Gidday All, Hope everyone has survived the week, at the very least, in good spirits.
Got the tops on the clubs exhibition corner modules this week.
“A Long Wait”.
Have a Great One Folks. [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.
Bear … I like the trackside building.
Here is a set of FT’s hauling a freight train and an SD7 serving local industries.
Love the shack, bear. Another excellent shot, Garry.
An H10-44 works the yard. DJ.
A pic from open house last weekend.
I`ll be doing open house this weekend if anyone is nearby and wants to see the layout in person.
Here is photo from the club that I played around with an app on my phone.
Happy Friday all! I assembled one of those Jordan Model T pickups for the layout, and weathered the daylights out of it. I wanted it to look like it’s seen 30 hard years or so:
Once again, some great photos from everyone. Great work guys!
-Stan
Awesome work everyone.
Good stuff!
The lead unit has a very cool mars light, the 2nd unit is from my first train set I got from my Dad:
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Looks like we’re all having fun doing great work and taking great pics.
This week on the Rio Grande’s Four Corners Division it was time to build the mill complex in Durango. I put together two mills that essentially existed at different times on the same site in Durango Colorado, just the other side the the Las Animas River from the roundhouse.
The ASARCO mill processed the typical lead complex ores found in the San Juan Mtns to get lead, zinc, silver, and gold. After it was closed for good in the Great Depression, the US Gov’t bought the site and its contractor, the Vanadium Corporation of America, built a mill to extract uranium in 1942. The rest, as they say, is history…they eventually got it cleaned up.
So the mills are together on my layout, like most squeezed into less than optimal space. Fortunately, the relatively few pics of the mills showed them with a similarly claustrophobic feel, so this compresses well. I had a few pics of the VCA mill last week, but worked on the rest this week. The major structures are all in. I still need to add an elevator/skip to takes the materials to the top of the furnace house, a chemical unloading rack, and a blower house, plus landscaping and details.The roofs come off, so lots of room for detail later.
Here’s a couple of overall pics of the complex, front and back.
Ore is unloaded and stored in bins outside and inside the main mill building.
The mill track passes through the building and extend to an unloading pit on the other side. Big sliding doors can make things more cozy in the winter, but it’s a warm
Nothing new on the layout but I finally painted some aluminum replicas of Pennsy Whistle and Bell castings I have had forever.
Wow Curt! Too bad that R sign isn’t original! I do have an original W sign. The paint looks good.
-Stan
Great stuff,as usual,folks! Stan: The truck is terrific! What did you use to weather it?
'Needs more work,but it’s a start.
Have a good weekend,
Mike
Gidday All again, Great stuff as usual.
The cabin in the photo in my opening post was scratch built by a former club member, Dave Allen, from a article in the January 1992 Model Railroader, “The House on the hill” by Sam Swanson. The article was actually a “project for that first scratch built wood structure”, however Dave built his out of styrene. This is the third layout its been on. Building several as company houses is on my to-do some day list.
Like every one else I too love the Rail side shack Dave did some nice work Bear
Its time to dust off my lay out as my open house is next Saturday as part of the Houston
San Jac MR Layout tour
I’ve been tweaking my coal tipple loader seen in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHTcJye5jTY
so i can run live loads to the coaling tower in Thurmond
as seen here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdgZjJpfzZ4
this makes great use of the old Operating Tyco Coal Cars
Mike,
Ohhh, I like that. Nice work on the wye scenery!
They look great. Too bad you’re gonna mess 'em up with scenery and track and trains and stuff…[;)]
Just takin a break at the car shop [8D]
It’s time to point my new DSLR camera at the HO trains and see what happens.
Front Range ACF 2-bay covered hopper
A-Line Husky Stack
Walthers Thrall double stack car with A-Line 45’ containers
Athearn SDP40
Southern Railways "Tennessean’ crossing a bridge at night.
Jarrell
Mike, I be pleases to bring my Big Boy over and run trains anytime!
Old shoot from my layout.
We feed the spiders very well at the mine!
Ken