Just because it’s been awhile since I’ve seen them turns a few laps, it’s Monon in the Mountains…
Show them if you got them[:)]
Thanks for starting off WPF Mike.
Thanks for the look at the MONON. Not a line you see every day.
Here is a little something from the BRVRR:
New York Central Niagara #6008 Westbound with a coal drag.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
WHAT? People sleeping in this morning? Mike, thanks for kick starting the thread. I haven’t contributed in a while, so…caught railfanning on a new desert diorama
Good morning from hot and humid Northeast Ohio!
Crappy forum would not allow me to log-in until now, I don’t know how long I am going to put up with this forum with all its problems.
Mike, nice Monon units, I have always liked those C420’s in that paint scheme.
Allan, what a rotten job for a Niagra, should be on a limited passenger train.
PC99, not bad but overly weathered cars are not my cup of tea!
Also, thanks to all those who have complimented me in the past weeks for my barely adequate work!
Finished a couple of cars this week!
Branchline 50’ Berwick Boxcar painted with Floquil RR51 Blue and Platinum Mist, then lettered with Microscale Decals.
Intermountain 60’ PS Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Floquil Platinum Mist paints, then lettered with Mask Island Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
If you got your September issue you may see something familiar in trackside photos…
This week I experimented with making spilled molten sulfur…
Casey !.. A HUGE congratulations for your photo in September MR !
Mike L … Monon engines look great anywhere.
Alan … The Niagra is a beautiful locomotive.
PC99 … Great looking desert scenery.
Rick … Your MPA and MP boxcars look great.
Tony … Your sulfer car looks very nice.
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Below is a photo of a busy morning in my fictional town of Black Hawk. Cars are being interchanged with the steel mill, and some through freights with F-units are meeting in town.
Here is a video of some mainline action just outside of Petersburg, VA:
I snagged a video of some heavyweight varnish on northbound #90 The Palmetto!
My Swiss narrow gauge micro layout in the appropriate and correct setting.
Standing on the bridge next to the chapel and looking north, this is the view you´d have - down the Vispa valley towards the Rhone valley in southern Switzerland.
The weekend is off to a great start.
Mike, Love seeing your Monon equipment.
Allan, That NYC Niagra look stunning.
PennCentral, Your rolling stock looks great.
Rick, another nice assortment of rolling stock as well.
RDG Casy, It was neat seeing your camelback in trackside photos.
Tony, The molton sulfer weatheringon the tank car came out nice.
Gary, Blackhawk looks like quite the thriving railroad town.
Ulrich, I love the swiss narrow gauge.
For the better part of the last week, I’ve been working on the Conemaugh River near Johnstown, PA.
The water is Mod Podge gloss medium and some of it was still setting up was taken.
It’s hot in Michigan today too. Here’s something to generate cooling thoughts - a freight on the R&R main line clears the crossing in Frostbite Falls.
George V.
I made a lot of progress on the G scale covered bridge for Boothbay Railway Village. The roof trusses and sides are on, and I am working on the ends and roof.
No I didn’t sleep in, it was just that I could not login yesterday, (my Friday),[:(!] don’t leave Rick, how else can I be envious of your work.[swg]
Anyhow just a flying visit, Thanks for kicking us off Mike, and a big congrats to RDG Casey, and a big thanks to everyone for their contribution of really Good Stuff.[bow]
As I have not achieved anything photogenic this week, here’s an English OO yard from the Sho
Just some NS action.
Hello Weekenders!
Thanks for lighting the fuse on another big weekend PhotoBomb, Mike!
I have visited some of the Monon right-of-way in Indiana and, take my word for it, there’s no snow-capped craggy peakes in Monon territory. Must have been a neat railroad in her day!
Allan, Great shot of that Niagara but I have to agree with Rick—what’s a thoroughbred speed demon doing on an ol’ coal drag. Maybe breaking in after shopping?
Those are some nicely weathered cars, PC. Yes, that’s the way we saw them in reality back then! I’m in Rick’s camp, though with just subtle weathering. Used but maintained.
Again Rick, subtle is nice! Where’s that cold front the weather experts promised us??
RDG Casey, [bow] Superb modeling as always! In my mind you are the originator of the “Hybrid” brass/plastic locomotive. Your results are excellent!
Great scene, Garry. Is it me—or do the locomotives outnumber the cars in that photo?
Thanks for that Youtube vid. Too bad there was only a glimpse of the private car on the tail end of that Amtrak train! That is C&O #3 the Chaple Hill. I am quite familiar with that car, built in 1922 as the Hussar, for Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress of the famous cereal magnate. I worked that car as porter/steward in the mid 1970s for Mr. Dewitt Chapple! Can you imagine a car almost 95 years old, still running AND certified for 100 mile-an-hour speeds!
When I see that scene, Ulrich, I expect Maria von Trapp to sing [8]The Hills Are Alive…[8](OK, that was Austria but you get my drift [;)]) Nice work!
That view is pure Pennsy, GP9 man! I like the detail of the steel channel bracing on the stone arch! I’m also a user of Mod-Podge! Great stuff for ballast cement [tup]
and speaking of PRR, Grampy always has the best of the P-company in his photos!
George, w
I agree that the Niagara is best at the head of a passenger train, but it was a “dual purpose” locomotive for the NYC and the coal drag was already on the layout.
RDG Casey - Congrats! I did recognize the locomotive and the photographer in the credits in MRR.
How about this Ed and Rick?
Or this?
Keep the photos coming guys.
Mike, Thanks for the WPF start-up and that handsome trio of Alcos.
Casey, Is it any wonder that your superb modeling has appeared in Trackside Photos, Congrats!
Tony, Your nicely weathered tank car is a reminder that keeping an eye on the windsock when around the sulfur loading racks is always a good idea, lol.
Thanks to everyone for the fun and inspiration, Regards, Peter
Thanks everyone for the kind words!
Well… I am a bit late to the thread, but I finally have something to add.
A week ago the new area on the layout looked like this:
Same general place as of this afternoon:
Down the hillside used to look like this just a few days ago:
Looks like this now:
Makin’ progress little by little… SLOWly!
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