since it is friday afternoon and no one has started yet, thought I would kick off this weeks fun. Nothing spectacular from me, but a big mile stone as Construction on the layout has finally begun. The bench work has been built for a while, but finally got started laying roadbed and foam.
ok guys, now u can show us the good stuff
Nice work! Happy to hear you are truly underway. Something scares me about that ski jump in the background of your first image, though…
My semi-new Loco. An athearn SD40T-2 if i had a better camera you could see the full extent of the weathering i did on it.
I was in Michigan last weekend for the Nascar race. We stayed in Kalamazoo because there wasn’t anything closer to the track. Portage Michigan, which is like a mile away, has a shop called the Train Barn. They sell primarily larger scale trains. They had a few HO items to look at as well. The main reason I went there was to see their 2,800 square foot layout. It’s O scale, but still cool to see. The race got rained out, so this was the only highlight of the weekend.
Medic, lookin’ great! Ain’t it a nice feeling, seeing the railroad taking shape?
Okay, I spent about 10 hours on the railroad yesterday, and three or four times that over the course of the week, so I’d better have something to show for it.
Beginning work on a new hill in the back there. The insulation foam is in, and the ground foam coming. Unfortunately, I have to finish this hill before building my main yard, as once the yard is built this area will be virtually inaccessible. Sigh.
Not much in this one, but this is the beginnings of the Bellows Falls, VT tunnel. Those who have seen it will see a familiar scene beginning to take shape.
New retaining wall on US-5 just south of Bellows Falls. Another relatively simple project, but one that was overdue for many months now.
And now to the good stuff, I guess.
Yesterday was spent installing new lighting. The railroad is now lit by basically Fugate inspired lighting. In that shot, I had the work light on, so the effect wasn’t very strong. I’ll take another with that light off, with the essentially shadowbox effect. Thanks Joe!
The lighting
With the new light
Above is my first every pure scratchbuild. It serves as a flour unloading bay for &quo
Here’s something a little different.
Here’s my first try at doing some layout photos so be kind. [:)]. This is mostly scenery. I’ll post some trains later tonight.
Here’s an Athearn GM&O RTR I detailed. This is the world’s only clean GM&O locomotive that’s not a builders photo. [^] It’s a good runner though.
Downtown overhead view during the day:
Same scene at night:
Heading out of town towards the highway overpass for a weekend of camping:
Central Street at night. If you look carefully, you’ll see the current feature at the Drake Theater is “Dirty Harry”. My kind of guy. [bow]
Headlight on a CSX U33C lighting up Amanda’s cut.
Thanks for looking.
Awsome stuff everyone! Yoshi; that lighting is awesome! You’ve certainly made progress!
Jeffrey; if you remove the spray bottle from the photo with the CR unit; it would look totally real!
UP2CSX; that night scene of the city looks great!
Great work everyone!
Now… to dig up some photos that don’t look too horrible…
Medic love the launch ramp ! [swg]
Yoshi the lighting is great !
Those night scenes are great Jim !
I put in an Ash pit
Finished the trees on the Mt.
And ballasted the yard with yard mix
Great start folks!
In the little time I had to work on the layout, I did manage to finish the retaining wall in front of the park.
I also added the sign and more scenery to Millers’s Bed and Breakfast. I think that is one of the girls out there cleaning off the sidewalk so mom can take a break and catch up on her reading.
Another view of the place. Dang! Those pesky raccoons are into the garbage cans again!
Great Photos so far!
Hoping to get cork all laid and start ballasting before November. Still Have some final pieces of track to purchase.
It’s Friday night so I did a little railfanning at night.
Nice street lighting Jim.
My chemical company , just getting started , lots of scenery to do around it yet.
Several shots of Conrail 2273.
I took a few pictures of the bulk of my fleet, and then realized that I included a project that wasn’t ready for the public eye…So I had to do a little censoring. [;)]
C&O, really nice! I like that yard shot. Doesn’t get much better than that one! [8D]
jktrains, very crisp, lots of detail in those images, and the lighting works very well. Nice…!
Ray, I like the way your rural home scene turned out. Show us more.
Jeffrey, I like your images, and that you are experimenting and finding new and interesting ones. Keep it up.
-Crandell
Still working on my barn little by little. Man it’s taking me a long time to get this done [:-^]. I sprayed the roof tonight just to make it look a little better than the look of styrene while I work on the rest of the barn. WOW what a difference it made! It definatly needs to be weathered down, but it gave me some more ambition to get the stone work done [dinner]
Before:
After:
Wow, gorgeous work everyone! Graphiti…LOVE the barn…sweeet!!! The rock foundation, wow…just fantastic! I have been busy building a homemade bellcrank for my double crossover! Finally got 2 of the turnouts tweaked and working!!! I should have used brass originally for the shaft of the bellcrank! Oh well! I will take pictures and post tomorrow! Ciao.
Brian