Love it, Crandell! Looks gritty and grimey and if it had an odor it would smell the same. Like the front to back sharpness with enough lighting I can see details on the locomotive/tender as well as the structures in the back. With the figures in place I get a real sense of just how big the prototype really is. Thanks for a great shot! Jarrell
Nice stuff everyone.
Nice work everyone. Here’s one from me:
Here are a few more cars! No Weathering or Graffiti on my Railroad!!
This is an incorrect car, but I did it before all the new waffle sides came out. MDC Waffleside with Herald King Decals.
These are the two IMRC 4550 Covered Hoppers lettered for the Canadian Wheat Board using Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking :[:)]
Here’s an “entry-level hobbyists” picture from me. [swg]
Well, having not posted anything on here in forever, I decided it was time to add something.
(Bear in mind that my layout is a plywood plain, and that I have no backgrounds besides the unfinished wall behind the layout)
CSX GP-9m 890 is idling on the yard track waiting for the local to come by so she can switch a long cut of cars
890 prepares to throttle up as the the caboose of the aforementioned local exits the frame
Ken,
I dont usually post or reply in this thread because I dont have much to contribute in return but your pic really caught my eye. I’ve always liked the Rio Grande and your shot looks just like a morning local shuffling some hoppers to an industry, even with the garage wall showing in the background. I think you need more Rio Grande and Southern Pacific on your layout!
Cahrn
No8 passes the cold store at Hillside. . 
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The Bachmann model has been renumbered but the weathering is not finished Regards Jon.
Cahrn, thank you for the kind words. I do have 2 other Rio Grands that I hope to get up and running. One is another Athearn RTR SD 50 that was pulled because it ran badly, I all so need drive shafts for it. All so have a Stewart F 9 that motor went bad after only 40 hours?
Glad you enjoyed the shot.
Cuda Ken
Nice shots everyone.
It may be an old pic Crandell, but it is a great one.
A current work in progress from me…
Karl.A
Great work as always everyone!
These past few weeks I acquired an old out of production (from the mid 1990s I believe) resin kit from Associated Model Makers, for a Bombardier/MLW LRC locomotive. So far I have built the shell and painted/decalled it. To the basic shell I added the detail for all of the intake screens and the uncoupling lever on the front pilot. It still needs to be dullcoted, then I will need to add a horn, handrails, lights, and windows.
Here is the locomotive almost ready for painting:
Now here is the shell painted and decalled as VIA Rail LRC #6907 (which in reality was the last LRC to haul a train in revenue service, in December of 2001):
Now the next task is to finish the shell, and continue modifying an Athearn U28B chassis to mount the shell on. The chassis is a close fit, but it needs to be lengthened a bit, and filed down to fit inside (width-wise). Then little things like lighting the head/ditch lights, etc. Hopefully I’ll have more progress shots for next weekend.
Have a great weekend, and a great week everyone!
There is so much switching going on at the Gravel Plant and Scrap Yard, a switchman’s shack was needed.
I’ve been working on my once-somewhat neglected town of Enfield. I finished the Agrawal Paper kitbash, then decided to clean up the town and at the same time, prepare for the upcoming commuter rail service. I paved the former gravel crossing and station parking lot, added some more ground cover, and fixed up the platform. At some point in the future the crossing will receive the proper lights, for now a simple crossbuck will suffice.
Although I’ve visited and photographed the real Enfield, I’ve allowed my model of the town to deviate from the prototype a bit throughout its construction over a few years.
Besides the modern railroad constructions of the siding and industry tracks, I’ve added an interchange with a shortline called the Enfield & Rumney (yes, that’s a real town, and a believable routing), changed what was probably a shop of some kind into a paper mill (it’s brick and in roughly the right place!), and added a couple buildings between the tracks and Main Street - not modeled as it’s inside the backdrop.
Agrawal Paper itself is a kitbashed flat built from a Walthers Modulars set, styrene, extruded foam (for the foundation), and parts from my scrap bin. I still have to add the rooftop sign. There are two shadowbox loading docks with wrapped paper rolls and other junk inside, one closed roll-up door, and a dump grate for woodchip hoppers. The building I modeled is the shipping building - the actual mill is not modeled.
Great, fun WPF. Lots of impressive work and photos, as usual, but I just can’t resist responding to this one in particular. Karl, that is incredible![bow]. The 90 pipe fitting, sledge, anchor bolts and nuts, bench, broom…beautiful photos. Truly outstanding reproduction. That definitely raises my bar.
Thanks for the enjoyment and inspiration.
DC
Took some photos of the Valero Refinery in Paulsboro NJ today. They were taken from the Philadelphia side of the Delaware river behind the airport. 2 of the pics shown here out of 22
Might make a good backdrop someday. [:)]
Almost too hot to be outdoors, 109 today and 113 forecast for tomorrow. May have to turn on the house AC.
The inspiration for these cars were stored by the harbor in Bellingham, WA this May. But the real ones were 95% black with the barest hint of green along the upper edge of the top side plate.
The real versions of the GTW were at the NS yard in Williamson, WV.
First off… I agree with Crandell, the level of craftsmanship shown here in the last year or so consistently shows the progress all of you are making! Nice, very nice!
I spent today at my NMRA Divisions Summer picnic at the Medina, NY RR Museum. Housed inside an old NYC Freight house, the museum is more than a football field long and has inside a 104’ by 14’ HO scale model railroad. Not only is it large, but the work was done by some of the best modelers in upstate NY and shows some fine scenes. Here is just a very small portion of what there is to see here:
Like really “Old Time” railroads?
How about the Civil War Railroads?
For you diesel fans, a pair of Fairbanks Morse:
Self explanatory and only half of the ship is in the photo…
This is the main yard. I am standing about 20’ past the halfway point of the layout. The layout is a solid 1456 square foot! And, the Layout is only one part of all the things they have there.
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Jarrell and Karl, thanks so much for you kind mention. [:)] It is incongruous, to me, that we have comments about the lack of talent posting to this forum, and then along comes you, Karl, of all people! What a magnificent model you have constructed there. Wow!
Ray, I love the first photo. It’s like a post card. Well done, and you are another example of the improvements I have noticed. [:D] I also like the one showing the water and mud ahead of the bow of the tall ship. Very convincing. [^]
Cudaken’s first image is also amazing for it’s angle and lighting. Well done, Ken. Another big improvement.
There are others whose improved modeling is evident here today and the past few weeks.
-Crandell
Here we see C&HV GP9 #200 spotting a car at C&HV’s distribution center.
This picture was taken on my temporary layout…
Its kind of embarrassing to post a picture of my work here when it has to stand next to the great work everyone else posts, but I felt like I had to post some sort of celebratory picture. I’ve got a long way to go but I finally finished laying and wiring the track on my layout. It will be a plywood pacific for some time while I relax and run trains. I decided to try to take a couple pics so I could share how I’m getting along. The camera is my brother’s and I had pretty much no idea how to use it so the picture turned out incredibly model like and plastic looking.
Heres a pic of two patched Union Pacific geeps on the point of a string of 100 ton hoppers headed into the bend. Sitting idle on the inside track are another geep and a tunnel motor awaiting assignment.
