Wow, Tim, that’s simply amazing. This is going to be quite a scene when it’s done. What are the ties made of? It looks like brass on top with some sort of insulator beneath, and the brass is actually in two sections so there’s no electrical connection between the sides.
I had some natural light coming in this morning, so I took a couple of shots. Here’s Lance waving to Carmen as they pass crossing the bridge over the trolley line where it descends into the tunnel.
And this is the IHC house model I just finished putting together. I cut the garage door and opened it up. The original wall color was orange, and I should have primed it before trying to paint it white. I kind of liked the “salmon” color that came out, though. Now, I have to go retrofit some cardstock to the inside walls, because that orange makes the interior lighting look very, well, red-light district.
Mark, apart from the sky, my bud (RRCanuck) filled two voids on either side of the crossing span on which the train is coming at us. That span is only 13" wide, so at that angle, you would be able to see the 1X4’s facing the operating pit just in front of the boiler and to the right of the "river in the close low ground. The heights, the skyline, the mine…they’re all there. He may have gentled the slope at the highest point…not sure.
I am happy with the way this layout seems to afford seemingly vast expanses in image, but from the loco pilot to the far ridge, at the mine, is about 7 linear feet. It is all quite accidental, but I won’t complain.
Here is the original. On second look, he cropped the image, too. Big improvement, over all.
Greetings from The Central Valley (California’s mid-west). I have finished remodeling my backdrop and redoing the Fresno SP yard on my Fresno District SP N scale layout. Enjoy this weeks pic:
It’s a busy morning at Coal Fork Jct. on my Allegheny & Cumberland as a trio of eastbound SD-50’s enter the double track main & soon after it passes, a westbound pulling mty’s passes thru…
Very nice. I’m guessing it was about 20 years ago one of the magazines showed a technique for creating scrap iron with aluminum foil. You spray the foil haphazardly with various colors of paint and then run it through the blender (preferably when your wife is out of the house). It made what appeared to me to be very convincing scrap metal. I thought it was an interesting technique but it is one of those “someday I’m going to give that a try” projects. Someday hasn’t got here yet. When it does, I’m going to be very busy.
This is one of the best shots I’ve seen posted in quite a while. I love deep scenes, something that is difficult to create on a shelf layout like mine.
I love the looks of the Walthers cars but performance wise, they don’t measure up to their price tag. It’s not that all of them are bad, but of the 8 I own, 2 are problem children. Very prone to derailing. Haven’t figured out why yet. I checked the wheels with the NMRA gauge and that isn’t the problem. They tend to derail when passing through the frogs, particular with, you guessed it, Walthers turnouts. I consider both of these higher end products, so if their cars can’t negotiate their turnouts, something is wrong.
