Have to wait until December 4th.
This is my “weathered” work, the Cab Forward is a repaint for the club line. It is not painted jet black, it is a dark grey and light weathering applied. I hear arguments locos are painted solid black, and thats true, but in the real world, the sky and sun play around. Cab Fowrward is NWSL regeared Rivarrossi, crawls and real smooth. No real layout yet.
Prolly my proudly work, no pics, I took a Rivarrossi 2-8-4, numered it 765, put a working mars light in it (this is years ago pre-DCC and LED) regeared it with NWSL, sprung the drivers except the main gear, the cool thing about the RR locos they linked all the siderods correctly you could spring them, I put constant lighting in it, put a double beam headlight on it using micro 1.5 bulbs and a little detail, hollowed out the plastic numberboards, put a microlight in it, and took film of the actual numberboards of 765 and glued it on, real slick, it lights up,
then added a couple of rear lights on the main engine that are near the firebox.
Cant take a pic of it as it needs some working over.
I bought the Proto 2-8-4 alread numberd 765 and it will get the same treatment, then maybe sell my original one.
I wish I could take credit for that helix![:P]
My favorite achievement is this ore bridge [based on a prototype near Detroit, MI] that I scratchbuilt out of brass. It took me a year of weekends to complete; and this is my second attempt, I botched the first one so badly I decided to start over.
I almost had the clamshell bucket mechanism operating, but I kept frying decoders after a few minutes of operation - I’ll need outside help to correct that defect.
Hmmm…the custom paint jobs, the scratchbuilt structures, no I’m proudest of the article published in RMC in October about the Four County Society of Model Engineers. My friend Keith and I put a lot of work into it, but could not have done it without the support we recieved from the other club members.
I would have included some pics from the article, but they wouldnt fit on the screen too well. So I’ll save the pics for the FCSME webpage (www.fcsme.org) or my own page (see below)
I’m proud of this. The SD80MAC is my favorite engine and I happened to find it for cheap on eBay. I can’t wait to get a couple more.
Lou, that post was one of the best things I’ve heard in this hobby in a long time. Good luck to both you and your grandson!
For me, it’s the ability to use all of my artistic skills in one hobby and learn many new ones.
Since everyone else has posted pictures of their layout, I’ll show one of my other favorite aspects of the hobby, the design phase. Here’s a paint design for a 57’ mechanical reefer lettered for Interport, the freelanced belt line on my layout and carrying the logo of an on-line brewery named for my soon to be wife.
Special thanks to Traniax for their wonderful collection of railroad drawings that I use for my paint designs.
[?][?][?][?] Your soon-to-be wife is named Iron Spring???
[:o)] [:D]
Lothar, I kind of like that helix of yours also! [swg]
Actually, Tom, it comes out the following Wednesday! (and promptly hits the floor, since the upper decks aren’t started yet).
This has been shown here before but, it is one of my best accomplishments. 
and here is a pic of it on the layout
Dan Pikulski
From an earlier thread:
“If the engine leaves Mark’s helix before the caboose gets to it, your train might be too long.”
(Which, of course illustrates the saying, “All good comedy is circular.”) (Oooh, that was even more “circular” than I thought…)
This one has both my first custom-painted piece of equipment, the PCC trolley (Bowser) I did for the Moose Bay Transit Authority. It also shows the Penny Lane subway station. The “Bud Tower” has since been replaced with real scenery above.
Back on the surface, this is my pit-bashed Atlas deck turntable and roundhouse:
I have several scratch builds on my layout and several on my neighbors. We both model N scale, I hope you like them and forgive me for flooding the thread with pictures.
This is a road bridge built with evergreen styrene.
This stock pen was built using scale lumber, the rails are 2"X6" and the posts are 6"x6".
I’ll do a separate post for the projects I did for my neighbor’s layout.
I’m proud of this video I made of my layout:
The first project I did for Bob’s N scale layout was this double track wood trestle. I used bass wood for the bents and connecting beams. The track is Micro Engineering’s bridge and trestle track.
The next project was for the paper mill. Walthers didn’t make the rotary dump for the N scale mill. This is my rendition. The concrete dump pit is made of styrene sheets. the rotary dump is made from Evergreen styrene shapes and sheets and sits on some scrap Con Cor wheels.
I put saw dust in the pit and glued sawdust to a piece of mylar to simulate the load dumping from the car.
The next project for my neighbor, Bob, was to make some hot metal cars for the steel mill. I haven’t seen a decent rendering of these in N scale, so we made some trips across the river to Granite City IL to the steel mill there to get some pictures.
These cars are the result. We took pictures of the cars used there and used the known wheelbase of the trucks to determine the total length of the cars. The metal vessels and the machinery cabinets are resin castings. The bogies are made of stryene, 21 individual pieces each. Trucks and couplers are Microtrains.
The last project was this gantry crane. We made another short road trip to north St Louis to get pictures of a flour plant and discovered an iron works behind it. This is what resulted. The longitudinal beams were made using Micro Engineering plate girders. The vertical supports are Evergreen I beams and H beams. The moving crane is made from styrene shapes, the operators cab was particularly interesting to build.
Great video dave. I didn’t realize you had a door layout. It looks so much bigger than that. Awesome work man!!![bow]
OK Question from an internet dummy. How do you get the picture you want to show the world onto the reply
Great work guys!
Now what can I show… umm…I haven’t scratchbuilt anything good, custom painted anything, ummmm… how about this?
It’s a hillside from when my old train club re-did a hill, they gave it to me so I could have the trees, and I used the hill too!
All right, that the best I can do![:o)]
Mokenarr, you first need a 24/7 host site, such as railimages.com or photobucket. You need an account, free, and then must upload images from your computer…they will have to be reduced in size. Then, you copy the URL for each full-sized image (not the thumbnail) from that host server, and paste it into the text box here. The final step is to bracket each end of the URL with a pair of square brackets [, and place in the first pair “img”, and in the last pair “/img”…minus the quotation marks. When you click on post, your image will appear in the resulting message.
You must use the image tag or you can use the image insert button in the edit post menu as I have done below, the image button is highlighted within the black box below.
After clicking the button you will get the following window to pop-up, this is where you enter the URL of the image:
Once the URL is added click the Insert button and the image will be added to your post.
The image must also be hosted on a web server on the Internet. For example, this image is saved to my server at the URL address of http://piedmontdivision.rymocs.com/images/postimg.jpg
Those look good. I have the one on the left that i colored brick and then put it away for the move. Same thing with my engine shop. It is all painted and weatherd just waiting to be put together and placed somewhere other than a box. keep up the good work