Ulrich… Thanks for starting Week End Photo Fun. … You kicked it off with a very realistic scene.
MA Bruce … I like the video.
Rick … The freight cars look very good
Here is my CB&Q car 308 crossing the bridge in Valley Heights. The car is a modernized heavyweight diner-parlor, and I made it from an NKP Car Company kit. On my layout I operate short, secondary passenger tains with connecting service with long distance Burlington Zephyr trains in 1962. The waterfall is named “Standing Falls”.
I have been working on my underpass at Greenwood ave, The first bridge has been completed structurally but It still needs some more details and weathering. I also have two more bridges to build before this section can be considered complete…
VERY cool, DJ. I really like the overall look, but especially admire the wet dirt of the yard with the water taking the easiest route in the various ruts. Nicely done.
DJ … Thanks for the remark on my photo. Houses are smaller than HO. They are cheap dollar store houses, and I added paint to improve the looks. … … Your scrap yard looks great. What a nice idea! [I] You have a lot of scrap metal there, and I know it must have taken a long time to do such a good job.
Great work everybody! Love the great shots so far.
I shot a new video this week, using my Panasonic Lumix camera. This is a long coal train emerging from the Moffat Tunnel, headed by 3 locomotives. Two Dash 8’s and an SD75.
I finished more of the cityscape then you see here, but I never recorded for posterity. Even so, it was a cool little layout.
Here’s the track plan (as best as I can remember!)
Please excuse the blurry 80s vintage video. I did the best I could to clean it up and pick up the pacing.
This was the inspiration for the bridge scene::
Lee
Been working on a scene of Dayton’s Bluff, a famous Limestone and Sandstone bluff beside the main lines of all the railroads that come into St Paul Minnesota. I remember it well riding the trains in the 40’s. I also wanted a scene of the skylines of Minneapolis and St, Pal. Though technically they are across the river from Dayton’s Bluff I only had room to put them behind the bluff. I then decided I wanted a sunset scene and have painted some practice panels. I have never painted much before. Here is a dark test panel behind Minneapolis and a different test panel in a mock up using a different sky line. I will post more pics when I decide what I will finally do.
WOW!!! This WP/VF has started out amazing. You guys have added top notch stuff this week. I can’t name names because it is all amazing, but I will say to Jon Grant…these photos look very life-like. If I didn’t know it was modeling I would swear they were real pics. Looks like a typical hazy summer day in the southland.
