses.
The photo with several cabooses includes these two cars with some others. The GN caboose was a “basket case” caboose from a train show that I modified and painted. The second track has two of my six Walthers “four window” cabooses that are authentic replicas of Burlinton way cars. The silver cabooses include one of my three modified and repainted bachmann “train set” cabooses that are based on steel cabooses built by Burlington shops in the 1950’s. The wide vision caboose is an Atlas model.
I have had three Athearn Santa Fe style cabooses that were painted in CB&Q colors and lettering. So far, I have repainted one to be ATSF.
Garry–
That’s some really NICE work on those waycars. Question, is that GN ex-“Basket Case” possibly an old Silver Streak caboose? Reason I ask is that I have several–one SP and one for a private logging road, and I built them years and YEARS ago when Silver Streak was alive and well. They were really good kits, and a lot of fun to build.
Really nice work!d
Tom [:D]
I remember Boy George, and yes, I have quite a bit of gray hair.[(-D]
Tom … thanks. The basket case may have been a Silver Streak model, but it was in horrible condition with no box when I got it. I looks like the SP prototype. GN had cabooses that were similar to them, so I applied a few details to GN-ize it. Tom… I really like the 2-8-0/2-8-2 double header photo.
Everybody …WOW! I see many really outstanding photos here. I feel “outclassed” again. Keep it up!
Happy Model Railroading!
Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon, you come and go, you come and go oh oh oh…
Quick! somebody get me an aspirin, I MUST be ill!!!
Hey! I have that same building on my layout too… Mine was produced under IHC though. It needs some new paint and a little structural fixings…
Hoople, that was it…you are right. Thanks for the reminder…IHC.
Tom, another excellent image. [^] I get a feeling you’re teasing us a bit. A little here, a little there.
-Crandell
Would this do?
I’ll have a video up, stuff I shot at Naptown’s first ops session, a little later. If I may say so myself, I;d say a lot of them were pretty realistic, up until people started talking to me or walking in the background.
Crandell–
Okay, here’s a few ‘warts and all’ over-views of the layout, then. I can’t fit in anywhere to get a general view.
This is the Buttes and Sierra City–first thing you see when I raise the garage door.
A general view of the Deer Creek yards, and the Malakoff Hydraulic Diggings
South Yuba Canyon and the Champion Mine
Wagon Wheel Gap between South and Middle Yuba Rivers
Bullards Bar bridge
Yuba Pass with Deer Creek Viaduct in the background
I’ve been asked by a lot of people just exactly how big the layout is–it’s about 24x22’. Medium sized, enough for one operator to have fun with, two operators to run into each other, LOL.
Sorry to take up so much space, guys.
Tom [:)]
Gorgeous, Tom, and thanks for indulging me. I hope others appreciate how nice your layout is. I think just of all the foresting you have done…amazing how much work that would have been. And everything seems very well planned. Congratulations. [8D]
I have so much to do.
You do realize that I hate you now with a jealous passion, right? [:P]
Oh, c’mon, Flashwave. Remember, I STILL have to use an 0-5-0 to turn all of those big, hunking Articulateds around when they’re faced in the wrong direction. All of that and I didn’t plan for a turntable?? BOY!! Talk about me having a Major DUH! moment [:I]!!
Tom
Bu8t with scenery like that, you make up for that. I HAVE to get back to Cali sometime
I’m still gonna barrow some refrences for my Rocky Mountian scenery
Wow Tom that’s really some impressive work
[bow][bow][bow]
Terry–
Thanks, friend. I appreciate it. Hey, is that gorgeous new Mountain of yours a Spectrum? Reason I ask is that I have one too (toldja I like C&O!–had to fiction up a ‘lend-lease’ program between them and Rio Grande) and it’s an absolutely lovely loco. It’s one of the first runs, without sound or DCC capabilities, but it’s a pleasure to run and an impressive hauler. Nice, NICE detail and a very quiet, smooth runner. I think you’ll enjoy yours. And don’t worry about turning it at Hinton–just figure that it’s WWII or something, and railroads had everything running EVERYWHERE!
Tom[:D]