Weekend Photo Fun!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Happy Fouth of July weekend, everyone!!! As a long holiday weekend, this should turn out a good quantity (and quality, considering the talent ya’ll have demonstrated in the past) of pics. To kick it off, here goes…

Industrial switcher hustles Platte Canyon coal at Public Service Company of Colorado’s Cherokee Station generating plant in Denver.

The loco is an old Athearn we got at a train show for $5. I removed the “guts” (motor) and added the headlight, windows and weathering. It’s for display only at the plant.

Ma and Paw cattle operation on the Platte Canyon spur.

Grande mixed freight approaches the CB&Q interchange south of Sedalia. The consist is a mix of old and new. The lead unit is a GP30 followed by a GP7 with a new GP35 bringing up the rear.

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… New D&H Bi-Centennial RS-3m “clearing her throat !”

… comin’ atcha …

… headin’ away …

Mark.

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Grande Man;
Great pics as usual[bow] Did you know there is a regear kit to replace the rubber band drive for these locos? I bought one & it really runs great. The man. Ernst regear kit.
Tom

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Hey mark that smoke effect is pretty cool. Is that photoshop or what?

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Thanks for the compliment ! This is a proto-type of a new smoke generator I’m building … works great, but everything in the train room is turning black !!! [(-D]

Actually it’s the result of my first decoder installation. [;)]

(O.K., so it IS Photo-shopped !) [:I]

Mark.

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Great pics!!

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Thanks for the info on the regear kit.

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All the pictures look great everyone! Keep up the good work! I’ll have post some pics sometime!

Matt

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Out on the mainline in California in the 1870’s on the Pacific Coast Air Line Railway

Harold

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I’m really stumped this weekend!

O scale version:

HO scale version:

Bob Boudreau

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Mark, i thought i was looking at a loco in front of Mt St Helens, great shot
BOB love the stumps

Keep em coming guys

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Took this today, it’s 4-6-2 No 6233 climbing the bank at Houghton on it’s way to Carlisle, it goes north today and returns south next Saturday

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Ok here is my contribution


After noon express


Coal Drag!

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Here are some photos from my Father’s Day trip to the Monticello Railway Museum.


Front view of the Wabash F unit

Side view of the F unit

The 0-4-0 at the entrance of the museum (looks kind of like the Varney Dockside, doesn’t it?)

The museum was small, but I had fun there. The Wabash F unit pulls a passenger train that’s there. I got to ride on the caboose and in an air conditioned passenger car.[:D]

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Lets try this again

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I DID IT. WEEKS NOW I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND SUCCESS AT LAST.[:D][:D][:)][:)][8D][8D]

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wow this stuff is great…the wife has the photsgraphers eye and as soon as we figure out how to get pictures from the camera to the cpu and on the site then youse guys can see some of my stuff

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Nice pictures guys.

lesterperry-- man, I want one of those T1s!

Boudreau-- did you buy those or handcraft those stumps? looks good.

***–looking forward to it.

Cheese–is that a Bachmann FT? how does it run?

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Nothing really new on the SP&E. Same ol’ stuff.


Yet another shot of the UP bohemeth.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Watch out!

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They are resin stumps from http://railway-recollections.com

A friend is associated with Railway Recollections, and gave them to me to do something with for the manufacturer. They are hollow cast resin, really neat. They have some more smaller “rotten” stumps on the way so I can try something out with them too. Will post some photos when available.

The stumps are new, not on their website yet but they do have other interesting resin item such as conversions for HOn30 - engine bodies for N scale engines to operate on HOn30.

Bob Boudreau