Its the last weekend of 2006… figure i’ll start it off with this 40’ chemical car from athearn… it started out undecorated and its been painted up and decaled as a nitric acid tank car for Welland Chemical… then a bit of weathering for good measure… need to upgrade the wheelsets (and possibly the trucks)…
edit: better photo
I’ll pop in real early with a shot from my layout. Here we see a meet between two freights in the railroad cut just north of the village of Putney, NY. The loco is a BLI Mikado.
CNJ831
My two latest engines. The Low boiler 4-6-0 is about a month old; got a Tsunami about 2 weeks ago. The high boiler 4-6-0 is a Christmas present; that I installed a Tsunami in. It still needs be be badged. Both run great (and sound great) with Tsunami’s.
Here is the start of the new Machine shop for Prestage Tool & Gear. This is one of those yellow box metal kits (American Chemical & Potash Co.) that says requiring soldering, but since I do not know how to solder I’m using gap filling super glue. (has anyone else had any luck doing this?) I’m going to use this up against the backdrop so no back wall. I used the other wall to double the length of the bulding.
These are from a photo op I had at Butler Yard in early Dec. I didn’t spend a lot of time because a storm was moving through and I was worried about getting home safely.
The first picture is for Brakie, who keeps telling me that I shouldn’t over-weather my cars. I’m here to tell him that the 100 car coal drags that come through my town all look about like this.
I’m not really picking on you Brakie–well not too much.
The rest of these shots you’ll have to click on so I don’t mess up the bandwidth. There are a few restored older birds in her that look pretty good.
http://www.vitaconnect.com/photos/butler02.jpg
http://www.vitaconnect.com/photos/butler03.jpg
http://www.vitaconnect.com/photos/butler04.jpg
http://www.vitaconnect.com/photos/butler05.jpg
I just got a new computer, so thought I’d try and see if this website has grown any more photo-friendly for me.
If it turns out, it’s my two 3-cylinder Rio Grande 1600 Mountains pulling a freight. Let’s see–
Holy Cow, it WORKED!! I’m finally up and running again!
Tom
Congrats, Tom, good to see you back & running. I missed those Cab-forwards.
Okay, now I want to play catch-up, since I can get these photos to finally load. I’ve been doing some work on the layout, and installed some more scenery. The first shot is of the bridges over Malakoff Hydraulic Diggings, the other shot is some work I’ve been doing on the Deer Creek Yards (with the Deer Creek viaduct overhead).
Tom
I got tired of seeing the walls of my layout room in my photos, so I used some image processing (“The Gimp”) to do something about it (click for bigger images):
Before:
After:
More that I’ve modified are here (http://www.tandre.net/Trains/Firebaugh/Current/2006-12-16/index.html)
-Tim
I didn’t spot this thread before pasting my own of the same title on the layout forum, so I shall link it in here to save reposting the same pictures (all over again)
http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/989971/ShowPost.aspx
Ian
Well I finally got a digital camera so here are some pics from my layout under construction.
bill
The scenery is coming along slowly but somewhat steadily on the Southern.
The Fuel and Oil kit is waiting on alternative piping ideas to fit the angled space, instead of the square space the piping is designed for.
And I don’t know why the scroll bar at the bottom keeps messing my posts up!
It may have something to do with the size of the photo you are linking to. Try using about 800 by 600 dpi for the photo and see if it helps.
Nice pics Tom I agree with Spacemouse they were missed.
Layout is finally up!
The second main is almost done. I’m stoked![:P]
Sure. I have a few to show.
SD10 #561 gets its daily inspection report before being used. They keep good and running.
The rain is coming down pretty good, and helper U boats sit at the tower, waiting for any train that stalls on the hill.
Enjoy![tup]
Happy railroading[(-D]
James
Here are some layout shots
Jim
I’ve been making mountains, not out of molehills, but out of cardboard and plaster gauze…
This shows my HO standard gauge GP38-2 sitting on the track to give you a sense of size.
The full mountain.
From the other side.
-George
